Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-11-10
BY GEORGE E. SIMS,

Indeed; and who are you, pray, sir;
| one of her lov--?'
Before the word had left his lips
Capt. Carlyon had stopped him with an
oath.
"Mr. Redmond" he exclaimed
fiercelv. 81 don't know much about
you. but you are a blackguard."
leave my house, sir.
"With pleasure, when you have an
sWered me one question" answered
the Captain. "Miss Summers was dis
charged by you a month since. Three
nights ago she was found fainting OF
weakness and starvation in the park.
How she came there on such night L
| have yet to learn"
"What she did after she left my house
has nothing to do with me-"
| THAT remains to be seen. In the
meantime if you can control you temper
and try to behave like gentleman for a
moment or two, perhaps you'll answer
me one question:
"Well %
"What have you done with the letters
| that have been delivered here for Miss
| Summers since she lelt?"
Capt. Carlyon put the question in
that way without knowing why he did
| SO.
1t most have been his honest sailors
indignation at the mans conduct that
made his assume the fact that he had
had letters. 1t was an arrow shot in
the dark, but it hit the mark.
The man flushed crimson to the roots
of his hair.
"There have been no letters" he
stammered, land now get out"
The insult was brutal at another
time the sailor would have resented it,
but, convinced that he had traced the
lost letter home to Miss Summers
late employers, ne forgot everything
else.
81 am going" he said; "but you will
hear from me again. "A letter for Miss
Summers has been sent here within the
last two days-a letter which was either
taken from me, or which | dropped
and, unless restored to me within the
next four and twenty hourD, it'll be bad
for you"
The Captain went on without the
slightest idea of what he was to do,
but he knew be was dealing with a
coward, and so he assumed a bullying
tone.
mo letter has been received, SIR"
replied Mr.. Redmond, recovering his
calmness, "and if | am annoyed by any
further visits from you or anyone else
connected with this young woman /
shall make it police matter. There's
the door. Good-morning."
The Captain gave the man contempt
uous glance, and walked out of the
house with as much dignity as he could
assume.
Half an hour later he was ushered in
to Mr.. Bates private o1fice-Miss Sum-
mers had just left.
My ear Carlyon," exclaimed the
solicitor, "this is most extraordinary
affair. The story this young lady has
told me is one of the strangest / ever
listened to in all my professional ex-
perience. Do you know what the re-
latlonshlp was to this man whose letter
she refused to receive p"
His cousin-his sister, perhaps"
suggested the captain.
ellis wife ~
ellis wife ?" cried the Captain, land
she calls herself Miss Summers and
There was reason. Do you know
who this Robert Howard was?"
GLOW should ?"
"Ion are right-how should you-
how should anybody, seeing that it
it was to his interest to conceal his
Identity"
wasn't his real name Robert Howard
then ?"
mo; he must have assumed that
name abroad. His real name is Robert
Howell"
Howell, Howell" said the captain.
81 remember about that name now"
Naturally. Robert Howell waa the
name of the man accused of the murder
of woman who was found dead in the
brougham in which she had driven with
gentleman from the Alhambra to her
house in st. Johns Wood. The man
stopped the coachman half way and got
out, telling him to drive his mistress
home. When the brougham stopped
at the door, the coachman, surprised
that his mistress did not alight, got
down and spoke to her. Receiving no
answer, he became alarmed, and found
that she was dead. A handkerchief
saturated with chloroform was found
lying in the carriage--the poor woman
had died from the effects OF the forced
inhalation. She had evidently strug-
gled, but had been oyerpowered before
she could raise an alarm. The man who
LETT the Alhambra with her was identi-
fed by accident. When he alighteu
from the brougham he left behind him
something which bad fallen from the
pocket in the struggle. 1t was q meer-
chaum pipe, which was in case. The
pipe had evidently been repaired, and
inside the case was y piece of
paper with his name on, evidently
placed there by the pipe repairer, for
naturalization"
81 remember the case now" ex-
claimed Capt. Carlvon. "the woman was
called Belle Fullerton. Her murderer
was never captured"
mo; it is evident now that he got
away to the Cape. But the murderer
of Belle Fullerton was Robert Howell,
and the poor girl to whom you carried
his dying message, the girl who calls
herself May Summers, was, God help
her, the murderer's unhappy wife"
Capt. Carlyon heard the solicitors
extraordinary story to the end without
an interruption, without an exclama-
ton.
what do you think OF it?" asked
Mr. Bates as he finished.
81 don't know" replied the Captain.
"You see, Bates, old fellow, all my ad-