The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-06-14
Continued From Last Week.)
CHAPTER XIII.
THEY HAVE NO HEART.

AS to what occurred in the heart of
The fog on that night in November foul
years ago, most of you no doubt VIII
remember. Those who do not | must
refer to the morning papers of the
following day.
A pcrCec; harvest for journalists.
Gossip and detail sufficient TO fiji coll
jumn upon column of newspaper; Cos
sip that grew as h hours sped on,
| and the second day OF fog pursued its
HOMOGENEOUS course.
A man had been found murdered in
a taxicab. his throat stabbed through
from ear TO ear. the jugular pierced,
life absolutely extinct; the murderer
vanished.
| Drama in the midst OF reality.
Such things are, you know. NO
amount of so-calied realistic literature,
no amount of speers at what is DUBBED
meiodrama. will prevent this fact &C.
| curring-and occurring very frequent
ly in the streets of a mighty city.
Just a man murdered II the muir
derer disappeared a very real thing
that. and London has had TO face such
facts often enough. more often than
has an audience ut Drury Lane or the
Adelphi. The superior minded critic
who spells British. drama with a cap
iital y and d. and pronounces il Pritish
trama, sat in the stalls of a London
theater on this very same fogsy eve
ming in November. four years ago. The
play was one that diG not appeal To
the superior-mindeo critic: II was Just
a simple ale of jealousy which led to
the breaking of tnat great command
ment: .'Thou shalt 30 no murder"
And the supeTior-minded critic
yawned behind a well gloved hand and
dubbed the play melodramtic. unreal.
and STACEY. quite foreign to the life of
today. But just at that hour-between
9 and 10 o'clock-a man was murdered
in a taxicab. and his murderer van
ished in the fog.
London doesn't dub such vents
meIodrama; she does not sneer at them
or call them unreal. II knows that
they are real: there is nothing STACEY
or artificial about them: they nave
even become commonplace.
They occur so often. And most often
whilst society dimes or dances and the
! elect applaud with languid grace the
newest play of Mr.. Bernard Shaw.
Only In this case. the event gained
additional interest. The murdered man
was a personality. Some one whom
everybody that was anybody mad
talked about. gessifse9. and discussed
for the past six months. Some one
whom few had seen but many had
heard about-Philip de Mountford-the
son of the late Arthur De Mountford-
Radclyffe's newly found heir, you
know.
The news spread as only such news
can spread. and when society poured
ont from theaters. from houses in Gov
/ ernor SQUARE. or from the dining roen
of the Carlton, every one had heard
the news.
1t was as il the sprite of gossip had
! been. busy whispering in oNer-willins
ears.
philip de Mountford has been. muir
dered."
"He was found in a taxicab; his
throat was cut from ear to ear"
No. no, not cut, | understand
Pierced through with a sharp instru.
ment-a s~tiletto. l presume"
How horrible"
poor Lord Radclyffe-such a trag.
edy-'
Hell never live through t.
"He has looked Very feebly lately.
..The scandal round the late Ar
+, thurs name broke him up, I think"
ut seems Arthur de Mountford ha,
married a negress.
mo. not Philip did not look lik'
a ~half-caste. | saw him once or twice
He was dark. but mic looking"
still, there was ON scandal abou
the marriage
Nothing 10 what this scandal WI
be-"
seek NBhsik ~ y ~
know
..rhen you think ?-you really thinl
Luke de Mountford did it?"
II thought 80 the moment hear
the story"
.I,ve always thought that Luke d
Mountford a queer sort of fellow"
And he cok his cousins adyen
very badly.
s.WeI, one can't wonder at that ex
actIy-to lose a future peerage all o
a sunderland he has 10 private for
tune. either"
Poor beggar."
II heard there were awful rows DC
tween the cousins until Lord Rad
clyffe himself turned Luke n the 9th
ers out OF the house
And now Philip de Mountford ha
been murdered.
And the police will seek him whoi
the crime benefits"
.It certainly looks very suspicious.
"A real cause ceiebre. Won't 1t Q
exciting?
"Something 10 read about in one
meyaing papers.