The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-23

now near for the f1rst time. You may be
at loss to know how | obtained this in-
formation; but, unfortunately, / shall
not be able to satisfy you on that point,
for the reason that / have given my
promise not to betray the name of my
informant. | have also added few un.
necessary sentences for the purpose Of
bringing the document to finished
close That is all desire to say by way
of preface. Shall | begin at once? Very
well. The document is headed The
Forsythe Case, and thus it reads:
Twenty years ago Ansel Forsythe
was wealthy merchant, who persisted,
in spite Of tho ravages of terrible dis.
ease, i'll carrying on great and profit
able business. The rheumatism had
twisted one Of his legs out of shape and
made him helpless wreck at Az He
was suffering besides from a nameless
malady, which wasted him away bit by
bit and brought him each year feurfully
nearer to the grave. Personally he was
unable to have an active superintendent
Of his affairs, and the work was done
by keen and ambitious young man
who had formerly been his private sec
retary, man unscrupulous and with
out any religious convictions whatever
but who, for the reason that he came Of
Jewish ancestry, was nevertheless called
the jew.
The jew was undoubtedly a man of
great talents, for he managed the mer-
chants affairs to such advantage that
they prospered beyond his expectations.
For that reason the jew is said to have
considered the property which grew up
under his care as morally his own
"The merchant had remained a bach
elor until well along i'll years, when he
married fragile beauty, who died in
giving birth to a female child This
child was called Ethel and was her fa-
ther's idol In the will, made Immediate
~ after her mothers death, he settled
all his property upon her. This was de-
cidcdly not to tine jews liking, but he
was too circumspect man to permit
his real feelings to be seen. He played
very deep game.
'When tho child was not more than
year old, he persuaded the merchant
that he ought to marry again. Tho poor
doformed man would have been little
likely to have followed his advice, but
great pressure was brought to bear upon
him. Medical men were found who did
not scruple to tell him that marriage
would undoubtedly prolong his life He
then consented to the sacrifice.
'All this while prospective matri-
mony had been to him sort of abstract
idea, but this decision narrowed it down
TO reality. And it now occurred to
him that to marry one needed wom-
an. Here he was an unsightly, twisted
creature, morbidly sensitive to his own
defects Who would marry him? Moth
ing simpler, said the jew, than to find
desirable lady. ~.
che proved this by presenting to him
the next day his own sister.
Miss Rosenfel was very young-al-
most q child il ryearS-fascinating, and,
they told him, as puTo as the driven
snow. AT any rate, She soon showed that
she had no objections to making a sacri-
flee of herself on the altar of Hymen.
She became Mrs. Forsythe
"Tho next month appeared a now cod
icil in the merchants will. A third of
his vast property, in tho event of his
death, was to be left to his widow. En-
vious people say that the jew made
bargain with his sister whereby she
was TO receive this third and leave him
free to gain if he could the other two.
How far she actually assisted him may
never be known
at was evident that the merchant
could not live long. After his second
marriage he failed rapidly. Ono day Il
shocking thing occurred. Little Ethel,
the merchants idol, then Is months
old, was stolen most mystcriously i'll the
dead Of night almost from her nurses
arms The house lad boon broken into