The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-15
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
(Continued)

N1Ontlnueu.D
II was past o'clock in the afternoon
before returned from the performance
OF these duties. When / got back Anne
Catherick was dead. Dead on the 25th;
and Lady Clyde was not to arrive in Lon
don till the Goth!
was stunned. Mediate on that. Fosco
stunned!
IL was too late TO retrace our steps. Be-
fore my return. the doctor had officious-
ly undertaken TO save me all trouble, by
registering the death on the date when 1t
happened with his own hand. My grand
scheme. unassailable hitherto, had its
weak place now-no efforts on my part
could alter the fatal event Of the 25th.
turned manfully 10 the future. Percivars s
interests and mine being still at stake,
nothing was left but to play the game
through 10 the end. | recalled my impene-
trable calm--and played II.
ON the morning OF the 2sth Percival :
letter reached me, announcing his wife S
arrival by the midday train. Nine. Ru-
belle also wrote To say she would follow
In the evening. / started In the fly, leav-
ing the false Lady CLYDE dead In the
house TO receive the true Lady Clyde, on
her arrival by the railway at three
o'clock Hidden under the seat OF the
carriage, I carried with me all the clothes
my house-they were destined to assist
the resurrection of the woman who was
dead ir the person OF the woman who
was living What a situation, | suggest It
10 the rising romance writer's of England.
j offer IL. as totally new 10 the worn-out
dramatists OF France.
Lady Clyde was at the station. There
was great crowding and confusion. and
more delay than I liked Qn case any OF
friand~ hannQnpH a he
tpop. I'm reclaiming her luggage. Her first
questions, AS we drove Off. mplored me
20 tell her news OF her sister I invented
news OF the most pacifying kind: assur-
ing her that she was about to see her
sister at my house. MY house, on this oc-
castor only. was In the neighborhood OF
Leicester square, and was In the occupa-
tion OF NJ, Rubelle, who received US In the
hall
I took my visitor upstairs into a back
room; the two medical gentlemen being
there i'm waiting on the floor beneath to
see the patient. and 10 give me their GER
tihcates. After duieting Lady CLYDE by
the necessary assurances about her sister.
! introduced my friends. separately. TO
her presence. They performed the formal
tiles OF the occasion, briefly, intelllgently,
conscientiously. entered the room agair.
as soon as they had left IL: and at once
precipitated events by reference, Of the
alarming kind. 10 Miss Halcombe's"
state OF health
Results followed as had anticipated.
Lady Clyde became frightened and
turned faint. For the second time,
and the last. 7 called science 10 my as
sistance. A medicated glass OF water and
n medicated bottle Of smelling salts. re-
,ieved her OF all further embarrassment
and alarm. Additional applications, later
In the evening. procured her the estima-
~ -
Rubelle arrived in time To preside at Lady
Glydes toilet. Her own clothes were
taken away from her AT night. and Anne
Catherick's were put on her IN the morn
ing. with the strictest regard To proprie-
ty. by the matronly hands Of the good
Rubelle. Throughout the day | kept our
patient In state OF partially-suspend
consciousness. until the dexterous assist
ance OF M medical friends enabled me To
procure the necessary order rather earlier
than | had ventured 10 hope. That even
ing dhe evening OF the 27th) Mime. Ru-
belle and took our revived Anne Cath
erick' to the asylum. She was received
with great surprise-but without suspi-
cion. thanks 10 the order and certf-
Gates, to Percivars letter To the likeness
10 the clothes. and TO the patients own
confused mental condition at that time I
returned at once 20 assist Nine Fosco in
the prepara tions for the burial Of the
false Lady CLYDE" having the clothes
and luggage OF the true Lady Clyde In
my possession They were afterward sent
10 Cumberland by the conveyance which
was used for the funeral I attended the
funeral with becoming dignity, attired I'm
the deepest mourning
MY narratives of these remarkab BILE
events. written under equally remarkable
circumstances. closes here The minor
precautions which ] observed I'm commu-
nlcating with Limmeridge house are al
ready known--so is the magnificent suc-
cess OF my enterprise--so are the solid pc
cuniary results which followed Il. I have
10 assert, with the whole force OF my
conviction. that the one weak place I'm my
scheme would never have been found out
n the weak place I'm my heart had not