Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-05-21
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woman was was to go to Yonkers. He Wis
tied 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. 1t took him nearly two weeks to
come to the conclusion that in Yonkers
there was no clew whatever to the mystery
which he was endeavoring to ferret out.
Then he determined to visit in a similar
way all the towns along the river between
New York and a point from forty to fifty
miles to the north. He began with the set
Elements included in the city limits, like
Spuyten Duyvil. From Spuyten Duyvil he
worked his way gradually north, and when
three weeks had passed he had secured the
river settlements and had found absolutely
nothing Then he returned to the city and
spent a day or two in rest and looking after
his business, which was suffering sadly
from neglect. When he began to think
over the case again it occurred to him that
he had made an egregious blunder, he had
not taken into account at all the fact that
Mrs. Brownlows opera cloak had been
found in the river.
"What an ass l was" he exclaimed, i'm
patiently. "Here have been searching on
the east side of the Hudson for four pre-
cious weeks. when the piainest evidence in
the case shows that Mrs Brownlow 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 shall not
take another step in the matter until l con-
slider what might have happened had she
crossed the river" Therefore he set his an
alytical powers at work again and reasoned
that if she had crossed the river, as I'M
doubtedly she set out to do, she must have
had some point in view to which she want
ed to go. The hypothesis that she was going
to seclude herself at the house If her old
servant stuck in Mr.. Parker s head In spite
of himself. "She must have KNOWN" he
said to himself, ''where this woman lived;
or, if not this woman, she must have known
where she was going She would not have
set out blindly, not even In her rage, upon
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 MIN
and he set about inspecting their post
marks and the handwritlngs on the en-
velopes. All those that were postmarked
from cities or towns at distance were i'm
mediately cast aside and of all those that
came from points in this immediate vicinity
he did not stop to read any whose super
scrption was particularly legible or winch
showed in it's style that the writer was IN
the habit of letter writing After two or
three hours' work he had sifted from the
mass of letters half dozen In different
hands which he considered it worth while
to look. into.
The first one he opened was begging
letter from some one who had announced
herself as widow and an entire stranger
to Mrs. Brownlow. Mr.. Parker proceeded
no farther, he threw that aside anu TOOK up
another This was an application Tor po-
siton as a waiting maid from girl VINO
SAID that she had nearu OF MIS- DroWhloW
through some of her friends This also Mr..
Parker cast aside, and a feeling OF discour-
agement began to settle down upon him.
The next one was another begging letter.
The fourth he opened with the idea that he
was simply wasting his time and inJuring
his business by neglect for merely
Ouixotic enterprise, but as he read the let
ter his eyes began to open, his face flushed
and perspiration started out upon his fore
head. 1t read as follows:
DEAR MRS. LEoNORA: 1t is such long
time since 1 have seen you, that don't know
YOU will rember me. take my pen to rite you
becaws iwood Xix to no howyou ar. Ihave not
bin to the City for sevrel years and spose
shood not find my way, if went Their. think
of YOU a crate meny times and wunder II you
ar as prity as you wer wen little CURL. nuro
that YOU wer marid and got yur address from
lizy. the Curl as worked for you for fue
weaks last Spring she cam up to yonkers 10
work and saw hur Their wen went over TO
get sum Stuff from the Market. 1doant ASK
YOU to anser this letter becaws you may -Four
get me and ma not care enything about me,
but | awlwas Luvd you when little gurl and
want to tel you how Glad am that you are
hapy and hoap you VIII be so.
''NARY DONNELLY"
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