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| with the forgery. rOlloW eacH SIeP.
Bendigo never sees his supposed
brother once; you never see him
again. Your united search through
the woods is futile; but Jenny and
her husband in the motor boat bring
news of him. Robert must see Ben
| digo all alone--and he must have
| food and lamp in his secret hiding
place.
"Wcll, it's fixed up and Ben de-
cides to meet his brother after mid
night, alone; but the old sailors
pluck wavers--who shall blame him?
and he arranged in secret with
you that you should be hidden in his
tower room when Robert Redmayne
comes to keep the appointment.
Nov the next thing puzzled me
for a moment; but l think l know
what happened. Only Pendean's
final statement, if he ever makes
one, will serve to clear the point;
but l can guess that at that first ina
terview with. Ben he tumbled to the
fact that you were hidden in the
tower rooma
\ AuoS lying SOS MS OWH pIaHS
had to be modified pretty extensive
ly. Whether he meant to finish off
Ben that night, you can't be sure;
but there is very little doubt of it.
Everything was planned
"Now we get another lifelike re-
port of runaway Robert; and finally
Bendigo consents to visit him in
his hiding place. The lamp is going
to burn and show the particular
cave on that honeycombed coast
where Bendigo's brother is supposed
to be concealed. Another night
comes and Ben goes to his death.
1.-TWO Redmaynes have gone to
their account and there remains but
one. Meantime the course of Nue
love runs smoothly and Doria mar
ries his wife again."
CHAPTER VXIII.
Confession.
! During the autumn assizes, Mich
ael Pendean was tried at Exeter and
condemned to death for the murders
of Robert, Bendigo and Albert Red
mayne. He offered no defense and
he was only impatient to return to
his seclusion within the red walls
of the county Jail, where he occu-
pied the brief balance. of his days
with just such statement as Peter
Cams had foretold that he would
seek to make.
| This extraordinary document was
very characteristic of the criminal.
Hero is his statement, word for
word as he wrote it.
! MY APOLOGIZE.
\ "Hearken, We judges! There is
another madness besides, and it is
before the deed. All! Ye have net
gone deep enough into this soul!
Thus speaketh the red Judge: ''Why
did this criminal commit murder?
He meant to rob- tell you, how
ever, that his, soul hungered for
blood, not booty; he thirsted for
the happiness of the knife!,"
And again:
"What is this man? A coil of wild
serpents at war against themselves
so they are driven apart to seek
their prey in the world"
So wrote one whose are and wis
dom are nought to this rabbit-brain-
ed generation: but it was given to
me to find my meat and drink with
in his pages and to see my own
youthful Impressions reflected and
crystallized with the brilianc9. of
genius in his stupendous mind.
, Remember, l, who. write, am not
, thirty years old.
II AS young man without expert
ence sometimes asked myself if
some spirit from another order of
: beings than my own had not been
slipped into my human carcass.f It
seemed to me that none with whom
l came in contact was built on. or
near, my own pattern, for had on
~ met one person as yet-my moth
I er-who did not suffer from the ma
] lady OF a bad conscience. NV faith
er and his friends wallowed in this
. complaint. '''', ST.
At fifteen years of age 1 killed a
4 man, and found, in murder under
{ taken for very definite reasons. a
3 Thrill beyond expectation. That i'm
5 cident is unknown; the death of my,
, 1atners foreman, Job Trevose. has
not been understood till now. He
lived at Paul, village upon the
heights nigh Penzance. Among the
e asn-cur'ng sheds one day, unseen,
, chanccd to hear Trevose sneak of
. my mother to another man and de-
, clare that she did evil and dishon-
ored my father.
From that moment I doomed Tre.
vose to death and, some weeks lat
en- after many failures to win the
right conditions, caught him alone
IN sea fog. l. walked beside him
,or 1i1ty PAGES, then fell behind.
) leaped at his neck and hurled him
, over the cliff in an instant.
MY life proceeded orderly; 1 chose
| the profession of dentist, as being
, likeiy to introduce me to people of
a more interesting type than INV
fathers acquaintance; and II Kent
an open mind for myself, but a shut
mind for others. .,
The brainless Robert RedmavneA
brought his niece to spend her
school holiday with him and dis.
. covered in the seventeen-vear.old
I school girl magnificent and na6an
simplicity of mind. combined with .
creek loveliness, Of body that Great
ed in me CONFUSION.
we loved one another devoteAlv
from the first understanding