The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-06-13
CONTINUED From Last Weekly
CHAPTER XIII.
THEY HAVE NO HEART.

IN mt LASA II 4NS (
AS to what occurred in the heart OF
The fog or that night in November four
years ago, most OF you no doubt will
remember. Those who do not i
refer 10 the morning papers of the
following day. - s .uur.,e s
A perfect harvest for journalists.
Gossip md detail sufficient to fiji coll
umn upon column of newspaper; COS
sip that grew as the hours sped on,
and the second day OF fog pursued Its
monot0nous course. 4.
"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. 4
Drama in the midst OF reality.
Such things are, you know. No
amount of so-called realistic literature,
no amount of sneers at what is dubbed
melodrama, will prevent this fact oc-
curring--and occurring very frequent-
" in the streets of a mighty city.
Just a man murdered n 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 ~pronounces 1t Pritish
trama, sat In the Stalls of a London
ltheater on this very same foggy eve
ming in November. four years ago.. The
play was one hat did not appeal to
the superior minded critic; it was just
d simple tale of jealousy which led to
the breaking of hat great command
ment: Thou shalt do no murder"
And the superior 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 h~our-between
8 and 10 ~o'clock--a man was murdered
In a taxicab, and his murderer van
ished In the fog. - ~
London doesn't dub such events
melodrama; she Ices not sneer at them
or call them unreal. She knows that
they are real; there is nothing STACEY
or artificial about them; they have
even become commonplace.
\ They occur so often. And most Otter
| whilst society dimes or dances and the
elect applaud with languid grace the
newest play of Mr., BERNARD Shaw.
Only in this ease, 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
whom few had seen but many had
heard about-Philip de Mountford-the
6OIl vi liz law ~ ~
Radclyffe's newly found heir, you
know. .... s..
The news sp:ead as only such news
can spread, end when society poured
out from theatvTs, from houses In Gov
ernor square, or from the dining room
of the Carlton, every n had heard
the news.
1t was as If the sprite of gossip had
been busy whispering in over-wflling
philip de Mountford mas been muir
dered.' q
He was found in a taxicab: his
throat was cut from ear to ear"
mo, no! not cut, l understand
Pierced through with a sharp instru-
ment-a s~tiletto, 1 presume" .
How horrible" -
Poor Lord Radclyffe-such a trag-
edy--" .-a..g. .
Hell never live through it,
"He has looked very feebly lately
! THE scandal round the late Ar
thurs name broke him up, I think"
"It seems Arthur de Mountford had
married a negress."
~.No, no! Philip did not look like
a half-caste. I 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
be-
What scandal?" .'.. 49,.
Seek whom the crime benefits, you
lLknow." "'. .".
Then you think?-you really think
Luke de Mountford did 1t
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
"Wen one can't wonder at that ex
actly-to lose a future peerage all OF
a sunderland he has no private for
tune, either .... ...... .
Poor beggar."
"I heard there were awful rows be-
| tween the cousins until Lord Rad
clyife himself turned Luke II the 9TH
ers out Of the. house"
And now Philip de Mountford has
been murdered" ..'#g'g
And the police will seek him whom
the crime benefits" -.- ..
ut certainly looks very suspicious
"A real cause celebre. Won't 1t bt
exciting ?"i.-,gs. H. e
something 10 read about In ones
; morning papers"
II shall try and get reserved scat,