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CONGRESS, BUTTON, an “From the very first moment i saw Imogene Trenholme, I was repelled! I had suspicions of her before I had been,, here a week, and her pondjuct in this chamber,' somnolent though ‘she was, confirmed me. This afternoon I saw her put a slip of paper In the hollow of the old tree at the end of the garden, and I took the liberty to examine It. I found It was an appointment to meet some one in this room at eleven o’clock. I kept the tryst. So did the others. I did not Intend to kill this Rudolph, but he made me, or rather, he saved me the trouble, he killed himself. And five days ago, anticipating a denouement of some kind, I sent for my father. He will be here to-day, I think.” Ralph’s mother crept timidly to his side. “My son, what will you do with her?” she said, looking at Imogene. “The law shall take its course!” he answered sternly. “But remember, O Ralph! remem ber she is a woman!” “And Marina whom she murdered was a woman, also! Mother, da not talk to me! My heart is chaoghd to stone!” 4} ,, He took Imogene by the arnfcfts he spoke, and led her up stairs to a mom on the third story, which had once been used as a chemical laboratory, but which had long since been given up to the rats and spiders. Into this he thrust her, and drew the bolt on the outside. CHAPTER XVIII. ST WAS DECIDED to await the arrival of Governor Fulton before taking any further steps in the sad affair at the Rock, and they did not have long to ■wait. The Gover nor arrived before » noon, full of terri ble anxiety, for he felt sure that something must have hap pened to Helen, or she would not have sent for him fn such hot haste. He was reassured almost immediately \ttyithi sight of her face. She put her arms around his neck and kissed him cor dially. “You are a nice papa to come!” she said, “and I’ve lots and lot3 to tell you. The real criminal is discovered, and it turns out that no less a person than Mrs. Imogene Trenbolme did the hor rible deed! Papa, it makes me shudder to think of it. A woman’s hand stained . with blood!” “Helen, I do not credit you. Qo out and bring me somebody that knows.” She slipped away and returned with the magistrate and Mr. St. Cyril. They gave the Governor a full statement of affairs, and last of all displayed to him the confession of John Rudolph. "Now, papa, for the pardon!” cried Helen. “We can’t wait for any long legal process to set Lynde Graham free —we want it done at once!” Governor Fulton complied. He wrote first an order to the Jailer, commanding him to let Lynde Graham go free; and then he made out the pardon in due form. Helen kissed him rapturously tfhnd>. with the papers in her hand, bounded away. She found Agnes weeping soft-' ly, alone in her chamber. ", . “I’ve got it!” she exclaimed, gleefully; “and you shall carry it to him yourself, you dear old darling!” And she held up the papers. Agnes threw her arms around the girl’s neck, but Helen shook her off with a pretty petulance. “There, don’t! You’ll muss my collar, and get. my curls all in a snarl! Take the papers and don't let the grass grow under your feet.” Agnes reached the jail, and gave to the old warden the order for the prison er’s release. He read it over carefully,,, his hard old face softening with a smile of genuine delight. “Thank the Lord!” he ejaculated. “I’se allers thought it , would , come! I’se never had an idee that that man was made to be hung!” , ,, . Agnes enterea me ceu soruy, ner heart beating almost to suffocation. Lynde was lying across the foot of bis cot asleep. How very worn and hag gard he looked! The tears came into the eyes of Agnes as she gazed at him, and dropped upon his face. He stirred uneasily, and muttered: “Ah, so ft is time? Well, 1 am ready.” Agnes touched his cheek lightly. He sprang up, and on seeing her, smiled brightly. “I thought my time had come,” he said. “I dreamed they came to call me. But what is it, Agnes? Your face Is a perfect glory!” “O, Lynde, Lynde!” she cried, her voice broken with sobs. "You have borne bravely the prospect of death'; can you bear the thought of life as well?” He looked at her wonderingly, but no. flush of hope mounted to. his pale forehead. rime, sadness did not go out ‘of his fey'csT <• ' ■> ■ i~" “I have ceased to think of that as among the possibilities.’* < “But I tell you it is possible!” she answered, radiant with the’words-*-*-”©, Lynde, they have discovered the real n|ifr3erGr!f t J - . »;• f“Ji eanribtbl! Agnes, tell me!” “Lynde, there was an eye-witness of that murder! He died fast night at the Rock, and with his last breath he made' a confession which clears you from all stain, and fixes the guilt'upon thejwlfe Of my brother!” | “Gqfdte wiy% are not our ways!” he said reve/eatly. “I would have spared her. When she did this deed I loved her. Her beauty had intoxicated me. I would have died for her, and counted it bliss. And then she asked me to keep her secret. Worlds would not have tempted me to betray her. But Agnes, the moment I knew what she had done, all the absorbing passion I felt for her melted away—I shuddered •at the thought of her! But she was a nobly born, beautiful woman, and 1 had loved her. And because of this, I could not speak the words that would free me and bind her. When I knew that your brother married her, then for the first time I was convinced that I had done wrong; but it was then too late to remedy my error, and I would go silently to the grave, carrying her dreadful secret with me|” “Will you not read the pardon? It is written in the governor’s own hand. Helen would not let them wait to go through with a formal process of re leasing you, but Bhe must have the par don at once.” one neia it up before him. He took It, but tbe letters swam before his eyes. He could not read a single line. He dropped his forehead on the shoulder of Agnes in sheer weakness. ‘ ; “O, Agnes! Agnes!” he said, In a choked voice, “God is too good!” She stroked his hair tenderly. “We want you up at the Rock, Lynde'. My mother and brother both sent for' you. Will you not come?” His Joyous face grew sad. “Not today,' Agnes. I Will wait a lit tle. I cannot forget that your brother Is smitten by the blow which opens my prison doors. I will go to my desolate home first. By-and-by I will come to the Rock. You understand me, Agnes?” “I think I do. O, my pSor Ralph! My heart aches for him!” They passed out of the prison to gether. The warden shook Lynde’s hand heartily. “God bless you, lad!” he cried,-with a suspicious'moisture id his gray eye. "t nfever1 iioight you did it, and I’m glad it’s all found out. f here be bright days in atore-fpr you yet!” Lynde wrung the honest hand, but he was too full for speech. He walked on with Agnes until they reached the great pine, by the shore. There their paths diverged. He took her hands in his and looked into her eyes. No word was spoken. He stood thus a mo ment,, then he stooped and touched the Bhinlng hair above her forehead with his lips. An^ then turning his back upon her, he walked in the direction of the deserted cottage he had once called home. --i—i— ■ ; CHAPTER XIX. * HEN the proper authorities were Informed of the guilt of Imogens Trenholme, they sent up a sheriff and a couple of constables to take her in charge. Ralph had expected them. His face hqd undergone a terrl We change within the past twenty-four hours. He had aged a score of years, and there were white hairs mingling with the brown on his temples. He received them with sad, stern gravity, and led the way up to the apartment where he had left Imogene. He opened the door and they entered. Crouched in the further corner of the room was the object of their search, but she looked more like a wild beast than a beautiful woman. One glance, was sufficient to show them that reasoff' had fled from her brain. Her face waa livid, save a purple line beneath each eye, her long, glossy hair had been torn from1 her head in handfuls, and lay scattered'on the floor. Her dress was fearfully disordered, and her delicate hands were bloody where she had beat against the door in trying to escape. The sheriff advanced toward her, and spoke gently, but the sound of his voice filled her with new madness. With a wild, fearful cry, 6he sprang upon him, hurling him to the floor, while her slender fingers tightened so closely round his throat, that in a moment he would have been strangled, had not Ralph and one of the constables inter fered. She snapped at them fiercely with her glittering white teeth, and brandished her arms high above her head. Off! off! every fiend of you!” she tried. "I am empress of the world! I reign queen and king! The nations aro glad to bow down in the dust and wor ship me! What ho, there! Guards, bring hither my crown and sceptre and hurry these base varlets to the chopping bloeltr.. .\ The scene was terrible, 'These men. hardened as they were by the eight of suffering, turned away from thin with SQMOwfailtaoea, med die with Insanity. They had no power to arrest a raving maniac. So they left her and went their way. (TO BE CONTtMCEO.t RETURNED JUST IN TIME. _ Man Supposed to nave Been Murdered Stops a Bunging. From the Washington Star: Ex-Sher 1ft Blakeslee of Comanche county, Ne braska, told a story of his experience In office to a Star writer the other day. *T never hanged a man," he said. “The vigilance committee usually settled hanging offenses outside of the courts. Then we were not fixed for taking care of many prisoners. When I was sher iff there were only three rooms to the jail, and all of them small. One 1 slept In, another 1 used for an office and the other I kept my prisoners in when I had any. "One time 1 received a man charged with murdering his partner. There was a little doubt about his guilt, so the vigilance committee turned him over to me. The prisoner and the murdered man had left together, and somebody found the partner’s body in the bushes. A few miles farther on they caught the prisoner, who had a gun and other prop erty known to have belonged to the murdered man. It was a bad case, the body being mutilated as to be almost unrecognizable, but the prisoner said he was innocent, and I never had a more sociable fellow or better card player in the Jail. He was the only one there, and after I really got acquainted with him we would play old sledge un til late at night and then bunk together. "He was tried and convicted, but it made no difference with him. It was my first hanging, and we got the gal lows .built, the prisoner watching the work and making comments on it. The rope came and he saw it. ‘Bill,” said he, ‘yo’ ain’t no good as a sheriff. Don't yo’ know that ’ere rope ought ter be soaked? I don’t Want this affair of ours to go off any other way than smooth. Yo’ go soak that rope.’ So I soaked the rope, the prisoner helping me, and the night before the banging we sat down to play oldi sledge. He Said: ‘Bill, I ain’t goin’ to interfere none, an’ I don’t blame yo, an no man Kin Bay that I tried ter run or didn’t die game, but I want yo' to promise me, if yo’ ever meet that partner of mine, yo’ will Bhorely Bhoot ’im fer gettin’ me hung. He’s alive all right, and it’s shore mean fer ’im to vamoose an’ git me in trouble.’ “I promised him, and we went on with the game. About 10 o’clock a man came to the window and shouted for me, then he tried the door of the office, and it wasn’t locked. He walked right in and said: ‘Hello, Jim! Hello, Bill!’ It was the man we thought was murdered. Jim Btooif up and said: ‘You’re a purty pardner to leave me byar to be hanged. They don’t allow no shootin* irons hyar, so we kain’t settle but one way. Shuck!' Then there was the prettiest light I ever saw, Jim pounding his partner un til he called for quits. We all went to see the judge that night and called off the hanging, knowing the man who we thought had been murdered. Then the j two men went away and we never saw thpm again, neither did we ever find out who.the corpse was that we picked "tip In the bushes.” BICYCLE BUILT FOR THREE. It Traverses the Water and Is Pro noanced an Infoniont Couv«jranr«. While in Paris inventors concentrate their energy on rapid locomotion on terra flrma in the shape of horseless carriages, their colleagues in Germany devote their best efforts to reaching the acme of speed in navigation. 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