Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-11

orA he fcaO ana re-reo0 the letter, ant
wondered how it could be that in all hi
patient searching through Yonkers he ha,
not discovered any trace Of this woman.
was evident that the letter had been WRITER
within q year, because it said: 81 hav,
heard that you were married." and Mrs
Brownlow's marriage had not occurrel
more than year previous to her disappear
ance. So en2rossed was the lawyer u
thinking over this phase Of the case that hi
forgot for q moment that two other letter.
in the pile that he had laid out remained t,
be read Looking them over he found ths
one was in the same hand as that which h
mark was plain-Yonkers. He seized il
feverishly and opened it. That letter was
as follows:
DEAR MRS. LEONORA-i am sorry to here
that you ar not aulwas happy and was 80 Glad
two that you shood think 30 kindn o your oiled
turda becaus we nevr hay male hear morn wuns
in two or thre weal<s wen we can go for it and
as fdident tel you in my luther Letter ware to
rite to its most fornit that got 1t at all. but
did and tax my pen agen to say that II you
ever get into trubble ware pare OF strung
armes can help you, i wish you'd let me no fol
altho am getting oiled am still very strawng
and wood lik nuthin better then to sea you agin
and Civ you help, yet hoap you will newer
mead It. If Every boldly els In the wurld shood
oiled survent, MARY DONNELLY.''
ssWhy in thunder" exclaimed Mr.. Parker,
when he had read this letter, s'does not the
woman say where she is and how to get
there3 But will wager one hundred dol
lars, if ever get as much money, that Mrs.
Brownlow knew how to get there, and did
get there, and if she did can and will
He took out his watch, looked at it, con-
suited timetable of the Hudson River
h,,r rioA ~ h tic Off3 70 folx
an elevated train for the Grand Central
depot. An hour and a half later he was
again at Yonkers. This time he went di-
rectly to the post-of1ce. He had not omitted
the post-of1ce in his former search, but no
one there had been able to tell him 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:
sLetters 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 to the inquirers who seek for mail"
Mr.. Parker took out the second letter, in
which Mary Donnelly had said that she had
not told Mrs. Brownlow where to write, and
looked at 1t again.
cit must be, them" said the lawyer,
s'that she used the Yonkers post-off1ce and
the Yonkers market, while she lived some
where else" Then, moment after, 'that
else must be across the rlver''
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 wharves and
hunted up a place where there were boats
10 let To the keeper he said: "Do you
ever have occasion to take passengers
across the river to any of those houses on
the other sides"
''Oh, yes," said the man, cheerfully,
'once in awhile. People that live over there
have to come over occasionally. and when
hey do we take them, too"
'How do you know" he said, "when any
body over there wants to CROSSE"
Why said the keeper, ''if they haven't
got boats of their own and have to come
>ver here, they hang out a white flag from
The roof, and if we happens to see it and we
nave time, we just rig up boat and go
over. That's all. Speakin' of that, there
was flag hung out this mornin' from one
If those houses over there, and it was not
more than two hours ago that we went and
got a woman as wanted to go down to New
ork."
81 wish you would take me over there"
,aid Mr.. Parker.
.'We'n do it," replied the keeper, shut
the water is pretty rough, and it's no pleas
ant trip
81 will pay you whatever is necessary, no
matter what the price is,'' replied Mr.. Par
ker, coolly, and he put dollar bill into
the keepers hand.
The boatman started up as if he had re-
,eived an electric shock
"You just wait here about two seconds"
he said, s.and I'll have boat for your
The two seconds proved to be about ten
which Mr.. Parker passed chatting
with excitement. When the boatman
came around again he said: "Do you know
The name of the people who live over there?"
St No." he said, 81 don't know those that
live in that particular house, although they
have been there long time; I never hap
pened to inquire, but perhaps one Of my
men may know. Hi, JIM" he went on,
''what's the name of that woman that you
took over the other side this morninga"
''Names" drawled the assistant. "Donnel-
ly, think"
"All right said Mr.. Parker, s'now you
as you can"
Bending his arms to the oars the boatman
sent the small craft flying over the wintry
waves of the river, and Mr.. Parker sat in
the stern and held the tiller ropes.
It was about two O'Clock on the afternoon
of the day hat Mr. Parker went to Workers.
the last time that the mayor of New York
City, sitting in his Office overwhelmed with
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