Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-04-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

AMU. d from the somnambulism of anguish in whi.h his senses had been steeped, Arden recoiled from the repulsive face of the woman, and cast a wild glance around. The countryman approached him. and laying his hand upon his shoulder, said— . . .  Look her, mister ; your behaviour has a mighty auspicious look. Who killed that ere man there, and made a smash of All kb glean fibre? An' what kind o' fool doings M it for you to he takie phial" of gale when you ought to be doin' authin' to help him The wretehed man groaned aloud. lie feebly said—  Would to God MIA I could help him, but he is past th It. Look at that ghastly wound the artery is severed S he was dead when I found him. I was endeavouring to d.scover his murderer when you came in. ,oe—l have her head here, but who will believe that such a peerless creature us this could commit so foul a cr;me? Look—l dare not think her go lty, though my skill evoked her image from that glazing eye and it must have faithfully rendered back the last object on which it rested:. 'I he area took the picture, glanced incredulously at it and defiantly sail—  "You don't imi.rose no such nonsense on me, young man. Do you softly ',Tose that you are going to make any ono 41 his right mind believe that the gal whom head you've got here, could ha done this mull:krill' deed? / won't, for one, so you jest put it up, and woe along with me to them that'll have a r:ght to dot with you for this rime." "No—l do not expect any one to believe it; have alrea y sail an; but even she, lovely and innocent as she looks, would sooner have raised her hand against him than I, oh t my friend, my more  Ilia voice broke into sobs, and he bowed his head over the lace o' Carlyle, now fast assuming the stony rigidity of death. As he lifted it again, he saw that Betty 'Baize had taken the picture from the Man, and was in the not of making a gesture as if she would de, a e it. Arden was just in time to arrest the movement, and he more calmly said— " This may or may not serve Mil in the investigation who h I know must take place; but it is important to me to keep it. I must secure it in a case before it can be handled.'  The woman made another dash at it, and endeavoured to pass her hand over the surface, but the countryman seized her, acclaiming— " Fair plays a jewel, old lady ; and the young man shall keep the gal's head if he want's to; though ody's goin' to believe a word about his gettin' it onto' that dead man's eyes." Arden hurnedlv placed it in a ease, and sealed it as well as he could amid the hubbub that began to surround him for the lad had no sooner seen the dead body of Carlyle, than he ran as fast as possible to the village to be the first to bear the news; and a crowd of excited and eager ffices now appeared within the shattered walls of the octagon room. In reply to the innumetable questions addressed to him, Arden at length collected his bewildered senses sufficiently to say— " Since I discovered my unhappy cousin lying upon the floor of this room, murdered, I have felt as one in a terrible dream; but now my mind begins to recover its 'powers. It seems to me impossible that I shall be amused of committing this crime, for a to, e stronger than that of brotherhood bound Frederick Carlyle and myself together. I had been la the woos sketching; as I was returning, I heard the explosion which has torn off the roof of the room; and fearing be had fatally injured himself in making his chemical experiments, I hurried hither as hr.t as possible to find him dead—yes—murdered, for the wound on his throat forbids the idea that he p rished from the explosion. Before Heaven, I am innocent of this deed, though I read suspicion in your faces; and I dedicate my life to the discovery of its perpetrator. Never will I rest until the awful mystery of this day is unravelled." (To be continued.)