The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1891-05-21


though every nook and corner sas looked
inin.
Then /, occurred 10 me 70 speak - ihe
detective about II; snd, as soon a. conid
do so unobaerved. knocked ~ bis door,
He cautiously opened IL, bat on seeing
who vas there be invited me ~,
! told him what bad happened, hol even
omitiins 10 meatioo The sudden ehsnse
had previously noticed 10 the Young
lady's height. As proceeded. ! obser'
ed ,hs, the keen eyes seemed TO grow lar
ger. While The thick beard that covered
Tho face Of this singular mao keep iv''cn
ing, ss IL every hair vas instinct WIN
life.
Give me time, he said. solemnly. when
| | had flushed, and l viii so,ve this mys'
terry. In a lev days may be able TO do
it perhaps not for week
left him aud went on deck, Tom was
there. looking so dowDc1t sud foriorn
that l resolved to aequsiut him with the
presence OF the detective. and tell h'm
' b.. he had call, AID 40, perhaps. bright
an him ups little. Il
| did SO. but my words had an effect
had not expected, Rejecting moment
he cried ont. Father l believe that man
is humbugl But whether be be de-
tective or not. now suspect that be isa
,bisi and murderer; that he knew oil Miss
Merwin's having that So 600 bond, aud
tbs. 10 order TO possess himself OF 1t, he
killed her and has thrown her body ovor'
board.
| l stared at him in smszement, and told
him l feared thSt his grief had disturbed
his reason. How was it possible, ! asked
hin. that the man could have got the body
overheard without our knowing 1t.
/ He could have choked her to death, car
ried her body to one OF the open cabin
windows. aud dropped her through lthat'
he replied
i Impossible, / answered, without the
splash being overheard by the man at the
wheel. or by someone on deck. Besides'l
doubt il he could have squeezed the BODY
through either OF our cabin windows,
which You know are very email.
4 Tom, however, seemed to think 1t could
have been dope. owing to Miss Merwin be
i ina 50 slender, and ia spite OF oil my et'
fonts, | could not entirely rid his miod OF
!, that horrible idea.
Days passed, for We had head winds
, which kept.us of our course, but as yet the
detective had nothing to tell me, though
/. he said he soon might be able to explain
, the whole affair.
A strange affair enough. Never before
' had | had such AL experience, or anything
approaching to it. in any craft command
, ed. The passen gers we're equally puzzled
it was tho talk of all aboard the sbip. AS
? for Tom, he grew paler, thinner. wilder
; every day. AT last. one afternoon, when
We had entered 81. Georges Channel, be
8 came up 10 me, and said. in husky voic
II is as l thought! Quickl ] have some
thing to show you'll Make no noisel
i | followed him. We both wore light
J slippers, and without noise entered the
room Miss Merwip had occupied. He point
ed to crevice. which be had evidently
o made in the partition, and looking through
il. saw the detective, 10 the nexs apart'
Q ment. kneeling by bis open carpet bag
q from which now protruded the indentical
q buskins : I could not mistake them'whicn
y Miss Merwin had worn. Spread out be-
fore him, he held a S., 900 bond --evident
It " the one which my son had given TO The
10 young lady.
9 You seel he whispered. Was not right
He has murdered heri
]. Low as the whisper was. the man eyl
IDENTIFY heard il. for he pushed the buskin'
% and after them the bond, hastily down 10
,e TO the bag, which he then closed
10 Before could hinder him, Tom rushed
As out and threw himself sgsiust the detec
tiye's door With force which broke th'
Or lock and admitted him into the room. III
Of few at the man, cIutcbed him and shool
a him. when the fellow drew dirk, bnt II
! bis futile struggles to use it-for l hel'
10 his wrist and sood disarmsd him HI
beard fell off. showing it wss false one
ot and at the same time his shirt bosom W.
torn swsy about the tbraat. Then DOL
r, Tom and | uttered simultaneous cry 0
+ surprise on perceiving that this pretended
aetec,iye was 4 woman over thirty nv
'. wears OF age or, 10 other words, 1t wa
Miss Merwin herself, deprived OF the COS
er metics and other appliances which hsd
e, while 10 the natural attire OF her tex
made her lock 80 much younger than sh
ly was.
pe The whole trnih broke upon her 81 ono
This woman, 1 suspected, was IN realit
he Mary Youngson, the murderess, ior ne
a face and height now answered the dsscri
Id ton had OF her; aud we found whil
looking for my sons bond In her csrp'
I'm bag, some articles bearing her name ~
ht others marked with that Of her victim.
,re fact, after. while i'll, She confessed 70 D.
n. log Mary Youngsop.
ed Her motive 10 disguising herself was
parent She hsd feared. after d'scove
II ed the strange shortening Of her stssur
Iss tbst might suspect who she really VA
ch and. besides. the rnse ~onld. she though
,er epuble her the better 10 escape from Io
re. and &c, Of with bi. So GEO Tbe ~ys'e'
of her having, NJ Mise MsrwIn, looked
m ncb taller than she ives, We fonad ei
err plsioed 10y her bu,k"r, which proved.'''
those sometimes gorp by ac'or- on u
Isr s,.oe IN lie provided With very thick soi