Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-11-20

Lightning Kills Urine and
been unconscionabiy hot, Cay with
out breath of air. Now, as 1t drew
toward its close its heat seemed to be.
come more and more oppressive even
as its light was darkened by por'
tentous phenomenon-a vast pail Of
mky cloud shouldoring up over the
mountains to the music OF distant rum
blngs,
Nor was this all a considerable de.
gree Of restlessness was surely par
donabie in one who, from her window,
watched a carriagedrive populous
with vehicles (for he most part mo
Tor cars) bringing TO the hotel gayly
dressed men and women, the guests
invited to the wedding OF Rose Urine
and Alan Law
Within another ten minutes the
man Judith loved With all her body
and soul would be the husband OF her
sister
She had told herself she VAS re-
signed, but she was not, and she
would never be. Her heart was break
ing in her bosom us she sat there,
watching, waiting. listening to the
ever heavier detonations OF the APP
preaching Thunderstorm and 10 the
jubilant peallng OF a great organ down
below
The had told herself that, though
resigned she could not bear 10 Wit.
ness the ceremony Now as the mo-
mcnt drew near when the marriage
would be thing finished, fixed.
irretrleyable she found herself un-
able to endure the strain alone.
Slowly, against her viii, she rose
and stole across the floor to her ia.
Tiers chair.
His breathing was slow and regu.
lar; beyond doubt he slept, unques-
tionably there was 10 reason why she
should not leave him for ten minutes,
even though he walked II could not
harm him to await her return at the
end OF that scant period
Like guilty thing, Oh feet as noise
less as any sneak thief's, she crept
from the room closed the door 81
lently. ran down the hail and de-
sceAded b. a back way, a littleused
staircase 10 tn lower hail d. proach'
ing the scene 81 the marriage
Constructed In imitation Of an old
Spanish mission chapel. it contained
enc OF the finest organs In the world
at this close range its deep thruated .
tones We'd With the warnings Of the
storm. judith, lurking In a passage
way whose open door revealed the
alta. steps aud chancel. was shaken
to the very marrow Of her being by
the majestic reverberations OF the
music
Since they had regaiued contact
with civilization In a section of the
country whore the Law estate had
vast holdings Of land. the chapel was
thronged with men and women who
had known Alan's father and wished
10 honor his son.
Above stairs, in the room Judith
had quilted. Seneca Urine opened
both eyes wide and laughed a silent
laugh OF savage triumph when the
door closed behind his daughter
At last he was left to his own de-
vices-and at time the most fitting
imaginable for what he had In mind
With a grin. Seneca Urine raised
both arms and stretched them wide
apart.
Then. gra.ping the arms of his
chair. he lifted himself from II and
stood trembling upon his own feet for
the first time In almost twenty years.
Grasping the back of the wheeled
chair, he used It as crutch to guide
his feeble and uncertain movements.
But these became momentarily
stronger and more confident
This, then, was the secret he had
Rugged TO his embIttered bosom,
secret unsupported even by the at
tending surgeon; that through the
motor accident three days ago he had
regalned the use of limbs that had
been stricken motionless-strangel
enough by motor car-nearly two
decades since
Slowly but surely moving 10 the
bureau in the room, he opened one
Of It's drawers and took out some.
thing he had without her knowledge.
seen Judith put away there while she
thought he slept
Then. with this hidden in the
pocket OF his dressing gown he
steered straight If very deliberate
course to the door, let himself out,
and like a materalized specter OF the
man he once had been. navigated the
corridor to the head OF the broad
central staircase and step by step
clnging with both hands, negotiated
the descent
The lobby OF the hotel was deserted
As the ceremony approached It's end
tNtl9 EutHl anu EtINdll III tut uOust
was crowding the doorway to the
chapel. None opposed the progress
OF this CHASTITY vision in dressing
gown and sllppered feet. chuckling
lnsanely to himself as he tottered
through the empty halls and corri-
doris. finding an almost supernatural
strength to sustain him till be found
himself face to face with his chosen
enemy and victim.
The first that blocked his way into
the chapel bellboy of the hotel,
ooked round at the first touch of the
,law.like hand upon his shoulder and
'hrank back with a cry of terror-a
Try that was echoed from half !
lozen Threats within another instant
As If from the path OF some grisly ]
distant from the world beyond the Il
crave, the throng pressed back and
cleared way for SENECA Trins, ia. 6
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