Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 March 1883 — Page 6
THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
Tried for Murder.
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A TEST OF WOMAN'S FAITH.
A CASE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
BY CHAS. J. CBAIO.
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CHAPTER XXI. HCSTED DOW21.
Among the many disappointed in their ghoulish lust to witness the wreaking of human vengeance to the taking of human life was one who felt that he bad been robbed of his legitimate prey. Jim McFadden bated Harry Tranorwith an insatiable, wolfish longing for his blood, and finding that be baa fled, he devoted himself to the business of hunting him to earth.
A change had come over Fanny Morton. She was overwhelmed with remorse for the part she bad acted in bringing Harry Tranor into the hands of the hangman. She felt that it had profited her nothing and had hopelessly alienated him. While in prison he had persistently refused to see or acknowledge her.
When he escaped, and Jim McFadden bad announced his intention to follow him to the ends of the earth and farther, Fanny sent for her quondam lover.
He came and stood before her with folded arms and lowering brow. "Jim," she began, advancing timidly and putting her hand on his arm.
Once her touch had power to thrill him. Now he shook it off roughly. "Say yer say, but kape yer hands off," be said, impatiently. "I want none yer wheedlin' an' coaxin' around me. Save that fur the man that dragged ye in the mire an' then turned his back on •e!" "Don't, Jim!' she pleaded. "You loved me once——" "More than ye ever desarved!" he interrupted, bitterly. "I know I treated you shamefully. I don't make any
excuse
He shook his fist above his head and frowned down upon the shrinking girl in his terrible earnestuess. "Jim, for my sake!" she pleaded, falling at his feet. "Did you yield when 1 prayed on knees to ye 'fur mysake?'f hedei wrathfnlly.
tny ed,
So ho left her sobbing. Then a sudden purpose came to Fan-
"^'l will look for hltn, too, and warn blm. He haso/ti'n spokeu of New York as a place where oue could lose ones gelt* and if 1 do not find him, I can at least get away from thoso who know me and hiv trouble. Perhaps 1 can get Lulu into ot.oof the asylum*, and then 111 be jrecs'
With the money which she had received from Helen Princeton she ifent to New York, not comprehending In wbut a vaai wilderness of brick and stone she must pn*tcute ber search.
OIHM In *h«» metropolis she was fascinated bv uiw Covered state of Uatboroughfarw.'the twinkling lights, and the wonderful thing* exhibited on every band: but she saw the futility of looking for a man *ho might or might not b» among the count lees throug that streamed lucw^ntlv along, lnatefd, she began to look for work.
At tiiitht she reveled in that wonderland which has thrown its fatal allurements around so many like her. In the •hop-windows she saw the realization of more than her wildest dreams of fairy-
J*So\he
to
weeks slipped by until the Icy
hand of a gaunt phantom was laid on ber heart, A question gradually began
take form
In
her mind:
"No money and no work—what tben It haunted all her walks, and tbegrlm terror Wked out from her eyes, peering wuttfu11 vat every one she passed.
Counting her scanty and fast dwindling hourd, she took the first step in that terrible path which myriads of despairing feet nave trod before hers and since: she removed to cheaper lodgings, where cheap lodgings meant vil© surroundings and vile company.
When from the dens or iniquity which now surrounded her she escaped to Broad"vav for a few minute* of partial forainfuln^M, *he br**sthed more freely, as one emerging from the noxious damps of a v«v«rti into the pure air and »unftbfne of the outer world. Tben came the returning, which made ber heart sick.
One ulght she was returning later than usual, when she w*s startled by a ana auddenH* rm'itug around a comer, slipping and falling bis length. lie aroae with dlfikmliy, evidently much hurt* In the Hght from* window she caught a glimpse of hi* face. It was ghastly pale and haggard witbfaUgue and terror. He was panting from bis recent violent exertions.
Fannv saw all, and ber heart bounded as if It would leap from her throat.
There
was a moment of paralyzed ioae-
tivity, and then abe ran to him, crying: "Harry!" He saw ber, recognized her, ana uttered an oatb. "What is the matter?" she asked, in a guarded tone, assisting him to rise. "Are they after you? Ch! come with me. I have a room near here. I can hide you."
He leaned upon ber heavily, and ground an oath between bis teeth at the pain he was suffering. "I suppose I shall have to go, be said, ungraciotwly. "There come the accursed Bounds! Do you hear them?
O a I a I "Come on. and save you ecstades for a more favorable occasion."
The girl beard the sound of hurrying feet in the street from which he had come. In a panic of trepidation she led bim down an alley. He limped and growled at every step.
In perhaps ten minutes they reached a tenement house in the rear of a block of tall buildings, the court-yard on which it looked being reached by a narrow passage which ran under the bouses fronting on the street.
Into the unllghted ball and up three flights of rickety stairs she assisted him. "This is a very sweet-scented and commodious palace," he muttered, as he stood just within her rown, while she felt for matches to light her candle. "Whv did you come to such a den this?*
i9-"this
for myself but
that no reason why you should be so bard on him. They say you're going to hunt him down." "And so I will, so help me "Jim, stop! You mustn't take that oath." "And why not? I mean to kape It," "For my sake, Jim—lor the sake of the love you once felt for me—let him IFO." ••Do you plead for the like of him?"
Yos, Jim. It won't do you any good to see him hang." "But you bore witness against nim yersilf. "True, Jim. I don't see what possessed me to do it. I was crazy with jealousy and thinking she wouldn't give him up after all but for that they mlglit have put me in prieon, but I'd have bitten out my tougue before I said a word against blm." "So you love him yet, I suppose? "Yes. The more because I have reason to beg his pardon." "For being in the way of his fist when be knocked you down on the street. That's tho last kindness he done ye." "1 don't care for that. I provoked him." "Well, I'm noto'yourforglvin*spirit. Now listen to what I Intend to do. He robbed mo of the woman that I loved and thou put her under his feet. Now I'll hunt him high and low, in every corner o' this world, but I'll put bis neck in tto halter, where it belongs!"
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"It was the beet I could do. I could find no work," she replied, tremulously. "Work?" he repeated, with a hard laugh. "Do you expect to live by work? I used to think you rather pretty. It ought to serve you now in the place of work." "I thought I might find you." sie ventured, timidly. "The deuce you did! Well, you have found me, and a confounded poor find
By time the glimmering of the match showed him her bed, and be limped forward andjthrew himself upon It.
A wailing cry startled blm. Hallo! What in the name of fury is this?" be cried. "That's Lulu," said the girl, coming to the bedside.
He stsrted up and looked at the baby which he had awakened by letting his arm fall upon it. "And who is Lulu, pray "Our child. Harry," said the girl, watching him eagerly. "Oh, if it will only win him back to me!" was her thought.
The man uttered an oath, and frowned at the child as if it offended bim. "Yes, I believe you said something about a child on your last interesting interview," he said, sardonically, "Stop the brat's squalling, will you f"
The girl took up the wailing babe, and looked at it with more discontent than she had ever felt toward it before. She had hoped that it might be anew tie between ber and the man who had once seemed to love her so passionately. She now feared that it would prove a barrier. "You're an affectionate mother, I'll be sworn!" laughed the man, harshly. "Do you leave it here while you're walking the streets at night "I give it soothing syrup, andit sleeps quietly enough." "Take my advice and give it an overdose some time. Such incumbrances are not attractive to the gentlemen friends of such ladies as you.,r "I have no gentlemen, friends," said the girl and then with a sudden pleading "Harry, I have been true to you. Won't vou believe me "It's'a matter of indifference to me whether yon have or not. I hate debates. Have you anything to drink? That's much more to the purpose." "No there's nothing in the house.--"Have you any money "A little," faintly. "Let's see what you call a little!
The girl drew a small purse from the bosotn of her dress, and put it in his hand.
He emptied the contents on the counterpane Three dollars and eighty-five cents," id: "quite a little fortune. There, a dollar of it and get me some
he said: take a c. brandy. Don't be long gone. I'm found of your company."
Having quieted the baby, the girl laid it down on the further side of the bed. The man scrowled at it impatiently. "If that imp raises a row while you're gone, I'll put it between two pillows!' he said.
She knew that ho did uot mean It, and taking the money she went out for the liquor. She never had a thought of denying him the money for which she u»!cht starve on the following week.
Fanny had obtained the liquor and returned as far as the mouth of the alley leading to the rear tenement-house, when she was startled by an oath and felt a heavy hand laid on her shoulder.
Looking up with a cry, she recognized Jim McFadden. With a quick wrench she tore herself free and sped down the alley.
Jim recaptured her it the foot of the first flight of stairs leading up to her room.
She beard a whistle in the street, and presently four other men came down the alley and stood about her. "This Is his sweetheart," explained Jim, "and they won't be far apart. Where have yon bid him
I don't know who you're talking about," asserted Fanny, unblushingty "Oh, yes you do! I said I'd hunt Harry Tranor to the death, and ha^i jest slipped through my dutches, not half an hour a*o. Where do you live
stunning physical blow, conscious only of a nam pain and sense of loss, when Lawyer Bradstreet came puffing in, all out of breath, and with his face nil of concern. "You have seen it?" be said, as he caught sight of ber.
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She broke down in a violent fit of
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"It's none of your business, Jim McFadden. Let mo go, I say!'' At this moment an old hag emerged from one of the lower rooms, attracted by the sound af voices. "Moll, do you know this girl?" asked one of the men, whoee badge of office showed plainly on the breast of bis coat, "That stuck-up piece aaked the bag. viciously. "She's in the fourth story back, left hand. Come here three weeks affo. Puts on more style than if she lived on fifth avenue. Has she been sbop11:1111*
Without answering, the men ascended the stairs, threatening Fanny with a pistol if she dared to cry out.
In the room a desperate man, having heard the heavy footsteps when it was too late to escape, stood at bar. "So you have betrayed me!" be cried, and aimed a pistol at the girl whom the men bad thrust into the room before tbem.
She bad no time for explanation or
There was a flash, a ringing report, and with a scream she fell. Two more reports, and the fugitive lav on the floor, while Jim McFadden was supported in the arms of a policeman. iMk
CHAPTER XXTI. srsriwR.
Tho shock which -was to test ber lore to the utmost bad fallen upon Helen Princeton. The clay feet of ber idol, reber
walls of the shrine, in ruins. Sho sat like one who bad rtcstw ft
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him! He's a villain after
all!" muttered the lawyer, at a loss how to console ber. He was reviewing in his mind the paragraph in the paper:
The murderer, Harry Tranor. from the shock of whose atrocious deed of blood the public has scarcely yet recovered, and whose Xaen has received a tinge of romance from the misguided devotion of his sweetheart, the daughter of his victim, who aided his escape, was last night recaptured in this city. He WAS traced to a gamb ing hell, where the officers came upon him playing desperately, with a fair prospect of breaking the banK. When concerned he made a determined stand, firing four shots, one of which seriously wounded Detective Thompson in the shoulder. .. "In the confusion which ensued he made his escape, but was subsequently traced to the room of woman named Fanny Morton, where he was captured after another exchange of shots. .. .. "Under the mistaken impression that the woman had betrayed him, his weapon was first directed upon her with probable fatal effect.
His
second shot lodged in the left lung
of James McFadden, a former lover of the woman Morton, who has been markedly active in pursuit of the criminal. "Tranor then fell to the floor, severely wonnded, and was recaptured without farther trouble. He will be In his old quarters In a day or two, when it is to be hoped his infatuated lady-love will be watched a little more closely."
Thinking of this, old Pop Bradstreet reflected indignantly: "The dog deserves to hang, whether he is guilty of the murder or not! After all she has done and suffered for him— and, by Jove! one of ber tears is worth more than his whole carcass—to think that he would walk straight back to hiaold tricks again I begin to believe he1 did it after all!"
This was the first instance of defection on the part of Pop Bradstreet in Helen presence but no his indignation waa so great that be said "There, there !i Mis9 Princeton, he Is not worth such grief from you. A man who could go back to a woman like that after "Stop!" said Helen, rousing herself.
As if stung by keen pain, she started to her feet and stood pale aud trembling. "Mr. Bradstreet," she added, "will yon let me thank you for the kindly motive which led you to seek me,and then leave me by myself for the present I will see you again to-morrow. To-day I must be alone—I
must
be alone!'
Her passionate outburst showed how severe was the shock her nerves had sustained.
Pop Bradstreet, who was not without tact, rose immediately and took her hand. "Do not let an old fellow like me distress you," he said. "I will look iu on you again to-morrow. Meanwhile you may feel an interest in the fact that be will reach here on the 2:30 train to-mor-row afternoon."
She thanked him with a pressure of the hand, and when he was gone sank upon a sofa, and with her face in her hands, fought the hardest fight of her llfe-
When she arose,two hours later, there was a death-like pallor on her face but it bore no further traces of emotion. She looked like a woman in whom the warm currents of life had suddenly been chilled
t°\vTth
a nceasured tread she went to the
library aud penned a note to Pop Bradstreet, requesting him to procure for her permission to visit the prisoner as soon as possible after his arrival, and to call himself and accompany her to the pris-
low, even tone in which she addressed her servants awed them, and they moved about ou tiptoe, casting looks of compassion at her, and whispering among themselves.
Unable to endure this, she dismissed them, and then turned to face the terrible night of waiting. For the first time in her life sbe.felt utterly alone. Having
him,
all her friend but now——
CHAPTER XXIII. NOT THE MAN.
The depot was thronged by a mob very much in a mood to hang the prisouer to the nearest tree as soon as he should step from the train. When he appeared they were surprised to see that he had to be borne on a litter.
The fact seemed to afford them a ghoul like satisfaction for they gloated on him with inhuman exultation, while they expressed their detestation in hoots and groans, pressing so hard upon the ie of police by whom he was surided that they had to be beaten back.
Nothing daunted by the surging mob the prisoner raised on bis elbow and reidtheir hatred with fierce scowls from
&
ilood-shot eyes. So he was borne back to his old cell. When Helen presented herself for admittance she* waa received etldly by .the warden. He bad not foigiveu her. the tine trick she had played upon bim.
He might have spared himself the trouble of appearing sulky. The girl never noticed nis mood. She only knew that abe waa approaching, then that abe stood alone in the cell with "Harry!"
Ber bands were pressed over ber heart. Her voice was so husky aa to be scarcely audible. She had not approached bim, but stood aloof, just within the barred door of the cell.
He lay on his face, as she bad seen him so many times, never moving until she spoke his name.
What emotions his posture had awakened in her bosom She had come to him with a heart of ice, her faith in bis truth at last swept away by the evidence which bis
own
bareness had furnished,
yet impelled by that deathless love which would not let her part from him forever without on«*» more standing face to face with hUn and asking why be had so betrayed one so true to him. She must bear bis defense from his own lips then
He raised on his elbow and turned his blood-shot eyes upon her. There was no trace of tenderness or remorse only curiosity and sullen hatred.
The girl caught ber breath. Her face grew even whiter. She leaned forward, gazing at him with wonder, incredulity and terror in ber eyes. Tben, while an inarticulate, murmuring sound issued from her quivering lips.abe took a step backward, groping with ber band for the cell door, ber eyes still riveted on his as if held by fasdnation.
A sudden change came over her. The blood streamed into ber face. With swift strides die readied the ride of the recumbent man,lifted a lode of hair from his temple snatched her hand awav as If it bad been In contact with a serpent thai, still gazing at blm, clapped ber
'MM
TERRE HAUTE SATOHDAY EV'iff^lNXjr MATL.
thought to keep
it from you, my poor child." He sat down beside her and took her band. "Oh, they have recaptured him!" she cried, tremulously. "Yes, it seems so." "That is not the worst of it. lie was gambling, and—and—oh, oh, oh!"
hands, and burst into a hysterical laugh. Another ehauge followed quickly.
into the cell "You villain viper!" cried the exci
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tear it open, and falling, beat upon wildly with ber frail hands.
Anoiner cuaage iouoweu qmcaiy. & wuuweu nwwjr look of horror and loathing came into our story), and a vagraut desire to see cu« his boyhood's home had impelled Har-—-hereyes. She shuddered and shrank
Wnen they reached the house, he, lacking a yoiing man's sentiment as well aa vigor, let the coachman carry her in and lay her upon a bed. Restoratives were uunecessarv for, as soon as her head was laid low, she showed signs of returning consciousness^ After the first bewildered glauce, she would have started up but the lawyer gently held her in her place. When she recognized him she caught his bauds aud cried, with a radiant smile: "Oh, Mr. Bradstreet, where is he? Its not Harry, at ail!" "The deuce It ain't!" cried the lawyer, and stared at her as if he thought her or himself crazy.
CHAPTER XXIV VINDICATED!
"No, no! it isu't Harry!" cried Helen, all a-tremble with excitement "but how nearly he resembles him! I should have been deceived myself^ I believe, had I not been so familiar with him but did not you notice a scar on this man's temple? Ob, Mr. Bradstreet! suppose this is the man we've been lookiug for, after all
Then, to the further bewilderment of the already dazed lawyer, *he suddenly bowed her face in ber hands, and
way to an agony of weeping, she crl "Ob, Harry! Harry! will you ever for! give me for'the injustice I have donyou? Oh, my poor, wronged darling! that even I should turn against you, I'll never forgive myself—never, never!"'
Through his fuddled old bead, Pod Bradstreet got one idea, so that it stood out clear. Helen Princeton had said that the prisoner in yonder lail was not Harry Tranor, but a man who was his perfect double further, she had suggested that this man was the murderer of Jared Princeton.
In a twinkling all Pop Bradstreet's unreasonable, enthusiastic confidence in Heleu'sdiscernment returned,redoubled by reason of his temporary defection ou the day before.
Catching sight of his reflection in a _iirror, the old lawyer pranced up to it, shook his flst at himself and cried:
Pop Bradstreet, you're an old ass! I say you're in your dotage! Guiltv! that boy guilty! Bah! you area set of fools, all of you! A girl has more in her pretty little head than bench, bar and jurybox!"
Casting his hat on the floor, the old fellow, who had Donnybrook blood In his veins, fairly danced on it.
this assurance
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away. With the' full realization that old to visit the place at the same time, she was locked in a cell with a murder- Meeting Mr. Princeton after Fanny er,she bounded to the barred door, and had fired nis mind with her story, Haruttering scream after scream,, sought to
What can he have done to den, whose tenacious pursuit he was even then fleeing. Later the old gentleman struok HarAS rayIV prancing WIUIESCTUJIUNUT. old with his cane. It recalled a severe The turnkey coolly opened the door caning administered in his youth from and allowed the lawyer to precede him the same source, when detected in robbing Jared Princeton's orchard, for you infernal which the boy Harold had sworn revenge. In the beat of this recollection,
viper:" criea me exciiea lawyer, seizing *ougo. the prisoner by the shoulder and shak- Harold had fired the fatal shot, which ***«t-Vk nil Kia miivtit nAr* Har) fin nAflrlv hmifffvi fill 1K)DOC6Dt lll&D* ing him with all his might—which cer tainly was not very great—"what have you
An asthmatic injunction was soon served on such active demonstrations, and picking up bis hat again—a soft felt one—he stood before Helen, wheezing like a saw that needed grease. "Don't have another minute of anx- oreast sweiwn wnu an iety. It will be all right," he said, as
ussurance ue rusnea irom tutsuuuao. heart naa
Lawyer Conway and Dr.
Lawyer uonway auu
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His visitors were in no mood to enjoy bis wit. .. "Whoare-you, rascal?" demanded Mr. Conway, sternly. "Not the man you take me for, as I will show, as soon as I have a chance, replied the prisoner, nonchalantly. "Thank neaven that you are notJ aspirated the lawyer, fervently. "Of a verity, I have good reason for da •out thankfulness on that score, since if I was I should be apt to have my oeck stretched," laughed the prisoner iv fine fellow, iy not be found to fit the noose made for bis! 'cried Pop Brad-
Don't be too aure, rn that your neck may not
VUG UW90 A street, fairly dancing with excitement "We've been raking this countrj high and low for just such a gentlemen as
"UGentlemen,"continued Pop, turning to bia companiona, "I've been thinking this thine up, and I've got it all in a nutfhelL Everything points to one emelusion. When I have established Harry Tranor's entire innocence, please to remember that I am the only man who bas always maintained it."
Again the prisoner laughed!-^4 "Spring your mine, old man. be said. "I'll biet vou two to one that it ends in noise and smoke."
And »o began an investigation which established tne following facta: The reported death ol Harold Tranor (cousin of Harry Tranor, and mention of whom was made in chapter second of this veracious chronicle) was a mistake. He had escaped from a saloon brawl with a scar on the temple, by which Helen bad distinguished bim from the cousin be so much resembled.
The necessity of "rusticating', until one of bis many crimes blew over, brought bim by chance to the same town in which our hero was affecting bis reclamation from the demon of intemperance. Here Harold Tranor bad blmself with Fanny Morton,
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By a confusion of identity Fanny had followed Henry Tranor (the Harry of Zk
:o old saw by the manner of the old gentleit man that he was mistaken for his
naiy wun uer irau oauus. cousin. Out of sport, aud because ho The prisoner saw all this—saw her slip did not care to announce his identity, senseless to the stone floor—heard the Harold had refrained from correcting hurried fall of approaching footsteps, the misapprehension, and personated and with a laugh of indifference, lay »a
again upon bis face. "In Heaven's name, sir, be expedi tious If he has harmed a hair of her head I'll have his heart's blood, the unmitigated scroundel! Oh, why did I —~-tr —, leave her with such a demon Give me effect his own escape from Jim
hft
bad so nearly hanged an innocent man. When enough of this was made^ clear by external evidence, to which Fanny
.Bah! Fool, do not annoy me!" and Jim McFadden contributed chiefly, growled the man, locking up with an to establish Henry Trauor's innocence, uelv scowl: and with a sweep or his arm, Harold confessed the whole, and added:
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he sent his old assailant reeling across the cell. "Have you nothing to say for yourself, then, you monster?" but the man had immediately fallen upou his lace, after ridding himself of the annoying after riddingminseu 01 me uuvms clutch of the old lawyer, and deigned no the innocent man the scant reparation ot —an executive discharge, while the real an executive discharge, while tne reai ting that he did not move, Pop Brad- criminal smiled sneeringly, and pointed uAlan in hiQ orniQ nIH sift Iia t.n hands of «Jll8tioe* street lifted Helen in his arms, old as he was, and carried her to the carriage, disregarding the warden's proffer of hospitality.
And such proved to be the law. All that could be done was to make to
to the tied hands of ustice. Though Jared Princeton went unavenged, Harold Tranor did notgo entirely unwhipped of justice. He was tried, couvictea, and sentenced to the full extent of the law, for assault with intent to kill, on the persons of Fanny Morton and James McFadden.
The two latter went their way, and so passed out of the lives of the principal characters of our drama, jjp -i ___________ f-
What shall I say of Helen She had slipped from his arms and Insisted of kneeling at his feet while she confessed that one season of terrible doubt, and begged his pardon again and agin.a "But remember, Harry, always remember that I never ceased to love you, even then. Though my reason was deluded by the hateful appearances, my heart was never for an instant disloyal to yon," she had whispered, when he raised her and placed her again on his breast.
Now she stood crowned with the triumph of her grand womanhood, and her breast swelled with an oppressive sense
Qt
soou as he could catch breath, and with traced a legend which her o\\yi loving
he rushed from the house, heart had devised^ and with which her Not Look, his coachman, astonishing tbein with the declaration that they had nearly [THE END.] sworn an innocent man's neck into the halter, and now he wanted them toswear out again.
joy and thanksgiving a* her eye
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knowing
Alcrua-
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What are you going to do about it? Henry Tranor, having oeen convicted of the crime, 110 other man can be brought to trial for it."
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The old Princeton mansion was illuminated from cellar to garret, while the
{grounds
were gay with with Chinese
anterns. In the long drawing rooms, and the stately staircase, were assembled the happiest gathering in America. Every oue seemed desirous of taking everyone else by the hand and exchanging words of hearty sympathy and cow gratulation.
Look Sharp was the most bustling young man* and Pop Bradstreet was the merriest "old party."
Mrs. Langworthy, as a gracious, selfpossessed queen of society, acquitted herself with her accustomed grace.
Dr. Alworth was there, with his mother and sister. Helen had almost gone down on her kuees to him. in her self-abasement at the wrong she had done him. She would have cousideri a clear deed of his old homestead as on slight acknowledgment, but he ref the gift, and they finally comproni by his receiving back bis home, subject to the mortgages by which it bid won incumbered.
Lawyer Conway had taken Helen into his fatherly arms, and laughed at her and petted her by turns,until he showed her how little he remembered what she called her "monstrous Ingratitude." It is never hard for age to forgive contrite youth and beauty.
Last but not least of the guests, Hezekiab Calloday beamed with his wonted benignity on all aroundS* Me was att rayed in nis sacerdotal robes, and held a book-In his hand, as if about to perform some solemn rite.
And Harry, pale, yet happy, was a better man than no had beeu, all the alloy purged away by the fiery crucible thiough which he had passed, and only the fine gold of his uature remaiuing behind.
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content with getting his partner, own fingers had adorned the end wall of Poo hunted up Mr. Baxter and the drawing-room it was the simple M.itn word: "Vindicated/"
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I
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burning sensation in the stomach, which.was unbearable. Since talcing
BROWN'S IRON BITTRRS,
all my
troubles are at an end. Can eat any lime without any disagreeable results.
I
am practically another
person. Mrs. W J.
FLYNN,
30 Maverick St., £. Hasten.
BROWN'S IRON
BIT
TERS acts like a charm on the digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such as tasting the food, Belching, Heat in tho Stomach, Heartburn, etc. The only Iron Preparation that will not blacken the teeth or give headache.
Sold by all Druggists.
Brown Chemical Co.
Baltimore, Md.
See that all Iron Bitters ate RMtte by Brown Chemical Co., Baltimore, and "have crossed red lines and tradcmark on wrapper.
'BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Professional Cards. TVR. A. H. DEPUY.
117 north Sixth Street, TERRE HAUTE.
•, EYE AND EAR A SPECIALTY.
HODRS {ISIfrjt
DR
AJSGELINE L. WILSON
Oflbrs her services ..
To the Ladles and Children of Terre Haute.
Office aud Residence—2Ai south Seveutb Street. Office hours from 1 to 8 p. m.
3. RICHARDSON. B. W. VAST VAU5AH
RICHARDSON & VAS
Mka
rrm curs Boma. (M4 by *11 Dr«**l«U U4 OMlan. MraaUaa* te o«-
OuHts ATopte Co. (htMM to /L Twlo *V) •.IIIMWI, li, c.A A.
Mary Stuart Face Powder
sws* 1 1 wm This Powder contains no Araenip, Lime or White Lead
Not being poisonous lit may be and by 'the most delicate lady without (ear. It will qot roughen the skin, and will remove Freckle*#m! Tan, and allay irritation. Artists who are obliged to use a cosmetic, re co tnnend Mary 8tuart 'aea Power as the
mosflbarmkss. A distinguished specialist on "If iSdie* murt we cosmetics. I reeomend Mary tMrairt Face Powder as the simplest and roost harmless." Flesh or White. Price cents per oox. Agent for Terre Haute, Ind^
GULICK & CO.
VA
LZAH
I. DENTISTS.
OFTICW—Southwest
corner Fifth and Main
streets, over National State Bauk (eutrance^ on Fifth street, communication by Telephone.
c.°-
LINCOLN,
DBNTlfIT
Office, 194 S. Sixth, opposite P. O. traetlng and artificial teeth apucltUtle* work warranted.
W. BALLEW, DENTIST,
Offlee. 438K Wain f»t*eet,ov*r oldconfrrtlouerr itann TEKRK HAUTE, 1ND.
your
own have"tieen cured In your own neighborhood, and you can find reliable proof at home of what Hop Bitters bas and can do.
THE 8REAT 6EJMAI
REMEDY
FOR PAIN.
fcxAll
Can he round in office nlfght aaii i*»
WHOLESALE
CANDY MANUFACTORY —AND— BAKERY.
A. B. Mewbinney & Co.
••Bill IIA street. Terre Mante, Ind
0^ a|N and Lemsm.
RGAGG,
ptAm n*
ARTISTS' SUPPLIES,
PICTURES, FRAMES, MOPLDINQS.
Pietare Frames Made to Order.
McKaan's' Blook, .(No. 64« Main stwe* between 6th »nd 7th.
W.tt. CutY. J' H. J. M. Chvrt
CLIFT,WILLIAMS & CO.
jfAjrvrAcrcaaas or
Sash, Doors, Blinds, &e
AMD
OKAX.SBS II*
LCXBKK, LATH, SHINGLES GLASS, PAINTS, OILS and BCILDEKS' HARDWARE.
Mulberry Street, Corner Sloth, TEBRB HAUTE. INI
TrJIANT THOJI4B, Office: Cor. Fouith and Ohio. TATE OF INDIANA, County of Vigo. In the Superior Court of Vtjjo County, Muicli N™ '5s?' Thomas J. Fattou vs. George WCMrr John W. Cory, Simeon Cory. lobelia
Martha E Walmnk-y WHfr, Man 1 le
A CoiyTiMwart L. Cory. Josephine Cory and
Kfend«ol» of pradencjr 01
"SLMMSSSSiSfSWo™•«"•» airini the Dcndency of said action against ?£.m Jnd that the same will stand for trial them andm«ine»o^
at March Terra
ofwldt^^gcjrwK derk. Tennant 4 Thomas, pHTs attys.