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been obtained from Mr.. Eustace, he
could not deny that it was conclusive.
"Now," continued Cathcart, "as | say,
| it is as plain as pikestaff. have rea-
soned the whole thing out to a certain
| conclusion my reasoning being based
upon information obtained from Mr.
Eustace, papers Of your father have
had access to, confirming them by public
records and the examination of books of
private institutions, and that unfinished
letter. shall not waste time by going
over the processes but will give you my
conclusions in the shape Of a statement:
"Whcn your father was twenty-one or
| twenty-three he met Emma Ludlow, a
very pretty girl, daughter of costumer
Of Chatham street. Ludlow was an Eng
lishman who had in his own country
been connected with family of prom
inence. There dlifted to this country
one of the younger members of that
family, named Parish, who also saw the
girl Emma, and desired to marry her.
The father felt honored that one of the
family he had been Il servant in desired
to marry his daughter, and, having the
notions of parental authority English
men entertain and overlooking the faults
| of the man Parish, which were so great
he was compelled to leave England, OPP
posed your father and forced the mar
riage with Parish. subsequently your
father yielded to the wishes of his fam
lily and married Mary Clavering, your
mother That marriage was an exceed
ingly happy one, Notwithstanding the
previous romance.
Your father and mother had been
married twelve years when you were
born, tho Youngest Of a family Of five,
the elder of whom had all died. When
you were four Your mother died. A
year later Your father met Mrs Parish.
then, as he understood and as she be-
heved, a childleSs widow His love re-
turned for her and he secretly married
her. Why, does not yet appear, but hisex-
cuse was that he was retiring from bust
ness and did not want to announce his
| second marriage until that project was
fully accomplished After two years of
this sort OF life, during which two chill
dren, boy and girl, were born, Anne
and Harold Farlsh, the husband turned
up on tho scene to separate your father
and the woman Mrs Parish was a
good woman and although Parish. who
seems TO have been scamp, was paid
well to keep away ana make no scandal,
has wife insisted upon an absolute sever
ance OF relations between your father
aud herself In view, however, of all
that had happened your father provided
well for her and his children. In eight
cen hundred and fifty -four he gave her
the house she lived and was murdered
in and fifty thousand dollars, which he
invested for her ! suppose.
"rhe low spirits your father showed
at that time We're not due to his having
retired from business, but to this unfor
iunate complication. The children grew,
and the boy early went wrong Between
| the years he was sixteen and nineteen he
committed dctalcatious aud forgeries, the
latter principally of your fathers name,
| which indicates that lie knew of his re-
| lation to your father, and which were
| paid by his father and yours, and as
| we'll much more money to save him
I from ioO,ishly, to be sure,
| bat compelled t. it to save tho good
! name Of the woman, the mother. if for
no other reason. This used up the prop
erty When he died he was appealing
to Mr., Eu5tace for assistance When he
died the scamp Harold disappeared
Three years ago ne reappeared again and
| ruined his mother by MS Unsuitable de-
m&nds and
And, interrupted Dorison excitedlv,
she is Harry Langdon. and murdered
| his mother and sister
"Snch would seem to be the logical
concluSions, sand the detective calmly
a thousand questions crowded tu
multuously upon the brain of Dorison.
lie did not know which to ask firSt--he
wanted to ask them all at once Finally
he SAID
"Eut do you know all this 70 be true?"
No, not in its entirety, replied Cath
cart Some Of it do know to be true
the rest | sincerely believe 1t is now,
however, n mere work of time to verify
everything The mystery is solved The
ungrateful son is Harold Parish alias
larry Langlon."
bul Wlltl WAS the cause OF the muir
der-that was horrible thing to do -
asked DorlsOn.
There | have proof, think, of the ac-
curacy Of my theory in the beginning
said the object Of the murders was not
robbery, but the possession of docu-
ments Of value to somebody assume
they were proofs Of crimes committed
forgeries and the like, which so long as
they were held by the mother and sis
Ter were protection to certain extent
TO them, and menace to him And
perhaps-and we will not quite know
until we force the rascal TO confession
some one pursuing INN was on track Of
them and he WAS deterniper to secure
aud destroy them, and perhaps, which
think even more probable, one other