The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-08-09
MURDER IN A CAB.
MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINATION OF AN
UNKNOWN MAN, IN BROAD
DAYLIGHT.


CABMAN REILLY DENIES ALL
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CRIME.
Miss Murdock's glance rested care
lesslv upon these words for an in
slant. They aroused in her nothing
more than the mild curiosity which
attaches to events of palpitating hui
man interest when they have been
CONCEALED in the columns of the daily
newspapers and served 70 palates al
ready stated with sensational ver-
bosity.
MARY said you wished to speak to
me" said the young girl. after a
short pause. 81 thought ! would step
in to see you before going to Mr..
Sprague's."
ITO Sprague's?" inquired Murdoch,
fixing his keen eyes upon the young
girl "Ah. yes; l remember he spoke
of the appointment last night. How
is the portrait coming on?"
at is almost finished. Probably
only one or two more Sittings, at the
most. win be necessary"
Agnes seemed slightly embarrassed
by the fxity of her fathers search
ING glance. She settled herself in an
armchair and assumed a look of defer
ent expectancy.
Not a word of affection had passed
between father and daughter: not n
caress had been interchanged. The re-
cations between this impressive man and
his charming daughter were those of
well-bred. if somewhat distant, rela-
tives. On the one hand there was the
uniform courtesy of the man of the
world toward a woman; on the other.
the Difference of n young girl of good
breeding toward person much Older
than herself But the note of cordial
and intimate affection between father
and child was absolutely missing.
And vet Agnes Murdoch was natural
~ of an afiectonate and expansive ma
ture. Daring her mother lifetime the
two women had been inseparabc com
panions. uEited by strong bond OF
sympathy.
Mrs. Murdoch had been an invalid
for many years before her death and
with Agnes had lived either abroad o!
in the south during much Of the time
In order to escape the rigors of The
northern climate. Thus the father. en-
crossed as he was with his occupations
and his scientific researches, had seer
but little of his daughter during hel
childhood, and had been looked upon by
the child almost as stranger.
When at last, after her mother:
death. Agnes heartbroken al the los:
OF her only friend, returned to tn" par
entail roof, she was girl Of lG IL
| the first loneliness Of her bercayc rlent
when. hungering for human sympathy
| and consolation. she turned to her ia
ther, She received patient and couT
teous attention, with an offer of al
| the material comforts and luXurie
which wealth could procure; but sh'
| failed TO find the only thing she needed
! "A responsive human heart.
| And yet. behind the cold and selfsl
! exterior Of the chemist, the young CIR
had touched chord which had neve
vibratcd before in this strange man
being. 1t is probable that the feeling
! awakened in him by his lovely daughtc
was the nearest approach to an absorb
/ iag human affection of which his natur
was capable. Perhaps if the child ha'
been sufficiently experienced TO rea'
her fathers heart she might have per
sisted in her advances, and thus ulti
mately have conquered the cold rescrv
she had at first encountered. But sh
was proud and impulsive, and, bitterl
disappointed in her first attempt L
win from hef father demonstration
OF affection, she withdrew into her iso