The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-09


CHAPTER Thomas Erickson, d
young Englishman, has lost the mon
~ with which he was TO pay his pass
age out TO India. He lends Captain
Blaydes G3J, the amount of his pass
age money, and in return gets a
worthless check, which leaves him
penniless. He confesses his error TO
Claire Harding, his boyhood sweet
heart.
Thames Edward William Dain-
tree is in love with Claire.
III-Tom finds out that Captain
Blaydes is paying attention to Claire
and is TO be at her house tina. night.
He VOWS to have satisfaction from
Blaydes, but promises Claire that he
will not seek Blaydes for two weeks.
Tom meets Blaydes a few moments
late and demands his 9a5.
IV.-Blaydes draws a sword cane on
Tom, who smashes it with heavy
stick which he carries. Blaydes has
not the money, but gives Tom his
gold watch, and Tom signs an agree
ment to pawn the watch and give the
ticket to Blaydes. Tom leaves and
is accosted by deformed man, who
asks the time. The next morning
Blaydes is found brutalIy murdered
beside the stile where he had been
tal.dng to Tom.
V.-Blaydes has been robbed of ev-
erything, among which the newspapers
mention the gold watch which was
really given TO Tom. Tom had stopped
for the night at the house of the man
who was driving the coach at the time
Tom met Blaydes. He is accused by
the coachman of being the murderer.
He escapes and DISCUSSES himself. but
is afraid to pawn the watch.
VI-Tom spends the night in a
boathouse and next day is invited in
10 the house of small fat gentleman,
the owner, who does his best to make
him feel at home He is betrayed by
this man into the hands of the police
for the murder of Blaydes.
VII-Claire believes him guilty. Mr. |
Harding hires lawyer to see Tom. |
The lawyer thinks Tom is guilty and
insults him in his cell. Tom throws |
him out.
VIII-Claire gets Daintree to retain
Bassett one of the best criminal law
yers in England, TO plead Toms cause.
IX-Tom is held for the next Grim
inal sessions court.
X.-Claire's maid has overheard the I
conversation between Claire and Tom
on the night of the murder, when Tom
swore he would get even with Blaydes
if he had to kill him TO do it. The
maid compeIs Claire to give her some
of her jewels as hush money.
XI-Tom is convicted of murder in
the first degree.
XII-Tom is placed in the con-
demned cell.
XIII-Tom's sentence is committed
to transportation for life.
XIV-Claire's engagement to Dain
tree is announced. The latter's faith
er warns Claire's father against Dam
tree. XV.-Tom, as a convict in Aus
tralia, is bound out to the Sullivans,
peculiar and harsh family, who live
far in the interior at place dubbed
Castle Sullivan.
mo, no, my friend; ne may DE arI
you say, but he's treated me we'll
enough SO far. and mean to stick to
him."
"Oh, the young cove's not the worst.
It's the old cove I was thinking off,
What old cover
"Dr Sullivan. this ones father"
He had a father, then? Mr.. Nat had
never mentioned him. And the old
man was worse TO do with than the
son?
Tom put these questions to himself ,
and then another to his friend the bar
man, after shortly telling the latter
about the behavior OF the iron gang. /,
why was all that?" said Tom.
why? Because half them crawlers ,
have worked for the Sullivans in their ;
time. They get you logged and fog .
ged and logged till all the works fog $
yea out or you; then they get you six d
months in the crawlers. and like as
not that's the end of you.'' l
why doesn't somebody put bullet .
through them both:'' I
Because the coves have got the 2
pluck. That's their secret They don't o
know what fear Is. So there's seventy Q
strong men up there and over a hun
dred in harvest time. and the whole !"
boiling afraid of them twor'
Tom said no more; neither did he II
have much to say to Mr.. Nat next day o
In their saddles. Neither did Mr.. Nat Il
have anything at all to say to him n
before rfghtfall SO severe had been Il
bis latest touch of the SUM- but to- IL
ward evening they left the road, and IL
as the moon was rising in velvet sky Sc
lights also broke upon them through N
some trees Dogs innumerable began in
to bark. and as young Sullivan stopped N
TO open gate he pointed across it to ca
the lights and said that there was W
Castle sullivan at last bi
And bark you here he added saw r.
. sely. seizing Toms bride on the
other side as though every re3seming u, u
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