Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-12-28

Complete rest aud absence from all agi-
Eating thoughts must be aimed ~. Above
all, he is not to see the newspapers. That
Is fortunate, because. | suppose, Lord
Harry's death has been announced In
them, and the thought that your former
mistress is a widow might excite him very
dangerously. You will now understand
why | left that message at the hotel for
YOU, and why ! have not shown him
your letter. / told him. it is true. that you
had returned without finding your mis-
tress. Speak to me no more OF Lady
Harry he replied irritably. So | have
said no more AS for mouey, | IN a few
pounds by me, which are at your service.
You can repay me at some future time.
/ have thought OF Que thing-that new
Continental paper started by Lord Harry.
Wherever she may be, Lady Harry Is al
most sure TO see nat. Put an advertise
ment in it addressed to her. stating that
you nave not heard of her address, but
that you Yourself will receive any letter
sent to some post-office which You can find.
! think that such an advertisement will
draw a reply from her, unless she desires
to remain in ~seclusion."
Fanny thought the suggestion worth
adopting. After careful consideration, she
drew up an advertisement
Fanny NJ. to L H | have not
been able to ascertain FOUR address. Please
w. w nv ~ "a oSb 49, $1,000
street. London. w. c."
She paid for the insertion OF this adver-
tisement three times on alternate Satur-
days. They told her that this would be
a more likely way h to take three sue
c~essive Saturdays. Then, encouraged by
the feeling that something, however little
had been done, she resolved to sit down
and to write ont a narrative In which she
would set down 10 order everything that
had happened-exactly as 1t had happen
ed. Her intense hatred and suspicion or
DR.. Vimpany aided her, strange to say,
10 keep 10 the strictest fidelity as regards
the facts. For il was no.. her desire to
make up charges aud accusations. She
wanted to find out the exact truth, and so
10 set it down that anybody who read her
statement would arrive at the same con-
clusion as she herself had done. In tn
case OF an eyewitness there are thousands
Of things which cannot be produced In
evidence which vet are most important In
directing aud confirming suspicious. The
attitude, the voice, the look OF a speaker,
the things which he conceals as well as
the things which he reveals-all these are
evidence. But these Fanny was unable
TO set down. Therefore IL behooved her
to be strictly careful.
First, she stated how she become aware
that there was some secret scheme under
consideration between Lord Harry and
lllt uOClOE, -NtAl, Suc SCI tOWu tie IdCL
that they began to talk French to each
other, thinking that she could not under
stand them; that they spoke OF deceiving
Lady Harry by some statement which had
already deceived the authorities: that the
doctor undertook to get the lady out of
the house: that they engaged herself rs
nurse TO a sick man: that she suspected
from the beginning that their design vas
TO profit In some way by the death of this
sick man, who bore a slight resemblance
TO Lord Harry himself. And so on, fol-
lowing the story as closely AS she could
remember, to the death of the Dane and
her W subsequent conversation with
the nurse. Sac was careful to put In the
dates, day after day. When she had done
all this-it took a good deal of time-she
bought a manuscript book and COPIED it
all out. This enabled her to remember
two or three facts which had escaped her
at the beginning. Then she made another
copy-this time without names of people
or place. The second copy she forwarded
as u registered letter to Mrs. Vimpany,
with a letter OF which this was the on
illusions: Considering, therefore, that on
Wednesday morning | left Lord Harry
in perfect health; considering that on the
Thursday morning | saw the man who had
been ill SO long actually die-how, | have
told you in the packet inclosed: consider
ing that the nurse was called in %purposely
W ttCdt - tAC WAo 10 VI Ia e
long been il--there can be no doubt what
ever that the body in the cemetery Is that
Ct the unfortunate Dane. Oxbye; and that;
somewhere or other, Lord Harry is alive
aud well.
"What have they done 1t fors First OF
all, ] suppose. to get money. IL il were
not for the purpose of getting money the
doctor would have had nothing to do with
the conspiracy, which was his own inven-
ton. That is very certain. Your idea
was they would try to get money out OF
the Insurance Offices. | suppose that Is
their design. But Lord Harry may have
many other secret reasons of his own for
wishing TO be thought dead. They say
his life has been full of wicked things, and
he may well wish To be considered dead
aud gone. Lots OF wicked men would like
above all things. ! should think, To be con-
sidered dead aud buried. But the money
matter Is at the bottom OF all, l am con-
WINGED. What are we to dor
What could they dor These two women
of them could move. 1t was o big u
thing. One cannos expect u woman to
bring her w acknowledgements wicked
y husband be may be--to the awful shame
and horror Of tho gallows n murder should
be proved-or TO q lifelong Imprisonment
II the conspiracy alone should be brought
home to him. Therefore Mrs. VimpanJ
could do nothing. As for Fanny, the merI
thought of the pain she would in6ict up
on her mistress were Lord Harry through
her Interference to be brought to jus
ttce aud an infamous sentence kept her
quiet.
Rarry's death made. Those whe