Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-07-24
SO Dark Street:
The Actors
Daughters
By F. w. ROBINSON
By F. w. ROBINSON
CHAPTER XVII
AFTERWARD.

AFTERWARD.
Z TOOK Herbert Aston TO Thistle
i wood street and put him in George
Fatrfax's room. My housekeeper,
Nan Matherway, did not betray SO
much establishment as l thought she
would. / was to be paid for this, she
thought, and anything that brought
in money just then was worth cons1d-
Grafton and some extra duties. In
her own mind doubtless she did not
believe that the newcomer would
give her half the trouble which
George Fairfax had given her.
There were wonderful rallying
powers In the man I had taken to my
house as guest and patient. Before
had hidden him goodnight he looked
stronger than l had seen him yet.
The hasty journey from Camberwell
to Newington, following on the ex-
element and fear to which he
had been exposed, had not done him
any harm. With his mind, at ease and
with a sense of security in his new
position, he had already changed. He
was still grateful, too.
You have saved my life, DOCTOR"
he said to me, land I hope it may
last long enough to show that I am
not unmindful of your goodness. I
can only say Thank you now"
do not say anything at ALL" re-
piled. II have set my interdict upon
your talking more than once al
! ready"
land yet l want to say so much"
Tomorrow, then"
When l gave him his composing
draught he surprised me by a faint
exhibition of Righteousness that made
me shudder for an instant.
"You can warrant this decOction,
I suppose" he said. ut is not like
Delia's mixture, Mr.. Lissamer-
is it?"
Delia's mixture! When was alone
in my own little front parlor-my
study took from my pocket the
vial that I had brought away from
Dark Street." and set myself to a
closer study of it's contents. At tn
first instant in Dark Street." I had
been struck by the nature Of the
poison; I had seen the signs of 1t in
the looks of the man 1 had met for
the first time that night; 1 had rec
ognized 1t Immediately, unless l was
dreamer and a visionary, as a
subtle poison known only to experts
for it's efficacy, its strange results, it's
difficulty of detection. l knew the
test for the drug-a delicate and
novel test, but not in any way diff
cult to me. 1t would be easy to sat-
isfy myself as to the truth of it all by
half an hours application to my task,
and it was striking twelve when l
had done so, and the proof was be-
fore me, damning and conclusive
The poison was there, and three
doses meant a human life! He had
only taken one. Truly there had been
com~+hing more than chance to lead
> Dark Street" that night. and
up the stairs to the top room where
the victim lay in hiding.
I was not altogether satisfied.
went to the chemists in the morning
to prosecute further inquiries, to see
the prescription myself which had
been written out by the physician
whom the Washes, with odd inconsis-
tency, had called in to Herbert AS
ton. There was no mention of the
poison In the list of ingredients
which the great man had prescribed.
It had been dropped into the medi-
cine afterward!
The chemist knew me by sight,
and was confidential and inQuiring-
even a tribe nervous.
EDO you think there has been an
error on my part? ] assure you. Mr..
Lissamer, Z was most careful. made
this up myself"
cit has not agreed with the pa
tient, that is all can say. | have no
doubt you made it up perfectly cor
rect"
81 am sure I did. No poison
could
What makes you speak of pois-
on?" l said, sharply.
''The young lady who came here
late last night asked me to look
closely at the prescription | had
and see if there was any poison in
cluded in the ingredients. She was
distressed, saw. But she would not
give me any explanation, although
was sure that there was something
wrong by her manner-Miss Nash, I
mean, of Spark Street.
''She called last night?"
eyes"
''That was very natural" I said,
sebut the patient is better now. Good.
morning"
went home meditating upon this
new phase Of the position. 1t was
an incident that perplexed me, unless
Della Nash-or rather Della Aston
were preparing for crisis, and
making evidence in her own favor