Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
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.ASToRY,o OF MISERY
DylUCLAQlAflBERLAIN
,4u16roEnlE COAST OF CHANCE


s (CFIAPTER XXI. Concluded.)
For q moment could think of moth
ing and the room like asWheel went
around me; but, l, kept saying, No. no,
Twill not, must not faint !" and after
a Few moments ] moved forward, still,
think, on my knees, and looked at the
paper under her hand. was too weak
to get to my feet. i reached up and
took It. / looked at the Spanish WON.
an. 1 looked at the fine, firm, foreign
handwriting.
ION the day Of May the seventh, 1865,
In the presence Of John Montgomery
and my peon, Victor Perez, L, Carlotta
Valencia, shot and killed Martin Rood
in his gambling house on Dupont and
Washington streets. Signed, Carlotta
Valencia. Victor Perez
On the table, almost hidden by her
hand, saw the thing which had seen
once before lying in the gutter on Du-
pOnt street.-the pearl-handled reyOl-
yer.
sat there at her feet, and looking
I'D at her, felt as If she had won,
though now knew it was quite the
other way. But she looked so calm, 50
mighty so Indifferent, sitting up there
above me, that she made death seem
little thing, and she herself not even
wicked. Then the room swan away
from me as In dream.
The next thing was conscious OF
was broken foreign voice speaking;
and found myself covered up with
great coat lying on sofa in the down
stairs sala; and there, strangely seen
among its velvet and gliding, was ia.
Their with his hair tossed on end and
his clothes huddled upon him, and MI.
Dingley; very white and drawn, and
the peon Perez, who was talking.
listened to his voice going on as II u
were part of dream
Yes, he said, it was true there had
been bad blood between the two men.
First it had been the young mans
debts, and stheneit haG been the Sonora,
The Sonora -had told the young man
she would give up Rood; but, Of
course that was impossible, Perez said
with a shrug, as where was the money
to come from he should like to know
But she was constantly afraid lest
young Montgomery might find 1T out.
Therefore Perez said, when he had
seen Montgomery going into Rood
place at two o'clock on the morning OF
the shooting he went at once TO ms
mistress and told her. Taking Perez
with her, she had hurried to the gam
bling house with the purpose Of some
how separating the two, and there IN
the bar the quarrel had taken place
It seemed that the truth Of Foods
position as protector" to the Sonora
lhad reached Montgomery, and, he had
/ to come to tax Rood with it, and Rood
had told him. He told him even before
the Senora's face, and Montgomery had
said he was done with the whole crew
Of them. He was going to get out OF IT,
The was going away. Then the Sonora
had chung to Montgomery, telling him
she would do anything to keep him
with her; and Rood had turned upon
him. 1t was then that the Sonora mad
shot him. He had been standing SO
near the swinging door that at the
shot, to their horror, he had fallen
backward through 1t.
Before any one could think, the peon
went on, Montgomery had snatched
the revolver from her, saying Il shot
him. and had rushed out into the
street, and after moments waiting
the Sonora had run out, and seeing the
revolver, picked it up. Yes, he said
she had worn a white dress and IN
doubtedly 1T was she and not the Sc
norita Fenwick that the woman who
had looked out of the window had
seen. But she, had not run down the
street, as this witness said, who, like
all women, only remembered what she
wished to believe, but back into The
gambling house, and through there into
an alley at the rear, from which they
entered a house the Sonora was IA
miliar with, and remained there until
1.-THE afternoon when the excitement
Ihad somewhat subsidized. Then they
had gone quietly back to the Senora's
house.
Yes. the pistol was the Senora's. Mr.
Montgomery had bought it for her 9
little while before Yes, the Sonora had
made sure to save Mr.. Montgomery
,and but for the Senorita Fenwick il
would have been. For she had many
friends. friends of power, he said. Al
that Mr.. Dingley grew paler, and
started to speak, but then he seen ed
T to change his mind. Father looked a!
him, and wondered then had the
trouble been that Mr.. Dingley had
been one OF those friends of hers
When the police came and we left tfye
place, Mr.. Dingley and father separ
ated without word, and father tooR
me home alone in the carriage.
EPILOGUE. !.
! TWO Years.
All the experiences which had gone
through with, with such apparent lack
Of feeling, seemed to take their re
venpe nm me at once. For a while