The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-05
CHAPTER WI

This letter, IN . cramped hand, written
in pencil. was without date or any other
| evidence - to the place where It wa writ
ten. The postmark was badly blurred, but,
looked Ut upside down, crosswise and in
every other way imaginable, Mr.. Parker
thought that he could SEQ that it was Yonk-
era He read and re-read tho letter, and
wondered how it could be that in all his
patient searching through Yonkers he had
not discovered any trace Of this woman. It
was evident that the letter had been written
within Q year, because II 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 engr0ssed was the lawyer in
thinking over this phase Of the case that he
forgot for q moment that two other letters
in the pile that he had laid out remained to
be read. Looking them over no found that
q was In the same hand ~ that which he
had just been reading, and on that the post
mark was plain-Yonkers. He seized it
feverishly and opened It. That letter was
as follows:
"DEAR MRS LKONORA-i I'm sorry to hero
that you n not aulwas hapy and WAS 30 Glad
two that you shood think % kindli o your oled
survent ~ 70 rite . letter. 1 got Il onely yes
SOtu0 OCC0VS VIC uCVG INV kA1l0 uCoE uOIu WuuS
In two or thre weaks wen we can go for It and
as idident tel you in my uther Letter ware to
rite to its most fornit that 1 got II at all but 1
did and 1 tax my pen a9en to say that II you
ever get into trubble wsre . pare Of strung
armes can help you, I wish you'd let me NO for
altho 1 am getting oiled 1 Am still very st.awng
and wood lk nuthin better then to sea you agin
and Civ you help. yet 1 hoap you will newer
mead It IL Every boldly els In tho wurld shood
70 aginst you. you can alWs;s depend upon your
DIED survent, NARY DONNELLY."
"Why in thunder" exclaimed Mr.. Parker,
when he had read this letter, ''6oes not the
woman say where she is and how to get
therel But / will wager one hundred dol
lars, il lever got as much money, that Mrs.
Brownlow knew how to get there, and did
get there, and il she did I can and will"
He took out his watch, looked at it, con-
suited . timetable Of the Hudson .3iver
railroad and hurried out Of his Office to take
an elevated train for the Grand Central
depot An hour and o half later he was
again At Yonkers. This time he went di-
rectly to the p~ost-ohice. H. had not omitted
tho p~Ost-0f1ce 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:
Letters occasionally come through the
mail for Donnelly. 1t is o common name,
and none Of that name has q box here. We
always put such letters in the department
to be called for, and, of course, pay no at
tention to the incuirers who seek for mail"
Mr. Parker took out the second letter, i
which Mary Donnelly had said that she had
not told Mrs. Brownlow where to write, and
looked at 1t again.
at must be, Them said the lawyer,
''that she used the Yonkers post-ofice and
the Y0nkers market, while she lived some
where else" Then, q moment after, ''that
somewhere else must be across the river"
He looked out across the chilly waters to
the bleak palisades OF 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 . place where there were boats
to 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 sidei'
lob, yes" said the man, cheerfully,
'once in awhile. People that live over there
have to come over occasionally. and when
they do We take them, too"
"How do you know" he said, ''when any
body over there wants 10 cr0ss1"
"Why," said the keeper. III they haven't
got boats Of their and have to como
over here, they hang out . white nag from
the ROOF, and il w happens to Q . it and we
have time. We just rig up . boat and 90
over. That's I'll. Speakin' Of thai, there
was . nag hung ont this mornin' from q
OF those houses over there, and Il vas not
got . woman u wanted 70 70 down to New
York"
~ wish you would take me over there"
said M Parker.
"Wen do IT," replied tho keeper, 'sbut
tho wster II pretty rough, and it's NO pleas
ant trip"
"IWill pay you whatever II necessary, NO
matter what the price H. - replied Nj. Par
kcr. coolly. and he pat . dollaF ball into
TIE Reter's hand.
~Thfbsatman started up - IL he had TO
cetsep en electric shock.
Just wait here abopt two seconds"
he 50, aiand III have . beat for you.n +.
TN two seconds proved to be abou&ten
@inpfes. which MI. Parker passed Chasing
with e~xfitenent. When the bdatdaan
camel sfodnd again he iaid: "Do you know
then4me of The people wholive overtheree'
"fo." he said, II doa't know tA6sa that
nve I teas partaeular hosje, although they,
ayeybedn there leoE time; I never hafs
pene4 10 inquire. hut perhApo. omo, OF my.