The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-01-05

u do not know why have allowed
you to come up to see re!''
81 dol" replied Mr. Barnes tersely.
''Then tell me-
Curiosity.
"You are clever Now, satisfy my
curiosity.
81 came here 20 tell you all that
have discovered"
"Well?''
81 was engaged to find your hus-
band -
Eyes. Go OF. -
''I have found him."
"Where:''
"Where 7 told you that ! would. He
left this city with murderous intent,
and I looked for him in the vicinity Of
the crime. %
.'He has not killed any one. will
! not believe it. %
mo; his guilty plans reacted on
himself.
"What do you means"
"He is dead. y
"Merciful God!'
eyes; the Almighty has been merci-
full to him if we consider the wrong
! that he had done and still meditated.
His victims have suffered far more than
he. Now, madam, let as come to bust
ness at once. You must go with me. .
eco with you? Where:''
''To New Hampshire Listen! Your
husband, as you call him, went up there
to commit crime which he had threat
ened many years ago-namely, to Kill
this man Lewis. He reached the house
and met Lewis, but the latter had long
awaited his coming and was prepared
for his arrival. Before your husband
could carry out his design bullet end
ed his career. 30
"This is terrible. Why did he go? /
warned him that the man would not al
low himself to be harmed -
"Ah! Then, as supposed, you knew
his intentions before he went. Howev-
er, as he did not succeed you cannot be
held on that charge To continue, Lew
is, as / have said, killed Marvel. He
then succeeded in making every one be-
lieye that it was his own body which
was found, while he passed of for his
son, just return ed from sea- This might
have been a successful ruse had not a
strange chain of circumstances impli-
Gated his niece in the affair, and de-
spairing cf proving her innocence ii
any other Way he committed suicide,
leaving a fall concession. ("
'sI don't see what 7 have to do with
all this -
"You will in moment. If the truth
is exposed, the knowledge must come
to this girl Of who and what her father
was, besides the fact that her uncle kill
cd him. This have determined shall
not be. Justice makes no such demand,
and choose to give this girl future
unclouded by such a past
Chow Will you hide the truth?''
.'I must invent a tale which will fit
the circumstances, and you must sub
stantiate the story. .
''I will do nothing Of the kind. %
ooh! Yes, you shall. You will have
no choice in the matter. y
81 tell you will not. Who is this
girl? The daughter Of the woman who
crossed the sea to take my husband
away from me-
/ "You and that man, by your heart
less treatment Of that woman, fastened,
! may say caused, her death.
What do I care for that? II you
! think I viii help you to spare the deli
cate feelings Of this girl, you do NOT
know me.
"It is just because I imagine that I
do know you that l an so confident
that you will aid re. -
''What do you nean:"
"You must choose between obeying
me and absolute poverty" :"
''How so?"
.'I will explain. Marvel married this
girls mother, and she is his child. His
wife was alive when you married him,
and, according to your confession to her,
when she met you in Paris, you knew
of this first marriage, but chose to ig-
more it If you had been united in this
state, could easily have you imprison-
ed for that bigamous marriage, but for
tunately for you, you were married
abroad However, will not let you slip
through my fingers for all that. I think
you did what you! attributed to the real
wife. You were anxious to share Mar
vcl's position ard his fortune, and there
fore L believe you will do anything for
money. So I intend to manage you
through your cupidity. If you persist in
your obstinacy, will reveal all that |
have learned and will see that steps are
taken to gain possession of Marvel's
property for his rightful heir, his daugh-
ter. Moreover, you shall be made to give
up whatever moneys you now have of
his, as they become part of his estate.
This will be simple, for, as you can
easily be shown by the records Of the
Partisan court to be the bigamous wife
only, Of course you would be entitled to
no share III his property
GLOW is it that you are so we'll in-
formed:'
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