Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-09-02
I jealousyl cerIsse. I have killed y.u

jealcusyi Cerisse, have killed yax
killed youl"
He kissed her again and again, and
wept and dug his nails into his flesh.
The sunlight came in at the window
and the breakfast gong changed in the
hall. Reality came back to him. He
cautiously slid from the bed and made
his way back into the house. He knew
that safety lay in flight.
Handicapped by deformity, knew
I could do nothing. but l relied on
Hackleye. Together 1 thought we
might take the body away with US
through that trap door, l went over
to the bed and assured myself that Ce-
risse was quite dead. smelled OF the
glass and from the lack of odor and
the condition of Cerlsse's body guessed
that Harcourt had depended upon his
old friend, the loco plant, to end her
life. Perhaps he had given her the
dose meant originally for Narclsse
Then I went in search for Hack
leye. 1t took me longer to find him
than | thought, for 1t was very late,
nearly noon, when we returned to the
room. l had not told him she was
dead. He was fearfully shocked. We
had just entered and were figuring how
we could get the body away, when we
heard the trap door fastened behind us.
Evidently Harcourt had come in and
noticed it open and, fearing he had for
gotten to close it in his wild flight of
the morning, made haste to remedy thu
oversight. There we were, HackleN
and /. locked in the room with the
dead body of his wife and my sister
Five minutes later Mrs. Desterle burst
in the door. There was time to get out
as Hackleye has said while they car
ried Mrs. Desterle to her room.
Il was In the hotel perched on the
fire-escape above the room occupied by
Miss Lancey. now Mrs. Morris, that
same night. l was keeping guard over
Mrs. Harcourt. l did not know but
that in an after rage Harcourt might
not destroy her. too. l did not know
what the papers were, but feared they
might react on my cousins safety. l
followed Mrs. Morris to Mrs. Har-
courts room and ran into her as she
was rounding the corner on her re-
turn. She struggled to free herself, but
l held her fast. l wanted to discover
what she had done, and to see If she
had the stolen papers hidden about
her, and If so, what they were. In the
contest her waist was torn off and her
nose began to bleed. Then she tainted
from fright. | carried her from the
hotel to Hackleye's rooms, intending to
take her to her home in the morning.
She grew steadily worse and by morn
ing was having commissions l hold
high European degrees as a physician,
and as / knew the cause of her malady
felt the only just way to the girl would
be to treat her myself. Together with
Tyoga and Hackleye / got her to San
| Francisco and took her to Africa with
| me. had to do 1t. There was no 9TH
er way. My only safely lay in flight.
| Her only chance of recovery lay in the
medication could give her. for l alone
knew the cause of her complete mental
prostration. The later complications
of her journey l had not foreseen, but
she Is here now, safe and WELL and.
may / not say it? all the happier for
her trip"
Harcourt had risen and staggered
from his feet toward Francis Wayne.
Harcourt walked like drunken man.
and quicker than anyone could divine
his purpose he had unveiled the shrink
ing figure of LIE Malheureux.
Shrieks rose from all sides of the
court room. Before them stood-The
Man -Aperilla!
High and clear rang Narcisse Har-
courts voice:
MY poor cousin! My poor, poor
cousin!"