The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-06-09

butler from bed and forcibly eected
Fleming and Schwartz from the house.
Ellen Butler had been horrified. sick
ened by what she regarded as the viil-
garlty OF the occurrence. But her low
atty 10 her husband never wavered.
butler was one honest man against
complete organization OF unscrupu-
lous ones. His disgrace. imprison-
lnent and suicide at the White Cat
had followed in rapid succession.
With his death. all that was worth
while IN his wife died. Her health
Was destroyed: she became one OF the
Wretched army OF Inconsistencies. with
only one idea. TO retaliate. TO nav
BACK in measure full and running over
her wrecked life. her dead husband.
her GRIEF and her shame.
she laid her plans with the caution
ana absolute recklessness Of a dis
eased mentality. Normally a shrink
ing. nervous woman. she became cold.
passionless. deliberate in her revenge
10 disgrace Schwartz and Fleming
was her original intention But she
could not get the papers
She resorted 10 bounding Fleming.
meaning 10 drive him 10 suicide And
she chose a method that had more
nearly driven him 10 madness Where
ever he turned he found the figures
eleven twenty-five G Sometimes iust
the number. without the letter II had
been Henry Buffers cell number dur
ing his Imprisonment. and II they
We're craven on his wifes soul. they
burned themselves in lines OF fire on
lcming brain. For over year she
pursued this course sometimes
through the mail. al other times ia
the most unexpected places. wherever
she could bride a messenger TO carry
the paper. sane? 40. hardly sane.
but inevitable as fate.
The time came when other things
went badly with Fleming. as had
already heard from Wardrop lie fled
To the White Cat. and for week
Ellen Butler hunted him vainly. She
had decided 20 Kill him. and on the
night Margery Fleming had found the
paper ON the pillow. she had been in
the house She was not the only in
frudcr IN the house thar night Some
one presumably Fleming himself
had been there before her She found
"a ladies' desk broken open and "A small
unable 20 draw check while in
hiding. had needed ready money. As
20 the jewels that had been disturbed
in Margery : houdoir. could only sur
mise the impulse that. after prompt
ing him 90 take them. had failed at
the sight o. his dead wl.c's Jewels
surprised hE the girls appearance.
she had crept 70 the upper floor and
aIaN a.f
room T. had been almost dawn bc.
Iore she got out No doubt this WAS
tho room belonging 10 the butler. car
Ter. which MarEery had reported as
locked that night
She took 20 hey from the door 81 "a
sid" entrance. and locked the door be-.
mind her when she le't Within %
couple ~ nights She had learned that
Nurdrop was coming home from
flattshIrr and she met him az UeIl-
wood. W." already knew the nature
~ That meeting she drove back 10
town. half maddcucd by her failure
to secure the letters that would have
cleared her husbands memory uuf
The wiser hy ono thing. Wardrop had
inadvertently ioiI her where Fleming
WAS hiding
The NEXT night she went to the
White Cat and tried 90 get in. she
Nnc" from her husband oe fhe secret
staircase. Tor many political meet
ing OF DO" deepest s.gnidcance had
been pos Die hy Us use Uut the
door was Joe cd. and she had mo- KEY
Above Der fhc warehouse raised IFS
empty height and if was not long ho.
fore 81" decided fo 500 what she could