The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-06-25

the same year, heard Of the DEATH
and Immediately visited the grave. AS
| T approached it, 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
l-npv. She had found her sister IN
an ayslum. and in the grave at
: orr feet was her mysterious double.
. Sir PercivaIs holiness and Count
: Fosco's cIeverness had succeeded IN
!. exchanging the destinies OF the TWO
!: women. The circumstance had netteu
: these two gentlemen some 3O,OOo
mounds. derived from the estate OF
,f Lady Clyde.
ID The fortune was gone beyond recall
r, hut Lady Glyde's true identity might
n vet he established in the face OF sucll
" evidence as her death certificate ahe!
p tombstone, and tire incredulity OF her
%. friends and relatives. This ueteI-
u mined to do. Cast upon the world
az alone the sisters readily agreed TO al
in low me to take up their fight, ana
his determined that Laura should one day
lis re-enter her fathers estate recoghlze'
n by all.
err II soon was apparent that Sir Per
IN cival and Count Fosco were the per
20, sons l must fight. l worked secretiS
at Int directly, for 1 had no funds VIII
in which TO carry on a fight through IN
vas courts The secret with which IN
par Woman in White had threatened 81
Ugh Percival seemed to me to be the Key
to the whole situation. Through 81
RES of inquiries, working always III
in dor the watch of spies, found 1t o.
his portune to look up the marriage req
text tration of Sir Percivars parents
his found II in a little country church'
Aly' and If was forged. l was no SOON
~ ;r nossession of the knowledge or .
and uegitimate birth than Sir PerclVai'
not furious desperation to destroy the
III idence entered the little church
,ade nigb+ SET fire to the structure, a
ems. through the agency of his own Sup
itv and an old-fashioned wooden lo'
ear framed himself into an awful death
Jart- Laura was free of her husband
GOOD che remained an outcast-a WON
nm dood tn her friends and relatives.
very was still determined this shoulu
night he NV only hope of success lay
Ioid Count Fosco. who alone had the
, the dance which could establish her lie
com- existence. But to acknowleuge ~
white Glvde's identity would be to admit
av 70 puilt of one of the greatest OF GRIN
cd nv task looked difficult, but an
ossad known agency came to my ald'
80 Count Fosco was q traitor to ont
head the worldwide Italian secret socle'
.rIovo The knowledge came to me by cna
- Int # served me in good stead. ~
capped to his mousse one hlsn1 90 Tor
~ the nv silence for the evidence OF Lau
drove existence. Count Fosco, in long
nosition, gave the details OF MS
o-;doo and Sir Percival's cunning. TheI
TO of loft England forever. To clear up
+bora last shred of mystery surrounding
g.. tho woman in White, sought out
, Hal childhood home. Ipieced together
intel story from her old friends ana
sister tives. Fate had made her the Ill
They innate half-sister of her counter
nd he and the chance possessor OF Sir
dmired civars secret.
NV labors ended, Marian Haze
:. INV and her sister, who was now my
,Iorian returned to the happy companion
,rotior of those days at Limmeridge
,oauon before Sir PercivaPs cunning
civ a usurped the consummation of our
- ON the death of Laura's uncle
r,.;od months later, her son and mine Dc
,,r r, the heir of the estate and fortu
: 60 the house of Limmeridge.
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