The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-07-04

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p-eiene searching throusn aonkers ne nae
! lct discovered any trace OF this woman II
was evident that the letter had been writer
within year, because it SAID: II have
heard that you were married. and Mrs
Brownlow's marriage had not occurred
more than year previous to her disappear
ance. So engrossed was the lawyer In
thinking over this phase OF the case that he
forgot for moment that two other letters
In the pile that he had laid out remained Il
be read. Looking them over he found that
one was in the same hand as that which he
had just been reading, and on that the post
mark was plainly onlSers. He seized il
feverishly and opened it. That letter was
as follows:
eDEAR MRS LEoSoRA--i am sorry to here
that you ar not aulwas HAPPY and was so Glad
two thatyou shood think so kindli o your oiled
survent as 70 rite letter. 1 got II onely yes.
urea Decaus VIC hssf nay male near morn "uuS
=, ~ ar -, ,',sa- 80. - -. :,
rite 20 ~ most fornit that got n AZ ali but
aid and tak INV pen acen 10 saw that n Won
over get into trubble ware pare Of strung
armes can help you, wish you'd let me no for
altho am getting Died am stu very strawng
nnd wood Tx nuthin Deter then TO sea you agin
ana gi' you help yet noap you WIN h eve,
neau ~ 10y oouuy eiS - VIC
a,s,i snrvsnt May DoSSrTIy ;.
-s.Vby n ,bunder ;, EXCLAIMED Mr. ParI,ar
when he had read this letter docs NOT the
woman saw where she is and how "a get
tbere1 Rnt will wager one hundred dol-
| lars. n 7 ever get AZ much money. that Mrs
Rro,vnlovv knew how % get there. and did
| get there and IL she did can and will.r
He took out his watch. looked nj II. con-
suited a timetable OF the Hudson River
railroad and hurried ont of his office 10 take
an elevated train for the Grand Central
depot- An hour and a half later he was
again M Yonkers. This time he went dI.
rectly to the post-ofice. He had not omitted
the nost-office in his former search. but no
one there had been able TO telIhim any more
about Donnelly or Donohue than he had been
able TO find in his patient search through
the city. In response to his new inquiries
the postmaster said:
aLetters occasionally come through the
mail for Donnelly. 1t is a common name,
and none of that name has box here. We
always put such letters in the department
to be called for, and, Of course, pay no at
tention 10 the inquirers who seek for mail"
Mr.. Parker took out the second letter, IN
which Mary Dounelly had said that she had
not told Mrs Brownlow where TO write. and
looked at 1t again.
sit must be, Them said the lawyer,
''that she used the Yonkers post-ofice and
the Yonkers market, while she lived some
where elsen Then, moment after, "that
somewhere else must be across the rIver.u
He looked out across the chilly waters TO
the bleak palisades on the other side, and
could see here and there little houses
nesting against the rocks, widely separated
from each other and apparently out of
reach Of civilization in every direction. In
front was the wide river, across which no
ferry regularly ran, and back of them were
the steep palisades, an impossible wall of
solid rock three hundred or four hundred
feet high. He went to the wharyes and
hunted up a place where there were boats
toilet. To the keeper he said: ..Do Won
ever have occasion 70 take passengers
across the river to any of those houses on
the other sideln
.sOh. yes.n said the man. cheerfully.
,sonce in awhile. People that live oyerthere
have to come over occasionally. and when
thew do we take them. too,,
show do YOU known he said. .swhen any
body over there wants to orossr,
"Wbv. ), said the I,eener s.if tbev haven't
got boats of their own and have to come
over here. thew hang out a white flag from |
the roof. and If we happens to see il and we |
have time. we lust rig up a boat and 90 |
over. That's ali. Speakin' of that, there
was flag hung out this mornin, from one |
OF those houses over there. and il was not |
more than two hours ago that we went and |
got woman as wanted to 90 down to New
York.,
wish YOU would take me over there
said Mr.. Parker.
"We'll do tn replied the keeper. sbut |
the water is pretty rough, and it's no pleas
ant+-,,,,
al win nav YOU whatever is necessary. no
matter what the price is. y replied Mr.. Par
ker. coolly. and he put a dollar bill into |
the keepers hand.