The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TIERS

Fenton, investigate. Agatha Webb is
Known to but few as rich woman. Inc
key to her money-drawer is found Gluten
ed in her hand. Young Sutherland is not
TO be found. and Miss Page. the niece OF
Satherland's housekeeper. persists In re-
manning about the Webb premises and
discovers blood on the grass. The money
drawer is found tc be empty and robbery
IS added TO the mystery. Frederick Suth-
erland a hayward youth, calls his father
TO witness his determination TO be bet
ter man and promises not to marry MISS
Page, by whom he has been fascinated
Miss Page tells Frederick that she fol-
lowed him the night of the murder and
knew where he had secreted a thousand
dollars. She gives him a week TO decide
as the murderer of Agatha Webb. The
whole town is stirred up by the double
murder ana everyone tells OF the GOOD
1eSs of Mrs. Webb. Six children had Deen
BORN to her, and all died in infancy II is
learned that the money was in new bills,
and the keeper of a small store produces
night of The murder. A detective arrives
from Boston and reports: Simple case
Murdered for money; Find the MAJ man with
q flowing beard" Suspicion falls upon
one of the Zobel brothers. Frederick
visits TIE hollow tree The money Is
gone. Wattles, a Boston gambler, arrives
and demands $3.50 of Frederick in pay
ment of q gambling debt. Frederick Sc
cures a check for the amount from ms
father and that night as he is about to
leave home he is stopped by Miss PaSe.
Copyrighted. 1899. by S. S. Mcclure Coz
Confounded by this check and filed
with an anger that was nigh to dan
gerous, he fell back and then immedi-
ately sprang forward.
What are you doing here?" he cried.
"Don't you know that it is IL o'clock
and that my father requires the house
to be closed at that hour?"
And you?" was her sole retort;
what are you doing here? Are you
searching for flowers n the woods and
is that valise you carry the receptacle
in which you hope to put your botanical
specimens?"
With savage gesture he dropped the
valise and took her f1ercely by each
shoulder.
Where have you hidden my money!"
he Kissed. Tell me orr
OR what?" she asked, smiling into
his face in a way that made him lose
his grip.
"Or-or 1 cannot answer for myself"
he went on, stammering. DO you think
/ can endure everything from you be-
cause you are a woman? No; I will
have those bills, every one of them, or
show myself your master Where are
they, you incarnate fiend?''
Il was an unwise word to use, but she
did not seem to heed il.
All she said softly, and with g, lin
gering accent as if his grasp of her had
been 4 caress to which she was not en-
tirely averse. Il did not think you
would discover its loss SO soon- When
did you go to the woods. Frederick?
And was Miss Halliday with your"
He had disposition to strike her
but controlled himself. Blows would
not avail against the softnesS of this
sUave. yet mercileSs being. Only a viii
as strong as her own could hope to
cope with this smiling fury; and this
he was determined to show, though
alas. he had everything to lose in the
struggle, that could rob her of nothing
but a hope which was but a baseless
fabric at best; but he was more than
ever determined never to marry her.
"A man does not need to wait long to
miss his OWL" said he. And if you
have taken the money, which you do
not deny. you have shown yourself very
shOrt-sighted, for danger lies closer TO
the person holding this money than to
the one you may villify by your threats.
This you Nill find, Arabel, when you
come TO make use Of the weapon with
which you have thought to arm your
self
tut, tutr was her contemptuous
reply. DO you consider me a child? |
Do look like a babbling infant, Fred |
erick?"
Her face. which she had lifted to- his |
in saying this. was SO illumined. both |
by her smile, which was strangely en-
chanting for one so evil, and by the |
moonlight which SO etheTializes all it !
touches, that he had to think of that |
other purer, truer face he had left at |
the honeysuckIe porch to keep down a |
last wild impulse toward her, which |
would have been his undoing. both in |
this world and the next. as he knew.
cor do 1 look simply like a woman ?'
she went on, and playing upon it. "A |
woman who understands herself and
you and all the secret perils of the
game we are both playing? IF I ann a
child, treat me as a child; but if [ am
a woman
Stand out of my way" he cried,
catching up his valise and striding fu-
riously by her. Woman or child, you
shall know that I viii not be your play
thing to be damned in this world and
the next
Are you bound for the city of de-
struction?", she laughed not moving,
but showing such confidence in her
power TO hold him back that he stopped
In spite OF himself "If so, you are tax
ing the direct road there, and have only
10 IdSAtll- Dul you nau DGllST REMAIN III
your fathers house; even if you are
something of a prisoner there in COM
pany with my very insignificant self.
The outcome viii be more satisfactory,
even il You have to share it with me-
And what course will you take?" he
asked, pauSing with his hand on the
fence, IF ] choose destruction without {
you. rather than perditiOn with your"
What course? Why, 1 shall tell DR..
Talbot just enough of what L know to
prove you to be as desirable witness l
in the impending inquest as myself /
The result ] leave TO your Judgment.
But you Will not drive me to this eX
tremity. You viii come back and''- !
Woman, / viii never come back. I
shall have to dare your worst in two {
weeks, and L viii begin by daring you q
now. r f
But he did not leap the fence, though l
he made a move to do so, for at that /
moment a party Of men came hurrying
by on the lower road, one OF whom was !
heard to say: s
Il viii bet my head that we will put q
our hand on Agatha Webbs murderer h
tonight. The man who shoves see bills L
around 50 heedlessly should not wear a
beard so long it leads to detection" /
IT was the coroner, the constable e
Knapp and Abel. en- route TO the forest a
road on which lived John and James i
label
Frederick and Amabel confronted T
each other. and after a moments 81 I
ence turned as if by a common i'm h
pulse towards the house s
What have they got in their heads?" o
luerled she. Whatever it is, it may il
serve to occupy them till the two weeks
IL your probation have passed. t
he did not answer a new difficulty d