Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02

9SgkSNI heart, and stood for moment, sick
and faint. with the blaokness of de-
spaif closing round me.
Then turned quickly back again in the drec-
tion of The Elms. "That womanl' cried, 'it
is that womanl" And in stride was at the
gate.
But quick as I was, Joseph had stopped me
before had raised the latch "Stay," he said
seizips my arm, what are you going to do?"
Il am going to accuse that woman now, once
for all, / said. IL am going to have her turn
ed out of the house at any COST
You must do no such sing" said joseph firm.
Iy.
Muet notl Do you think am going to stand
idly by while she is being murdered! Good
Godl But let me go. l mean to do what
say"
joseph released my arm. Every we'll" he
said, .coldly, Zen, in all mortal probability you
will sign Mees Gray's dess warrant"
looked back at him. "What do you meant"
I asked. III
Il aye told you once already" he replied.
You cannot accuse a person of attempted muir
der like zis wizout proof You ave no proof;
not any at all sink zat loavely girl ees be-
ing damnably, treaeherously done to dess--but
l cannot prove eet now, ere today; much less
can You do so. You might you might if you
did what you say convince Mr.. Dunn, or at all
events frighten i'm sufficiently for i'm to send
zat woman away; but you say e ees not friendly
to you; e as already once declined to take your
opinion about 'er; suppose e do SO again--wat
will 'appen: Why, zis, if we are right, if zat
woman wat we sink 'er, she will see Eat zere
ees danger, she will urry up 'er plans and while
you look elpless, Mees Grey will be dead.
To ang re woman afterwards will not elp Eat
nize girl"
Dead! For Gods sake don't speak of it,
Joseph!"
'Ah, but eet must be spoken of. And, listen
to me. Suppose eet was not Mrs. Cathcart oo
do zis damnable sing; suppose eet was someone
else"
who? Wbo?"
II do not know. 1 do not even say eet ees
anyone else. l only say suppose Wat 'ap-
pens? You get Mrs. Cathcart sent away and you
leave re way open to re real poisoner to do wat
zey want, wiz re certainty zat if zere is any
suspicion it will be on Mrs. Cathcart zat e,t will
fall.''
"Ah, your argue well, Joseph" ! cried. "But
in your heart you know it is that woman. 1t
can be no one else"
Il do not know l only sink" said Joseph
calmly. "But listen. You ave brought me to
see Mees Grey, and she ees willing to take lee
tie advice from me-more you are. / ave
cnatteu WIZ er. one ees clever young lady;
she listens to me- and puts erself in my ands.
We shall not tell Mr.. Dunn just yet; shall
ave little secret from i'm. Do you put your
! self into my 'ands, too%
'You know l have the greatest faith in you,
Joseph, but"
"Do you put your self in my 'ands?"
81 suppose so-yes."
Every we'll | am going into Wimbledon. Do
1 you know why"
'1 am going to telegraph to place zat ] know
of which ees 'ome for trained nurses. At zat
'ome ees nurse zat know very well, and 'oom
can trust. By twelve O'Clock tomorrow unless
she is at case, she will be ere; by one o'clock,
I shall ave seen er, told 'er wat to do, and
sent 'er to Mees Grey. friend of Mees Grey,
100 card zat she was i'll, wrote to er little time
ago. and recommended er a nurse. Mees Grey
mentioned zat fact to Mr.. Dunn at re time. 'E
will not sink i very strange If she says to i'm
zat she as decided to accept re offer; and e will
not know zat ees not re same nurse. We must
leave it to Mees Grey to explain. If Mr.. Dunn
sinks it strange she ave decided suddenly, eet
cannot be elped-ze nurse will be already en-
gagged, and eet will be too late to object"
"And you have persuaded Miss Grey to do
this?"
Eyes. Oh, she 'ees sensible young lady
She listens to zose 90 want to do 'er good"
| thought moment. 'I will leave everything
to you, Joseph" I said at last "You are right
Let us come quickly and send the telegram"
went towards Wimbledon, "sings will go smooz
ly. We shall know zen wat food and medicine
Mees Gray takes, and we shah find out wat
makes 'er ILL.,"
'But what about today?" I asked. 'TWhat
about tomorrow until the nurse arrives?"
"I ave sought of zat. But remember, friend
Blackwood, bose for your sake and for re sake
of zat nice, pretty girl, / am putting myself in a
very strange position. l do not mind, not l.
for you are my very dear friend, and zat girl,
loave 'er; but if Eat nice old Sir Benjamin could
know it would make re air stand up on is cad
Yes ave sought Of tonight"
'"What have you arranged, Joseph" asked
"Tell me anything that will set my mind at
rest"
"I ave given Mees Grey somesing zat she will
take il she feels any Of ze symptoms zat are so
bad come on again. As zere are men, friend
Blackwood, zat do not like one anuzzer; as zere
are animals zat are antagonistic to uzzer ami
mls--so zere are poisons Eat are antagonistic to
uzzer poisons If Mees Grey ees being poisoned
eet ees by certain metallic irritant. Now zere
ees a certain uzzer poison which 'ates zs rritant
like--ke, well, it 'ates i'm like poison, ha, ha !;
and wat re first one does ze second one undoes,
Just as quick as you give i'm chance Eef
Mees Grey feels those disagreeable symptoms
coming on zat frighten er so, before my nurse
arrives. she will take little of zis friendly po
son and wat ze wicked poison as done e will
undo But she won't take i'm unless she feels
ze symptoms, because we do not want 10 do 'er
arm"
''But she does not know that she-she does
not know what we suspect|
mo We do not want to frighten such a
nice girl. told 'er Eat it might be cat some
sing Eat she eat disagree wiz 'er, and she ees
going TO do wat | tell 'er until tomorrow Eat
ees all. She guesses nussng. And ere is ze