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her at all. He denies that she ran away,
but will say no more. On the other hand.
/ the elder Barbour, the young mans faith
! er, accuses the girl of falsehod and as
serts that his son could not have com
mttted suicide, or at least, that he had
no reason to-
But then he did not know what posi-
ton his son was to take in Philadelphia,
nor does he seem to have inquired. He
says the son was about to go and that he
knew it. He does not appear to have,
provided the young man with any special
sum of money though he knew he was
about to depart on a trip; nor did he
know until it. was reported to him by the
police ti1at4the young man had taken and
pawned his fathers dressing case.
There are many thoughtful persons
who recognize in this strange case an
odd development. of modern city life,
the. person who, to live at all, must live
in certain fashion. Young Barbour
without money. and though highly edu-
Gated was Incapable of earning liveli-
hood 1t may be that education had made
him incapable, orr more exactly, had
turned him from the pursuits in which he
could have made himself valuable to his
fellow man. stranger to restraint, or
to discomfort or unpleasant exertion,
he rebelIed, not against poverty, but.
against all life as he he saw it. and so
he died.
AS for the girl, her story Is even more
sad Had Bishop Southgate left her In.
/ the poverty In which he found her, she
might today be happy and useful. in
| stead of being disconnected, injured and
| miserable She was reared to luxury and
| refinement and then left In poverty and
! sorrow The law Of gravity which pre-
/ walls in human life as IN the physical
world, brought her downward with the
! force of a blow. She was too 1AsAasable
to live, and too young to die. ~sz
In all the story the police have believed
from the very first that Barbour commit
ted suicide. When they learned that a
| young woman. had gone with him: to the
hotel and left without him and without
being seen to leave, circumstances which
| would lead the ordinary mind to- conclude
| that she had murdered him and fed, they
| found minor indications that he had killed
himself and that probably the woman
had consented SO die with him. but failed.
When they found the young woman in
the hospital and learned her story they
Were satisfied it was true.
The elder Barbour was for number
/ of years minister of fashionable church
in Trenton, where he was noted for his
eloquence and popularity. Some years
ago he accepted a. call to New York,
where hey has made an. equal reputa ton.
known and very popular, though given to-
! fits of nloodiness. It was. not always
/ that his family knew his wherea bouts
Indeed. when his father was first inform
ed that the sons body had been found In
a Brooklyn- hotel he seemed very little
surprised, and expressed the belief that
the young man had committed suicide
1t was then that he told of the young
mans failure in life. Not until the dis
hospital and the publication of her story
] that the rector denied that his son could
| have died by his own hand. -
Then. it was revealed how young, Bar
/ bour had spent the summer in South Bar s
| the residence Of the Seuthgate Family,
which is also the place where DR. Bar
! bour's summer residence is situated Then
came. the story. of the meeting between
| the two blighted, Borrowing lives.
How desperate the young man 5 efforts
We're to prevent the identification of his
remains may be Illustrated in the fact
/ that, the marks of the laundry on his
/ collars and cuffs had been. deliberately
| burned away He had not, however,
reekoned with the fact that checks, ior-
Laundry work In his possession Gated for
| other. articles from which his identity
| was easily learned. Indeed. as to the
names, those on -the laundry marks and
+ pawntickets We're IDENTICAL
In general psychologists say women
prefer death by poison to that by shoot
ing. Yet there was a bottle of carbolic
acid in the ROOM with its contents UNI
touched And why does the ri moan
and toss? Can it be that she arose in, the
night and. thrpsting the weapon into her
lovers mouth, fired and killed him and
then inflicted the slight wound on her
self to create the Impression of double
suicide? But. then it scarcely seems she
could have had. the presence of mind TO
burn the marks from his collars and
cuffs. Or. if she. had done that, why did
she not likewise destroy the laundry
checks and the pawn tickets?
And, over all, when she rose and dress
ed in the presence of that rigid corpse,
though herself bleeding, she never fall
tered or cried for help. Only for a mo-
ment. as she was about to leave the ROOM
did she fancy she heard a footstep in
the hall, and then she stepped back, and
waited. and when the sound was gone
she fed.
Why did she fly? Because she was. still