Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1903-08-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SYNOPSIS.  Dr. Williams is a young physician practice at Richmond, where lie resides with his sister Helen. Their father has not been heard of for years, when one day a foreigner —Emmanuel Garcia, by name—calls on Williams, bringing an introduction from his father. The young doctor and his friend render an important service to this .man. Some years after on a snowy day in winter, a lady is found ill just outside the doctor's house. He directs that she is to be carried into the house, but on her recovery she can give no account of herself. However, a slip of paper colitaining an address shows that she was on her way to visit the doctor, and later an envelope is discovered in her possess's:al, enclosing £lO.OOO, with Dr. Williams' name on the outside. The mystery deepens when it is apparent that there is a conspiracy afoot affecting the lady. The i page boy s bribed and murdered the same night, and the doctor and his sister see a Lace at the window when they are examining the money which the doctor recognises as one of the men who were following Garcia. He goes to town to consult Mortimer, and together they resolve to fight the assassins. It is ultimately found that the lady's name is Marcella Garcia, but ii. was evident that those who were trying to gain possession of her person had no friendly intent. The first attempt to gam possession of Marcella is frustrated by Dr. Williams, and later he and his friend Mortimer go for a stroll. Suddenly a cab dashes I:l2St at a furious pace, and they caught a glimpse ci Marcella and a man. Rushing back home they found that she had, indeed, left the house; but while they are talking she returns, having been shopping, as she said. An inspector from Scotland Yard calls on the doctor, who relates to him the whole story. and receives information from the official about the identity of "the man at the window." The next day hat one, the doctor and his sister are drugged by the servant who puts something into the food. During the time they are unconscious Maros lla is spirited away, h, w or by what means no one knows. The only story which can be got out of the servant is that she went out of her own accord. Helen goes to try to , ooneiliate their Aunt Maria, whom Dr. Williams' championship of Marcella has thoroughly annoyed. She returns, accompanied by that lady, and by a gentleman, who is introduced to Mr Williams as his father. It turns out that Dr. Williams knows all about the lady who calls herself Marcella. and advisee his son to leave the whole affair al-one. This he refuses to do. A letter arrives with the news that Mar. cella had called in person at the solicitors for her money. Dr. Williams and Mortimer go to the Hotel (\scil to 800 the lady, and find that it is someone else, reinadcably like Miss Garcia, who is masquerading under her name. Just as they leaxa the hotel a note is mysteriously slipped into Dr. Williams' hand containing information that Marcella is imprisoned near Hampstead Heath, and is in great danger. Dr. Williams find Lucy Belton, Marcella's maid, at his home, and learns their history. He is called to rescue Marcella by a boy, who has been sent for his assistance and succeeds in doing so just in time, Dr. Williams himself being wounded. Alareella is taken back to Riehmond, and the first sight of Lucy Belton brings hack her memoine She relates all that happened before she reached the doctor's house. 1)r. Williams and Mortimer cable to San Francisco inquiring into the truth as to Garcia's reported death. Bertholdi, the chief of the conspirators, is captured by the