The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-31
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OF eltner. Inc lauy ldce was iiN
den by veil, and there had been so
many people rushing in and out just
at the last that there had been no time
for her to observe these two, who came
in late. This much she knew, that
the lady seemed in kind of stupor
and the gentleman had to carry her In
his arms.
Once furnished with a clew, profess
sional intelligence was quite equal to
taking it up.
"This woman at Parminter must be
taken to Milldale to identify the body,
said the chief official in the detective
line, land we must watch this fellow
Foy, so that he may not give us the
slip"
''He is to be married to his employ
er's daughter tomorrow morning.
said the vicar. ITO leave Grandches-
ter before tomorrow would be tanta-
mount to a confession of his guilt. 1t
would be throwing up the cards alto
gether."
"The symptoms you describe sound
like arsenic poisoning" said the Off
Ger; and then he and his colleague
whispered together for minute or
! so.
81 don't think there's anything more
can do tonight" said the vicar.
"No, sir You may leave everything
in our hands"
Precisely But remember, if you
don't want this young sooundrel to be
married to a respectable young wo-
man at II o'clock tomorrow morning
you'll have to look sharp"
The vicar went back to the bosom
of his family at Freshmead, thinking
that he had done a pretty good days
work
Before 10 O'Clock that night two
facts had been discovered in the biog
raphy of Mr.. Foy-frst, that exactly
three years before he had been mar
ried at registrars Office to Jane
Dawson, spinster, daughter of John
Dawson, master mariner; and second
ly, that he, or man exactly answer
ing to his description, had bought
small quantities of tartar emetic and
small portions of laudanum at divers
times within the last two months, and
at several chemists shops in the OBJ
scurer streets of the great, busy town.
These two discoveries the police
communicated to Mr.. Umpleby late on
the vigil Of his daughters wedding.
The evidence of the marriage was
indisputable. Much as Mr.. Umpleby
was inclined to discredit the charge
brought against his intended son-in-
law, he could not disbelieve the legal
proof of the marriage before the reg
istrar; and convicted of having con-
cealed a prior marriage, Mr.. Foy's
character appeared in a new and
doubtful light.
"I'll put off the wedding" cried
Umpleby, who had spent the evening
marching about his house and garden
in a state Of suppressed agitation. II
won't have my daughter married to
| liar and a trickster. There must be
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| fire.
He sat down directly the detective
had left him, and wrote with his own
hand to those Grandmother magnates
who had been hidden to the wedding.
LET these letters be delivered by
hand be1ore o'clock tomorrow morn
ing" he said, to the respectable man
of -alI-work, who had been yawning
dismally in a pantry at the back of
the hall; land ret that letter be taken
to Mr.. Foy at the Crown Hotel"
Foy was to stop at hotel in Grand
chester on the eve of his wedding,
in order to be on the ground early.
Mr.. Umpleby felt happier man af-
ter he had done this deed He went
I'D to bed more at ease with himself,
but he did not awaken his slumbering
wife to tell her the unpleasant news.
There would be scene in the morn
ing, of course, with all these women
Mysteries, fainting fits, recrimination,
in which he, the husband and father.
would get the worst of it.
Mrs. Umpleby's lavender MORE an
tiuue. her brand-new Honiton shawl,
were lying in state upon the sofa.
Would any woman forgive a husband
for upsetting the festival at which
those splendors were to be worn
There had been fuss enough about the
gown, about the breakfast, about
every one of the wedding arrangements
and now, 10 and behold, the fuss had
been all for nothing!
81 never liked him." unused Mr.. I'm
pleby. ut was the women who talked
me over. To begin with, the mans
half foreigner, and 1 want no parlez
vous in my family"
} His letter to Foy had been Of The
, briefest:
, Look round the first thing to-mor
, row morning; 1 want to talk to you
: The father was up betimes, too agi
q tated to eat his breakfast. He car
p ried his cup of tea to the study at thu
o back of the dining room. and pace
D that snug apartment, waiting for MI
Foy. Upstairs there was wild excite
ment among the feminine part of tn
q household, rushings and hurrying
from rom IN rOom-sDectral figure