Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-12
A MOMENT OF ANGER: ]:
Tho History of MT. and Mrs
 Brownlow's Quarrel

woman ~ ss was to go to Yonkers. He vis-
 ited every family of either name in the
 town, but learned nothing whatever con corning the woman. He could not even dis
 cover that any such woman had ever lived
 there. It took him nearly tgTo weeks to | come to the conclusion that in Nonkers there was no clew whatever to the mystery which he was endeavoring to ferret out Then hc determined to visit in a similar way all the towns along the river between | New York and n point from forty to fifty | miles to tho north. He began with the set dement's included in the city limits, like | Spuytcn Duyvil. From Spuyten Duyvl he
 worked his way gradually north, and when | three weeks had passed he had secured tho
 river settlements and had found absolutely
 nothing. Thon he returned to tho city and | spent a day or two in rest and looking after
 his business, which was suffering sadly from neglect. Whom he began to think | over tho case 0gNu 1t occurred 10 him that | he had made an cgrcgious blu uder; he had
 not taken into account at all the fact that | Mrs Brownlow's opera cloak had been | found in the river.
 "What an ass I was, ," he exclaimed, i'm.
 patiently. "ncrc havc been searching on
 the east side of the Hudson for four pre-
 cious weeks, when the painest evidence in
 the case shows that Mrs. BrownhOw crossed
 the river before starting elsewhere. Now, | whether she met her death while crossing
 the river or soon after getting to the other
 side, of course can not say, but l shall not | take another step in tho matter until con- 1 slider what might havc happened had she l crossed the river" Therefore he set his an- | nlytical powers at work again and reasoned
 that if she had crossed tho river, as un- l doubtedly she set out to do, she must have 1 had some point in vlew to winch she want
 ed to go. The hypothesis that she was going
 to seclude herself at the house f her old
 servant stuck in Mir. Parker's head Tn spite
 of himself "She must have known," he
 said to himself, "where this woman lived; 1 or, if not this woman, she must have known
 where she was going. She would not have | set out blindly, not even m hor rage, upon a 1 journey without having some plan in her | mind, even if it had not been formed until
 she had reached the sidewalk of her house
 after leaving her husband"
 | The upshot of hIs reasoning was that he | secured permission at once to examine Mrs.
 Brownlow's correspondence. A large | bundle of letters were turned over to him l and he set about inspecting their post l marks and the haudwritlngs on tho cn- ] velopas. All those that were postmarllrd l from cities or towns nt a distance were i'm mcdately cast Gsttr, and of all those that | camc from points iu thlS immediate vicinity l he did not stop to read any whUao sup,,"-
 
 showed in it's style tat the writer was in | the hlbit of letter writing. After two or | three hours work h9 had siftcd from th '. | mass of letters 0 h!'f dozen in different | hands which he c,l l rel It worth while | to look into
 The first one hn oD 'n"d was b'rrjn ? | letter from some raN wlD hal aauouu. | herself as D wIdhw and ul entire strdu scr | to Mrs Brown0W. Mr. Pr.yNr prnCcHtH | no farther, hr thrc}v ti.a; aShtc ana took up | another. This WI~ jtH applicttlnl, for Il Uu- l sItion as a wlttllr rGl.l from girl Who sald that shn hal h"Ir>l uf Mrs Brownlow l through soule of her 'lGdi, rI:s LlSO Mr. l Parker cast Nsi,!", E2d q G'Hi'ng ot diSG>r,.r- | agcment began Co srtt.c down npOn hluI. 1 The next one Was another begging letter. | Tho fourth hc CpGrr', with the idea that he was simply wastin" his time and iniurir% | his busInr&S hy Terlcrt for a merely QuiXotio enterprise, hIt as he read the i"f | ter his eyes began to open, his face fiuSh"i, l and precipitation started out upon his fnto. | head It read as follows:
 | DEAR Mas. LEnNVH.Nt II is such long | timo since I h.Nn % n 'u that cont know | you will rcmbrr fl' tI';c my l"'n t'rto Y Il ] becnws iwOo , to n1 h"'yr>uH. Ihav" not | bn 10 the City for sevr"l yeas p ld B, ,.ns, l | shood not ind my way, .t wen thcr, l th.nk Of you n Grate Iuc " m 'S aud wuHdcr if you nr Os rrity as you wcF ven A lHtc l'Uri. hurd that you wer mar: and gut yVr it,idrcs fru m | ltzy. the Curl as worked for you f' fue weaks last Sprng. she CAm up t,yoLk'rs tO work and i saw hur tGcr wen went over tn get Stun from tho M1rlctt. i!oaut si you to anser this letter 'cLws you may Fnur. l but awlwas Luvd you when little Eurl and want to tel you how C Id um thtt you are hapy and Eonp you Wi!l be
 MARY DONNELI.Y."