Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-02-08
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/ For Johnson. then. Wen hereafter read
Thompson"
/ l nodded was beginning to be con-
/ WINGED.
/ We'll" continued Godfrey. Tire
maine and Thompson then. were ar
rested in New York July %. 1888. ut
a low resort where they were having
n carouse. They had beaten and rob-
bed another sailor. II seems that moth
ing was left of the G0.000 francs, ana
naturally Tremaine found it difficult TO
go honestly to work again. The fourth
clipping. undated, but probably some
months later. shows that Tremaine and
Thompson were sentenced to three
years each in Sing Sing. But they
didn't stay there so long" he added,
turning 10 the next clipping, Eat least
Trcmainc didn't. On the night of Jan.
>, 1856. in the midst of a tremendous
snowStorm they managed TO hide
themselves in one of the workshops
and afterward TO scale the outer wall.
In the morning Thompson was found
at the foot of the wall with his head
cut open and nearly frozen. Tremainc
got clear away. Thompson was
brought around with the greatest diff
Guilty and would say nothing except TO
indulge in terrible imprecltions against
his companion. You see" concluded
Godfrey, looking up, I'VE begin to get
at the motive
Yes" l agreed its very plain,
now you've started on the right track.
Its Il good deal like Columbus egg"
Godfrey smiled ana turned TO the
sixth clipping, the longest of them all.
It's that way with most mysteries"
he said. land here's the internal evil
dence that all this theorizng is pretty
straight. Its the clew, too, which
we've been seeking so long
1T explains Miss Croydon's presence
here | asked, intensely interested
and deeply stirred.
Just That he said, ana shot me
triumphant glance. Let Us see if 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 4 letter from Il provincial
correspondent to Paris newspaper,
who, like most other provincial CORE
spondentS. is delightfully."- vague. How
ever. | gather from it that on the niChS
of Sept. III. 1891, a beautiful young
English girl-name not given-ran
away from the convent school of the
Sacred Heart at Suresnes and that the
next morning she was safely married
to a gallant nchmau'-Tremaine. of
course-by the cure Of the little village
of Petits Colon, es. The marriage was
quite regular-though 10 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 anything"
Let me help YOU 1t was this clip
ping happened to look at first the
night we found the body. | read two
or three lines aloud, then Simmonds
put it back in 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
do that. Besides, if she'd already
known of them she'd have taken them
before we got here"
You mean Miss Croydon is the girl
who ran away with Tremaine: But,
then, she couldn't have been more
than ten or twelve years old in 1891"
Eleven" corrected Godfrey, and |
was struck by the radiant expression
of his face as he took u yellow paper
from his pocket Let me read you
two sentences from this oil report con
corning the Croydon family. You
ought 10 have recalled them, my dear
Lester"
GO ahead" l said helplessly.
Eldest daughter, Edith, born in
France, aug. 90, 1874. Educated at
school there, but broke down from
overstudy and returned to Beckenham.
Religion. Catholic Now" he demand
ed. do you understand who IT was
married Tremane at Petits ColOmbes
in 1917"
At last ! saw it, and / 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 off to get him out OF
her sisters way. 1t was Tremaine I
who had opened the door; it was Tire I
maine whom she had come TO the /
Marathon 10 meet. But-and | 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 1
wife; she was
so said hoarsely, 'Tremaine is, /
then, the true husband of Mrs. Del /
royr'
Let us finish the story of the clip /
pings before going into that" suggest 4
ed Godfrey. Il confess | don't quite /
see the bearing of this next one. It's Il I
New York dispatch, perhaps TO Lon I
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