The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-07-27


the morning. And accordingly directly
after breakfast we began. John Lyther-
ly would have begun before breakfast,
but as an old hand | knew better than
that; because the party we were after,
allowing he was the right party, after
five years rest, wasn't going to bolt
, now 30 1t was no case for hurrying
and driving. Well, soon after break
fast, sauntered into the bar, and began
talking with the landlord, who was an
elderly sort of party about my age, and
who bragged-as II It were thing to be
proud of-before we had talked three
minutes, that he had lived, man and
boy, in Chumply, which was the name
of the lively place, for more than fifty
years. f4s rU
"Then you're just the fellow for me"
thought; and then began talking of
an old master of mine who was now
living somewhere down In this nelgbor-
hood, by the name of Wyndham.
"Wyndham2 7 Let me see; Wynd-
ham |" says the landlord, putting on
his wisest look. " mo; 1 can't remem-
ber any party of that name. There's
Wilkinson and Virgins; perhaps it's
one of them" .,e,...l,.I .,f ...-
told him they would not do; and
then added that the party meant was
something of an artist, painted pictures
partly for pleasure and partly for profit.
This was only guess of mine, but 1t
was a pretty safe one. ....,.. rs. sr
"Ohl there's lots of them about
here !" exclaims the old boy, grinning
very much as If it was capital idea.
"There's Mr.. DE Lancy Chorkle, Miss
Belvedera Smith, Mrs. Galloon Whyte,
Mr.. Hardy Canute, and a lot more; but
1 don't think there's Wyndham.'
"Ah, well, it don't matter" 1 said,
very carelessly still; :" I may be mistak-
en-. heard, however, he lived down
here at place called the Mount. Is
there such placep'
rs there such a place ~ says the
landlord, with as much contempt in his
voice as if ought to be ashamed of
myself for not knowing. "Yes, there
is; and first-rate gentleman artist
lives there too; but his name amt
Wyndham his name happens to be
Parkway, Sir, Mr.. Philip Parkway
though L have heard that he is too
proud to paint under his own name"
CT think, landlord" said, "that I'll
have just three penn 'orth of brandy
| cold;" which took, and left him with
out another word, for when heard this
name felt struck of heap, because it
made guess into certainty, though in
way had never dreamt of. couldn't
even go back to Lytherly for a little
while; it was all SO wonderful; and /
was so angry with myself for never
having thought at the time that the
man who, of all others in the world,
had the most to gain by the poor wom-
ans death, might have been the one
who killed her. In the bitterness of my
feeling L could not help saying that any
one but a detective would have pounced
upon this fellow at the first However,
I got over the vexation, and went back
to Lytherly to tell him my news. We
were each very confident that we had
the right scent now; but yet it was not
easy to see what we were to do. L could
not very well apply for warrant
against a man because he had painted a
picture; and so we walked and talked
until we could think of nothing better
than going down to Combestead, and
with our fresh information to help us,
seeing If we could not rake up some
thing there. a1a lsi
| We came to the conclusion just as we
reached toll-gate, close by which stood
little house, which appeared to be the
beer shop, bakers, post Office, and
grocer's for the neighborhood. Not
much of neighborhood, by the bye
for, excepting few gentlemen's seats
there was hardly another house within
sight. One small but comfortable-look
ing residence, we were informed by the
chatty old lady who owned the "store,
was the Mount, where Mr.. Parkway
lived He was very retired, silent sor
of a gentleman, she said, and people
thought his wife didn't have the hap
piest of lives with him. He had beer
} married for few years, the old lady
} went on soon after relation had died
J and left him good bit of money
Before that he only rented apartment
! in the village; but then he marrie'
, Miss Dellar, who was an orphan, with
good bit of money too, but quite a gir
J to him, and they went to live at tn