The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-31
HRS. MAVERICKS LIFE.
DAILY ROUTINE AMONG THE
 SISTERS NOT UNPLEASANT.


 under the most mysterious circumstan- ces, and whose whereabouts the govern ment announced would be kept a pro found secret. is living in the Church of Truro, Cornwall.
 Under an assumed name, her identity is completely hidden from all but the superior of the institution. In sanctua- " she has at last round rest and com- parative freedom.
 The few remaining months of Mrs. Maybrick's life sentence are being served out under special license in a simple cloister that overlooks the cathe- dral town of Truro. The rigor of prison discipline is changed to the devotional routine that attends a strict Church of England sisterhood Though guarded as zealously from the outside world as when she wore the convict garb at Aylesbury prison, Mrs. Maybrick is looked upon as a free woman. She is still beautiful, and the breezes that sweep up from the Cornish moors and coast are bringing back the color to her cheeks.
 The agony of the death sentence, the strain of over fourteen years in penal seryitude, have scarcely left their mark; only careworn look betrays the ordeal which a few gentlewomen could have survived
 Though the unnecessary mystery with which the home office unctuously clothed it's action in this case is now solved by the Daily Illustrated Mirror, the Epiphany Sisters and the sisters of the Truro Sisterhood have no idea that Mrs. G- is really Mrs Mayhrick. eve refrain from mentioning the name under which Mrs. Maybrick coneeals her identity-Ed) She is known as a visitor
 The transfer of Mrs. Maybrick from the penal prison at Aylesbury to the delightful home of the Epiphany Sisters in Truro appears to have been due to Adeline, Duchess of Bedford. In her capacity of visitor to Aylesbury prison the duchess, for a long time past, has taken acute interest in Mrs. Maybrick. Eventually she succeeded in persuading the authorities to allow Mrs. Mayhricl to serve the last few months of her sen- tence under less severe discipline. Having been interested in the Truro home of the Sisters of the Epiphany, it was only natural that the dowager duchess of Bedford should send Mrs. Maybrick there. The removal of the prisoner from Aylesbury occurred three weeks ago. Since then Mrs. Maybrick's whereabouts have been the subject of much surmise and unfounded report. Mrs. Maybrick's religious prison is a long building, in Tudor style. Formerly l it was one of the best private residences in this part of Cornwall. It lies amid large and beautifully kept grounds. just on the outskirts of the town. Various institutions, supported by the sister hood, are adjacent to the main building in which Mrs. Maybriclz lives under the assumed name of Mrs. G..
 Mrs. Maybrick wears an ordinary black dress, generally with a little white fril1 at her throat She rises at six in the morning in a pleasant but severely furnished room. She takes her meals and spends her day in the silence that is imposed by religious discipline. Part iof her routine consists in working in the sewing room, where the Sisters of l the Epiphany, always in silence, make their own clothes. At exercise inter- 1 vals Mrs. Maybrick walks between Cor inish hedges with the sisters and the other visitors With one exception l she might be some friend of the sister hood come to seek stern relaxation from the vanities of the world. That excep- tion is when the recreation interval oc- CUTS, and when, over their tea, the Sis- ters of Epiphany and the inmates of their house chatter gayly of things mundane, without fear of penance. Then it is that Mrs. Maybriclz has to retire to her room alone The harsf- ness of this enforced solitude is more apparent than real, because through it Mrs. Maybrick avoids the inevitable and awkward questions.
 l In her present retreat Mrs. Maybrick appears happy. The change from pris- on fare and discipline is, by comparison, tantamount to freedom. Many women belonging to well known families seek temporary rest from the whirl of socie- ty in the religious quiet that now shell
  cence once set England and America by the ears. The Hon. Miss Dalrymple, sister of the Earl of Stair, and an irti- mate friend of Adeline, Duchess of Bed ford is the moving spirit of the sister, hood, while under the name of Sister Ann," or equally humble appellation many intimates conceal well known pa- tronymics. The sisterhood is as much patronized by the rich laity that anoth- Ter wing is now being built. Mrs. May bricks arrival, under an assumed name, naturally failed to excite even a ripple of interest. Another lady. who's seen a lot of trouble" was the comment made by the girl who showed her to her room. And SC Mrs. Maybrick quietly 1 entered into the life of the Sisterhood of the Epiphany.
 The mother superior guards Mrs. Maybrick from all interviews with a. vigilance worthy of militant abbess in centuries gone by So far all inquiries have been ingeniously warded off by the reply that Mrs. Maybrick was not in the home, by which the sisters meant the Rescue home for fallen girls, which, with a laundry is controlled by the sis ] terhood. This pious little prevarication 1 has so far been successful.
 The sisters are held entirely respon- sible for Mrs. Maybricks safe keeping. No prisoner, probably, was ever in such anomalous position as Mrs. Maybricls. ! Though not on ticket-of-leave, she is freer than any ticket-of-leave convict;