The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26

and I never knew why, but il was evil
IDENTIFY something terrible to them. The
fact may have bearing on the case. 1t
is the only thing L know. at all events,
and would suggest inquiry in that
field. If you could hypnotic the wO-
man and question here about that Sc
cret of theirs, maybe her answers
would throw light on the murder-if it
be murder
What! You think"
Those women were capable of any
bitterness toward me. She might have
died q natural death. l don't know.
But she had trouble with her heart.
and this other woman would not hest
tate to make it look like murder and
throw the appearance of guilt on me.
But what uDsets the theory is that
am sure she knows nothing of tying
surgeons knots"
"She might have had help"
Yes, that may be. Perhaps that is
it. She has no initiative of her own,
but would do what she was told to do.
and it is quite within the possibilities
that all this was arranged between
them long ago. in case Mrs. WOrtley
should die suddenly. Her health was
in a very delicate state. and 1 fancy
she had for two years expected to go
off suddenly at any moment Yes,
beforehand to make it look like muir
der and directing suspicion toward me,
for they seemed to hate me most ran
corously, both of them, and tried in
every way to humiliate and degrade
me. The strangest part of it is that
l haven't the faintest shadow of a no
ton why they felt So
You don't know the cause of Mrs.
WOrtley's estrangement from your
No" he answered YEARLY. "All in
an instant, quick as flash of light
ming. like the discharge of a cannon. it
came. Her love for me turned to bit
terness and downright loathing." He
ran a trembling hand over his brow,
and after a short pause, as if to gather
fortitude, continued: "One day, in
France, after more than five years of
happiness with me, or what l would
have sworn was happiness, she received
a cable message from America. l hand
ed it to her myself. She read it stand
ing and remained motiOnless so long
that l looked up from my newspaper
and there she stood slaring at me so
fiendishIy that l shouldn't have known
her. Her face resembled frenzied an
imal's more than a human beings. Her
checks were like chalk, her lips were
drawn back from her teeth in a snarl
like that of a wildcat, and her eyes
fairly blazed. Startled terribly, L
jumped up and ran to her. when she
shrieked out that l had ruined her life,
struck me with all her force i'm the face,
and fled from the room. I thought she
had suddenly lost her mind. And. in
deed, l believe she had. l followed her,
of course. But she would have nothing
to do with me, would explain nothing.
listen to. nothing, accept nothing that
proposed She raved, swearing that
she hated me and always had. But |
can't go into all that. / tried every
thing in vain. ] offered her her free
dom, offered to leave her and allow her
to obtain a divorce, at last, but she
would not consent even to that. / sup
pose she wished to drag my name in
the mire and remain near TO torment
and humiliate me. p"
Again he paused. and with unsteady
hand drank a glass of water, gulping
it noisily.
In a few weeks this woman, Mrs
Partridge, arrived" he. went on with
effort They were plainly old friends,
having some secret bond of sympathy.
And they have remained inseparable
ever since. / don't understand their
relation, Years ago gave UP trying