Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-11
By Charles NJ. Sheldon.
CHAPTER x.

;n the usually wen &ppoli1oe0 iio090loI4 Z-.s in the greatest confusion and ter
 " Tbs great rooms down stairs were
 .s,n4T but overhead were hurried foot r s+s5s and confused noises One of the s.sFants '. ran down the grand staircase r;4b 2 look of horror on her face just the bigh6p and Dr. Bruce were start Hng to go up.
 } .to servant stammered in answer to a Question and then burst into a hyster- ;ssl cr4 and ran through the drawing #raom and out of doors.
 4t the top of the staircase the two men were met by Felicia.
 She walked up to Dr. Bruce at once soa nut botb hands in his The bishop a5 his hand on her head, and the three H Hstood there q moment in perfect silence. The bishop had known Felicia since |sbe was child. He was the first tc silence.
 eThe God of all mercy be with yoa. HFelieia, in this dark hour. Your moth ge-
 The bishop hesitated Out of the hurried past he had during his hurried |passage from his friends house to this |house of death irresistibly drawn the Zone tender romance of his young man. .bood. Not even Bruce knew that. But Atbsre had been a time when the bishop |had offered the incense of a singularly undivided affection upon the altar of Hhis youth to the beautiful Camilla .Rolfe and she had chosen between him land the millionaire. The bishop carried |n0 bitterness with his memory, but it |vas still a memory.
 For answer to the bishops unfinished |query Felicia turned and went back Unto her mothers room. She had not isaid word yet, but both men were .struek with her wonderful calm. She |returned to the hall door and beekoned Ito them and the two ministers, with a |feeling that they were about to behold |s0mething very unusual. entered.
  Rose lay with her arms outstretched lon the bed; Clara. the nurse, sat with |her head covered. sobbing in spasms of
 terTor, and Mrs. Sterling. with 'sthe light that never was on sea or land luminous on her face, lay there so still |that even the bishop was deceived at first Then as the great truth broke upon him and Dr. Bruce he staggered, |and the sharp agony of the old wound Fhot through him It passed and left him standing there in that chamber of death with the eternal calmness and strength that the children of God have p right to possess, and right well he used that ealInness and strength in the days that followed.
 The next moment the house below was in @ tumult Almost at the same fme the doctor, who had been sent for at once, but lived some distance away, game In, together with police officers Nh0 had been summoned by the fright ehea servants. With them were four or lye newspaper correspondents and sev- tfal neighbors. Df Bruce and the 9lshop met this miscellaneous crowd at Fae head of the stairs and succeeded in f4eiadlng all except those whose pres tnee Eas necessary. With these the two trends learned all the facts ever known Eoout the Sterling tragedy, as the papers in their sensati onal accounts tezt day called 1t.
 l, Mr. Sterling had gone into his room lnat evening about O clock, and that Nds IDS {ast seen of him until in half ', hour a shot was heard and 8 servant '1ao was in the hall ran into the room Fna loQnd the owner of the house dead Pa :! the toor, killed by his own hand. elcla at the time was sitting by her Iloenef' Rose was reading in the H p."l5, she ran up stairs, saw her father I he was being lifted upon the couch E the servants and then ran screaming |nso her mother 8 room, where she flung PvsSeH down on the foot Of the bed ill sWoon Mrs. Sterling had at first
 ssAted at the shock, then rallied with on4efIai s#if6ness and sent q Hles- |snsef to call Dr Bruce. She had then 'tslsted ss \ <. on seeing her husband. In spite R e49ela, she had compelled Clara and |ae noQsemaid, terrified and trembling, ' support her while she crossed the Eai, ana entered the room where her ispaha lay She had looked upon him ~ asn a fearless face, had gone back into \ Tss p oWn loom, was laid on the bed and Ieao pi Bruce and the bishop entered the br n1ss sne, with prayer of forgiveness Es herself and her husband on her Esas.g Eseflng lips, had died, with Felicia |eng nuihg over her and Rose still lying
 Fnseless at her feet
 .a 2 great and swift had been the en- |f s1gs or grim death into that palace |1l, ,ieS1ry that Sunday night, but the |nt;3 sdase of his coming was not known Ena sn the facts in regard to Mr, Ster- foss business affairs were finally dis ahen 1t was learned that for some Em;a s ne had been facing financial ruin \ s 10 certain speculations that had Faa,4, month s time swept his supposed
 ha ln ~ Into complete destruction With [ha ebpnnlng balg and desperation of 2 man EAu Datflaa c.. 70 l-