The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-14
Ichapter Kill Continued from Yesterday.


IChapter XIII, Continued from Yesterday
81 hope not" said Vane, looking startled;
| still l don't know. AS l said, | know no
more than YOU do what happened TO me
in the interval referred to. L know L was
| doing good honest work in Seattle When
l came to myself. Any one can be assured
J of that by writing to Barnacle Co.,
But before you went there, Vane?"
Il don't know. There is something back
of your questioning, uncle. What is 1t?
"Nane, you are looked upon as de-
| faulter here in Grovedale.
| "A defaulter! Why, did not take one
penny of the bank funds when L went
| away L remember that perfectly. The
| notes and some other deposits We're put in
| the vault in Boston, but it was done before
went away-a week before, if l recall
! Yes, about a week it was; but Tony
| Osborn declares you came TO the bank on
the 22d. at about o'clock in the evening.
| He must have been mistaken.
| mo, he is positive; and besides, there is
| proof of it,"
| What proof?"
| you said the same, and that he probably
| didn't expect to see you so soon. He said
| he didn't, and passed on. You opened the
| door with your own key and went in.
| Strange, What does it mean? Did
| come here?"
mo. you evidently came as far as the
|
lowed up. We thought you might have
been drowned. A man was found in the
i ricer-his remains, l mean-and Constance
had them buried at her expense"
| THAT accounts for the monument?
| Eyes"
But how do you know came to the
| river?''
Your travelling cap and one of your
| shirt-studs were found there, the last by
an Italian employed on the, railroad, the
4 on
morning after you entered it.
Who says SOP
Does Tony think me a defaulter?"
mo, he does not. He and Constance
| and-and-myself were the only ones who
thnueht as 7 did. but. of course. we were
obliged to settle the bonds"
Bonds? Did it go far as that? Their
something was taken from the bank. Il
and deceived Tony somehow
No, not that. Nothing was actually
missing and the PasisbookS We're all right Int
matter. The loss, If any, was debatable-
a matter of balance, easily rectitied by
you; some erasures, also debatable, but no
OF consequence except in the light or YOU
absence. But il was the notes, one OF
Bowles & Estes, the other of c. b. Cotton
| What of them
very notes, 1 mean Bowles q Estes, which
he deposited in the National Bank, anC
he says that he paid you 5000 for it on tn
spot as collateral. The note was but $50
originally until the amount was altered"
Simon Low says L took it there?'
| Yes"
took an altered note to Simon Low and go
it cashed. / will never believe that
lost my identity to the degree of maxim;
| myself a scoundrcl."
He got up and walked the room in grea
| agitation.
What about the other note?'
THAT was presented in the same way
the face altered to read $4,000 instead o
500. The cashier could not swear IL wa
you, but he supposed everything to be al
right. Low declares he could not hav
been mistaken, for he knows you as wei
"Yes, Low knows me, but 1 believe h
has been deceived. 1 will see him and tai
with him. Nine thousand dollars? Is tina
the sum-"
Yes"
And my bOndsmen had to pay it?"
"Well. it shall he paid back, every cen
of il, If it can be really proved that II wa
stands, 1t looks to me like foul conspiT
acy to rob me of my good name. Thong
why any one should want to do it
: can't conceive. Tony must have been mis-
taken. 1t must have been burglar
so we thought until we heard from Nj
> Low.
Mr.. Carter had not heard of the hypnoti
; Hamilton did not speak of it. Indeed sh
; looked bewildered, as If torn by many
contending emotion, keeping apart from he
Husband, and only looking al him furuvel
, now and then.
Have you had detectives at work ?
asked Mr.. Hamilton after a period of dee
| thought
Yes, two of them: Private Detectiv
Bruce, and Swan, of the police headquai
5 tiers in Boston"
What have they discovered?"
Swan followed the river affair. You wer
thought to have been drowned or murdered
And Bruce looked up the defaulting matter
| He fanced at one time that he got on til
t trail Of you, or some one that looked Xix
t you, in the West man named Ashley.
What sort of a man was Ashley
Bad sort: bank swindler. Bruce sa'
| his photograph; looked like you. Bless m
soul who knows but he was the man Lo'
saw"
= thought b,, Of that; but it seems too ur
Ashley had a wife named Lenora." sal
Mrs. Hamilton.
"Lenora?" he answered. as if the nam
n | brought no recollectionS to his mind.
$ Yes. Is the name new TO your" ST
asked, keenly.
1T is. 1 never remember to hav
I And yet you said in your dreams ii
e night before you went away, Lenora
+ Nora-a pretty name. "
+ He looked at her in amaZement.
Are you sure?
Yes; and the green-haired woman WI
i spoke TO you was named Lenora, and 81
N 1
II have no recollection of any such nam
Dreams are hard TO explain. But how
| you know all this about Ashley and
wife named Lenora?"
= 1T was brought out by Bruce's invest
: cations" said Mr.. Carter. You see the
f was reason for suspicious"
so il seems. This Ashley may be N
= double. There are wonderful resemblance
In the world. and il isn't TO be wondert
at, either, when We consider that of Z
the millions born. with trifiing exception
all of faatl
\ two eyes, nose and mouth and the
are only few varieties OF hair. The wo
der is there are no more doubles"
BLESS my soul, l never thought of tina
: 1t is odd. How the Creator with su,
scanty material. could make millions
two just alike, for there is always lit
difference. is a wonder"
Yes: but this Ashley probably does n
look very much like me, If we should
? matter. talk with Low, and il | find, b
Ie yond doubt. that l have been guilty
II | altering notes and other questionable aci
sr | will set them right"
Is 1T is hard on you. if you were not
ID blame"
II yes, but no one else ought to suff,
n | But | still feel as il Low must have be
Ne mistaken. If IL could be proved that
s. was in some other place. that would
l. the same as saying that some man us
II my name and position for fraudulent pu
10 poses.
/ Did you appear sane at Scatter"
10 $50 they said. They SAID / seemed Ike
enough about most things and was a IA
z. workman. The only thing that connect
In me with a former existence was an id
that | was going TO Groyedale that