The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-12
Continued from Last Sundays News.)
CHAPTER XIV.

and supposed death by drowning.
with the cunning of insanity it now
appeared that Mr.. Hamilton had in
duced a weak-minded vagrant to ex-
change clothes with him, and with the
disguise thus afforded succeeded in
getting clear of the town. The man who
resembled Hamilton in general appear
ance was afterwards drowned and
identified as a patient of the asylum
chiefly by his clothes, as the body was
unacceptable from having been so
long in the water.
1T must have been a strange fatality
or blind instinct which led him to seek
employment at his own mill, and a
boarding place at the house of Mrs.
Fry, a woman previously well known
to himself and wife, the recipient, as
she ayers, of many favors from him
self and wife.
He saw his wife and children at
church. His wife was greatly moved
by his resemblance to her husband. He
was, also, much excited by her looks
and those of his children, Perley and
Clare. He knows nothing of all this
now, but l can prove it by the testi-
mony of Dan Fry and his mother. From
that time he began to watch her
house, his former home, one night
standing in a pouring rain until he was
drenched and make sick in conse-
quence. Although he knew little of mu-
sic previously, he purchased a violin
and became a good performer in a
short time, but now he has returned to
his normal ignorance and cannot play
at all. ! shall call TO the stand an
eminent specialist who will explain to
you that this sort of dual existence is
not unknown in science, although it Is
so uncommon as to be remarkable
Mrs. Hamilton shared in the feelings of
her husband, but could not explain
them. She repressed them. therefore,
as much as possible; but when her lit
tie boy was lost and returned through
the efforts of Primus Edes, as he was
called, she allowed her heart to rule
her hands to the extent of showing her
gratitude by gifts for his personal com
fort and convenience at Mrs. Fry's.
Now comes the false claimant, Mr..
Hamilton, or Ashley, on the scene, safe.
as he supposes. in his fraudulent
claim, because he thinks his wronged
brother is dead. He is the exact image
of the cashier, as we all know, and
he was received by Grovedale people
with open arms. His Extraordinary
nerve, ingenuity, and fertility of re-
source carried him through various
tests and examinations, and he was in
stalled in the place of the true and law
full owner and tenant of the Hamilton
estate. But there was one, gentlemen,
who did not receive him. 1t was Mrs.
Hamilton. She could not believe he
was her husband, and what testimony
is better than that Of a wife who for
seven years lived with him and came
to know all his ways, his movements,
his tricks of manner, everything which
go to make UP personality, which we
all know does not consist entirely Of
features, hight, voice, complexion? Per-
sonality is of a more subtle, elusive ma
ture. 1t may elude recognition by all
except the more intimate friends. In
this case 1t evaded all but that of the
wife, the true, loving woman who
through all would not be cheated by a
false resemblance"
Then in low, impressive voice Mr..
Morley preached the matter of physi-
cal odor which, exhaled from the ma
terial body, enables a dog to distin-
guish his master from all other persons.
Lost children, slaves, fugitives
from justice, have been tracked by this
physical odor. so powerful and unmis-
taxable as to cling to articles of cloth
:,lg worn by the person. Many people
h1ve the sense of smell strongly devel-
cped. as others have that of sight, taste,
hearing; and Mrs. Hamilton was thus
highly endowed he said. Her children
each impressed her by a characteristic
physical odor, or aura BY this, blind
folded, she could tell their garments
apart and without touching them, and
by this she was enabled to detect the
false claimant. Though the resem-
blance was so that she tainted at the
sight of him. when he knelt at her side
she felt convinced that he was stran-
ger to her Il hope l have made the
matter plain TO you, gentlement of the
Jury, for this is a most important part
OF the trial"
During the presentation of this part
or Mr.. Morley's argument, The extreme
gravity of his manner and delicacy OF
words robbed 1t of the element of lu-
dicrousness so perilously near 1t, and
smiles disappeared on the few counte-
nances where they arose.
Then the plaintiffs counsel went on
to sneak of the shot fired at his client in
the grounds fraudulentiy held and &C.
cnpied by the defendant. which he at
trihuted to some person interested in
removing him beyond reach Vf making
trouble. We will suppose" said Mr.
Morley, that Ashley had at last rec
ognized the true claimant III Primus
Edes, and that he realized his own dan
gerous position, from which nothing
this man. We will suppose hat he saw
him approaching the Hamilton house
and shoots him from his window ana
then rushes upon the scene fiinging the
pistol one side. and was there. as we
know he was. before Mr.. Carter could
get there Or, we will suppose that
some other person, Solomon Marks, for
instance, got possession of Dan Fry's
pistol and followed Edes, shot him, and
disappeared down the river.
'It is we'll known In Grovedale. and
can be proved by half a score Of wit
nesses, that Solomon Marks was twice
clGseted with the defendant, and that
he went to the Fry house. when II Is
casy to suppose he found an Cpportun-
ity to get possession OF the pistol to
make it appear that my client commit
ted suicide-for there is 30 doubt but
that the shot was fired 10 kill him. Now,
II is perfectly clear to me, and must be
10 you. that the false claimant under
tcck, either by his own hand or anoth-
er's, to rid himself of a troublesome
person-troub lesome, beca Use the true
claimant. But did he succeed? No;
the very shot fired to send Vane Hamil-
ton out Of the world restored HIM to the
full possession of his faculties. Strange,
yet truel Can we doubt, after such a
manifestation in the overruling for good
political work on hand which he felt