The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21
CHAPTER XVIII.
Solomon Marks.

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| !, Solomon Marks was seen about
Grovedale and vicinity for several
| days. He called to see Mr. Hamilton
| at the mill, and was closeted with him
an hour or more. Afterwards he was
! seen chatting with Primus Edes in an
afabie manner. and later, the same
| day, he called at Mrs. Fry's house.
I That lady was not glad to see him,
and she showed her feelings plainly
/ by being very glum and stiff in her
manner. She did not like his looks,
nor his errand, which she felt sure
was to learn what he could concern
ing Primus Edes. Indeed, she was
fully convinced in her own mind that
he was another detective Teller"
solomon Marks got no friends In
Grovedale. It was plain to Mr.. Car
ter that even Vane did not like him,
and was relieved when he left town.
STILL as he told his wife's uncle, he
did not feel like shaking off his ac-
quaintance, as he had done him one
or two favors in the past.
Mr.. Hamilton was engrossed now,
day after day. at the mill, for his help
was seriosly needed. Mr.. Henderson
and Mr.. Carter had done well, but
younger blood was needed, more nerve
and firmness, also. and these ele-
ments were contributed by the junior
partner as soon as he got well into
| harness again.
There were few obstacles, tho not
serious, at the outset. Moments Of for
| getfulness seemed to steal over him,
/ causing him to forget names and de-
tails, but word recalled them to
mind. and then he would go on
unaided, perhaps, for days. His
aptitude for business, always
remarkable, had not lessened in the
/ least thru lapse of memory or loss of
/ personality, whichever it might be
n y1yoS I,-
his partners, that very soon. he should
fully recover all remembrance Of the
! past, and he hoped even of the period
when his life had been blank.
IF So" he said. II shall know what
I did, whether presented those notes
! after altering them myself, at the
bank. where spent the time before
1 went to Seattle, and how I existed
up to that time. What revelation it
would be to mel"
That's SO, Vane. I'd give q. good
deal to know all that myself. But,
you back again evenif few leaves of
your life are stuck together
4 BY George! that's so.'' said MI.
T Henderson; Garter and I felt like two
strange cats in lost garnet, didn't
4 we Carter?"
Il amt sure about the lost garnet,
all laughed at the mistake.
Like the widening circles produced
by a stone thrown into stream, so the
mystery surrounding the bank affair
at Grovedale was prolific of sconse-
quences. Full particulars had beer
wired thru the country, enterprisine
reporters had worked up columns
about 1t for the newspapers which they
represented, and in consequence it was
widely known now that Mr.. Hamilton
VINO was supposed to have alb.
seconded with the funds of the bank
and to have been guilty Of forgery as
we'll as enbezzlement, was now al
home, and exonerated from all Intent
to appropriate the funds.
1T created great excitement to find
that he had been suffering from a loss
of personality; but more than a dozer
Journals protested to have heard OF
cases resembling it, and conjectures
were rife regarding his acts during the
interval between his loss of memory
and its recovery. In one such case, il
was reported, a man had married
again, all unaware that his first wife
was living, or, indeed that he had eye1
been married before. But when he
returned to himself he left NO. q Ste
return to No. 4. There were some i'm.
pleasant filings at the convenience 81
such lapses from honesty and respect.
ABILITY, or rather. at the plea of un-
accountability. u
A man who could court and m arr,
a woman and support her afterwards
by his own labor did not differ SO n1,cI
, from ordinary bigamists. Even tho
he preferred to have forgotten tha1
another wife existed. such forgetful.
, ness was not without parallel. Mer
Z often forgot the existence of Their
!, wives for hours or days, at least. if no
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