The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-11-03

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30 | remained quiet and watched. But
the sounds which now and then came
from the remote corner upon which
my attention was concentrated were
very o.oaucnt.
IL card signs and bitter groans, with
nov IL then murmpred prayer.
broken 10y a low wailing, in which l
caught the name OF Francis. And still,
possibly on account Of the utterance of
this name, l thought the woman near
me to be Miss Tuttle, and even went
30 far as to imagine the cause of her
suffering IL not the nature Of her re-
tribution. Words succeeded cries and
caught phrases expressive of fear
and some sort of agoIized hesitation.
Once these broken CALCULATIONS were
interrupted by dull sound. Some
thing had dropped to the bare floor.
We shall never know what 1t was, but
have no doubt that II was the pistol,
and that the marks Of dust to he found
on the connecting ribbon were made
by her own fingers in tuking II again In
her hand. (iou will remember that
these same fingers had but few min.
utes previous groped their way along
the walls.) For her voice soon took a
different tone, and such unintelligible
phrases as these could he heard issu
ing from her partly paralyzed lips:
"'I must! 1 can never meet his eye
again alive. lie would despise- Brave
enough to-to-anOther's blood = cow
ard-when-own. oh, God, forgive!
almost made up my mind to interfere,
then Il loud report and flash so star
Ting and unexpected that l rec0iled,
during which the room leaped into
sudden view--she. too, Veronica, with
baby face drawn and set like wom-
ans-then darkness again and heavy
fall which shook the floor. II not my
hard old heart. The fash and that
fall enlightened me. l had just wit
messed the suicide of the last Moore
saving myself, suicide for which ]
was totally unprepared and one which
I do not yet understand.
II did not 20 over to her. She was
hb ucuu utu suC ISiI 40 ShC CNCi
would be. In the fash which lit ev-
erytiing ! had seen where her pistol
was pointed Why disturb her, then
Nor did return upstairs. l had small
interest now In anything but my own
escape from q situation more or less
compromising. Do you blame me for
this? ! was her heir, and was where
l had no legal right to be. Do you
think that I was called upon to pub
lish my shame and tell how | fingered
there while my own niece shot herself
before my eyes? That shot made me a
millionaire. This certainly was ex-
element enough for one day. Besides,
did not leave her there neglected.
notified you later after had got my
breath and had found some excuse.
That wasn't enough? All, l see that
you are all models of courage and
magnanimity. You would have laid
yourselves open to every reproach rath.
er than let little necessary perjury
pass your lips. But | am no model
! am simply an old man who has been
too hardly dealt with for seventy long
years to possess every virtue. l made
mistake-I see it now-trusted n dog
when I shouldn't-but If tudge had
not seen ghosts-well. what nowi"
We had, one and all, with an invol
untary impulse turned our backs upor
him.
"What are you doing" he hotly de
manGed.
"Only what all Washington will dt
tomorrow and afterward the whole
world" gravely returned the major
Then, as an ejaculation escaped the as
tonished millionaire, he impressivel.
added: "A perjury which allows an in
nocenl man and woman TO remain un
The major denounces
| vNcle David