The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-04-15

/ lcSSSd Jne paper aside, 1T was merely
v with the comment;
r II lanst try to call on Col Clipper to-
day. After l have seen and talked with
t HIM ! shall be safely past one more
: anger which at present seriously en-
J; harnesses my peace of mind
r Having settled himself in an easv-
e chair with a perfumed cigar which
2 called up momentary amused recol-
t lection of Wee and the Office, he fell to
reviewing his second call on Mrs. Nav
nard and summing up the results
'On the WHOLE" he reflected with a
self-satisfied little smile. as he lay back
IN his chair and watched the blue
smoke circling in delicate puffs and
wreaths around his head, II NAV con-
slider this mornings call quite a com
mendable stroke of business. I find
that every hypothesis upon which I
started out has been strengthened,
every suspicion confirmed. The links
are not yet connected, but 1 see before
me chain of evidence which am pos
tive will in time be complete | have
a much more confident feeling now in
regard to my position with Mrs May
nard. and my future Investigations, so
far as she is concerned, will be com
paratively easy to pursue, if l proceed
with due caution. l think when next
see her will question her in regard to !
that letter of Mrs Dunkirlx's, of which, |
! by the way, neither of us spoke to-day. |
can scarcely determine what use Noll |
hoped to make of such a document;
| though probably he had no definite
knowledge of its contents and took it
entirely at Mrs Maynard's valuation
If she imagines that it would constitute
for her legal claim to that fortune,
she is greatly in error. However, 1
will be indulgent to the fancy, if it ex-
lists, and thus derive whatever benefit
to my side of the case a thorough cam
wasting OF the document may furnish
BY slzillfully arranging my questions
concerning it, / may be able to gain
some insight into her personal rela-
tons to Mrs Dunkirk: not that
this is material exactly but it is rele-
want. l wish, if possible, to learn
her whole personal history SO far as it
has any near or remote connection with
this case. To be sure, know the story
set forth by Hunter and Ketchum, in
which she is made to figure as sort OF
juvenile adventures with chroni
weakness for coveting her neighbor's
wealth, and consequently soul not
above the temptations that beset the
lovers OF filthy lucre. She is an orphan
50 IL. and X. maintain, the only child
Of widow with whom Mrs. Dunliirll
was once intimately acquainted, who,
when her own mother died, leaving her .
a slender bank account, managed to .
gain admission to Mrs Dunlzirlzs house
hold; in the hope, am further assured,
that by slzillfully playing her cards she
might become the childless old lady's
heir Well, after living with Mrs Dun !,
kirk for five years, and presumably in !,
herself into the good graces I
Of the old lady, she married this May Z
nard-Maj. Maynard-and they went =
abroad for q few months This much | .
have learned from Hunter and Ketchun; =,
however, | am not satisfied to accept -
The story on the mere strength CT their -
assertion. Ishould at least like to hear ..
he case stated by Mrs Maynard her =.
,elf II
Now North's soliloquy ran on, FL. y,
md K. stoutly maintain that there
lever was any legal adoption of Mrs.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was her maiden p
lame? Oh, Nina Kingsbuly Mrs.
)unlSirk; that her position in the
ousehoid during those five years was -
aerely that of-well, ward, though r
here was no legal guardianship, |e
ither. They admit that during that r. r.
eriod of five years Mrs. Dunl-irk made =.
viii in which she bequeathed her ~ ~
ll.f11pa without racaYxo ior, a--oo,,+ Co..
legacy of a few thousand dollars to ~
ne old family servant, to her young -
lend, Nina Kingsbury Shortly after "a "a
lie marriage of that young lady, how ~ w
ver, some ru1nor revived Mrs. Dun -,
rk's old belief that her brothers. ~.
lughter was still living, and could be ~
und; and acting upon that belief, the - -
d lady destroyed her will. And now IN IN
e mooted question is: Did she ever cor
axe another? Hunter and Ketchum ~
y, No. and they have kept to this ,,71l
NAL through everything, but Hop lin
rs and Shepherd, acting upon the in fbe
-uctions of Mrs. Maynard and my bla
other1 Ollin, bring forward docu- Y
mt apparently genuine and well mn,
-tifed and affirm: She did make = l.
ond will, and here it isp OF the 49,
inner in which this forgery was strl
ndled by my colleagues, can only cIe,
Z that it was merciless, but mastery
Now, Mrs. Maynard was aware, it a
Els, of the existence of that first will, OF
she also knew about its being de- the
oyed though how she came to be in lnfe
session of such direct means of com 1lon
with Mrs. Dunl1irlzs end of mel
line, and how she contrived to gain reel
ornation which that Iadv wonld not and
at all likely to furnish her, cannot VIM
my life conjecture. Here is the pass
ce where missing link must be decl