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4 T:: ;' ":" i!.V:' ' ;': v- -.'ir v. ' . V- . J- 'i ! ' r ''--'A ' '"" ' w - ' ;,iV ... ::f-c:x - ' ' " 1 ' - - ' - - - . . . . THE NEW REGI31E SPECIAL ADVEBXISIKG SATES "l -" A; 1 : " V f V.. . i- -V ' i ! , i . j. 'X V; I - " : r,"-: w5"" WW W W W ' M : W'P IT & F: J. P. BABINOTOA. i . '' I ' ' I . . IW "Vol. RliTHEJElFOfeDTON!, C iU FEB 12186. NO 2.1 Biggie copy, one year, tt. Jm- W.. f , .. ; . : . : .;. ? Tl-- ' "' .-'rVr..- - ' -v ' j , . ' ' . : : Single copy, six months, in dranc, - - ' j ' I' ; : ' ' Wbitten foe the Avboea.. TEE SfMOIHlE; SUE X. JE5WiE DICKSON ' T1IE AUTHOR (ft- . The Diamond Bracelet, -Secret ; . t Caves, Etc;, Etc. ' (JIIAPTER LIII. A CONFESRIOX. "And he was false and yet I breathed, But not tho breath of human life : A serpent 'round my heart was wreathed, ' And stung my every thonght t srifo. . ''Alike all time',.abhorrd all place, Khtiddarinir I shrunk from Nature's faco, I Tho blackness of mjaomoro.. Instantly was confusion and wildest terror, ."where a few moments bcforcfMlJ)ad been mirtn ana gaie. Evorysmile was banished, and horroi- WHS V16IU1V Bliiui )Viu u i rj t j x. . w. ... A.. .. iTi. lV C : tl. : . : 4 nnnn nrnrv mire, Olive had been borne from the rodm f in a dead faint, and Gerald Fitzjamcs, ! . as if rooted to the spot, siooa gazing uppn the awful scene with ghastly face and shaking limbs, vbilo: witn pallid faces, tho frightened guest looked from ono to another. All this transpired in a moment's time, lor scarce had the man sank to the floor, when Mr. Arvin .dashed through the crowd, and vith a groan; whic.br went to the heart of every one present, sank bn his knees by his prostrate wife, and lifted her - head to'his bosom- Her eyes wore closed, a ghastly shadow - rested' on her facfl, and from tho wound in her breast, the blood was issuing in a copious stream. ' "God help mo!" ho. exclaimed f then Iookinr wildly about him cried in a voice of agony : i A. "Will no one help me ? pLocstcr! Loester '"mjvwife, look at mo !" u 'Send for a doctor,"-commanded . eomo one, a command which was instantly obeyed. The crowd now gathered around the wretched, man, but he paM.no hedd to them or tho many ejaculations thai-ll from their lips, as thej- looked from the woman to tbo gaunt form, of tho prostrate man, whose hand. had accomplished the awful deed,.-; His stillctto-Uke eyes were closed, tho hue of death had overspread his dark fealurcH. and a cold shudder ehook' the frame' of over. one present, as they gazed VLoester ! Loester Yr cried "Mr. Arvin laying his cheek against tho Cold faco on his bosom. The assem blage wcro moved toK tears as they, witnessed his hcart-rti Jing agony, and some one was about suggesting . , DO I the lady's removal, when a shrill cry, l&Vthc cry . of a ild animal, rang' through the thronged room, , and all fell back as the next moment, a slight form rushed through tho utartled crowd, and. throw herself by the seemingly dead woman, crying aloud : , :i ' '.'"Merciful heavens! is she gono? Speak to me, Olivo my darling I -'my darling!" Then starting wildly up, Mrs. Weyemore, for it was slio, threw'an agonized gjuhco upon the company as she cried : ; "lell me oh I tell me who has " done this deed? Tell mo who has robbedmo of my precious Olive, that I may bor avenged !" All look ed strangely at her then some ono npproachod her, and said : ' 1'You are mistaken madam, for it is not Miss Kossencranco who has been stabbed but her mother. There lies the madman who did the deed, ' for there is no doubt but that he is Borne escaped lunatic." Slowly Mrs. "Weyemore turned and looked upon the man's distorted face. Tho noxt rmotnentfi.be reeled and would have fallen, but some one caught hcrand . conveyed .her from the room. As they bora her away a faint sigh fluttered frcjii Mrs. Arvin's colorles's lips, and. slowix her great luminous - black eyes op'eiied and sot in her . husband's agonized face.: f "la Ihia 'deathy Norman?" came a'. 'God jrantat is not; my wite !" ho exclaimed".".,' "It is though," in the samo faint voice, . "I fcet'-Uiat 1 am goinc - rapidly." Then looking about, her, he whispered: I "Where is ho?" j3Ir. Arvin cou)d rjot reply,- but 5 lolniejl4viHhTuTicni 3She turned her'eres upon him. thfn -atdeadly pallor swept over her face, nd 6hc again sank into' a state of -inconsciounpss, By this time the physician had arrived, and -as he n - tered th room': and looked arou nd upon the strange scene, hecxclaimcd: r 'lq the name of heaven what does Ibis mean ?" Some one replied "We cannot, tell'; we only know -that this escaped lunatic, for h& can be nothing-else, entered a short time ago, stabbed Mrs. Arvin, then buried lho weapon, in his own breast." Buried; it in his Iieart you 'had tictter bave eaid," replied tho physi tia bending -over him ; then added: ' '"Unfortunate man! be is done forever, so far as this world is con cerned v Horrible.-! horrible! Stand J way and let me get" to the poor, un- iortunato kdy." The -erowd fell .back, and bending over the uncon scious woman the doctor examined . Ibo ghastly wound In hcrT breast from which tho red life current was still slowly Rowing. When he lifted lis Mad his face win rery grave:, land Mr. Arvin whose head iiad sank on his bosom, looked up exclaiming: "Is there any hope, doctor ? Ob, dont don't" tell me she must die J Tell mo thcro is hope, doetor: and tell" mo you canBave'hcr lifo!" "Arvin, my poor friend, calu mr6elff-ftMM.ti a have the lady conveyed to h er room.'' The' stricken man looked at him for a moment in a half unconscious way, then without another wordjjieiifted his wife in his anns, refusing all as sistaneoTamTbore her from, tho room. As he reachod th'eir own apartment and laid 'her oti the couch, I Mrs. Weyemoro who.ibad recovered from her swoon, glided in,, and toqk; her station at the bekd of the bed, where sh"e remained, looking like a! marble stature, all the time the physician was making his foxammauon unt inhappv husband, as the physician finished probinsf the wound. lie ocoked at him pityingly, then laying h handon his &rm replied : j 1Voi)aro t0 hear the woi orst my the i . . f:nri iiricuu. Would! 1 could save lady's life, but such a thing is beyond an -numan skui. (; . a iuw waning vij. sprang from Mrs. Wcyemore's white lips, and casting herself on her knees by the couch, sob after sob shook her slight fram?. - "Oh God!" inoancd Mr. , Arvin. "My darling! my darling! oh, look up and speak Ito your Norman !'' And Mr. Arvin' was bending -over his wife, a world of love and plead ing tenderness b'eaming in his passion ate dark eyes. - It seemed as if that agonized cry had power to call her back to life, forwith a faint sigh the luminous black! eyes opened, and she looked about her with.'a. fe-buddor. She lay quiet 'for some moments then whispered or a doctor." "I have my jvife," ho answered. "V here is he,: .; "Here," and ; Mr. Arvin motioned the medical man to . approach. 1 She looked at him attentively, then asked in a, voice scarcely above her breath : 'My wound (is fatal, is it not?" He averted his faee, but she again repeated her question, saying : ' "Answer nid please, dndjll me honestly, how ilong I have :to live." i nus presseu lor an answer he re- pKed : ..!" . . ' "Perhaps until morning." "Ami must I die so soon ? Then what I do must be done quickly. Norman," turning her eyes ' upon Mr. Arvin, "frciid Mrs. Wcyemorc to m, tuorf ledger JbS tSvtralorlg for a' few moment s.'' 'l am here already," and Mrs. Weyemore arose and bent over her, while Mr. Arvin and the physician silently, withdrew. Five, ten, fifteen minutes elapsed, then Mr. Arvin re ceived a message tp return to tho room alone. iWhen he approached his wife she turned her eyes upon him sayings j ; . "Send for Qlivo and Gerald Fitz jamcs.". lie vvent out, and a short time afterwards returned with Olive leaning upon! his arm, and Gerald Fitzjames walking by his side, his lace devoid - of color as tho face of tbo dead. Slently and with an ex pression of artguish on her dark face. Mrs. Weyemore came forward and placed chainj jfor them near the couch. Wheivall were seated Mrs. ArVin asked in a faint voice : "Aro wo entirely alone ?" "Entirely so," replied her husband bending over! her. "The doctor " "Is in the parlor." She closed her eyes for a moment, then opening mom again, her lips parted and she 8poito : .. ; "Retribution has come to me in a hiost unexpected moment, and I am now about passing' away from earth, out ero l go hence r havo a secrot a dark and terrible confession to un fold. Norman," turnHij to her husband, "fop twelve years you have loved mo truly and devotedly, yet little have you known, what manner ot woman you have been eherUbing. uncn you nave heard my confession you will kuojw and comprehond all, auu m jovo janu lenoerneBS you IM7U" '' hn X i- uuiiKeu io SCOm ana con tern 'nfi. do not expert your forgiveness, I do not ask it; neither do I make this eonfussion throUi;h aay penitence, but rnorelyUeeaTTsVof a strange de- eto say somethinsr before T Ipv th is world, and tm An urn rlnu-n In hem llerieycs flashed and gleam ed as she sppkw, and in the surprise of the moment Gerald Fitziameaan i .. ... i D w .i Mr. Arvin started to their let, while vjuvo, wime aa the fold of her aatin xooe raado a motion to Icav th room, but the oio of he dvin woman arretted her. and she avrain tank back oh her chair and buried uer lace in her hands. "Poll ' i .'. ' . luo uueiur, ior nor mina is wandering,'! di-opped from Mr. Ar vina paie pps. A scornful snMIe wreathod itself about tho woman's month, as she renlied ' .. "IJ6t the doctor remain where ho is, tor 1 tellyou'my mind is not wandering.! Bo seated : and hear what I have to say. Mrs. Weye more, yojr story comes first." The housekeeper looked: up, a visible tremor running throDgh her entire frame, while her faco overspread by a ghastly .shadow, seemed to grow paler and paler. Feeling that he was laboring under the influence of some homblo dream Norman Arvin bowed liifl llicad on hia hand, and Gerald Fitzjames .unable tb compre hend the strange scene, -sank back on his chair, feeling that his senses were somehow strangely bfe wildered. "Mrs. Woyemore when aro you going to speak ? Be in haHte for my time is limited. At the! sound of the dying womrn's voice, he house keeper jmotheredaT sob,, and began in a tone so low that Gerald Fitz james bent forward to catch the words. :" . . " ' "; . I ' I - "Would to God, 1 couldibo spared tho bitter story 1 am about to relate, but since wills it, I must speak. Listen all of you, and 1 will begin a story, which she will finish. H i "borne years ago, there presided in a beautiful town in ubneland. a wealthy retired old seaj Captain, witli only one child a I daughter, the pet and idol Of her father's heart. completed, ner twenty -tirsi, year, her father suddenly died, leaving! her alone and immensely rich At the time of his death she was? betrothed to a young man, Herman Watson, whom sho married when sufficient timo bad elapsed for her to layjaside her mourning. Jb our years after this union, young ; Watson passed awa, and 04ivo was again left alone, a joung and wealthy widow, j with one child, a daughter wh&m she had called for herself. Well, ffive jyeara passed, then a suitor appeared in tho held, a dark sinister looking man, almost twice tho young widowss age, yet strangely enough hi; won her heart . arid m a short time became her husband. How vivicflv l seem to ec her now, as on the nijrbt her marriage, when the; child : of Herman Watsoli. stood jxtP her knees sobbiiisr :. ' . - , lamma mamma! will h le love mo as my own papa dic ! ' the moment of this unhappv From union Olivo Watson's troubles IbegaU, ! for she soon awoke from her dream, of bliss to find that Alvah Irving had m'arricd her, not for the lbve ho bOre her, but for the wcallhjshe would bring him. He spent her money for all kinds of unholy purposes, hnd if sho remonstrated with ..him, brutal blows were tho resultsf, Aii time went on the little Olie Wfatsou, seemed to becomo an object of hatred to him, and wh en u n der tne influence of wine many-were the ru el she received from his Hand. blows The mother would havo defended I her child, but sho . was helpless, and when t seven years of' torture had gone jiby, and her money was all tciv now a crirr of fillten Ito I the tenaer mercies oi Lno m 1 buster who bad broken her heart, j Now indeed did Olive Watson's troubles beg3n,F or the inhuman Wretch who had married her mother, cas , herj wealth to tho wind and broken her heaft, now; turned her helpless daughter adrift in tbo world. Young, inox porienced and not knowing what to do, this stainless girl, for she j was stainless then, wandered from place to place, until through pity jfor hei desolate condition she was taken into the home of a farmpr and paid for her services. ' Here ihe remained well contented, for some time but soon there came upon! her an ac cursed shadow oh, Goo I a shadow that stained her soul forever !" i She paused for a momentj and looked about her, then continued : . i "When Olive Watson had been in this farmer's family about a year, they told her one day that a young man, a great lord from London, was coming to board Hnrithf them for a few months. Well: he came, this young Lord Broughton, and never could she forget her first jview of him. He camo a day f earlier than they were looking for him, and she was sweeping the front; yard, when she heard the gate open, and - look ing up saw a man standing inside regarding her attentively, Ilo was low in statue, skin very dark, hair of midnight hue, and eyes, large, black and strangely luminous. But the poise of bis head was fwbat! mostly drew my attention, foi at that mo ment he was ; standing, his body 6lighlly bent, forward,fhis head up- .." .IM -I'- . 1 . - . ' litfpit and ro gtrnfeYrit)hlinrri a serpent when it is -about to strike, that she dropped her broom and fled with a cry of terror. fThe aext day when having .occasion Ito; past through the room f where he ami farmer Athertop welo sitting she heard him exclaim :; I .1 'f-A duced pretty gifl, Atherton !" Well, to Make a lonj story short, Lord Broughton, began to notice and talk. to her when none of the family were around, and shefyourig and in nocent never: dreamed of harm ov danger. In a shott lime he begAn to make loie to her, ind she herself deeply fascinated by his apparent goodness and .-soft persuasive man ners, listened to him riih boupding heart and delighted ear. But this is not all, for with the cjonsumate skill of a deceiver, he breathed sweet though false words i if that innocent girl's, earv 'lured hor Oh, tcin;pted her and ''she fell 1 Whep he ' left that farmhouse,' it was with many fair promises, whisnered'hromiscs to .re turn to the girl ho had deceivcd,-but the months went on and lie came not. At last when Jhe poor g'lrfs ahamo became, appirent she was driven with harsh words from the farmer's home, Itf was then: sho sought her vilo'decciyer int hia city home, but when sho fell on her knees .before Limj be llrrJcdfroplilel, saying with a cruel, Jorisive laugh: :"I never saw ybu before I know nothing about you.'pf Then he or dered her to leave bisl.liouse. She left it, and after wandering up and down the streets ail iayj cold and hungry, when night came she could stand it no longer, andpprOachihg a house, where only jtao. most de praved of women go;? she knocked and was admitted. Hf fro amid these fallen Wretches she gave, birth to an infant daughtor, whoso ' little face was but a true reflection of her de ceiver's, but this did not lessen her affection for the hclplesFfi creature the tender nurseling wh, lay in her arms, looking up in bdp face with the j black luminous 6yes of her father. ' She remainedn,"this unholy place, until her little. Olive had com- pietea ner tentn year, tteen. witn a mat mo cnna sna? son left this haunt of vic aM o6Tfir8i stained with crime.; But ! will tni ned nmnlor merit, hv' which? she J " A managed to eke out a'liVelihood, un til the child Olive wa; fourteen." Here Mrs. Wevemore fpaused and lowinc her head, she wept for some moments like a child 3 Ihen looking up said : t 3 1 "li leave the rost foe Other tongue, i : 4.nii 1 CHAPTER JjIV. k A CONFESSION CQNTINTJED. The tyrannous and blood t act is none ; : lhe most arch deed? of punftasniassacro ; That ever yet the land was guilty of . ; . . bmk4tpeare. Beneath the roof btj hoaren, that stains the- rejitl boui ; Of men with more infernal huei thanlamnid Avsaasination r . ; j "- Ctbbfr. . . There was unbroken silence in the chamber for some moments after Mrs. j Weyemore jhad Ceased to speak ; then) in a low llabor&FT yoiceMrs. Arvin said: -: ': i "Norman, raise me higher." Sore ly puzzled, and jactin like one in a dream, Norman Arvin arose to com ply with her l'equest: but the mo ment her head Was lifted a ghastly pallor "overspread hep face, audi he would have called the physician, but she forbid it, saying - "Give me a ! class 6f J&rina" and I ehalj be better." Mrs. Weyemoro went out, but soon returned With the wine, which Mr. Arvth'held to her Iips.1 v" - ' . '. . . ' "1 feel bettor now," she whispered as her head sank -back amid the "Now Norman. TalPS mrhand, sit down by me ! and turn your head away, for youi havojthat to hear, which will cause youj blood to run cold ; and T dd not want your eyes fixed upon me." ' "For heaven's sale spare mo!" The words fell gaspirjly from Olivo Roasencrance's lips,V and aho'half rose from hercat, a deathly, pallor on her face and her limbs trembling as if from colcl. Fo moment there waS a half irresolute expression in the! dying woman's eyes, but it quick ly passed away, and iu a low : stern voico she replied : J: ' "Olive, keep your feeat." Endeav oring to still the guilty throbbings of her evil heart, the girl sank back, aod buried her face in her handsj. Mrs. Arvin remained perfectly qniet for some moments, her( restless eyes roving here aria there, but at last as if by, a grcateffort she spoke. "As Mrs. ; Weyemoro has said,! another one must complete the story whicjb she has commenced that one must! bo myself, bu$. 1 must speak quickly for death : is rapidly ap proaching. I will take up the thread of the story whore 41 rs. Weyemore left off."' And folding her jeweled hands oyer her breast, she began in a low, almost gasping voice. ' "AIb Mrs. Weyemore has told you, Olive Broughton, as we will call her, had now completed her fourteenth earj and was called very beautiful bY'V8traner3.! Abouit this timo hor . ' V. " i beacity secured forhcr a place on the sage, in'a LonclOn theatre one of th'oV theatres wiere the refined class o&. pocjdIo never . Came. ; and whea - r waiVi to? asociation fuirmwu aiiu vvTg? men of low and vicious habits. The moment Olive Watson discovered the nature of the people the had allowed her child to go among, sh would immediatelyforbade her ever returning t6 the stage, ; had it not ben that' she became , dangerously ill about this time, s and -.was for months confinsd tojher room, and to support her tr. other for whom 'she then cherished a strottj love, Olive Broughton entered into a year's e gagetnent with the managers,' for which she received' sufficient sum to keep .her mothef in ease. By tho time Olive Watsoli wg; again abla to leave her room, icr daughter was thoroughly established in the thea tre and no persuasion - could indues her to quit the staei,- Strange as it may appear she hid become attach ed; to the low, vulgar characters around her and imong tho actors was one Albert iDallas who. . had wooed and won her heart. Well, to miike a long' stor short, one year after she entered tthis theatre, She was married to young Dallas, who ro'ei with" his deati 'six months after wards by the bursing of the theatre. Aftqr this, she ruaoved with her mollher to a smalvillage somo forty miles" from London,' where they took up their abode, bud earned their of : JXA i a inui o a iuia ' - livelihood by doing fine sewing. In a ,few months Dallas' young widow gave birth to an infant daughter, whom she called for herself, Olive Dallas. All the love that the young widow had bestowed upon her hus band.'now centred in his child, for whoso future welfare she wasbence-i forth to work. -When the infant had completed its first year, a wealthy, retired merchant from liondon made his appearance in the village, and to use a commOU" ex pression, fell in lovOiwith the youth ful mother. 3eopold Lander, was himself a widower, and . the father of one child a boy of four sum mers he told her, when ho laid, his wealth at her fcot and asked hep to be his wife. She did not love"" him, but ambitions for I hor child's- sake, she accepted him, became" his wife, heTheaH.jand'Xthtiejr inotJier entered bis i-d throngti. avarice ner soul was not anticipate,.; J5he lived two years as the petted darling of this man's heart, then, be died, and she' was again left a widow,, but. this ; time wealthy. His will made hert child co-heiress with his, and and in case either one died, all reverted to the oho living. ; His child, aweak, fair-. faced boy, bad for some uhaccount ablo .reason become : an : object of hatred to the etep-mothcr, who had no love for any, save her own child, the little Olive Dallas now three years old.' Ono bleak, winter day, as the young widow sat; atone in h;er room,lhe two children, Olive a!nd;Leopold playing, at hor feet, a horrible thought entered her mind iti regard to: the orphan boy, and looking at him she muttered : f "If he were dead my child would heir it all.' Scarcely had she said this when the thought; came ; and she asked herself, "Why can he .not die?" Then. "Itr would t not lake! much to put him out of tho world, and if he were gore little Oily, would; heir it all." As these thoughts were passing through her. mind, the boyj raised nis innocent-blue eyes to .herj face, and she ) turned "kway t with a shudder. ! But that" awful thought; haunted her still j and each day it grew stronger and stronger.' ' .One day she said to her mother. ' "it Leopold j wero dead, Olivo would heir tho chtireLandor estate' "She will heir, half and that is- enough,'! replied tho otherj ncvor droaming oi the horrible thought in her daughters mind..' . : i ; :-: T&fyT" ut I want Olive to be a great JUYS) Spci' 'A v I "r 1 1 "fr and sho shall be, if I wade throiijh blood to make her one.! Oliye -Lant der possessbd a largo share of her father's disposition, and the supreme cruelty and i ; wickedness of her character was just now beginning t fehow itssolf. ; One cold winter day, as she stepped from her house to enter her carriage, which .was to convey her to the homo of3 a friend in anothor part of tho city, she saw fitting on, tho side of the frozon pavement. a young man of perhaps nineteen,' literally, clothed in rags, and with the most abject look of misery on nis lace, sne nau ever belveld. Steppinr to his side, shb asked j; "Young man, why aro you sittin here and what ails -oit ?" '; j m "Why am I sitting here and what ails me ?" ho cried in a tone jf bitterness, "t am starving- that is what ails mo ; and I am sitting here, because it is anguish to mo to gb home and witness my invalid moth er's wants, and yet be unable-' to re lieve themJ" All at onco a thouglt flashed into the woman's mind, and .8 he said: - . , ;- ; j "Come to mo to-night and I will see what can be done for you," anjtl entering her carriago, she drove oflf muttering: tl.: ' "If 1 can tempt him with money, Oliye will heir it all and be a great lady," That bight this f starving wretch camo-to her, and she said to himi' I . 'i.:vV X You are starving, and in need of inoney?" f "God knows I am f" he exclaimed. "If you will promise to serve me be supplied ; ''Command me, and I am ready and willing to do anything." ; "Swear to ido whatever I may ask of you, and not to betray ne, and I will place two hundred pounds in your hands to-night," and the woman administered an oath, whih the poor starving wretch repeated after : her, scarcely; comprehending wbat'. he did. The first act was accomplished, and taking up a night lamp, tho Woman led the man iot a sleeping apartment where her step son lay, aiid leading him to the couch sho turned down the covering exposing the - peaceful . face of tho sleeping boy, .sayibg as she did sb : ' "Help me to" remove this child from my path, and you . shall never again, feel. 'cold or hunger." Ie stared at ber vacantly, asking: j .''Atadam what do yoii mean ?" J ,'A sharp knif will do it," was the significant reply. Ho understood her now, and starting; back with a look of horror;.on his faco be ex claimed : !,";.; ".' i;.. "What ! would you murder your own child woman ? Ko, no, don't ask that of me j"i : , "Ho is only a stepson," replied the womaD iu jx Loarse voice ('Assist me and live in plenty, or rc- jfuse and go forth. and starve." j f "I can not .do this awful thing ! Great heavens ! I can not dip my band in human blood !' he (cried iallini on his knees and burying his face in his long bony hands, j "Inch you wll seo your mother womanl i ' - .. . "Starvo f yes, sha is starving now. Mother ! mother 1 must I do" it for your sake?'1 For one long hour he ;plead with her, and at last growing weary of him she' bade him leave the houses ilo rose to go reached the door, then turned back, and clasping bis hands - exclaimed in a voice of agony : ", " ' .!.' "Mother f mother I must i Iriffilo you starve?" - " "You have if. in. your power to save qcr ;rom starvation li claimed, ""dashing his his forehead.- Then cominc: back ip the room, ho said : r " , . "Madam, 1 will do what you ask." Her point was won, and her heart bounded with a wild triumphant joy. We must arrange some way to dispose of the body," she 6aid. The man shuddered as he looked at the sleeping child. . . '.A "Come with me," said the woman, and she led the way into au upper apartment of tho hbuso used only asla: lumber room.; "We will; put the body in hero," she said, lifting the lid of au oldtru'nk which locked with a spring lock. ' , "And whero will wo 'put .the trunk ?" asked the man with a shudder. . . 'f ; ... "In hero," and she moved to the wall, touched a panel which slid back revealing a dark cavity. "And this will prepare him to go there," she said turning away, and taking up a long bright poniard which sho placed in his hand. He -shuddered visibly as ho took it, and followed her back to the- child's sleeping apartment. ' j V " ' "The deed must not be dono hero, but up in tho, lumber room," shp whispered. The boy must havo been dreaming for just then a low, sweCt laugh "'..broke' from his lips. The man s face turned ghastly and he sank cowering on his knees. -- "Fool ! coward t" hissed the wo man, 'aro . you going to fail?" Tremblingly he arose, and lifting tho slumbering child in his arms, io traccd his steps. When they enter ed the lumber room, another light illuminated: it. and Olive Watson fr'hrtL hu rCnff'.Vfld JfA.. jngurifo something, started f&nvard exclaim- ins : "My Ged ! Olivo,' what :.4, sv ,i 1" r.,..- are you going to do ?" : Just then lho boy awoko and with a frightened cry sprang from the man's arms.5 "Do your work quickly !" sternly com manded tho woman. Drawing his poinard he' made a stop toward tho boy, who seeing the movement, sprang with outstretched arms to Olivo Watson crying : 1 "Save me ! save me! Oh, don'tlot them kill me!" ! ' . "In God's name what are jou going to do ?" gaspod the frightened woman. . j ., iI will show you," cried tho step motherland springing forward sho caught the boy in her'arms, smoth ered his cries, best ' sho could, and laying him in the trunk sho 'held him down, saying to the man: ' i "Be in haste, and do your work!" He staggered forward, bent over the child, and in a m6mont moro the steel was buried in his heart, and tho lid of the trunk had closed over him. A few moments more tho trunk had been placed in the: cavity, tbo pa.no! closed over it, and then the man and woman passed from the room, bear ing between, thorn, the fainting form of Olivo Watson, for while the deed was being accomplished, sho had fainted. From that moment Olivo Watson was a changed woman, and she became if not an actual abettor, an encouragcr to all that her daugh ter did. The next day ' about ten o'clock, great) consternation reigned at the Lander mansion for the little Leopold had disappeared and the hand y .nowtf 1ti;U..aiftp.mnthpr tas f'mntin 1 with' rjpf Sympathizing friends triedi in vain to pomfort and inspire her with hope, but it was all in vain, for she walked from (room to room, calling-wildly for liily boy my little Leopold !" Advertisements were inserted in the papers far and near, and the city policemen worked unweariedly, for it was the general impression that the child had been stolen. Days, weeks, months passed, and the child was not found, still the step-mother mourned and grieved,, and the world pitied her and wondered at her strange love for a mero step-child. Ono dayabout six months after the occurrence I have related, Olive Lander found herself penelcss and almost as poor as she was when she married her second husband for the thousands he had amassed, burs ted in an unexpected hour arid shb was left with nothing . but. the family residence the house '- which' con tained her. terrible secreK Ske now determined to quit London, and feel ing euro her secret-would never be discovered, (for the panel behind which the murdered child was hidden,-was opened by means : of a secret spring which no stranger by the closest eu tiny could discover,) she disposed f tho residence and qnitcd the city forever. She was 11 mo. 2 mrss 3 mod it nes $ 3 50 I 4 00 5 00 00 I 4 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 6 00 8 00 .12 00 16 00 7 00 10 00 14 00 20 00 8 00 IS 00 1G 00 25 00 10 00 14 00 18 00 30 00 15 00 20 00 23 00 35 00 20 00 30 00 U0J 60 00 1 year 10 00 18 OO. 20 00 S3 00 30 00 40 00 GO 00 100 OA One inch, Two " . Three-" Four " Five Fourth col Hair One ' accompaniod by ihcr. mother, And tho man who had assisted in the mur der of her step son, for on the very night when he was doing the deed his mother, breathed her last,; and siuco that time ho had been in Olivo Lander's employ ; and when she left the city went with her. Well, with the money which she had realized by lho sale of her city residence sho purchased a farm house somor eighty miles frOm Londou in a wild unfre quented part of the country.' They had not lived here long, when ono wild, stormy night, a carriago drew up in front of the farm .house, l.aad tho driver dismounting camo iq th? door, requesting a night's lodging for a lady and her child : j t "My Lady is on 'her way to (Loi- ho said, "but tbo -storm has . 1 j . ... ovfsLajten us, ana we . can noi go fwrther fovitfht." His request wa anted, anduuithe lady a , bcau- acrosVjVfulrcaluro'-of1 entered tho house, .bearing her in her arms,.01ive Watson Btarted back with a low cry as her eyes fell on her face, for the face of tho stranger bore a striking resemblance i '. to her Wn daughter's. ' The lady did not seem to' notice her agitation,-' but said as she took, her seat-: ; . ; ; ; "I am oq; my , way to visit ray father, Lord Broughton ofLondo, .; and my husband numorcd m,o enough to let mejhavo my o way and go . by private convoyanco" As she fiuishedi Bpeakirm Oliyxj Watson left the room- muttering : 3 "Sho is then his child. Mj .'heav ens I how I ' hato her !' Shortly afterwards" she was joined hyOlo.. Lander who said v ? ;'v - , -1 . "Vengeance oVen at. this late day would be sweet," , ; : f " What do you mean 2" cried tho other.-,""' -:.-:!. :.-,'':'V"'- -v - '"!'' ' "Is not ; this woman, whom wo ' have taken in, my own half sister ?" . i J t "Sho is." ': ; :r"t'r- ., " V "Well, such being the case,; she ..- will never leave' this place alive. It is the only way "to ayepge:-the Wrong done you,;. Ihave just seon - inside of hor trunk, which contains j many jewels, rich and rare, among which is a complete set of diamonds. All these jeweiI intend-toi possess to deck .the ! child of his clderost ' . . daughter. Don't staro at mo so,-for a hatred has entered my heart; for ' -this proud half sister of mine, and ' before the return of morning her . blood shall flow." Olive Watson was quiet for a moment, thon sho i replied in a low hoarse voiec': -j ' "I neither tell you to do it,.or. not toNdo itir" Nothincmoro was said. ' nlHaTB IhTltn irrtHirciy tWtravW-Ji,- elcrs were wrapt in slurtibcr, Olivb Lander awoke her mother saying : , "Come they sleep ; and I j want ! . you to hold tho light." The woman 'ardso with a shudder, look theflight ', . and followed, i-loitering. the apart ment where the lady slept, followed by her mother, Olivo Lander first apprbached her trunks, and taking 1 out the costly jewels sho had men tioned,! sho dropped them and tboir gilded cases , i n her pocket; then softly approaching tho couch, $sho ben t over lhe sleeper. The lady was wrapt in a deep sleep as was tbo babo which lay on her -armi, : Oqo momont Olive Lander gazed upon the slumberers, then1 drawing f a dagger from her bosom, sho raised . it aloft, and the next instant it was buried in the lady's bosom. A shrjll cry broke from' the sleeper's lips, then all was' silence. Another ! in-i I stant, and the child was pierced 'fis the mother had been ; but the sound . of foot-steps now. broke on those midnight assassin's ears, for tho . cry .. of . the mqthor had been hoard evi dently by her servant who was now ' rapidly approaching the room. The two women Jookcd in each others faces for an instant, then extinguished the lightand all .was I iu darkness," . i r , ; . (to be continued.) . '!' Gail Hamilton has a nack of - Say ing things, and hero' is; one 6. her latest sayings : ; "No prettier; sight can be shown to the Princo of :Wales than a music hall full of whito-rdboa, flag-bearing school children ;' and : a class of boys and girls at the ' black board, r-frfeHiug thnt 'frgVsSH hardest VrnMnmrr, irf"T?rrj-" ' ,f game of fox land ffz. calculated to inspire the min.a$"niM-. adults with mingled awo atid humil- ' ty. But three hundred J idle," well- urussuu, wcij-euucaicu young men applying for One insignificant clerk phip ; fifty clcrgymencrOwding onp1 jeoclesiastical broker'd.shop oagatuij. day afternoon a.thundred lyoujUjg IidlesVariswcrihg" an advertfsement 'fr one copyist; throng of intflJ geot, refined, and -healthy pefso in, the youth and prime of. their years blocking the doorway of every suppesed jeasyroing, routine Office in toe count ry. is not au, inspiring sight." ""--- h- ; ':' ywi. A ;.V :,)MV. A hot quarrel between fanciers and. Smith in) a t ranch : in. Pine. Nut ; Valley, Nevada, apparently sub sided in t.o good will, and thoy:,,.we.nfc ' to. bed in bunks one oyer the .lothcc In the nigbtLauder, who was on tholower shelf, awoke t findBmiih' face and a pistol haagin'ddwn in sight from the upper shclC' "'I'to made up ray raiud te kill you?' said Smith ; and then bo- fired, -leaving Landers barely time before death .t" jgive this account of he murder.'- j' .-,v, f,Ai ' .-w-.; ": ::.;' 1 y;;: : K; KV.y...v;;''; ;. : A: : .' , "' . ' ' . I V ' - ' I"' ' ' ';: "t '- .- - ' y.i ' - .1 '- - iA ; : .;j:" ; ;-;.' ' ."' -:. '-.;:' r1-" ' n'i i: ' , - i 1 ' - z' ' .A :'' ; .t 1 '" i r- - ' '. .' , 1 : '' :" - ' ' -:" 1 I- " " 1 ..... , ' .; " '. I -- '! ." " i - " - ; . ; -i ' " -: .-' ' ''' '- J X h . : . ': - . - ' , 1 -. r , :, .' i-- A. ' . -, A-,A".' i i 4 : '"....' 3:
The New Regime (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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Feb. 12, 1876, edition 1
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