San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-29

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Iuey Numbered over each others names
after being presented, and made hard
work Of becoming acquainted. In two
days time the cook found the coachman
standing sullenly against the wall in the
passage over the laundry and the house
keeper crying and wringiug her hands
before him!
don't believe the housekeeper's name
| is Winters don't believe the coach
mans name was Moore. don't believe
they met for the FIRST time in Mrs. Clark
Melville's kitchen. | don't believe the
housekeeper ever lived in lady's house
before. | believe Mrs. Melville's coach
to be the first one the coachman ever
| drove.
Mrs. Melville told me herself that the
hOuSekeeper came to her without refer
| ences. | cant understand how, under
| such circumstances. Mrs. Melville came
to give her employment. Whatever her
motive was, she laid the foundation for
pretty mess when she did it. The
| papers are full of the affairs Of the family.
| It would sCaEcelysurpriSe me now to see
my own portrait displayed in morning
| paper side by side with that Of the house
keeper or the murdered man The au-
tiacity OF the press ought to be restrained
y law
| wonder if Mrs. Melville knows what
sort of place hci' houSeEyeper left to
enter hcr employ She may have cS-
! capped from Il prison. SIZE may have
abandoned surroundings winch no yirtu-
GUS WOMAN would eyca attempt to de-
scribe. know where She ought to go
when she leaves tins house under
stand there is an institution where in
san" criminals 80 restrained from FUR
thrr mischief. she ought to 90 there.
She oG%ht to go at once IGon'C feel safe
with her in the house.
| She u.y murder me next. The only
wonder is that she dill not take it into
her crazed brain to walk into Mr.. Rich
ard Melville's arms over my dead body.
| Now that the thought that my life is in
danger so long as she remains in the
house has suggested itself. many small
circumstances of the past few days con-
meet themselves together.
| Only this morning she loitered about
my door when | was dressing for break
fast. | knew she was there. ] heard
her footsteps in the hall. know she
| paused at my door more than once, for
when the footsteps ceased | heard her
| dress ruStling against the castings of the
| door. | thought then that she was wait
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| know now that shencver fingered there
to gain an opportunity to do the chamber
! maids work
When stepped into the hall she adj
| vanced to meet me. The next instant
she hasitated. Before reached the place
| where she stood she turned away and
| walked to the further end Of the hall
| As passed down the stairway | saw her
looking at me in the strangest manner.
! Her eyes betrayed a desire to address
me. Her body shrank farther into the
corner where she stood when my own
| eyes commanded her to speak. Her mind
was urging her into III interview for
which she WIS physically too weak.
now recall many similar occurrences.
Once she asked me for moment of my
time in matter OF the highest impor-
| lance. Before she could come to the
subject i'll hand we were interrupted by
| Mrs. Melvill" in person, who sent her
away on some trihing errand. | was
sorry for the interruption. The house
| keeper seemed relieved.
| can't make out what she wanted to
| tell me- cant understand why she
| don't speak if she has ANYTHING on her
| poor cYazed mind that she imagines con-
Germs ne. She has agol terribly during
the past month. am told that diseases
Of the brain are quite likely to produce
the physical changes notice in her.
shall make Mrs Melville acquainted
| with the contents of this manuscript in
the morning, and ask that the house
keeper be sent away to an asylum. No,
couldn't make the additional eXplana-
| tions Mrs. Melville would demand.
understand the person for whom this is
written to be Il private detective.
| should have written it for no other per
SON will leave the whole matter in
| his hands.
CHAPTER VI
| CONTRIBUTED BY JOSEPH U. SMITH, DE-
TECTIVE
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