The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-11-29
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81 'HN"l AWAY thompson WAS
brought around With the greatest diff
Guilty and would say nothing except to
Indulge in terrible imprecations against
his companion. You Sec concluded
Godfrey. looking up, we begin to get
ut tie motive.'s
YES" | agreed; Its very plain.
now you've started on the right track.
It's Il good deal like Columbus egg. egg
Godfrey smiled and turned to TIE
sixth clipping the longest of them all.
Its that way with most mysteries, >
he said. land here's the Internal evil
dence that all this theorizing is pretty
straight. Its the clew %, which
We've been seeking SO long"
1T explains Miss Croydon's presence
hcre:" | asked. intensely Interested,
and deeply stirred.
Just that lie said, and shot me Il
triumphant gla.. J. Let us see il YOU
can catch it. The clipping is in French,
and, though my French isn't OF the
highest order. can get the sense OF it
pretty we'll. 1t is dated Suresnes and
is evidently letter from Il provincial
correspondent to Il Paris newspapers
who. like most other provincial CORE
sponlants. is delightfully."- vague. How
cvcf, gather from it that on the night
OF Sept. lG. 1891, IL beautiful young
English gi"l-n;ume not given-ran
away from the convent school of the
Sacred iielrt at Surcsmes and that the
neNt morning she was safely married
to a gallant Frcnchman-Trcm of
coursc-by the cure of the little village
OF Petits Colon, es The marriage was
quite re9ulal-though no doubt the
cures fee was larger than usual for
the banns had been published as re-
quired"
But STILL" l objected. Il don't see
that that explains anytaing.'
Let me help you. 1t was this clip
ping l happened to look at first the
night we found the body. read two
OF three lines aloud, then Ssimmonds
put it back III the pocket. 1t must
have been those few lines which told
Miss Croydon the nature of the clip
pings and their Importance to her. The
date line would have been enough to
Go that Besides, if She'd already
known of thcm she'd have taken them
before we got here"
You mean Miss Croydon is the Girl
who ran away with Trenlaine: But,
then. she couldn't have been moro
than ten CT twelve years old liz 1891"
Eleven" corrected Godfrey, and |
was struck by the radiant expression
OF his face rs he took a yellow pager
from his pocket. Let me read You
two sentences from this old report con
corning the Croydon family. You
ought to have recalled them, my'dear
Lester"
go ahead" l said helplessly.
Eldest daughter. Edith. horn in
France, Aug. 20. 1874. EducAtcd at
school there but broke down from
overstudy and returned to Beckenham.
Religion, Catholic Now" he demaad-
married Tremaine ut petits Calombes
in 1912"
At last | saw it, and l could only sit
and stare at him. marveling at my
own stupidity. This was the key the
key TO the whole enigma. Miss Croy-
don had taken her sisters place. had
tried to buy him Of to get him out OF
her sisters way. 1t was Tremainc
VINO had opened the door; it was Ire
maine whom she had come to the
Marathon to meet But-and l started
upright since they were Catholics,
only his death could release Mrs. Del
roy. Perhaps it was Thompson, after
all, and his death had released her!
But, no, and in an instant the whole
terrible position of the elder woman
burst upon me. She was not Delroy's
wife; she was
So said hoarscly, "Tremaine is,
then, the true husband of Mrs. Del
roy"'
Let us finish the story of tn. clip
pings before going into that" suggest
ed Godfrey. II confess / don't quite
see the bearing of this next one It's Il
New York dispatch, perhaps to Lon
don paper, under date OF Feb. is 1892,
and chronicles the loss of the bark
Centaur, with all on board, Off the
NOe..oL vi Ma tIHlluc. Il lie NcHluNI M.io
bound from Marseilles to Eort-de-
France with a cargo Of wines and
muslins. Let us leave it for moment
and pass on to the next one which il,
the last
This is dated Sydney, Australia.
Oct. 50, 1896. and relates how a daring
scheme to rob the Bank of New South
Wales was frustrated by sailor who
had been a member of the gang. but
who got frightened and informed the
police. The ringleadei'. Freedman,
was captured and would receive a
term of Years in prison There dre
four copies of this clipping, which no
| doubt means that it is the one which
Thompson was sometimes in the habit
of sending to Tremaine to remind him
OF that Australian experience
"Now, don't you see, we reconstruct
the whole story. Tremaine starting
out as a defaulter and robber. escapes
| from prison. leaving his partner in the
lurch, trcachcrously, no doubt, since it
awakened his violent anger. There isn't
any hatred more vindctive than that
| of one criminal toward another. who