The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-16

look at white. / could tear those
lying white garments from YOU"
Let me hear the end of the story
first" interrupted /, fixing my eyes
anew upon him with revived courage.
| had seen a glimpse of Edinburgh in
the distance. and knew that fifteen
minutes must take us there.
Yes, | must get 10 the end" re.
sumed the maniac, neryously. Il
may never have such another
chance" and he eyed me so hun
grily that my blood curdled. Little
by little | told my secret in conf.
dence TO those men whom l thought
my friends. And what then? Curse
them, they dragged me before a
council of doctors and got me pro-
nounced mad, and SO | was smut up
In a madhouse, where my tongue
would tell no tales, and she lives free
To this day. Free! ha, ha! is She"
Stop" said. holding his blood.
shot eyes. you have forgotten one
part Of your story"
The city was now in sight five
minutes nOIe.
What have | forgotten" asked
the madman, scowlinS.
Il don't understand about the
Double-Six."
That part is of no consequence TO
the story"
|. Pardon me. but it is. | can [ make
out beginning or end without il. I'm
sure a gentleman of your nina ought
to make palmer story than that"
How can | give YOU brains and
information, too?" retorted he, Gun.
ningly enough; "or is il that You
tense OF interest 10 cheat me? DO
YOU suppose don't see through your
little wiles, and despise--"
Come. come" interposed two
minutes more. You have interested
me SO deeply in your sad history that
it will be a great pity il YOU .eaye
out, az one may say, the very text OF
it all. "
"You want me to criminate my
self" said the maniac. sullenly.
Nothing OF the kind" cried !,
with cheerful briskness. Il only
want TO hear how the Doubie-SiX
could make YOU i'll"
All, you don't believe 1t? Well,
You see, when Paul Etheridge got a
hold of me-curse him, how was |
to know he was blackleg?-h
worked and worked round me until
my money was all staked and lost,
then my land, then my house, and
last, what think you he proposed?
My wife, Ha, ha! my wife against
five hundred pounds. And | flung
the dice and an ace and "A five, and
he flung the dice and got the double
six. Ha. hS, ha! that was grand!
that was rare! IN l eliminating
myself?"
mo, no, go on! The illness?"
Then something crashed down in
my brain, and l knew nothing until
weeks after, when they told me had
had brain fever, and | lay and Ian
guished in white room, where de-
mons in blood-red haunted me every
night, and told me that Paul Ether
fdge lay murdered, by my hand, in
the old lime pit. Ha, ha, hal"
AS he shouted these words in mad
frenzy the shrill whistle Of the en-
gine approaching the station smO,e
on our ears. The next moment We
had plunged into the throat OF the
tunnel, and the spell or my eyes was
broken.
Before ! could realize my danger.
before / could raise an arm in de-
fense, the manias was clutching at
my throat in a murderous strangle,
and shrieking in my ears, far above
the roar CT the wheels:
Devil, knew you from the
first, I've only a minute OF time,
but it's long enough to push You into
perdition. Down with you. Down,
down to hades, my false wife,
And as the blood surged through
my whirling brain, / seemed TO be
falling, falling through blood-red
darkness, while a thousand cannon
broke in my ears, and then gave in
TO my doom.
iOOheu u pm NY HuSDdHu dilHs,
and round upon a plying throng.
The dread minute was oyerpast, and
/ was saved!
How? We had shot into the light.
and the conductor, summoned by
those in the next compartment. who
were alarmed by the noise, had
crashed open the door as the fren-
zied wretch was kneeling by my
fallen body TO complete his work.
In a few seconds we were at the
Princes Street Station, and while
John took me to the nearest ladies'
room. the madman was quietly Sc
cured by two keepers who had been
on the watch for him, and taken back
to Glasgow.
And that was my Homecoming
Rather a black one; but my John
said that evening at our own little
freside as he tenderly bound up my
bruised neck:
ITS been a great escape, Alice.
nv dainty and I'm token TO our deem