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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH IMUMUMUMMU Mystery of Hartley House $jhe Copyright by George H. Doran Co. iOGOQCSCOSCSGCOSOSOOOSOOOOGOOOOOOQOaQOOOOSeOSOOSOQOQOOGOOSiOCOOOOOOSCOeeCO , CHAPTER XVI Continued. 16 But this scheme of life had this In It that brought disaster to his sons ia laxness of any discipline related to their spiritual and mental develop-tnenWhen we were corrected or punished It was fo conduct which affected his comfort or dignity, never for a thing which affected the development of our character. We had abundant money to spend. It was a part of our fathers egotism that we should be young swells, and we were early In disorderly ways. Blchard had a genius for cruelty. A normal boy is likely to be thoughtless, but Richard was Inventive In his cruelties. It was brutal. He liked to tear things to pieces slowly, a fly If It was all he could catch a grasshopper, a field mouse. I had a faithful little dog which Richard staked out In the ground nnd killed by vivisection. I saw the little animal when It was breathing Its last with its bowels exposed and Its lungs laid bare. Richard destroyed birds nests for pleasure. lie liked to cut a leg olT a hen and see It stagger about vainly trying to walk. He maimed dogs. He tortured cattle and horses. He killed a fine carriage horse by driving it to death purposely to see how long It would live under the treatment he 'gave It. "I doubt that I was a more lovable child, hut at least I did not have the 'attribute of cruelty. I was not only younger but I was weaker physically. I was sensitive to a degree which made e an extraordinary victim to Richard hen he cared to express his flendish-nes- s to or upon me. were getting Into late childWe I hood I should say that I was about fourteen when Richard began to use his Inventiveness in cruelly upon me directly. As soon as he had a taste of the delight which came from tormenting me I had no further peace. "I remember with a still agonized vividness my experience In finding a snake in my bed. He had put it there. He used his superior strength to torture me physically, ne dominated me spiritually. He made life a hell, such a hell as life can be made only for a child by mistreatment, when reality has not starkly asserted itself, when proportions are not established and when illusions can be kindly or hideous. Richard and I grew up In this fashion, I in terror of him and his malevolence. When I was fifteen mother died. She had been an unassertive mother. Circumstances nnd conditions were beyond her strength of mind or body, but she lmd been a friend, and I missed her cruelly. It was really a terrible loss at a time when I much needed a t. , I and from which Richard has suffered and is suffering. lie Is a broken old man. He is in a penitentiary." Here followed a section of the manuscript from which, as I recognized, the page Dravada had taken was missing. Then it continued: I became a little more assertive of my rights and dignity, with the result that our quarrels were more violent. I tried to fit myself physically to meet Richard, but he was very sturdy, and his profligate habits had not yet undermined his health. When I resisted him physically he had the better of me. Three times he knocked me unconscious. Once I was ill in bed a week ns the result of a beating he gave me. Frequently he threatened that he would kill me. He said this often and openly, with every evidence of earnestness and determination. Later that counted against him. I was not cowed, and with the great hatred firmly rooted I was willing to accept the unequal struggle with him. It was a Joy to hate him, fight him, even to be beaten by him. I had regained enough courage to seek sociability. It was difficult, because his refined sense of cruelty led him to search me out, wherever I might be with my friends, and to humiliate me, if possible, hi fore them. One night I had been at a tavern In the village with some boys of my acquaintance when Richard, being drunk and very violent, found me, and there was a scene in which he made loud threats that he intended .to kill In arranging the spot to Indicate a murder I had thrown my hat, which was broken and bloody, down the bank. It had caught on a projecting rock. I had taken a ring off my finger and had thrown that into the pool. I also had thrown in my coat. It had blood on the collar and shoulders. All this seemed to me to afford inconclusive evidence, but there were obvious difficulties in finding a body which might increase Richards troubles. I waited In New York, carefully concealed, many months, reading of the progress of my murder trial in the newspapers. It gained some celebrity. The prosecuting zeal was tremendous, and public Interest, I gathered, acute. My ring was dredged up and was reThe garded as important evidence. dredge also brought up some bones which, as I read in the papers, were remains of regarded - as This la my crime, and If It cauvea no one dear to me later to suffer, I want It known. Borne day I shall go back as a man wholly unknown to people who knew the Dobsons. I shall be what I have been, Homer Sidney. I shall buy the old place. I shall know that Richard Dobson Is suffering a most equitable but Illegal punishment In a penitentiary close to the place where I shall live In the circumstances which a great deal of money will en able me to set up. 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Arthur and Richard Dobson," said Mr. Sidney and his brother, Jed. who is over there in the peniten- . de-Hal- ls NEWHOUSE HOTEL CHAPTER XVII. tiary. They met what night? I asked. Jed was patient. They met the night last fall, he explained, when you found Mr. Sidney leaving the house, the night I found you outside, the night we pretended I was sick, the night he came in here and had us call the penitentiary to say a convict had escaped. That me. brothMuch legalistic argument ensued, night, he met his brother. His convict." the was er became a case of Importance, involvJed was rocking and talking to the ing principles of evidence. The superfire. ficial facts were all against Richard. Mr. Sidney Arthur Dobson he His confession faced him. The evidence I had arranged damned him. said, went out to see the pool on Our relationship In hate and his every anniversary of his murder. He threats against me arose against him. found the strength out of some reserHe thought he had killed me. He knew voir of will. The reaction was almost he had. There were many witnesses disastrous. I imagine he might have lived another year or two if he had gainst him. The only thing helping him was the not had the experience he had this lack of a clearly Identified body. But fall. I knew it was a great hate that there were vestiges of something was keeping Mr. Sidney alive, he which, in the circumstances, were acSuch a hate as he had I continued. cepted as parts of the corpus delicti. I dont know that I understand it think the prosecution and the jury, me. now. It was so unprofitable. Or was reconvinced was I dead and that my One of my friends persuaded me do not know. It had a great I it? to go home. At Hartley house we mains swept away, were anxious to value in his life. I think the hate he walked the distance from the house meet technically the requirements of cherished warmed and colored his life. to the village In those days. I set law. He went to the pool every year The story of our lives together, as out alone, but Richard, breaking away the night of his murder. He did not from the young men who would have I read it in the testimony of witnesses know that I went with him. It was detained him, pursued me. He caught who knew more of Its terrors than I such an abnormal abuse of his up with me, and we abused each other thought anyone knew, was terrific. It I was afraid. for him", 'as we walked, being overheard by sev- would have damned any aggressor in strength. Your prospects depended upon eral persons along the way. I him, suggested. When we came to a pool by the He allowed a moment to pass in river near the house, he became insilence. It was as if he permitted vensanely violent, cried that he was sick tilation before we again entered the of seeing me on earth and would rid room of common thought and comhimself of the sight of me. He atmunion. He did not look pained or tacked me with a heavy stick he car in any fashion. There was no hurt ried, succeeded in breaking down my about it. He just refrained display guard and knocked me unconscious. for a moment from talking. It was as Our cries, while he was attacking, if he were opening the windows for were heard by a farmer living across that moment. When the air was the road. Richard was Insanely cleared of the odors of my testy redrunk. He intended to kill me and mark. he went on as if I had said thought he had done so. He left the The old rascal was very difnothing. the spot, disturbed, probably, by ficult to deal with. thought of physical consequences but, The night I am reminding you of I am sure, not by any spiritual mishe met Richard Dobson at the pool givings. and recognized him. The poor old fool, I do not know how long I remainDick, had walked out of the penitened unconscious or when I awoke. It tiary. He had every opportunity to may have been ten, forty or sixty mindo so. The warden would have let utes. It may have been an hour or him out if he had asked to go. He two. When it was, consciousness friend. was helpless outside. He did not have an diadawna As we grew older Richards brought aching head and a place to get a rag or a crust. But bolical habits became only shrewder, ing determination. he wanted to escape. Life with Richard at Hartley house not less ussertlve. He contrived the There must have been something most ingenious schemes for my tor- had become impossible. I could no in his mind about this night and this ment. He humiliated me whenever longer control him, I could no longer place. Arthur Dobson found his brothpossible before other boys and, better endure him. er standing by the pool. I was 50 A chance of escape and of revenge for his purpose, before girls. feet was I toaway, hidden by the bushes. I was, in Richards un possible. My father put us out to school see the two old men in the mooncould He dead. had to tried derstanding, this suited Richards and He Became Insanely Violent. purgether, light, and when Arthur Dobson began How I hated this kill me. He might be made to think pose admirably. I had considerable money the opinion of any body of men. Ev- to speak, I could hear distinctly. had. thing that bore my name and my blood he with me. said Mr. Sidney, Well, Richard, of course, had not eryone who knew anything of the case, Richard, It hate. an Indomitable became It we are here again. touched it. Each us had been giv Richard himself included, was conof No human being exists to this day. vinced I Richard Dobson quavered in a lever was so hated by another as my en, that morning, five hundred dollars doubt that had been murdered. The which remained merely served weak, senile tone, almost a falsetto: trustees. That had been the occaby brother Richard was by me and Is Is to this moment and will be hated sion of Richards murderous debauch, to get Richard a life sentence Instead Who are you? Im your brother Arthur, said Mr. It is strange or is it? that I never of the gallows. Popular psychology while a breath remains in my body. condemned him. think of him What are you doing here? or ever The as, lack Sidney. of called essential him, When I was eighteen my father Dick. evidence wa9 ignored. Richard Dobson must have felt I inherited Richard the and and died, I arranged the spot as well as I waited until I knew what his that he was confronted by a ghost. estate under a trusteeship to continue Richard was could in the details to suggest that my fate was, and then, rejoicing, I left He made a shrill little sound, as ah until I was twenty-one- . and brutal brother had not the country. I had no then twenty. In another year he at- drunken prospects and old woman might. I was palsied. The me killed but few had only of but was disposed I didnt plans, my inclination was to situation was tremendous. tained his majority. He profligate body in the river. When I had go to South America, and I followed know what would happen, and I didnt and wild, a heavy drinker, a coarse, my know what to do. Mr. Sidney was cruel boor, a licentious young ruffian done tills, relying for success on his it ' actions uncertain of the act memory which in twice suffered hatred had My who never ceased. It grew calm as an oyster. had terrified him, I left Hart as r. already and unfortunate weak 'I am your brother Arthur, Richat by first a disturbing one, passion, brought ley house all Its painful memories later a satisfactory one. I wanted this ard, he said, and I am not dead. I girls. brutal experiences, the unhappi- man to suffer. It Irritated him beyond expression and Nothing that he can havent been dead. You didnt kill I had experienced there, the mis- suffer will ness slow to the wait process that he had properly pay him at least me. I have been living In the old of my coming of age before he could erable childhood, the wretched boy it will not pay my score. place comfortably while you have No one would beSome day, I know, for I have the been In prison. come Into his share of the property. hood and the young manhood, come His constant demeanor toward me was to this furtive, fnalevoient end. And determination, I shall return to Hart- lieve you If you told that. You are violent. Sevefal times I tried to estab- I there resolved that if I got safely ley house as its owner, although es- old and half crazy. If you were out lish the reasonable relations which away and if my design worked out teemed an alien, with false name, a of prison, you would die of starve, successfully, I should return to the false life and a ought, in convention, to exist between selfsame great Joy. What is a tion and exposure In 24 hours. I am spot some time to live a Jo family that I should was and quite hopeless, brothers. It not enjoy my per- not a ghost, Richard; I am your livvial life where life had been so drear. fect my hate for this boor came to be an revenge upon this brute who made ing brother. (TO BE CONTINUED.) My plans were not perfect; my fifteen years nnd more of my life, Insane passion. It remains as a pas resources and my intelligence for this in its most now. ion an impressionable form, Not a Fixed Opinion. I may not be able U. atlsfy anyone sudden meeting of the world were undesirable thing when It was most success consebut Inevitable this Lawyer was was (examining prospective jun-o- r the my slender; beyond desired? that In criminal case) Mr. Juror, have treatment but me, the given expectation. of I shall go back to quence house, you any fixed opinion as to the First ' I had ' the satisfaction of and if life and health Hartley T could if I were to elaborate the guilt be me, spared or merely state them. However, knowing that my brother was taken I shall make it and life In It Jovinl, or innocence of the accused? Juror (emphatically) Naw, I aint y purpose Is not so much to Indict for my murder. Circumstances were and If strength be spared my will, the no doubt but the guys guilty, but record own to as Jget my all and trl he him, was against convinced knowledge that my brother Richard y brother aint nobody fixed me. they commission a In the own of his assist to heart he that had not nmph only Is suffering for the murder of a dead of been intense has me so as killed he often had wished live man shall be the rime which cosy north wind Unfortunately our blessings in die. to me, a crime In which I have to do, but that he had disposed of my in the caves below which burn my guise are with painfully slow la my culpability Joy body. cheerful Area. ins. Boston Transcript , m 166 MAIN STREET aJlLUSlCOLL SErtrancis ScienTijiccoHecto G LuKe General Manager of Honest Jetts illRooms Continental Bank B'ldjS e' .SALT LAKECiTY.UTAH WALKERS BEAUTY PARLOR Switch transformation or hair by mail; cut sample from center of head. Switches worth $7.50 for $5. Transformation worth $12 for $s.so. 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