The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21

equipment paid for itself In a compare
lively short time and then Mrs. Car
teret' was able to do thing she had
hoped for long time-dlscount her
bills. With the best of equipment,
with fair balance in bank and eX-
cellent credit. she was able to do far
greater volume Of business than the
plant ever had done before. There
were no leaks. no eXtrava gances. no
fritterinG away of time or money. The
woman took n delight In her work. and
as the business grew and prospered she
was happier than she ever had been
before
Business. no matter how attrac tive,
is not everything. Woman. a young
woman. pretty or otherwise. likes COM
partnership. Bensonhurs, is a plea SAINT
place with view of pretty la WINS. yachts
and ocean Mrs Cartcret had neighbors
who were inclined to be social bile and
who wondered nj the young woman
who went so faithfully 10 town by the
same train every business morning and
who read so much, and whose house
hold consisted only OF herself and her
two maids. Somehow Mrs. Carteret
came to know and be quite sociable
with first one and then another OF
! these nciGhbors, and then az business
cares became less and less pressing
she began to accept invitations to 20
out. and naturally she invite cd her ne
| ~ formed acquaintances to her home
| She was a widow. charming one and
In business they all knew. and that
she was well-to-do was evident from
the manner in which she lived
One OF the friends Mrs Cartere,
| lie was Il good clean living, well
principled loung man, who admired
Mrs Carteret from their first meeting
and for whom Mrs. Carteret quickly
showed Partially. They We're con
i genial In nearly every way, and their
[; friendship in time ripened into anec-
ton. One night when Plympton pro.
posed marriage Mrs carteret was
| startled. With a woman's keenness il
| such matters she knew a proposal wa.
! certain, and she had determined Il
refuse him. but when the propose
! came she realized for the first tim,
| that she loved the man. loved him a.
! she had not loved her husband In.
| stead of rejecting him she suddenl,
! turned TO passionate longing fol
him. but it was necessary for him Il
| know her story. Then she told hin
of the disappearance of her husband o
the search. of the years Of struggle ant
! or the doubt whether she was wife OF
| widow.
Plympton, secure In the knowledg
that the woman loved him. told he
1 there was only. one thing for them &
do. They must at once institute
search more thorough more patien
\ than any the police could have made
If Carteret was alive the fact must b
ascertained. If he was dead the fac
must be established, Surely a mai
could not disappear OFF the face OF tn
earth so absolutely aud leave no trace
Mrs. Carteret agreed with him. an
they engaged one of The greatest di
, tective agencies in America to TAX
I the case. The new search began les
tkan a year ago Patiently every sid
of the life OF Henry Carteret was yon
over by the detectives. Months afte
months they worked, but made no pro
\ gress I, seemed as IL the myster
7 was 10 remain mystery forever. Th
detectives. tired of sending reports Q
failures. ceased reporting Mrs Car
. teret, going to work regularly ever
day. was business woman in the busl
> ness hours of the day and at nigh
gave herself up to social relaxation
IL Plympton. eager. inpatient chatting q
the delay 10 their marriage. was he
I, constant companion. More and nor
she was coming 10 mis- idea that II WA
y ldlc to wait longer: that her husban
$ surely was dead. Then early in Apr
: there came a letter from the detectiv
n lGgency that almost broke the woman
y heart. fa
: The long search was ended. I'll
mysterm was solved. Mrs. Carriers
was not widow, She was wifi
Henry Carteret was no; dead. He wa
alive; a prisiner In Sing Sing servin
a life sentence for murder. And the
followed tho story OF the crimes. Thei
was nothing tn the murder connecte
{. with the strike. Carteret brutn
savage by nature. had killed a casi
companion in drunken quarrel. Whe
arrested he had given an ssumed nam
When sober and fully cognizant Of a
the. facts ne had determined to do one
the few unselhsh things he ever ha
. done-shield all those OF his name fro
heing stained by his crimes, He. hi
determined to- communicate with !
+, ,one, hide behind his nnonym and
( blot himself out The narrowness
his Brooklyn life and some oSertowe
Ing sensation of the time helped nj
In this plan and he was sentence
and went TO prison and remained the