Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-12-15

"Cerisse went to India. She saw
Narcisse and hated her on sight. Mar
clsse had a child, too, by then, and
her one baby was as lovely as Cerisse's
TWO had been plain. What is more,
Cerisse became violently infatuated
with Harcourt, Narcisse's husband. She
made herself known to him one day
as he walked beneath the trees in the
garden, while Narcisse sat in the house
ana rocked her baby to sleep. After
the first start Harcourt became inter
ested. l know not what wiles Cerisse
useu, out this Cerisse soon had Har-
court bound hand and foot Narcisse
was ousled from her husbands heart.
Cerlsse had forgotten her home and
| children.
Both Cerisse and Harcourt stopped
at actual murder. They began to play
io9al game The resemblance be-
tween Cerisse and Narcisse made this
easy. They kept Narcisse under the
influence of the loco blossoms-drugged
ner poor mind almost to imbecilitv
When Narcisse lay stupefed from the
uearly powders Cerisse paraded before
the world as Mrs. Harcourt. Cerisse
was always jealous of their child. tho
little Harold, Jr
one day Harold, Jr., fell bv acci-
dent into the lily pond The poor drug
geo mother was watching him at the
time and sat by the window too SIN
pehed TO move or rescue him. Har-
court tried, but he was too far away
at distant corner of the garden Har-
OLD dead, he decided it would he hest
10 leave India. Hackleye and father
were growing suspicious of Cerisse,s
long absences, and Mrs. Harcourt,s
friends IN India were becoming undulv
exercised over the changes that apnar-
entity mad come over her for of courso
tiiis strange exchange of personalities
was hhoWn TO none. So Harcourt gave
out tnat ne was to travel for his wife,s
neaIth. In my pitiable shape I could
uo little TO protect my cousin. but 7
lrieo 10 travel closely enough in their
wake TO prevent their ever killing her.
for my affiiction Cerisse felt no pitv
she loathed the sight of me. and her
evident hatred soon drove me TO allv |
myself in spirit with my sadly injured |
brother-in-l law and cousin. Harcourt |
and Cerisse had planned to spend the |
summer here. She was to go to live |
a
in which to remove with his wife. and |
then Cerisse would join them. and the
same old farce was to have been re-
newed. To that end Harcourt leased
the Flanders house"
A distinct "Ah!" ran through the
court room and Harcourt simultaneous
ly uttered denial.
To that end" continued lie NAL
heureux, "Harcourt leased the Flanders
house. For some within or other he
took it under the name of HamIey
Hackleye. l think Harcourt had in
tended to make an end of Narcisse
there, for he knew that Hackleye was
close on the trail. Then Cerisse was
to have stepped into her cousins shoes
and Hackleye would have believed
that it was his wife who had died. Ce-
risse took rooms at the OBSTETRICS and
almost Immediately a secret doorway
was cut through. / tracked Harcourt
to the house at "a Briarsweet place the
night of the murder. l waited till l
mad chance and secreted myself in
The house. l saw him remove the
plaque and climb into my sisters room.
followed hiding in the closet.
"Cerlsse and he quarreled nearly sll
evening. Cerisse in one of her petu-
ant moods was provoking him beyond
endurance She was becoming wear
ed with him. The letter that was
ound on the floor urging her to live ,
Up TO the demands of womanhood and s
% return to H had been recently re-
'elved by her from Harcourt, and she {
made 1t the pivot on which to turn !
many joke and jest Finally she told I
nm she was tired of him, and thought :
'he would go back to her husband. ,
they squabbled and wrangled till final ,
y Cerisse made ready for bed. Har- 2
curt started to go home, but at length 6
ully dressed threw himself down on :
ne bed and began to smoke. at the G
anne time ending Cerisse for using so
many cigarettes. Then she asked him
or money claiming that her losses at
ne races mad. as she termed it, laid
er nat. He said he had no money. !
ma then she turned on him with re- g
roaches of an over fondness for ROM =
cite. They bickered about money till =
early daylight and till Harcourt would =
OF talk any more. Cerisse dropped off :.
lto doze, but Harcourt lay there =
moking in moody silence. Cerisse
ouseo and asked him to get her a u
RINK OF water He refused at FIRST o
Ut she kept at him. Finally he got ,
p went over to the stand, fumbled II
lere for moment and came back.
anding her the glass half filed with m
alter, and said, Never ask me for a b
ink again II
"Cerisse lay back on her pillows and u
'parently fell into slumber again. :,
what have I done, what have I Sc
ne?" he cried over and over again. fo