Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-05
CAl2RISl'Uil'p GIFT.
Inc story Of an Occult and ETvs.
terions Power.

the I''F JULIUS, Ut apparently IlClfCutOuS,
accnsat on made agains' his kinsman;
the mu~derous threats; the chastise-
ment of his own paid agent who brought
aim a re Nort which might not seem at
all untrue to any one who knew not
Madeline Rowan. Leaving out of the
question what might be wrung from
ne in cross examination, Ralph Car
:iston had Il strong case, and l knew
hat, once IL his power, my friend might
possibly bc 4 ,omel to pass years. if not
lis whole ltN under restraint So l
Was anxious, cry anxious.
| And felt az anxiety, scarcely second
20 that which prevailed on Carriston's
account, as to the fate of Madeline.
Granting. for sake of argument. that
Cal riston's absuru conviction that no
bodily harm had a. yet been done her
was true, l felt suro that she, with her
scarcel less sensitive nature, must feel
;he separation from her lover as much
as he himself felt the separation from
1er. Once or twice l tried to comfort
myself with cvnicism tried to persuade
myself that II young woman could not
n our days be spirited away-that she
md gone by her own free-wi!l that
there was man vino had at q
eleventh hour alienated her affections
|
myself to believe this. So | was placed
between the horns of dilemma
If Madeline had not fled OF her own
frce-wiii. SOHO one must have taken aer
away, and if SO. our agents report was
a coined one, and, if coined one. is
sued at Ralph's instance; therefore,
Ralph must be the prime actor in the
mystery.
But in sober moments such a deduc-
ton seemed an utter absurdity.
| Although l have said that Carr ston
was doing nothing toward clearing up
the mystery, wrong him in so saylog
After his own giraffe way. he was a.
work. AT such work, toe! real'f
lost all patience with him.
Ho shut himself up in his room. out
of VIII ch lie scarcely stirred for three
days. BY that t mo he had com2i, ted
large and beautiful drawing of Ii S
imaginary man. This he took to wei
known photographer and ordered sew
eral hundred small photographs of it to
minute descript on which he had given
ME of his fanciful creation was prin ed
at the foot of each copy. AS soon as
She first batch of these precious photo
graphs was sent home to my great uy
he did what he should have done DAYS
ago: yielded to my wishes and put the
mat err into the hands of the police.
| | was glad to find that in giving de-
tails of what had happened he sad
no hing about the ACCESSIBILITY of keep
ing a watch on Ralph Carrtston' S O.
cecdings. He id, indeed, offer an abb
surdly large rewar for the d scoycry
of the m ssing girl. and, moreover,
| gave the othcer IN charge of the case q
packet of photo graphs CT bis phantom
man. telling him in the gravest manneu
| that he knew the orig nal OF that Ike
ness had something to do with the dis
appearance of Miss Rowan. The OH
Ger, W thought the portrait was that
| of natural being. took his instructions
in good faith. although he seemed great
| ~ surpr sed when he heard that Carr!s.
ton knew neither the name nor til. oc-
cern.n9 the man who was to be sought
for How ever, as Carr ston assured
! hi IN that finding this man would insure
the reward as much us if he found
| Madeline, the officer readily p"omi ed
| to combine the two tasks, lit,le know
| ing what waste of time any attempt 10
| per orm the latter must be.
| Two days after this, CarriStOn came
to me. Il shall leave you tomorrow,
he said.
"Where arc you go;ng?" asked.
''Why 10 you leave?
II am Going to travel about have
no intention of letting Ralph get hold
of me- So mean to go from place to
place until ind Madeline"
''Be careful" urged.
Il shall be careful enough. I'll take
1 care that no doctors. surgeons, or even
apothecaries get on my track. shall
| go Just as the tit seiEes me. If can't
say one day where | shall be the KIT,
it will be impossible for that villain to
| know"
This was not bad argument. In
fact. if he carried out his resolve of
passing quickly from place to place. I
did not see how he could plan ANYTHING
more likely to defeat the Intentions
with which we credited his cousin. As
to his I nding Madeline by so doing,
that was another matter.
| His idea seemed to be that chance
would sooner or later bring him in con-
tact with the man of his dream. How
ever, now that the search had been in-
trusted to the proper persons. his own
| action in the matter was not worth
troubling about. l gave h m many
cautions. He was to be quiet and
| guarded in words and manner. He
was not to converse with strangers. If
he found himself logged or watched by
any. he was to communicate at once
with me. But, above all, begged him
not to yield again to his mental intirml-
ty. The folly of man who could
avoid it throwing himself into such a
state ought to be apparent to m.
Not oftener than can help" was
all the promise 1 could get from m.
but see her must sometimes. or
shall die
had now given up the combat with
his peculiar idiosyncrasy as hopclc s.
So, with many expressions Of gratitude
on his part. we babe each otner fare
well.
During his absen'e wrote me near
ly every day, so that | might know his
whereabouts in case had any news to
| communicate. But / had none. The