The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-07-19

.Dou Inlnk, Dy anxiety
about her sister.
whose name she was constantly repeat
ing. They had a doctor for her. and the
whole house was up before ever the
word came of what had happened
here"
| thanked him with a look. | had
no opportunity for more. Half dozen
officers were standing about the front
door, and in another moment | was
hustled into the conveyance provided
and was being driven away from the
death haunted spot
AS the day advanced and began to
realize that l. ElwOOd Ranelagh. easy
going man Of the world. but with tradi-
tons of respectable living on both sides
of my house and list of friends of
whom any man might be proud. was I'm
a place of detention on the awful charge
Of murder | found that my keenest tor
ment arose from the fact that | was
shut off from the instant knowledge OF
what was going ON In the house where
all my thoughts, my fears and-shall /
say it?-latent hopes were conferred. To
know Carmel i'll and not to know how
Ill; to feel the threatening arm of
the law lowering constantly over her
head and neither TO know the instant
Of its fall nor be given the least OPP
portunity to dive 2 it.
My examination before the magis-
trate held one element of comfort.
Nothing in its whole tenor went to
show that as yet she was in the least
suspected of any participation in my
so called crime. But the knowledge
which came later of how the police
first learned of trouble at the clubhouse
did not add to this sense of relief,
whatever 81 tisfaction 1t gave my curl
osity. A cry of distress had come to
them over the telephone. wild cry in
womans hoked and tremulous voice:
Help at the Whispering Pines! Help"
That was al. or all they revealed to
me. In their endeavor to find out
whether or not l was present when
this call was made / learned the ma
ture Of their own suspicious. They be-
lieved that Adelaide in some moment
Of provision had managed to reach the
telephone and send out this message.
1t was In a condition of mingled
dread and expectation that I opened
the paper which was brought me the
next morning. Arthur. the good-for-
nothing brother. had returned from
his wild carOuse and had taken affairs
In charge with something like spirit
and a decent show of repentance for
his own shortcomings and the mad
taste for liquor which had led him
away from home that night Carmel
was still Ill and likely TO be so for
many days TO come. Her case was
diagnosed as one of brain fever and of
a most dangerous type. Doctors and
nurses were busy at her bedside. and
little hope was held out of her being
able to tell soon. IL ever. what she
knew of her sisters departure from
the house on that fatal evening. That
her testimony on this point would be
invaluable was self evident. for proofs
were plenty OF her having haunted her
sisters rooms all the evening in con-
dition Of more or less delirium. She
was alone in the house. and this may
have added TO her anxieties. all OF the
servants having gone to the police
mems ball. II was on their return in
the early morning hours that she had
been discovered lying Ill and injured
before her sisters fireplace.
One fact was mentioned which set
me thinking The KEYS Of the club