Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-15
POSTSCRIPT.

A last means of deciding the difference of opinion between the two brothers was still ill Henry's possession. He had his own i ca of the use to which he might put the false teeth, as q means of inquiry, when his fellow trav- ele1s returned to England
 The only surviving depository of the do- mestic history of the family, in past years, was Agues Lockwood's old nurse. Henry took his first opportunity of trying to revive her personal recollections of the deceased Lord Montbarry. But the nurse had never forgiven the great man of the family for his dcsertion of Agnes: she flatly refused to con suit her memory. "Even the bare sight of my lord, when I last saw him in London,'' said the old woman, made my finger nails itch to set their mark OH his face Twas sent on an errand by Miss Agnes, and 1 met him coming out of tine den ist's door-and, thank God, that's the last I saw of him."
 Thanks to the nurses quick temper and quaint way of expressing herself, the object of Henry's inquiries was gained already! He ventured on asking if she had noticed the sit uation of the house. She had noticed, and still remembered the situation-''did Master Henry suppose she had lost the use of her senses. because she had happened to be nigh on 80 years old?" The same day he took the false teeth to the dentist, and set all further doubt Gf doubt had still been possible), at rest forever. The teeth had been made for the first Lord Montbarry.
 | Henry had never revealed the existence Of 1 this last link ill the chain of discovery to any 1 living creature, his brother Stephen included. He carried his terrible secret with him to the grave ~
 There was one other event in the memora- ble past on which he preserved the same com passionate silence Little Mrs. Ferrari never l fL,,f ,orb b,,cb hod hoon-rCt cha supposed, the countess victim-but the countess accomplice. She still believed that 1 the late Lord Montbarry had sent her the l 6 ,OOO note, and still recoiled from making use of a present, W hieh she persisted ill de claring had ''the stain of her husbands blood on it." e-. s~A E-e Agnes, with the widows entire approval took the money to the Children's hospital and spent it in adding to the number of the | beds.
 In the spring of the new year the marriage took place. At the special request of Agnes the members of the family were the only children acted as bridesmaids. There was nc wedding breakfast-and the honeymoon wa !, spent ill the retirement of cottage on thu banks of the Thames.
 7 During the last few days of the residence of the newly married couple by the rive side, Lady Montbarry's children were in vited to enjoy days play in the garden The eldest girl overheard (and reported to he mother) a little conjugal dialogue whicl touched on the subject uf the Haunted Hotel
 "Henry, want you tx. give me a kiss"
 "There it is, my dear.S VIZ
 "Now am your wife. may speak to yo about somethinga'
 "What is it?' M % &
 Something that happened the day befor that we left Venice You saw the countes during the last six hours of her life. Won you tell me whether she made any confessio | to you2' . "No conscious confession, Agnes-and there | fore no confession that need distress you b repeating"
 Did she say nothing about what she saw C heard on that dreadful night in my room"
 Nothing. We only know by the ever that her mind never recovered the terror ( it." f-r
 Agnes was not quite satisfied. The subjet troubled her. f IE
 Even her own brief intercourse with he miserable rival of other days suggested que hons that perplexed her. She remembers the countess prediction. "You have to brin
 me to the day of discovery and to the punisl
 ment that is my Goom.n Had the predictiC simply failed like other mortal prophecie
 Or had it been fulfilled, on the memorial
 night when she had seen the apparition, an
 when she had innocently tempted the counte to watch her in her roo1ni
 Let it, however, be recorded an1cng tt s othsr ViThsa6H Ar& 0ensy ysuvio1s te .s Sf sr@