Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26

| POUNDS by me. which are al your service.
| You can repay me at some future time
| I have thought of one thing-that new
! Continental paper started by Lord Harry.
! Wherever she may be, Lady Harry is al
| most sure to see that. Put an advertise
| ment in it addressed to her stating that
| you have not heard of her address, but
that you Yourself will receive any letter
sent to some pOst-office which you can find.
/ think that such an advertisement will
draw reply from her. unless she desires
to remain in seclusiOn."
Fanny thought the suggestion worth
adopting. After careful consideration, she
drew Cp an advertisement:
Fanny NJ. to l. H. [ have not
been able to ascertain our address. Please
write to me, at the Post-Office, Hunter
| street, London, W. c."
She paid for the insertion of this adver-
| tisement three times on alternate Satur-
| days. They told her that this would be
more likely way than to take three sue
cessive Saturdays. Then, encouraged by
the feeling that something, however little
| had been done, she resolved to sit down
and to write out a narrative in which she
would set down in order everything that
had ppened-eXactly as it had happen
ed. Her intense hatred and suspicion of
DR.. Vimpany aided her, strange to say,
to keep to the strictest fidelity as regards
the facts. For it was no. her desire to
make up charges and accusations She
to set it down that anybody who read her
statement would arrive at the same con-
clusiOn as she herself had done. In the
case of an eyewitness there are thousands
of things which cannot be produced in
evidence which yet are most important in
directing and confirming suspicious. The
attitude, the voice, the look of a speaker,
the things which he conceals as well as
the things which he reveals--all these are
evidence. But these Fanny was unable
to set down. Therefore it behOoved her
to be strictly careful.
First, she stated how she become aware
that there was some secret scheme under
consideration between Lord Harry and
the doctor. Next, she set down the fact
that they began to talk French to each
other, thinking that she could not under
stand them; that they spoke of deceiving
Lady Harry by some statement which had
already deceived the authorities; that the
doctor undertook to get the lady out of
! the house; that they engaged herself as
nurse to sick man: that she suspected
from the beginning that their design was
to profit in some way by the death Of this
sick man, who bore a slight resemblance
to Lord Harry himself. And so on, fol-
lowing the story as closely as she could
remember, to the death of the Dane and
her own subsequent conversation with
tie nurse. She was careful to put in the
dates, day after day. When she had done
all this-it took a good deal of time-she
bought a manuscript book and copied it
all out This enabled her to remember
two or three facts which had escaped her
at the beginning. Then she made another
COpy-LnlS Tune WlrnOuC NAMES OF people
or place. The second copy she forwarded
as registered letter to Mrs. Vimpany,
with letter Of which this was the con-
clusion: considering therefore, that on
| Wednesday morning | left Lord Harry
! in perfect health: considering that Oh the
Inurs9ay morning saw the man VINO had
been i'll so long actually die-how, 1 have
| told you IN the packet lnclOSed; consider
| ing that the nurse was called in purpoSely
| to attend a patient who was Stated to have
| long been ill-there can be no doubt what
! ever that the body in the cemetery is that
| of the unfortunate Dane, OXbye: and that;
somewhere or other, Lord Harry is alive
! and we'll
"W hat have they done 1t for? First Of
all. | suppose. to get money. If it were
not for the purpose of getting money the
doctor would have had nothing to do with
the conspiracy, which was his own inven-
ton. That is very certain. Your idea
was they would try to get money out of
the Insurance Offices. | suppose that is
their design. But Lord Harry may have
many other secret reasons of his own for
wishing to be thought dead. They say
| his life has been full of wicked things and
| he may well wish to be considered dead
| and gone. Lots of wicked men would like
! above all things, | should think, to be con-
! sidered dead and buried. But the money
| matter i& at the bottom of all, | am con-
| WINGED. What are we to do2'
! What could they do, These two women
| had got hold of terrible secret. Neither
of them could move. 1t was too big a
| thing. One cannot expect woman to
/ bring her own Observation-Disclosures wicked
! a husband he may be-to the awful shame
! and horror of the gallows If murder should
| be proved-or to lifelong Imprisonment
| if the conspiracy alone should be brought
| home to him. Therefore Mrs. Vinpany
could do nothing. AS for Fanny, the mere
| thought Of the pain she would inflict up
! on her mistress were Lord Harry through
! her interference to be brought to JUS
tice and an infamous sentence kept her
quiet.
J Meantime the announcement of Lord
/ Harry's death had been made. Those who
| knew the family history spoke cheerfully
of the event. ''Best thing he had ever
! done. Very good thing for his people.
! One more bad lot out of the way. Dead,
sir, and a very good thing, too. Married,
| believe. One of the men who had done
| ever, thing. Pity they can't write a life
! of him" These were the comments made
upon the decease of this young gentleman.
! Such is fame Next day he was clean for
! gotten: lust as If he had never existed