The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-06-13
CONTINUED From Last week.)
CHAPTER XIII.
THEY HAVE NO HEART.

HEY HAVE NJ
AS to what occurred in the heart of
the fog on that night in November fou1
years ago, most of you no doubt will
remember. Those who do not / must
refer to the morning papers of the
following day.
A perfect harvest for journalists.
Gossip and detail sufficient to fill col
umn upon column of newspaper; Cos
sip that grew as the hours sped on,
n the second day of fog pursued its
monotonous 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
mount of so-called realistic literature,
no amount of sneers at what is dubbed
melodrama. will prevent this fact oc-
curring-and occurring very frequent
ly in the streets of a mighty city.
Just a man murdered and 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 at Drury Lane or the
Adelphi. The superior minded critic
who spells British drama with a cap
ital B and D, and p~ronounces it Pritish
trama, sat in the stalls of a London
theater on this very same foggy eve
ming in November. four years ago. The
play was one that did not appeal to
the superior-minded critic; it was just
a simple tale of jealousy which led to
the breaking of that great command
ment: Thou shalt do no murder
And the superior-minded critic
yawned behind a we'll gloved hand and
dubbed the play melodramtic. unreal.
and STACEY, quite foreign to the life of
today. But just at that hour-between
8 and 10 o'clock-a man was murdered
in a taxicab, and his murderer van
tshed in the fog.
London doesn't dub such events
melodrama; she does not sheer at them
they are real; there is nothing STACEY
or artificial about them: they have
ever 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 had
talked about, gossiped, and discussed
for the past six months. Some one
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
out from theaters, from houses in Gov
ernor square, or from the dining room
of the Carlton, every one had heard
the news.
1t was as if the sprite of gossip had
been busy whispering in over-willing
Philip de Mountford has been muir
dered.'
He was found in a taxicab; his
throat was cut from ear to ear"
mo, no! not cut, 1 understand.
Pierced through with a sharp instru-
ment-a s%tiletto, 1 presume"
How horrible"
Poor Lord Radclyffe-such a trag-
edy-'
Hell never live through it,
HE has looked very feebly lately"
1.-The scandal rouhd the late Ar
thurs name broke him up, I think"
TT seems Arthur de Mountford had
married a negress."
mo, no! Philip did not look like
a half-caste. / saw him once or twice.
He was dark, but nice looking"
Still. there was some scandal about
the marriage"
Nothing to what this scandal will
What scandal?"
Seek whom the crime benefits, you
know
Then you think ?-you really think
Luke de Mountford did it?"
II thought so the moment / heard
the story"
I've always thought that Luke de
Mountford a queer sort Of fellow"
And he took his cousins advent
very badly"
We'll one can't wonder at that ex-
actly-to lose a future peerage all of
a sunderland he a 40 private for
tune, either
Poor beggar."
IT heard there were awful rows be-
tween the cousins until Lord Rad
clyffe himself turned Luke and the 9TH
ers out of the house,"
And now Philip de Mountford has
been murdered"
And the police will seek him whom
the crime benefits
1T certainly looks very suspicious
"a real cause celebre. Won't it be
exciting?"
Something to read about in ones
morning papers,"
II shall try and get reserved seats
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