Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-06-04
seized aad disarmed him.

a murderer" he cried "How did
you get out of prison? You are charged
with Ralph Caryl's murder, and you
come here and taunt me with yillainy!
oh, ] will pay you back for this."
The two men pushed him toward
the door; they put him out into the
night, and in 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 viii 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 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.
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 1t is sunlight fer u.s." muir
INJURED Vance. May it ever be sun
shine for you. dear wife.
That which remains to be told can
be said soon. Beyond a doubt 1t was
established that Rachel Rothesay was
guilty of the crime she had avowed.
AS the trial went on Ii 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 nnndation of existence, and on
the very day when the verdict was
given-"G Guilty, but recommended to
Eaercy"-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 1t st the shore.
where the child had been taken for It's
health
Forty years the secret was dead.
then 1t 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 Rothesay at his Office in
Philadelphia.
I've been working up case on my
own account, because 1t interested
me-" said the detective, "and then.
You know. my admiration for Mrs.
Rothesay is an incentive" with q
smile.
And the csse?" questioned Rothe-
say, rather anxious to return to the
case of his own which he was study
Ing.
You never told me you had any
Caryl blood In your veins" remarked
Loud.
mo. l never was proud OF It,"
"And your mother was Caryl, and
cousin of Bernard Caryl?"
YES" wonderingly.
Then think can safely congrath.
late you on inheriting the Carylville
property-encumbered 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 Ca-yI
had, with all his astuteness, 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 q foreign land and re-
ported dead-migbt yet give him troa-
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 worns were true, and It was
not many months before Rothesay and
his wife were established in the beau
tifu. Caryl mansion, and Kate insisted
upon Immediately restoring TO it some
thing OF its former grandeur. am; ! !
every year added something to it's
beauties, for Vance became success