The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-05

ny IMPRESSION IS" SAID MRS. CHAMPION,
"suE VENT 10 Y0NKERs.
rs a very vague impression. and it may have
beer in quite a contrary direction"
'Dc you know" persisted Mr. Parker,
"v..e.aer she had any other relatives be-
sf,es her mother in this part Of tho coun-
tgy"
80, I 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
wen: away feeling considerably depressed
with the magnitude of the undertaking
which he had on his hands. He felt certain
chat if he could only ind this Donnelly or
Denohue, as the case might be. he should
discover some clew to the whereabouts of
NrA Brownlow. The more he thought it
over the more he became convinced Of that
theory and the more he felt that he had
q q favorable start in his inquiry. His
6rst step towards finding out where this
woman was was to 60 TO Yonkers. He Wis
tied every family Of either name in the
Gown. but learned nothing whatever con-
oerning the woman. Hc could not even dis
oovcr that any such woman had ever lived
there. It took him nearly two weeks to
come to the conclusion that in Yonkers
there was no clew whatever to the mystery
(which he was endeavoring to ferret out.
Then he determined to visit in q 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 Spnyten Duyvil he
worked his way gradually north, and when
three weeks had passed he had secured the
river settlements and had found absolutely
1Othing. Then he returned to the city and
spent q day or two in rest and looking after
his business, which was suffering sadly
from neglect When he began to think
0ver the case again il occurred 70 him that
he had made an egregious blunder; he had
not taken into account at I'LL the fact that
found in the river.
~What an ass I was," he exclaimed, i'm
patiently. "Here have I been searching on
che east side Of the Hudson for four pre-
scious weeks. when the plainest evidence IN
the case shows that Mrs. Brownlow crossed
che river before starting elsewhere. Now,
whether she mel her death while crossing
the river or soon after getting 70 the other
sida. Of course I ~ not say, but ! shall not
cake another step in the matter until I con-
slider what might have happened had she
crossed the river" Therefore he Get his an-
alytical powers at work again and reasoned
that il she had crossed the river. - I'M
doubtedly she ret out 70 do. she must have
had some point in view 70 winch shs want
Cd to 70. The hypothesis that she WAS going
q seciude herself q The house If her old
serv,uk stuck in kr. Psrkefs bad IN spite
.of hiGasala.i ss8he must have 3no1n.,; be
sid ri himself, ''WAere this omsa lived;
81. il not this woman. che must have known
where she was going. -0he wsah not have
set out;blindly. mot eveD ~ hsr rs.e Epon {
rourrev,. without ha.,aE some psap II Sc,
mind, Syen i it I'D pot, been formed uhtl
..he had reaehbd the.sidesalk Of her house
amer leaving her husbdiA" ~ ~
Tho upshot Of his reasoning was that ne
sacurcdhermiasion aaaonce 70 examine An.
8rou4lov,s .oorreypopdeuce, A nfge
bundle Of letters were turned over 70, nlm
and hu see cGb6ugxnspecrug their POST
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