The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-26
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| distant stations, and Peter found 1t difficult to bring witnesses to support his side.
 He had the court with him, however. for from the very beginning it was evil dent that the members knew the char acter of the captain, and they did not try to hide their opinton Rut for all that. they felt constrained to ind that the charges had been partly proved" They ordered that Lieutenant Simple | be dismissed his sh:p. but that his case was strongly recommended to the con | sideration of the Lords Of the Ad.- miralty.
 He was more glad than sorry-happy enough to be quit of Captain Hawkins his poor sister. He wrote q long letter to o'Brien. telling him all that had happened. and then took coach for home. His hardships and the intense anxiety under which he had been. be- | gan to tell on him and he felt himself becoming very ill., His head ached i frightefully. When he left the coach at a point forty miles from his desti- | nation to take chaise across country he hardly knew what he was doing. The last that he could remember was that the chaise was stopped by two men, who rifed his belongings and | finally his persons. till they left him nothing except his trousers and shirt, and that the chaise had then driven of.
 He was found by q retired army lieutenant, who took him in. He lay in delirium and raved of o'Brien, ce- leste and Lord Privilege. As his kind host had observed the name Simple | on his linen. he wrote to Lord Privt- l lege that a young man of that name was most danGerously i'll in his house | Peter's uncle arrived almost at once thanked them all for their kindness wrote out a handeome check for the surgeon who attended Peter and took him of with him in his chariot. When Peter Simple awoke to life and | knowledge again he was in mad house.
 His uncle had taken him there. say | ing that he was a young man who had 1 a mono mania his name was simple and that he was heir to the title and es, tates. Peter, not knowing this, oi course announced his name and station as soon as he discovered where he was and thus convinced the asylum authori' t:es that he was indeed insane.
 He was well treated: but every at tempt to prove his identity naturall! confirmed his Keepers in the belief tha he was mad on the subject. Thus h' | was kept for one year and eigh | months during which time he tired il vain to send letters to his sister ant | to O'Brien.
 At last he beeAme utterly despond ent and gave way. He noted time n' more. Day and night followed eacl other without his notice.
 So he sat one day. too indifferent |. look up even when the door opened But a well remembered voice caugh his ear. He sprang up and the nex moment was grasping the hands o General O'Brien.
 The General was a prisoner on pa role. having been captured when tn
 British troops took Martinique. H had visited the asylum with his frien
 Lord Belmore. It did not take man moments for hdrh to convince the asy ium authorities that Peter had bee
 wrongfulIy confined. and as Lord Bel more bound himself to care for him h
 was released at once in their care.
 Tn e few hours he was in the arm of Celeste. and ths General was bless ing their union.
 A lawyer was sent for at once and legal action prepared against Lor' Privilege for false Imprisonment. Thei | Peter set on to look for his sister. H | arrived at the yicarage to find a nev | tenant there who could tell him onl! that Ellen had set of for London wheI he took possession and had left no ad dress. M
 He searched in vain for a clue. Moth ing had been heard of her since. HI returned to London in despair and em ployed a solicitor. who set Inquiries oi foot every where and advertised widely but without saccesa sW
 While this was going on. Lord Bel | more took him to the First Lord of tn, Admiralty. to whom Peter told the full story of his persecution by Captain Hawkins. The result was that twt