Telegram-herald., 1891-06-23

lew - me, MIS- DAcr-t- -t4NN pretty
well " hat il will contain. and may add
now that you VIII help yourself and
your friends in every way by telling the
exact truth. will eall ia the morning
for the manuscript"
At the station house met Mrs. Clark
Melville.
"Yoa have seen nv SON." she said
TEL me about him Is he IN MS right
mind; Wiil be live
Irepliel that he was sleeping when |
left, ana that the physician believed his
recovery 10 be only a question Of time.
What mystery : there between YOU
she demanded. Why do they exclude
The mother from the room, and ad-
nit
She stopped short and rested her face
on her hand moment.
There she said, II was wrong in
losing my temper. am satisfied that IL
is all for the best came here 70 be-
come security for yonr appearance when
wanted am toll. however, that bail
cannot be taken until formal complaint
| il made, aud not even then II charge
Of murder is preferred. You may rest
assured that everything possible VIII be
done for You. Have you said 10 any one
| else what you said 10 me in the captains
Office yesterday"
| had net. and told her so. How |
| longed TO throw myself at her feet and
tell her everything. l should have done
so only for Officer Gates warning.
L N n a 1.
must be written?
| am positive that Mr.. Charles Gates
knew nearly every point Of my story be-
| fore he asked me TO write il down. If
thought otherwise | shonld not write 1t.
But then, there is some comfort in
what the physician said. | wonder If
his opinion would have weight in court
of law?
Well, I did not see the blow struck,
but | know who murdered my poor
brother.
Maurice Green killed him Mt time
when he WAS not responsible for his ac
tons. At least that's what Mrs. Clark
Melvilles family physician says. He
ought to know In order to prove my
statement that he was not responsible
for his acts it is only necessary for me
TO refer 10 one circumstance of the case.
He believed himself 10 be another per-
son. At the time Of the killing lie was
protecting what he believed to be the
rights of that other person. That other
person was Richard Melville, who was
killed by the explosion which sent Maui
rice Green back into the world with a
new name and a deformed mind. So
affected was his mind by the wound and
the unskilful manner in which it was
cared for that he did not even know me!
Another thing. and this will show
more than anything else how weak his
mind was. he was stricken down with
pretty picture OF "a happy and luxurious
New York home before his eyes; with
tales of petted and fondled existence
from the cradle to the army lingering in
and exciting his mind; with the names of
Richard Melville's friends and associates
fresh in his mind. His brain was full of
these things when the explosion came.
Is it any wonder, then that when
time and time again-Mrs. Clark Mel
vile and her family physician brought
back these incidents and these names TO
awaken what they believed to be slug
gish memory-is it any wonder. say,
that under such circumstances he should
have mistaken the things which were
last in his mind for actual occurrences?
Why. they told him in SO many words
that these things were a part of his
former life, and that he would be
laughed out of his set if he went back TO
New York with an intellect too stupid
TO recollect old scenes and old friends.
With all Of his own early life blotted
out by diseased brain, is it any won
der that he believed all they said, and
laid hold Of the fragments of the life
that had belonged to Richard Melville?
would Ike to know just how many Of
the recoIlections of that early life were
learned, word by word, from the lips of
Mrs. Melville?
Twas a servant in the Melville house
before he had been back from the army
three months, and | knew how he acted
then. He wandered from room to room
handling and examining the many
dainty things with which the house is
crowded with the air Of man who had
never seen the like before. Maurice
Green came from the backwoods and
ate with hts knife. The new Richard
Melville ate with his knife! remember
how shocked Mrs. Melville was at = st,
bat she laid il to the army.
remember how, for days and days.
Mrs. Melville sat with him in position
10 see callers before they entered the
house. That Is why he was able 10 call
them by name when they took him by
TIE hand. Was Mrs. Melville honest in
all this? an certain that she was. YOU
sec he remembered the things Richard
Melville was telling when the explosion
came. That was enough for a fond
mother to start on. wasn't it, And then
she did not know what was taking place
when her son was killed.
One thing puzzled her The old Richard
Melvills's temper was completely under
control. The new Richard Melyflle FIRE
quently INDUCED in bursts Of passion
which were sometimes moro than brutal
admit that Msuric, Green had tha
kind Of n temper. bnt he never allowet
il 20 affect me. II Tas in one Of tbes
attacks II insanity that my brother wa
killed. know. because | was in th'
carriage house and heard the words sn(
the blow
II 1. said that there were rnurierers IN
the earlier generations IT my husband
family, aud that bal blood will tell.
don't believe it. The act my husban,
committed would have been Commute,
by the most gentle of persops under Tn