The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21

She WENT III 1ONhEho
is a very vague impression, and it may have
been in quite contrary direction
do you know" persisted Mr.. Parker,
whether she had any other relatives be-
sides her mother in this part of the coun-
tryF'
mo, think she had none. All her other
relatives remained in Ireland
A few more questions in the same vein
concluded the interview, and Mr.. Parker
went away feeling considerably depressed
with the magnitude of the undertaking
which he had on his hands. He felt certain
that if he could only find this Donnelly or
Donohue, as the case might be, he should
discover some clew to the whereabouts of
Mrs Brownlow The more he thought it
over the more he became convinced of that
theory and the more he felt that he had
made favorable start in his inquiry His
first step towards finding out where this
woman was was to go to Yonkers. He Wis
tied every family of either name in the
town, but learned nothing whatever con-
corning the woman. He could not even dis
cover that any such woman had ever lived
there 1t took him nearly two weeks to
come to the conclusion that in YonkerS
there was no clew whatever to the mystery
which he was endoavOring to ferret out.
Then he determined to visit in similar
way all the towns along the river between
New York and point from forty to fifty
miles to the north. He began with the set
Elements included in the city limits, like
Spuyten Duyvil. From Spuyten Duyvil he
worked his way gradually north, and when
three weeks had passed he had secured the
river settlements and had found absolutely
nothing. Then he returned to the city and
spent day or two in rest and looking after
his business, which was suffering sadly
from neglect. When he began TO think
over the case again it occurred to him that
he had made an egregious blu nder; he had
not taken into account at all the fact that
Mrs. Brownlow's opera cloak had been
found in the river.
What an ass 1 was" he exclaimed, i'm
patiently. Here have been searching on
the east side of the Hudson for four pre-
clous weeks when the plainest evidence in
the case shows that Mrs. Brownlow crossed
the river before starting elsewhere. Now,
whether she met her death while crossing
the river or soon after getting to the other
side, of course l can not say, but 1 shall not
take another step in the matter until 1 con.
slider what might have happened had she
crossed the river" Therefore he set his au-
alytical powers at work again and reasoned
that if she had crossed the river as up-
doubtedly she set out to do, she must have
had some point in view to which she want
ed to go. The hypothesis that she was going
to seclude herself at the house If her old
servant stuck in Mr.. Parker's head IN spite
of himself. s'She must have KNOWN he
said to himself, ''where this woman lived;
| or, ii not this woman, she must have known
where she was going. She would not have
| set out blindly, not even IN her rage, upon a
! journey without having some plan in her
mind, even if it had not been formed until
she had reached the sidewalk of her house
after leaving her husband
The upshot of his reasoning was that he
secured permission at once to examine Mrs
Brownlow's correspondence. A large
bundle of letters were turned over to him
and he set about inspecting their post
marks and the handwritlngs on the en-
velopes. All those that were postmarked
from cities or towns at a distance were i'm
| mediately cast aside, and of all those that
came from points in this immediate vicinity
he did not stop to read any whose super
scrlption was particularly legible or which