The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01
HE SAW A f1AN
 SUDDENLY ARISE FROr1 A CRAVE MERE ON HE HAD BEEN LYING

mistress was too i'll to receive him. He suspected that some momentous in terview had just taken place between his old friend and the woman who loved him.
 This suspicion was confirmed when Glanville sent for him ans said, T have explained myself to anoth CT who loves mel wish to explain to you" Then Glanville, whose physical condition seemed to portend rapidly approach ing death, told his boyhood friend the sad story of his wasted life. After leaving sch ool he had by the death of his father come into his title and to an abundance of money. He had wooed and won the daughter of a country gentleman, but had not made her his
 wife. This was the c. D.-the Ger trude Douglas-upon whose grave in the churchyard Pelham had once seen him. The disgrace of the daughter had killed the father, and soon after the mother had died. After travelling about
 the continent for time Glanville and
 Gertrude had returned to England and
 taken house in the country. While
 living there in an unhallowed and
 guilty enjoyment Glanville was sud-
 denly called to the bedside of his moth CT, Lady Glanville, who was lying i'll ,, in the south of France.
 When his mother recovered Reginald
 returned, to find that Gertrude had been grossly, brutally treated by one of his intimates, John Tyrrell; that she had |. I,o6 h0n removed to a madhouse. Almost driven mad himself by the discovery Of the wretched condition of the woman whom he really loved and at the perfdy of the man he had regarded as his friend, Glanville had taken Gertrude from the madhouse and cared for her until her death. when he had buried her beside her mother in the place Pelham had seen. He had then determined upon the ruin of Tyrrell and had employed Thornton. whom he had met at ganlb- l ling resort in Germany and whom he knew to be interruptions, to stick to l his victim, encouraging his natural bent 1 for play until he should be penniless. I He himself. in disguise. watched and | furthered the operation in many ways, ] and the end of it in Paris Pelham had seen. Thornton had told him that Tyr rell was dead, had died of starvation ! in cellar of the French capital Hence
 his surprise and rage when Pelham
 had told him that Tyrrell was not l only alive but prosperous.
 He had followed Tyrrel1 to the New l market races with the intention of forcing a duel with him. but had over
 taken him too late. minute or two before Pelham had arrived upon the
 scene of the murder Glanville had found l his mortal enemy lying dead beside the ! pool. He had taken the locket which Pelham had afterward found and had
 bathed 1t in the blood of his enemy.
 man, he had ridden off. dropping the locket in his haste and agitation. He l had known what suspicious Pelham entertained of him. but this was the l story. He was now about to leave Eng
 land forever and spend the few months of life left to him in some place far
 from the scenes of his crimes and his troubles.
 Thornton had been blackmailing him
 for some time because of his employ ment in the Paris business and was now
 making heavier demands because of his | claim to possess Knowledge which
 would convict Glanville of the murder
 of Tyrrell.
 Scarce had Glanville finished his story