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Ib OA MASTERPIECE OF FICTION, “THE MASKED BRIDAL”
“ MRS.. GEORGIE S
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IN THE MINING TOWN
BY ROSE MAKTWICK THORPE,
a
" he gently said,
T shalt ve w'
| oPwwasa fond tare ‘UWAS A Sweet RoOR-DY,
But she watehed him go with a troubled sigh.
iz
‘o1ng face, WIth Ita tressea brown,
Was tho fairest faco in the mining to
Lot the morning camo; but the marringe bell,
| Higa up in the to nell
For the true heart buried ‘neath earth and
Wer, Fang & mourning i
ston
Far down fn the henet of tho min
a
1g heart anil the heart of clay.
Ani the face that looked from her tresses brown
‘Was tho saddest face lu the mining town,
‘Thus time rolled along oif {ta weary
Until fifty years, with their shadows
way,
ray,
Mad darkened the light of her Shroot apes! glow,
| And nad tured the brown of her hair to snow.
| Ont never tho kiss from the husband's lips
or ortho clasps of a child's sweet finger tips,
row
Untouched by the 4)
When they drew hit
"
‘ho wondering people gathe
TTo gaze at tho nan tha strangely found,
‘Thon a woman came fvon a1
the ero}
‘With her long white hair tad ‘hen sught fora
bowed.
She silently knelt by the form of clay,
And kissod the lips that were cold and gray.
Then the sa old face, ts mnouy hair,
Ou this youthful bosom lay pitlow.
He had found her at last, his writing ‘lta
Lo
il
[eons
(i
Jui a
=
0
Ui i
:
] Ni a a
ws
Psd
i Lh
as I know, who had,
ie he'had any cause of Tesentient
my wife.
Rnd who was that?
who assisted me ina
‘work this winter.”
oA young mia
certain chemical w
{Hs name?
“A iphonse Mai
fas eit tho. ‘ponse last night?"
: Udischarged him from my employ
yesterday morning.”
r reason???
* Dishonexty ”
“He bad stoien from you???
‘From my wife.’
“What bad he taken?”
Some jewelry. She had been missing
it, a piece at a time, for two weeks, . We
suspected a servant, and watched her
closely, but without result.
“Wel never thought of Martel,
far as we knew, be had no
room from which the jewels were taken.
{Neither of us ever saw him go near it,
‘her’ servant was in that room
for, 36°
to th
he
ove
ne before. yesterday we discharged
the servant. Martel knew nothing a
it,
“About noon of yesterday
i
my wife told
@ that another ie
ince the girl left the
i a absolutely nobody who
d except Martel.
him. He turned witite asa
sheet, but he denied everythin
“Sy wife would have had bi
reat value,
but ny wite prized them ig ily as keep”
sakes. “Some of them were presents I had
made her.
“Lsuggested that we allow Martel to
go, with the understanding that tthe
jewels were retitned va by evening,
nothing more should be ut if not,
ts, potlee should be not
bey aetna
sah estat uartarg
“An officer was sont ute je ind Start”
“but was not suecesstul.
honse about cist e'elocks to report tae
Martel bad vacated bis lodgings, a and that
nor that he
| Nick.
“There's a
French tiner to sail this mornin
and the volice would
Scr tbo wa
ing hers bat shortty after theotfeer called,
a messenger boy br¢ 6 "missing:
“The boy said that’ a young man had
ven him the box, and hind set this ver-
essage: ‘Keep to your agree!
“<I understood that’ to, mhean, that we
ere expected to withdraw the complaint,
and T sent to Headquarters to,no ty th
that we would not
And the peopte burie
By the Author of “
CHAPTER I.
A GLASSFUL OF PRUSSIC ACID. mon
ten suid of "Nick Cartor that ho knows in
wan Just how a case is coming o
é Headquarters men who, have wo other supersti- | fair
| tions "vill doclave their belief, that, som ploy
1e myst
"} ous imstinct supplics Nick with thé .criminal’s
name at se start, aa that he really has nothing i
todo but arrest
itty, and now they are trying to account
Roting amuses the famous detective so much
tecti
of these queer fancies,
Quite Pent the present writer ated on
of these fairy stories to Nick, and tv asked itn
flatly it thers thing at all i gactoe
: “Nothing mover,” he repli, ching “t]he
‘Then it'was rented by Doctor Elisha Keane, a
thin and withered old fellow with a young ant
very pretty wife. of
Te was rumored in the neighborhood t Doe:
0. had etb a large adil Tuceative practice
in'St- Paul, sololy to please his wifes who did not
Uke the colt climate,
Keane.
peiyhbo
‘as said to be rich, bub a good deal of a! was afra
a ho
nese. stories got about, it would puzy
even Nick himself to “toll, but. they: w
lated, and they acted as at advertisemen
ractice
a 1086 W
bin avartably ‘Spoke Well of hi,
in he course of ‘the winter Doctor Kean
te AS ve
mau and prepare his ev in spite o}
3 dence. at ankle
: They have long ceased to be jealous of Nick's | Muze
in
very
would ever fart hy
be result was that Do
him w
b was a lit
Dereon PRERTY NEIGHBOR;
THE STORY OF A COMPLETE SURPRISE.
miser, as was shown by his renting so poor aud
mut.
octor Keang picked up a
lie vals still, be cout
‘om,
y ith a criminal
e| One morning, however, there was -a. loud ring
at Nick's doo tle be
The
who oni
himself for a pationt.
and broke bis ankle,
Id not make
e was thereafter
rat! artificial support cluningly
hinselt
Such aye the Juportant, facts about, Doctor
Keane, Nick paid ‘little atte
and tI
nm to his ne
so quiet that the do:
* supposing that they
imi
fore five
ittle
ek, and tho detective was wrapped in a pro-
slumber
sound
‘Of the bell aroused him, and a few
what hes happened.»
follow a train reasoning, and am often aston- second later, there was a sharp rap on his bed-
ished to find w ‘where it leads me. othis talk of a} Tom di te oe
mysteirous instinct is all nonsense. Why, outy a} ic, et pad eis ula eae ba th, onl
. fow days ago Z got bold of a case which footed me| | Tas y there entered Doe x, Keane, pallid,
- completely, hageerd. a pitiable spect tacks nto
s emake | cha he attendant who Had sown ine.
surprit than J, 6 outcome of the Keane Nick's room, obeying a sign from the detective,
poisoning case.? withdrew,
"Tho great detective thon proceeded to relate the | Doe tor Keane!” exclaimed Nick, ” “What has
facts in this strango affair. Although it was au pone
occurrence absolutely unique in criminal records, me miserable mau buried his face ia bis bands.
. it did ov i ve lines in any, newspaper, ween his bony fingers.
aud no inention whatever was made of poiso Teaze looks never 0 ola In, the fr
It appear pat the little, gi fashioned hoy morning, and Doc e's mine
“ two doors east e same sid le of lying limp. in the than, ry looked like
street, had been vacaut for” nee ‘years, u tp se garniont-which his spirit, had flung d
October 1, 1803 “Come, sir,’* caid. Ni lick, kindly; “let me "hear
roamed the wretched man.
yw that sho was ill,”
‘aot cuppose that there wos any
‘Murdered 17 Dy
hispered.
raid to hear tho word,
> said Nick; “but did
cr
1 Keane, as if he
voken narrative of the unhappy old man.
vith a, patient all night.” said
Doctor Keane. ‘Mr. ou may kno
t me he lives on West Tenth street was Sanger-
t until four, o'clock that wer could
pronounce ‘bia out of d Doctor is ‘ansom
was with me, ayd we
"TAG last, worn-out with exertione far" Meyond
2 strength, sd lott the Howe “efor my own hoite,
Iw: eary that I could hardly ascend the
stairs to our ‘belvooni, whieh i» on
Hloor, ab the frout.
ST must bi time on the stairs,
At last T reawhed our door and pushed it open,
“The morning light had uot found its into
the room, for the leavy curtains were drawn to.
“Tho night-laimp in w corner was: more bright
than usta showed ine every visible thing in
the room.
"But there was
its presence kno
A femetrating zap deadly odor came to my
odor
nostrils—the
“ihe ‘ttle stand bes
ass vials of medicine;
pillow ‘het Tave®
voice had sunk to a
‘I now returned to the tom,
the second
nothing invisible which made
and i bayone on re
Ken
ike very slowly, as if the effort
it hi ‘ideo story into words wa
iomey for his stren
the detective had had time to fully clothe
Dimes when the narration had proceeded thusyfar,
face,” repeated “You rea
tor rile truth in hey faces”
‘as Yigid and white as marble, ex-
a" the
fle trembled so violontly at the recollection of
th
horror, that he could not continue, until
8 ‘k had said:
“Tho sear made aby, the acta
the terribl incl. “sian across her lips.
to amare yourself that
iat terrible scar repelled
have "beon enon indeed ‘a single drop
strong acid is f
OF ‘course it would bo only necessary to smell
it.”
“Certainty.”
ch for the method of the crime.., Now
or, the criminal, Have you auy suspicions???
Jarter, T ain te tomibly aifectod, so ut,
tony prostrate by ti ful sorrow, ‘that 1
ww what Tam saying. Perhape L may
uo injust fee af gome one if T state my suspicions
now, Let me wat till Lan calmer."
“As you wish. Now let us go to your house,
T nase examine the scone of this erin.”
aS
CHAPTER IL.
ALPHONSE MARTEL, =
Nick assisted Doctor and held
my tivo nvm as they: descent the stairs.
‘The old man seemed feeble, and the weakness of
his injured ankle, Alespive the ingeniously con-
tryed support, made walk iB ciflentt for him.
However, with Ni he made fair pro-
gress, and in a few ininutes they stood. before the
doctor's door.
lis trembling fingers made tho, koy rattle on
the outer plate of the lock. Nick took the key
from his hand, ana atthe same instant
hig hold upon the other’s arm,
rel
mer had he done so, than the doctor sank
ab
No $001
down upon the step with a groan.
Nic ick st beside him.
OMY ankle gave way uiider me,” said the doe-
tor, The support has bec Iosoned.
“T will rey isc i a said 2
He foun task
siderable time, but ho did mot rol comy 8 ne
‘Apparently there was nothing to. bo los
snort a dalay, and, on the other and, ‘he oot
morning. ai pa do much to restore Doctor
Keane, rho ¥ ‘was a in a condition of collapse.
The ‘detective, therefore, mange he doctor sit
down upon the door-step, je a
Jeisurely yanmar to ‘adjust the complicated mech
ani the #1
‘Meanwhile, hy utilized the minutes in asking
necessary questions.
You suspect some one,?? Nick began. “Tell
me | a it is,
ion is founded wholly on this,’”
susp re-
plied the doctor; ‘there is ouly one person in
the
= **T mean that this farce is played out,” said Nick. © “Alphonse Martel, you are my prisoner!” *“How much was The Je ‘owel Iry worth?””
is plays 9 P > y pl
“About three hundred dollars.
coxThat’s queer. A man oen’t skip the
i muntry for three hundred dollars. ’Was
Now, if person supposes that because Nick “How was thi ison administered??? this tel low smart?’?
THE Cartor’ is always outa calm, “he has no| It must have ‘been put into a. little bottlo| | “Ho was excoodingly smart—much too smart
heart in his bosom, that person very much which Stood on the table by her hedsides for me. He deceived me entirely about the rob-
mistaken. outnined medichuy which vw used | beries.5*
When, the detective heard that this lovely, in ca ‘lache-—whieh has _jiMhis is unusual, J don't like the looks of this
golden -baired creatures whol orn ho hed 0 ten seen | hapy ned since ed night curing. her illness.’? | story al about ping | fo France, e you sure this
‘pping, along. the s Fy as a school. | But the asked Nick. . Why did she fellow say with Sohething’ more
F stricken owen ‘iy violence, he was | not notice i Valuable ‘in Et joweley?™
Geoply moved by pity and ai ‘This medicine,’? the doctor, “was to thought of ‘that. It may be so.
TP tho dastardid assassin could have looked into | bo arlded to another wie ftood ready ih 8 Rass tbia fiend murierad my: wife: he must have, beea
OR Nick's heart at tat moment, he might have felt |In order to. get nesesary 20 in the louse after 1 want to Afr. Lee's, Doubt-
. strong impulse to take his own miserable life.as | pour it, in very. quickly, irik’ the potion | less he plundered the house will under-
the only means “fo pscaping. ‘the law’s : hand, rom the ass wt ile the "i “tubing, result- | stand 1 gave. no thought to. eae ‘things in the
j undered!”? echoud Nick, Can that be pos-|ing from ixture, was in progress presence of my dead wife.”
sibjo? “Tell me how the deed was dene. %.She would, therefore, have. acted. so quickly |" now we must think of them, What
tile, peaking these, words, fective} that the “odor would not have beon perceived, bad you of value in the house?”
rang. into his drossing-room, ‘unl hastily clothed | eapeotally 46 Mb woukt_ have been. somewhat, die, large sum of money in my safe.??
. Hmsele suised by the natural ungencr of he medicine, ”} «How much???
ICK CARTER.” The door was open, and he heard the rambling, | ° ‘And you are sure poisor the} ‘Sixteen thousand dollars and more. Perhaps
b simall bottle?” nearer seventeen thousand, I” camiot recall’ the
act sum.”
“There isn't a minute to be lost,’ said Nick.
‘We must examine that safe.
Je raised Doctor Keane, and then opened the
door.
‘They entered the hall.” 1
eas i the wally at the roa
ft wi old-tastioned, ‘uscless affair, opening
with a A modern burglar would ‘think n
Thore of SY than Jf ge were mado of chess
‘7L have not the key,"7 said Doctor r Kein, 2 fur
bling, his pockets wi irs and get
‘pt, noe t Wis fn that room, EL
dare not”
“Phere is no need,” said Nick.
He flung open the door of the safe.
Tooke
he safe stood ina re-
annot,
It was not
octor Keane got down upon his knees and
peered into the sal.
“Everything is gone!”” he said.
“That would seein 10 settlo It,” refoibed Nick,
“The two erimes hang, together. "No person in
the world, excopt myself and Martel, knew that
there
ow did he
He came “ast Monday
morning when I was putting an envelope contain-
ing ten one-thousand-dollar bills into the safe, I
fouset! had marked the amount on the outside of the en-
He snust ave seen i & gett
way of getting
‘h shoal have made ee sus-
On tl e stood
Hight at my ¢ ‘clbow ‘bofore T Knew that heros aye
wiNink glanced at his watch,
“The Normandie sails ¢ nt six,’’ be said, ‘and I
ninst make sure that Martel does not go with her,
T shall have to go to the pier mysel
“Can you reach it in ‘dine?
{Without doubt.
t you have no carriage.”
a shal Yun for its
not let him eseape yo
«\Dou'e’ be alarmed Abdus that.
his deseo ”
fe is of medium height, and rather slender.
His vac is excoodingly hatidsome. "He bas large
brown eyes and a yery clear skin. His teeth are
small an regular. They look as if they were
false, but they are not. The eye-tooth on the
ight sido has a very largo gold filing on the
back of it
Now give me
ix o'clock the stole property. tind |
Or
Jie