The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-25

SrangWyn on the very day oil MS night
from justice. You remember the
scoundrel. He murdered his uncle for
his money and hid him in modelling
clay and worked him up into a statue.
Must have been a most astonishingly
cold blooded villain. He was boiling
for his life, boiling to save his neck,
sir; ard to look at him you wouldn't
have thought he had a care upon his
mind. He asked me to pass the salt.
And Alexis asked the gentleman
who sat opposite to do him that small
favor.
All this time he seemed to be car
ried nearer to the yawning gulf of hor-
ror and terror which waited for him.
Every footstep led the way. The
| steamer sailed toward the gulf. The
night train to Paris painted and STRAIN
ed toward it. He WAS driven toward 1t
in the fiacre in which he crossed the
Seine, until he found himself at a 40
tel he had known years and years ago
in his student days, He was Paris
born and Paris bred, and spoke the
language as Familiarity as a native, He
was an excellent mimic, and had per-
| feet command Of a dozen dialects,
He gave an address somewhere in
the Midi, and his accent OF Provence
bore out the pretence admirably. He
broke up a sheaf of his large notes
that day for smaller paper of the Bank
of France, calling at a dozen bureaux
de change to do so. He passed on to
Lille. and there he gave another name
and was a man from Normandy. And
so he went his devious way with all
manner of shifts and lodges, stopping
with one name and accent at one no.
tel upon his road. and at another With
a new name and a new accent.
The days grew blistering hot as he
steered his erratic southwark course,
and at last he found himself in the
town of Grasse, an Enelishman who
spoke an e%Xecrable Cockney French
with equal %volubility and inexactitude,
and who was here to purchase the per
fumed lard for which the town is ia
NOUS, and from which most of the
scents of English toilet tables are de-
rived. 1t was here he found the gulf
toward which he had been iourneying.
He mounted to the room assigned him
at his hotel, and the courteous waiter
handed him a copy of a London news
paper.
ooh, mercy, bocco," said the Cock
ney traveller, and sat down uninterest-
eddy to read, and in the printed page
the gulf of horror and terror opened.
His eye lighted on the words, "Solu-
ton of the Brangwyn Mystery. Flight
of the Criminal" He read the ver-
batim report of the proceedings at
Bow Street quite intelligently. 1t was
not that which brought the anguish
which consumed him. The fire of re-
morse had smouldered it's appointed
time, and at it's appointed time had
lighted into flame.
His applied chemicals had brought
his hair to a snowy Wilderness by this
time, and after he had endured the
long-drawn, sleepless agony of that
night his face and eyes matched it. He
went quietly away, carrying his hand
bag with him, and saying that he
would give directions for the heavier
piece to be sent after him.
He walked away and away into the
country, no knowing whittier his foot.
steps led him. The land was bare and
arid and the sun environed him with
a shroud of heated steel. He sat down
at last at a wayside auberge and
%quenched his thirst with a draught of
sour wine. Then he went on again
for a mile, or, maybe two.
There he paused and looked about
him.
There can be nothing worse thar
this he said, aloud, and there is no
end to it. Well, then, let us make an
end"
He drew the little leather case
which held the phial from his waist
coat pocket. He removed the stopper
and the odor Of bruised peach stones
filled the air. He raised the phial to
his lips and tilted it, and in the very
act he fell. He made one convulsive
movement and then lay still.
Ito Be C%ontinued.)