The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-27
Confined From 16ondAy.)

The Marquis married Ter out III AZ
genuine. didn't he?" .., 49,, ,,arouis.
then His father was still alive ana ne
was merely Lord RuddocS. the heir ~
the title and what was left OF the lil"I.
gagged estate. Ruddock Abbey was mort
ruin was staring the family IN the race
when the heir went out there 10 ArEen.
tina in the hope OF retrieving his lalI'n
fortunes and had the bad luck TO run
against that girl. Maggie tlanner!. fiS
only knew that she was 4 rather stuptu
hut highly romantic and extremely
handsome creature much given 10 wear
ing heaps of jcwelry. that she WIS s7le
possessor of s3l5.00o.Qo0 in her own
right. That she had no parents 10 aou
to her dri.wbac
We'll TO cut the business short: he
married her and sailed off TO EnGland
with her as fast as he could make II. ne
hadn't been her husband for :ca uaES
when he made a discovery which wtpcu
a good deal Of the gilt off his ginger
bread She was addicted to the secret
use or druss--a drinker of peculiar
dccoction made from cocoa leaves.
which produced u. hilarious sort or M
toxicaticn and looscncd her tongue most
unpleaSantly.
We'll. in time they arrived in Eng.
land and what followed is pretty wei!
known TO everybody. Tho lady. who had
expected to walk into RudGock ABBEY
denly up against brick wall. Her nus.
bands peopi'> came and saw and-would
have mono of her At any price. uHly 100
Of Lord Ruddock : relations Stucl; 10
him-his younger brother, thS ron ton
Ut %. a rabid amateur naturalist. but
when she heard that. after a secret visit
TO them. this lnvahlc. irresponsible young
rattleboN had said. IN answer 70 4 IierS
regarding his absence for the past Few
,la - London
70 have q. look at things at the Zo3and
TO make a call on Ruddnck and his
Wooden WIFE that was the last stra"
OF course that put an end tn any iarthtr
calls upon the Hon. Hugc's part. and
six months later. followed the thunI"r-
bolt. The old Marquis. thrown from ais
horse in the hunting field. was plcNrd
up with Il broken neck and in the wink
ing Of an eye Lord Rudduck found him
hclt the Marquis "f tppinshtm and the
master OF Rudd0ck Abbey. She r:,ad" 2
demand upon him with non" hut the
most upulterable of radS could have
brought. himself to yield to. &c" 'h"re
and chuck YOUR Stuck-up old mother and
crop and le, en- hustle for themselves.
was thu way she put II. And when her
husband declined to fall in with this
brutal suggestion and told her that she
should never set foot inside tn: place
nor have il in her power IN i:iurc his
mother and brother Ia her dying day she
delivered mr. ultimatum.
"'.Alt right then she spat out at him.
It's them or it's me. may be Wood
On Wife but you. don't get any more
chips off Northumberland that. Either
they Ti.ar out and hustle for themselves
or ynu do Very we'll. madam he an
sw"rcd. i can at least starve like sen-
tlcman.. Good Night Then he took up
his hat. walked out Of the house. bought
a revolver and inside of half an hour the
Machioness Of UppinGham was widow.
He had made it absolutely certain that
she never could become the mistress OF
the Abbey nor yet set foot across the
threshold of it BY passing the title or to
his younger brother there and then.
That was five years ago. but those
years made no change in the malice OF
that woman. In the meantime. the old
MarrhioneSs had died. her sole surviving
son had come in for Il small inheritance
from Il distant connection. had fallen IN
love with a sweet and lovely girl and
married her. y child IS now hourly eS-
cd to the zsst with which his brothers
widow pursued her secret plans: IN
known to that happy young hus band
who was living like beEgar in his Ell
fort to pay the interest upon them--the
vixen was secretly buying in the mort
cages 4 month ago she got possession
of the last one and as all were long over
due served notice of foreclosure II they
were not taken up by the 10Th OF JUNE
to-day,-and as the young MARQUIS ac-
knowiedged that there was no possibility
of such q thing another notice cana
writ of dispcs session-and for the first
time he learned the truth and knew that
he was in that woman's hands. She
would no more listen to him than she
had listened to the appeals OF his dead
brother. Out they should go--he and
his wife together-at noon on Inc l@ti
Of June as surely as the sun rose ana
she would be there to witness their dis
possession and eviction. She was there
She went down to Long Meadow Beach
for that purpose yesterday. OUT to-mIr,
row never became to-day Tor ner'
When this mornings sun rose: SE+S i
she was a dead woman-murdered. the
Lord knows how aud by whom, IN tne
stone tower Of Nottingham Hall. wlthlr
q ylnshot a. nj. and the crime mlehi
have remained und sSo up sq Sn,
heard her death.cry and aroused his
household instantly r-,ooL
"Seton-Hartopp? repeated
who's he? Any relation 70 inc cnal
who invented the famous Hartopp auto
matte piano and made fortune out OF
It some ten or a dozen years ago:
His son." replied Narkon. But ne
is no longer Interested in the lnstru
rnent In question. His fathers deaIf
left him With pots or mon SHs so s9 to o
company and retired into private me tn'
8 time. I say for time. because q!
though it is not publicly known ne Il
The power behind the throne IN I'M
treat compan promoting firm Of Hague
Luton 4 Co. stock brokers OF Lombard
Ohio" said Cleek, twitchinS up thu
corner OF one eyebrow. so Mr.: Seton
Hartopp,s money is invested in It Ell?
Rather, He's the backbone of It. Sc
to speak Hes a fine chap--about SIX
and thirty. should say-and eHtremei!
popular. Hes what call a regular tip
topper, old chap
NO doubt. And yet he appears to have