Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Hope, Bartholomew County, 7 September 1893 — Page 8

A MYSTERY OF THE FOG Ey W, 0. MOEEOW. His manner showed that he was hurt deeply, but his affection for the widow was not less than his loyalty for his friend, so that between them his position was uncomfortable. When ho called the next time, he was pale and anxious with the burden of his knowledge and the dangers which that knowledge carried. “I promised to tell you something strange. I am ready to keep my promise, for we have found our man." Tins was said impressively and mysteriously, and it set the widow’s heart in a flutter, for she knew that n crisis was near, and with the suspicion that beset her she dreaded the issue. She asked him to confide fully in her, and at the same time it was evident that she also had learned a thing of moment and that she was impatient to tell it. "As I have told you. we have agreed that this mysterious man is a madman. l!ut if so he is not known to ho such: hence we cannot look for a madman. In other words, he is a monomaniac, the most difficult of all lunatics to discover. It seems to be clear, further, that his monomaniacat tendency is temporary and that ho is nut aware of his weakness. In other words, he has a pervert'd subconsciousness, which under a favorable conjecture of circumstances assumes control and sweeps the ordinary consciousness almost entirely out of the field. It is a case.of dual consciousness, each consciousness acting independently j»f the other, but each having a confused knowledge of the other's existance. “This is a well known but rare form of insanity. It. might occur to yon that if the man is insane and therefore irresponsible bo could not be convicted, and therefore the rewards offered could n it he collected. In order to ascertain the truth of this matter I wrote to the attorney general and have received a reply assuring me that the production of the man, with convincing evidence of his authorship of the deeds, would be.suGleient ground for a valid claim upon the r ‘ward. “That much is settled. Now for something still more interesting. Cunningham has only ascertained that a ground foil'd ill be present tomorrow at ■> in the al&noou. which will be about Aafki, but that the man whom we seek will bo in the vicinity of the intersection of California and Octavio, streets, with a bag and shawl, ready to pick up any little gut (provided her parents be rich) who may happen to be at large. Not only that, but he knows of such a child who is permitted the freedom of the sidewalk at that hour, her mother supposing her to be safe in the custody of a nurse who is in love with a grocery man’s clerk near by. The most interesting part of it is that Cunningham claims to have made the fiend’s acquaintance and to have been taken into his confidence. So it is agreed that you, he and 1 shall be on hand to follow the man to his den, witness the operation and take liim hi the act." This excited Mrs. Hartley very much. "There is one question I have to ask you, Robinson,” she said breathlessly, “and that is. how eh all I know Mr. Cunningham when i see him? What kind of looking man is he?” Quito promptly Mr. Cantine answered. “He is a small man, about my size, 1 should say.” “Has ho a black beard?” am not sure.” “And yet you see him nearly every day.” “I don’t like the tone of your question, Margaret,” and then ho went away. When Mr. Cantine called early the next afternoon, he was under a fearful excitement. His eyes danced in a most uncomfortable fashion, and his face was deathly pale, but he had; steadiness of nerve and Litheness of movement that made a strong impression oq the widow. “Margaret." said he, “I cannot accompany you. for I must be with Cunningham alone. For a fact, this crime will be repeated this evening, and all that will be required of you is that you go to the man’s den and meet ns there.” Then he gave her careful instructions how to hud the house in a little alley leading of (lalifornia street on the eastern flank of the hill, with minnte directions for entering the house, and then the particular room where the deed would be performed. All this he did in a manner so strange and hard that she was frightened. His upper lip had a tendency to curl and snow his teeth, winch looks 1 uncommonly white and sinister. The dancing of his eyes was from alertness and hot nervousness. It was a situation of peril that ho hi d never encountered before. How con’d he be’sure that his friend would be on baud to assist him, or that he could overpower and safely land in jail a man who had eluded and defied the most cunning skill of all the detectives? She would be there as a witness to make me case snre, but what more could she do v,ith strange men and a fearful crime to deal with? The stake was a large one, and she would play for it with all the ■ :i of her nature, end who knew 1 at what she could bo of service in saving her lover from some danger which v. ith all his forethought ha might overlook. “There was something I wanted to tdl you last night, she t aid, “out you did not give in opportuabi

“What is it, my dear?" he asked vacantly. “If> this mailman thinks ho is permanently depriving these children of the power of speech, he has made' a fatal error, for I have learned from an eminent physician that, although aphasia is produced by the operation, the children in time will recover the power of speech.” She was not certain that Cantine understood her. He merely stared at her in a way that frightened her, and yet he did not appear to bo looking at her at all. “As we are exchanging confidences, Margaret,” ho said absently (they had been doing nothing of the kind), “it is proper that I tell you something very dreadful.” “What is it, Robinson?" she asked in alarm. His reply came as though from a dead man. His face became whiter, his lips harder and thinner and the gleam of his teeth whiter. His voico was hollow and . veutriloqniul. "I have boon forced to conclude that my friend himself is the guilty man.” Then ho stopped and paid no attontio a to the extraordinary effect that his speech had on the widow. Her whole body dilated. Her face was radiant with triumph, but before she could say even so much as "1 knew it all along" he resumed in his strange, heavy manner; “Yes, Cunningham is the man —his intimate knowledge of the matter leaves no room for doubt whatever, and the description of the man whom you saw is his identically. Now, I would not betray my friend if I were not sure that no harm would come to him. In taking this course to arrest and expose him 1. am doing the kindest thing possible. He will bo taken to an asylum where he will receive the best of care and whore it will bo impossible for him to continue the dreadful work in which he is engaged. At the same time you and I will secure the reward.”, This was so rational and manly that Mrs. Hartley could do nothing but admire her lover all the more. “My friend,” continued Cantine, “has unwittingly told me all about it and has placed himself in my power, and this I will not abuse. It has been only when his monoraaniacal spell has been upon him that he has talked so freely, and i have had a fine task to perform to know when he was in this abnormal condition and to work upon him then. Rut it will all bo for the. best. He will be safe and well treated, and you and 1 shall be happy. 1 am going there tonight to see him perform the operation. I have uncovered his history and learned that he is a highly educated surgeon and that by reason of some wrong which a woman did him years ago he abandoned his profession. became little else than a beggar and devoted his life to the hatred qf women and a determination to prevent as many of them as possible from doing to other men the harm which wrecked his life.” The trepidation under which the widow suffered that evening as she slipped a revolver in her pocket and sallied ont into the darkness to undertake a perilous mission need not be dwelt upon. She found the alley, and the house; discovered the hidden door in the rear and opened it; clambered up a flight of stairs, turned to the right, went a short distance, and then turning to the left found herself before a door from underneath which a thin line of light shone like the edge of a razor. With a wildly beating heart sho turned the knob, gently pushed the door open and entered. Then she saw a spectacle which gave her a fearful shock. Stretched upon a table in a small, poorly furnished room filled with a stifling odor of some disinfectant was a little girl, ghastly white, with leather straps binding her firmly to the table. A small man with a black

“I AM MR. CUNNINGHAM,” EE QUIETLY SAID.

beard and glittering eyes was bending over her bead ideftly manipulating some fine, small instruments and operating upon the side of the child's head in a spot from which he had shaved the hair. He was so deeply absorbed in his ghastly work that he heeded the intruder not at all. But where was Cantine? The widow’s heart sunk within her to discover that his courage must have failed him at the last moment. The situation filled her with an unspeakable dread—she here alone with a madman, a desperate one at that, with the sharpest knives at his hand. The capture would have been so easy if only Cantine had been there. What she ought to do she had not me least idea, but the instinct of self preservation suggested flight, to be followed by a direction of the police to the place. As she stood thus, almost fainting, the n; adman. Without glancing up from his work, said roughly:

<1 g ' or. You pro in nnsicT'Tn.ju'u!7.~actT faeu~fmpuTvaciy the madman tore oft - his encumbering false beard, which hindered his work, and there before her stood Cautine himself with a frightful madness blazing from his eyes. "I am Mr. Cunningham.” lie quietly said. “I presume you have heard my friend Cantiue speak of me. He is a great fool, that Cautine, for he is going to marry some woman.”—San Francisco Examiner. [the end.] PUBLIC SALE! I will sell at public sale at my residence I mile south of N ortonsburg on Friday, Sept 8, 1893, Begining at 10 a. m. the following personal property to-wit: 1 span of work mules, 1 set of work harness, 1 two-horse wagon, 1 two- horse wheat drill, 1 three-hoed wheat drill, 1 Solid Comfort breakingplow, 1 spring-tooth harrow, 1 spike tooth harrow, 1 roller, 1 cutting box and power, 1 Hamilton cultivator, hay rigging, 1 single corn drill, 1 Excelsior mower, 1 self-binder, and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms or Sale. All sums of §5 and under cash in hand; all sums over $5. purchaser giving his note with approved security payable twelve months after date without interest, and if not paid at maturity, notes to bear interest at 8 per cent from date. Si - .,ON Lambert. Robt. Spaugh Auc’r.

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