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JAE. cvmiun, ism. »t a.* auniAM's sons. CHAPTER XV. MR. MITCHKL RXP1.AIN8 A FEW TTIINOS. Imniediutoly upou bi§ arrival iu New York Mr. Barueg went to bis office. Here be was slightly surprised to find Lucette. •■Well,” said he tersely. "I came here,” said the girl, "so that I could report to you the minute you got here. There is no time to lose. ” ‘‘Why, what is up?” “ Your plan about my getting infor mation from the East Orange poetofflce did not work. The man said that, though he would like to serve you, he was afraid it might be construed into tam pering with the mails; that you would need an order from the postmaster gen eral I went to work then on the other line and began a systematic examina tion of every house in the place. It was hard work, but at last I found the child. You don’t want details now, because she has been taken away sgaia Mitch- el went down yesterday and brought her to New York. ” “Why did you not follow him and see where he took her?” “I did, and this time I am sure he did not suspect that 1 was after him. He took the child to the Remseus. ” ‘‘To the Remsens? What can that mean?” ‘‘I don't know. Bnt Mitchel and Miss Remsen are to be married at St Pat rick’s cathedral at 10 o’clock this morn ing. ” “Not if I can stop it,” replied the detective, and he hastened up to the church with the result told in the last chapter. Promptly at 9 o'clock Mr. Barnes presented himself at the Fifth Avenue hotel accompanied by Mr. Neuilly. They were asked to go up to Mr. Mitch- el’s apartments, and there they were greeted by that gentleman as affably as though they had been of his wedding party. Indeed he began the conversation in rather a jocular way, saying: “Ah! Mr. Barnes, delighted that now I can entertain you more at my leisura This morning, you see, I was in a great hurry. You called at a very inopportune time, and I am afraid that I was rather abrupt ” “Mr. Mitchel, I am not in the humor for nonsensa This is a very serious visit I assure you. This gentleman is Mr. Neuilly of New Orleans, and he has come all this distance to aid the cause of justice. ’’ “Delighted to meet you, Mr. Neuilly, I am sure,’’said Mr.Mitchel, approach ing and extending his hand so cordially that the elder man took it, though he had thought that he would rather han dle hot coals than the hand of the man who he supposed was guilty of wrong ing the daughter of his old friend in the south. Mr. Mitchel did not seem to notice his agitation, but, begging them to be seated, he himself took a comfort able chair and continued, “Now, Mr. Barnes, I am wondering if it is possible that you have traced my wife's ruby as far away as New Orleans?” “I have not been looking for it. I sup pose you know why I wished to stop your marriage?” “Why, no; not precisely. What was your reason?” “If you do not know it, why did you get married yesterday?” “I might reply that it is often done, but I will be honest and tell you that such a procedure never occurred to me till I beard that you were coming home, Then, you see, I thought that you might take the idea into your head—you do get odd notions, you must admit—that I ought not to get married just now. I knew you well enough to believe that if you did harbor a thought of that nature you would not hesitate to interfere. I did you no injustice there, for that is just what you tried to do, you see. Con sequently, as I had set my heart on be ing married in the cathedral precisely at the time appointed, I just took the bull by the horns and persuaded my lit tle girl to marry me yesterday. That is my story in full, I assure you. Now, what was your object?” “You know it very well, and all this yarning is pure bluster. You know well enough that I wanted to use Miss Emily Remsen as a witness against you, and that I could not do so after she became Mrs. Mitchel.” “OhI Well, yes; I admit that idea was in my mind, Mr. Barnes. And now —what are you going to do about it?” “In the first place I shall arrest you for abducting the child who was In the care of Rose Montalbon.” Mr. Barnes expected some surprise from his adver sary, but he was disappointed. “Yes, ’ said he, "and then?” “Then I shall compel you, through the court, to reveal her present hiding place and to produce her. ” “I think you might have trouble to do that were it not that I do not object to it. In fact, we will reverse your order of things and begin with the production of the child. Emily!” In answer to his call his wife came into the room, bring ing with her a beautiful girl. Her hus band arose, and taking the little one by the hand coolly approached Mr. Neuilly, and said: “Rose, this is Mr. Neuilly. He was a dear good friend to your moth er, and has come all the way from Now Orleans to see you. I think he would like to kiss you, would you not, Mr. Neuilly?” That gentleman seemed much moved. To him the vision of loveliness stand ing demurely before him brought back the memory of the long ago. She re minded him of another little girl whose growth into budding womanhood he had watched tenderly, having in his youth loved her mother, the grandpar ent of the child before him. His suit hud not been successful, and for love of that woman he had remained a bachelor all his days. Now be could see chang ing expressions iu this young face, w hich reminded him of both those worn en who had been dear to him. Without a word he drew her toward him, and kissed her once. Then be arose, still holding her hand, and led her toward the door of tbs next room: there he kissed her once more, this time on ine forehead, and then bade her wait, shut ting the door after she left him. Then, turning with a fury iu his heart and re- ; pressed-passion in his voice, he exclaim ed: “Mr. Mitchel, either you are the most contemptible villain on the face of this earth, or else there is some hideous mistake here. Explain it, man I I must know at once I” “Must, Mr. Neuilly, is a word that I seldom obey. But I know how you have suffered, and have no desire to prolong this interview a moment more than is absolutely necessary. First, however, 1 must understand the situation. What do yon and Mr. Barnes here think it to be?” “I will explain briefly, ” said the de tective, “provided your wife will with draw.” “My wife Is now a part of myself,” said Mr. Mitchel, proudly placing an arm around her as she stood beside him. “You need not hesitate to speak. She has promised to share my life with me, to take me as I am. She will begin the task at once. Qo on. ” “So be it I know now that Rose Mitchel, who was murdered, was known in New Orleans as Rose Montalbon, and that she was your wife. I have also discovered^ that you deceived a young creole, the mother of that child who has just left us; that when you deserted her she died broken hearted, while you allowed the Montalbon woman to take the girl and pass it off as her own, though later she was kidnaped by you. The woman suspected that you would wish to marry again and swore to pre vent it Her appearance upon the scene just as you were to become a husband must have been a menace to you. Do you see the point? Murders have been committed with less motive I think, therefore, that I have sufficient evidence upon which to arrest you. ” “Yon might arrest me upon less evi dence,” said Mr. Mitchel “It is done every day. But to convict me you would have to prove all this. ” “How do you know that I cannot prove it?” “For the very simple reason that your facts are all wrong.” “Very good, Mr. 'Mitchel, bnt you will have to prove that ” “I am fully prepared to do so. To begin with, according to your story, I abducted this child. There you are only partly right. I did take her away from the Moptalbon, and I did it, as you might say, by stealth and force. But I had the fullest right to do sa ” “You admit, then, that you are her father?” “On the contrary, I deny it and there is the weak point in your story. Your argument all depends upon my having been guilty of wronging that girl’s mother and the Montalbon’s hav ing me in her power. In point of fact, I am not her father, and the Montalbon had but a slim chance to blackmail me. ” “But you admitted to me that you al lowed her to do so; that you gave her a large amount in jewels.” “That is true, yet I did not submit to blackmail. ” “Mr. Mitchel, I seldom forget a man’s words. You told me that day in the vaults that you were in tbo woman’s power; that she could ventilate certain scandals which might break your en gagement Yet now you say you were not in her power and that you did not submit to blackmail How can you ex plain such conflicting statements?” “Two conflicting statements may both be true, provided a lapse of time occurs between them. When I admitted that I had been in the power of that woman, I thought so; therefore I spoke the truth. When I say now that I was not, I also speak truly. In the interval I have learned to appreciate the character of the woman who is now my wifa That is all I know now that the Montalbon’s story, blaaoned forth to the world, would not have affected her faith in me if I had told her my own version. ” “For heaven's sake, gentlemen^” in terrupted Mr. Neuilly, “stop this argu ment and get down to the facta I am impatient to know the truth. ” “Yes, Boy,” said Emily. “Why not simply tell the story as a narrative, and let the whole truth be known?” “That is what I mean to da I have only been enjoying a little sparring with Mr. Barnes. Bnt it is cruel to Mr. Neuilly, who, I hope, will pardon me. To begin at the beginning, I must go back to my youth in New Orleana I was in love with a beautiful young girl ” Here be pressed his wife’s hand, and she returned it, as though to say that aim understood. “I think I need not men tion the name of Rose’s mother, Mr. Neuilly, unless yon have already done »a” “Heaven forbid that I should have betrayed the secret, ” said the old man. “I did not suppose that you had, for I know you to be a true man, though I have never met you before. This state ment may surprise you, but it ii* true. I am not the man for whom you take me. He is now in a lunatic asylum, while I am his cousin. I know it is sup posed that I am the craay man, but that is an error, promulgated by the Montal bon to serve her own ends The facts then are thus: While a boy at school I loved my girl companion, little Rose’s mother. Just before I left the south to enter Harvard, I told my little sweet heart—she was tb i but 16—that I would marry her upou my return. This was my first love and hers. I had a cous in, older than myself by ten years, handsome and wealthy, but a gambler and addicted to heavy drinking. This woman Montalbon, as you know, kept a gambling den, and naturally my un fortunate cousin was a oonstaut visitor at the house. One night, while intoxi cated with wine, she persuaded him to marry her, a clergyman being called in and a ceremony privately performed. He became entirely sober oqly after sev eral days had passed and then bad en tirely forgotten about tne marriage. The scheming devil, Montalbon, did not remind him of it, but by patient work insidiously persuaded him that be snotuti be a married man. him even suggested a bride, none other than my little sweetheart Her object in this was twofold, money and revenge. By leading my cousin into a bigamous alli ance, with her own marriage oertifloate as a weapon, she could readily extort money from him. Her revenge was to be against the family of my little sweet heart, against whom she thought she had a grievance Her plotting was en tirely sucoessful My cousin was hand some I was away, and once be had be come thoroughly acquainted with the young creole’s charms he became so ar dent a suitor that at length she listened to his pleading and married him. Then he was in the power of the Montalbon, and she bled him for five years, by which time little Rose had been bora. “Meanwhile I bad completed my col lege career, but had not returned to New Orleans because of my deep disap pointment upon learning that my sweet heart had married another man. At this time I was in Paris, when one day I received a piteous letter from the girl wife, telling me that the blow bad fall en; that the Montalbon bad produced her marriage certificate and claimed her husband, thus dishonoring the daughter of her enemy. The letter also begged my forgiveness for the wrong done to me. I read between the lines and recog nized the cry of a broken heart, the bleat of a lamb left to die on the frozen plain. I hurried home with but one thought uppermost—to have revenge up on my cousin. I arrived too late. Not only was the girl dead, but my cousin had disappeared. “I heard that be had gone out west, and thither I followed him. I would get track of him from time to time, but it seemed fated always that he should have just left a place when I confident ly expected to come up with him. Thus five years passed, and at last I did meet him. I at once charged him with his crime and asked for revenge. He laugh ed at me and refused to fight I then warned him that I should take his life at the first chance that offered, when I could do so either under seeming provo cation or else where I could not be sus pected.” “Are you not admitting,” interrupt ed Mr. Barnes, “that you harbored a murderous spirit?” "Mr. Barnes, if all men were punish ed for their thoughts, the criminal class would be greatly enlarged. You cannot call me to account for anything except my acta. At last my chance came. I followed him one dark night as he went off prospecting in an entirely new di rection ; we were in a mining country. He tramped most of the night, and 1 pursued. By dawn we were miles away from a habitation. I then made myself known to him and once more asked him to fight it out He saw that I was in earnest and that he was simply com pelled to battle for bis Ufa “Under these circumstances, of course, he fought as the worst coward would do when driven to desperation. He decided to use pistols, though I wished to try our cause with knives. I confess that I wanted the satisfaction of stabbing him again and again. I wanted to see his Ufe’s blood flow at each stroke It seemed to me tame to stand off at a distance and send one lit- tic leaden ball in his direction. Still I admitted his right of choice, and deter mined to aim as accurately as passible and to send my bullet straight. You see, I did not think of my own life I bad made this vengeance my ono ob ject, and after accomplishing that I thought there would be nothing more for me to dd Consequently I expected to kill him easily, and I did not care if his bullet found my heart or not Per haps I hoped it would. Just as we were standing up and preparing to fight, something occurred that almost com pletely unnerved me and changed the whole result He lowered his pistol and said: “ ‘Wait a moment; I have a favor to ask. I feel certain that you will kill me. You have been seeking my life so long that I am sure you will get it It is fata But I, too, have suffered in the last five yean. The favor that I ask is that if I die you will promise to get my child out ef that fiend’s clutches. ’ ” ‘Your child T I gasped. ‘I thought it died.’ “ ‘That was the Moatalbon’s lie The little girl lived, and she took it 1 have made a will in favor of my child, leav ing her all my wealth; you will find it in my coat Oddly enough, I named you as executor. I knew that you bad loved the mother, though, as God is my judge, I did not know it when I mar ried her. But I am ready if you are. ’ “Thus we stood up and fired at each other. The startling news just received made my aim bad, for instead of hitting him in the heart, as I could easily have done, my bullet strode him in the head. He fell, and I rushed toward him, to discover whether he was badly hurt He was bleeding profusely, and I hasti ly bandaged up the wound and so stop ped the flow of blood. I then went on to the next mining camp beyond. We returned with a Utter, and took him back. There was a man among us who claimed that he had studied medicine, and he attended my cousin. He removed the bullet and found that the wound was not very deep, but the skull was fractured. He was iU for two months, and then slowly recovered his health. But his reason was entirely gone. I took him to New Orleans and placed him in an asylum, and there be has been ever since.” “Very good, Mr. Mitchel,” said Mr. Barnes. “But what proof have you that you are not the father and the lunatic the innocent cousin, as so many believe?” .“Why, in the first place, though we bad the same name, we are totally un like in feature. I think Mr. NeuiUy will admit that he would not have rec ognised me, and he knew the guilty man. However, we will take that up later. I "ha vs no fear of toot proving my identity. Too many people in New Or leans know ina, To continue my tale, I determined to get possession of the VI ii ■I-” (•Met and that 1 would find ttfiUMM to prove my story. More than all, t knew that I could not obtain legal poe- session of her without diseloding the se cret of her birth, which I wished to avoid for her own sake as well as for her mother’s. I therefore stole her open ly in the streets. Detectives were sent out to search for me, but perhaps Mr. Bernes will testify that I am not much afraid of detectives. Perhaps, too, he will understand better now why I know something about detective methods. I led them a danoe for two years, until In disgust they abandoned the search. Then I went abroad, for I mast tell yon that as long as I was hounded I re mained close at hand. I enjoyed tbs ex citement It made nje forget, or at least it gave me occupation. “I remained in Europe until my re cent return to New York. It was not very long after that when I received the letter from Montalbon and the photograph which I showed to you. I recognized the picture, though,of course, I should not have known the signature, which was Rose Mitchel I did not fear the woman, bnt I expected some enjoy ment at bar discomfiture when I should tell her to do her worst. I was not pre pared for what occurred. When she met me, she began by saying: “ 'I have not the least idea of at tempting to blackmail you, though per haps I could do that But I have that to sell which I think yon would be glad to buy. ’ I asked what it was, and she told me: ‘‘‘A certificate of marriage between your cousin and the child’s mother, a certificate of marriage between him and myself, antedating that, and another certificate at marriage between myself and another man who was alive at the time that I inveigled yonr cousin into marrying me.' ” “Great heaven I” exclaimed Mr. Neuilly. "If she had thoee papers, they would prove that her marriage to your cousin was illegal, and that would make the marriage, to Rose's mother perfectly regular. ” "Exactly so. I paid the woman glO,- 000, at the equivalent of that sum, for thoee documents. Were they not worth it?” “Indeed, indeed they ore. I would have given twice the sum. ” ’’Now let me show yon the audacity of the woman. She told me that In case I should refuse to pay her price she in tended to claim me as her husband, ex hibiting her certificate and leaving me to prove if I could that she bad married my cousin and not myself. This, yon see, would have been meet unpleasant, and as the papers were well worth the price, in clearing the name of my cousin and his wife and child, I paid over the money. ” "I must again ask yon,” said Mr. Barnes, “for proof that you are not the woman’s husband.” "Does not the fact that she sold me thoee papers indicate that?” “Not at all,” replied the detective. “Supposing yon to be really her hus band, wiahing to be married to Miss Remsen, you would readily pay the woman her price for the paper which proved that yonr marriage to her had been fraudulent. Yon might have found it difficult to prove the existence of her first husband without knowing his name, even thongh she bad given yon the hint that there was such a person. ” “I declare, Mr. Baines, yon are a doubting Thomas. But I will give you one more bit of evidence. ” He went to his desk and returned with some papers. "Here is a confession which I exacted from the woman at the time that I made the bargain with her. Yon see, it con firms my story. Bnt even that yonj might think manufactured. Here per-. hape is better proof. This,” handing it' to Mr. Nsnilly, “is the certificate of the- marriage between my cousin and the I Montalbon. As is sometimes done, yon see, the woman has pasted the likenesses • of herself and my cousin upon the pa- 1 par. Now, Mr. Nenilly, 1 ask yon, is I not that the man who was known to' yon?” ; “You are quits right, Mr. Mitchel I recognise the face perfectly. This is the' man I have all along supposed to be a consummate villain. Now I most eon feas that ha was more sinned against than sinning. His one crime was drink ing, and ths entanglement which wrecked his wife’s life and his own was but a wicked plot of which be was in nocent 1 am glad that it is so, as it leaves tbs dear little girl without the danger of hereditary taint ” “dome, Mr. Barnes,’’said Mr. Mitch el “What have yon to say now?” Mr. Barnes’ reply was calculated to startle his bearers, bnt seemed to have little effect He said: “Mr. Mitchel, who do yon think killed Rose Mitchel?” "I don’t think I am bound to answer, ” replied Mr. Mitchel quickly. "I wish yon a good aftenoon,” said the detective dryly. “Will yon go with me, Mr. Nenilly?” Before the old gentleman oould reply Mia. Mitcbal interposed: "Don’t go, Mr. Nenilly. Yon have seen nothing of Rose yet and besides wa would like yon to attend our recep tion tonight" “Ha, ha, Mr. Barnes I Is she not Worthy of being my wife? She takes yonr witness awsy from yon, for I think you will stay, will you not Mr. Neuil ly?” “It will baa joy to do so. Mr. Barnes, under theoircnmstauoee I know you w ill excuse me and forgive me, will yon not?” “Oertainly. Yon are right to stay. I will leave yon all to your happiness. And I hope it will last Good day. ” With which be left them. “Really it is too bad, "said Mr. Mitch el “bnt these detectives ore always so sanguine. Just think of it Queen, he thinks, or he thought perhaps would bo more correct that you were a murder er’s wife. What do you say, eh?” For answer the kissed him gently on the forehead, and then went out and brought book Rase [to sx coutikued.] Statement. S. A. Woods for Mineral Spring By amt. contributed by sundry persons $60 70 Pd. P. C. Beck for lumber $11 34 “ Dari. Lumber Co. for lumber 12 00 “ Welling A Bonnoiu for nails and pair t 9 30 ” Carpenters and paint ers 30 85 By balance 4 8(1 $66 66 $05 50 iTe balance due 8. A. Woods 4 86 Such Nonsense.—The Tariff No Action Against Baking the cago Convention. 1. The Demosratie party of Booth Carolina reaffirm Its allegiance to the principles enunciated by Jefferson, Monroe and Jackson and followed by their aueoessors in office and pledges itself to stand by those principles as the creed of onr political faith. 3. We denounce the administration of President Cleveland ns undemo cratic and tyrannical and ns a depart ure from thoee principles which are cherished by all liberty-loving Ameri cana. The veto power has bean need to thwart the will of the people as ex pressed by their representatives in congress. The appointive power has been ueed to subsidize the press, to debauch congress and to overawe and control citizens in the free exercise of their constitutional right* aa voters. A plutocratic despotism is ‘bus sought to be established on the rains of the republic. .8. We believe the power and ansnr- pations of the Federal courts as now organized to be dangerous to the re public. The American people have lost confidence in life tenure of officers in any department of government and we repeat here the warning of Jeffer son against the tendency and offset of the constitution of the Federal judiciary, which he styles “in irre sponsible body working like gravity by night and day, gaining a little to day and a little to-morrow and ad vancing Its noiseless steps like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States and the government of all be eonsolidated into one.” The sudden reversal of the decision in the income tax oa has never been satisfactorily explain ed to the American people and the court has lost the respect and confid ence of the people as a natural result. To restore confidence in the judiciary and make the courts the bulwarks of liberty rather than the apparent tools of the “sordid despotism of wealth.” To protect the people against the brood of vampires in the shape of monopolies, trusts and combines which have grown np under vicious laws badly administered. To provide for the election of senators and of all high government officials by the peo pie so as to reduce the dangers of Fe deral patronage in the hands of an unscrupulous President To restore government of the people and for the people we demand the calling of a constitutional convention to form an organic law suitable to the changed conditions and to the growth of the country. 4. We demand a more economical administration of onr national affairs and that taxes shall be levied so as to bear tqually on all sections and all classes. Labor should be lightly har dened and by a graduated income tax wealth be made to pay for its protec tion. We repudiate the construction plac ed on the financial plank of the last Democratic national convention by President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle as contrary to the plain meaning of English words and as be ing an act of bad faith, deserving of severest censure. The issue of bonds in time of peace with which to bay gold to redeem coin obligations, pay- ble in silver or gold, at the option of the government, and the use of the proceeds to defray the ordinary ex penses of the government, are. both unlawful and usurpations of author ity, deserving impeachment. 5. A sound and just system of fi nance is the most potent factor in a na tion’s prosperity and we demand the restoration of the money of the Con stitution, by giving silver the rights and privileges now giyon to gold. Wo demand the free and un limited coinage of silver at a ratio of 10 to 1, regardless of the action of any and al lother nations and that each coinage be a legal tender for nU debts, public and private. Congress, alone has the power to coin and issue money and President Jackson declared that this power oonld not be delegated to n corporation, therefore, we demand that the national banking system be abolished. The absorption of wealth by a few, the consolidation of our leading rail road systems and the formation of trusts and pools, require a stricter control by the Federal government of thoee arteries of commerce. We de mand the enlargement of the powers of the interstate commerce, commis sion. . The reading was concluded amid load applause Lary Gantt moved that it be adopted unanimously with every “i” dotted and every “t” cross ed. * Your Boy Wont Live a Month. So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34 Mill 8t., South Gardner, Mam., was told by the doctors. 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