El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08

allowed to remain in the lock but retir-
ing with Jane, the canary cage and
other valuables into her own apartment.
/ demonstrated, but / soon found that
Jane had not remained unmarried for
nothing. She was decided on the point.
The outer door would be locked as usual,
and the key would be deposited under
the pincushion in her room as usual, and
1t was so.
The next morning, as Jane and went
out for a stroll before luncheon, we had
to pass the house to which had driven
by mistake the day before. To our as
constituent there was a crowd before
the door, and policeman with his back
to it was guarding the entrance. The
blinds Were all drawn down. The image
of the pale, lonely woman sitting by her
little fire, whom had disturbed the day
before, came suddenly back to me with
a strange qualm.
What is it," 1 hurriedly asked a
bakers boy who was standing at an
area railing rubbing his chin against the
loaf he was waiting to deliver. The boy
grinned.
Its murder." he said, with relish.
Burglars in the night. I've supplied
her reg'lar these two months. One quar-
tern best white, one-half quartern brown
every morning, French rolls occasional;
but it's all up now" And he went off
whistling tune which all bakers boys
whistled about that time, called my
Grandfather Timepiece," or something
similar.
A second policeman came up the street
at this moment, and from him learned
all the little there was to know. The
poor lady had not been murdered, it
seemed, but being subject to heart com
plant had died in the night of an acute
attack, evidently brought ON by fright.
The maid, the only other person in the
house, sleeping as maids of all work only
can, had heard nothing. and awoke in
the morning to find her mistress dead in
her bed, with the window and door open.
Strangely enough. the policeman added,
although nothing in the house had been
touched, the lock of an unused bedroom
had been forced and the room evidently
searched.
Poor Jane was quite overcome. She
seemed convinced that it was only by a
special intervention of Providence that
she had changed her house. and that her
successor had been sacrificed instead of
herself.
1T might have been me- she said over
and over again that afternoon.
Wishing to give a turn to her thoughts
/ began to talk about Sir Johns legacy,
in which she had evinced the greatest
interest the night before, aid greatly to
her delight showed her the jewels. / had
not looked at them since Sir John had
given them to me. and 1 was myself as
tonished at their magn Gficence as spread
them out on the table under the gas
lamp.
Jane exhausted herself in admiration,
but as / was putting them away again,
saving it was time for me to be dressing
and going to meet Carr, who was to join
me at the Criterion, she begged me on
no account to take them with me, affirm
ing that it would be much safer to leave
them at home. / was firm, but she was
frmer, and in the end 1 allowed her to
lock them up i'll the tea caddy, where
her small stock of ready money reposed.
l met Carr as we had arranged and
we had a very pleasant evening. Poor
Carr. who had seen the papers, had
hardly expected that l should turn up,
knowing the catastrophe OF the previous
night had taken place at the house / was
going to, and was much relieved to hear
that my sister had moved and had thus
been spared all the horror of the event.
The dinner was good. the play better.
should have come home feeling that
had enjoyed myself thoroughly if it had
not been for a little adventure with our
cab driver that very nearly proved seri-
Gus. We got a hanson directly we came
out of the theatre, but instead of taking
US to the direction we gave him, after
we had driven for some distance began
to make out that the cabman was going
wrong, and Carr shouted to him to stop;.
but thereupol he dashed up his horse
and away he went like the winds, up one
street and down another, till 1 had lost
all idea where we Were. Carr, who was
young and active, did all he could, but
the cabman, who / am afraid must
have been intoxicated, took not the
slightest notice, and continued driving
madly, heaven knows where.
At last, after getting into a very dingy
we turned up a crooked
dark street, unlit by any lamp, n street
so narrow that thought every moment
the cab would be overturned. In an
other moment 1 saw two men rush out
of "a doorway. One seized the horse,
which was much blown by this time,
and brought it violently to standstill,
while the other flew at the cab, and
Carr by the collar proceeded to