Show THE torf torr dorf NEWSPAPER ioe JOE 1 WE ois CIs 11 EVIDENCE I 1 1 in OLIVER alit alil lit Xit lwell never consent to your marriage with william appleton ida said charles rei red ington with a flushed look and angry eyes if I 1 love iove willia william in more than I 1 love hove charles why should you be angry this is not the way to make me love you better than william if I 1 cannot be your wife I 1 can be your I 1 friend you have paid me a compliment I 1 shall always be grateful crateful for in offering me your hand I 1 beef feel deeply your preference of me over other and fairer maidens of your a acquaintance cde and who I 1 know would be ma made happy by such an offer not look dis j pleased because I 1 refuse to be your youn wife is I 1 s I 1 no reason that I 1 cannot esteem you as a friend I 1 thus thug calmly and gentl yand sensibly spoke ida boyd a sweet beautiful beautia al firl girl of eighteen the daughter of a poor widow wb cw to a rich iad kad young xoung oung man of uncontrollable passions who I 1 had 1 loved oved her long and would nave made her his wife for though poor she was socially j his equal her father having been a gentleman of fortune who became reduced before his death through the failure of a bank in which bich he had invested all he was worth they were standing at the garden gate ate to which be he had asked her to accompany nim im af 1 ter ila iia leaving lla having ving called to see her sayin saying 0 that lie he i wished to say a few words to her alone I 1 these few words were the offer of his hand and fortune her reply was that she had bad I 1 i been a month engaged to william appleton ills his angry exclamations of disappointment 6 called ailed from her the words of remonstrance and kindness which she addressed to him at I 1 the beginning of our tale talc 11 love loye or hate irate he replied almost fiercely if 1 ir I must either love or hate you ida loyd there is no medium with mei met me As for gli wit william wililam appleton may the day aches rC charles hes nes charles charlesl stop where you are this ibis conduct is unworthy of you and painful to me rne P she cried laying her hand upon his arm which he pettishly with withdrew drew drow from her touch if I 1 cannot love you why will vill you hate mei met me does not this show your love for me was not such as would stand the tests of life lda ifa lda ida ida t alk talk not thus thuel my love for you would have made me die for you yesterday if you had bidden me do any deed involving wll wil th ik of my life I 1 would have marched with wite a smile upon my lips to death so that 1 I felt that you ampro approved ed y she looked in is ills his face the moonlight gleaming through a lattice of leaves above their heads fell in soft splendor upon his forehead for his ilia forehead was uncovered as he spoke to the fair object of his borshi worship T there was a momentary silence she br broke 0 ke it by saying charles I 1 am very very sorry for youl you 1 I 92 pity me not your pity adds poison to the barb you have so completely fastened in my heart bate hate me ida hate me that will be the most grateful return you can make me for robbing me of yourself acharles fC harles charles said the lovely girl giri irl iri as she took hi his reluctant hand in hers ular dear charles my friend how can you blame me how can you feilso feel so loveica love is a mystery I 1 do not know why I 1 chose william rather than you pa he has known you but ten months while I 1 have known y you 0 u from a child tj 1 I know it charles I 1 have always liked youl do you not remember how I 1 have so often given you flowers and how you used to love iove to carry my heavy satchel of books home forme torme and how you gave me birds and rabbits for pets and I 1 named them after you and how you used to do my hard sums for me and aliat good friends we used to beay be yes I 1 remember it all ida and we were very happy and when I 1 grew up and you grew up and became so beautiful I 1 resolved you should hould s be my ray wife but then came this stranger and and here the emotion if not a gush of tears of the young man choked hi his s utterance and lie he turned away without finishing fin finishing ishin I 1 the sentence As I 1 said charles love is i s a mystery in t T r y I 1 loved him as soon as I 1 saw him I 1 yo dont n e know ak n ow how it was but our eyes no sooner met than our hearts seemed to liy lly tog together gether and embrace like ion lon iong long absent frien friends dM the Jis appointed disappointed lover made no immediate reply he walked for a few moments boand to and fro before the garden gate there was a cloud visible upon his brow and a stern fixedness of the lips which alarmed her she approached him gently and said Ch charles charies arlesly well miss liss baydl dolkos do not speak to me so unkindly what matters it are you anything to me am I 1 anything to thee are you not his I 1 do well to speak unkind unkindly lyl but forgive me idal ida I 1 am not angry with you poets say love cannot be helped but as for him who knowing how I 1 loved you and who has come between me and hy happiness say no word in anger C charles charies arles aries for my sake do not be angry with william y 1 for thy sake bake yes may I 1 not ask this ida what do I 1 owe you thador thy sake I 1 should not hate dimpy him nothing but oh forgive mei met me I 1 knew not you 0 u loved me so dearly you never told me ti till ll 11 tonight to ni night lit because I 1 did hot deem it necessary to tell thee 11 be he observed bitterly 1 I thought you understood the look of my eyes the touch of my hand the tone of my voice to tell you ou that I 1 loved you would have seemed to me like ike painting the rainbow or lending torches to the he light of the stars but alas I 1 see I 1 have D afen mistaken lent cent f ae tn oxe oye loe ioe A of se gei sei i cure atre itself must gawe gabble and andl sp speak break 1 itself olito ouro rj the loudest goose will be the victor 72 i i xou you are very bitter diaries 02 pardon me but I 1 feel bitterly goodnight ida 2 let us part friends y Friend friends sl eh ehl friends what does that mean not enemies 12 more than that charles let letus lotus us part friends not ene enemies inies answered the young man as he coldly received in his own her soft sott hand with which she warmly clasped his bis 1 I can never hate thee when I 1 die ida 1 your image will be found en graven raven upon my inmost heart goodnight good night if I 1 I 1 never more speak to thee do not imagine I 1 hate thee but I 1 can never look again upon the form which is possessed by my rival god night ile he left the gate and walked rapidly onward she impulsively followed him halo half a dozen steps but seeing he paid no attention to her pursuing feet though he must have heard them upon the pavement she stopped clareed clasped her hands bands together upon her bosom sighed heavily and said groh on that I 1 had before known how charles loved me yet he never told his love ile lie was so diffident and distant while william pressed his suit with such fervor poor charles I 1 wish he could understand that I 1 love him as a friend though william is to be my husband W wi po will wil wi po will cried in plaintive notes a whippoorwill whip poor will in the top of a neighboring tree what a doleful cry this birds note sounds ominously and makes me feel fearlo fear 1 she said as she returned slowly to the gate alther they say it sings thus only when some evil is is t to 0 happen I 1 lappe n to atie the hearer shall I 1 go in or wait for william 21 she soliloquised as she lingered by the gate held half open in her hand band lle ile lie he was to be here at nine and the bell for nine will soon ring 11 the young girl with a torn heart for she loved both lovers but william most and ten derest having also pledged him and troth lingered 1011 loii long iong after the nine bell had rung for william had promised her he would come at nine with every note of the bell she expected to hear blended the sound of his footstep half past nine came and her mother came out to her ardd arid said 1 ida you ought to be in dear where is wit william not come yet mother I 1 wonder what has detained him perhaps some engagement you know he I 1 is but a clerk and his time to himself poor xoung young oun man as mr redington has who is rix ric rich fiust frust I 1 must confess ida I 1 am surprised you should have selected the poor one he selected me nl mother other 11 but you know that on the least encouragement the richer would have asked you 1 I did not encourage him because he was rich I 1 could not trust myself I 1 feared 1 I might be thinking of his fortune BO so I 1 let the one who offered first have my hand band 13 well weil william is a good young man and will make you happy but put you know my opinion ion lon I 1 I 1 would rather you would have mar ried bir Mr Redington ton that fine house bouse his bis mother lives in would have been yours at her death leath with a carriage and all that dont dolt jalk talk of such things mother they do 30 not come into my thoughts thought 0 I 1 shall shail ie perfectly happy with william and since I 1 have seen the he exhibition of anger and feeling shown b by y charles this evening I 1 see he has a fearful f 1 temper which might have made me wretched as his wife well come in dear child it is full a quarter to ten honest people ou ought it to be in bed by half an hour after bell beil ringing 22 1 I will come in soon dear deay mamma 6 I 1 think william will be here by ten I 1 will just meet him at the gate here and say good food n night agh i t to him lie ile was to bring me a wedding ring well at ten you must come in tie be your handkerchief over your head ida for I 1 feel there is a dew ten was struck by the old clock in the house but idas lover had not come she watched till ten minutes past when slowly and wonderingly wondering lyshe she returned to the house tille he has never failed me before she said but perhaps something has detained him it cannot be that now that I 1 am engaged to him he loves me less and thinks he need not be so 80 punctual to his engagements not sure of was trying to win my consent 7 how sensitive how jealous how exacting is true love ida entered reentered re the honse house and by ax and by retired but not until all ho hope e oi ot seeing wil liam llam that night had expire expired T 1 I 1 in the morn morning ln she dreamed a dream she believed that she hg e was walking arm in arm irm with william by the side of the river when a mermaid rose before them out of the water and said in a harsh voice come I 1 have waited for you you must go with mel met my imy i home in the depth of the river is rea dyll she thought that the mermaid so fascinated william that he be left her side and went as by a resistless spell to the syren ayren who was about to entwine her arms abou thim when some one cried I 1 as if from the air fire and slay heri herp her or she will destroy him she heard at the moment a report as if from behind her and she saw william with a wound in his forehead fall into the arms of the syren who plunged with him into the river and disappeared there was a mocking laugh behind her and she thought the voice sounded like that of charles redington she turned to see sec if her fears were true when the loud voice voice of her mother awoke her awake child up idal there is fearful jewsll news Wh lit tit 1 mother she slit me ne star starting from her ber vivid dream dread 1 i t i william j I 1 i i Willi william aur auf is shrieked catchi ifie the words from the pallid lips of her mother 1 I saw him Is it not so oh do not be silent silently I 1 news has just come that he was found in J liin liln in the river with a bullet wound in his fo forehead rehe adill she cried HOW wonderful and true cried two or three neighbors who were at her bedroom bed room door while white a third said how could she know this 1 11 I saw it all in a dream dreamt oh tell me is william dead I 1 yes answered the minister who lived near and having heard the news nevo has bas hastened to the house of mourning mourning as became his office lle lie ile he was fo found und deai dead an hour ago by thir th shore half in the water ile he had been shot in the forehead his body is a taken to his mothers where an inquest will be held oh william william who could have done this dead william willia m dead she shrieked and fell insensible i into nto the arms of her mother the death of william appleton by violence in so mysterious a manner created the most we So found excitement the peaceful village e was beloved and popular and was not known to have an enemy ile he had been found by the bank his body half halt in the water but as ills his clothing and hair were thoroughly wetted det iet ted it was believed lie he had been thrown in in and floated ashore the place where helas he was found was about halfway half way between the vill village ge and residence of ida boyd by the road that levalon led along the winding and shady banks he must must have been see her or else coming from there aid said a woman who was present as they were holding the inquest lle lie he ile was to her and went to see her every nl night ht this hiis opinion prevailed thie question now came up who could have done this and what could have been the motive there was no suspicion I 1 of person or motive and the jury gave in their verdict shot dead with vi a pistol or gun by some person or persons unknown and then thrown into the river what more could a coroners N jury ury not omniscient nor omnipotent decide the funeral took place on the third day and was vas attended by sa a vast concourse of people for a murder arder invests death with a fearful tearful mystery which arouses the deepest sympathies of the human heart as well as awakens the liveliest curiosity of our nature but there were agencies of providence at work for the discovery of the murderer the ube surgeon who had been called to examine and pronounce upon the nature of the wound had drawn from the orifice made by the bullet a vece piece of paper a er saturated with the river water he e saw IN that it was newspaper wadding which had been driven into the wound behind the ball ile he stated to the coroner from this circumstance cum stance that the assassin must have stood close to his victim for the wadding to have also entered the wound this assertion threw no light upon the author of 0 the crime and had little weight upon the coroner and his rustic jury iury y the sur surgeon eon who was a shrewd man of the world ana and who let nothing escape him took the wadding home and having removed the tile stains of brood blood and dried it c closely tl closely examined it discovered that it was a part of a newspaper called the evening star dr thomas upon looking carefully at this fragment compressed his lippand lips lip sand and ani was for a few moments silent fixing a his keen keh grey eyes upon the floor the evening star he at length exclaimed or oz rather muttered 1 I wonder who takes that paper in this villager yil vil lagel this I 1 must quietly ascertain I 1 said before the coroner that this piece of paper might be probably a clue to the murderer and I 1 did not wish to make a noise about it lest the murderer might be present at the inquest and take the alarm I 1 think I 1 have shown my usual sagacity now with the aid of providence I 1 may find out who murdered william appleton poor ida boyd baydl they say it has broken her heart as they were soon to be married the evening star stay there bit of paper he added until I 1 look further 02 As he spoke he locked the wadding in a drawer and putting putting the key in irk his pocket walked out he took too the direction of the post office which he entered with a loitering step as if he be had no purpose the postmaster was seated in ills his great armchair arm chair being a bent u up j rheumatic man with iron 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