Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04

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Der . innocent mani Il must be =ons OF :
these. II he were Banged he VIM could
not b contested successfully by Mr..
Browulow's rcsstives, for Il would be the
theory Of the iaw thas sny question OF Hr.
Brownlow's sanity had been settled by the
| trial And yet the unfortunate man
| seemed to be irrational And'y.et again Mr..
Parker could not help feeling that be was
innocent.
The young lawyer decidedi that in-ths
time intervening before the execution he
would make great effort to- discover then
truth OF Mrs. Browniow's disappearance
CHAPTER WI
Inc young lawyer went abous his work
4 in methodical way. He said to himself.
The possibilities in this case are very fews
/ il should be reasonably easy to eliminate ALI
things which are not possible from consid-
GRAFTON, and 30 concentrate attention upon
happen Now, then, the first point which,
may betaken as q clew Is thisa Mrs Brown
| low left the house altogether unprepared
| for a journey. She was not only in evening
dress, put so far as the efforts Of the detect
ives have shown any thing tits clear that
she went away without any money in her
pocket to pay for q ,journeylof any consid-
| cradle length The natter. then, resolves
| itself into one of two general things: She
i il either dead, having been. killed, or met
with some fatal accident before getting far
| from her house. or she is alive and in this
| immediate vicinity. There isno reason to
think that any other. horn: OF the dilemma
can be found. Now, iwes proceed upon
| the theory that she Is alives and that IS q
thing that we must do now. tits necessary
to find out in what part OF thlssvicinity she
| might be. That, then, is the, Que problem
| that confronts me-"
Having gone thus farm, his analysis OF
the situation, Mr.. Parker came to q dead
stop. It was night, and he was at his f
1 fee, and long after the other occupants
| had left for their homes, he remained, his
| feet in the air and an unlighted cigar in.
his lips, pondering- over the situation. The
next morning he started for the house of
| Mr.. Champion, and when. he had found the
| head Of the family, he said
| II am Henry Parker, sir the member Of
the bar who was. assigned by the court to-
| act as the counsel in, behalf of,your SON.
| in-law on the occasion OF his recent trial
| He absolutely declined to receive my serv-
| ices, but has since employed me in other
| matters. It il, without his, knowledge or
/ consent that L come, here now to see if i.
can not do something further to clear up
| the mystery surrounding the disappearance
| of your daughter
"Weu; sir,n' said Mr.: Champion, rather
| brusquely, ''do, understand you. to- hint
| that L have any more knowledge, OF the,
matter than that have Rixeniu upon the wit
ness-stand andtoe the officers OF the lava"
pardon me-, sir,r replied Mr.. Parker,
'sfor having stated my errand in such terms.
as should have. allowed You to make that
most unhappy inference, nbeiieye that You.
have been profoundly anxious, to, fnd. out.
| the. truth regarding your daughter, and
that you have,done, all in your power to gain.
that and further the ends Of justice, but.
while do, not pretend. to, say that have
had one ortwo,ideas since the trial, will
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something further might badOne,, and it is.
with that rather shadowy notion in my mind
that have come to you, believing that YOU
will accord: me your hearty corporation In
| whatever may attempt"
| Every well, sir,n said Me-. Champion; s.H
will not interpess any obstacles 10 your
work, but L viii say positively that nothing
could shake my belief that Mrs. BroWnlow
was murdered by her husband"
| ~Nothing" queried the young laWyeE,- i'm
| return. 'sNot even the production OF thu
| lady alivea''
''Ah, well. that l. another NATTER said
| MIR. Champion IF you are going to work
upon that absurd hypothesis, that she Is
still alive, Z fear that shall simply waste
| my time with your
'ALet Us NOT be impatlent,'s replied Mr..
Parker Eve are going simply to try 10
discover the truth, and II that truth proves
| 10 be that she was murdered and we get at
| the complete story Of the matter, I shall be
| satisfied, although, I confess, to . certain
extent grieved. for can not but believe
| that your daughter Is still alive
Mr.. Champion simply raised his brows
with an expression Of pitiahle tolerance for
| the young lawyers notion and waited for
| him to proceed
''I would like to ask, FIRST" said Mr.
| Parker, ''for the complete history of your
daughters life from her early childhood up
to the time OF her marriage, and instead of
| asking you to tell it to me effhand will try
| TO get it by certain questions Now, then,
did she have in her childhood any intimate
friends to whom she might have fed in this
emergency, and with whom she might be
IN hidinga"
9" can think of none,n said Mr. Cham
dion All her friends are people who are
well known, and who are in the swim of
society and conversant with the news Of
the day. And it could not be possible that
any Of them would restrain her from COM
ing back TO her parents and friends in such
a time as this. There are one or two of
her early acquaintances with whom she
was intimate until well along in her teens
of whom have lost track, but know that
they live in distant parts OF the country and
even in foreign Countries
'-There were, then, no friends in humber
life to whom she might have Comet" con-
tnued Mr.. Parker.
Z" think not" returned Mr. Champion,
coldly. I'VE restrained our daughters as
sociates to the grade of society in which
she was born. We alway discouraged any
association with poor people"
"H'm," was Mr.. Parker's only retort-
Then after q pause he asked: Z" Have the
servants that are now in your family been
employed by you for many yearsa"
No, only one or two. We have had the
usual changes of servants that mark every
family's domestic history"
Was there any favorite servant IN the
family at the time Of your daughters child
hoodl"
Mr.. Champion thought q moment and
then said, with some hesitation: SIT seems
to me there was. As / think of it, there
was a woman named Mary sonething-upon
my soul can not think what her last name
was now-for whom our daughter seemed
to have the hveiest affection when she was
the merest child She left our employ
nearly fifteen years ago, and of course i
have known nothing Of her since. 1 am in
clined to think You are pursuing very
shadowy clew.n