The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-09-24
"And / repeat it, sir"

1ntu WHY QlQ yOu 1ihluC01utCiy 81
to Mr.. Jeffrey's drawer, where you
could have no business, unless it was
to see if she had taken his pistol with
her?'
Miss Tuttle's head fell, and soft
flush broke through the pallor of her
cheek.
Because l was thinking Of him; be-
cause l was terrified for him. He had
left the house the morning before in !
half maddened condition and had not
come back to sleep or eat since. 1 did
not know what a man so outraged In
every sacred feeling Of love and honor
might be tempted to do. l thought OF
suicide. l remembered the old house
and how he had said: I don't believe
her l don't believe she ever did SO
cold blooded an act or that any such
dreadful machinery is in that house.
1 never shall believe it till have seen
and handled it myself. 1t is a night
mare, Cora. We are insane, thought
of this, sirs, and when went into her
room to change the place Of the little
note in the book l went to his bureau
drawer uOL W AOOh lOA tAC RAoScA . >>~N
not think of that then-but to see II
the KEYS of the Moore house were still
there. / knew that they were kept IN
this drawer, for had been present in
the room when they were brought III
after the wedding. / had also been
shortsighted enough to conclude that
if they were gone it was he who had
taken them. They were gone, and that
was why l flew Immediately from the
house to the old place in Waverley av-
enue. was concerned for Mr.. JEFF
frey. I feared to find him there, de-
mented or dead"
'But you had no key"
mo; Mr.. Jeffrey had taken one OF
them and my sister the other, but the
, lack of a key or even Of light, fol
the missing candles were not taken by
, me 1--we afterward found that these
. candles were never delivered at the
house at all; that they had been placed
, | in the wrong basket and left in {
neighboring kitchen], could not keel
me at home after l was once con
= vinced that he had gone to this dread
= full house. If / could not get in
y could at least hammer at the door o
q rouse the neighbors. Something mus
. be done. did not think what;
% merely few"
did you know that the house ha
+ two keysT
:. mot then"
"A "But your sister did,"
Probably"
sand finding the only key, as 20
n supposed, gone, you few to the Mooi
a. house?
,r Immediately"
"And now what elseT'
/, 81 found the door unlocked"
.sThat was done by Mrs. Jeffreyr
q Eyes, but / did not think of h
then"
"And you went int"
10 Eyes; it was all dark, but felt n
as way till came to the gilded pillars
"Why did you go there"
BECAUSE l felt--I knew-if he we
!" anywhere in that house he would
therew
"And why did you stopY'
ne Her voice rose above its usual gu
w pitch in shrill protest:
'You know you know! nearu
~ pistol shot from within, then II
leu | don't remember anything else. IN
say | went wandering about town T
~ haps did; it is all blank to IN
ny everything is blank till the poll
man said that my sister was dead q
III learned for the first time that
nce shot / had heard in the Moore hol
was not the signal OF his deatn,
~ hers. Had been myself when at I
Iou library door," she added, after
pu ment OF silence, Il would have rusl
=, IN al the sound of that shot ana b
received my sisters dying breath
'el' "Corag' The cry was from Mr,
- frey, and seemed TO be quite inyol
a. tary. In the weeks during which
80 have been kept from speaking tose'
~ have turned al these events 0'el
~. ~ ny mind 81 ! longed for any resi-
~ even that Of the grave. But ID az
thinking never attributed THIS no
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