Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-03


to ask it. But you have asked it, and
II will answer it, I did not know all
about my half-sister's affairs"
You knew of the circumstances Of
her marriage?"
mo. 1 never met the man she mar
January that he was drowned in June,
land
II wonder you did not go to the fu-
neral"
Il could not. | was in San Francis
co at the time, and busy in hunting
out the details of a very curious crime:
I'd like to tell you about it some time,
for it was
1T was certainly no stranger than
the facts clustering about your half
sisters life at that time. I'd like to
hear it, though, when we've leisure.
But now, l think, we have something
more important to consider"
Il agree with you. And now tell me;
Craig?"
Il know very little, and that only in
cidentally and by hearsay. / presume
you knew that her marriage was sud-
dcn?"
Il did"
| 'And that she broke her engagement
with another man in order to marry
Mr.. Craig?"
| mo, did not know that"
| "Then I presume you did not know
that she had made up the quarrel with
the man she had formerly been en-
gagged to marry, and that a year after
Craig's death, If she had lived, she
would have been a wife again."
NO 1 certainly did not know that.
Who was the man."
"A man who had not forgotten the
woman he had loved-in less than a
year-and with her still alive, what
ever he may have done with his heart
and memory in the years which have
come since"
| well, who was he?"
."He was at her funeral. So were
you Who was he?"
II cannot tell. There were many
there. The people Of the country
Observation-Disclosures 1t one Of them?"
John Kane shook his head.
1.-THE citizens of Blankford-there
were many, and L"
The clergyman shook his head
again.
r--legal-adviser-
We'll, who was he?"
Walter Aldrich.'
And you've named her lover! Can
you see now the responsibility Of indi-
rect guilt he must feel? He had
quarreled with the lady It. is more
than possible that she had quarreled
with others in making up with him
again. Ask Mr.. Aldrich where he spent
the Sunday before the murder"
Again the words of the anonymous
letter. Again the clear, calm eyes of
the bright young clergyman looking
level into his own. Prier said nothing.
He waited.
ASK Miss Webb how long she was
IaWay from nome
Are there unexplainable coinci-
Licences in mental action which no law
can cover? Do the same causes bring
about the same results in the world Of
mind as well as in the world Of mat
ter? Does the same knowledge eX-
press itself in the same words, again
and again and again? These were the
questions Prier was asking himself
these and the question as to who knew
as much or more than Kane-in the
eloquent pause the latter made.
And then," continued Kane, tell me
that Sem Is innocent-if you can-if|
you dare have no doubt Aldrich be-
lieves he is. But II have no doubt
he is as guilty a man as ever went un-
hung"
Prier rose. He must go home. He
must get away by himself to think.
| II thank you-" he began.
There was a sudden ring at the door
bell.
Excuse me a moment" said Mr..
Kane you remember 1 must be my
own servant. You may find something
to interest you in the album yonder.
There are few Boomvile faces, for l
have been here but short time,
but"
And the rest was lost in the opening
and closing of the door.
Prier picked up the album. You
have all seen albums much like 1t.
Weak faces-so weak that one Won
ders whether they are really the pict-
ures of actual sane human beings;
strong faces-denoting all the virtues
and powers and aspirations which need
only opportunity to be generals
statesmen-pOets; baby faces; aged
faces: the faces Of those strong and
vigorous still: the faces Of those whose
shadows lie in the sunshine on earthly
hills no longer: the faces Of the home
| ly; the faces of the beautiful; the faces
OF the good; the
"The devil" said Mr.. Prier sudden
lv, as he turned over the pages Of Mr..
Kane's album. l regret having to-
write it. But he said it. Falling from
the lips of one who had studied for the
ministry, and who was possibly half
regretful that he had found his work
in life elsewhere, it could not but
sound unpleasant and inconsistent.
And inconsistent too, it seemed when
connected with that which had GER
tainly prompted 1.-THE photograph of
a woman-of very beautiful woman
of woman with a smile upon her
lips-and with a face so finely copied
by the sun that it seemed almost ready
to speak-the picture Of Lurline Ban
nOttici
To be Continued.
! TALKED TO TIE WRONG MAN.-One
day an important looking gentleman
took a seat besides quiet man in an
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