The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-10

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The Indiscretion Of Lefty
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You shall rot go in, she cried.
What business is it o. his"
She stood Eith her back to the door.
her arms outstretched like a cross
Her cheeks we're livid. Her eyes
seemed starting from her head.
Peter Ruiz and John Dory laid their
hands upon the girls wrists. She
chung to her place franticaIiy. She
was dragged from 1t, screaming. Peter
Ruiz, as was his right, entered first.
Almost Immediately he turned round.
and his face was very grave
Something has happened here.
am afraid" he said Please come In
quietly
On the bed lar FLUFFY Dean. fully
dressed -motionless One hand hung
down toward the foor-from the life
less fingers little phial had slipped.
The room was full OF trunks addressed
to-
Miss Smith,
Passenger to Melbourne.
s. S. Caroline.
Peter Ruiz moved over toward the
bed and took up a piece OF paper. upon
which was scrubbed a few lines in
pencil
81 think he said, that / must
read these aloud. You all have right
TO hear them
No one spoke. He continued:
Forgive NE. Lefty, but cannot go
to Australia They would only bring
me back. When | remember that aw-
full moment. my brain burns-I feel
that I am going mad, Some day /
should do this-5etter now. Give my
love TO the girls.
Fluffy"
They sent for a doctor. and John
Dory rang UP Scotland Yard. Lefty
Shaw had tainted. and had been car
ried to her room. While they waited
about in strange half-benumbed ex-
element, Peter Ruff once more spoke
to them.
The reconstruction is easy enough
now" he remarked. The partition
between this sitting-room and that
! little bedroom is only an artificial one
something almost as fimsy as a
screen You see" he continued, tap
ping with his knuckles. you can all
most put your hand through it. II
you look a little lower down, you will
see where an opening has been made.
Fluffy Dean was being taken care OF
by Miss shaw-staying with her here.
even. Miss Dean hears her lovers
voice In this room-hears him plead
I ing with Miss Shaw on the night OF
the murder She had been sent home
early from the theatre. and 1t is just
possible that she saw or had been
told that Austen Abbott had fetched
Miss Shaw after the performance and
/ had taken her to supper. She is mad
with anger and jealousy. The revolver
was there upon the table, with sill
yer box of cartridges. She possessed
I herself OF 1t and waited in her room
What she heard proved. at least, her
lovers infidelity. She stood there al
her door. waiting. When Austen Alb
bott comes out, she shoots, throws the
revolver at him, closes her door. and
goes of into faint. Perhaps ghe
hears footsreps-a key in the door. Al
any rate. Captain Sotherst arrives 6
few minutes later. He finds, half II
I the hall. half on the threshold OF ths
sitting-room, Austen Abbott dead. ant
Miss Shaw's revolver by the side o
him. IL he had been wise young
man, he would have aroused the house
hold. Why he did not do so, we cal
perhaps guess. He put two and tw'
together little too quickly. 1t is Ger
tain that he believed that the dea,
man had been shot by his fdncee. HI
first thought was to get rid Of the re
yoIver. At any rate, he walked dow
TO the street with 1t in his hand, AM
was promptly arrested by the police
man who had heard the shot. Natur
ally he refused to plead, because b
believed that Miss Shaw had kille
the man. probably In self-defenss
She, at first, believed her lover guilty
! and when afterwards Fluffy Dean con
fessed, she, with feminine lack Of com
nonsense, was trying to get the gil
: out Of the country before telling th
truth. A yisit OF hers to the Office c
the steamship company gave me tn
: clue l required"
{ Lady Mary grasped both his hands
i And Scotland Yard" she exclaimed
/ with whitening glance at John. Dor.
: have done their best to hang N
3 brother. "
Peter Run raised his eyebrows.
, Dear Lady Mary" he said, r