The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-03-04

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ter ordering his horse to be put up
for an hour or two. The dective
soon learned that he had ordered
dinner, and, as his own appetite was
good, resolved.to initiate his exam
pie. While his meal was preparing,
he loitered about the passage in the
hope of obtaining a peep at the fair
unknown. Presently the opportuni-
ty came. One of the walters left the
door open, and through the crack the
lady was distinctly visible.
The detective fell back as if he had
been shot; plunged his hands into
his pockets to find the portrait OF
Miss Archbold; presently he pulled
it out, looked at it attentiyely, and
then took another peep through the
crack in the door. Apparently salts
fed, he slowly walked away, his
'countenance exhibiting a mixture OF
the greatest surprise, indignation and
self-satisfaction. At this moment q
waiter met nun.
"Hallo !" said he, "Do that gen
tleman and lady often come here?
Two or three times a week, sir, y
was the reply.
"The deuce they do" said the de
tective, slowly. Well, I am
what, he did not say, for chuckling
to him m-seR, he went out, jumped into
the hack, and returned at full speed
to New York. He was conveyed
straight to Mrs Archbold, and de
manded to see her alone. His man
ner was so constrained that she in
stantly OWNED that some thing most
startling had happened.
"You have news-news Of Mary"
"Yes, Mrs. Archbold, ] have, but
1 don't exactly know how Tn to tell
you
Where is she ? what is she doingf
Speak, man, speak,.
Mrs. Archbold, you ask Mr. Hor-
ton, he'll tell YOU better than l can.
"Mr. Horton What do YOU mean
does he know where she isf''
Il guess so-he ought to-"
"What is this mystery? Tell me
all you have to tell me, plainly. ]
can bear all
"Well, don't blame me. Mrs. Arch
bold-if you will have the truth
Mr.. Horton has known all along
where your daughter has been"
"How dare you tell me so-how
dare you hint
"It's of no use being angry, mad
am, with me-I have only done my
duty, l tell you l have seen your
daughter and Mr.. Horton together
this afternoon, have but just left
them, and can take you to the house
in which l saw them leave"
"Mrs. Archbold did not faint OF
scream, but her features grew bright
with anger and pale with agitation.
She left the room, and in a few min
utes reentered it, dressed and ready
to 90 out.
"Come," she said; and the two 81
lently started on their errand. When
they arrived the house the detective
rang the bell, and asked the servant if
Miss Archbold lived there.
"No sir, we have none but married
people here"
"Wen," showing the portrait,
" does this lady live here;'
"Yes sir, but she is not in at pres
ent."
f" Very well, then; we will come in
and wait for her: but you need not
tell her that any one is here"
The hours passed very tediously.
and the fortitude Of Mrs. Archbold
had almost given way, when a car
riage drove up to the door, and i'm
uediately afterwards her daughters 5
voice was heard bidding some one
|" good night" The carriage slowly
and the detective, bidding
the mother keep close behind him
stepped quietly into the hall, and
stood face to face with the girl he
had so long been looking for
"Good evening, Miss Archbold,
That is not my name and she
looked him full in the face.
Indeed. Do you not, then, know
this LADY,"
Her brayado was all gone then, anC
utterlng a scream that made even tht
experienced police officer vince, shc
covered her face with her hands, anC
fell fainting on the floor
The detective raising the young
lady in his arms, carried her out, anC
placed her by her weeping mother
side in a carriage he had procured
1t is no intention Of mine 10 recoun
the scene he then witnessed betweel
Mrs. Archbold and her child, Th.
detective in all his experience haC
never met the like, and hopes never
to meet it again, They were botl
somewhatmore composed before they
reached home, and the mother haC
again neryed herself to meet thC
snake whom she had so long called
friend. Mr.. Horton had come in, anC
was in the dining room, where he hsC
been told by the other two daughters
who had been previously instructed
that Mrs. Archbold had gone to TAXI
tea with an acquaintance.
He turned quickly around, smiling
blandly, as the handle of the dool
was turned, and was about to ad
Iyance-when he stood transfXed witt
terror and grasped the table for sup
port.
Mrs. Archbold never spoke, but
drawing herself up to her full height
pointed to her daughter, who haC
sunk into a chair and was sObbins
Ieonvulsively. Her sisters, rushing t
her side, fOndled and embraced her
calling her by name and entreatine
her to be calm. Presently Mr.. Hor
ton staggered, rather than walked
out, without breaking the silence, tn,
street door was opened and shut, anC
he was gone.
"Well,n said I, and how did it al
end?"
"Oh! it was hushed up, as well a
lit could be, though scores of people
| in New York viii recognize the story
and know the actors in it. Horton
had fascinated the girl, 1 suppose; h
certainly was a very pleasant man
He battered her, and filed her heao
with rubbish, and 1 have no doub