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ANOTHER’S CRIJ1.
PROM THE DIARY OF INSPECTOR BYIINES.
By JULIAN HAWTH0S1IE, Author of
“The Great Bank Robbery,” “An
American Penman," Etc,
[Copyright ty O. M. Dunham, and published,
through special arrangement by the American
Press Association with Cassell & Co., New York
and Loudon.]
CHAPTER XAHII.
A DILEMMA.
hfl ed ND deeds tato, him so and you of over his hand- that’s the cs
villi: the end of tho
story?” said Mr.
m Stapleton interro
m gatively.
Hi “You're going
a bit too fast,"
rJSu lm going the what “The other story Ive to replied begin; is told just
m I you is merely by
ing^thef “g .r. si turn lin ion" l ;
“ chas ng a
man half round tho world, and a little
more, you don’t expect to get through
tour business with him in five minutes,
When ! first saw him ho was smoking a
cigar by a fire that was built outside of
one of them adobe huts, and drinking a
stutT taay call pulque which is tho nem
est they can get to whisky in that coun
try, and pretty poor stuff it is. \veil, I
stopped np to him and says I, ‘Good
evening, Mr.-’ (givinghim 1ns ngme,
you understand) ‘for Ima told that you
are that gentleman. Ho looked up at
me, and I said to myself that I had made
no mistake. Ho had on a Mexican
and . wide .. brimmed . . ....... hat; but Ms
scrape a
figure and face answered well enough to
my description of him, though instead
of side whiskers ho had a mustache ami
chin beard, as if he meant to bo a Mexi
can tlwtigli ami through. looking
“ Yes.’ says he up at me;
y° u a 7 ,^ ne f "’ uh me?
A* ell, says I, I think I may say 1 r
have, since I ve como some fifteen thou
Oh? 'You aro right jlr? .aid ^
but heforo I go further, and o ^
sure theres no mistake, I must
mo mo an an account ac C oLt 0 of or you. yoursen-?our seir your family iamuy
and so forth—so that I may know you
nie the man I m sent to see, and no
1
Irion, said t I, MIM'U ad 111 have 1 to do is to to to go
back where I came from; though I may
tell you that if you are the gentleman in
question it will bo your loss, and a bi 0
loss, too, not to let bio know it.
“ 'A. (o h. ..... 'I tort 1
that you can give mo anything I caro to
have, whatever you may have brought;
but if you want to know my history 1
alwavs carry my papers about with me,
and I've no objection to your looking
them over.’ And with tlmt ho took a
wallet out of his pocket, and handed it
tome. I opened it and examined the
papers one after the other. ‘They seem
all right, sir,’I said, ‘and I suppose 1
may as well take it that everything is
correct and regular;’ so then I went on
and told him what had happened, how
his brother was dead, and lie the heir of
the property. He heard it all with a
sort of strange look on his face; and
when I got through at first lie said
nothing at all. IIo got up and took a
turn up and down, smoking his cigar;
but at last lie comes back, and says he,
‘Who's the next heir after me?
“I didn’t see just what that had to do
with it: but I said I supposed it would bo
his cousin or whatever relative was near
est his own blood. ‘AVell,’says he, chuck
ing away his cigar,‘whoever ho is, he
may have it. I’m very well satisfied as
I am, and I won’t have anything to do
with it.' Those were Ms very words, and
you may suppose I was a bit surprised,
‘You won’t have anything to do with a
hundred and fifty thousand pounds?’
says [. ‘Not with that hundred and
fifty thousand, at any rate,’ said ho.
‘But what aro ypu going to do
about it?’ says I; ‘the property is
yours, and it’s entailed, and you cant
get rid of it.’ ‘Oh, don’t trouble yourself
about that,'said he, with a laugh. ‘It
won’t bo buried in tho ground. And if
the worst comes to the worst how do
you know that I am the right man after
all? I have got the papers and I am
called by that name; but you yourself
said that you never saw me before; and
you could not swear that I am not some
body else. I should have to go to Eng
land in any case to prove my identity,
But 1 prefer to stay here, and that’s the
end of it!’
“It was the queerest case ever I heard
of, and I didn't know what to make of
it. J sat there and talked and argued
with him for an hour and moro, but
nothing I could say made a bit of dif
ferenco. He wouldn’t have tho property
at any price, and he ‘didn’t care what
came'of it. I gave it over, at last, for
the time being, and passed tho night in
the hut; the next morning I tried him
again, but he was as obstinate as ever,
AVell, I didn’t believe yet that ho meant
all he said, so I made up my mind to
givehima bit more rope. I told him I
was going to stay in Mexico a week or
two, and let him understand that if he
svee.t .! to change his mind he’d have an
«!'W‘ blity; a f the n / f id sood day
and rode of. I went t back to Mexico
and put up at the hotel, and thought
al! over; but the more I thought about
Ittho less I could make it out. If he
was the right man (anu everyttong about
“ ‘ ao ' ved ho was )U d * Jn t sec ' m in
human nature to refuse . the property; 1
and if he was an imposter, who had
somehow managed to get hold of
right man’s papers and to personate Mm
any trung, unit ttotrra ra aio strangest
case of the two.
“I had been back from Pachuca just a
week when I was told that there was a
lady in the house—an English lady—that
wanted to see me. Thinks I, ‘Now,what
does this mean?’ I brushed myself up a
bit and went down to find out. Sho was
sitting at a table in tho patio, with a cup
0 f tea in front of her. She was a good
looking woman, and as I judged might
be something under 30 years old.
“I made my bow, and she asked me to
bo seated. After a littlo talk, says sho,
hear you have been inquiring i after Mr.
Valentine .- , giving . . , his . lull ,, name, you
understand. I told her that I had. ‘Did
you find him?’ asked she. ‘I did,’ said I.
She seemed a bit excited or anxious, and
I began to have my own ideas; but I
'Y as r * prepared for what she said next.
1 ' v saw,‘ana ' sh vou to _hnow wha%\ thM efTblmf l_am msincss us s
sne
mine also. I am bound to inform you,
madam, I said at last, that Ma family
has no knowledge of Ms man iage; they
believe Mm to be a bachelor I am
aw are of that, said she, but fortunately
1 aI11 m a P 0Sltl ? n t0 P rovo what 1 sa - Vl
and with that she took her
“ficate out of bei pocket and showed it
Jo-me; it was
<f uon taole ’ 6110 " as * inui
tliwo I liadnt or fou.jyearBago, a word to say. m . I understand ^MandL „ , he
has come into Ms property,’ said she.
hia^k 5
have anythin" i° to do with it.’ Sho turned
•
‘ bed , very sbarn ° i
' ‘ , priori L nut q, K
what t T tell ,.- jou, , saiu ■ j T l, amt , men (1 j l we ,
cm and gavoJicr tho story of my visit to
hl “^,
^ sho ke^t , makingexc c d to W«(is,’and floor her at
gaying things ha ]f to herself, and biting
j. ' w \» plain she didn't know
‘ . y * b ., n i d : d /
1 , . , . , , . .
„
, . r f d 0 t bJ ‘j; must see
\ v °___ ’
. . Miamco" . ,, fn^ho . worfd," , , ^in
walked Mr. Valentine into the patio ‘ at
J ^ t r , thi ., k ho ovcr
.
f ^ meetiug; but it waa too
, . f/ln.nred so h e came UD bile - and
1 noticed ; 110 , only , g anceu a* it the wo muy, as
hancL i t , vaa a tit awkward,
I said, ' -I suppose I J ' you will wish to con
with > our ife alone> slr . j will
wi(e p says he; ‘I was
”• *"'• «-**- *
“tit mtt.oulsh.d, aud
, hen at mo _ ■! never saw her till this
mo:ncut) , ^ he> . Come> sir> . aaid X , - X
hav0 B lst 8(5011 tho certilicato of her raar '
^ , < 0 h, it’s all a mistake,’
^ ^ q ^ never uiarrio j
this gentleman ; l never saw him; i
am tho Wifo of Mr. Valentine.’ ‘AVoU,
irenticman is the'same Mr Valentine ’
name,
butho . ganotliw l o n altogethe r j , 6a id
^ to tlmt . BaiJ x> . raust8ettXe
it ‘ between “J ° ‘ S’Z vou‘ Mr Valentine’s inners
c.latu in England with llio namt that hi.
bears.’ ‘But I have proved, ciicd tno
lady, (hat I am the w ifo o t 10 •> lr o
that estate; and if tins gentleman saj.s
ho is the heir, I denounce him as an un
poster!
“At that, I looked at Mr. Valentine.
He had kept Ms eyes on the lady all the
while, with a sort oi perplexed ex pres
sion; but now he smiled very quietly,
and said ho, ‘I think have heard of this
lady before. I wish to say nothing
a S a i«st her Shesoems to bo in addem
ma from which there is no way of extn
eating her. If she wishes to lay a claim
to the estates, she can do so only by ac
knowledging nio usher husband. Hut
you have just heard us both declare t la
"'o have never seen each other before.
But she also declares me an impostor.
Suppose I am; she must find t.iereal man
before sho can profit bj' the inheritance.
If I am net he, where is he. Grant, on
the other lrand, thatlam he, and this lady
is my wife; I still decline to touch a
penny of tho hundred and fifty thousand
pounds; and what I will not accept she
cannot share. That is logic and law
both, I believe?
“Upon word, Ilenry Clifton, _ ejac
my
ulated Mr. Bob Stapleton at this junct
ure, “this is about as peculiar a yarn aa
over I listened tol It’s os good as a play
and better too. A\ hen you get to New
York, do you go straight to a manager
and offer to scl it to inn, a* 1 ' i 1C
don't givo you a good price for it lm a
Dutchman!'
“Good or bad, returned Mr. Olifton,
“it happened just as l tell it lady you. seemed ' ■ ' l< I j
Mr. Valentine said that, the
staggered for a moment; and then all at
once shecalled out: ’I see how it is! \ ou
two have arranged t.us ".““S “ tt ''' eea
you! You aro in a conspiracy to cliea
mol You have plotted to get hold ot
this property and s.iaro it between you,
and keep me out! But 1 will have
rights in spite of joul 1 win
uenounco boih oi )ou n> 1 - ••
thonties. I‘or all I know, you may have
murdered my husixuid and taken nis
papers. But you wi.l iiotbuccceu, 1 will
expose you, and you s.ri jo puiu..;v ..
k ^ ' L a ''F
ani , * * , to|| f 1 s ie u , ui. ei >
charge mo with conspiracy she liatl Del
ter set about it at once, an ,ie^.M.iKr
B 10 better, for I knew v io \\o i . g a
the worst of it. As tor Mr. ’ a ennn
he didn’t lose lus temper, but lie saw
very quietly, ‘I am not a mu merer. ma
dam, and you wm only waste your time
m trying to prove me such. But oan
assure band—and you I that, certainly if I am am not not-no jour such h^
-^ U ^ ®bi.VotTon ^ Ia .„
eitaer - in l comto.iation col vvit mu. 1 Mr lr. Clifton Blirto
^ J ’ w^"o £ I“%o3d
^ed m .ex.cotliatl to have
nunation mma ion^sb l . liau d ]'adhere aa.itre. Ti l e cut utnio- .,t\ t you
can attoiiipt to do is to show that lam
^ ^ warayoJtefori-" MdT
d evMence D onrny
1
go back' whence you came, and fo give
up idea of over becoming a great 1
any I have
English lady. Meanwhile, the
honor to wish you good morning!’ !
“He bowed to her as polite and cool
as ’ you please, and walked out of the ;
patio and I followed him. ‘What in tho
name of wonder does all this mean?’ 1
asked him.
“ ‘Really, Mr. Clifton,’ said he, ‘1 can !
givo you no explanation. You have
heard the whole conversation, and you
must draw your own conclusions from
it, as I do mine. If you believe that
lady is tlio wife, or the widow, of the
Mr. Valentine who has inherited tho es
tate, you are at liberty to net in
auco with your conviction. The
difficult thing will probably bo to make
Qther plo beliero , l3 you do> .
„ , Tll . lt ’ a a u right, Mr. Valentine,’ said
, but thero is 0110 thing you can tell
ma y ou saj j just now that you had
heard 6pcak of that lady before, and the
inference was that what you had heard
waa uo t to her credit. Now what did
you mean by that?’
“ ‘Well, Mr. Clifton,’ said ho, ‘perhaps
I may have heard of her before, or
hapa x may be mistaken in tliinking I
bad . but I don’t see why tho inference
to bo drown is necessarily a had one At aU
evnc ts, sho has never done me any harm,
j , lon ‘ t believe she ever will, or can;
;
an d 1 have no present intention ot harm
mg her either by word or deed. As 1
stick to, and nothing will change mo.’
By that time wo had got to tho door of
tho oiiice of the secretary of the interior,
who was a friend of his, and lie went in
and left me in the street, to do my own
thinking.”
IfS/tin yet!” , SI.'. UpS10tof lt
“It isn't ended Clifton ro
plied; “but from knowledge facts that I subsequently
came to my came to the
conclusion that I might learn someliiing
York." '
by coming on to New
“N°w that 1 think of it, it’s growing a
5SS auu as uio govtiuoi SSSS or ooum Carolina
^ 0 ™'^ ‘a lonf'tMm'‘boH^n
drinks.’ I Imvo some acquaintance with
the head steward on board this boat; sup
V°f we go down stairs?”
Apparently Mr. Clifton accepted tins
Buggostion; for when, a few miuutes
latcr) tho bearded gentleman pushed
Sfi* ’ «"
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CHAPTER XIX.
IN A cakrjagm.
*»__J -rr (JDGE toA KE'TEL
l-K «-
11! ultlt iut
j | louaQ n iuth t f
from the If
V ®W4r+-jl4bi'‘! ” boundary
Central ^ Park
thorn! Ion to live with
The , ved .
felMSP ^ZTntT; jn^cw v ,
^ y *« J c York
Y, 1 3 ’ f
-
E i PSS , ES X t , , ,
S F P “hltanTtS
h
now | y married couplo did not entertain,
however, owing totho recent domestic
m j s f ortt;nea w hich had overtaken Mrs.
Kctel]e . s family; they received a few
friends very quietly and informally, and
mado scarceI y any caila. Tho judge had
not beuI1 on t!l0 bencli for somo years
f provioua to |,j 3 marriage; but ho hud a
a , 0 mi Inni K)rtant pratice as a barris
ter and ho now devoted MmseU to this
with , n0 ro assiduity than ever. Report
ha(] (hat , 1Q and llia wifu wcro very
happ togL . t he r , and though some people
th(J jud - a intrepidity in von
turin to appropriate a lady so beautiful
and ao much Ms junior, there was noth
j ng j n t j lc ir relations to indicate that bis
^ Rot ^ as pnldent as lt ccr .
tainly vvas enviable.
The wedding had taken placo about
^ ^ of 0clob3r) on llu . return of Ul0
fj 0 ] ens and j ud g 0 ICetelle from tho sea
gid<j . ' and after a short honeymoon they
eeU] o(J in tlieir new dwelling early in
j^ 0V(3mbcr The judge attended to busi
^ (jown tQwn e d hia wifo
t ber , nominga at homo, and in the
afternoons was fond of driving out in
the . in )ier brougham, occasionally
accol| aniod by | ier mother, but more
oft(iQ ;ilone T ho weather was cold but
flIle , and tho huo of the autumn
| eavea was unusually beautiful. But
thQso whQ ha enod to ^ tho face of
j bo yol mg wife at llio window of her
> jrouy |, alll f orgo t all about tho autumnal
foliar-o and had their thoughts filled
wUll l)]0 tnemory 0 f another kind of
"
loveliness.
Ono afternoon, while passing tho chil
dren - 8 play gr0U nd, Mrs. Ketclle caused
t]|Q coac [ llnan to stop his horses in order
fl, a t g j 10 might watch tbo little creatures
ft t their games, for nothing pleased her
moro than til0 spoc taclo of children huv
in '; „ a Rood t j mu
utcr remaining a few minutes, she
was about to givo tX)0 order to raovo on
W ] )C11 |, cr attention was attracted to a
[^ )eman who wag 8tan ,ling with his
( . k ‘ piartly turn(H i towards ber in a foot
pal]l t hat bcro apriro achod the carriage
^ XXe was tad arid we ll made; be
wore a thin capo ulster of dark tweed
and a black felt hat with a. curved brim
_ a Eon of fa6l|ional ,| 0 mo <Mication of
tbo nieturesque Tvroieso headgear. Of
bi3 faco 8bo cou i d see on j y tbo out Unc of
tJl0 chcek and brow . bo had a mustache
anJ a ghort c } osc [ y cl)t beard.
7 f , , ai?d si , dlt of th t 3 rnal .
P strange powerful an
i =- on ■ unon . hcr? She asked herself
^ siSTho wJna sa tisfac- To
an
Something g ,iaintar.ee of hers! And yct there was
about liim that not only ar
Kj ,er muse but sent a thrill to her
being driven through it. Her hands be
came cold and her teeth chattered, and
yet her cheeks were burning and drops
Rt/vv i nr , i lf . r forehead
hfs ccn u C ruan turned siowiy tore
wmo walk. As his faco came moro
fully into view Mrs. Ketello caught her
ger8 grasped (lio frame of the door con
rulsivcly. She could not cry out; her
]j ps were parched and her tonguo dry.
jj u t her whole soul went out to him
through her eyes. Was it a dream? Was
ke a phantom? Could she bo deceived by
SO mQ marvelous resemblance? Oh, would
ho pass on without seeing her and vanish
forever!
H* had, in fact, walked on several
pacea> and in another minute ho would
be out of reach. But either accident or
one 0 f those mysterious mental impres
B j ona which many persons have experi
en ced in somo epoch of their lives caused
kXlu suddenly to pause, turn about, and
] 00 [j directly'at tho face in tho carriage
window. Their eyes met for a moment;
then the woman covered her faco with
ber hands, and sank back in her scat
with a breathless cry of terror, bewilder
ment and intolerable joy.
Tho gel jtlcman, who also seemed pale
and a nit a ted, cauio over to the road and
kdd b ls band on tho carriage door.
o Dr j V0 ou!” he said to tho coachman,
and w |fv, t ho words ha entered the
riag0 and closed tho door after him.
Then he pulled down the shades over tho
windows. Tho coachman spoke to his
torsos, and they moved on.
Thia cp ‘ £ soda ] iad ta ken place in a
Bhort spu 0 of time, and with very littlo
jdbl0 I^vcrtheless, manifestation of feeling on either
it had not entirely
^en slunteii j observation Two men had
S w ^g aMng the avAy path side by
the hour
or two that separated thorn from graceful dinner.
One of them was a tall, slender,
fellow, with sharp but well molded feat
ures, black hair and mustache, and a
S? m i r restless black eves lie was
es sed quietly, in dark colors, and yet
there was a certain jauntiness in his ap
pearanco that suggested tho sporting
man or tho sharper. His companion
was a considerably older man, and Ins
face was of a much coarser cast; his
c i 0t i, e3 were new, but fitted Mm ill, and
ho woro a flashy necktie and watch
chain. His small gray eyes had noted
i; n^s t i|,, occurrence above described,
and tho carriage rolled away ho
nudged,his friend with Ms elbow.
“ Well, what now?” said llio latter.
“Did you see that?”
“What?”
-Well, your wits are wool gathering,
Jt Reema nm vou ac0 that feUow get ‘
“AVhat carriage?”
“That carriage that was standing hero
just now with tho indy in it. Why,
what’s got into you, Horrie? Don’t you
-wil, jon'rulgh! should r
liud I. u.ouoy m
your pocket somo day, that’s all. Swell
women like that don’t drive out alone in
tho P ark f f r ^ thia S. I reckon! And
may be, rather than have their husbands
know what they’re after, they might see
their way to [laying un obliging person
» consideration to keep bis mouth shut.”
“Oh, stultl That business is played
out The swells aro on to it, and the
lirst word that’s said they ring tho bell
for the police. I don’t want any of that
in mine, thank you 1 And if you want
-V — •« •*»«'« y»« k«ow to
«»• "> “» 1»*
broughams, you must find somo greenci
hand I ban lam.
“1 know who b!io just the same, ^
was,
retorted the other. “BIw s the girl that
married that b llov. Ketone, a mont i
“S‘\’ “She?—tho „ sister , of „ that , „ lie stop
—
P oJ -
“The sister of Jorrold Nolen! You re
member Idm, if 1 ain’t mistaken, said
the short man, with a chuckle.
“ Vts - 1 remember him; and when ho
accounts aro evened up 111 remember
you too, Jack Crush, and don t you tor
got it!” reclaimed the black haired man,
with n sullen fierceness. Tho fellow lie
had called Crush laughed but made no
reply. “So that was bis sister, was It?
tho other went on, muttering to himself;
"and she’s married to the judgo a month
ago, and taking fellows to drive in her
brougham!” lie twisted tho ends of his
mustache, and switched tho too of Ms
Ux,t - ili 1,0 sauntered along, with tho
light cano he carried.
Let us follow Mrs. Ketelle’s carriage.
Aftor tlio first few minutes of speech
loss and wild emotion wero passed, I au
lino relinquished her brother’s lmnd, and
shrank away from him to her side of the
carriage. A reaction of feeling bad
como over her. Sho felt a sort of indig
nat ‘°n that she should have been all
these months grieving for a calamity
that had never happened.
“AVhy did you never let us know that
you wero alive?" she demanded.
” I it off from day today,” hesaid.
“I had not decided, at first, what to do.
1 thought of coming home; then I
thought that since I had been reported
dead it was better to lot it be believed so
for a time, until the truth about the rob
lx ‘ r y should bo discovered. Besides, I
knew that detectives would bo after me,
and I feared that a letter addressed to
you or to the judge might betray me
At last when I found som-Jhmg to do I
decided IO wa| t until I •«.s certain of
success heforo communicating with you.
AnJ finally, circumstances led to my
coming back hero unexpectedly myself.”
“But Valentine might have written, if
you could not.”
“Valentine! Why, Pauline, don’t you
know—don't you see—it was Valentino
who was drowned!"
“Valentine! Oh, God forgive me! how
I havo wronged him!” Sho turned aside
and rested her faco against the side of
the carriage and soblied for a few mo
ments passionately. But Dio was never
on® to 1«! long mastered by emotion. She
forct " i back llft r tears, and said: “Toll
rao ’ tcUmt ' aiiI ”
wholc alTalr caiae ab ° ut by an
accident without any prearrangement
at all. When l went down to tho pier ^ny
the steamship, Val laid suggested
making one or two alterations in my
drew and apiiearance, so tiiat if anyone
wercon the lookout for mo I should pass
for Valentine. Afterwards, on the
at earner, wo found that [x.-oplo wero giv
ing us rach others names, and wo let it
*» «*■ We occup.ed the same state room
very nttieor my own won me.
“On tho voyago ho told me all his pri
vato history; 1 afterwards thought that
if ho had been consciously training me
to personate him ho could not have done
it moro effectually. Then came tho day
of tho hurricane. Vo were closo to
gether all tho time until within a few
minutes of tho time tho wind changed,
Wo wero in tho cabin; there was a lan
torn buring, but it was almost quite
dark. Val left mo and went to our room,
I could see him there; ho scorned to bo
writing on something that ho held up
before Mm. A fterwards he went towards
tho steward's room, holding on by tho
iron pillars of the cabin as he went. That
was tho lost I saw of him. Ho must
have gone on deck—for what I can’t im
agino—and been swept overboard. No
one know anything of it until tho next
morning.”
“Now I know—now I know!” mur
mured Pauline, pressing her hands over
her heart. “It was he—ho did not for
get—I might have known it!"
“AVhat might you have known?” asked
her bn dior.
“Nothing; go on. When you found
that ho was dead what then?”
“We had agreed before to go to Mex
ico. lie had letters and papers. I took
them and went traveling as Valentino
Martin. I saw that in that way I should
get a standing in the place w Inch I could
not have obtained for myself, and that
tlvo report o\iee. of my wL death would throw oiT
the Mexico, P and I put in cordiaUy tho way rocci^ of doing in
some valuable business. Lveiythmg
prospered with me, as it had never done
before. Tho story is too long to tell fully
now; but in tho midst of my success un
extraordinary thing occurred; au Eng
fish agent of tho Martin estate came over
and told mo-supposingmotobo Valen
lino—that by iny Mothers death I \\a3
, tho heir. I did not wish fo enter into
explanations, so I simply told him that
I did not want tho estate, and that it
might go to tho next of kin. Ihadfor*
gotten that Val had a wife, though of
course, I know all about her. Sho had
ruined Ids life in more ways tlmn one,
and was no better than sho should be,
but it Ins death wero known sho would
beenUtlcd to a share of the estate. It
seems sho had got wind of tho English
agent’s business, and had followed him
from New Zealand. 1 had a curious iu
.-iau- trlth |,o„ .ho W « to
ally with having made away w. h her
husband m order by personating Mm to
get Ins property, and treating my asser
Don that I was not going to touch the
SSZ “oSZtr
to aolla.lly Mm* l»«« 1 -oM
mako common c.tuso with her, to go to
England, prove her marriage to Valen
tine, get the estate and then divido xvith
mo!
“Poor Valentino ” murmured Paulino,
with a trembling lip.
“When I refused sho declared war,
and said sho would expose me as an im
poster and jirohable murderer. She
learned that 1 was manager and part
owner of a valuable mine that I had dm
covered near Pachuca. Iho other owners
»«« »»o high to. .1 to *mto
^ „‘u°, a Su ’ S
drerHy made up my mind what to do; I
gave tliein the whole history of what had
happened since Valentine and 1 had loft
Now York; 1 told them what ho lmd told
mo about bis wife, and then 1 showed
them tlio letter she find just written me.
i | cno w I was risking everything in mak
ing n clean breast of lt, but tlio fact was
[ wa3 tired of living under a name that
,[ id no t belong to me, and I wanted to
put an end to it at all hazards.”
nnl glad of that!" said Paulino
and -riiey for were while rather I thought upset by HhJ thejH
a suhdA
WO uld go against me. But I
considered too useful a iiniB
j wa s making a great all deal work.^L— of r^H
: ,„d doing tho
tUo woman’s letter tipped the
They said finally that they would accept
n)0 for w [ lat I was if I could givo them
satisfactory jiroof that I was what I fin¬
clarcd , nyst .[f to lio. Let mo show lut¬
tors or vouchers from reputable persons
in New York bearing out my account of
myse If and they would accept mo as a
f u n equivalent for what I had protended
Xo [x>. ] had a power of attorney that
Val had given me on tho steamer, but of
courso I cou ld not tell them what had
[ 0 d to my leaving New York. I could
not as){ any ono [, flra for a certificate of
good character until my name had !>een
leal . od of tho charge against it. But it
wouldn’t do to hesitate, so I said, on the
spur of tho moment, that 1 would go to
New York, get the ovidenco they re¬
, |U ire«l and return to them with it. Bo
hero I am; but I overheard somo convcr
nation coming down on the boat between
tho English agent and a Now York de
| (;C tivo which mado it seem probable
(hat my affairs will Ire investigated
whether I like it or not, and that mean
while tho true story of how tho robbery
was committed lias not been revealed
yct . How is it?"
Tho answer to this question led to a
long conversation, in thocouraeof which
Percy learned all that had happened dur
ing Ms absence, including Pauline's mar
r j ag0 . The search for the thief for whose
crime he hadsutTered had auyet met with
no success, but it was still being carried
on . After discussing the matter, it was
.lecided that Percy’s presence in the city
should, for tho moment, be kept a secret
from every one, even from Ms mother
! and Judge Ketello. IIo should conceal
himself in lodgings in tho upper part of
the town, where Pauline could visit him
from time to time, and report tlie pro
;?Te8a0 f affairs, and learn, if possible,
f r0 m Inspector Byrnes, what were the
object and result of tho English agent
Clifton's mi;; ion to New York. There
might bo difficulties In tho way, but the
brother and bister were young and te¬
liovcd that the longest hmehasaturn
ing. drove .
It was late when Pauline „ tip to 4
tho door of her house and, alighting,
walked up the steps of tho porch. Her
mind was full of her brother, uml sho did
not notice the tall man with tho black
mustache who stood on tho wrner of the
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