The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18

missively between shone and Martin.
Got rid Of the three of them" whis-
pered Sue as she and I made for the
scullery light. You'll have to take
your boots off, Bill"
I told them that I hadn't got them
on. When we left home her orders had
been to put on my helmet and button
my tunic. / was wearing slippers at
the time. reminded her.
She gave me funny little look, and
then. very softly. she tried the back
door. 1t was fast. but the scullery
/ window was slightly open. She raised
the window quietly and, standing on
/ tfptoe. inserted her arm. 1 saw what
was the matter. and lifted her bodily
to give her reach. A faint scroop fol-
lowed. She had got to the key in the
| side the house
| The millhouse was old and rambling,
and the front was a long way off, but
/ from that direction came the drOne OF
| voices. We stole down one passage,
passed into a second, scarcely breath
ing, and go came to the door of the
parlor, which was sufficiently open TO
| yield a view Of the room through the
crack.
DIR. Carthew sat I'm an easy chair by
the fire, his bald head shining within
four fet of me. The staIwart Vince
| lowered over him in an attitude now
threatening. now persuasive. On the
rug Mrs. Vince, her fOrbidding face the
picture OF health, stood by the table,
on which was a tray covered with
white cloth, and on it plate Of stew
and a tUmbler Of milk.
Twenty pun more, doc, before you do
it, or wei blow the whole gaff," Vince
| was saying.
you greedy rascal, I've given you
all you asked came Carthew's Guav-
ering tones.
But, we've got the pull OF you, doc,
and mean to use it." Vince answered
him. "COme, whack ii down, and the
missis shall take up the gals supper.
She's had nothing all day or yesterday
and you needn't fear but what she'll
eat 1t fast enough"
With q mumbled oath Carthew pro-
duced a leather bag and counted
twenty sovereigns into Vince's hand.
You can have your way now, doc
tor" said the miller. motioning to his
wife, who brought forward the tray
and held it before Carthew. He thrust
back the nearly empty money bag, and
out came his hand again, gragping a
little blue vial. Drawing the topped,
he smelled the contents and poured
half of them into the tumbler Of milk.
Sue plucked me by the sleeve, and
found myself in a room at the other
side Of the passage, just as Mrs. Vince
came out Of the parlOr with the tray
and a candle She mounted the stairs,
and when we had given her law
enough we followed like cats to the
landing where the sound OF her foot
steps from a cross passage told that
she was climbing still higher. This was
/ unaccountable, as there were no rooms
above the first floor. We waited till
the football ceased, and then crept eau
ituosly round the corner.
In the roof" Sue whispered, point
ing to a trap door to which a steplad-
der ran up.
"Stay here" I replied. and climbed
quickly through the trap.
The light Of the candle carried by
Mrs. Vince was a long way off, and
showed that the gabled roof space not
j only covered the dwelling house, but
the mill itself. The extreme end, how
ever of the portion over the mill was
boarded off and into this partition the
miIler's wife was disappearing, after
unbolting a door. Ten seconds later /
had reached the doorway in time to
hear a plaintiff voice say.
You cruel woman! You have nearly
4 starved me-"
Better late than never" came the
sullen answer. Here's some grub and
some milk.
Then l stopped and entered, and
there was Miss Viola sitting on pile
OF flour bags. her pretty eyes all swoi-
len with weeping, and her hand out
stretched eagerly for the tumbier.
Don't touch it, miss. It's poisoned"
y I cried.
And as those two turned and saw my
Il uniform, the contrast in their faces
; was too great for wOrds-One all glad
: surprise. the other gone CHASTITY with
L fear. But Mrs Vince kept her wits.
] To- Z nfn
her. she dropped it through the open
e space beneath the caves, 50 that It
n splashed with its deadly contents into
] | the stream below. Then, with a wild
L laugh. she fled along the roof to the
L tTapdoor, blowing out the candle as she
e went, and leaving me to guide MISS
3 Viola along the rafters IN darkness.
Sue. waiting at the foot of the lad
d der, took charge of the half-fainting
l. girl with a coo of delight and informed
S me that Mrs. Vince had rushed down
J. stairs But when we got down to the
e parlor there was no one there but old
D. DR.. Carthew, sitting by the hearth and
e making funny noises at us, like the
a mailman I believe he was.
= We went 10 the front door and threw
n 1t open. The three men, OF whom my
e wife had so cleverly disposed, came
d running up at my call.
There Mr. Shone, you can take the
1t job on again now it's finished. said
e Sue to the astOunded expert. Don
II look so glum 1t wasn't altogether
1t your fault. perhaps, since you didn't
h know our sweet Miss Viola as well as
q we door as DR.. Gray does. seeming
g ly."
it For the young people were in each
ID others arms, and then sprsng apart as
he a Screech like that of a wounded hare
sent me rushing back TO the parlor
is DR.. Carthew still sat in the easy
chair. but his bald head had fallen
h. back AID his sightless eyes were star
IS ing at the ceiling. Between his feel
e. on the floor. smashed into a dozer
Of pieces, lay the blue vial, but none Of
f its contents.
of Sues reading of the case had beer
nd true in every particular, and so pleased
was old Peter Up at the Grange thai
40 his daughter mad not rounded on hin
n that he made it all right for the lovers
IS Philip Gray and Miss Viola are to be
married in the fall. The Ninces were
q never caught hut at the inquest or