The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-12-12

SWereu.
The bars of the cell-door doomed in
exorably between them, but the old
man advanced, strengthened perhaps
by thought of the gray old mother
and wife at home, and stoutly thrust
ing his arm to the elbow between the
cold iron rods wrung his boys hand.
You needn't open the door,
OLeary," said Dr. Furnivall to the
turnkey" AT any rate not yet. Re-
main here and remember what passes.
Britt, II that is your name, come for.
ward where we can see you. There!
Now tell us when you first saw Capt.
Colter?"
Il saw him Tuesday night, the first
time-and then again Friday night.
That was when we done It,"
How did your brother come to
strike him."
From the moment when his eyes
first became settled in those Of DIR.
Furnivall the expression of his face
| began to change-from self-conscious.
ness to nervousness, to perplexity, to
surprise, to earnestness, and finally,
as he interrupted himself to ask the
question, to deep and absorbed though.
| And almost instantly he, continued,
in the inhectionless tones of long.
deaf man.
81 never saw Cap'n Golfer in my
life!"
The father uttered an exclamation
of eagerness mingled with amaze
ment, but DR.. Furnivall motioned for
silence.
Tell me-" he said to the prisoner,
why you said you and your brother
had done this thing?"
81 don't know"
Did you ever do violence TO any.
body, you or your brother either?"
mo sir-we never hurt anybody"
You like to read about people being
hurt, in the accident columns, and in
stories, don't you? ~ such things
distasteful to you?"
Il read all can ge, about them"
"Do you ever feel queer IN the head
depressed or confused. or as II you
wanted to get away from yourself?"
I'm whirly-headed often. and
can't think sometimes, My head
aches a good deal go out in the
night and run 1t OF
That's all. Come, Mr. Greedy, wei
have them out of here sooner or later
There's large ball Of red tape tC
unwind and wen begin at once"
But" faltered tho d, vildered old
man, his mind torn be w n relief and
puzzlement, IF they never done nothin
of the kind how in natur'-how-
what did he say so for?"
Dr. Furnivall did not wish just We
to inform this loyal old father that hi!
son was afflicted with insane errabunt
tendencies, of a class TO which self
inculpative confessions, wholly false
are so common that Quintilain held ;
suspicion of insanity to be inherent IL
all confessions. He wished to see thu
boy again and decide what would bes
he done with him He had suspected
from the first that this brother ant
not the other was the afflicted one, |
either of them were, the fit of Jim II
|
natural faint induced by the horror o
his position.
Two nights later Ann TIL wa
startled out OF her sleep in the bacI
parlor by sound in the room over
head, the cabin of mystery. Her fee
struck the floor with the suddenness O
thought, and goaded by the multitudir
Gus superstitions honestly inherite
from generations of wildheaded ar
cestry, she plunged into her clothe
and flew around the corner to tn
police station. Two officers heard he
news and hastily accompanied he
back. They crept softly up the stair
the door of the cabin" was wide ope
and the captain stood shaving befor
the mirror.
s The captain looked at the policemen
!. He showed no surprise. On the col
r trary he began to address them I
@ once as II he had been expecting tn
Y visit, explaining in short, vigorous an
|, forceful phrases that his daughtC
+ wished him to live on the farm wit
e her and her husband, while he wishe
n to continue going to sea little longe
I A compromise had been effected b
Y his taking this room near the waite
& where he could get sight of 1t whe
| he liked, and inhale its odors an
4 nevertheless might be whirled in
h half hour by train TO his daughter |
s the country. That was where he ha
just been.
I The next morning Or, Funiyall Gale
r. on the captain and accompanied hir
{. to the district attorneys office. Tn
result was that before night the Greel
boys were released, Britt, however
y only exchanged the jail for an insan
k hospital, where he remains to-day.
t. Copyright, 1905, 10y W. G, Chapman
Copyright In Great Brittany