The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-13
THE WOMAN I'm WHITE
BY WILKIE COLLINS
Condensation by Alice Fox Pitts, New Bedford, Mass.

cleverness had succeeded in exchang.
ing the destinies of the two women.
The circumstances had netted these
two gentlemen some 10000 pounds, de-
rived from the estate of Lady Clyde.
The fortune was gone beyond recall,
but Lady Glyde's true identity might
yet be established in the face of such
evidence as her death certificate and
tombstone, and the incredibly of her
friends and relatives. This l deter
mined to do. Cast upon the world
alone, the sisters readily agreed to
allow me to take up their fight, and
determined that Laura should one day
re-enter her fathers estate recognizd
by all.
1t was soon apparent that Sir Perez
val and Count Fosco were the persons
must fight. l worked secretly but d.
rectly, for l had no funds with which
to carry on fight through the courts
The secret with which the Woman in
White had threatened Sir Percival
seemed to me to be the key to the
whole situation. Through a series of
inquiries, working always under the
watch of spies. l found it opportune
to look up the marriage registration of
Sir Percivals parents. l found it in
little country church-and it was
forged. was no sooner in possession
of the knowledge of his illegitimate
birth than Sir Percival, in furious
desperation to destroy the evidence,
entered the little church by night, set
agency of his ow nstupidity, and an
oldfashioned wooden lock, trapped
himself into an awful death.
Laura was free of her husband, but
she remained an outcast-a woman
dead to her friends and relatives. l
was still determined this should not
be. My only hope of success lay in
Count Fosco, who alone had the evil
dence which could establish her legal
existence. But to acknowledge Lady
Glyde's identity would be to admit his
guilt to one of the greatest of crimes.
My task looked difficult, but an I'M
known agency came to my aid.
, Count FOsco was traitor to one of
the worldwide Italian secret societies.
The knowledge came to me by chance,
but it served me in good stead. l went
to his house one night and bartered
my silence for the evidence of Laura's
existence. Count Fosco, in long ex-
position, gave the details OF his own
and Sir Percivals cunning. Then he
lClI IOIefSI U Cl0dT up
the last shred of mystery surrounding
the Woman in White, l sought out her
childhood home. l pieced together
her story from her old friends and
relatives. Fate had made her the
illegitimate half-sister of her counter
part and the chance possesso rof Sir
Percivals secret.
My labors ended, Marian Halcombe
and her sister, who was now my wife,
returned to the happy companionship
OF those days at Limmeridge House
before Sir PercivaIs cunning had
usurped the contamination of our love.
On the death of Laura's uncle some
months later, her son and mine be-
came the heir of the estate and for
tune of the house of Limmeridge.
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