Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-24
A Dark Revenge
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By Frances Elizabeth Lanyou

Master. / implore-seei / grovel
at your feet in my agony-restore TO
me the charm, the amulet, without
which l can never return to my ma
tive land"
Vertically at the feet of Kyle Tar
bel the Hindoo. Singh. writhed. He
TO whom he pleaded spurned him
with his foot and a savage snarl. De-
mon face and demon heart, the soul
less tyrant represented the apotheosis
of cruelty and evil.
"You will do as / say, or / viii
bury the beryl charm in the lowest
depths of the sea -
"Al but what you ask--to imbrue
my. hands in innocent blood, for then
indeed 1 am lost and naught can save
me. See, have l not been your faith
full slave these many years? Did I
not risk my life for you? have even
plotted, sinned to aid you. Restore
to me the charm and let me go back
to my native land 10 die in peace"
ARNOLD Price. first-a subtle poison.
the cord, the creese. / care not what.
but remove my rival from my path
and will not only restore the amulet
but will enrich you"
1t was tragic situation. Kyle Tar
bel, social outlaw and traveller, by
chance had been dropped at Brook
Vile, his eyes had fallen upon Doris
Wayne, and he determined that she
should be his. He found her engaged
to Arnold Price, but that was naught
TO him. In his willful way he In
truded his company and attentions
upon Doris and she had grown to fear
him.
81 must tell you something, once for
she said TO Tarbel one day. 81 am
bound TO Arnold Price by a love that
can never be replaced. You must
cease your prosecutions"
1t was then that Tarbel had deter
mined to clear the field utterly of his
rival. For years Tarbel had been a
Spectator In ivory and opium In In
dia. He had hired Singh as a servant
and had held him to his tyranny
through liberal pay. enforced by his
appropriation of his amulet, a bauble
made of platinum and Madagascar
beryl, {, which the superstitious Singh
attached most vital Importance. There
was half insane light in his eyes
as he left his merciless master.
In his room. two mornings later, Kyle
Tarbel was discovered lying senseless
from a dozen knife wounds. Nothing
seemed taken. but the carpet had been
torn up, bedding ripped open, the fur
niture broken, as If search for some
especial object had been the motive
peared Tarbel, with only few days
to live, the physicians declared, made
no charge against his former servant.
During lucid moments he seemed to
have but one obsession: "Send for
Arnold Pricel" he pleaded over and
over again.
Price was amazed at the words of
the dying man as at length he found
himself by his side. 81 wish to atone"
spoke Tarbel. 81 have wronged you
deeply. / have prosecuted Doris
Wayne. have even plotted at put
ting you. out of the way. Now see
my wickedness In all its gfaring sim
fitness. ask your forgiveness and
hers"
'It Is freely given" spoke the kind
hearted Arnold.
"Then / die in peace" declared Tar
bel, "and ask you to think kindly Of
me, when you gaze upon this little me-
mento-a beryl made into scarf pin.
Wear 1t as a memento Of man who
would have been your true friend had
he lived"
Arnold left the room deeply I'M
pressed. The moment he had gone
TarbeIs face was wreathed with dia-
bolical glare of triumph and his last
utterance was a chuckle.
"Singh will learn somehow-at any
risk he will recover the beryl charm.
Hal Arnold Price, / have left you
heritage of doom !"
Tarbel died, was buried and forget
ten. Within few months the we'd
ding day of Arnold and Doris was an
nounced. Arnold told her Of the beryl
memento and also that more than once
he was being Systematically trailed by
men of sinister appearance.
The wedding day arrived but there
was a strangely missing bridegroom.
The inexplicable absence of Arnold
caused general dismay, all kinds of
speculation. Doris was crushed by
the terrible blow TO her pride and
love. She was lying upon couch
moaning heart brokenly early the next
morning when, hatless. pale, bearing
tokens of rough treatment, Arnold
burst into the house. She read in his
eyes the old true lovelight and knew
that he had not been faithless.
Two men had seized him the eve
ming previous as he was OF his way
to the Wayne home. They carried him
to an obscure. but deep wood. There
he foung Singh, who had hired the
two emissaries to capture him.
The wretched Hindoo had told the
story of man driven to madness by
cruel tyrant. The charnl-it was
all he asked, and, recovering this and
paying his allies to keep guard over
Arnold until he was safe and far
away, Singh disappeared
Doris shuddered as she realized the
dark hopes of revenge of Kyle Tarbel,
but Singh was never more heard of by