Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-05

ter TO hold her tongue and have conf
menced life with her dead husbands
money under a new name. She's
clever woman, too" unused Hurd. II
can't understand her being so unneces-
sarily frank"
"Never mind. Go on" said Paul i'm
patiently
Hurd returned to his seat and refill
ed his pipe. well, then" he contin-
ued, "Krill got drunk and gave his
wife great trouble Sometimes he
thrashed her and BACKED her eyes, and
he treated their daughter badly too"
'IIOw old was the daughter:'
81 can't say. Why do you ask?"
"I'll tell you later. Go on, please"
"Wen. then, Mrs. Krill always re-
vengcd herself on her husband when
he was sober and timid, so the couple
We're evenly matched. Krill was mas
ter when drunk, and his wife mistress
when lie was sobcr-a kind of seeSaw
sort of life they must have led"
"Where does Lady Rachel come in|
"What an impatient chap you are"
demonstrated IIurd in n friendly tone.
I'm coming to that now. Lady Rachel
Quarrelcd with her father over some
young artist she wanted to marry. lie
would not allow the lover to come to
tine hall. so Lady Rachel said she would
kill herself rather than give him up"
"And she did, said Paul, thinking of
the suicide theory.
"ThcTe YOU go again. How am l to
fol- oil -hn, int
u beg your pardon. l won't do so
again"
Hurd nodded smilingly and contin-
ued. "One night-it was dark and
stormy-Lady Rachel had a row royal
with her father. Then she ran out of
the hall saying her father would never
see her alive again. She may have in
tended to commit suicide certainly or
she may have intended to join her
lover in London. But whatever she
intended to do. the rain cooled her.
She staggered into Christchurch and
fell down iusensiblc at the door of the
Red Pig. Mrs. Krill brought her in
doors and laid her on bed"
Did she know who the lady was?'
uurd shook his head. "She said in
her evidence that she did not, but liv-
ing in the neighbOrhOOd she certainly
| must have seen Lady Rachel some
times. Krill was drunk as usual. He
had been boozing all the day with n
| skipper of some craft ut southampton.
| He was good for nothing. so Mrs. krlll
! did everything She declares that She
! went to bed at II, leaving Lady Rachel
! sleeping"
Did Lady Rachel recover her
senses ?"
"Yes-accOrdinG to Mrs. Krill-hut
she refused to say who she was and
merely stated that she would sleep ut
| the Red Pig that night and would go
! on to London next morning. Mrs. Krill
swore that Lady Rachel had no idea
| of committing suicide. Well, about
midnight Mrs Krill, who slept in one
room with her daughter, was awak-
encd by loud shouts. She sprang to
her feet and hurried out: her daughter
! came also, rs she had been awakened
and was terrified. Mrs. Krill found
| that her husband was raving mad with
drink and smashing the furniture in
the room below. The skipper
"WhGt was the shippers name
"Jessop-Jarycy Jcssop. Well, he
! also. rather drunk, was retiring to he'd
and stumbled by chance into Lady
| Rachcls room. He found her quite
dead ana shouted for assistance. Tho
poor lady had a silk handkerchief sh,
wore tied tightly round her throat
| and fastened to the bcdpOSt. When
| JessOp saw this. he ran out of the inn
in dismay. Mrs. Krill descended 70
| give the alarm to her neighbors. but
| Krill struck her down and struck his
! daughter also. making her mouth
bleed. An opal brooch that Lady Ra-
! ;hcl wore was missing. but Mrs. Kril
only knew of that the next day. She
| was insenSiblc from the blow given
by KriIl, and the daughter ran out to
get assistance. When the neighbOrs
entered, Krill was gone. and, notwith
standing all the search made for him
he could not be found"
"And JessOp?"
"He turned up and explained that
he had been frightened on finding the
woman dead. But the police found
him on his craft at southampton, and
he gave evidence. He said that Krill
when drunk and like Il demon. as Mrs
Krill told you, had left the room sew
eral times The last time he came
back, he and the skipper had final
drink, and then JeSSoD retired to find