The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-03-26

when met him and saw that he either
| did not love me or never had loved me-
| He was civil in the most eXasperating
degree, and he evidently regarded me
as one of the incidents of past which
he would prefer to forget
81 was enraged beyond all endurance
I was maddened, but preserved some
semblance of self-controi, and while
pretending to leave him, secretly fol-
lowed him, and | entered hotel which
happened to be opposite the house he
entered. This was in the daytime.
cat night he came out, and l. who
had never relaxed my watch for mo-
ment, followed him. You remember
| that little revolver which you gave me
! years ago? 1t is within of mine often
to carry it with me, and it was with
me then.
"Caryl went into one of the shops on
| Winter street and he came out with a
| girl on his arm. A beautiful face she
had, and very young. They sauntered
on up toward the South end, and fol-
| lowed. l was so near as often to see
the glances he bent on her-the
! glances that had once beguiled my
! heart.
ION the way they stopped in once at
what seemed to be a private house on
! fremont street, but they were not gone
half an hour, and | fingered within
sight of the door. | do not wish to re-
member my feelings as | followed
| them; they were the feelings Of fiend.
when they came out again, | fol-
! lowed as before. The lights were not
| so numerous now, but | could see by
his attitude that he was Turing her as
he had lured me.
"They turned off toward the less
built-up places of the South end, and
were going slowly across large space
| OF unoccupied land. 1t was solitary
| and the houses were far from the place.
| 1t was then that | came nearer. l did
not seem to know what was doing,
and yet acted as If l did. My hand
was on the pistol. and as | went by
them fired, and the man fell instant
| ly. / can hear his half-uttered groan
as he did so.
"The air was very heavy and damp
| and the report did not resounr as
usual. and there seemed TO be no one
near. know that as / walked rapidly
away met no one who appeared star
tied by anything.
81 came out on to Washington street
and entered car that took me down
| town again, and | went back to the
hotel had left. | have been stopping
there since; but found inaction un-
endurable. and | started out to leave
the city for some place, did not care
| where"
This was Rachel Rothesay's story as
she had told it that day to her brother
in the carriage.
No matter how shocked and unbe-
lieying Rothesay had been, he could
not but believe her, and the belief al
most stunned him.
He saw that he must protect and aid
her-that that protection and aid
might change his prospects seriously
His mind, accustomed to the details
of various cases in court, saw instant
ly how fearfully heavy would be the
suspicion attached to himself.
There flashed before his mind the
fact of his having given blow to
Caryl so short time before-the fact
] of his having started to Philadelphia
to be married. and the thrice unfor-
tunate fact that he could not, without
revealing his sisters guilt, give any
valid reason for breaking an engage
ment so binding.
Lucidly and rapidly fact after fact
flashed before him. He could not
prove an alibi at the hotel at the time
the deed had been committed, for he
had been sauntering through the street
then, and any one who had known him
might have testified that he was walk
ing at the South end, for il was in thai
vicinity that he was lounging at the
time.
Yes, he said to himself, he could
make out the very strongest case
against one in his position. There was
the motive, the array of circumstances
everything dead against him.
All these thoughts passed rapidly
through his mind as he sat there, after
having listened to his sisters story.
There seemed a fatality about it. II
he had gone to New York the day be-
fore, as he intended, he would not
have seen his sister--he would have
been out of the city before the crime
was committed. But what would have
become of her?
II was not strange that dreadful
despair settled upon the young man
At first he could not think coherently
He sat motionless by her side, makinn
the vain effort to form some plan by
which he could effectually conceal her
until he could find means to get her
out of the country. But his mind was
in whirl of confusion, and it seemed
long before he could bring anything
like order to his thoughts.
/ Meantime the horses were taking
them farther out into the suburbs.
At last there came to Rothesay's
mind the memory of a long-deserted
hut he had seen in the woods, not far
from the shore, where he had lust
been. He had discovered it the day
before he had met with his accident
and he knew from its appearance that
1t had been years since it had been