The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-07-28


from her fingers.
Mummy" cried the girl. "Oh. God,
You've killed him, Edle darllpgi"
Still the woman didn't say a word
She only gazed at the speaker I'M
seeingly. Tony snatched the gun
from her hand.
"Edie," she groaned. Mummy,
sweet, go right away. before any one
comes. You've killed Uriah. Go
away, go away, say"
She grasped Mrs Devon's arm and
hurried her toward the porch door. =
"Run," Missed the girl "Get back
to the boat quick. Don't ever gay q
word to any one" Then Tony spied
the little black bag she'd seen so Of
ten on the Dirty Mary. Picking II
| up she thrust 1t into her mothers
hands. "Here! Take this, too. oh,
mummy; kiss me, kiss me!'
She flung herself upon the woman
frantically, kissed the pallid, impas-
sive face again and again and then
showed Edith out upon the dark porch
1t was while TOnys whole attention
|
inald Brown seized the opportunity
TO sneak stealthily from the room.
The nervous women in the upper
part of the house had not expected
| to hear the piercing scream that cana
to their ears and. as II vas repeated
more than once with such terrible in.
slstence. Mrs. Curtis, followed by
Katherine, fled down tie stairs.
Tony heard them coming, and q
surging love for her mother brought
a resolution full-bOrr from the loyal
young heart. She was standing over
| the PROSTATE Uriah when Sarah Cur
tbs and her daughter rushed madly in.
81 shot my father" gasped Tonnibel,
looking at Mrs. Curtis, her fingers
locked tightly over the handle of the
revolver.
where's your mother7" came from
Mrs. Curtis lips.
Tonnibel didn't answer sor min
ute, then she shook her head.
"She hasn't been here!" she swal'
lowed hard and continued: "'Twhs
my father, and--and ! shot him"
Katherine took long breath Of ex
element
Don't you know you'll he arrested
you wicked grip she calculated.
"And executed :" interposed Mrs,
Curtis. katherine, call the police"
AS Katherine made for the tele
phone, a motor car driving up to tie
house stayed her action. Her hand
| dropped from the receiver when Phil
| ip MacCauley came in. For moment
he didn't see Devon. With a quick.
flashing glance, he noticed how pablo
and deathlike his Tony was.
"What have you two been saying to
herT he demanded in deadening
tones. s"I suspected something Exc
this, and-and got away as soon as !
could. Darling girl, don't look
at me like that"
Mrs Curtis was fully herself now,
''The wicked girl has shot her own
father" she told Captain MacCauley,
making an effort to keep the satie
| faction out of her voice. "There he
Is, dead on the floorl"
Then Philip saw Devon. In horri-
| fed amazement and disbelief his gaze
came back to Tonnibel.
Darling" he said, and ne went
swiftly to her. 81 don't believe
word Of 1t. It's all a liei"
Tony flung out her hand.
"Don't touch me, please don'tl" she
mumbled. II told her l did 1t, and
I-I-I-did."
She backed away from the out
| stretched arms.
"But you couldn't have" grcaned
the boy. "What happened7 oh, God I
Won't someone tell me what hap.
pened?"
Mother has told you quite plainly,
Philip" gulped Katherine, noticing
with a thrill that Captain MacCauley
had not covered the few steps Tony
had retreated. "She said she killed
her father. and no girl admits such
thing as that unless it's true. Heav.
ems. there's Cousin John and"
cousin Paul." fell from Mrs Cur
It's, who looked as IL she had turned ia
stone.
Not another word was uttered by
that silent group Of people until after
the two doctors entered the library,
For moment everything was con.
fusion. Doctor John forced Mrs. Cur.
It's into chair when she tried to Ming
herself into his arms With every
one but Tony talking at once, neither
he nor his brother could understand
the meaning of the seemingly dead
man on the floor.
"Wnl you all keep still, all OF your"
shouted Doctor John, IN bis bombastlc
voice First Paul. LET'S see about
this fellow here"
"Tony shot him, II you want to
know" Mrs. Curtis dared to fling out.
Doctor Paul gave her Rlch an awful
look that she quailed beneath II.
Hes not dead" he said after n
hasty examination Of Uriah, and one
dry, fearless sob burst from Tony De
Won.
you might as well own up the
whole thing now, MISS" cried Mira
Curtis, after the wounded man had