The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-05-13

court uleui buL ne was TOO tdF away
at a distant corner of the garden. Har-
| old dead, he decided It would be best
| to leave India Hackleye and father
| were growing suspicious of Ccrisse'8
! long absences. and Mrs. Harcourts
friends In India were becoming unduly
exercised over the changes that appar-
entity had come over her, for of course
1hls strange exchange OF personalities
was known to none. So Harcourt gave
out that he was to travel for his wlfe's
health. In my pitiable shape / could
90 little TO protect my cousin, but !
tried to travel closely enough in their
wake to prevent their ever killing her.
For my adliction Cersse felt no pity.
She loathed the sight Of me, and her
evident hatred soon drove me to ally
myself IN spirit with my sadly injured
brother in-law and cousin. Harcourt
and Cerisse had planned TO spend the
summer here. She was to go to live
Ia lodgings till she could find a home
In which to remove with his wife, and
then Cerisse would join them, and the
same old farce was TO have been re-
nowcd. 70 that end Harcourt leased
the Flanders house"
distinct "Ah!" ran through the
court room and Harcourt simultaneous
ly uttered a denial.
ITO that end continued lie NAL
heureux, "Hareourt leased the Flanders
house. For some whim or other he
took it under the name Of Hamley
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. 1 tracked Harcourt
to the house at "a Briarsweet place the
night of the murder. / waited till
had a chance and secreted myself in
the house I saw him remove the
plaque and climb i"t5 my sisters room.
l followed, hiding in the closet.
"Cerisse and he quarreled nearly sIl
evening. Cerisse in one Of her petu-
liant moods was provoking him beyond
endurance. She was becoming wear
led with him. The letter that was
found on the floor urging her to live
up 20 the demands Of womanhood and
to return to II had been recently re-
ccived by her from Harcourt and she
made it the pivot on which to turn
many joke and jest. Finally she told
aim she was tired Of him, and thought
she would 80 back to her husband. |
They squabbled and wrangled till final |
ly Ccrisse made ready for bed. Har- |
court started to so home, but at length,
fully dressed, threw himself down on |
the bed and began TO smoke, at the |
same time chidiug Cersse for using so |
many cigarettes. Then she asked him |
.or money, claiming that her losses at |
The races had, as she termed it, laid |
her fiat He said he had no money, |
lnd then she turned on him with re-
Of an over-fondness for ron.
ette. They bickered about money till |
nearly daylight and till Harcourt would
rot talk any more. Cerisse dropped Off
nto a doze, but Harcourt lay there
smoking in moody silence. Cerisse
oused and asked him to get her a
rink of water. He refused at first.
,ut she kept at him. Finally he got
lp, went over to the stand, fumbled
here for a moment and came back.
landing her the glass half filed with
water, and said, Never ask me for
rink again
"Cerisse lay back on her pillows, and
pparently fell into slumber again.
resumed his place by her side.
was about to 60 wishing to make
ny way back home before the dawn
roke, when suddenly Harcourt turned
yer on his elbow and moaned like a
ihipped lioness.
What have I done, what have
one?" he cried over and over again.
My temper, my temper! My awful
salousy! Cerisse 1 have killed you,
He'd you!"
HE kissed her again and again, and |
'ept and dug his nails into his flesh.
he sunlight came in at the window
nd the breakfast gong changed in the
all. Reality came back to him. He
slid from the bed and made
is way back into the house, He knew
nat safety lay in flight
Handicapped by deformity, knew s
could do nothing, but l relied on
Together l thought we {
light take the body away with us
rough that trap door. I went over {
the bed and assured myself that Ce-
sse was quite dead. l smelled of the
lass and from the lack Of odor and
le condition of Cerlsse's body guessed I
lat Harcourt had depended upon his |
d friend, the loco plant, to end her
'e. Perhaps he had given her the /
)se meant originally for Narcisse. y
"Then l went in search for Hack Y
ye. 1t took me longer to find him 4
an l thought, for it was very late,
iarly noon, when we returned to the
ON. l had not told him she was 2
ad, He was fearfully shocked. We II
ID just entered and were figuring how
e could get the body away, when we d
ard the trap door fastened behind u.s. I
1idently Harcourt had come in and
ticed it open and, fearing he had for Fl
tten to close it in his wild flight Of /,
e morning, made haste to remedy the Y
erslght. There we were, Hackleye :,
d /, locked in the room with the
ID body Of his wife and oy sister. =
We minutes later Mrs. Desterle burst U
the door. There was time to get out, n
Hackleye has said while they car W
d Mrs. Desterle to her room
i was in the hotel perched on the III
escape above the room occupied by &C
IS Lancey, now Mrs. Morris that di
me night. I was keeping guard over in
8. Harcourt. did not know but ~
It In an after rage Iarcourt might =,
destroy her too. I did not know y, !"
at the papers were but feared they ~
sht react on my cousins safety. -
lowed Mrs Morris to Mrs. Har- nc
irts room and ran into her as she al