Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-02-02
AHalf Solved Mystery
By MARIA L. COOPER
CopyrSii. 1910 by American Press
Association.

of infinite friends. | persisted IN my
engagement to Edward Illsley. There
was something about him beyond
these warnings that made me uncom-
Portable. He would make an engage
ment to be with me during an evening,
break it and give no satisfactory ex'
PLANTATION After he had done this
several times | resolved the next time
to corner him by forcing him TO tell
me whore he had been. When that
nexi time came round he claimed that
between the hours Of and II he had
been at home. Without his knowledge
asked his sister as to his where
abouts on the evening in question. and
she told me that he had not been at
home, but said he had been with me-
This convinced me that he was de
ceiving me. and ! told him he must
either make a clean breast Of the mat
ter or ! would break our engagement
He took solemn oath that be never
left his home between G o'clock during
the evening he was supposed TO be
with me and 9 O'Clock the next morn
ing When ! asked how that could be
he told me that to tell would involve
others whose acts he had no right to
divulge
Curiosity now became my dominant
motive. / would have broken with my
fiance had It not been that | believed
| could get his secret by remaining en-
gagged to him. whereas If | sent him
away | would never know It, | pre-
tended TO be very much hurt at his
want OF confidence in me. and he
seemed equally put out that did not
feel assured his statement was true
and because should endeayor to
force him to reveal a secret which in
VOWED others
Tie result of q half hours probing
gave me The Impression hat he was
connected with several persons Of both
sexes who were uni'ud hy some secret
bond. but that this bond was Of any
especial Importance did not appear. II
did not in any way explain how Ed
Wtru '"u." nave '''n j." 'he house io'
three hours one evening when he was
supposed to lr VISITING me And what
had me '''i''@ coy 'll'se 'Ar'e hours 10
O" Wl'' 'R' per 9" = NHoSe secrets he
W"u'd Ie'"E hN h'ak'n@ ah e1piaha
ti0u?
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. LOU, az '''e 'I'''e o' 'ue quake " men
."e ueoli5 was removed every oody
was ioolu except ms rms indicated
ln"' ''e I"u proO"oiy oeen KILLED else
w, ""e, ""'' '''ousu ms Ir'ehds Aepl
e,"oN u an 'ue Oooles taken out his
m we never lounu-ot ieast not identi-
-, e.y g l..S | connected his mys-
ferrous ulS"PPs"rauce win the reasons
iol "ulcn uau broken my engage
meht' II had been puzzled before
was more puzzled now. A new devel-
opment was that one of Edwards
most intimate friends was among the
missing and his body was not found.
There were other persons not oc-
counted for, but the man mentioned
was the only one happened to know
as one Of his friends. This deepened
the mystery for me- though for me
alone. for ] never revealed what Ell
ward had told me. or. rather what he
had not told me.
One morning fool; mn d, ro,..,,ro.
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