The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-30


your brothers murderer. But. unless
there is something very strange that
Ms yet do not know. that murderer
is known to you. and You are shielding
him from me-"
1t l. false Lord Penlyn said. ad.
vanciEe To him and standing bo!dl,
and dciiantly before him. "As God
| hears me. | swear that 1t Is false And
you shall tell me what you know. you
shall Justify your vile suspicious of
me-
Yes" the Senor replied, Il shall
Justify them. hut rot to you. Near
| you to he an accomplice in this mur
der. Have care. | say"
II defy you and your accusations
And the law shall make you speak ou,
plainly"
| Il am about 10 speak out plainly,
this very night. But | am not goin,
to speak plainly to the man whose
house affords a refuge to his broth
ers murderer"
| Lord renlyn sprang at him, rs he
heard these words fall from his lips.
as he had once sprung at his own
brother in the Park when that brother
told him he was bearing a name not
rightly his; and once more he felt him
self in Il grasp OF iron, and powerless
BE careful" Senor Gufranta said
as he hurled him back, "be careful, or
shall do you an injury"
Stuart had endeavored to come be
tween them, but before he could do
so the short struggle was over, and
then the Spaniard turned to him and
said, Il must speak with you alone.
Come with me-" and, turning, left
the room.
BEFORE Stuart followed him he spoke
to Penlyn, and said: do not take this
too seriously to heart. This man is
evidently under some delusion, II not
as to the actual murderer, at least as
| to your connection with the crime.
Perhaps, when he has told me what
he knows, we shall lind out where the
error lies; and then he will ask your
pardon for his suspicious"
1t is too awful" Penlyn said, too
awful to he borne. And | can do
nothing. | wish | could have killed
him as he stood there falsely accusing
me. but he is a giant in strength"
Let me go TO him now" Stuart
said: "and do not think of his words.
Remember. he, too, is excited at having
seen the man again and missed him.
And il he does not absolutely bind me
to silence | will tell you all" Then
he. also. went away. And that night,
in Walter Cundalrs library, Senior
Guflanta told his story. Told ii calm
ly and dispasSionately but with n
fulness of detail that struck q chill to
Stuarts heart.
II had been but a few days in Lon
DON" he said, when l learnt by
Walters own hand-in the letter you
have seen--that he was also here, and
that ! was to go and see him. l was
eager to DO SO. and on the very night
he was murdered. on that fatal Mon
day night | set out to visit him. He
had told me to come late, and knowing
that he was II man much in the world,
and also th;f, from living in Hondu-
ras. where the nights alone are cool,
one rarely learns to go 10 bed early.
/ did go late: so late that the clocks
were striking midnight as / reached
his house. But, when | stood outside
II, there was no light of any kind TO
be seen, only a faint glmmer from .
lamp i'll the hall. lie has gone to his
bed said To myself. and the house
is closed for the night. Well, it Is in
deed late. will come again. And SO
turned away, and, knowing that
there was a road through your park,
han I l,,.
mined to return that way
Through the parll-where he was
murdcrcd:' Stuart asked.
Yes. hy that way. liut before i
reached the gates. and when was
outside the Palace of your Queen,
buckingham Palace. the storm that
had been threatening broke over me.
taramDa' IL was storm To drown q
man, storm such as we see some
times in the tropics, but which l had
never thought 10 see here. IL de
sccnded in vast sheets Of water, IL
was impossible to stir without being
instanIaneously drenched to the skin,
and so ! sought shelter in a porch
close at hand. There, seeing no one
pass me but some poor halfdrowned
creature who looked as though the rain
could make his misery no greater than
II was, ! waited and waited-I had no
protection, no umbrella-and heard
the quarters and hali.hours, and the
hours tUlled by the clock. At last. as
II was striking two. the storm almost
ceased, and, leaving my shelter.
crossed the road and entered the park"
Yes" Stuart said i'll whisper.
Yes, ! entered the park, and went
en- round the bend, aud so, under the
dripping trees. through what have
since learnt, is called the Mall"
For Gods sake, so on" Stuart eI
claimed.