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hat | nave any more knowledge OF the
matter than that have given upon the wit
ness-stand and to the officers of the lava"
''Pardon me, SIR" replied MIR. Parker,
s'for having stated my errand in such terms
as should have allowed you to make that
most unhappy inference. believe that you
have been profoundly anxious to find or
the truth regarding your daughter, an
that YOU have done ali ia your power to gal
that and further the ends OF justice, but
while do not pretend to say that haze
had one or two ideas since the trial, will
say that it has seemed to me possible that
something further might be dos.e, and it is
with that rather shadowy notion in my mind
that have come 10 yor, believing that you
will accord me Your hearty cooperation in
whatever J. may attempt
every well, sir" said Mr.. Champion; II
will net il5erpose any obstacles to your
work, but J. will say positively that nothing
could shake my belief that Mrs. BrownloW
was murdered by her husband
s'Nouhing!' queried the young lawyer, in
return. ''Not even the production Of the
lady aliye?'
s'Ah, well, that is another maoter,' said
Mr.. Champion. Eff you are going to work
upon that absurd hypothesis, that she is
still alive, I fear that shall simply waste
my time with you"
':Let us not be IMPATIENT replied Mr..
Parker. I'VE are going simply to try to
discover the truth, and if that truth proves
to be that she was murdered and we get at
bhe complete story of the matter. shall be
satisfied, although, confess, to certain
extent grieved, for can not but believe
that yo.lr daughter is Still alive.''
Mr.. Champion simply raised his brows
with all expression of pitiable tolerance for
the Young lawyers notion and waited for
him to proceed.
81 would like to ask, first" said Mr..
Parker, s'fcr 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 offhand will try
to get it by certain questions. Now, then,
did she have in her childhood any intimate
friends to whom she might have fled in this
emergency, and with whom she might be
in hiding!"
ct car think of none," said Mr.. Cham
dion. g All her friends are people who ere
well known, and who are in Che swim of
society and conversant with the news ct
the day And it could not be possible that
eny of them would restrain her from conf
ing back to her parents and friends in such
4 time as this. There are one or two OF
her early acquaintance with whom shA
was intimate until well along in her teens
Of whom have lost track, but u know that
they live in distant parts of the country and
even in foreign countries"
ssThere were then, no friends in humber
life to whom she might have gone?' coz
timed Mr.. Parker.
81 think not returned Mr.. Champion,
,oldly. "We restrained our daughters as
sociates to the grade of society in which
she was born. We always discouraged any
association with poor people,
Him." was Mr.. Parlzer's only retort.
Then after a pause he asked: :" Have the
servants that are now in your family been
employed by you for many years."
SNo, only one CT two. We have had the
usual changes Of servants that mark every
fa1nily's domestic history.''
"Was there any favorite servant III the
family at the time Of your daughters child
hood?"
Mr. Champion thought q moment and
chen said, with some hesitation: SIT seems
10 me there was. AS I thin K OF it, there
was 81 woman named Mary son1ething-upon
my soul can not think what her last name
was now-for whom our daughter seemed
10 have the liveliest affection when she was
the merest child She left our employ
nearly fifteen years ago, and OF course /
have known nothing of her since. am III
Glued to think you are pursuing very
shadoyyy clew.'
SO That may be- said Mr.. Parker; 1--WE
shall see, We shall see. Would Mrs
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Mary, shan you do?"
pressly desire it."
81 do.''
M, Parker touched Il bell, and when a
servant responded to the call, he said:
".AsE Mrs Champion to come to the study"
and in a few moments the lady entered,
dressed in deep mourning.
Mr parker's questions concerning the
old servant were put to her, ana this was
her reply:
"yhe yvonaau's name was Donnelly or Don"
ohue, or something like that, and when she
was with us she was about forty years Old,
She lett us because her mother had been
thrown on her hands, and, as they had
little property, they went off to live together
for the rest Of their days. During the first
three or four years after she left us she
would return at long intervals TO visit one
Of our other servants, and at such times
she always inquired after Leonora. and the
Child FREQ uently expressed great pleasure
at receiving her visits. We Discouraged
therr, however, because, as Mr. Champion
has Indicated to you, we did not care to have
her associate with people of that class"
"Do you know asked Mr.. Parker,
"vhere this woman Went after she LETT
you?''
twas that she went to Yonkers, but that
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