Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-27

greatest confs graIions are put out with perse
card to the servant. and he ushered
me in uRannounced. Miss Wiley sat
at the piano, her hands on the KEYS
while standing at her side and looking
down artlently into her upturned face
was-Davis.
For a moment l could not speak
and seemed glued 10 the floor but
Davis quickly advanced and. after a
few polite inquiries about my health
and his dear friend Whiting, pleaded
an engagement and left
His presence in the house and his
upmistakable loverlike attitude made
it very painful for me TO speak. but
remembering the condition of poor
Whiting and how heartbroken he seem
ed l ventured TO speak about Davis
and asked where she had met him
Oh, | have only known him a few
weeks, she said He called with a
letter of introduction from DR. Whit
ing and said they were fellow students
in the South. He has been most kind
ana attentive TO me. and is teaching
me some of his own songs. And she
ratified on about his divine voice while
sat speeches. at the new complica-
ton of affairs
AT last l blurted out. Would you
kindly let me see the letter of intro.
IuctionT adding that DIR. Whiting had
promised me letters to some of his
friends in Europe and | wished to see
his methods.
Il felt that this was most feeble
excuse. but could think of nothing else
and of course Miss Wiley was too po-
10 TO H.
strange request. Going to a dainty
writing desk in the corner she came
back and handed me the letter.
There was no doubt of the chiro-
graphy being exactly similar to Whit
ings. L saw the same old fashioned
capitals and srisp sharp fe ee siriiafurs Sc
his bank would have sworn to it. Be-
sides. there was his crest and seal.
which l now knew SO we'll | don't
know what | said in thanking her.
for my head was in "A whirI. bur |
had enough sense to say good night
and quickly withdraw
How Davis could have obtained the
paper and seal. or how he learned of
all those college scrapes of Writings
1 could not ina CINE But | saw that |
his relations with Miss Wiley had gone
so far that il would do no good for me |
TO interfere. and that | should only
De snubbed 10y her for my impertin-
ence in meddling in other peoples
business.
Whiting was out when | called
at MS rooms next morning ana his
servant told me that he had gone to
the country Tor rest and left no
address.
III was perhaps a month aftprward
mat he turned up at the club one night
looking more CHASTITY than ever. He
would not say where he had been and |
positively reclined to discuss the Davis
Il know he talked wildly about nvp-
lotto control and kindred subjects. IN ,
IL we thought his mind affected. and |
r1ed TO calm him. but he grew more |
lnd more excited, until finally | saw
nm turn pale and clutch the back of |
chair. and noticed little stream of | {
rothy blood oozing from between his
lenched teeth as he staggered ouf OF ,
be room
Il jumped up from the ssfa and fol- |
'wed as quickly as | could, but when s
reached the fro mt door he was gone. I
nd met Davis just coming in. He q
talked leisurely into the cafe and | !
.ahed against The mantelpiece To !
~ excited inquiries about Whiting he | d
imply smiled and said he had not | g
o'itt' hiih tolnS OUT Out 4 saw him |
.ratchlng small red spot from his Fl
III with his finger nail aud felt sure | I
icy must have met c
Gentlemen said Davis. in his
rawiing voice. Il beg you will con- &
-atuiate me on my approaching mar d
age. and pardon my not mentioning | Il
e lady's name in the club Steward. u
ease take the orders u
Most OF US refused to drink with | 81
m, for we despised the man. and I n
1t him chatting with a few of his | v
irucuiar cronie3 and went I'D to
hitings room | heard afterward | b
at Davis left very shortly after / a
d. In
: " hitting had not come home and | m
ent the night hunting through hotels.
lice stations, hospitals and even the al
orgue. for 1 felt sure that he had o'
ptured blood vessel in his lungs. Of
lich must quickly prove fatal But d.
'ouid hnd no trace of him. and final n
utterly worm out, went to my rooms la
toss ABOUT until midday with a IN
rribie nightmare. in which Whiting IN
d Davis were struggling in one an IN
lers grasp, each striving to kill the |
Ter. tn
AT lunch / picked up a morning ia
per and scanned the society news lie
Iessly til my eyes lit upon the si'
nored engagement of DIR. J. H ca
Wis. formerly of New Orleans. and
IS Isabelle Wiley, the well known M
le. &c hi
| sat musing over the strange ca
issitudes of fate and wondering In'
at had become of poor " hitting
fdenly newsboy rushed into the IN
taurant calling extras, and the first oc
ding | saw was: tn
Sudden death Of DR. Davis -
erly read the usual detailed account III
how he had been found that MORN "
dead in his bed. evidently. the thi
'er stated, from a ruptured blood ~, ~,
sci, as the bed clothing and carpets |,
e saturated with blood. but no
md was found on his BODY. 20
strangely enough. he lived in one
he old tenemenrs back of Writings no
ae- and measurements which
lie subsequently, showed that his Iitt
ms and Writings must have been ure
similar floors and directly back To pat
A. Remembering the stolen note If
er trieu TO find some entrance he rea
en- the two houses. but the walls tn,
e solid and even the wall papers er
we'd naughI but few little cracks to