Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-26

him to comply with the request thus
harshly and peremptorily uttered. On
screwing the lid, he made way for the
intruder, who, drawing near, pushed
aside the roses which had fallen on
the upturned face, and, laying bis
hand on the brow, muttered a few low
words to himself. Then he withdrew
his hand, and, without glancing to
right or left, staggered back to the
door amid a hush as unbroken as that
which reigned behind him In that open
casket. Another moment and his
white, haggard face and disordered
figure would be blotted from sight by
the door jamb. ~
The minister recovered his poise and
the bearers their breath. The men
stirred in their seats and the women
began to cast frightened looks at each
other and then at the children, some
of whom had begun to whimper. when
In an instant all were struck again
into stone. The young man had turn
ed and was facing them all, with his
hands held out in q clinch which in
itself was horrible.
'Tf they let the man CO." he called
out in loud and threatening tones, 81
will strange him with these two
iands!"
The word and not the shrek which
burst irrepressibly from more than one
woman before him brought him to
himself. With a CHASTITY look on his
bloated features he scanned for one
moment the row Of deeply shocked
faces before him, then tottered back
out Of sight and fed toward the stair
case. All thought that an end had
come to the narrowing scene, and
minister and people faced each other
once more, when, loud and sharp from
above, there rang down the shrill cry
Of delirium, this time in a%rticulate
words which even the children could
understand.
"Break it open, I sayl Break 1t open
and see If her heart Is therer'
1t was too awful. Men and women
and children leaped to their feet and
dashed away into the streets, u~ttering
smothered cries and wild CALCULATIONS
In vain the clergyman raised his voice
and babe them respect the dead. for
the rooms were well nigh empty be
fore he had finished his appeal. Only
the least of the children remained.
Soon these, too, were gone, and the
casket was refastened and carried Out
by the shrinking bearers, leaving IL
those darkened rooms a trail Of desc
lation which was only broken from
time to time by the now faint ant
barely heard reiteration OF the name
Of her who had just been borne away
ella, Lila!"
Sweetwater, however affected by thi'
scene in the funeral chamber, had no
lost control of himself nor forgotten tn,
claims of duty. He noted at a glanc'
that while the candid looking strange
whose lead he had been following wa
as much surprised as the rest at tn
nature Of the interruption-which h
had possibly anticipated and for whicl
he was in some measure prepared-h
was Of all present the most deeply an
peculiarly impressed by 1t.
Sweetwater took occasion likewis
while the excitement was at Its heigh
to mark what effect had been made o.
the servants by the action and conduc
Of young Cumberland.
1t was not so easy to determine a
tho anxious detective might wish
Only one of them showed a simpl
emotion, and that one was, withou
any possibility of doubt, the cook. Sh
was a Roman Catholic and was sin
ply Mortified by the sacrilege of whic
she had been witness. There was n
mista king har feelings. But those q
the other two women were more CON
pick,
30 were those Of the men. Zadol
specially watched each movement o
his young master with open distrus
and very nearly started upright in hi
repugnance and dismay when that II
trudtng hand fell on the peaceful broy
Of her over whose fate to hts own sui
prise he had been able to shed tears.
And the Ypmeul Might not tb
same explanation account for that gu
yious droop Of the eye With which tn
Syo younger clutched at each other
hands to keep from screaming an,
intesohangsd whispered words whicl
Swaetwater would have given consid
erahle oQt Of his carefully cherlshe
ho4xa to have heard
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