San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 165, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 14, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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copyright 1895. 8* AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.
This story began in the Sunday Light of June 9th.
story began
“I knew it I” she hissed as erect and
upright as ever.
“Then I might have saved my words.
I have learned some things but there
are a number of others about which 1
would like to question yon. It’s rather
odd that you should register at the
Windsor while your husband went to
the Astor House. I hope there was no
connubial trouble. ”
She treated this impudence with the
scorn it deserved.
“It sort of looked that way for at the
Jersey City station you avoided each
other not sitting even in the same car
though you were friendly enough when
you left the train at Rahway and rode
to this place in a cab.
“However all that is your owu busi-
ness and of no particular interest to me
Some days ago your husband sold an
immense jewel which he called Nana
Sahib’s ruby to a gentleman in New
York. Mr. Howard received the price
he asked but on the very night of the
purchase the buyer was robbed uf the
stone and I am seeking to And out the
truth about it. ’’
I watched that fascinating fact akoe-
ly while uttering these words. I expect-
ed her to show rarprise when tv-d of
the theft of the ruby for if innocent
how could she know anything of the
circumstance? But nothing of that na-
ture lit up her face. She demanded with
the coolness of a judge:
“Why do yon come to me?”
“Because I am sure you can give me
the information. ”
“Your words are what I might have
expected from you. On what night did
this robbery if there was any take
place?”
“Last Tuesday the 13th—excuse me
you are going to say that you and your
husband were not in New York that
night which is a fact as I learned for
myself. If the charge was made against
either of you therefore you could prove
an alibi. I presume you know the mean-
ing of that word?' ’
She paid no attention to this slur but
calmly looking at me uttered the single
word "Well?" with the most splendid
circumflex inflection conceivable at the
end.
“You know that sometimes several
persons are concerned in matters of this
kind. It is safer to employ an agent
Whoever took that ruby from Mr. Sand-
husen’s room at the Windsor did the
cleverest job of the year. Now if you
will tell how it was done I will let up
on you and your pretended husband.
Come nowl”
1 doubt whether a man pretending to
be a detective ever did a more audacious
and seemingly absurd thing than thia
We have all heard of the profane farm-
er who when confronted by an unusual
cause of provocation simply held his
peace because he could not do justice to
the theme it must have been something
of the same with Mrs. Howard for she
merely looked at me and remained
speechless.
My next move required explanation.
I set my chair away from the door and
in the nearest corner which was only
five or six feet from the door. 1 never
removed my eyes from the woman while
doing this. As 1 resumed my scat 1
drew my revolver and rested it loosely
across my knee in which position I
could use it with the quickness of light-
ning. I suspected the occasion for such
use was at hand.
“Don’t be alarmed” I said looking
in her face. “If you intend no harm
you will receive none but if anything
is attempted against me God help you I”
“What do you mean?” she asked with
a slight recoil.
CHAPTER XVIIL
“Since I entered this house and came
up stairs” I said with my gaze still
fixed upon that marvelous countenance
"your husband has returned. He is out-
side this door and hears the words that
lam now speaking. He is seeking a
chance to kill me. He was figuring
from the sound of my voice my exact
position in front of the door so that he
would be sure of hitting me if he fired
through the panel; hence my change of
position. He can’t do it now without
first opening the door. That will give
me as good a chance as he can have
which is all I seek.
“But” 1 added with a meaning
which could not be mistaken “if he or
any one of the wretches in his employ
fires a shot at me while you are within
range I swear by the Eternal I will
shoot you dead as you stand thera Your
husband hears these words. Let him
govern himself accordingly. Won’t you
sit down?”
For the first time after my repeated
invitations she seemed to become aware
that the chair was near her. She glanced
at it hesitated an instant and then
walked to the stove. She seemed to be
looking after the fire within and I sus-
pected nothing but that beautiful fiend
outwitted me. She did a thing which 1
did not see and whose meaning did not
come to me until afterward. She threw
something among the embers of the
wood and the ashes loft by the sticks
that were burning there before I entered
the room. Then she came back to where
she had been standing and sat down in
* paces away and facing
> -..’c'.ir .
most to the point ct nausea now i
longed for a breath of the cool pure
bracing air from the outsice but there
was not a crevice through which it could
reach me
“What are all those tWogs?" tasked
flirting my head toward the long table
ou which lay the articles I have referred
to
"I do not choose to answer that ques-
tion. ”
1 was listening intently for 1 knew
that the East Indian was still in the hall
outside and beard every word it.it
passed. 1 spoke in a clear deliberate
tone for I was talking to him as much
as to her.
“It makes no difforeuoe. I can look
at them some other time. This room
seems to be a sort of workshop for you
or your husband or both. ”
She made no answer to thia out fold-
ing those beautiful arms with the tiny
points of one shoe showing calmly con-
fronted me.
“I have admitted that Milker you
nor your husband was in New York on
the night that Nana Sahib’s ruby disap
peared so that no matter what takes
place the crime can be brought directly
home to neither unless the thief you
employed should turn state’s evidence
—if you understand that?’’
She nodded Jter head.
“Before giving any explanation please
wait until I ask for it”
“It shall be as you say. Do you know
anything about the robbery of the ruby?”
For the first time since we had ad-
dressed each other her lips parted with
that dangerously fascinating smile.
“Yes; I know all about it. ”
“Will you tell me?”
“It is your business to learn such
things. Why do you come to me?”
“Because it is beyond my skill I
can’t comprehend how that stone was
taken from the room in the Windsor
hotel.”
“Of course you can’t ” she said with
a still more marked smile “because
you Americans are stupid. You must
come to India to learn wisdom. ”
“Will you become my instructor?”
“No; I must have a pupil with a
mind that will understand the simple
truths that are plain to a child. ”
“When the pupil is stupid then the
teacher should be patient and try to
make things clear to him. ”
“But when he is too stupid to under-
stand it is a waste of time. ”
"You have not tried me. ”
“Because you cannot comprehend. I
know it by your looks. ”
“I am said to bear a close resemblance
to your husband. ”
“Bismallah what slanders are heaped
upon his head!” she exclaimed with
such a tragic air that I laughed.
“It may be a slander ” I said "upon
him or against me but it ought to make
you willing to try my ability to grasp
those simple truths. I thought that per-
haps the owner of the ruby rose in his
sleep and removed it to some place
which he forgot ”
“No; it was simpler than that ’’
"Why not tell me at once?” I asked
more impatient than I ought to have
been.
The one thing which troubled me
more than all others was the odor that
I had noticed and which steadily grew
more pronounced. It was nauseating
though I could see no evidence that it
troubled her in the least.
To raise the window I would have to
cross the floor and unless I did it by
backing would give the man in the hall
just the chance for which he was wait-
ing. There was no saying what she
would do in the meantime. Altogether
the risk was more than I ought to as-
sume. I grimly resolved to sit it out
until she would be compelled to seek
relief. Why should a frail delicate wo-
man be able to take more poison into
her lungs than a strong man like my-
self? It ought to be the other way.
She made no answer to my last ques-
tion and I added:
“I do not doubt that the secret rests
with you and if you choose you can ex-
plain that which is inexplainable to the
rest of us. Now I will give you my
pledge that if you will tell the whole
truth neither you nor your husband
shall be molested or prosecuted in any
way. ”
“And of what value is such a guar-
antee to us if you had the power to give
it? What protection do we wish? What
have we done that we should fear your
laws?”
Sure enough since neither had stolen
the ruby what crime could be imputed
to them? The man had sold an immense-
ly valuable gem to John R. Brown the
jeweler of Maiden lane for much less
than its worth. It w'ould not have been
a crime had he parted with it for 50
cents instead of $50000.
He claimed to have found it in the
Himalayan jungles whither it had been
carried by the perfidious Nana Sahib. I
believed this; but if it was not true
with what offense should I charge Dari-
ns Howard?
All the same there was no doubt that
this man and woman were two of the
most consummate and subtle offenders
against right that had ever come from
the country of subtlety cunning learn-
ing and wondrous
• ‘ Yon speak
bold response "but lor us it never coma
have taken place. 1 admit that because
no one except my husband and yourself
can heart the words. Before others I
deny it And say to them as I say now
to you Trove it’”
* “But I cannot and since you have
said so much to me alone why not say
more and tell the whole thing? It can
cause you no barm. ”
CHAPTER XIX.
It was on her tongue to tell me but
evidently she was not sure of the wishes
of the man outside the door. She must
first obtain bis permission.
Her manner had changed. One not
knowing the truth would have still sup-
posed we were friends chatting togeth-
er. She looked at me with a bright ex-
pression and said:
“If you will excuse me for a minute?”
Partly rising from her chair she
awaited my permission.
“Most certainly. Consult with your
husband as much as you choose. ”
It was a critical moment The door
must be opened to allow her to pass out
and what would follow?
Perhape both noticed my extra alert-
ness for she walked into the ball and
the door was again closed without any
demonstration.
I observed a delicate vapor issuing
from the door of the stove. It was of
snowy whiteness and must have been
the cause of that sickening odor which
almost overcame me.
“She threw some substance in there
a few minutes ago when she pretended
to fix the fire. She has kept the win-
dows fastened so as to give me the full
benefit of it She is more accustomed to
it than L but even she cannot stand it
any longer. Her reason for leaving the
room is not to speak to bim but to ob-
tain relief from this villainous stuff.
Great Caesar I can’t stand it eitherl”
I rose and began moving toward the
nearest window on tiptoe that they
might not know what I was doing. The
floor creaked under my feet but I could
not take another inhalation of the vile
atmosphere. I must have fresh air if I
had to plunge head first through one of
the windows carrying the sash with
me.
But I had no purpose of doing that.
I was dizzy and uncertain in my gait
but I reached the window and laying
my revolver on the table on my right
grasped the sash with both hands to
raise it
Everything became dark and an odd
humming was in my ears. I knew I
was fainting and could I have raised
the window would have been revived.
I reached out vaguely and uncertainly
but feeling myself going grasped any-
thing upon which I could lay bands. It
proved to be the end of the table. There
was a crash of splintering glass as that
and myself went down on the floor
with a violence that must have shaken
every window in the building. I re-
member so much and then my senses
left me.
From this point for a considerable
time my dependence is naturally upon
others for information but the source
was beyond attack.
The crash and fall caused Darius
Howard who had made a quick return
from his railway journey to open the
door and peep cautiously in. The racket
also brought Mrs. Bridges hurrying up
stairs and she followed the couple into
the room.
“Bring some water. Open the window
or he will die!”
It was Mrs. Bridges who spoke these
excited words and set about obeying
them herself when Darius Howard
caught her arm:
“You must do nothing of the kind
good madam. ”
“But that’s the only way to revive a
person when he faints. ”
“Ordinarily yes but bis fainting has
been produced by that odor which you
notice. He will recover after awhile
but not for half an hour or so. If you
sprinkle water in his face or allow the
cold air to blow on him it will be fatal.
That is because of the nature of the
drug.”
“Mercy! But what shall we do?”
“You can do nothing but leave him
alone. He will come all right after
awhile. ”
But the distressed woman insisted on
bringing a pillow and placing it under
my head to make me comfortable when
I had no more consciousness of comfort
than if the breath of life had wholly
left my body.
There is little doubt that when Dari-
us Howard departed that morning it
was to learn whether any one was shad-
owing him. His speedy return showed
that he had not gone far. When he came
back it was with the intention of mov-
ing with his wife from the old stone
house never to return. The occurrences
of the last few days had convinced him
that he had been traced by more than
one enemy thither and he could not
leave too soon.
He had made his arrangements before
I entered the house. Trunks were pack-
ed and all the luggage which he intend-
ed to take was prepared. He had come
to the place with the intention of having
Mr. Bridges carry them to the station
when the old lady imparted the star-
tling tidings that a strango man was up
stairs in the “workshop” talking with
his wife.
Howard was frightened and savagely
angry. He stole up stairs as silently as
he could but I discovered his presence
there and as I have shown addressed
my words as much to him as to his wife.
I am satisfied that he meditated shoot-
ing me through the door though there
can be no certainty on that point.
Mr. Bridges having agreed to take the
couple and their luggage to town that
afternoon came home about thia time
for that purpose though his wife was
unaware of the arrangement The prep-
arations were quickly completed the
landlord and lady were paid an extra fee
lady Mrs. Bridges with an unconscic
man stretched on the floor in one of her
upper rooms. Before the sound of the
wagon wheels had died away she
climbed the stairs and came to where I
was lying.
She was in sore distress and feared I
was dead. She chafed my hands and
J teas dizzy and uncertain in my gait.
looked pityingly down in my face as if
I were that son whom she had buried
long years before.
"They told me not to raise the win-
dow or sprinkle water in his face but I
can't see how it will hurt him. If I
do not do something he will die. ”
She laid my bead back on the floor in
the right position and raised the win-
dow. The cool air blowing came like
the breath of life itself. It wafted away
that drbadful poison that had robbed me
of my senses and gave in its place the
oxygen and ozone for which the op-
pressed lungs were gasping.
I opened my eyes and looked around.
I saw the kind face bending over me
but my brain was muddled and unable to
comprehend anything clearly. But life
was at the flow and as she chafed ray
hands and spoke soothing words I was
able to sit up though suffering from a
splitting headache and a deadly nausea
the like of which I had never experi-
enced.
“Get me out of this horrible room ”
I muttered with that abominated odor
penetrating my nostrils "I shall die if
I stay here."
I did not let her bear much of my
weight but I was blind and she guided
me out into the hall and into the “spare
room” where I tumbled upon the bed
and straightway lost consciousness
again.
Mrs. Bridges now resorted to cold wa-
ter again chafing my hands and wrists
and with motherly kindness helping me
to remove my clothing after which she
“tucked me up” in bed and something
like comfort came to me.
I must have trodden close to death.
In truth I believe I stepped over and it
was the gentle hand of the good woman
/ opened my eyes and looked around.
that drew me back. Had she not opened
the window above my head where I lay
I would have been dead within the next
minute or two. When Howard warned
her not to do this or sprinkle any water
in my face it was with the purpose of
preventing my recovery. He nearly suc-
ceeded.
The man had not taken away my re-
volver nor any of the vessels instru-
ments and glass articles that were ruin-
ed by the overturning of the table. They
simply went off with their luggage say-
ing they would be back in a few days
but I was sure this would never take
place and it never did.
I would like to know the composition
of that stuff which the woman threw
into the stove and which while it did
not seem to affect her robbed me of
my senses. No doubt there are plenty of
such drugs in this country as well as in
Asia but I never knew one whose power
was so baneful and continuous.
CHAPTER XX.
Everything connected with Nana Sa-
hib’s ruby was uncanny.
A full week passed before my mind
freed itself of the effect of that subtle
noxious drug which came within a hair
of robbing me of life. When I becan. i
mentally my own master I attempted
to leave my bed and found I could not
stand. My lower limbs were paralyzed.
I wondered whether it was permanent
I would have summoned my physi-
cian from New York but for the con-
viction that he could give me no help.
The nature of the drug must be un-
known to any medical man in this coun-
try. Only the fabricator or discoverer
of the thing could neutralize its effects
and whoever that man was he was not
in America unless it was Darius C.
Howard. So I decided to wait
Meanwhile I received the best of
nursing. I was visited continually by
the Bridges with whom I had engaged
quarters and she and her husband were
as anxious to help me along the road
of recovery as were the couple with
whom I was forced to stay.
They procured such articles as I need-
ed and handled me with the utmost
kindness and care. I had long been
forgiven for the little deception practic-
ed to obtain admission to the upper
floor for I convinced them that the
handsome man and beautiful woman
who took up their quarters with them
were evil persons who were engaged in
unlawful practices. Indeed Mrs. Bridges
renroach°d- Aarseif. having _jiven
In a little while 1 would be inuy my-
self again.
More than once I was on the point of
sending word to my wife and bringing
her to my bedside as she would have
hastened to come the momept she knew
of my extremity.
But wherefore? Sho could do no more
for me than was being done by my
faithful attendants. My wife has long
urged me to give up my perilous voca-
tion for some pursuit of less danger. If
I should tell her all as I would be
obliged to do she would allow me no
rest until the change was made. I was
not ready to make it and doubt whether
it ever will be made.
If the time should come when I be-
lieved death impended I could sum-
mon her in a few hours. I would wait
until the necessity arose which thank
heaven never came.
It was a a source of never ending an-
noyance to me that when on the verge
of solving the mystery of the great ruby
the door was closed in my face. Had I
been able to master myself when totter-
ing across the floor until the window
was raised I believe Mrs. Howard would
have imparted the momentous secret.
But my collapse robbed me forever of
that chance.
My strength steadily increased until
the morning came when I carefully rose
from the bed and found I could stand on
my feet and don my clothing. I was
still weak but was making good prog-
ress.
Through the open door of my room 1
could see the one leading to that apart-
ment which bad proved so well nigh fa-
tal to me. The conviction had long been
with mo that if I entered that once
more I would find something to he\p
me in my groping for light.
So when all was quiet down stairs
and no one could know I was astir I
walked uncertainly across the hall
turned the knob and stepped across the
threshold.
As I did so I caught that same odor
—faint almost imperceptible to ordi-
nary senses but in my delicate condi-
tion it almost overcame me again. It
was so abhorrent so noxious so hate-
ful that bad I not instantly stepped
back and closed the door I must have
succumbed as before. My system so re-
volted that a suspicion even of its exist-
ence near me would overpower my
senses.
"Keep your secret!” 1 exclaimed
hastening back to my own room where
I threw myself on the bed until I could
rally. “It shall remain a secret forever
if it can be solved only through that
horrible taint ”
I now began to figure when I could
leave my friends. The weather which
had been sunshiny and pleasant became
cold rainy and dismal. It lasted three
days before the skies cleared and the
sun showed itself. Then I told them
that I was going home.
They urged me to stay until my
strength was fully restored but I as-
sured them that such was the fact now
and I would only be wasting precious
time of which too much had already
been squandered.
To test myself I walked in from the
country instead of allowing Mr. Bridges
to bring me in his carriage. One of the
strangest things about my experience
with that dreadful drug was that when
I reached the station I could not per-
ceive the slightest effects from it I was
as strong as robust as powerful and
active as ever in all my life.
Duty called me to New York and I
went thither without delay. I was sorry
to learn afterward that my good wife
had begun to feel anxious about me;
but not suspecting anything of the kind
I devoted a little time to work before
going home.
At the Astor House I learned that
Mr. and Mrs. Howard had staid there
on the night they came in from New
Jersey. They left the following day to
sail for England. A little inquiry
brought me the cabman an honest
straightforward fellow who had taken
their luggage to the pier and he assured
me that he saw them on the upper deck
of the Campana when she swung out
into the stream.
The fact that they had sailed on this
ocean greyhound some two weeks before
proved that they were well over toward
the other side of the world and probably
touring on the continent or well on their
way to India.
“They have taken with them their
secret” I reflected “a secret which has
baffled me and every one that had any-
thing to do with it ”
I started to go down to Maiden lane
but the afternoon was so far along that
I was apprehensive of not finding Mr.
Brown so I deferred my call until the
morrow.
On my way up town I dropped in at
the Windsor but learned that Mr. Sand-
husen had joined his family at their city
residence. Then I decided that the best
thing to do was to go to my home and
to that sweet honest little wife who
persisted in welcoming me as though I
were one risen from the dead. Had she
known the whole truth her feeling per-
haps would have been justified but I
made light of my experience and im-
pressed upon her that she should never
worry until a month or two went by
without hearing anything from me.
Even then it might be that everything
was right.
I never saw a man m<rro pleased to
meet another than was Brown
the following day t
it warmly and led (the way back to his
office.
"I tell you Wittner ” he said in his
hearty fashion “Saadhusen and L and
I suspect your wifa have been worrying
about you. ” I
"Why should yon do that? I have
often been absent longer."
"Yes but this whole business has
been so odd. Weren ’ t they a sharp cou-
ple?"
"You refer to Howard and his wife?”
“Of course. Whom else would I
mean?”
"Yes. They’re mighty shrewd but
we are not likely to see or hear from
them again. ”
"And why not?”
“They sailed on the Campana more
than two weeks ago ”
"I suspected they had left but knew
nothing positive. I suppose you have
learned all about the trick they played
on us?"
It was plain from Brown’s manner
that he had solved the mystery which
was still hidden from me. I did not
wish him to know that so 1 smiled sig-
nificantly as if the whole thing was
clear.
“Suppose you give me yonr theory
and I will see whether it agrees with
mine. ”
"Theory! There’s no theory about it
It’s fact Besides yon warned me
against the theorizing business. Did
you hear about Burling?”
I was compelled to shake my head.
“Right after that scamp of a Howard
sold me Nana Sahib’s ruby he sold
another to Burling down the street It
was smaller than mine or rather
Sandhusen's but so big that it would
excite wonder any where. Burling paid
him $15000 for it and without delay
sent it to Amsterdam certain of trip-
ling his money.”
“How did he succeed?”
“Directly after it should have reached
his correspondents Burling received a
cablegram saying that it was missing.
Evidently they had made an investiga-
tion and learned something for they
promised full particulars by mail.
"And’’added Brown impressively
"the particulars came. ”
Closing chapters of the above story In
next Sunday’s Light.
—ln the vicinity of Boquet
Westmoreland Co. Pa. almost any
one can tell you how to cure a lame
back or st iff neck. They dampen a
piece of flannel with Chamber-
lain’s Pain Balm and bind it on
the affected parts and In one or
two days the trouble has disap-
peared. This same treatment will
promptly cure a pain in the side or
chest. Mr. E. M. Frye a promi-
nent merchant of Eoquet speaks
very highly of and his
recommendations had much
to do with makf g 8 Unpopular
there. For sale drug-
gist Ban AntoniosoitaB.ro Stf
en •— (
MUSIC AND
the Light.
It is not in hunanlHH
everyone to be sat
fashioned ideas o Ar
new ones. Whetlu It
count of music or ।
or tlie like there ia aIMHH
or less contention Bn
of the question butt whHMHBH
can patriotism is
should be no question I|||||||M
tion whatever.
faculty in the Iniveree W:!
live as long as the
upon its axis.
be as enthusiastic as boiHMmH
have them
of that wholesome
ism may be found wherHBHH
pected. I cannot bring Wgasß
believe that because
Sam Houston band has
• foster patriotism by
national character’’ dunnfl»||||i|
two or three years
there has been no
demonstrations
soldiers of Fort Sam HoiiM||S||
■ Fourth of July” sports
ties of a patriotic kind 1 £ “J
case in much smaller
for that reason I do not
and will not believe that
Ism has died out or is on tnH|||
cline; Sergant Casey’s
cerning patriotism is a good Ml
and deserves to be put Into acticM
both by the band as well as thm
soldiers of Fort Sam Houston
with Sergant Casey at the head of
“Fourth of July sports” and other
festivities of patriotic kind during
the year. I hereby nominate Ser-
gant Casey as president of “Fort
Sain Houston National Sports.”
In the future I shall folliw the
example of the marine bant by
playing a patriotic air at the
of each concert with an oceaeipn-
al “Star Spangled Banner" Bloat-
ing in the breeze at gaurd-n/ount-
ing. I
What’s the matter with civilian
bands stimulating the patriotic
and emotional instinct of the Na-
tion as well?
There was a time when orches-
tras in all theaters the country
over played a national air at the
close of each performance. This
practic is a commendable one and
deserves encouragement also even
if it is looked upon by the few as
“a species of Anglo-mania.”
Frederick Gross.
THIBIBT IS THE OHEAPBST.
We have the best hose lawn
mowers and sprinklers and at
prices to suit everybody. A.amo
Iron Works cor. Houston and St.
Mary’s streets. 4 2b tf
—Lawn cheaper than
city at Alamo
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