Year: 1877

| house, which was about quarter of q
mile away, and then leaving the guides
to follow with our traps, we pushed rap
idly on to our wagon. The next eve
ming we reached the hotel, Mort nearly
crazy with excitement, and in not
much better condition.


Now | had not informed the farmer
and his wife of having seen Rowland.
Neither had told the guides, who had
come up too late to see him.


To each and all of these L simply re-
lated the finding of the body of the
young lady, who proved to be from
Montreal, visiting the old farmer, who
was a connection of hers.


acted thus on both reason and inn
pulse, which worked together in this
wise:


Impulse and reason both agreed that
as no human being but Captain Row
land knew how the young lady came to
her death, any story which he-Captain
Rowland-saw fit to tell must necessa-
rily be accepted. Impulse alone sug-
gested TO me possible means of discov-
ering the truth of the occurrence, and
as Mort had not seen the captain, but
only the body and its surroundings,
which So recalled his dream, had only
to keep my own counsel, aud did. The
farmer and his wife assumed that she
must have wandered into the woods, as
hAr and fa, anaiHAnf nj Z
into the pool, and | did not attempt TO
change their opinion. They knew
nothing Of her having had any visitor
that afternoon, and 1 left them mourn
ing for the sad accident, and the. pain
frl duty which had fallen upon them,
of communicating the awful tidings to
the young lady's friends in Montreal.


At the hotel, the first persons whom
we saw, were the Sanfields, accom-
panied, as usual, by Captain Rowland.
He seemed in his customary frame of
mind, and, as l started messenger
with a telegram for New York, l
ground my teeth in rage that time
must elapse before l could expose him.


Two days later package came to me
by private hand, and that same evening
invited number of gentlemen in
Guiding Captain Rowland to come to
my room and examine rare painting.
They came, the captain in excellent spi-
rits, holding his Eyeglasses in readiness.


The painting stood upon an easel, and
4, 10
dies, with reflector, arranged in front
OF it, threw brilliant light upon the
gloomy covering. The gentlemen were
arranged in a semi-circis ia front of
the easel, Captain Rowland in'the CEN
ter, and drew aside the velvet cover
ing.


| saw Rowland start as though he
had been stung; he gave yell which
was positively inhuman and sprang for
the door. There he found me with q
revolver pointed at his face. and in two
minutes lac was in the custody of two
detective officers from New York.


That evening lie confessed every
thing. Entangled with the poor giIl.
he had vainly tried 10 buy her silence.
that he might marry the rich Miss SAN
field. Failing in that, he had lured tue
girl TO accompany him in walk
through the woods, and had ether
pushed her into the pool.


1 hoped TO have the pleasure of see
ing him satisfactorily ex x-cuted accord
ing 10 law, but, in this he defeated
justice. He bit a hole In his arm while
confined in the prison awaiting his
trial, and bled to death.


Thus Mort's dream-picture turned
States evidence, but as to the secret
power by which this silent but sufficient
witness was created, months before the
incident had occurred-I give it up.