The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07

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Because was thinEias OF him: be.
cause / was terrified for him. He had
left the house the morning before In a
half maddened condition aud had not
come back to sleep or eat since. / did
not know what a man so outraged In
every sacred feeling OF love and honor
might be tempted to do. I thought OF
suicide. l remembered the old house
aud how he had said. L don't believe
her. I don't believe she ever did so
cold blOOded an at or that any such
dreadful machinery is in that house.
| never shall believe it till have seen
and handled it myself. IL IL aight.
mare, Cora. We are insane thought
Of this, sirs. and when | went into her
room to change the place OF the little
note In the book I went to his bureau
drawer not to look for the pistol did
not think Of that then-but TO see II
the keys OF the Moore house were stlll
there. knew that they were kept in
this drawer for had been present In
the room when they were brought I'm
after the wedding. / had also been
shortslghted enough to conclude that
II they were gone it was be who had
taken them. They were gone, aud that
was why I flew Immediately from the
house to the old place in Waverley av- !
enue. | was concerned for Mr.. JET. |
frey. I feared 20 dnd him there. de- |
mented or dead"
But you had no key"
mo; Mr. jeffrey had taken one OF
them and my sister the other. but the /
lack Of KEY or even of light. for /
the missing candles were not taken by |
me 1--WE afterward found that these
candles were never delivered at the |
house at all; that they had been placed
in the wrong basket and left In
neighboring kltchenl. could not keep
me Mt home after | was once CON
vinced mat he had gone 20 this dread
full house. II | could not get In I
could at least hammer at the door or
rouse the neighbors Something must
be done. ! did not think what:
merely few"
Did you know that the house had
wo keysq"
mot then"
but your sister did3"
Probably"
And finding the only key. as you
supposed, gone. you dew to the Moore
iouseY
Immediately
"And now what elseY'
IL found the door unlocked"
That was done by Mrs jeffrey p
Yes. but l did not think OF her
hen"
And you went lnT'
''Yes; it was all dark. but felt my
way till l cane 20 the gilded pillars"
Why did you go therey"
Because felt-I knew-if he were
nywbe-e in that house he would be
here"
"And why did you stopY"
Her voice rose above its usual quiet
itch in shrill protest:
You know you knowl heard a
istol shot from within, then a fall.
don't remember anything else They
ay went wandering about town. Per
APPS | did; il ID all blank to me- 3
verything is a blank till the police q
ian said that my sister was dead and .
learned for the first time that the q
hot | had heard in the Moore house l.
-as not the signal OF his death. but r
ers, Had been myself when at that
brary door" she added. after mo.
tent Of silence, II would have rushed T
at the sound Of that shot and have n
sceived my sisters dying breath"
"Corai" The cry was from Mr. JET q
'ey, and seemed to be quite involun- r
Try. I'm the weeks during which we
ave been kept from speaking together
have turned all these events over In
" mind till l longed for any respite
ven that OF the grave But in all my
linking I never attributed this motive
your visit here. win you forgive
eY"
There was a new tone in his voice.
tone which no woman could hear
ithout emotion. /,
You had other things TO think Of"
he said, and her lips trembled. Never
ave ! seen on the human face a more
sautiful expression than / saw on
'rs at that mOment nor do / think
r. jeffrey had either. for as he
arked 1t his own regard softened al >,
Ost 10 tenderness =
The major had no time for sentimen- -
lities Turning to Sir. jeffrey. he =
i'd: ~
one more question before we send q
2 the letter which you say viii give
full! insight into your wife's crime -,
D. you remember what occurred on
q bridge at Georgetown Just before -,
IA came into town that night9" =.
lie shook bis head. -
did you meet any one thereY q,
Il do not know" -,
Can you remember your state OF ,r
indT m
Il was facing the future" y,
And what did you see IN the fu-
reW
Death. Death for her ana death for 10
2! A crime was on her soul. and she
ist de; and If she then myself. "A
ew no other course could not
mmon the police point out my bride
a fortnight and. with the declaration
AZ she had been betrayed into killing
man, coldly deliver her up 10 Justice. 70
'ither could live AT her side know 70
: the guilty secret which parted Us. ~
live anywhere Ia the world under ~
Is same consciousness. Therefore. d
can't to kin myself before another &C
D rose. But she was more deepl a
'icken with a sense Of her own guilt ~