The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-14
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Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.

CHAPTER Thomas Erickson, {
young Englishnan, has lost the mon
ey with which he was to pay his pass
age out to India. He lends Captain
Blaydes 935, the amount of his pass
age money, and in return gets {
worthless check, which leaves hin
penniless. He confesses his error tc
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 that night
He vows to have satisfaction from
B1aydes, but promises Claire that he
will not seek Blaydes for two weeks.
Tom meets Blaydes a few moments
late and demands his 335.
IV.-Blaydes draws sword cane on
Tom, who smashes it with a 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 a deformed man, who
asks the time The next morning
BIaydes is found brutally murdered
beside the stile where he had been
TALKING 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
q of hnin he
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
to 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
Sers in England. to plead TOMS cause. |
K-Tom is held for the next Grim
1nai sessions court.
X.-Claire's maid has overheard the |
between Claire and Tom
Oh 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 compels 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-
rec is announced. The latter's faith
or warns Claire's father against Dain-
rec. XV.-Tom, as a convict in Aus
ralia. is bound out to the Sullivans.
! peculiar and harsh family, who live
ar in the interior at place dubbed
Castle Sullivan
XVI-Tom meets the cook, Peggy
0'Brien. Nat Sullivan, who is in
owe with her. becomes insanely
ealous- Tom finds a man giving
stolen goods in exchange for some
liquor. Later the man is caught and
given fifty lashes He thinks that
rom '.peached'' XVII-Nat Sullivan
8 foiled by Tom in a scheme by
which the latter would have been
logged. Later in the night he meets
Peggy with Nat and accuses him indi-
ectly of the trick. Peggy sides with
Tom, and Nat attempts to strike her.
Tom knocks him down.
XVIII-Tom is sentenced to fifty
ashes. He breaks away and knocks
I'D man Sullivan down, but is caught
md gets a hundred.
XIX-Peggy visits Tom in his cell
nd brings food and assists him to
scape to the sea.