The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-06-14


suffering man, turned toward Miss
futile.
"You must have loved your sister
very much" he sententiously remark
ed.
She flushed, and for the first time
her eyes fell from their resting place
on Mr.. Jeffreys face.
81 loved her reputation was her
quiet answer, and The rest died
In her throat
But we all-such of us, l mean, who
were possessed of the least sensibility
or insight-knew how that sentence
sounded as finished in her heart, And
loved him who asked this sacrifice
of me-"
Yet was her conduct not quite clear.
"And to save that reputation you
tied the pistol to her wrist?" insinu-
ated the major.
'No," was her vehement reply. 81
never knew what l was tying to her.
My testimony in that regard was abso-
lutely true. She held the pistol con-
cealed in the folds of her dress. l did
not dream-I could not-that she was
contemplating any such end to the
atrocious crime to which she had con-
feSsed Her manner was too light, too
airy and too frivolouS-a manner adopt
ed, as l now see, to forestall all ques-
tons and hold back all expressions of
feeling on my part. Tie these hanging
ends of ribbon to my wrist were her
words. Tie them tight; knot under
and bow on top. I am going out.
There, don't say anything. What you
| want to talk about will keep till to-
morrow. For one night more l am
going to make merry-to-to enjoy my
self She was laughing. l thought
her horribly callous and trembled with
such an unspeakable repulsion that
had difficulty in making the knot. To
speak at all would have been impossi-
BILE. Neither did l dare to look in her
face. l was touching the hand that
and she kept on laughing-such hol-
low laugh covering up such an awful
resolve! When she turned to give me
that last injunction about the note this
resolve glared still in her eyes"
"And you never suspected?"
'Not for an instant. l did not do
Justice either to her misery OF to her
conscience. | fear that | have never
done her justice in any way. thought
her light, pleasure loving. l did not
know that it was assumed to hide a
terrible secret"
'"Ihen you had no knowledge of the
contract she had entered into while a
Echoolgirl?"
!, "Not in the least. Another woman
and not myself had been her confdant
a woman who has since died No init.
nation of her first unfortunate mar
rage had ever reached me till Mr.. JEFF.
, frey rushed in upon me that Tuesday
/ morning with her dreadful confession
| on his lips"
The district attorney, who did no.
, seem quite satisfied on certain poin
t passed over by the major, now tool
] the opportunity of saying:
9 "You assure us that you had no ides
| that this once light hearted sister O.
5 yours meditated suicide when she lief
e you?"
me, but when l found that, in do.
Ing this, she had remembered that
should have to face the world after she
was gone and so left a few lines fol-
u me to show in explanation of her act
! my revolt against her received check
! which the reading of her letter only
/ Increased But the lines she thus
$ wrote and left We're not true lines
: All her heart was mine, and if it was ;
u wicked heart she has atoned"
5 He paused quite overcome. Others
V among us We're overcome, too, but only
for moment. The following remark
from the district attorney soon recalled
y us to the practical aspects of the case:
n "You have accounted for many fact
II Rot hitherto understood. But there i
: still a very important one which nei
IL Their yourself nor Miss futile has ye
e made plain. There was candle o.
o the scene of crime. 1t was out whe
IL this officer arrived here. There wa
e also one found burning in the upstair
-e room, aside from the one you profess
Is eddy used in your tour Of INSPECTION
'e there. Whence came those candles
And did your wife blow out the on
u in the library herself previous to TIL
l shooting, or was it blown out after
ID ward and by other lips?"
ie "These are questions which, as hav
~ already said, l have no means of al
W Swerng," repeated Mr.. jeffrey. 9TH
Y courage which brought her here ma
! have led her to supply herself wit
p light, and, hard as it is to conceive, ST
u may even have found nerve to blow OF
70 the light before she lifted the pistol
ie her breast"
le The district attorney and the maic
II looked unconyinced, and the latte
q turning toward Miss Tuttle, asked
~ she had any remark to make on IL
y subject
IT, But she could only repeat Mr.. Je
u, frey's statement
80 'These are questions l cannot q,
swer either. l have said that stoppe
50 at the library door, which means that
"a saw nothing of what paSSed within -