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

SYNOPSIS.  Dr. Williams is a young physician in practice at Richmond, where he 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 dootor's house. He directs that she is to be carried into the house, but on her reeovery she can give no account of herself. However, a blip of paper containing an address shows that she was on her wax to visit the doctor, and later an envelope is discovered in her possession, 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 page boy is bribed and murdered the same night, and the doctor and his sister see a face 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 it VW evident that those who were trying to gain peeees.sion of her parson had no friendly intent. The first attempt to gain possession of Marcella is frustrated by D. Williams, said later he and his friend Mortimer go for a stroll. Suddenly a cab dashes past at a furious pace, and they caught a glimpse et 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, IV she said. An inspector from Scotland Yard calls on the doctor, who relates to him the whole storT, and receives information from the official about the identity of "the man at the window." The next day but one, the doctor and his sister are drugged by the servant who puts something into the food. During the time they are unconscious Marcella is spirited away, how 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 conciliate 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 advises his son to leave the whole affair alone. This he refuses to do. A letter arrives with the news that Marcella had called in person at the solicitors for her money. Dr. Williams and Mortimer go to the Hotel Cecil to see the lady, and find that it is someone else, reinseicably like Miss Garcia, who is masquerading under her name. Just as they leave the hotel a note is mysteriously slipped into Dr. Williams(' hand containing iniormation that Marcella is imprisoned near Hampstead Heath, and is in great danger. 1)r. Willierns find Lucy Belton, 14,1arcella'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 sod succeeds in doing so just in time, Dr. Williams himself being wounded.