The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-10-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MISS M. E. BRADDON;  Author of "Lady Andley's Secret," "The Fatal Three," "The Day Will Come," "Lost for Love. • "The Doctor's Wife," "Whose Was the Hand I' • "One Life, One Love," "Thou Art the Man." "Sone of Fire," &a  Nothing had ever been heard of the vanished daughter in the Clapkont household. If the father knew her fate—whether she were living ot dead— he kept his own cosinsel. None of her belongings —clothes, trinkets, girlieh possessions—Zhad ever been taken out of the .house. They were there after,thirty years, mouldering in the sealed rooms. Undicater had mice heard 'his master, in a moment of irritation, remind ,his grandson that he had other heirs—those who might be dearer to him than the offspring of that shurlied prig, his son. This speech had impressed the old servant; and he inclines to think that the daughter is still living, and that her father max have forgiven her, or that *he has left ofspring n?lioni he knows and protects. • - •  My progrces up to t us point was satisfactory, lbut I found it difficult to get any further, as Ludgater b.,a forgotten the name .dt the "sprig et nobility," as well as the noble .sree on which he grew. That threat di the old wan's was an cation that had 0,3 be followed --for here was at once the euggestion of motive—could I trace the offspringof the relrillions (laughter in the murdered Lisa RIISSIII% Yet it would be lard to believe Gun old Greswold couf.d boast of Theirs near and dear, and leave one of them to sirk so low as that unhappy comig woman had fain. long before her tragical death. If he knew,,eif their existence he would eurely hare eared for 41e111. If he had no knowledge of lie windid hardly have tattered ! ouch a threat. _  - , I trit‘d to realise the posiMon of Other Greswold —brueght up in the hone of a wealthy grandfather, ostensibly his sole iwir. but threatened with the existence of a hidden rival, or rivals. Suppose there were one 'rival only, and die Man knew who :Ind what she was—her tallen, friendless condition ; suppose he kasw that is will were made in, her favour or were llikely to be made in her favour --there was motile-enough in the nand of a villein, for,' putting her tout of the world. Could I isr2lieve,), young masie..f Oliver Gresweld's presumed that-atter- a nem of blameless lie, whose risks: •WII t, never raised except in a good cause. whose •sloquence conlb draw tears, Who had laboured early and lair • for the help and improvewent Af his fellow-mot, ; could I believe thud under the apotless skin of eta. philanthropist there beat the'iseart of a murderer ? Well, yes; setter fiveand-twenty years' experienee of cilium, nature's dark•side I can belivse in anybody's wi:ledness. Lee.• no limit on tuyteif there. My tick tdilliculty is to believe in humor.; goodness. ilitt somehow I libtlVildover, and I Idea working for,hint. My business is now to learn all'Wildover .0411 tell me about dm unhappy girl's anstredents— he 'lltatt been very reticent on this point—and to follow up any doe fez' can give me till 1 discover bet history and parvntage. The odds are that, : after taking intinitetrouble, I shall find bier totally ' unconnected with the Greswohrfamily, and to find • nn-self no nearer the discovery of any 'link between , Oliver Greswold and the murder in Gynemr-street. j .rite mere fact of hi, being a resident ist that street : ausder is false namomay have no benring on illi murder ; there am many motives for hiding: dellr ' Folitics, love. '1,74 with a man of sareswold's i Irespixiability it. is ,not east to suppose any such 1 motive; nor was tie re any bint of a tirdticoat at 1 .... . 1  , 'lite lodging-h .ouse. 1 . And there is deer curious fact that tier• man who , bought a pistol ii. Holborn is described as of iniddle-heiglit, slim, studious-looking. sad wearing II amoke-coloured spectacles. The work will beetiow and may be uneus?essful, but ! it suits me better ti.an picking caterpillars off the k. cosebushee, or watar:ing the geraniums; do the long I, iwnimer evenings '  iihihlik 111