Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 May 1896 — Page 3

ahtgiferComhjfjrnnictat «L BeC. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. «- PETERSBURG* • • - INDIANA. ■cr-T—■. -!-■ j. 1 s T'r-= THE SILYEB SNAKE. BY BEATRICE O'CONNOR. John St. Lawrence sat alone in the •tudvof Fernholme manor, w hile the ^ray (lawn in the eastern sky flushed rosily before the rising sun. All night .lie had kept that lonely vigil, trying 1 vainly to realize the greatness of the j Tragedy that had suddely darkened his life. Again and again his thoughts went back to the events of the preceding night; in point of fact only a few' shoK hours before—yet it seemed like part of another existence. A gram! ball was to be given at n ■neighboring mansion, at which he and. Rosalie Beaumont—his pretty cousin Rosalie—were to make their first public appearance as a formally-engaged -couple. He had dressed early and was fitting in this room—this very roomily looking at some of the Indian •curios he had brought with him from the east, w hen the door opened, suddenly but softly, and Rosalie stood.before him. radian* in her girlish beauty, wltji jewels shining on her bare white Throat and a brilliant star gleaming nnd glowing amid the pale splendor of her cloudy golden hair. “I thought I should find you here and <r11 alone,” she said, smiling; “1 knew .auntie would not be ready for ever so* lung, so 1 made my 'esenj** -and ran •downstairs, just to give you a private peep at my dress. Look! Don't you think you ought to be proud of your tiauce, John ?** **l always am that,” he answered, -with the grave, passionate earnestness ■that characterized him. “Rosalie, do you know there are moments when 1 am afraid to think how much, how absolutely. ] love you.” e “More than you have ever-loved anyone else?” she asked, slyly, knowing oeforehand w hat his answer would be. A shadow that vanished almost as it appeared passed over his hantjsocie lace atjjie girl’s light words. **1 never knew what love might lx* Ail! I met you, my Rosalie." No doubt, what he said was true. 4>r he believed it to be so'. “There are snauy ways of loving, l have learned to know;” and even as he uttered the word* there arose before him the vision oi an Indian tw ilight, through which a 'beautiful dusky face looked at him with crimson kps parted and eyes fu ! e»f mystery and passion; but the vision faded as it rose, dispelled by the merry taygh of Rosalie. “What delightful old ornaments,” the girl exclaimed, pointing to the Indian curiosities scattered about on the table. Then, picking up one that especially attracted her nttcpriOu. she cried: “Why! this is aj^/celet—only « bracelet —and for a moment, do you Ipiow, I really thought it was alive.” It was a silver snake—a curious specitnen of Indian craftsmanship. By, sueans of some hidden spring the creature seemed to coil and wait he as she be Id it. “Yes; it is a bracelet, and a very •cleverly-constructed one, too. I expect the thing has a history, if one did but fcnow it,” St, Lawrence said, carelessly. **I brought it home for you because I thougnt it might please and amuse you; but I shomd be very abrry to see you wear it." **0, let me try it on—do.” Rosalie •pleaded, with a ripple of excited laughter, but the neat moment the laugh w as lost in a cry of fear, for ai she tried j To untwist the serpen? it suddenly eoik.l Itself about her wrist and round her •«rni like a living thing, pressed sc clo;«o1\ against the white skin that the sharpened points of the silvery scales hurt her acutely. She tore it of? and Threw it on the table, her pretty fee? flushing. her eyes full of tears. But a few seconds later, recovering hcrs-lf,' 4khe tried to laugh, and touching her I lever on the arm begged h!m to forgive ■her petiilanee. She had not meant to be ill-tempered, but the snake, she said.

i Tut: Ul'ttu was lost is a f»r or FAIN. Sadi really seemed to bite her. Of course. St. Lawrence reassured her. and the young girl was speedily comforted. A moment more and she had left him togrw AS she said, and “hurry up auntie,” aud St. Lawrence began to replace hisIndian treasures in the great cheat wherein they had crossed the sea, smiling to himself as he recalled Rosalie's superstitious fears. What a dear little woman she was. how tender, and pretty. «it<l sweet, and how he loved her; and jet by all the laws of romance, where things go by contrary, as we know, tee ought to have rather disliked het. For John St. Lawrence was a boy in Eton jacket and ilorolie Beaumont still a baby when their jwrent* decided that they should marry. Both had assented passively to what they thought their destiny, though St. Lawrence did not «are for the thought of having hi* wife thus chosen for him. He want to India

with his regiment, fell ill ataa out-of-the-way hill station,, where a dusky beauty nursed him back to life, was invalided home, came to Fernhohne, and there and then fell over head and ears in love with his cousin; so much in love, in* deed, that it is doubtful if he ever remembered how rich she was, and how the wedding would {dense all the relations and friends on both sides. Half the curiosities were repacked, and he had just stretched out his hand to take the silver snake from the table, when a sharp cry of alarm rang through the house, and then—ah! he hardly knew, hardly dared to recall, what followed. Oniv he knew that Rosalie lay dead upstairs—that she had failen lifeless without an instant's warning. The doctor had talked learnedly about unsuspected heart disease that had thu« suddenly ended the bright young life. The house was filled by the erics of women, for Rosalie had been dear to them all; but the man who had loved her better than his life had no tears to ^hed. He sat, still in his evening dress, in the room where they had parted— he was stunned by the greatness Of his awful grief—vainly trying to realize that it was really true that Rosalie was dead. So the morning found him, and when the day had well begun it seemed to him that the silver snake, lying where Rosalie had thrown it, stirred strangely. for surely its head was raised and a shiver ran through all the glistening coils. lie stared at the thing, wouderin£ if it had power to move while the hand that had lately flung it down lay eoid and dead. Then, as if stirred by some \veir$ fascination, he turned his head slowly towards the long French windows that still stood open. Presently he knew why his eyes had been drawn thither; he was no longer alone, for a woman stood upon the threshold, framed, as it were, in the greenery of the creeping plants that clustered round the opening, and as he looked upon her face he sprang to his feet with one word upon his lips, and that was# her name. “Laehine!** She came towards him, seeming to float rather than walk, her every movement full.of sinuous grace and her footfall making no sound upon the soft pile of the carpet. “Yes, it is I.” she answered, as sihe fell at his feet, and her voice w as low and sweet, though strangely monotonous, like the cooing of a dove, “my love. -Ah! did you thihk I should forget? And 1 told you," she answered, laying a soft brown hand upon his wrist, "that we should meet again in another land when the fa>r face that w-as4thrust be* tween us then should be but dust. Say. did I cot speak the truth?" "(ireal heavens, yes!" St. Lawrence cried, and. as in horror, dragged his hand from her hold. Was it true, as the natives had said, that this was son;*' witehwoman. ami had her charms had power to nob him of his love? I * . “Yea, I spoke the truth!" she cried, after a pause, during which John Sr. Lawrence strode up and down the room, and her blaek eyes followed his unceasingly. “You told me you must return to your own country, to wed th<» w ife that had been chosen forfyou by your people, for you were poor and she was rich. But it was me. and me alone, you really loved.” “I was mad, but I had not met her then." St. Lawrepce muttered, tund he hated himself for ever having Uttered such wild, foolish words that to her had seemed trye.

Laehme nearu me woros. io« as inev were spoken, and a sudden flush, half incredulous, half scornful and wholly angry. lit up her dusky eyes. On the table between them the silver coils of the snake gleamed and glimmered in the morning light,and more than once her brown hands stole cautiously towards it as towards an instrument of vengeance, only to pause half way. + “I asked if nothing could make your cousin's riches yours except by marrying her." Laehme went on, “and yotfrejdied that nothing could but her death. Ah, you start, uow; you had forgotten those words, but you renu mber them well enough now. Then. 1 told you we should meet again when she was dead, cud you. having all her wealth; wotild be frye to claim me from all thd world, free to marry me, ray love—my love." “You are mad to sj>eak like that to me. Laehme,’ he said, and his tone, more than any words, toid her of the gulf that yawned between them. “When I left India I told you that the jwrting was for ever/ You can be noth-ing-to me now.” “Hut she is dead—dead, as I foretold," Lacbme said, and he recalled with’a thrill of remorsie how he had made his engagement to his English cousin ah excuse for leaving-this woman. “You need not speak of her," he answered, his voice, in spite of his selfcontrol, broken by a rising sob. "It is enough that all between us is over long ago, and can nesrer be revived-’* With a curious gesture, whose sinuous grace was stangely like the uncoiling of a serpent, Laehme rose to her feet and seized the silver snake in her hands. “You scorn me now,** she said, and !,er voice was a hiss. "You no longer love me, yet it was I that gave you the means to free yourself from this girl whom you were’forced to marry. As I came through the village I heard them say Kosaiie lhauiuont lay dead, and you. her lover, were half-mad with grief. 1 laughed as 1 heard them, arid 1 laugh again now. You play your part well, Capt. St. Lawrence, and it is wise, for your English law is strict, ar,! you must allay suspicion—so you—\ou pretend to be bowed with grief-r-you who were her murderer!** “What madness is this!” St. Lawrence cried. “I loved her with all tay heart and strength; bad >he been poor 1 should have loved her just the same." “Yet you murdered her!" The low, mocking voice had something in its tone that carried conviction with it; the hor- | ror of the words crept into his blood, j and seemed to turn heart and brain tc lea. He staggered back to sink into a - i

chair, his lips parted to ask the question he could not frame in words. “It is true," Laehme retorted, and with a gesture full of superb triumph she held the silver snake towards, him. “You remember ycn^old me of your betrothal to your cousSSfewhom you did not love, and then it came to ray ears that you were buying presents to take home to friends in your own far-off land. It wanted but a woman’s quickness to guess which of all would be given to your future wife and so I contrived that you should buy this silver snake. The handsomest and most curious of all your gifts would surely be for her. “That silver snake was fashioned by six men of old, there is a charm laid ujon it, and poison hid amid the scales. So that any whose arm it clasps shall surely die. Look at it again, the instrument of your freedom, and of my reveuge; see, I can handle it in safety, yet if those inner coils did but grip my i flesh no power on earth could save me. J Was I not right, then, when I said you were Rosalie Beaumont’s murderer?" “Are you fiend or woman!" he cried, | hoarsely, and. indeed, she seemed more | than mortal then; she might have been a j bronzed statue of triumphant hate as she stood before him with that mocking J smile on her dark face; the coiling snake upon her outstretched hand glittering wildly in the light. But at the words a change came to her, for suddenly the snake fell from her grasp and in a mo* meut more she was crouching by hit j side, her lithe, sinewy arms twined | about his neck, her red lips pressing j burning kisses upon his. “Only a woman to you.” she whispered. “only a woman whom your love j can make more happy, my beloved, mj j beloved!” Her caress, the clinging of those sof* brown arms, the murmur of that sweet j voice maddened him. His loud griel

HAD BROUGHT AROUT THI9 WOMAN’* ~ DKATH. for his lost Rosalie ran in his heart like a delirum and he hated doubly this woman whose arts had brought about her death. Dimly he was conscious oi something' that seemed a fire surging to his brain, something from which a temptation sprang, and theu the emerald eyes of the silver snake looked into his own, and Lachme's passionlighted face faded from his gaze. It was but for a moment, then a halfstrangled scream rang through the room, an inarticulate cry of mortal fear that, though it was wordless, yet seemed to carry the refrain; “It was for love of you I sinned—all for love for you.” The darkness cleared away and his senses returned, for in a paroxysm of horror he sprang to his feet. Lachme’s clasp had relaxed—she crouched upon the floor, inert, helpless, dying—yet with-her dark eyes to the last fixed upon his face, and round her dusky neck gleamed the coils of the silver snake, and he knew his hand had clasped It there. He had used such force that drops of blood were falling from beneath the scale** where the poison-cov-ered darts wer% hidden. It was his hand that had brought about this woman's death even,- while she had caressed him, and frantic with horror of what he had done he tore the snake from her throat and flung it frem him into the smouldering fire. In that last moment of her life she undei-stcod something o« his remorse, for he saw the diath-dimraed eye?, brighten into a faint smile as thev looked into his; then frew. the coals v here the snake writhed like a living thing there caot a flash of blue flame, a cloud c>* pungent smoke, and when the darkness, cleared away he knew that La.-hcue lay dead at his feet: and lo! there, in the t^orway. clad in the white robes of death. Rosadie his love stool piteously^ with imploring hands-out stret< bed*to him. The doctors found an explanation of Uosdie's awakening to life from the brink of the graie; but, though the world accepted it. it hardly satisfied St. Lawrence, (.euerally it was said that the poison •■oncealed in the snake was one of which a minute quantity will cause a trance and a slightly larger amount inevitably produces instant death, so that though Lachrne fell a victim to the awful thing from the fir.-e with which it was clasped about her throat. Rosalie escaped because, shrinking from the slight scratch the darts inflicted, she tore the serpent almost instantly from her arm But John St Lawrem-e has his own opinion, and—though he never speak* of it—deep in his heart lurks a belief in wild Indian marie, with the memory of a legend that tells bo v the sacrifice of-a witch may bring the dead to life. None knew exactly iiow Ijachme died, for the story was hushed up and almost forgotten by the time John St. Lawre m-e and Rosalie were married—a few months later. He Is quoted as an ideal English gentleman—gentle, generous, honorable aud true—yet. as he take* his idolized young w ife in his arms and kisses her, n*»t even her charm can make him forget how his hand caused the death of the woman who, barbarian as she was. had yet loved him lavishly, as only orientals can love—as he can never hoi«e to lie loved again —Black and White

SHAH NASR ED-DIM, Emperor of Poniia, AsaoMitukte*! »t m Slturioo—He Vu Frrtlt’t Most Liberal Ruler, Having Tint voted Extensively and Imbibed Progressive Western Ideas— The .'ew Moaarch—Why Diplomatic Ke. lattom with Ameirica Were Broken Oft. Washington', May 3.—Shortly after the receipt of the news of the assassination of the shah of Persia, Secretary Olney sent a cabl e message to Minis* ister McDonald, saying that the president directed this t sincere condolences be tendered and abhorrence of the crime expressed to the government of Persia, and the family of the murdered shah. The shah was entering a shrine near Teheran when his assassin drew a pistol and fired at him, the bullet striking near his heart. The wounded ruler was at once conveyed to the palace, where he died two hours later. The murderer, who was diguised as a woman was arrested, and proved to be a religious fanatic It is believed that he had accompli ces. Xasr Ed-Din, the assassinated monarch, was born July IT, IS31. He was the son and successor of, Mohammed, and succeeded to the throne September 10, ISta. Just after the commune „ of Paris, Xasr Ed-Din made a tour to

^ K* V T Karr Edt lY.*, Skah of Pertia. Europe and the educational advantapes derived from his travels resulted in the institutiomof a more liberal administration of government on his return to Persia. The new shah is Mouzafer Ed-Din, who was born March 25, lSi3. Ilis official title is Mirza Valeahd, or heir presumptive. He has "five sons, of whom the eldest is Mohammed Aii Mirza, and five daughters. The assassination of Nasr Ed-Dine by a fauatie becomes a greater source of regret from the fact that his extended travels had taught him a degree of religious tolerance surpassing most eastern potentates. The records of the state department contain many communications attesting the shah's leanings toward liberality and justice. Persia is not represented in the United States in a diplomatic or consular capacity, and probably will not be until an incident that caused some embarrassment in the relations of the two countries is forgotten. Eight years ago the shah, who was kilted yesterday, decided to send a diplomatic representative to Washington, and the government, was notified of Uhe intention. The new minister was Hadji Uassan (Jhouli Khan Matamed El Yessare. One day the state department received a number of trunks and other baggage bearing the name of Hadji Uassan, addressed to its care. Time passed and nothing was heard of the expected diplomat. Finally the department sent a telegraphic inquiry to its minister at Teheran*requesting information as to the Persian minister's whereabouts, aud the surprising answer was returned that Hadji Hassan had left Persia months before and was supposed to be in the United States. The state department officials were worried, and sent numerous disI patches to representatives of the | United States at posts along the route i presumably taken by the ipinister in i his journey: to America, but no satisi factory information was received in reply. in the course of time Hadji Uassan reached Washington, and it was then I teamed that he had succumbed to the : fascinations of Parts and spent a long period there incognito. The newspapers published this story very generally, aud the paragraphers made ifuThorous comments ou Hadji i|assan|s itmg name and his myste1 rious disappearance from public view. These things offended the minister He was also chagrined over the attention attracted by his peculiar dress and appearance. He wrote the secretary of state, complaining of these matters, aud withdrew with his suite, returuiiug to Persia, j * The reverence associated with the person of the shah is well illustrated in the t^xt of the treaty of friendship and commerce which Hon. Carroll bpence. United States minister, made with Persia in 1356. In the preamble the dead shah is described with true oriental hyperbole in this language:; •The president 0; the United States of North America and his majesty , as exalted; as the planet Saturn, the sovereign to whom the sun serves as a standard: whose splendor and’magnificence are equal to that of the skit's, the sublime sovereign, the monarch whose armies are as numerous as the stars; whose greatness calls to mind that of Jeinshid; whose magnificence equals that of Darius; the heir of tha crown aud throue of the Kay an ions; the sublime emperor of all Persia.’’ ENDED IN FAILURE. the Strike Against tha t'ulou Tract loo Co. of rhUadclphla OS. PuilaiiELFuia. May 2.—The third and probably the final attempt to tie up he Lines of the Union Traction Co. in this city is ended. Nearly eveny evidence of the fiasco of Thursday vanu-heJ yesterday. Cars are running on schedule time and the only indication that a strike had been declared was the squads of police that still haunted the neighborhood of several car barns, and later in tha daj | these were entirely withdrawn.

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