Middletown transcript., 1892-08-04


to tell me had no means of knowing.
As circumstances fell out he ended
by telling me everything. Space will
not allow Of my setting it down here
at any length and in bis own words.
All can do is to sketch its more
salient features in outline.
When Philip Redmayne married
Mimi Ducios be believed that in her
he had secured an angel of innocence
and candor. Only by degrees did his
eyes become opened to the fact that
she was not merely . consummate
actress, but one of those beautiful
enigmas who seem sent into the world
on purpose TO shake ones faith in the
evidence ofone's own senses-s Great
ure utterly devoid of moral principle.
who, at 19 years of age, was already
an accomplished hypocrite who cared
for no one in the world but herself;
who loved lies for their own sake,
and would often tell them in prefsr-
eDce TO the truth, even when the latter
would have served her purpose equally
as well. PhiPs awakening, il slow,
was none the less inevitable, but even
after he had realized to the full the
sort Of being to whom be had tied
himself for life, such was his infatua-
ton for her, so strong was the spell
which her beauty still held him, that.
to all intents, he remained as COM
pletely her slave as on the day he
married her. Not even when the
qualification Of her caprices and
extravagances were urging him fast
and still faster on the road to ruin.
had he either the power or the will to
draw back, or to snap single link in
the chain by which he was being
dragged to destruction.
The end was drawing very near, and
Phil's resources in the way of raising
money were all but exhausted when
his wife proposed to him certain ne
farious scheme for defralaing the
insurance company, which he came
after time to listen to and ultimately
to fall in with. It was arranged that
he should disappear and go into hiding
for awhile and after little time such
conclusive proofs of his death should
be forthcoming as would satisfy not
merely the public at large, but the
insurance company, that he was really
defunct. Then when Mimi should
have obtained the Go. 900 she was to
join him and together they were to try
their fortunes in the New World.
The human remains found in the kiln
had been put there by Redmayne him
self on the night of his disappearance.
They had formed portions of skeleton
which had been left in mis- charge few
years ago by friend of his, naval
surgeon, who had never reclaimed
them. The extraction of the three
teeth to correspond with Phil's missing
teeth had been device of Minis, to
whom, indeed, both the inception and
and the working out of all the details
of the plot were due. To what extent
the precious scheme rrospered we have
| already seen.
| "And the Inheritance which she is
supposed to have gone to France for
the purpose of realizing" said "has
that any foundation in fact ?"
"None whatever, although even did
not discover it to be a myth till nearly
year after my marriage.
"And her brother Pierre ?"
"She has no brother. He is a scoun.
drel whom she loved before she met
me, only at that time he was desperate
ly poor. They have gone off together,
taking the e5, 600, and she has befool-
ed me as she has so many others.'
/ did not tell him that I thought he
had been rightly served. although il
was strongly in my mind to do SO.
| Presently said
| Although you tell me your wife was
such a consummate actress, yet il
seems almost too incredible for belief
that the grief she professed to feel al
} my illness, and the tears she shed, were
other than the expression of genuine
feeling.
All put on. assure you. Mimi
could cause her tears to flow at will.
She made no attempt to conceal from
me her hope that you would not recov-
er. because, as she said, she felt nearly
sure that either my name or hers OF
both of them, would be found men.
toned in your WILL"
After that | was SO shocked and
panied that had to mix myself an
extra forum or grog OerOre could f1no
another word to say.
But little NOR. remains to be told
By his own action Phil had made oil
himself an outcast and beggar. He
had come skulking to my house under
cover of darkness, and under cover Of
darkness he would have to skulk away
But whatever his faults and follies had
been, it was impossible that I should
let him 60 away empty handed. Oh
the e250 paid him by Mr.. Daliison, hi
had given his wife e20O, and had beer
living since then on the remainder ii
an obscure London lodging. Ee wal
liable to he arrested at any moment
and his only chance lay in getting ou
of the country as speedily as possible
1t is scarcely necessary that 1 should
reveal what ultimately became of him,
1t is enough to say that no message o.