The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-10-26
CHAPTER xx11I.
THE sToRY.

ITGIIlGIluOuS dcllVlly. hA
known, of course, that he was ener-
getic, interchangeable, and fertile OF sA-
pedient, but his results, remarkapie as
they often Were, were usually acnleVeo
with such apparent ease that nhu
never suspected the extent OF the GOWN
right hard work which lay PACK u
them. Now, as 1 looked over the paper
before me. / understood and wondered.
I had left him at. 10 o'clock the n1sh.
before, with the mystery still unsoiVeo
and seemingly unSolvable, FOR tne ohiS
clue in his possession had led MIN TO d
blank wall. Yet here before me Was
the story. An entire page was aeVoteu
to it-and an ASTONISHING story - o mas
written with verve and corn,
plete in every detail, and nlustrateu
with photographs and sketches OIL an
the scenes and characters. Ihere was
the Kingdom cottage, b grave III tie
cellar, the Kingdom sisters, the muir
dered man, the pearl hanaieo reeo,Vel
even the coroner and the chleI OF
police. Many OF the photographs iiad'
of course, been collected the day before,
and some of them, no doubt, had peeH
used in the afternoon edition, u mere
:lhe., Hece. welded into
whole, complete and satisfying. l
could fancy the city editors OF the
other morning papers turning green
with envy as they read It,
And looking at the story, 1 unuer-
stood, more clearly tina l had ever
done, the wide appeal OF the yeilo"
press-it paid for the best talent IN the
market; it handle Its matters IN d
way to attract attention; 1t told its
stories in a style incisive n easily
COMPREHENSIVE, and added the visual
appeal of pictures, which gave the SUI
preme touch Of reality. And it got the
news. ,Abstractly, 1 am anything but
an admirer of the yellow press; con.
cretely, I have often found that 70 get
the last detail of any eVent-more es-
pecially of any event with a sensa-
tional or mysterious side-1 must have
ecourse to It's columns, just as l mad
ecourse to them now. :
AS l read or, I marvelled more and
more at the system which rendered
possible the securing of all these de-
tails In so short a time-subterranean,
Godfrey had called it; superhuman,
would have said, and l determined that
he should some day introduce me TO 1t.
He had run down Parello, unmasked
him, laid him bare in all his treachery
and ~vileness; the whole sordid, terrible
! story lay revealed-and as l thought
Of Harriet Kingdoms sufferings and
abasement, / did not wonder that she
had shot down the brute who was try
ing to drag her back to them. Some
of the details, 1 knew, Godfrey must
have filled in for himself, since there
Coulu NC III way VI iIS iiS AAN &
this late day.; but they fitted so closely
with the rest of the structure that
there could be no doubt OF their es-
sential truthfulness.
Such, for instance, was the detail of
their meeting. Parello had been a
teacher of music, inc Godfrey shrewd-
ly guessed hat he must have met
Harriet Kingdom and become ac-
| quainted with her at the 2ouse where
she was employed as goTerness. The
rest of the story could be easily built
up. He was a handsome and magnetic
fellow, she a passionate and attractive
oma He has struck a chord in her
which she could not but obey. He had
seemed hen to have a future before
him; the brave exterior gave nc hint
of the rottenness within. He had that
grandiloquent way of speaking of the
future which is characteristic of the
Latin races-that sublime faith in him.
self which needed no justification. He
had impressed himself upon her as 3
genius who would one day astonish the
world; and If he had certain assertive
peculiarities which Jared disagreeably
at times, why, was not all genius so:
She began by admiring him; She ended
by yielding to him. No doubt she
fancied that she was hitching hel
wagon to a star.
Whether there has been a marriage
was not certain; Godfrey believed there
had been. At any rate, Parello had in
troduced her to his friends as his wife
and. for a time, all went well. Their
the devil In the man cropped out. He
was naturally indolent. He quit teach
ing under the preteXt that he wished
to compose a masterpiece, and forced
her to support him. No doubt she ever
yet believed in him; but he dragged hel
down to depths ~unspeakable, %tranplinE
her into the very mire Of the Italian
colony.
At last, he brought his real Wifi
from Italy to live with him. This
swarthy vixen had added new torments
to the unfortunate girls position, hat
devised new insults for her, and the
end had been Bloomingdale. Up to tbs
very last, such was the nature of tn,
woman, she had continued to love thu
man, contented to be his dog, his slave
for the privilege Of being near him
Doubtless all this time her mind wa!
weakening, and she chung to him gu
of old habit. But with the sudden &C,
cessfon of madness, hate had blazca III
In her, white hot, and She had at.
tempted to stab him. He had called
the police and she had been dragged
away, cursing, shrieklng, a spectacle
to shake the strongest nerves. l
vas in that struggle that he ha los
the end Of his little finger. She haC
seized it between her teeth and bitter
it clean through. From a woman sh,
had changed into a monster.
But insanity or this type usual,
yields to treatment; and though Har
riet Kingdoms case proved to be Q
unusual obstinacy, patience and care
full nursing ~triumphed IN the end, an,
reason was restored to her. Restored
that is, as life is restored to a MAJ
striker with heart disease; restin;
not on the firm foundation of assure,
health, but or a delicate balanc
which any shock nay disturb.
Not until she was ready to leave tn
asylum, did her sister know he
w~hereabout; I doubt II she ever knew
the whole story of the suffering
which went before. She had com
for her, had taken her back to Eliza
beth, to the home which Mrs. Law
rence's kindness n generosity ha
provided.
The Parellos had remained with tn
Italian colony, sinking lower an
lower. Parello. driven by his wifi:
the target Of her abuse now that sh
no longer had any other ~endeavore
to resume his teaching, but he had S
coarsened in habits and appearance
that the old doors were shut to hin
Still, he managed to scrape along, al
ways on the verge of a n Then, /