The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-30
WITNESS 70 THE DEED
BY M. QUAD.
COPYRIGHT, 1900. BY c. B. LEWIS.

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My mistress in Gainsborough road
had lost Is note in the house and the
thief was the parlor maid. | knew it
from her actions and three months
after l left the house she was caught
! In n similar offense and owned up to
the first theft. However. the crime
was laid off on me, and because
made indignant and perhaps impu-
dent protest | was flung out of the
house at half an hours notice and re-
fused Il character. l was idle for the
next three months The first thing de
mandcd when | applied for a place
was 4 character. AS soon as it was
learned that | had none it was useless
to talk further. 1t was for this reason
that | finally paid a fee to an intclli-
gence Office In Margate street and was
at length sent for to take Il place Mt
general housework. 1t was an old
man named Dyson who wanted me.
He was willing to take me without a
character because he would have to
pay less wages and because. as he
+
/ grimly asserted, there was nothing
lying around loose III his house for one
TO steal As we sat face to face |
sized MN up as mean and pcnuriouS,
but l dld not see any evil in him. He
had an aged and inirm wife, he told
me- ana | would be the only servant.
II was not Tor me to pick and choose.
, | must have place and hold If lone
enough to get character again. |
Went with him miles and miles out on
the hoiborne road and We at last ar
rived ut the cheaply built and cheap
looking cottage lie occupied. 1t was "A
place devoid OF almost all conycniences
ana hau been selected for its cheap
rent. found the old wife deaf almost
pllhd ana palSled, ana it was apparent
that she had no care whatever. She had
become childish and petulant, and be-
fore ! had been in the house half an
hour Nlr' Dyson whipped her with
strap Tor saying that she was hungry.
AS ne whipped her | saw him look at
her IN Il way to give me chill. In the
course OF three or four days | made up
teslatioh ana adherence and was hour
~ hoping for her death. | wondered
that lie had not pushed her down stairs
OF FOUND other means to bring about an
accluehtaI death, but the old man
WIS lull OF craft and cowardice. l
soon had evidence that he was in love
win WIDOW in the neighborhood, or
nnCfpnI n hn 1,nf l.
could marry her. The man had no oc-
cupalioh ana seldom left the house.
DurlhS my first two weeks in the place
ne never allowed me to see the wife
except Ill MS presence and found fault
IL cooked anything extra for her or
expressed my sympathy. lie had a
way OF whispering to himself, and a
uozen times over | heard him say:
We waited for five years, but l
won wait much longer. I'll get rid Of
hef ana be happy"
MY natural impulse on finding out
no" ne Ielt toward his wife was to fly
the mousse but l have explained how
was situated. And, too, | soon got the
leeiinS that | ought to stay to protect
tne poor OLD woman. | figured it out
mat WHlle he might thirst for her
ueath' ne would not proceed to eX-
tremltles While | was in the house. 1t
seemed as II he would have lived on
"Iohe, as ne had done for the last two
niohtnS' IL ne medltated anything of
.nat SORT l didn't know the depth of
LIS crolI however. lie had brought
me- there 10 work her death through
mt me urSt thlllS suSpIcloncd this
wa! was one morning when lie asked
Ile u Heip heF doWil stars. The stairs
"'lc SIecp ana SHahy' ana he had pried
one VI the steps loose that it might
SMUT from uuuer our leet. AS mat
'ei u l"''' 1t uIu give way but
CuuS"t IlAscii ana saved the woman.
neil o'u bHSo" 81" the lallufe OF ms
pio'' NJ looNeu cHaSrlilou ana savage
anu p''ScHtlS Iouliu excuse lor culilHS
'nr Poo' VIZ ears
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want IN +. dr,,y atora oni, t,,.a ILL., ''',,
awav and oave HE no,n9 and - -
no discovered .hi,, No nos hi,,,, :,
dionont fo, i, da,. ana ra+,,a,.- ,,',...,t
cd 10 no thrown ont Irownyor in tba
course Of tbron or for. dav. no do,.oI-
oned another nIon Aftor coocbtno tbo
old wifn no lnft mo aIono Win hnr -.