The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-02

i success before communicating with Va,
!. And finally, circumstances led TO m
( coming back here Unexpectedly myself
=. "But Valentine might have written.
you could not"
I Valentine! Why, Pauline, don't 70
. know-don't you sect was Valentin
who was drownedl"
r "Valentinel Oh, God forgive mel no,
, | have wronged him. She turned asid
and rested her face against the side q
. the carriage and sobbed for a few me
p meDts passionately. But she was nevo
, one to be long mastered by emotion. Sh
forced back her tears, and said: "Tel
me, tell me air.
1.-The whole affair came about by n,
accident, without any prearrangemen
at all When | went down to the pie
Of the steamship, Val had suggested m,
making one or two alterations in IN
dress and appearance, so that if any on
were on the lookout for me | should DIS
for Valentine. Afterwards, on IN,
steamer, We found that people were civ
ing us each others names, and we let II
be 50. We occupied the same state room
and ! used his things-I had brought
very little of my own with me.
ION the voyage he told me all his pri.
yato history; | afterwards thought that
if he had been consciously training me
10 porsonate him he could not have done
It more effectually. Then came the day
Of the hurricane. We were close to-
/ gether all the time until within q few
minutes Of the time the wind changed.
/ We were in the cabin; there was a Ian
tern buring. but it was almost quite
dark. Val left me and went to our room.
| could see him there; he seemed 70 be
writing on something that he held -
before him. Afterwards he went toway n
tho stewards room, holding on by tie
iron pillars Of the cabin as he went That
was the last ! saw Of him. lie must
have gone on deck-for what can't i'm
agine-and been swept overheard. No
one knew anything of it until the next
morning."
"Now / know-now I known MUIR
INJURED Pauline, pressing her hands over
her heart. 1T was he-he did not for
get-I might have known it,
What might you have known" asked
her brother.
Nothing; go on. When you found
that he was dead what them
I'VE had agreed before to 20 to Mex
ico He had letters and papers. took
them and went travelling as Valentino
Martin. saw that in that way | should
get standing in the place W hich could
not have obtained for myself, and that
the report Of my death would throw off
the police. | was cordially received in
Mexico. and put in tho way of doing
some valuable business. Everything
prospered with me, as it had never done
before. The story is too long to tell fully
now; but in the midst Of my success an F
extraordinary thing occurred; an Eng
lish agent of the Martin estate came over
and told me-supposing me to be Valen-
by my brothers death was
the heir / did not wish TO enter into
SO l simply told him that
did not want tho estate, and that it
might 90 TO the next of kin. | had for
gotten that Val had a wife, though, Of
course, | knew all about her. She had
ruined his life In more ways than one,
md was no better than she should be;
put if his death were known she would
DO entitled to a share of the estate. Ii
Gems she had got wind of the English
agents business, and had followed him
rom New Zealand. l had a curious in
erview with her; sho charged me fin
lily with having made away with her
husband in order by personating him to
get his property, and treating my asser-
ion that | was not going to touch the
property as mere buncombe. But the +
ext day got a letter from her in which /,
he actually offered, in case l would |
cake common cause with her, 10 60 10 A.,
,ngland, prove her marriage TO Valen-
inc, get the estate and then divide with /
le" p
''Poor Valentine" murmured Pauline, d
18th trembling lip. n
"When | refused she declared war, h
nd said she would expose me as an i'm q
ostor and probable murderer. She il
armed that / was manager and part !,
.yner Of valuable mine that had dis G.
,vered near Pachuca. The other owners u
ere two high officers of the govern b
ent. She went TO them with her story. "
ley told me what she had said. had h
r'ady made up my mind what to do; Oh
we them the whole history of what had
.rpencd since Valentine and had left NJ
W. York; told them what he had told f
G about his wife, and then | showed in
EN- the letter she had just written me- a,
Knew was risking everything in max te
: n clean breast Of il, but the fact was p.
y rs tired of living under a name that st
not belong to me, and i wanted 10 Of
I an end to it at all hazards" IA
Il am glad of That" said Pauline.
They were rather upset by the story, he
d for a while thought the affair a
'uld go against me. But suspect they is
lrtitItb ulc tOO uotlul II man 10 ioots
sas making great deal of money for Il,
IN and doing all the work. and then Il,
, woman's letter tipped the beam. di
~ said finally that they would accept M
for what was II | could give them mi
proof that | was what de- wI
red myself to be- Let me show let ok
S or vouchers from reputable persons Tn
New York bearing out my account Of
self and they would accept me as an
equivalent for what / had pretended IN
%. | had power of attorney that n,
had given me on the steamer, but Of ga
rise could not tell them what had ~
TO my leaving New York. could tbi
ask any one here for a certificate of m,
u character until my name had been 60
,red of the charge against it. But it ~;
ildn't do to hesitate. SO said, on the "a,
r Of tho moment, that would go to III,
v York. get the evidence they re- ~
red and return to them with it, So =
. am; but l overheard some copyer- me