The Prescott daily news., 1914-01-19

NAS ApAAAhSot away AAOll lhC NaA NOOA5 and sat down to wait for her, think ing we would soon be back.
 We were going so fast, through a pretty bit of country. It was dusky and restful out there, so leaned back and closed my eyes. Presently heard voices approaching, above the rumble of the train, and. peeping around the doorway. saw Mrs. Cham bray, Richard, and the doctor coming from the other car. 1 kept quiet, hop ing they would not come out, and they did not. They settled down near the door, and ordered the porter to put up table for them to play cards
 The train began to slow down. and finally came to halt for longer time on sidetrack, waiting for another train to pass. l heard Richard ask where l was Mrs. Chambray said laughingly that I was safely asleep. Then, before l realized it, they began to talk about me. It happened there were no other passengers in the car. Richard asked Mrs Chambray if she thought had any suspicion that was not on the right train, and she said, Not the slightest and then by de- grees there floated to me through the open door the most diabolical plot had ever heard of l gathered from it that we were on the way to Philadel- phia would reach there in a little while, and would then proceed to a place near Washington, where the doc tor had private insane asylum, and where 1 was to be shut up. They were going to administer some drug that would make me unconscious when 1 was taken off the train. If they could not get me to take it for the headache I had talked about Mrs. Chambray was to manage to get it into my food or give it to me when asleep. Mrs. Chambray, it seems, had not known the entire plot before leaving Europe, and this was their first chance of tell ing her. They thought 1 was safely in my compartment, asleep, and she had gone into the other car to give the sig nal as soon as she thought she had me where would not get up again for while.
 They had arranged every detail. Richard had been using as models the letters I had written him for the last three years, and had constructed a set of love letters from me to him, in per. feet imitation of my handwriting. They compared the letters and read snatches of the sentences aloud. The letters referred constantly to our be- ing married as soon as I should return from abroad, and some of them spoke of the money as belonging to us both, and that now it would come to it's own without any further trouble.
 They even exhibited a marriage certificate, which, from what they said must have been made out with our names, and Mrs Chambray and the doctor signed their names as witness es. AS nearly as I could make out, they were going to use this as evi- dence that Richard was my husband that he had the right to administer my estate during the time that I was incapable. They had even arranged that a young woman who was hope lessly insane should take my place when the executors of the estate came to see me- if they took the trouble to do that AS 1t was some years since either of them had seen me, they could easily have been deceived. And for their help Mrs. Chambray and the doc tor were to receive @ handsome sum
 T could scarcely believe my ears at first. It seemed to me that must be mistaken, that they could not be talk ing about me. But my name was men toned again and again, and as each link In the horrible plot was made plain to me, my terror grew so great that l was on the verge of rushing into the car and calling for the con- ductor and porter to help me- But something held me still and I heard Richard say that he had just inform ad the trainmen that l was insane, and that they need not be surprised if 1 had to be restrained He had told them that l was comparatively harm less, but he had no doubt that the conductor had whispered it to our fel- passengers in the car, which ex- plained their prolonged absence in the smoker. Then they all laughed. and 1t seemed to me that the cover of the bottomless pit was open and that I was falling in.
 T sat still hardly daring to breathe. Then I began to go over the story bit by bit, and to put together little things that had happened since we landed, and even before I had left Vienna; and I saw that 1 was caught in trap. It would be no use to ap- peal to any one, for no one would be-