The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-04
seized and dlsarmed him.

| you get out OF prison? You are charged
| with Ralph Caryls murder, and you
come here and taunt me with villainy!
oh, i will pay you back for this!"
The two men pushed him toward
| the door; they put him out into the
| night, and in a moment they heard his
| carriage wheels rolling rapidly away.
Now that the danger was over, Kate
began to tremble.
"He will kill you" she whispered to
her husband. You do not know him!
You will never be safe!"
But Vance could not feel fear, nor
any emotion but one Of triumph and
happiness. He held in his arms what
was dearer than all the world-he
feared nothing,
do not let us stop here" he said.
And without a word to the man who
had lent himself to Burt's plot, Rothe-
say led his wife out. He mounted his
horse and took her beside him, and
the two rode on through the beautiful
softness of the coming summer morn
ing.
While yet they were riding the sun
rose and drove the mist from his
way. shining sweetly on the husband
and wife who had begun their wedding
journey so strangely.
"You see it is sunlight for us" muir.
INJURED Vance. May IL ever be sun.
shine for you, dear wife:
That which remains to be told can
be said soon Beyond a doubt ii was
established that Rachel Rothesay was
guilty of the crime she had avowed.
AS the trial went on 1t became evil
dent that she would not live to expi-
ate the deed in any way the law might
decide.
Every day she faded more and more
In spite Of the tenderest attention
from her brother and his wife.
They knew that nothing could keep
the broken heart beating long A ru-
ined life, a terrible remorse, Slapped
the foundation of existence, and on
the very day when the verdict was
given-"Guilty, but recommended to
mercy"-the victim of Ralph Caryl's
falseness died in her cell.
Recommended to mercy!" And
can we not believe that God himself
leaned toward mercy for that broken
woman, who had suffered and sinned
so much?
In the investigations concerning
Ralph Caryl and his family that Henry
Loud, the detective made in that af-
fair he discovered some very alarming
things-secrets, which, however, as
they could serve no legal purpose,
would be buried in his own mind.
He ferreted out, having accidentally
found clue which spurred him on,
the deed which Bernard Caryl had
been guilty of so many years ago.
He knew that the man had killed the
child-heir to the Caryl place in Caryl.
Vile, and had buried it at the shore,
where the child had been taken for its
! health.
Forty years the secret was dead,
then it came to life--in spite of
Ralph's burning that paper wr.ch
Charles Purcell had found in the in
fant's rude coffin.
A month later Henry Loud called
upon Vance Rotnesay at his Office in
Philadelphia.
I've been working up case on my
own account, because it interested
me-" said the detective, "and then,
you know. my admiration for Mrs.
Rothesay is an incentive" with
| smile.
And the case?" questioned Rothe-
say, rather anxious to return to the
case of his own which he was study
/! Ing.
4. You never told me you had any
| Caryl blood in your veins" remarked
| Loud
No. | never was proud of It,"
"And your mother was Caryl, and
cousin of Bernard Caryl?"
yes" wonderingly.
Then think can safely congratn.
late you on inheriting the Carylville
! property-encumbere enough, | dare
say"
Roothesay stared.
! He had been christened Vance
| Caryl Rothesay. but he had soon
dropped the middle name. Would he
soon resume Il?
| Loud explained how the elder Caryl
udu, Win ali MS aSJuJeneSS, over
looked the fact that the heir of the
little murdered Caryl--his next Of kin,
and that next OF kin was Rothesay's
mother. then in foreign land and re.
ported dead-might yet give him trou-
! BILE.
Still Bernard Caryl had arranged
matters so very successfully that he
was not troubled in his lifetime, save
by remorse. possibly. for his claim had
/ never been controverted.
/ LIQUIDS words were true, and IT was
not many months before Rothesay and
/ his wife were established in the beau.
tiful Caryl mansion, and Kate insisted
| upon Immediately restoring to it some
thing OF its former grandeur, and
every year added something to its
beauties, for Vance became success
/ full, and wealth came with success in
/ his profession.
One day, five years after their mar.
rage, as Kate and Vance were travel
Ing in Europe, they stopped at Hon.
burg, and, out OF curiosity, they both
] wont IN Tho Knrcao ~ -