The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 22, 1920, Image 3
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The House of
Whispers
•y WILLIAM
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CHAPTER X11—Conti nuftd.
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“Nothing doing," he sneered. "Any
crook Jafipg enough to steal those
pearls, onee'he had got his hands on
them, never would return them.
Pearls are too easily disposed of.
Tpu 've got to dig up a better expla- J
nation than that"
"What did Mr. Gaston think? What
did he say when he found them
there?"
"He had nothing to say. He was
so tickled at finding them again that
he hustled with them right away to
the safe deposit vaults and did not
rest until he had them safely locked
up. He took *both jewel cases with
him and made me go along with him
to protect them."
"Didn't you look st all for the secret
peseageway I told you about r
"Still dreaming about that are
youT sroffad Gorman. “No. wo didn't.
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old men spoke shout It and I told I
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smoother sailing, provided of course
that I was acquitted. In the few
chats I had had with her, I had real
ized that wealth and luxury and social
position meant nothing to Barbara's
happiness. She was the sort of girl
who for a tnan she loved gladly would
brave poverty, hardship, everything—
a sincere, true-hearted woman with a
clear vision of the real values of ex-
istenqe.
My messenger returned with the
newspapers, and as I picked them up,
everything went black. "Millionaire
Gaston round Murdered," was the
startling headline that flashed before
me, right there In the column next to
the account of the Bradford wedding.
The sinister effect of this terribls
news dawned on me Instantly. With
my great-uncle Rufus dead, without
the possibility of kla corroborating
awy pert of my story, my case was
fcopotwss, desperate UnqoestlooaMy
H would mesa that I would ba found
guilty of murder ssd sentenced to
death to tbs sleet fir rbstr. As awnu
so I could suBrtsntlf coaspsus myself
I rund ovary word there was to (bo
oowspopen shout Ibis new trmgsdf.
amt!tog gnmlf ol the thought (hot si
me bAoma th*e mor
of the gang to which young Nelson,
now in prison charged with the mur*
der of Miss Lutan, undoubtedly be
longed. Their theory was Biat a bur
glar gang succeeded In Ranting Nel
son In the apartment as> caretaker,
and that this enabled them to get
their bearings In the building and pro
vide themselves with false keys for
ransacking the rooms at their leisure.
The guilt of young Nelson, the police
say, is established bgyond question,
and they are hopeful of being able to
round up his associates.
There was also a brief Interview
with Wick, In which he waa quoted as
saying:
"1 waa suspicious of Nelson from
the start and trfbd to keep an eye on
him. He waa very secretive about bit
comings and goings and was always
prying about trying to leurn aooe-
UUng about tbe other tenants. How
Mr. Gaston rams to employ him as
caretaker I never learned, but It would
I be wo herd mutter for a stick young
crook Uko btm to Impose ou no old a
I man aa Mr. Qwetau with n ruck and
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my pt tgbt. It bed been my bupo tbnt
I would be able le conceal everything
from bar until after I had been trium
phantly acquitted. If I were not ahe
would know the worst noon enough.
When she drat learned, or from
w’hat source, of my predicament I was
unaware. 1 did not even know of her
presence In the city until the day after
my great-uncle’s funeral^ when—Just
twenty-four hours before ray trial was
to begin—a keeper brought me word
that she was waiting downstairs to
see me.
I steeled myself for the Interview
with her. Naturally I expected that
she would be terribly horror stricken
and shocked at my plight, but what
her attitude toward me.would be I
could not conjecture. I fully expected
nothing but reproaches from her. She
had been so opposed to my coming to
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tbe pearls bad destroyed my aged rel
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have destroyed Gorman’s. I could
hardly blame him if be doubted me
after finding that my story of the dis
appearance of the pearls was appar
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as s prisoner I bad learned all too
well the bitter fact that once a man
ts discredited, henceforth no one
trusts him. If Rufus Gaston failed
me at this Juncture I did not see how
I could possibly extricate myself un
scathed from tbe web that unseeen
hands had so skillfully and mali
ciously woven around me. The only
ray of comfort that I could find any
where in the whole situation was in
my firm belief that though old Rufus
tnd Gorman and the whole world
doubted me, Barbara Bradford—my
Barbara, I ventured to call her In my
Innermost heart—would continue to
believe In me. She would be sare. no
matter bow much appearances went
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cedOMte of some of his extensive hold
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CHAPTER XIII.
Coming ns It did ns n dire climax to
nil my other troubles, tbe shock of old
Rufus Gaston’s murder sect me Into
an apathetic state from which it
seemed Impossible for me to arouse
myself. Without hope and eveu with
out interest I dully awaited the ap
proach of my trial for murder.
While there never had been an op
portunity for any bond of affection to
become established between my aged
relative and myself—In fact, I had
seen him only three or four times in
my whole life, and then on/y for brief
periods—still his unexpected and
dreadful end had bereft me of practi
cally every hope of being acquitted of
the absurd charge against me. Wick,
it was plain, intended to disclalm^sll
knowledge of my relationship to Mr.
Gaston, and now there was no one
else to explain how I happened to be
living in the building at the time of
Miss Lutan’s murder. Unfortunatali
I had destroyed both Mr. Gaston’s Ut
ter to me and the note from my
spot bar which bud first told ma of tbe
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ally arrived 1 entered tbe courtroom In elothep."
a atata of dull apathy. Tbe nlgbt ba-
fore I had not slept at ail. 1 bad spent * wwe rx
all tbe black hours reviewing my Ufa. 111 Wc Do
especially the last year, thinking with
Now?
ANY earnest and broal-minded
what high hopes and great expecta
tions 1 had come to the metropolis and
bow miserably everything bad turned
out for me. Step by step I had re- ^ womeQ struggled manfully to
viewed the events hat had brougb ^ ^ ballot and mttJiy had lt thrU8t
me. discredited all but friendless, all upon ^ But the agItatlon for , t
but penniless, into t i s dismal before It was achieved, won over most
room accused of a horrible cowardly woinen t0 a wholii , h earted belief in
deed, seeking to see wherein 1 might justice and the desirability of wom-
have altered my recent actions or ftn guffragg. And now that millions
changed tbe course of my life to av °lQ won ien have the privilege of voting
having arrived at this shameful * are agj^ng themselves Just Ifbw
Y.et, strange to say. 1 found myself are going to go about exercising
after mature reflection convinced that Intelligently. Likewise sundry pol-
had I this last year to live over again m c j aus are anxious to know Just
not In one lota would I have done dlf* w hnt thin new votina r>ower will do
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foretold what the future bad In ators
for me.
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