The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-06-29

the same year, heard Of the death,
and Immediately visited the grave. Al
I approached 1t, two women came to-
wards me. One was Marian Halcombe.
the other was yelled, but when she
raised this covering from her face,
there looking at me. was Laura, Lady
Clyde. She was pale, nervous and de-
pressed-mOre perfect than ever in
her resemblance to the Woman In
White.
Marian Halcombe told me what she
knew. She had found her sister in
an ayslum. and in the grave at
our feet was her mysterious double.
Sir Percival's holiness and Count
Fosco's cleverness had succeeded in
exchanging the destinies of the two
women. The circumstance had netted
these two gentlemen some 10000
pounds. dc 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 incredulity of her
friends and relatives. This I deter
mined to do. Cast upon the world
alone, the sisters readily agreed to al
! low me to take up their fight, and
determined that Laura should one day
re-enter her fathers estate recognized
/ by all.
It soon was apparent hat Sir Per
cival and Count Fosco were the per.
sons l must fight. 1 worked secretly,
I but directly, for had no funds with
which to carry on fight through the
. courts. The secret with which the
3 Woman In White had threatened Sir
b Percival seemed to me to be the key to
D the whole situation. Through Sc
ries of inquiries, working always un.
. der the watch of spies, found 1t op-
y perfume to look up the marriage regis
t tration Of Sir Percival's parents.
T" found it in a little country church.
i. and it was forged. 1 was no sooner
- in possession Of the knowledge OF his
a illegitimate birth than Sir Percival. in
!. furious desperation to destroy the ev
:. idence. entered the little church by
e night, set fire to the1 structure, and
b through the agency of his own stupid.
ity and an old-fashioned wooden lock
r trapped himself into an awful death.
t. Laura was free of her husband, but
d she remained an outcast-a woman
J. dead to her friends and relatives.
Y was still determined this should no
1t be. MY only hope of success lay II
ID Count Fosco. who alone had the evi
he dence which could establish her lega
a. existence. But to acknowledge Lad.
tie Glydes identity would be to admit hi
to guilt of one of the greatest of crimes
My task looked difficult, but an un
I'd known agency came to my aid.
I'd Count Fosco was traitor to one o
Id the worldwide italian secret societies
re The knowledge came to me by chance
a but 1t served me in good stead. 1wen
I'd to his house enc night and bartere
ne my silence for the evidence of Laura
We existence Count FOsco, in long e.
position, gave the details of his ow
&c and Sir Percival's cunning. Then b
of left England forever. To clear up tn
re last shred of mystery surrounding tn
he Woman in White. I sought out he
Al childhood nome. pleced tOgetner ne
ell story from her old friends and rel,
er, tives. Fate had made her the illegi
ey innate half-sister of her counterpart
,e- and the chance possessor Of Sir Pc
ed civars secret.
My labors ended, Marian Halcomt
nv and her sister, who was now my wifi
an returned to the happy companionshi
on Of those days at Limmeridge hous
e." before Sir Percival's cunning hs
a usurped the consummation Of our Low
,u- On the death Of Laura's uncle son
A." months later, her son and mine BEGAN
er. the heir Of the estate and fortune
ye. the house Of Limmeridge.
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