The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-18

| ler. l3ut tell me. ain not see her
What does she look likc2"
She's siclsly image OF nv wife"
answered Sir Percival and Marian
heard an eager exclamation from Eos.
CO. followed by curious laugh.
| IL mad been raining hard all the
time. When Mt last the conversation
was ended, Marian was so cold and
stiff that she could scarcely arise. she
| crawled back into her room and foil
sensclcss on the floor.
d, mus The. they found her the next morn
| lnS, deIlrlous Count fosco at once
! sent his Wife to London, WHENCE she
returned with nurse, small, wiry,
sly person named Mrs; Rubelle, Within
fey Weeh and me illness ness became became deadly
! fore she was out OF danger,
spontaneously with the change for
the better Count Fosco picked quar-
| rel with the doctor. with the unavoid
able result that he dropped the case
| Indignantly. on the same day sir
| Percival announced that he would
| break UP the establishments He dis
charged all the servants at once. With
| In tWentS-four hours there remained
In IT.. besides the family. only Mrs.
Rubelle and thick witted maid.
/ Marian. could not leave her room for
/ q few days. When she did she found
| Marian's room empty. Sir Perciyal
appeared ana told her, that Marian
l
| wife for their new home in ST Johns
| Wood. in London, where she intended
| to stay for few days before she went
| on to Llmmeridge House for change
| of air.
| Laura at once insisted on following:
| and Sir Percival. so recently bent on
| keeping her Il prisoner, made no OBJ
lection. but. indeed, wrote TO the count
| to meet her. She went the following
| morning, quite alone. Sir Percival waa
not even at the house when she de-
parted, but had absented himself on
| some excuse.
Marian Halcombe had not, however,
left Blackwater Park. She was lying
| at that moment In another wing OF
removed secretly while In the deep
! sleep which follows, such fevers as
| hers. Unable to rise, unable TO guess
the meaning of her strange removal.
| that Laura had gone into the hands of
/ Fosco, whose true character she now
! knew
In two days her worst forebodings
were more than realized The news
| came from Fosco that Laura had died
from heart disease in Ms house the
day after she arrived there.
Three. months afterward Walton
| Hartright returned from Central
| America. lie had been through many
| strange adventures and many pc->ss
| but nothing had served to heal the
| hurt of his heart. So he arrived in
| England with the image of Laura
| Fairlie brighter than ever in his soul
| TO learn that she was dead
I In a quiet autumn afternoon he
| reached the graveyard al L4immeridgc,
| where he had once waited for the wo-
| man in white. He iSneeled beside the
! scription: Sacred to the Memory OF
Laura, Lady CLYDE" He laid his head
| on the pedestal and closed his weary
! eyes
/ flow Jonp i,p Law thore he did NOT
know low I'm time ~ passed s M" 9nheeded. But But
| suddenly he heard footsteps Looking
up. he saw two yelled women, One
Marian Holcombe-Marian, but how
| changed The face was worn and
wasted as II years had passed over It.
| and the eyes We're large and fright
ened. The other woman came slowly
| on. She stepped to the side of che
| cross till her gown touched the line
Sacred TO the Memory of l,aura----
utterable dread, saw Laura, Lady
| CLYDE, looking at him over the grave.
His heart turned faint. His mind
] sank into darkness and confusion. 1T
| was long before he could grasp the
story that Marian Halcombe had to
/. tell
| For three weeks after she received
| the news from Fosco she remained un-
| able to move. Then she hurried at once
10 Limmeridge House There she found
| two letters. One was. from her old
once. He reported that he had 'nyes-
tigated the circumstances thoroughly,
| having seen servants III the Eosco
called in, and the undertaken. There
| was absolutely no doubt that Laura !
death had been perfectly natural: she
had been overcome with heart disease
ment, and the highly reputable ply,
i sicians who attended her had watched
/ the progress of the illness from The
/ first attack to the end
The other letter was one from Iouni
Fosco to Mr.. Fairlie. It gave all the IN
!! details of Laura's arrival IN a sadlg
weakened state, told hoy sp, she she, h had
heart had succumbed to the strain. In
a postscript he mentioned that Anne
| Catherck had been captured ana re,
turned t. the asylum shn mirh f W trv Il
annoy him with letters. because her
! insane hatred of Sir Percival had
taken new turn. She was now una Der
the delHsiop ~ thas ad Ine G IVA ho' ANS
nesnite all this evidence Marian coulc
not rid herself OF the belief that her
/, sister had been murdered. She could
/ not rest until she had set private &c,
tectives to investigate and watch an
ported negatively Sir Perciyal had
gone to Paris before Lady Clyde died
4 and was living there quietly. Inere
was absolutely nothing suspicious
| about the Foscos. The servants mad
] seen the lady arrive. had seen her
faint, and had been present during
j the illness and at her death. Every
/ thing was perfectly open.
Rolled at all points, she decided 70
see Anne Catherick. she went to the
1 asylum and was directed to part OF
the grounds where the patient was
4, then walking with an attendant
i When she got there she founu--hiluTa
For moment she sank under the
shock. Then she nerved herself and
4 swiftly formed plan. 1t succeeded
admirably. The next day. when Laura
i was taken for walk, as usual, the at
4 tendant, who had yielded to heavy
/ bribe, auowed her to escape. ina
night found the two sisters safe "
! I,immeridge House,
! Laura had not much to tell; indeed
| her mind had been terribly shaken by
I the frightful events that had CROWDED
4 on her. She remembered only that
4 Count Fosco had met her and taken
1 her to a house in London, where ne
gay gave her something. to eounteraot. 4, z
/ Sudden faintness, She became still
4 more giddy. Two strangers entered
4 the room, looked at her curiously ano
"A asked her curious questions. Then
4 she tainted again and when she re-
4 ns.a,,aa She was in the asylum.