Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-14

| DelieNInS you TO De ner nuSDdnu ana Tightly
| entitled to 1t. The terrible crime which the
4 unfortunate woman had committed at your
| fnstigation had turned her brain, as you an
| ticipated, and she, docile and half-witted,
| was entirely beneath your influence, I'M
| til" and he paused.
Until what? asked, utterly astounded
| at this remarkable explanation of what
l had considered to be an absolutely mex
| pllcable phenomenon.
He spoke again quite calmly, Juggling at
| his little pointed mustache-
Until this man to his dismay found that
poor Mrs. Courtenay's intellect was re-
| river, and her brain suddenly regaining
| It's balance she discovered the ingenious
| fraud he was imposing upon her Turn
| ing to Sir Bernard he said, "She tore off
| your disguise and declared that she would
| go to the police and tell the truth of the
| whole circumstances-how that you had in
! duced her to go to the house in Kew and
kill her husband. You saw that your
| therefore without further ado you sent the
| poor woman to her last account
You lie!' Eyton cried, his drawn face
blanched to the lips. ''She fell in-acci-
dentally."
"She did not You threw her in" de-
clared Amber Jevons firmly. Il followed
you there. / was witness of the scene
between you; and although too far of
to save poor Mrs. Courtenay, I was wit
ness OF your crime!'
Iou. lie SdSpcu, SldllIS d. my SOAA
panion in fear, as though he foresaw the
horror of his punishment.
"Yes! responded Jevons, in dry mat
ter-of-fact voice, his sleepy eyes brighten
ing for a moment. 'Since the day of the
tragedy at Kew until this afternoon l have
never relinqulshed the inquiry. The Seven
Secrets I took one by one, and gradually
penetrated them, at the same time Keep
Ing always near you and watching your
movements when you least expected It,
T
Suffice to say that in this I have sue
ceeded by sheer patience and application.
Every word Of my allegation l am pre-
pared to substantiate in due course at the
Old Bailey" Then, after a seconds pause,
he looked straight at the culprit standing
there crushed and dumb before him. and
declared, "Sr Bernard Eyton, you are
murderer!'
With my loves hand held in mine I stood
speeches. at the staggering revelations. l
saw Ethelwynn watched the contortions or
the old doctors face with secret satisfac-
ton, for he had ever been her enemy, just
as he had been mine. He had uttered those
Hbelous hints regarding her with view to
parting us, so as to give him greater free
dom to work his will with poor Mary. Then
when he had feared that through my love
/ had obtained knowledge of his dastardly
offense he had made an attempt upon my
life by means of hired ruffians. The Wo-
man who had been in his drawing room
at Hove on the occasion of my visit was
y,
attractive young person in the Brighton
train had also been a caller at his house in
connection with the attempt planned to be
made upon me.
"You-you intend to arrest me?" he
gasped at last with some difficulty, his
brow like ivory beneath tight-drawn skin.
change had come over him, and he was
standing with his back to a bookcase, way
ing unsteadily as though he must fall.
II certainly do was Amber Jevons'
prompt response you have been the
means Of committing a double murder FOR
the purposes of gain-because you knew
that your friend Courtenay had left will
in your favor in the event of his wife's de-
cease. That will has already been proved;
but perhaps it may interest you to know
that the latest and, therefore, the valid
Will is in my own possession, l having
found 1t during a search Of the dead mans
1t is dated only nine months ago, and
leaves the fortune to the widow, and in the
event of her death to her sister Ethelwynn.
ITO mel" cried my love in surprise.
eyes, Miss Ethelwynn. Everything is left
to you unreservedly," he explained. Then
turning again to the clever impostor before
him, he added- You will, therefore, recog-
nize that all your plotting, SO well matured
and SO carefully planned that your demo-
niacal ingenuity almost surpasses the COM
prehension of man, has been in vain. By
the neglect of one small DETAIL namely, to
sufficiently disguise your identity when
dealing with Curtis, have been ena bled af-
ter a long and tedious search, to fix the man
who on several occasions was made up to
present in the night the appearance of
Courtenay. The work has taken me many
tedious weeks. l visited every wigmaker
and half the hairdresserS in London unsuc-
cessfully, until by mere chance the ruffian
whom you employed to entrap my friend
Boyd gave me clue to the fact that Cur
tbs made wigs as well as theatrical cos
tunes. The inquiry has been long and
haZardOuS one, he went on. But from the
very first l was determined to get at the
bottom of the mystery, cost me what 1t
might, and l have fortunately succeeded"
Then, turning again to the cringng wretch
upon whom the terrible denuncia ton had
come as a thunderbolt he added: THE for
giveness of man, Sir Bernard Eyton, you
will never obtain. 1t has been ever a law
that the murderer shall die-and you will
be no exception"
The effect Of those words upon the guilty
man was almost electrical He drew him
self up stify, his keen wild eyes starting
from his blanched face as he glared at his
accuser. His lips moved. No sound, how
ever, came from them. The muscles of his
jaws seemed to suddenly become paralyzed
for he was unable to close his mouth He
stood for a moment, an awful spectacle the
brand of Cain upon him. A strange, gure-
ling sound escaped him, as though he were
trying to articulate but was unable: then
he made wild signs with both his hands
cutched suddenly at the air, and fell for
ward in a fit.
1 went to him, loosened his collar. and
applied restoratives, but in ten minutes I
saw that he was beyond human aid What
l had at first belived to be a fit was a sud
den cessation of the functions of the heart
caused by wild excitement and the knowl-
edge that punishment was upon him.
Within ten minutes Of that final accusa-
ton the old man lay back upon the CARPET
lifeless. struck dead by natural causes at
the moment that his crimes had become
revealed.
Thus were the Seven Secrets explained
and thus was the central criminal court and
the public spared what would have been
one of the most sensational trials Of modern
times.
The papers on Monday reported "with
deepest regret the sudden death from heart
disease Of him whom they termed lone OF
the greatest and most skillful physicians of
modern times
Just three years have passed since that
memorable evening.
You, my reader, are probably curious to
know whether l have succeeded in obtain
ing the quiet country practice that was
my ideal. Well yes, have And. what 10
more, have obtained in Ethelwynn q wife
who is devoted to me and beloved by all the
countryside-a wife who is the very perfec-
ton of all that is noble and good in We