The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-13

NOT lHeu.
But your sister did,"
probably
"And finding the only key, as you
supposed, gone, you flew to the Moore
house,
Immediately"
"And now what else?"
II found the door unlocked"
THAT was done by Mrs. Jeffrey?"
Eyes, but | did not think of her
then"
And you went in"
Yes it was all dark. but l felt my
way till | came to the gilded pillars"
why did you 90 there"
"Because | felt--I knew-if he were
anywhere in that house he would be
there"
And why did you stop:'
Her voice rose above its usual quiet
pitch in shril protest:
You know. you knowl | heard a
pistol shot from within. then a fall
don't remember anything else They
say went wandering about town Per-
hapS | did; it is all a blank to me-
everything is a blank till the police.
man said that my sister was dead and
learned for the first time that the
shot | had heard in the Moore house
was not the signal of his death, but
hers. Had been myself when at that
library door" she added. after mo-
ment of silence, II would have rushed
in at the sound of that shot and have
received my sisters dying breath"
"Coraw The cry was from Mr.. JEFF
frey. and seemed to be quite involun-
tary. in the weeks during which we
have been kept from speaking together
| have turned all these events over in
my mind till longed for any respite,
even that of the grave. But in all my
never attributed this motive
to your visit here. viii you forgive
mey
There was a new tone in his voice,
Il tone which no woman could hear
without emotion.
You had other things to think Of"
she said, and her lips tremblcd Never
have | seen on the human face a more
expression than | saw ON
hers at that moment; nor do | think
Mr. Jeffrey had either. for as he
marked it his own regard softened al
most to tenderness.
The major had no time for sentimen-
taltles. Turning to Mr.. Jeffrey, he
said
zone more question before we send
for the letter which you say will give
us full insight into your wifc's crime.
DO you remember what occurred on
the bridge ut Georgetown just before
YOU came into town that night!'
He shook his head
did you meet any one thorcG'
IL do not know"
"Can you remember your state of
mndY
II was facing the future"
"And what did you see in the fu-
tureT"
Death. Death for her ana death for
me! A crime was on her soul. and she
must die; and if She then myself. |
knew no other course. | could not
the police, point out my bride
IF fortnight and, with the declaration
that she had been betrayed into killing
. man, coldly deliver her up to Justice.
Neither could | live at her side know
nc the guilty secret which parted us.
Or live anywhere in the world under
this same consciousness. Therefore.
meant to kill myself before another
sun rose. But she was more deeply
stricken with a sense of her own guilt
than | realized When | returned
home for the pistol which was to end
BUR common misery ! found that she
had taken her punishment into her
)Wn hands. This strangely affected
ple, but when ] found that, in do
ng this. she had remembered that |
should have 10 face the world after she
was gone and so left few lines for
me to show in explanation Of her art.
my revolt against her received check
which the reading Of her letter only
Rut the lines she thus
wrote and left were not true lines.
All her heart was mine. and il il WIS
wicked heart she has atoncd''-
lie paused, quite overcome. Others
lmong us were overcome. too. hut only
FOR a moment The following ycmarl
from the district attorney soon recalled
rs to the practical aspects Of t!le case:
"You have accounted for many facts
not hitherto understood. Eut there IL
still a very important one wilich nei-
Iher yourself nor Miss futile has vet
made plain There WAS a candle on
Ibe scene of crime 1t was ont when
this officer arrived here. There was
also one found burning IN the upstairs
room. aside from the one you profess
idly used in your tour Of inspection
there Whence came those candles?
And did your wife blow out the one
N the library herself previous to the
or was it blown out after
ward and by other llps:"
These are questions which. rs have
already said | have no means Of an
swering," repeated Mr.. jeffrey. The
courage which brought her here may
have led her to supply herself with
light, and. hard as it is 10 conceive. she
may even have found nerve to blow out
he Iie.ht hnfnra ehn liffnd tho nlsfnI tn