Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-08
"1 don't knoyv'' 'sThen you will tell me nothing about herl" ANo, sirl
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| | "No, sir"
 CHAPTER II.
 The lady's father understood at once that
 he would only lose time by insisting; he ! questioned the servants, went to the chief
 of police and gathered all possible informa- | tion.
 The functienary quietly explained that 1 therc were every day women disappearing | from their conjugal domieIle; he had even | the kindness to communicate statistics com-
 piled with great care by the head clerk of | the bureau of police showing that the an- nual average of these disappearances was
 much larger for women between twenty | and thirty-five than for women that were | older or younger.
 1 The desolate father clamored against the | hypothesis which this communication i'm | piled; he answered for his daughters | moral character, and, besides, supposing | that sna had left her husband willingly, l she would have made known her intention
 or explained her flight; she would have car
 rled with her some luggage, and, more | over, the husband would not have accepted
 thls departure with such incredible resig-
 nation. But the chief of police put to him the following dilemma:
 "Either your daughter went away will. ingly; in this case shall send you to an ln- spector. who will put at your disposal some
 
 these kind of researches it will cost you Il few hundred dollars; but I doubt of the success in the absence of the clew Or else there has been a crime committed, as you seem to believe. 1 have not sufficient ground to order immediately Il search to be made; but you can address yourself to the district attorney, who, upon your affidavit, will put the wheels of justice m motion"
 This was very grave, but the unhappy father. nftar haVInC tpn h STx.lFA l few intimate friends, after having sent to the family lawyer, who could obtain 10 explanation, he thought he could not pass in silence Leonora's disappearance, and he decided to put the case in the hands of judi cial authorities
 The pubIc pi osccutor had the case cx- plalned to him. Mir, ami Mrs, Champion were rich property owners. Leonora was their only daughter. They had made the acquaintance of Gustave Brownlow in the country at the house of a mutual friend. Gustave belonged to an honorable family who had owned fortune, but had lost it again. Nothing wrong was known con corning him, if not that he was without money and without a position. They had not encouraged his attentions to Miss Champion; but the gIri mad fallen deeply in love with the handsome gentleman. The parents refused to give their consent to the | marriage; the girl declared that she would 1 never take any man for her husband but | Gustave. They were obstinate on both | sides, and when she came of age she mar ricd her favorde sritor. Unfortunately, | Lconora, once she had attained her majori- | ty, eniOved the free disposal of arge fort | Iue which had been left her by an aunt. | and the young man must have been ac- qualnted with his fact. Tho marriage had taken place againSi Ihe formally expressed | Will or the parents, and since that time all 1 relations between the two families had been broken off
 It was known through the servants and the school friends of Lconora, who con- tnued to visit her, that there was trouble in the house, that there were often violent storms between the husband and the wife. The absolute silence in which MT. Brown low shut himself up justified any kind of supposition, for he had no interest in cov- erlng up the wrong doiugs of his wife if there had been any, or to hide the motives of her absence if he know them. Of course It was repugnant to lmpute murder to a man whose education and bringing up seemed to prevent such suspicion. But it was not impossible that man of q secret i've nature might have been carried awav by moment of anger and that once the crime committed he had applied all the re- sources of cultivated and intelligent mind to wipe out all traces.
 inc ulStrlcG attorney could hardly be- lleve that man of position like MT Brown low could have committed so frightful a crime. He knew besides how difficult it is to hide body If the husband had come ! back from journey one would suppose that he had thrown his wife over a precipice, her in a river, or strangled her in some wood. But he could not have left his house until seven o'clock; he had returned 1t three o'clock i'll the morning. It was not n eight hours that he could have found the | necessary time for the execution of the1 crime. It was legitimate to exact from him ln explanation as to the employment of hls lime and to discover what reasons he might lave given to himself for this apparently disappearance. On the next morning Gustave Brownlow 'eceived an invitation to present himself at he office of the public prosecutor. On see ng him enter this officer was struck by the , of gloomy determination winch vas stamped on his face; one could read , n 1t at the first glance . cold resolution and , n entire selt-poSsession. He took a seat without saying word, looking attentivelv , t the prosecutor. The two men observed z ach other before opening hostilities The f eople's lawyer waited for moment in the z ope that his adversary would by his first words betray sentiments of some lzlnd: but he silence becoming prolonged he was ' breed to open the conversation.
 " have sent for you SIT, to ask you for nme explanation of the disappearance of
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