The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-11-17

guish. grief, ran the gamnt ac .sas,
those classic features lhSH
hardened 10 some desperate ue'''-'-''
She arose. RS, sha
..you whom | have heard OIL sue
,oid SLOWLY. coldly to Marvel, L VIII
.au YOU that | have 4 million ~ co.,
ont INV purposes: that | hesltaeed a'
49,, roriI of the faint OF crimluailty ~
mature my fixed, just plans. AN "
snonsibIe for all that has Deeh oono
7 have directed. have paid tof NV
service exaCted. You step III. very
rou Then hearken, abandon $40"
torture and ruin for Howard SutheI-
land butt shall kill hlm!
Marvel had penciled something on
card while tho woman spoke IL Oh
-octod mo 10 go for the banker at
once AS returned with him and We
| o,tared the room Isora Giglia sprahs
| to her feet | caught the colu sh''.i
of an unsheathed stilleto. Inc reaus
/ hand of Marvel had disarmed heF. oue
sbe stood with clenched fists. her eyes
| auenatins fire HI she viewed howard
| Sutherland
"J.ook," she Kissed at him. pointing
to the shyouded portrait Dare Sou
stand there and look upon my mo'f'l'
the woman you lured from the SIDE OF
INV heartbroken father and left to die
In a wretched Mexican hoVel.
II do not understand" spoke the
banker in u dazed, bewildered way.
Rut as the woman raved on. az she
told of the man who. claiming TO DC
banker from New Orleans. had nasheo
INFO thc society OF her hcme town III
Nrxico. 10 borrow money from new
friends to sell to innocent investors
securities in fraudulent raliro"'
scheme. the light suddenly oEoh" o'ei
, the mind OF the banker
, man had impersonated HIM. ne
I WOW. recalled using his name. Such
= was the fact. 4 man now IN prison. III
/. Texas serving long term sentence
: his name Archibald Dover, Slowly a!-
q ing. he had heard. OF consuinitl"h'
With the magic skill Of an expert
J. urravcler Of mysteries, ReslilnS NO
I vol soon had woven a fabric cl clarl'S
A and fact from the lisordered tEfeao@
q ,f rho arrange case he had brouGh' 10
S focus.
/. After her father had died, !scra GIG
t lin left large fortune. had s'arteo
/, ONT with but one motive IT life Fcs.'
S geuce, vendetta against tle hih
c who had !ured her mother 20 soy
= rowful death. Now that the Ee'H
y came oat the instinct OF justice
caused her to reveal the intricate
;" workings Of her plots. She had Air2A
n e,a;.Snrite 20 assist her IL her plans
d 10 ruin the Sutherlands hnah1lail'
II Nina had been her ally-Nlha VINO.
- drugging Chcspa, had donneu MS
clothes and had stolen the notes rom
o. the bank. Nina who, through forged
ID letters, had co-operated IN estrahgh1
So Mrs. Sutherland and Miss vernon
e from father and son.
Eecompensc she was ready 10 mahI
Id willing. insistent. Then-to hlt &c
ne the prison where the real oblect o.
lit her vengence was, and to gloat ove'
I'd his suferiugs while he lay dying incl
by inch,
he II was at the Sutherland home tina
Id tbs case was gone over i'll detail thu
&.
wv banker. his son, Chespa. Marve. ant
hit myself. | noted a dusky horror gath
Sc or over the fac of the half-brecd as !
he was revealed to him that he had bee
TO made the unsuspecting victim OF til
to perfidy OF the woman he had trustee
Then the emotion aroused by tn
lly high sense of honor ard fidelity II
ne stilled into him when 4 child, CAV
oil way TO a dull, sullen expression.
turned away as | read lurking som'
yo- thing | could not really analyZe IN b!
II frownng face.
:, l Watch that man-call him back.
his ordered Resilius Marvel as Chesp
Of left the room and We heard hi,n seal
the the upper staircase like deer ;loun'
out We were too late. a door ja-Tc
OF above Us. Then long, clralin
ich shrek rang out. The door of the ant
ied room to the apartment of the new
uld welded pair was aiar. the case whe.
sht- Chespa had kept his Indian relics We
OK open.
he He had leaped from window Or
IDS, disappeared after one word withs t
lnk woman who had deceived hiul-goil
and back. back to the old life where tru
II a and LOYALTY at least were held
ana honor.
ase In the center of the next room |;
writhing form-a meet victim
Dor savage Justice. 1t was Nina, al
and hands were claeped above her
lob. ing head and beside her lay-a sea-
)en imp knife