Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-26

grin, my adorable lily, all alone
ready TO hear the heavenly music that
Spineln will play to his idol.
Spinelh will play tonight as. he has
never done before, and you will die
Of love of him,"
Before Dick could interfere the
great musician struck one mastery
wall of a lost soul. 1t stirred the
depths of consciousness and it de-
manded obedience to its commands.
Pain. sorrow, nameless desires surged
through its lingering cadences. Lita
sat enthr&lled. In dumb, stricken
horror before this fiend, she appeared
TO be coannletely subjugated. Wendall
listened in mute fear. and then as the
notes gathered in intensity and
volume he began to lose his self-con-
troll. He lurched forward from his
hiding place
There stood Spinelli, with pale,
cadaverous cheeks, his satanic smile
on his face. comforting and twisting,
! totally oblivious of the presence of
any one but himself and his beautiful
victim. Lita sat motioniess, rigid ano
white, set face craning forward, alb
sorbed in the wonderful music rtwas
a horrible scene-a human vampire
young gill. Then Wcndall began to
experience agGin his musical second
sight; to see shapes ANA scenes ac
cording to what the sounds conveyed
and hear it was that the NEST re,
markable event Ct h S career tooR
place. Its details, as you may re-
member, were all thrashed over in
court afterwards by high priced
lawyers and learned judges.
For as young W@ndall ia clean
minded, healthy md oommon sense
American, locked and listened to the
demon Spinelii ne saw things which
no man could bear. Human ghouls
crowded around the violmist, chuckled,
marked, and sTdnned. Then the re-
pulsive Italian seemed to be ogling
Lita with evil Srrtesnt Iiissgreat lank
arm appeared to encircle her wais,
and then he placed her beautiful head
against his breast. The music con
tinued to crash and wall, and SpineIh
seemingly SenH his lips 20 kiss his
victim.
! Then the thread snapped Scarcely
knowing What ne was doing, Wendall
cooked his revolver, stepped full into
Splneilis sight, and fired point blank
into his breast. With a shrill cry
and a blatant medley of chords
the viclinfst fell in con-
fused heap on the floor, and Dick
sprang to Lita's side. She had risen
from her seat.
Heaven forgive you. you have
killed HIM" she paI1ted
! You were in his arms-caressed
by him." he answered thickly. Il
could not bear IT."
! q have nevEr left my scat" she
cried out -Tfls music made you think
it,
Then the servants, followed by a
stray and pntffRg policeman, burst in
to the Room, END Richard Wendan
found himself under arrest for the
murder of the xwrEldls greatest must,
clan, Antonio Spmelli For the
Italian was dead as a door nail.
Heart disease did lit, of course, as
Dicks revolver had mo bullets in it,
but certain wise prosecuting attorneys
determined that the prisoner was a
murderer in the eyes of the law be-
cause he had shot with intent to kin
and death had resulted This brought
cut all the story ct 1.-THE crime, and
the jury, following the precedents es-
tablished by all lis American predeces.
sors, decided that death for the cause
Richard Wendall thought he saw" was
justifiable homicide. Amy New Yorker
must remember the hattie of the
hypnotic experts that ragged in the
courtroom and through the news.
papers for months during the progress
of The trial But few knew the fact
which Dick whispered to Iiita eon the
day of their wedding.
J That man was my father, dear" he
said.
Il knew it, Dick" she reylliefl, ''tbut
| hoped you might get through with
out finding it out,''