Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-03

twenty minutes, and then sat down
without him. He never came back all
that right nor the next day. nor the
day after that in tact, as ycr I'll k1iow5
he never came back at all.
We vert to the police Office at once !;
and I was very much amused at the
theories set up by the excellent detec-
ives. to account for lis disarneaeahee.
told them that [ believed it very
likely that he had been looking for. a
house. or, ii not, t1!at ne had gone. to
the british Museum but they got il
into their heads that he had been de-
coyed into the slums of ST. GILES or
Westminster, or had committed sui
eide AID aothiha would dissuade
them at first from these oWo znfs,ehi6tis
theories.
They asked me if ne was not man
of studious, solitary habits, and rather
eccentric.
t answered: Eyes, certainly"
''Then. depend Gpon it" said the
sereent, sFhe,S in the Regents Canal Or
the Ilanies'o ....t1
This reasoning was 50 unanswerable
that [ did not attempt to answer it,
bat I determined to test my own theory
Hitherto We We haaa Heeaa able to find
nobody who had seen him He knew
very few people in london, and he was
not the sort of man to attract attention.
[ began ny endeavors to trace his
movements in rather novel manner.
{ Stated every morning from my own
house at the SAME houf as he 1isd doHe:
l stood for about five minutes in the
street, and then [ set out in whatever
direction chance suggested to NE. For
eight days walked almost fifteen miles
a day, ldokine everywhere for any
house to let which would. fa4s bsen
likely to attract Bayle's attention, but
[ did not get any clue. [ found sew
eral which he had been to, but not on
the day upon which he disappeared.
On the ninth day / selected district
which [ knew to contain one CT tN6
houses such as he required. l
walked on in the same unprecedented
manner, turning down any street as
chance led me. | was very much dis
pirited, so much so that I had forgot
ten I was htiigrY; when f found my
self il very Quiet part OF one OF tie
western suburbs. I was just going to
try and find some place where I could
lunch, which promised to be no easy
matter, as there seemed no shop or
public houses near, when my eye caught
a very cra6y-looking board which was
peering over the dingy corner of dead
wall straight in front of me. [ walked
up to it and read: q This eligible vii
la to be let, unfinished, with one acre
of ground, Stabling, &c Terms very
moderate. Inquire within"
could only see the top of the house,
which seemed very low, and some lit
tie way from the road The front
looked on to Dudden's Grove; on one
side was Dissenting chapel, standing
on q small piece of ground, on the 9th
er, very quiet, lonely late; there was
a door evidently leading to the stable
yard it was bolted, and there was no
bell. [ tried to make them hear, and
failing, returned to the front entrance,
which / had not seen before, and after
some little trouble, Z found the bell
and rang It, Five minutes elapsed be-
fore any one answered the summons,
and then man opened the door and
asked me what I wanted. He was a
cunning, dirty looking fellow, with
very peculiar eyebrows, growing III
patches, as if he had the mango. He
looked as If he had been drinking, but
he did not speak thick, nor was his
gait or hand unsteady, but the blood
shot eyes and blotchy face made me feel
sure that he was not a man I should
care to leave in charge Of house.
One other popularity I noticed then,
and that was the great length Of his
arms, which gave him the appearance
of a great ape.
He led the Way down a damp gravel
walk, overgrown with weeds, through
what had been little garden. On the
right hand side [ noticed large patch
of very rank grass round broken
sun dial. [ remarked to the man that
the soil seemed pretty rich there.
eyes, he answered with kind of
hoarse chuckle, 'tthe grass do grow
very thick and sweet just there; and it
ought to-, considering what's under
meath. "
"Why, what is underneath there y
sFClay, of course, " he answered, with
another chuckle, and by this time
found myself at the front door Of the
house
It was a singular little place. The
windows OF what was probably the
diningroom opened into o ricketY old
verapdah, which terminated at the
porch. This porch projected some
little way from the house, and at once
struck me as space very much i'll
utalized, since there was no room
above. Two urns, that looked as if
they were afflicted with the gangfene,
surmounted the frcnt door; the lattice
work that had once been put up for
the creepers had nearly all rotted away
One or two chimneys were quite ready
to drop, and the whole place looked as
if it was built of moldy cheese.
Not in very good repair, this
house," I observed to my hideous
guide
cob, quite good enough. Only
wants little touching up here and
there"
[ can't tell you when it was that the
peculiar feeling, which had taken me
ever since [ looked at this uninviting
property, pronounced itself so strongly
as to become distinct sense of horror.
But it was so now, and as I looked up
at the puckered face of this ape-like
man, [ saw something that made me
almost utter cry OF dread. But L re-
strained myself; I should not have
been such q fool any other time, but l
had been now walking about for seven
hours, and my breakfast had consisted
OF one cup Of tea.
! We entered the house, and in the
passage we found woman waiting for
US. "My wife, said the man, "she
viii 81 through the rooms with you; -
and then he disappeared through the
house into the back yard.
The woman took me into the rooms
on the ground floor. l observed moth
ing remarkable about them, except
that they were very gloomy. There
were no rooms on the basement, except
cellars. The kitchen, scullery, ETC.,
were On the ground floor. I saw that
there was a yard, with stables and