New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-08-23
"rAxE IT orrl" he CRIED.

him to comply with the request thus
harshly and peremptorily uttered Un-
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 few low
words to himself. Then he withdrew
his hand. and, without glancing to
right or left, staggered back to the
door amid 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 east 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 clinch which in
itself was horrible.
"If they let the man CO." he called
out in loud and threat ening tones, II
will strangle him with these two
hands!"
The word and not the shrek which
burst irrepressibly from more than one
woman before him brought him to
himself. With 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 articulate
words which even the children could
understand
Break it open. say! Break 1t open
and see If her heart Is therev
It was too awful. Men and women
and children leaped to their feet and
dashed away into the streets. uttering
smothered cries and wild CALCULATIONS.
In vain the clergyman raised his voice
and babe them respect the dead, for
the rooms were we'll 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 in
those darkened rooms trail Of DESC
lation which was only broken from
time to time by the now faint and
barely heard reiteration of the name
Of her who had just been borne away.
LILA. Lila!"
Sweetwater. however affected by this
scene In the funeral chamber, had not
lost control Of himself nor forgotten the
claims of duty. He noted at q glance
that while the candid looking stranger
whose lead he had been following was
as much surprised as the rest at the
nature Of the interruption-which he
had possibly anticipated and for which
be was In some measure prepared-he
was Of all present the most deeply and
peculiarly impressed by It.
Sweetwater took occasion likewise
while the excitement was at its height |
to mark what effect had been made on
the servants by the action and conduct |
Of young Cumberland.
Il was not % easy to determine a.
the anxious detective might wish.
Only one OF them: showed . simple
emotion. and that one was, without |
any possibility Of doubt. the cook. She
was q Roman Catholic and was sim
ply horrifed By the sacrilegs Of which
Dhe had been witness. There was no
her feelings. But those Of