Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-06-04
seized and disarmed him.

You get out OF prison? \ on are charged
with Ralph Caryls murder and you
come here and taunt me with villainy!
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 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 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 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 it was
established that Rachel Rothesay was
guilty of the crime she had avowed
AS the trial went on it 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, terrible remorse sapped
the foundation of existence. and on
the very day when the verdict was
giyen-"Guilty, but recommended to
mercy victim of Ralph Caryl's
falseness died in her cell.
neCOluIIletlu6u W mercy. ana
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
nings-secrets, which. however. as
they could serve no legal purpose,
would be buried in his own mind.
He ferreted out. having accidentally
found a 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
chld-heir to the Caryl place in Caryl-
willie. 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 w.-ch
Charles Purcell had found in the in.
faats rude coffin.
y month later Henry Loud called
Philadelphia.
I've been working up a case on my
own account because it interested
me- said the detective. land then.
you know. my admiration for -.lrs.
Rothesay is an incentive" with a
smile.
And the case??" questioned Ro.he-
hn~
case of his own which he was study
ing
You never told me you had any
Caryl blood in your VEINS" rema,.cd
Loud.
NO. I never was proud of it,
And your mother was Caryl, and
cousin Of Bernard Caryl?"
Yes" wonderingly.
"Then think can safely congratt.,
late you on inheriting the Carylville
property-encumbere enough, dare
say" {.
Roothesay stared.
He had been .christened Vance
Caryl Rotnesay, but he had soon
dropped the middle name. Would he
soon resume it?
Loud explained how the elder Caryl
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 foreign :and and re-
ported dead-might yet give him trou-
BILE.
Still Bernard Caryl had arranged
matters so YER; 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 we're 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 Varce 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.