Year: 1876

LINK THE FIFTH.-( Continued)


AMBITION.


IA TREASURE HID IN FIELD-AND LOST.


The inquest on the body of Helena
Hurlingham was resumed on the follow
ing Thursday. The police reported that,
although they had taxed their powers to
the utmost. they had obtained no clew
to the identity of the two mysterious
gentlemen" All that they had been
able to discover was this. The keepers
Of the house, who affirmed themselves to
be strictly respectable" had never seen
either of the gentlemen before. They
admitted that they were aware that gen
tlemen did visit their lodger-whose
rooms, by-the-way, were well furnished
aud that she lived very gay life; also
that several times an elderly person, in a
cloak and black felt hat, had been seen
going up to and descending from these
rooms, but always at night, and no one
had caught glimpse of his face. On
the particular afternoon of the poor
"lady's' death, as the maid-servant testi-
fed, an unusual circumstance happened
Mrs. Dollhouse had company In the af-
ternoon. She called the girl to the door
and ordered some refreshments. The
| girl observed within a gentleman whose
hair was turning gray, but who kept his
back to her, and could not be further dis
tinguished in the gloom. How he got
1 there, and when, no one knew. The
| quick eye OF the maid had noticed an
other thing A large cloak and black
| felt hat had been thrown upon the sofa
opposite the door.


Some time after the girl had handed in
| the refreshments, which, as we have seen,
were on a liberal scale the landlady
heard the front door open, and steps
upon the stairs. Coming out of her room
from behind tho stairs, and glancing up,
she saw the back of a tall, slender man,
whose hair appeared to be dark, and
whose dress was not distinguished in the
deepening dimness of the afternoon; but
she distinctly heard him knock at and
enter the sitting-room door of her up
stairs lady lodger. This was about ten
minutes before the awful event Thus
there were no other evidences of the
identity of these persons than the glance
of a couple of women at the backs Of a
| couple of men, and a cloak and hat,
which had vanished


| The keeper OF the house testified that
the lady" though her profession or prac-
tice might have been questionable, al
ways behaved like lady of rank, and,
/ when she mad money, loved to surround
herself with the conveniences and knick-
nacks of grand houses Her only fault
in the estimation of her hostess was that
she sometimes took an uninterrupted
spell of drinking She had Just ended
such a spell day or two before his death
! They always knew when it was coming
on. She became moody and silent, be-
ing ordinarily vivacious; would not go
out, ate nothing, sent repeatedly, first for
stout, then for gin, then steadily for
brandy by the bottle.


"And do you mean to say you used to
get it for her p cried the Coroner in a
voice of thunder.


well, Sir, what was one to do? You
can't dlsplease your own dodgers, and
them in the house for months and
months, and you making your bread out
of them, and them never doing no harm
to you nor your furniture"


when she got started. then, how long
would she keep this upY


"Well, Sir, never longer than a week
Sir; or ten days at most, oil and on.


"And how much gin and brandy would
she IKE in that time 2


l "Well, Sir, she WASH SO bad as some