The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-15

What bank troubles?"
1t was said that my husband en-
bezzled the funds, that he altered two
notes TO ten times their value, and
got the money on them"
1T is false, false! I never did it
never! 1t is a conspiracy to rob me
of my good name"
Almost the exact words of another,
thought Constance, who, however. con-
tinued by a strong effort of will to
speak of the main facts of her hus-
bands disappearance.
An investigation was made and no
considerable trouble was found at the
bank, except is regarded the altered
notes, which, it was believed, my hus-
baud returned to the bank to get a
week after leaving Grovedale. He left
on the desk shirt stud one of a set
that l gave him; another was found
near the river by an Italian employed
on the new railroad, as it was believed.
Ny husbands travelling cap was also
found among the bushes on the bank"
She paused for moment to look
at the pale-faced man on the pillow,
who listened with wide-opened eyes
and flushed cheeks.
GO on" he said, family.
Perhaps 1 would better wait
awhile
No, don't you see I am in torment ?"
he said irritably. 81 want to know
whether I was murdered, or whether
| turned out to be a bank robber. By
Heavens; what fools there are in the
world"
1--WE advertised and employed detec-
tives to find him, but no trace was
discovered. Strange accounts of a cell
ebrated bank defaulter, named Ash
ley, however, we're met with, and he
was said to resemble Mr.. Hamilton
He also appeared to have a wife nam
ed Lenora, whose hair was called
green. One defalcation took place in
May. My husband always went away
in that month and was absent two
Ashley and Hamilton were one and
the same. There were two other men
connected with Ashley and they start
ed private banks in new places in the
West, and victimiZed the people who
banked with them shamefully. Ash
ley did not appear to be always with
them, but when he was the greatest
frauds were committed"
Did you believe that your husband
and Ashley were identical?" asked the
sick man. raising his head and looking
full at Constance.
mo, ! never believed it; but after
a time / thought he must be dead, and
l ordered a monument to be made, in
tending to erect it to his memory. The
remains found in the river were buried
in the cemetery, but not In our lot,
and 1 was celebrating whether to have
them disinterred and p!aced under
the monument, when a strange thing
happened"
But when did I appear on the
scene? Was it before the monument
AFFAIR.""
yes"
Then you really did not know me,
and yet you say you saw me and spoke
to me. Was there nothing about me
to recall your husband, Constance"
"Oh, there was, there was!" she cried,
"but no one else could see it. You
looked sickly, old and bent. Your
hair was different color.
You did not know me. You
worked in our mills like an ordinary
workman You boarded here: and
though you did seem to be attached
toward me and my children, they were
was nothing in your manner to savol
of any right to us. Then, too, yol
played the yiolen, and my husband
knew nothing about music, except tina
he loved to hear it; and, besides. you
were a good machinist and very in
genious in many ways, while my hus
band had no such faculty at all. l have
heard him say he could not make ever
a top"
And you say can play the violin %
yes"
well, now know cannot. Is there
one in the house?"
There's your own I put away wher
you was took sick" said Mrs. Fry
who was divided in her allegiance tC
her olden favOrite, Primus Edes, and
her CONSERVATION to find him to be sc