The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-13

URNAL SUMMER FICTION SUPPLEMENTARY
almost
expanse of uncarpeted floor There in hid
ing somewhere amid the shadows the end from
where stood, and possibly but
petey dismantled place given to moth and rust
do not include the walls They not bare like the
floor but covered with ceilngThese
books We're not the books Of they long
in their places unnoted
the color of fungus and seltwe there adding
to the picture Every knows the spirit
laton pervadng rooms which have been shut for
indefinite length of time from air and sunshine
The elegance of the heavily succeed ceiling admitted
be one of the finest specimens of its kind Washington
Of Italian marble rising above hearhstone
served to make evident neglect which
to subject myself further to its
convinced that the place empty
expected and so strangely extraordinary
the influence of the old tragedies with
necessarily FULL that 8 paused my advance
wenigh uncertain whether looked upon thing
some strange and terrible fantasy
the floor which had hitherto been by
half-open door-a womans form, which in
casual look impressed itself aerial deicaey
and extreme refinement lay only
e the dead And had been looking at the hearthone for
just such picture! No, not picture
blood
tied by my mmoht and silence he had in with
auakng members expecting he hardly knew
spelbound than unforeseen change place
What had unnerved possession.
Death in this shape familiar to him He had Of
blood He did not show surprise it, only
at the effect it appeared to produce
"Shot!"& was his laconc he
PROSTATE body Shot thru the hear She have died
before
That was experience for this 70 wound had
ever before those who had fallen
of the previous victims been any spot
than the which that huge kept guard
these thoughts nstinctivey glanced again
the fireplace for what almost refused believe
az my feet when nothing more appeared there
than that old seat of sinister experienced
which poorly prepared for the which
raised by E[bbard.
Look here. What do you make OF ths?"
He was pointing to what closer Inspection proved
to be strip of white satin ribbon running
delicate wrists of the girl before pistol
the pistol something new my
experience What do think it means?"
Alas! there was but one thing it could The shot
which succumbed delivered by herself
This fair and delicate creature suicide.
But suicide in this pace How could account
Had nl-acauired acted hyp-
notcaly her. had she stumbled upon open
Closely scanning her upturned
face, sought to this question,
seeking received fresh shock which did hesitate
communicate my sensitive companion.
"Look at these features cried. Il
growled dissent stopped at my bidding and
gave the pitifu face prolonged he
I've certainly it somewhere" hesitatingly
nitted edging slowly toward Perhaps
pers. Isn't she like"
'Like!' interrupted it is herself the
of this house and she who
since to Mr. jeffrey Evidently her
the tragedy which threw deep gloom
CHAPTER Ill.
Not for instant did I doubt
Identification All the pictures this
society belle had been marked by individuality of express
sion which fixed her in the which
saw repeated in the ifeless features before
Greatly startled by the discovery but quite