Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-19

denied tbGt the room 4ods in great dis order toIoen the serUaats first rushed iae ct the sound he made iS falling. Every thing movable had been pushed back against the wall and an open space cleared, in the center of which could be seen one drop of blood. What is cer- tain is that MT. Moore is held to the house by something even more serious than his deep grief, and that the young lady who was the object of this fatal dispute has left the city"
 Pasted under this was the following short announcement:
 Married, on the 21st of January, at the American consulate in Rome, Italy, Edward Moore of Washington, D. O., United States of America, to Antoi- nette Sloan, daughter of Joseph Dewitt Sloan, also of that city"
 With this notice my interest in the book ceased, and prepared to step down from the chair on which I had remained standing during the reading of the above passages.
 As l did so spied slip of paper lying on the floor at my feet. As it had not been there ten minutes before there could be no doubt that it had slipped from the book whose leaves I had been turning over so rapidly. Fastening to recover 1t, found it to be sheet of ordinary note paper partly inscribed with words in neat and distinctive handwriting. This was a great find, for the paper was fresh and the hand writing one which could be readily identified. What I saw written there was still more remarkable. 1t had the look of some of the memoranda I had myself drawn up during the most per picking moments of this strange case. transcribe it just as it read:
 we have here two separate accounts of how death comes to those who breathe their last on the ancestral hearthstone of the Moore house library
 Certain facts are emphasized in both:
 "Each victim was alone when he fell.
 "Each death was preceded by scene of altercation or violent controversy between the victim and the alleged master of these premises.
 "In each case the master of the house reaped some benefit, real or fancied, from the others death"
 A, curious set of paragraphs. Some one besides myself was searching for the very explanation I was at that mo- ment intent upon. should have con sidered it the work of our detectives if the additional lines I now came upon could have been written by any one but Moore. But no one of any other blood or associations could have in dited the amazing words which follow ed. The only excuse I could find for them was the difficulty which some men feel in formulating their thoughts otherwise than with pen and paper, they were so evidently intended for the writer's eye and understanding only, as witness:
 'Let me recall the words my father was uttering when my brother rushed in upon us with that account of my misdeeds which changed all my pros poets in life. It was my twenty first birthday, and the old man had just in. formed me that as the eldest son I might expect the house in which we stood to be mine one day and with it a secret which has been handed down from father to son ever since the Moores rose to eminence in the person of Colonel Alpheus. Then he noted that was now of age and immediately went on to say: This means that you must be told certain facts, without the Knowledge of which you would be no true Moore. These facts you must hereafter relate to your son or whoever may be fortunate enough to inherit | from you. It is the legacy which goes l with this house and one which no in heritor as yet has refused either to re- ceive or to transmit Listen. You have often noted the gold fligree ball which wear on my watch guard. This ball is the talisman of our house, of this house. If in the course of your life you find yourself in an extremity from which no issue seems possible mind the strictness of the injunction--an ex- tremity from which no issue seems possible-Q have never been ill such a case; the gold fligree ball has never been opened by mel you will take this trtnket from its chain, press upon this portion of 1t so and use what you will find inside. in connection with
 Alas, it was at this point John Jud- son came rushing in, and those dis closures were made which lost me my fathers regard and gave to the inform CT my rightful inheritance, together with the full secret of which I only got part. But that part must help me now to the whole. have seen the filigree ball many times. Veronica has 1t now. But it's contents have never been shown me, If knew what they were and why the master of this se- cret always left the library
 Here the memorandum ceased with long line struggling from the letter ''y'' as if the writer had been surprised at his task.
 The effect upon me of these remark able words was to heighten my inter- est and raise me into a state of re- newed hope if not of active expecta- ton.
 Another mind than my own had been at work along the only groove which fa<.II 4'<.~-