Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-12

This he took to well-known photographers,
graphs of it to be prepared as soon as pos
sible. The minute description which he had
given me of b fanciful creation was printed
at the foot of each copy. AS soon as the
first batch of these precious photographs was
sent home, to my great joy he did what he
should have done days ago: y-e.ded to my
Wishes and put the matter into the hands
of the police.
was glad to find that in giving details
of what had happened he said nothing about
the advisabiiity of keeping watch on Ralph
Carriston's proceedings. He did indeed offer
an absurdly large reward for the discovery
of the missing girl, and, moreover, gave the
officer in charge of the case a packet Of pho
tographs of his phantom man, telling him in
the gravest manner that he knew the orig
inal of that likeness had something to do
with the disappearance of Miss Rowan. The
officer, who thought the portrait was that of
natural Icing took his instructions in
good faith, although he seemed greatly sur
prised when he heard that Carriston knew
neither the name nor the occupation, in
fact, knew nothing concerning the man who
was to be sought for However, as Carris-
ton assured him that finding this man would
insure the reward as much as if he found
Madeline, the officer readily promised to
combine the two tasks, little knowing what
waste of tlms any attempt to perform the
latter must be-
Two days after this Carriston came to me.
II shall leave you tomorrow" he said.
"Where are you goingf' l asked. "Why
do you leavef'
81 am going to travel about have no
intention of letting Ralph get hold of me.
30 l mean to go from place to place until
find Madeline"
''Be careful" urged.
81 shall be careful enough. I'll take care
that no doctors, surgeons, or ev,L spothe-
carries get on my track. shall 60 just as
the at seizss me. If l can't say one day
where l shall be the mex, it will be i'm
possible for that villain to know"
Ths was not bad argument In fact. if
he carried out his resolve of passing quickly
from place to place / did not see low he
could plan anything more likely to defeat
the intentions with which we credited his
cousin. As to his finding Madeline by SO
doing. that was another matter
HIS idea seemed to be that chance would
sooner or later bring him in contact with
the man of his dream. However, now that
the search had been intrusted t. tine proper
persons his own action in the matter was not
worth troubling about. | gave him many
cautions. He was to be quiet and guarded
in words and manner. He was not to con-
verse with strangers. If he found himself
logged or watched by anyone he was to
communicate at once with me- But, above
all, begged him not to yield again to his
mental in6rmity. The folly of a man who
could avoii it throwing hlnise into such q
State ought to lie apparent to him.
Not oftener than can help" was all the
promise could get from him. But see her
l must sometimes, or | shall die"
had now given up as hopeless the combat
with his peculiar idiosvnc.a Y. So, with
many expressions of gratitu he on his part,
We babe each other farewell.
During his absence he wrote to me nearly
every day, so that / might know his where
abouts in case l lad any news TO comrnuni-
cate. BIT had 2one. the police failed to
find the faintest clew. | had been called
upon by them oncs or twsce IN order that
they might have evSry gram Of information
! could give. l took tbs liberty of advising
them not to waste thei@s time in looking for
the man, a. his very sxistsnce was prob