Telegram-herald., 1886-09-26

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egs IL What eas r.glri J could n9t answer
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and desE Els.d hllA
-Iheu. I SAIL 40 Iast seeing that no help
coad ue nopei Ter hare. Il SHALL act Tor my
/ s=lf AMI Il i have ~ spend every farthiny /
have 10 tie aorld and ~ devote every day
mat remains G. ue OF LIE ~ the task. you
may depeai upon il that / shall yet con-
found you all by proving ber Innocence"
Dl my nterVies With Daisy, "a hen at last
/ ga, admitted ~ her Ia the condemned cell
az The cid Castle. l shall say nothing that
/ does not bear directly upon ths subsequent
events. She was chAnset greatly when / sas
/ her, bat Sue declared that 1 was Tar more ss-
riously altered than she was And probably
shs was right, for / had nothing OF that
noble courage and resignation which had
| borne her up through al this time OF agony.
But i dared nol seend the precious minutes
IN lovers TAX had other work u DO Tor
her sake.
Nv first business / felt must be TO get
from her her own theory # she had one.
re-arling the murder. and 20 prepare her
way for tha-. l told her freely ali my own
suspicious, and the story oi my abduction,
of which she had cnly heard Tor the first
time duriag the course OF tie trial
And you really believe that my uncle
caused you TO be spirited away IN that fash
ion Depend upon 1t, dearest, YOU are en-
tireiy deceived My uncle was innocent"
Then who could have originated tie plotf'
SPLINTER must have done 50 Let me tell
YOU al / know about aim He has been en-
p.oyed for usari, eigut years az my uncle's
chief station at Wansoora-ths place where
Ne lived / am tols that he hal been in
some serious trouble aud that my uncle, who
was usually one " the kindest as vel a one
OF the most simple-hearteI men, beirlended
him Very soon after be came 70 the station
As an ordinary shepherd be saved my uncle's
life when be was nearly drowned in crossing
a swollen river on our run. That, you may
Ia sure. was never forgotten by my uncle
He very Quickly raised him 20 one Of the
chief posts on the estate, and at the time that
/ came 70 live at Wangoora, six years ago,
ne was ths constant companion OF my uncle
/ in his journeys. and had evidently secured
his confidence
"But You spoke Of him % me as danger
ous"
"Yes; he is dangerous, and bal. too !
verv soon discovered that But l cannot for
a moment imagine that he would have
plotted against his benefactors life. He
rad every hing 10 lose and nothing conceiv-
able TO gain toy nv unc e's death. ."
That was perfectly true, and it was the
one great stumbling block in the way Of my
theory regarding the murder. Flnter un-
doubtedly had nothing TO gain by it
Daisy, l said, you must forgive me for
questioning you on a subject that has long
puzzled me. but about which ! saw that you
did not wish to tell me anything. want TO
. know al that YOU can tell me about that
man whom ] saw in the railway station here,
on the day we first met. 1t is necessary that
| YOU should tell me all my darling
She blushed slightly, and then a faint
| smile lighted up her worn face.
~Ah, how happy an accident it was that
| led me 10 the carriage where you were
seated that dayl l should have been with
out friend now but for that"
But about this man-GregsOn"
Il should have told you all about him if
there had been any opportunity of doing 50
1 tafs 70 of ban For do
you know. that at one time he had tried to
make me believe that he was in love with
me. and when he found that / cared nothing
whatever about him he began to persecute
me in a mean paltry kind of way, till l
| positively became afraid of him"
~Where was it that he first began to annoy
your
AT Wangoora, about three years ago.
You see, he was my uncles confidential
clerk, and came a great deal to the house.
lie had not then given way, as / fear he has
done now, to baI habits, and he was great
| friend of DR.. Branksome's. l never cared
| for HMM the least" Dear heartl she
looked up at me with the happy smile Of q
maiden who tells her story for the first time
to the man she loves, and for a moment we
forgot all about the prison bars. and the two
women who sat mutely watching at the
other end of the cell
when he found that did not care for
/ him be became as | said very disagreeable.
| He would try TO waylay me and hint dread
ful things about having me in his power,
ami ! think that very soon he came to hate
me as much as he had once professed TO like
ma Then he became careless and disobe-
dent ia his work. and he quarreled with
! Finter and was insolent to DR. Branksome.
and the end OF II all was that he was dis
| missed
~And what happened thenT
con a great deal He professed 10 have
| discovered some dreadful plot iu which we
were an engaged for the purpose Of inn
| posing mon ms uncle laugho at him al
I the time. Tor / knew 4 course that there
| was u5pl0t of any kind. aud little dreame
Of what was coming. But the man uecama
hsteiu. both to me and my uncle. especially
when we found that be had actually followed
| us to England. have never seen him, how
/ ever. since that dav az Aork'
"Ieu me-. dearest who were The persons
/ whom be charged with being in t,ls plot'
"Oh. believe / was the chief sinner ~ alt
He several times met mo when ] was alone
and accused me Of IT, Then he hatsd Fin
ter. and said dreadful things about him. and
even about Dr. Branksome But / never
knew what the plot was 70 which he re
ferred.
@Did Dr Branksome know what the man
was saying about himF
sOf course be did Why. I think that
next - me. be hstei Or Branksome ths
most. and I remember his saying once that