Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-11-20

whose existence you are absolutely
Do you think that speaks we'll for your in
tended son-in-law!'
"He may have had some powerful reason
for concealing her existence. She NAV be
weak in her intellect She may have gone
wrong. As for your idea of slow poisoning,
that is too absurd"
"And You mean this young man to marry
your daughter tomorrow morning?n
"What am I to do7 I never cared about
the match. 1have been persuaded into Civ
ing my consent. My girl had a right to look
higher: But to stop the marriage o would
be-"
"simply prudent Investigate the case as
l have put 1t before you. If I am deceived
If Foy is not the man who took that dying
e ri 20 the railway station-if Foy's sister,
or a woman who passed as his sister, is
not lying dead at Mlldale, I will make the
humblest apology to you and Mr.. Foy for
my baseless suspicious. You must take your
''"A S00AoVs / VAIN W save yOUT hURuV0
from sorrow and disgrace. Remember you
aim to be, the police will be logging his
heels tomorrow morning when he goes into
the 'hurch to marry your daughter. Good
# ernoon. I have given you plain facts,
and I have nj time to spare for discussion"
Mr.. Umpleby would fain have detained
him, but the vicar was in O hurry. He
drove back to Grandchester and to the
headquarters Of the police, to whom be re-
peated his story. They had been at work
all day. ard had done very little. They
had discovered q porter at the station who
remembered the arrival of a gentleman and
q sick lady in a plaid shawl. They had seen
the woman who took charge of the ladies'
waiting room, seconl class-always more
crowded than the first class-and from her
they had heard again Of a sick lady In q
plaid shawl, accompanied by a very atten-
tive gentleman, but she could give no
account of the personal appearance Of either.
The lady's face vas hidden by a veil, and
there had been SO. many people rushing in
and out just at the last that there had been
no time for her to observe these two, who
in late. This much she knew, that
the lady seemed in a kind of faint or stupor,
and the gentleman had to carry her in his
arms.
Once furnished with a clew professional
intelligence was quite equal to taking it up.
"This woman at Parminter must be taken
to Mil.dale to identify the body, said the
chief official in the detective line, land we
must watch this fellow Foy, so that he may
not give us the slip"
"He is to be married to his employers
daughter tomorrow morning." said the
Vicar. ITO leave Grandchildren before to-
morrow would be tan amount to a confess
sion Of his guilt. It would be throwing up
the cards altogether"
"The symptoms you describe sound like
arsenical po soning." said the officer; and
then he and his colleague whispered to-
gether for o minute or so.
II dom think there's anything more I can
do tonight" said the vicar:
"No, sir. You may leave everything in
our hands"
aPrecisely. But remember, If you don't
want this young scoundrel to be married to
q respectable young woman at eleven
o'clock tomorrow morning you'll have to
took sharp"
The vicar went back to the bosom of his
family at Freshmead, thinking that he had
done a pretty good days work.
B.fore ten o'clock that night two facts
had been discovered in the biography Of Mr..
Foy-First, that exactly three years before
be had been married at a registrars Office to
Jane Daw ION, spinster, daughter of John
Dawson, master mariner; and secondly, that
he. or a man exactly answering to his de-
scription, had bought small quantities OF
tartar emetic and small portions of laud-
anum at divers times within the last two
months, and at several chemists shops in
the obscurer streets Of the great. busy town.
These two discoveries the police commu-
uicated to Mr.. Umpleby late on the vigil of
lis daughters wedding.
The evidence Of the marriage was indis-
putable. Much as Mr.. Umpleby was in
clined to discredit the charge brought
against his inten led son-in Jaw, he could not
iisbelieve the legal proof Of the marriage
before the registrar; and convicted Of hav-
ing concealed a prior marriage. Mr.. Foy's
character appeared in a new and doubtful
Ight
who had spent the evening marching about
his house and garden in a state of suppressed
agitation. II won't have my daughter
ried to a liar and a trickster. There must
be something wrong-no smoke without
are."
He sat down directly the detective had
left him and wrote with his WI hand to
those Grandchester magnates who had been
oidden to the welding.
Let these letters be delivered by hand
before eight o'clock tomorrow morning."
he said to the respectable man-of-all-work,
who had been yawning dismally in q pantry
-AAL. l.-aJ~ - ~ l~1I. It'd 81 Al>A lAA~-
be taken to Mr.. Foy at the Crown hotel"
Foy was to stop at a MOTEL in Grandch es-
ter on the eve Of his wedding. in order to be
IN the ground early.
Mr. Umpleby felt O happier man after he
mad done this deed. He went up to bed more
1t ease with himself. But he did not awaken
his slumbering wife to tell her the unpleas-
ant news. There would be a scene in the
morning, of course, with all these women
-hyster .cs, f~ainting fits, recrimination, in
which he, the husband and father, would get
lie worst of it.
q Mrs. Umpleby's lavender moire-antique,
Aer brand. new Honiton shawl, were lying in
state upon the sofa. Would any woman for
i've a husband for upsetting the festival at
which those splendors were to be worna
There had been fuss enough about the gown,
about the breakfast, alb ,ut every one Of ths
wedding arrangements, and now, 10 and be-
hold, the fuss had been all for nothing!
Il never liked him. " unused Mr. Umpleby.
TT was the women who talked me over. To
bagia with, the mans half a foreigner, and
{ want no parlez-vous in my family"
His letter to Foy had been Of the briefest.
shook round the first thing tomorrow
morning; I want to talk to you"
The father was up betimes, too agitated
to cot his breakfast. He carried his cup Of
tea to the study at the back of the dining