Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

Sir Johns face wore an amused smile.
II am not inventing romance. You
urged and stimulated to do your work
fit agent" went on the colonel. You set
the Hindoo, Obejah Sahib, about his dew
ilish work, which was the destruction of
all your relatives. The storm and angry
sea saved him from part of it, but he
managed with his internal arts to sink
the cobra's poisonous fangs into two no
BILE persons, and two noble lives went
out. l always suspected, but | deter
mined to know the truth. For years
courted the favor of Obejah Sahib, and
won him, if such creatures can be
won"
did he not attempt your life in Phila
delphia?" asked Sir John sarcastically,
cor was that only a shrewd game to get
the American spies out of prison?'
Il will not answer your question at
present, Sir John. The time for interro-
CATION has not come, or, rather, 1t IS
past"
Sir John had come to a halt directly
before the colonel, with a sarcastic sheer
on his features, and when the officer
paused he asked:
IF what you say was true, my dear
colonel, even if l had conspired with
Obejah Sahib to destroy your sister and
her husband, the witnesses are gone.
Both the Hindoo and nurse persisted in
yesterdays fight, as did Captain San
ford. Would you have me acknowledge
| to being fratricidc? You are so very
plain yourself that you will excuse lit
| tie freedom in me, | am sure"
"Attend me again, Sir John, but once
| cried Col Chester; Sin your very look,
| word and gesture you mean to tell me
that you had nothing to do with your
brothers death, and that you did not
| usurp the estate Of my sisters child. |
tell you it was you who prompted the
| former and executed the latter. True,
Sir Robert had angered the Hindoo, but
| you famed the flame In every action
| of my life, from the first hope which
| you converted into grief and desolation,
you have stood like adverse fate between
me and peace. When L loved Annie
Franklin it was you who poisoned her
against me, and she married Fitzgerald.
\ In all you have ever been the same cold
| blOoded, hollow, false, unworthy villain.
| For the second time, and for the last,
| | cast these charges in your teeth and
! spurn you from me as [ would a faith
| less dog"
| With that he raised his arm and struck
| the baronet on the breast with such force
as to stagger him. The instant he re-
covered, Sir John drew his sword, threw
away the scabbard and his hat and laid
| aside is coat.
Not another word was spoken by eth
er They crossed swords, and there in
| the broad, green wood, fought each 9th
er furiously. They were well matched
and each thoroughly skilled in the use
of his weapon.
AS the seconds rolled on they grew
| hotter and more furious, and, pressing
| on each other, inflicted and received sew
eral slight wounds. 1t was directly af-
ter receiving one Of these in his arm that
| Col. Chester, making keener lunge with
his sword, felt the warm blood squirting
out and plunged his sword through his
| opponents body to the hilt.
| Their eyes were on each other as he
drew it out. He put his arm about the
, dying man, who feebly repulsed him, and
| dropped on the turf. Raising himself
| on his hands, he gaZed at him for an
| instant with scorn and hatred in his look,
and then fell back dead.
"My sisters child must never know
| how her uncle died." the colonel said, put
! ting up his sword and walking away.