The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-27
copyrighted, 1890. by the J. B. LippincoH Col
CHAPTER XvIII.-CoNr1NUED.

CHAPTER XVIII.-CONTINUED.
Nearly an hour was consumed in
trying to convince him he must or at
least might be mistaken, but to no
purpose. He mentioned card photo
graph of Foster in ranch costume that
would convince the gentlemen, he
thought, that there was no such very
strong resemblance, and a note was
written to Miss Porter asking her to
end and send the picture in question.
1T came, cabinet photo Of a tall, slen-
der, well-built young fellow with dark
eyes and Grows and thick, cufving
Iashes, and oval, attractive face.
despite its bcyishness, and nine men
put of ten who saw and compared it
with the face Of the dead declared Il
looked as though it had been taken
for the latter perhaps a year or so
agone. Ray had hurt his own case,
and, when excused to return to his
sisters side, went forth into the gath
ering twilight stricken with the con-
seriousness that he was believed to
have lied in hopes of averting scandal
from that sisters name.
And on the morrow with that post
norton, so insisted on by Brick, no
longer delayed, the dead again lay
mutely awaiting the final action of the
civil-military authorities, and to the
surprise of the officers and guards,
before going to the daily routine that
kept him from early morn till late at
night in his beleaguered office, Dray-
ton came and bowed his gray head and
gazed with somber eyes into the sleep
ing features now before him.
A pinched and tired look was COM
ing over the waXen face that had been
so calm and placid, as though in utter
WEAKNESS over this ,enseless delay.
Drayton had been told of young Rays
almost astounding declaration, and
officers of the law half expected him
to make some adverse comment there
on, but he did not. Alert correspond
ents, amazed to see the corps COM
mander at such place and so far from
the AyuntamientO, surrounded him as
he would have retaken his seat in his
carriage, and clamored for something
as coming from him in the way of an
expression of opinion, which, with
grave courtesy, the general declined
to give, but could not prevent appear
ing week later in thousand papers
In a dozen different forms-ferried
over to Hong-Kong by the Shotgun or
some other ship, and cabled thence to
waiting ChristendOm.
Drayton had his own reasons for
wishing to see the remains, then Vim
ton, and later Ray, and as his move
n1ents were closely followed, the wits
of the correspondents were soreIy
taxed. But the examination was to be
resumed at nine. A rumor was run
ming wild that Miss Ray herself was
to be summoned to appear, and Dray
ton had to be dropped in favor of a
more promising sensation.
1t began with dreary surgical tech
nicalities. The heavy bullet had
traversed the ascending aorta near
its bifurcation," said Brick. who
though only an autopsical adjunct,
was permitted to speak for his as
sociates. Death, said he, had resulted
from shock and was probably instan-
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tributed. No other wound was dis
covered. No marks of scuffie except
''some unimportant scratches" on the
shoulder. The bullet was found to
weigh exactly the same as those OF
the unexploded cartridges in poor
Maidie's priced revolver, and though
Brick would gladly have kept the
floor and told very much more, the
provost-marshal as gladly got rid of
him, for, despite the unwillingness
of the medical officers at the Quartet
de Meysic, Connolly had been
trundled down to Ermita in a spring.
ambulance and was patiently await
ing his turn.
The moment his coming was an
nounced, Connolly was ushered in and
Brick shut off short.
A nurse and doctor were with the
sturdy little Irishman, and he need
ed but brief instruction as to what
was wanted. Taken to the trestle
and hidden to look upon the face of
the deceased and say, if he could,
who it was, Connolly looked long and
earnestly, and hen turned feebly but
ssimly 70 the attentive array.
III il Was1't that this looks much