| Show 11 1 1 8 10 ah a 1 10 11 BY r IM ai A L LAVOL lel ity my mistress in gainsborough road bad had lot lost ft a 15 0 note in the house and the thief thiet wu was the parlor mild I 1 knew it from her action actions and anet three month months after I 1 left the bouse jibe kb wai was caught la in a altu llor anil and owned up to the ant theft Ilo however wever the crime wu was laid told off on me and became because I 1 made indignant and perhaps impudent protest I 1 wu was flung anne out of the house at halt an houri houes notice and retired refused a character I 1 WM was idle for the next three month the first thing thin demanded when I 1 applied tor for a place wu was a character an A toon soon as it vu was learned that I 1 bad had none done it was lueler useless to talk further hwu tor for this reason that I 1 finally paid a fee to an intelli gence genes office in margate street and wai was a at t length sent for to take a place at general homework housework it wai was an old man named dreon dyson who anted wanted no me ila wa was willing to take me without a character became because be he would have to pay less le wages and ind became because as a he to g imly asserted there wu was nothing lying around looe loose in him hi home house for one to teal steal AJ As we sat at face to face I 1 tied mixed him op up aa as mean and penurious rions b but u t I 1 did not we any evil in him he lit bad had an aged and infirm wife he told me and I 1 would be the only arrant it lt wu was not tor for me to pick and choose I 1 I 1 t bare have a place piece and bold hold it to long nou enough X h to get a character again I 1 went with him miles and mile miles out on n uie the holboke nol borne road and we at lait last arrived at the cheaply built and cheap look looking I 1 he cottage be occupied it tt waa was a place devoid of almost all convenience conveniences and bad had been elected selected tor for its it cheap rent I 1 to found u nd the old wife deaf almost blind anil and and it wai was apparent app areat that ibe she had bad no care cars whatever she bid become and petulant and before tot 1 I bad had been in the th to hour u so halt hall aa in dour hour mr me dyson whipped her ber wim with a it steep tor for saying that she he wai was honry hungry As A he whipped her I 1 law saw him look at her in a way to give me a chill in the coune course of three or foar our dayi days I 1 made op up my toy mind that he be regarded her with de do tnt citation atio and ad abhorrence and WM was hourly hoping tor for her death I 1 wondered that be he had bad not pushed her down tain stairs or ic t und and other mean means to bring about an in amiden tat I 1 death but the old man wai was full fail of craft and 4 cowardice cow ardler I 1 soon had ovid evidence ecce that he wae was in lov lows with a widow in the neighborhood or at lout be he desired to be tree free to so that he could marry her the man bad had no occupation cu and seldom left the house during my arit two week weeks in the place plate be he never allowed me to see the wife except la to ble bl presence pre tence and found fault it I 1 cooked cocked anything extra for her or expressed my no bail had a way of whimpering to himself and a down timea times over I 1 beard heard him may ay 1 I ie we waited tor for five year years but I 1 won t wait much longer I 1 til 11 get rid a of if her and be happy my natural on finding out how bow he felt toward tim wit wa was to fly the houe house but I 1 bore explained how bow I 1 wai was situated anuj too I 1 oon soon got the feeling that I 1 ought to atay stay to protect the poor old oman I 1 figured it out ut that while be he might thirst for or her death be he would not proceed to ex tre while I 1 wai was in the house it seemed ai a if b he e would have lived on alone ai as be he bail had done tor for the lait last two month months if be he meditated arit anything thing of that ort sort I 1 dida t know the depth of hta his creft however be he bad had brought me there to work her death through toe the first tiling thing I 1 this w way y waa was one morning when be asked meto to help her down the stairs were steep and shaky and be bad had pried one ot the cepi tepi looe loose that it might aalde from under ter our teet feet As a matter metter of tact fact it did give wiy way b but ut I 1 caught myself and listed the tho woman when old dibon dyson law saw the failure of his hi plot he looked chagrined and avia and presently found excuse tor for cuffing the th poor wife a can eam in the coun course of a of weeks he declared that the cellar wa wait full of rat rats and gave too money and commended commanded me to bay buy arsenic he no becom u mended ded me tam to go so to a tore store a nellei iles away and nd to a ay lay that I 1 wanted it for or my c complexion 0 and to give 1 my own name I 1 went to a drug ton store only two block blocks away and gave W bt name and when be he discovered this be he wu was highly in n dinnant for a day an and it 1 I rather er expect cd ed to be thrown out llo however wever to lit the conn course of three or four dayi days he be devil devel ped sped mother another plan after coaching CM the old wife be he left me we alone with her tier for or the arll time and she b begged me n to get her some lan laudanum danum for toothache I 1 and not mention the matter to him it wai was euy easy to tell that the she had bad been best coached what to may ay and I 1 refined refused to buy the drug A few tow day days later as a I 1 raa W preparing her a soup I 1 bd had to 1 loar to the th kitchen for a 11 minute when I 1 returned the soup wa was string oat out a strange odor and being was catli bed that the husband bad had it I 1 of course conr threw throw it I 1 away he H scolded about my waste but when I 1 locked looked him win square in the tye eyes be he dropped lit hie I 1 and had bad no more to lay say I 1 bad been with tee the dyon dyson fire wei weeks when the cumae come tie the at 0 I 1 wu holding her own it not hot getting setting better end and the boband im tin patience bad a bavage tags edge to it their broom wu was on the north old ld of the home all along on that side ade wu was a deep excavation tor for a factory and nd the cellar cellist wu was full nt of stones conr and water I 1 froe from the window th ill me dl tance to the cellar bottom wa wits all of BO 30 foel I 1 slept on the west sidn with two i rooms and anil two doors between na am hot but ao so poodle bout built ysl ft house abat it it caces wire vare rab ril ed they could be heard ind and ther there were alo line many crack cracks and nil crevices 1 to peer peet through at 10 clock one night I 1 lay wondering won derin it he h really meant to take her lift U and how bow be b would finally ac so it when I 1 beard heard a half halt up sup fremed terrain from rom bli bit room I 1 got out of 0 bed aad and went want to the I 1 farther door aad and looking through a crack 1 I uw new that the window was u up and ad that be he stood before it with bile wife in his arm arms she wu was busing an a to him with fingers of steel and taking ft a ireat great struggle I 1 heird heard him breathing bava and snarling arling in ud aull growling As be he tor tote her bar finger fingers loose bat but I 1 did not dot know what he be planned to do till of 6 4 sudden be he staggered to the open win dow and flung bung ber bar out she be went at to her death lod in my fright I 1 echoed the reaia I 1 remember the th MB man rushing across the room at let me of bit him dash 1 open UM the door of wet ht striking me down ud and then came which tested for or week weeks Us truck track me with ft a piece ot of iron ud and fractured my kull skull ll 11 then curled carried lu my body down stairs and d bor bore it ft it quarter of ft a mile away find and bung it into another nother ft excavation before fait lof fag me from the bouso be pat vat oa on my hat and cloak and thui them it appeared to thom those who found my unconscious body next that I 1 bad had been coming comin home the before ani and fallen into the pil pit As to his wife be b SATO the alarm anil and brought the police and made out that tt it wu was ft case of white while he be wa was fast asleep as ft be claim 4 fd the h bad stolen to the window and leaped to ber her death nis story went and it was seven months before there wa was any contra diction I 1 bad had ft a ti fractured lectured skull brain fever and pneumonia aad and for week weeks and week weeks lay ms one dead when I 1 mended my memory waa was confuted and it wa was seven month months before I 1 told my tory story and put the police on the track long before that dyson bad married the widow and lulled tor for america and though effort were made to find him nothing came of them never did ft a man deserve the i rope more and yet it if lit 11 ing today be to I 1 free and has ha no fear ear ot of the law 1 |
