Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-09
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out sacrificing certain necessary points
and the coroner went relentlessly to
work.
How long have you been in this
house?"
".rhree weeks-ever since Mrs. JEFF
frey's wedding day. sir
Were you there when she first came
as bride from the Moore house?"
II was, SIR
"And saw her then for the first
timer
YES, sir"
How did she look and act that first
day?'
II thought her the gayest bride l had
ever seen, then thought her the sad
dest, and then did not know what to
think. She was so merry one minute
and SO frightened the next, so full OF
talk when she came running up the
steps and SO struck with silence the
minute she got into the parlor. that
set her down as queer one till some
one whispered in my ear that she was
suffering from dreadful shock-that
i'll luck had attended her marriage and
much more about what had happened
from time to time ut the Moore house.
And you believed what was told
you?"
"Believed?"
Believed it we'll enough to keep a
watch on your young mistress to see
il she were happy or not!'
"Oh, sir
ut was but natural" the coroner
suavely observed. Every one felt in
terested in this marriage. You watch
ed her, of course. Now, what was the
result2 Did you consider her well and
happy?'
The girls voice sank, and she cast
a glance at her master which he did
not lift his head to meet.
II did not think her happy. She
laughed and sang and was always in
and out of the rooms like butterfly,
but she did not wears happy look ex-
cept now and then when she was seat
ed with Mr.. Jeffrey alone. Then have
seen her flush in way to make the
heart ache. 1t was such contrast, sir,
to other times when she was by her
self Or
"Or what?''
"Or just with her sister, SIR
The defiance with which this was
said added point to what otherwise
might have been an unimportant ad.
mission.
you refer to Miss Tuttlew observed
the coroner.
Mrs. Jeffrey's sister? Yes, sir. !"
The menace was gone from the voice
now, but no one could forget that it
had been there.
Miss futile lived in the house with
her sister, did she not?"
Eyes, sir, till that sister died and
was buried; then she went away"
The coroner did not pursue this topic,
preferring to return to the former one.
$50 you say that Mrs. jeffrey showed
uneasiness ever since her wedding
day. Can you give me any instance
Of this-mentlon, mean, any CONVEX
sation overheard by you which would
show us just what you mean?"
Il don't like to repeat things hear,
but il you say that / must / can re-
member once passing Mr.. and Mrs.
Jeffrey in the hall just as he was say
ing: You take 1t too much to heart!
I expected happy honeymoon. Some
how we have failed That was all
| heard, sir. But what made me re-
member his words was that she was
dressed for some afternoon reception
and looked so charming and so-and
SO, as If she ought to be happier"
Just so. Now, when was this? How
long before her death?"
..Oh, week or so. 1t was very soon
after the wedding day"
"And did matters seem to improve
after that? Did she appear any better
satisfied or more comDosed?"
9" think she endeavored to, but
there was something on her mind,
something which she tried to laugh
off. something that annoyed Mr.. JET
frey and worried Miss futile, some
thing which caused cloud in the
house for all the dances and dinners
and goings and comings. l am sorry
to speak of it, but it was So"
Something that showed an unsettled
mind?"
Almost The. glitter in her eye was
not naturak neither was the way she
looked at her sister and sometimes at
her husband
Ibid she talk much about the catas
trophe which attended her wedding
Did her mind seem to-run on that !"