Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-28

through and touched my skin we
all had a laugh, but the girls GRIM
o face and white lips were telling
her real feelings. AS she ran to-
wards the kitchen I motioned to her
mother, ready to follow her, to re-
main and I went alone.
Next TO the kitchen they had a
great big room used as a pantry and
with closets and shelves all around.
From end to end of that room, a
clothes line was stretched and on it
were three towels left from the
morning wash. Before I reached
her she pulled one and the towel
fell on her head. I made for her
with the intention of taking her to
the dining room with head and face
covered, but I hardly advanced two
feet, when she gave a stentorian
scream and fell in my arms. Shiv-
ering l called for help, but the help
was already there. Her frantic par
ents took her from me and with in
curing eyes were trying to find out
what happened.
Among the guests were three doc
tors who Immediately gave assist
ance while over one hundred awfully
frightened eyes looked on. All
those eyes were wide, Mortified,
~suspecting. All lips we're closed,
white and silent. All hearts were
alive but heavy. The doctors YER
dict was pronounced by half chok-
ing Threats.
Our beautiful little hostess was
deadi
Liars somebody exclaimed. That
can not be-impossible. The girl
just tainted. Do something, some
n else commanded.
The dootorG nafia-{1y ea5 rrE4k,
deaf ears to these remarks, were
helping our host and hostess, both
gone with grief. Now and then they
looked at the lifeless form as the
crowd approached trying to cor
vince,-hoping to convince them
selves that all was nothing but a
bad dream, a nightmare.
But death has never had diff
Guilty In convincing humans and
destroying the hopes on which we
base dreams. Within five minutes
the room was worse than a first aid
station in time of trouble.
The parents. still unconscious.
were taken to their room by guests.
Four of us took the girl to the coy
and richly furnished nest where she
slept and dreamed and where we
laid her to sleep and to sleep for
ever.
Not until after the body was
carefully placed on tn epink COW
cred rosewood bed did I realize I
was still holding the towel in a
lump. The doctors whose first dag
nosis was congestion of the brain or
something like that, were trying to
verify or correct their first opinion
passed under the influence of excite
ment and shock.
As one of them saw the towel,
now held in my hand, as If struck
by a sudden thought he pulled It
off and, without a word, he unfolded
it on the top of a center table. AS
he did, our eyes could see the man
gled form of that murderous and
repugnant creature called scorpion,
crushed between my hands when my
hands were trying to calm my nerves
The criminal scorpion destroyed a
life and wrecked a home with a sin
gle thrust and made a day intended
to be remembered a day never to be
forgotten.
The following day, a Sunday that
found everybody in vigil, the quick
ly decomposed body had to be in
termed. AS the mournful cortege
went up hill to the Valley of Sor-
row, eight of us took turns as pail
bearers. The pony, ignorant of what
happened but quite as tn ewonder-
full little horse he was, followed the
white silken casket Of the little girl
that was his mistress for just one
day.
With impressive religious ceremo-