Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-15

ET1DnGQ to me 10 knO" II SQS nau IeIG It OU my studio. Ti.o telegram signed, Emily Sinclair" openly proclaimed her innocence to me, but being stopped at the office by the police authorities and sent to Dr. Sebastiani, was by him appropriated and used as Q means of finding her and causing her arrest.
 When I next saw Euphrosyne it was in prison, and the hand I had kissed was ex- tended to mo through grated window.
 Tho princess was parsonage of much importance, the jewels were of such i'm mense value, tho efforts of Dr. Sebastiani were so vigorous that there was little diff culty in tracking tho Sinclairs, in causing tho arrest of Emily It was curious to sec tho effect produced on the princess by the revelation which followed this catastrophe; that Ccsare, the apple of her eye, the heir to q great name and fortune, had fallen in love with Q name less, wandering English girl. It erased from her mind all sense of gratitude; she would not remember that Emily had been brought into her Eamily by herself, and that her ser vices Ind been at one time highly appreciated as Q sort of nlinisteriQg angel to the afflicted girl. No; with a woEan's logic, sho thought that q girl who would steal her best jewel, Cesarc, woud steal her lesser lights. Her beautiful face famed with anger and indig- nation, and she ordered the search and the arrest to proceed with tho greatest celerity. Of course nothing was found on tho poor girl; no satisfaction could be obtained from her except cn account of what happened at ntHs- studio while 1 vas absent putting the ladies in their gondola. She remembered leaving Ter tabio and water colors and going over to look ct tho picture Of the princess and that of herself. She remembered also talking with fiadlaiena about the jewels, and having looked ct tho bracelet which contained the portrait of Prince Cesare. She then rcr2ern- harasI bot f,ar. Tliptnrn H'f'nnhlOS- yne," feu from its easel, and created mo- mentary confusion, and that she and her aunt picked it up. Tho corning away was Q con- fused recollection. She thought her aunt had taken Ter sachcl-shc did not remem- Der.
 This, of course, was construed into the con- fusion of guilt. Tho fact that the bracelet was in her own sachel proved her com plicity with tho crime to the satisfaction of tho princess.
 Meantime had happened to mo ono of those singular revelations of memory which come 1 to Us in hours of great agitation and con- 1 fusion. When I had first seen Polcnta had 1 had sense of having seen him before. i When tho first terrible discovery of the ! bracelet was made, a curious vision had passed bctorc my eyes. 1 seemed to be walk ing in the wards of hospital, and to i sco before me certain sick men who were lying, half convalescent and languidly, on the little pallets common to such places. I remember thinking how strange were these tricks of the mind, that that vision, ono of the half forgotten experiences of my Paris career as c student, should come into my 1 head at such time.
 When commenced my attempted accusa-
 ton against Polenta 1 found great difficulties l i'll tho way. Ho was there at the moment
 whom Maddalena was packing the jewels,
 and had since disappeared. He was
 known person. Theso were all against him,
 but they were very poor grounds for an ac-
 cusation. No one remembered much how he
 looked. He was q difficult person to de
 scribe. How could I achieve any success
 with such slippery materials? But before I
 had reached Nuresnburg tho curtain had
 lifted.
 Where had I seen Po.enta? Perhaps
 should not have remembered had not been
 led to the contemplation of his character by
 tho light of O great crime, and by the sight
 of tho grated window, behind which stood
 Emily Sinclair, my Euphrosyne Then it
 all came to nc, and telegraphed to the chief
 of police of Paris:
 ''Search for Victor Gregoire in connection
 with the great San Marco jewel robbery,
 committed at Venice Nov. ?. Can furnish two portraits of him."
 l must now go back to my student life in Paris in the early part of my career. Quite , ten years before these events 1 had, in the
 process of my art education, frequently wis , ited the prisons and hospitals of Paris in or der to sketch remarkable heads, In the pur- , suit of this branch of my art 1 had one day
 been permitted to enter the hospital attached
 to tho Mazas prison to see q gentlcmanly viii
 lain who had committed a forgery. He was recovering from an illness, and presented a
 c,,I,:, IIat not l,l1tI I baG
 s1etched him.
 , "A most remarkable villain, this Victor Gregoire,n said tho chief. 'Ho can assume
 tho character of a quiet gentleman better - than any man ill Europe. He has deceived , moro women, robbed more portmantoaus
 forged more checks than any living man. Hs
 always gets off, and his term here has now l nearly expired. He will bo out in Q shor
 time He has powerful friends somewhere. F After slzetching Victor GreSoire had pro
 ceeded from my ':coign of vantagc1 to sketct
 other and perhaps more remarkable heads
 and had quite forgotten him. This expert
 ence was only one of ten thousand But a1 f. hours search among my old sketch book l brought mo to this particular head. I tore i = out and put it in my pocketbook; then deter
 mined if could to obtain Ennily's subsequen sketch of him as Mephistopheles.
 a The book was rot in the suspected Russi; ' leather bag which held tho Drace4eS. 50 "a
 the jealous Dr. Sebastini allowed me t r search md see. I must obtain it at Nureln v burg. For this last picture of Polenta, alla 7. Victor Gresoire, was very necessary to me if a as supposed, he had disappeared from hi r old haunts and had been forgotten. d However, all criminals, particularly thos b who have jewels to sell, must go to Par::
 That is ct cnce tho most confusing and th l. most convenient of temporary resting places d (There are three places where stolen Ngooc
 are disposed of with great facility, 1t is said D. Paris, London and HamburgD
 ss After talking with Emily in her prisor 1T and giving her what comfort l could, l el d piled to Miss Sinclair. She was in the deeE b. est grief She had lost a lover as well as ha, ,e ing 0 real and true regret for the sorrow ,n of her niece, and her first and only queStio is of me was if had ''seen Mr- Polenta-had Id letter for. hera He had promised to nlet n her here," etc.
 re was very glad sho thus put mo on ID
 guard, for had I allowed her to hear my su I picions she never would have got me the sketc ad book of poor Emily's, from which secretl as subtracted the picture of Victor Gregoire, ,ali =. Tolo1+o Poor silly