The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-03
By MApYR. ,. HATCH,
Author of
"The Bank Tragedy"

those very notes, / mean Bowles &
Estes, which he deposited in the Ma
tional Bank. and he says that he paid
you five thousand dollars for it on the
spot as collateral. The note was but
five hundred dollars originally, until
the amount was altered"
Simon Low says l took it there?"
yes"
Il don't believe it. l don't believe
ever took an altered note to Low and
got 1t cashed. 1 will never believe
that / lost my identity to the degree
of making myself a scoundrel."
He got up and walked the room in
great agitation.
What about the other note?"
THAT was presented in the same
way, the face altered to read four
thousand dollars instead of four hun
dred dollars. The cashier could not
swear it was you, but he supposed
everything to be all right. Low de-
clares he could not have mistaken.
for he knows you as well as I do"
Yes, Low knows me, but 1 believe
he has been deceived. l will see him
and talk with him. Nine thousand
dollars? Is that the sum-"
And my bondsmen had to pay it?"
Eyes"
well, it shall be paid back, every
cent of it, if it can be really proved
that it was l who took it. But as
the matter now stands, it looks to me
like foul conspiracy to rob me of
my good name. Though why any one
should want to do it 1 can't conceive.
Tony must have been mistaken. 1t
must have been a burglar"
80 we thought until we heard from
Low"
Mr.. Garter had not heard of the
hypnotic theory raised by Tony Os-
born and Mrs. Hamilton did not speak
of it. Indeed, she looked bewildered,
as if torn by many contending emo
ton, keeping apart from her husband,
and only looking at him furtively now
and then.
Have you had detectives at work."
of deep thought.
Eyes, two of them: Private Detec-
tive Bruce, and Swan, of the police
headquarters in Boston"
What have they discoVered?'
Swan followed the river affair. You
We're thought to have been drowned or
murdered And Bruce looked up the
defaulting matter. He fancied at one
time that he got on the trail of you,
or some one that looked like you, in
the West, a man named Ashley"
bad sort; a bank swindler. Bruce
saw his photograph; looked like you.
Bless my soul! who knows but he
was the man Low saw"
81 thought of that; but it seems
too unlikely for belief"
ASHLEY had a wife named Lenora, ="
said Mrs. Hamilton.
''Lenora" he answered, as if the
name brought no recollections to his
mind.
YES. Is the name new to your"
she asked keenly.
1T is. 1 never remember to have
heard it."
And yet you said in your dreams
the night before you went away, 'Le-
nora-Nora-a pretty name
He looked at her in amazement.
Are you sure?"
YES; and the green-haired woman
who spoke to you was named Lenora,
and she was Ashleys wife,"
81 have no recollection of any such
name. Dreams are hard to explain.
But how do you know all this about
Ashley and wife named Lenora?"
1T was brought out by Bruce's in
vestigations," said Mr.. Carter. You
see there was reason for suspicious. -
$50 it seems. This Ashley may be
my double. There are wonderful re-
semblances in the world, and it isn't
to be wondered at, either, when we
consider that of all the millions born,
with trifiing exceptions, they all have
the same sets of features-two eyes,
a nose, and a mouth, and there are
only a few varieties of hair. The
wonder is there are no more dou-
bles.''
BLESS my soul, never thought of