Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1903-09-04 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

HARRIS  CHAPTER XXIX. HUSBAND AND WIFE.  waNwv made her way to I.lantinangel And took the tirst train to -Trethol Junction. She returned among her own people as one  had risen from the deaa. From the moment she arrived at the station till the time when she reached the gates of Llynglas, she was b::›i:-.;ed with eager questions, and . .  :land was wrung a hundred times by vscited villagers. She refused, however, to give any information as to her escape from death. la,:.yond the bare fact that she had been Carrie het by some terrible monster, and had maw...zed to elude his clutches in the depths .of the old Tredegar lead mine. She only gave this much information in order to clear Emry-s Tredegar of any connection with the affair, and to set the local tongues wagging in the right direction. She learnt that her father had been buried the day before, and that a place had been left by his side to receive her own body if ever it should be found. _ . . _ . . .  Directly she arrived at Llynglas she sent for the village constable, and persuaded him to send a telegram to the police sergeant who had assisted at the capture of Tredegar. The worthy man slightly resented this step as an insult to his own intelligence, but Mavanwy absolutely declined to make any full statement to him without the advice of his superior. He had, however, the consolation of taking the news of Walroyd's death to Garth. and of becoming himself a planet of considerable brilliance by virtue of reflected light.  When the sergeant arrived, Mavanwy told him the whole story, only keeping back the fact that Tredegar was still hiding in the place where they had escaped into the daylight. She wished to be quite sure that her lover was acquitted of the atrocious crimes laid to his charge before revealing his whereabouts. Sergeant Jones, however, a shrewd and kindly Welshman, guessed at the little secret that she hugged so close to her heart, and hastened to re-assure her on this point. He told her that Walroyd's statement about the murder of Dennis Riley had already confirmed thesuspicion that the police had formed ever since the death of David James—namely, that Tredegar was not responsible for any of the crimes which the newspapers and popular opinions had laid at his door. He told her that even when Tredegar was arrested on the beach, they had in their possession clear evidence that he could not have been the murderer of David James, and that he was only arrestia on the strong representation of John Walroyd, who deposed an oath that Tredegar had attempted his life, and had slain the detective who had followed him from London. The sergeant added that her own story would be confirmed at the earliest opportunity, and that probably the body of the real murderer would be recovered and brought forward as evidence in Tredegar's favour. He finally assured her that the latter could now deliver himself into the hands of the law without any fear of the consequences, and that it was in the interests of justice that he should do so without further delay. When he had gone. Mavanwy went upstairs and put on the only black dress she possessed. Since Tredegar found her in the mine her thoughts had been all for her lover, and the loss of her father had been almost thrust out of her mind. But in the lonely house at Llynglas the past came back to her in a flood of memories. John Morgan had been a hard man, but in his own rough way he had loved his only child. Mavanwy went up to his empty bedroom and burst into tears. Then she tell on her knees beside the bed ar.d prayed. In that hour she only remembered the best and truest part of her father's life, she only recalled the kindly words ; the rest was blotted out from her mind; like the sundial, she only marked the sunny hours. She rose to her feet and clasped hands. Then she crossed over to the and drawing up the blinds, let in t: ,ishine. Then she gave a last look at the ty bed, and going softly from the ed the loot and locked  :PAMIR • :44104 44:fp invollow,„ WA*