The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-13

thinking / never attributed TINS mouve
to your visit here. VIII you forgive
me-"
There was a new tone in his voice.
a tone which no woman could hear
without emotion
You had other things TO think Of
she said. and her lips trembled. Never
have l seen on the human face more
hers at that moment: nor do | think
Mr.. Jeffrey had either. fer as lie
marked il his own regard softened al
most 10 tenderness
The major had no time for sentimen-
taIities. Turning to Mr.. Jeffrey. he
said:
'.One more question before we send
for the letter which you say VIII give
us full insight into your wife's crime.
Do you remember what occurred on
the bridge at Georgetown just before
you came into town that niSht:"
He shook his head
did you meet any one there?"
Il do not know"
Can you remember your state OF
mind:''
Il was facing the future
And what did you see in the flu
ture:"
Death. Death for her and death for
me, a crime was on her soul and she
must die; and if she. then myself. |
knew no other course | could not
summon the police, point out my bride
Of fortnight aud, with the declaration
that she had been betrayed into killing
a man. coldly deliver her mp To justice
Neither could | live at her side know
ing the guilt 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 4 sense of her own guilt
than l realized. When / returned
home for the pistol which was to end
our common misery | found that she
had taken her punishment into her
own hands. This strangely affected
me, but when l found that. in do
ing this. she had remembered that l
should have to face the world after she
was gone and so left a few lines for
me TO show in explanation of her act,
my revolt against her received a check
which the reading of her letter only
increased. But the lines she thus
wrote and left were not true lines.
All her heart was mine, and if it was a
wicked heart she has atoned'-
He paused, quite overcome. Others
among us were overcome. too, but only
for a moment. The following remark
from the district attorney soon recalled
us TO the practical aspects of the case:
You have accounted for many facts
not hitherto understood. But there is
still a very important one which nei-
Their yourself nor Miss Tuttle has yet
made plain. There was a candle on
the scene of crime. 1t was out when
this officer arrived here. There was
also one found burning in the upstairs
room, aside from the one you profess
edly used in your tour of inspection
there. Whence came those candles?
And did your wife blow out the one
in the library herself previous TO the
shooting or was it blown out after
ward and by other lips?"
These are questions which. as have
already said, l 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 TO conceive. she
may even have found nerve to blow out
the light before she lifted the r'stol to
her breast
The district attorney and the major
looked unconvinced, and the latter,
turning toward Miss futile. asked IL
she had any remark to make on the
subject.
But she could only repeat Mr.. JEFF
frey's statement.
These are questions l cannot an
swer either. l have said that / stopped
at the library door. which means that
saw nothing of what passed within
Here the major asked where Mrs.
Jeffrey's letter was 10 be found. 1t
was Mr. Jeffrey who replied:
Search in my room for book with
an outside cover of paper still on it.
You will probably find it on my table.
The inner cover is red. Bring that
book here. Our secret is hidden in it,
Durbin disappeared on this errand.