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TCONTINTJED.l
(SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.)
CHAPTER 1.-The coachman of the aristo?
cratic Melvilles is murdered in his room under
mysterious circumstances.
CHAPTER 2.-Mrs. Melville, the hesd of the
family, discovers a clew indicating that the
murder was comniiiied by some one of her
household. The police have another theory.
CHAPTBR 3 -^Private Detective Gates,
whom Mrs. Melville engages in her sole inter?
est, begins to unearth family secrets.
CHAPTBR 4.-Occurrences in the Melville
household point to the housekeeper, Mrs.
Mary Winters, as having guilty knowledge of
the crime.
CHAPTER 5-The conduct of the housekeeper
before and after the murder indicates some
strange connection between her and the mur?
dered coachman. She also profess? s to have a
claim on Mrs. Melville's son Richard, a man
of thirty, about to wed in his own sphere.
CHAPTER 6.-Detective Gates sends an as
8*8'ant to an obscure Maine village to pry into
the past of Mrs. Winters, who had once been
known as Mrs. Caroline Green.
CHAPTER T.-Caroline Green left Maine dur?
ing the war to join a brother in New York
city. About that time ber husband, Maurice
Green, a nnion soldier, was reported dead in
Virginia and alive in New York.
CHAPTER 8.-The dead coachman was the
brother of Caroline Green, or Mary Winters.
The mystery about her missing husband was
unexplained up to the time of the murder.
' CHAPTER 9.-Relates how Maurice Green
met bis death by an explosion in a Union hos?
pital in Virj-inia in 1863.
CHAPTER 10.-Relates how Lieutenant
Richard Melville, of New Vork, was wounded
by the explosion that killed Green and bis
memory completely destroyed.
CHAPTER il:-Detective Gates learns ?hat
Caroline Green, alias Mrs. Winters, claims
Robert Melville as her hut band.
CHAPTER 12.-A physician engaged by
Mrs Melville examines Mrs. Caroline Green,
and his report consigns her to a private insane
asylum. Mrs. Melville's sympathies are with
the unfortunate woman, and she defrays ber
asylum expenses.
CHAPTER 13.-Richard Melville bas a long
private interview with Mrs. Green at the asy?
lum.
CHAPTER 14.-After a mysterious appoint?
ment to meet Mr. Richard Melville at the
outer ga'e ot the asylum grounds, Mrs. Green
escapes and falls into the custody of the
police.
CHAPTER 15.-Mrs. Green" states that she
was abducted from the asylum. She was
taken from an overturned carriaee by the
police. ^The carriage, on being righted, was
b<?8'ily driven from the scene.
CHAPTER 16.-Mrs. Melville has an inter?
view with Mrs. Green at the police station,
and the latter reiterates ber claim as to Rich?
ard Melville being her husband, Maurice
Green. Mrs. Melville abandons the case and
leaves the woman to the course of justice.
CHAPTER XVIL
OONTEII?rjTED BY THE CLERK OP POLICE
COURT.
Two o?ccrs came in dragging. Richard
Melville.
In the year eighteen hundred and sev?
enty I was clerk of ono of the police
courts in the Eastern District of the city
of Brooklyn. I have no difficulty in
calling to mind the incidents which I
am now asked to record. Only two or
three arrests had been made the night
before, and no adjourned cases were on
call for the morning session, so the case
to which my attention is now called was
given a little more time than the ordi?
nary ran of assault and battery prosecu?
tions.
The complaint was made by an em?
ploye of an ice company, and his utory
showed that r. most unprovoked assanlt
had been committed upon him by the
prisoner. While crossing the walk with
a piece of ice, just taken from his wagon,
he was unfortunate enough to jostle
against the accused. The next moment
he found himself lying in thc gutter, with
the prisoner striking him in the face with
the heel of a heavy walking shoe. Only
for the interference of the officer who
made the arrest he wonld have been
mangled beyond recognition, if not
beaten to death. In proof of his state?
ment of the brutality of the assault he
exhibited in court a pair of discolored
eyes and a broken nose.
When arraigned the prisoner did not
deny making the assault. He sought
rather to palliate the offense by stating
that the iceman jostled against him pur?
posely, and that he used insulting and
abusive language when remonstrated
with. Ail this the complainant denied.
Tue prisoner was a handsome, muscu?
lar gentleman, neatly but expensively
dressed, and gave one the impression
that he was not a stranger to refined so?
ciety. His face, however, was pale and
haggard; his manner impetuous and
domineering.
"I plead guilty to the charge," he said,
addressing the justice, "and I beg the
pardon of the complainant for my
hasty action. I will willingly reimburse
him for any loss he may have sustained
by reason of it."
He ended by handing the iceman a
fifty dollar bill. I remember that part
of the case particularly, because it has
been my experience that people who ap?
peal to police courts for justice usually
lose more by the servants of justice than
by those of whom they complain.
The justice was about to discharge the
prisoner with a light fine when the
turnkey stepped forward and claimed
his attention.
"Your honor," he said, "tins defend?
ant is masquerading under a fictitious
name. He gave the name of George
Williams when arrested, yet the papers
in his possession when searched bore the
name of
"Maurice Green, may it please the
;ourt," said the bailiff. "I knew this
man when his clothing was coarser and
his hands harder, and when his fifty dol?
lar bills were not as plenty as they ap?
pear to be now/'
The justice cast an amused look in the
lirection of his favorite court officer, and
turned again to the turnkey, whose face
now wore an expression of astonishment.
"You were saying"- began the justice.
"I was about to say, your honor, that
the papers in tho prisoners possession
bore the name of Richard Melville."
"Well," said the justice to the pris?
oner, who had remained standing, with
his arm on the railing of my desk, "have
you any other names to suggest?"
"The papers in my possession were
right," said the defendant "I am Rich?
ard Melville, son of Mrs. Clark Melville.
Maurice Green was my double in the
army. He was instantly killed by the
explosion which wounded me and left
me subject to such fits of passion as I am
now here to answer for. I have been mis?
taken for Maurice Green before, when
the consequences were more serious."
"I remember the circumstances of
your return from the anny, sir," said
the justice kindly, "and as you have
done all in your power to make resti?
tution you are discharged.v
I thought at the time that tho justice
ought to have required him to pay the
costs. I don't like the way people slip
through criminal courts and leave others
to pay their bills.
When tho prisoner left the room the
bailiff who had recognized him as
Maurice Green followed him. Before I
had had time to make my commitments
and enter up my records he was back
again. He was very much excited.
"Do you believe all that yarn about
that being Richard Melville?" he asked.
I looked up in surprise.
"Well," he continued, "whatever you
may think of it, I don't believe it"
"Why, his papers"
"Might have been stolen. According
to all accounts Maurice Green invented
the story about his being killed and de?
serted his wife. At least that's what is
said in Maine. If he was mean enough
to do that he is mean enough to steal
Richard Melville's papers. Tho justice
should have remanded him until inquir?
ies could havo been made."
The clerk of a police court has some?
thing else to do besides retrying tho jus?
tice's cases, so I went on with my work
and the bailiff sat in his chair and
grumbled with all his might
In a moment there was a commotion
in the hall, and two officers came in
dragging Richard Melville, cut and
bleeding, between them. They were on
their way to the cells underneath the
court room.
Until I saw Richard Melville there, in
the custody of the officers and on the
way to a cell, I never knew what the ex?
pression "insane fury" meant His eyes
glared like those of a wild beast, and
seemed starting from their sockets; his
face was deadly pale and terribly con?
torted. He struggled with the strength
of an athlete against his captors; had he
been but for one moment free, I think he
would have conquered them both and
made his escape.
After a prolonged struggle the officers
half forced and half carried him down
the rear stairway to the cell room. Such
scenes were not uncommon in the court
room, and I went on with my writing.
But I could not he'p hearing bystanders
talk as I worked.
"He ought to get a year for that," said
one.
"It was a brutal thing to do."
"What was it?"
"Why, this gentleman prisoner the
justice just let off scot free killed the
office dog before he got out of the build?
ing."
"And the way he did it!" broke in an?
other voice.
"How?"
"Why, the poor creature was going
down the iron stairs just ahead of him.
Without a word of warning he clutched
the hand rail to prevent falling and
sprang upon the poor pet with both his
great feet, (gushing its life out over the
edge of the iron stairs. He wasn't satis?
fied with that. He stood there and
ground his heavy heels into the dead
body until I believe there wasn*t a
whole bone left in it Then he became
stark, raving mad, and struck out right
and left until the officers came. The
cut on his head came from a fall on the
3tairs, The captain says it is over an
old wound and may prove serious."
"Wonder what they'll do with him?"
"Send him to an asylum."
"Oh, he's crazy all right eno?gh."
I was getting weary of the talk and
went into my private office. The bailiff
Followed me in.
"Say," he said, almost in a whisper,
"that was laurice Green."
"Pshaw!"
"Well, I have seen Maurice Green
have spells like that. He was the most
brutal man I ever knew-the quickest
bo 8bed blood and the quickest to go imo
i frenzy at the sight of it. People who
knew the family in Maine declare that
there were murderers among his ances?
tors. Bad blood will out, ch?"
? was beginning to take more than a
[xassing interest in the case. At the ten
>'clock session of court I asked the cap?
tain what had been done with Richard
Melville.
"Oh," was the reply, "his friends took
aim away. I guess he has been drink?
ing too much lately."
CHAPTER XVIII.
CONTRIBUTED BY THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
"/ will s^m?? louder. W down."
I remember being called to a police .
station in the Eastern District of Brook
yn to take charge of Richard Melville.
I found liim suffering, frst, from a
species of nervous fever, which had
gushed him almost to the verge of in?
sanity, and second, from fi severe wound i
m the head. As it was quite probable 1
;hat he would be worse before he was ;
metter 1 caused him to bo removed to a ?
leighboring hotel and employed eompe
;ent nurses. ?
When I came to examine the wound ?
?losely I found that it occupied almost 1
jxactly the position of the wound I had
rented for him in the Virginia farm
?ouse. The skull was fractured at the
?xact spot where it had been fractured
)y the explosion in the hospital. Tho j
:ase was a serious one, and I saw that a 1
.ery delicate operation was absolutely j
lecessary. 1
Then the scene? and incidents In tho i
Virginia farmhouse came back to my ]
niud. I remembered that for weeks
if ter the fever had abated my patient i
lad struggled with a sluggish brain; 1
hat all hi* hie up to the minute of the i
iccident was a blank to him, and only I j
ame back by piecemeal and after the ' (
uost persistent tutorage on the part of " 1
his mother and myself.
In view of this fact I had not regarded
the treatment of tha case exactly as a
success, ;il though I did not blame myself
at all, having takes hold of it after the
original operation. It is needless to say
that I did not desire to undertake the
case alone. In ;;n hour s timo I was in
consultation with one of the best sur?
geons in the state.
"I am not certain," I explained to
him, -4tbat the previous wound wat
properly cared for. You, who were con*
suited immediately upon his return tc
New York, know what shape his mind
was in for years. Now I want to put a
question to you:
"If the brain was left in bad shape by
the operation in Virginia, is it possible
to remedy that L'y the operation which
must now take place?"
.'No one can tell," was the reply.
"Tho secret lies behind those pieces of
shattered bone. If we do our work
well it is possible that we may send
him out into the world a brighter man
than he has been since the accident in
the hospital."
"And with the memories of his early
lifo fully restored?"
The surgeon shook his head.
"I can't tell," he replied, '^asl said be?
fore the secret lies behinxf?hose pieces of
broken bone. No one can tell at this
time whether the brain was left in a con?
dition of pressure or irritation or not."
I had my own ideas about there hav?
ing been a pressure on the patient's brain
ever since th?t night in the hospital, but
I kept them to myself. In regard to irri?
tation of the brain I was not so positive.
AK soon as the patient had been re?
duced to a condition of insensibility we
proceeded wiih tho operation, complet?
ing it as rapidly as possible and without
comment.
"I can answer one of your questions
now," the surgeon said, putting away
his instruments.
"Well?"
"You asked if a mistake made at the
first operation could be corrected now.
1 say yes."
"Then you mean that"
"One has already been corrected. . The
man has not been himself all these years
because of a lack.of skill on the part of
the hospital surgeon. Let me explain."
I am told that it is not necessary for
mo to give hero the technical explana?
tion of the case 1 received from the sur?
geon, so I proceed, to record what fol?
lowed.
wIn my opinion," continued the sur?
geon, "the man will now rapidly and
naturally outgrow th? effects of the hos?
pital surgeon's botch work. I await the
moment of his regaining consciousness
with a great deal of anxiety."
Before this took place Mrs. Clark Mel?
ville and Mr. Charles Gates entered the
room, and for the second time Mrs.
Clark Melville and myself waited in si?
lence for the first intelligible words from
the sufferer's lips.
They were a long time coming.
When they did come Mrs. Melville
was standing by the window looking out
into the street, her kind old face looking
more careworn than I had ever seen it
before. At the time I was sitting close
beside the sufferer, and I alone heard
the first words that came from his lips.
They were repeated faintly several
times, and then the patient seemed to
drop into a state of unconsciousness
closely bordering on sleep.
I remember now that ? sat for a mo?
ment like one in a tranco. The words I
had heard seemed to deprive me of all
power of speech or motion. ^Tbe first
thought that did come to my mind was
of Mrs. Clark Melville.
She must be removed from the room
before another word escaped the patient's ;
lips. But how?
At last I used the only means in my j
power. I used my authority as lier fam- I
ily physician. y
"Mrs. Melville," I said, "it may be 1
hours before your son regains conscious?
ness. I hope so, at all events, for every
hour now gives increased strength. In
the meantime you must return home
and resv-sleep, if you can, but at least
rest."
"But I can neither steep nor rest with
Richard lying here," she said, the tears
starting into her eyes.
"You cannot help him; you can only
injure yourself. I even doubt the wis?
dom of allowing him to see you when lie
first regains consciousness."
"You are sending me away for a pur?
pose," said the o?d lady sadly. "Tell me
what it is."
"I am sending you away hi the inter?
est of your con's health and roar own.
You may, if you desire, allow Mr. Gates
to remain here, so that you may at once
be notified of any change."
With this trifling consolation the noble
old lady took lier departure. The door
had hardly closed upon her retreating
figure when the sufferer found his tongue
again.
I congratulated the surgeon upon the
success of his operation as I bade him
adieu at the door, dismissed the attend?
ants, gave Officer Gates some whispered
instructions, and sat down by the suf?
ferer alone to await developments.
In half an hour Detective Gates en?
tered in compan}' with a heavily veiled
lad}' and an officer in Uniform.
Thc veiled lady was Caroline Green.
The officer in uniform was a man sent to
escort her to and from tho. station house.
I placed her where she ctmld hear the
first words that came from his lips with?
out being seen, and again sat down to
wait.
The patient came out of a light sleep
and opened his eyes. His first words
were:
"I am glad you got me away from the
hospital. We were cold and hungry
there,"
When lie spoke Mrs. Green's eyes filled
with tears. She had heard that exact
tone many years l>efore.
"I asked you to write me a letter when !
I awoke before. Did you do it?" ! :
I shook my head. |
"I couldn't catch the address. Your |
voice is so weak."
"I will speak louder. Write it down: 1
'Mrs.Caroline Green.Clifton, Maine/ She *
ls my wife. Wo were married the day be?
fore I joined my regiment Tell lier I i 1
lin burt, and will write as soon as I am !
able." j ;
Mrs. Green fell sobbing on ber knee*, J
*nd was about to speak, when I raised : J
x warning finger and pointed significant- \ 1
ly to thc mirror. j
CHAPTER XIX. 1
CONTRIBUTED BY CAROLINE GREE??. j
When the family physician warned me 4
lo be silent, and directed my attention j
:o the mirror, there was na need for ex- j
Emanation. What he meant to say was ^
:hat Maurice would not then recognize t
ne as tho young wife he had left in ,
Maine.
"For all I know,* he said to me a few
noments later, when Maurice had again i j
ost himself in a light deep, "his lite t
nay be a blank from the time of the ex- ? j
Posion in tho hospita! up to the pres- ? ^
mt moment. Yo1; saw yourself that j
lis first recgUeeJ^u was connected with j
"2fou> go bach to your room at the sta Hoi
tbs hospita}-that he remembered th
cold and tho short rations there befor
be recalled the events of yesterday an<
today, as important tts they were. M.)
opinion now ?3 that he is not responsibl
for the acts of yesterday and today; tha
he cannot be held accountable for am
act of his own for the past 6even years.'
I fell opon my knees before the physi
cian and asked and begged of him
again and again, to repeat what he ha*
said.
"Why," he said with a kind smile
"you can rest assured that your hus
band will not cast yon off now. Yot
saw that his first thoughts were of you.
I sincerely believe that your husbanc
b^l^ved. himself to ig Richard Melville,
and Caroline Green to be an impostor
There, you must go away now. Th
si^ht of your gray bair and carewon
face would do him no good. He mus
come gradually to know the length o
time that has elapsed since he was takei
from the hospital. He must g?t a goo;
many things into his head before he see*
his wife. Now go back to your room a
the station house and sleep some of th?
care lines out of your face; you maj
come here again tomorrow. You wil
meet Mrs. Clark Melville then. Poo:
old lady! So it was Richard Melville
who was buried in Virginia after all! J"
am afraid this will break her heart!*'
"Is it necessary that she should know?'
I asked.
The physician shook his head.
"Your husband will talk of nothing,
think of nothing but Maine and hh
young wife," he ?lid, "and will be a
stranger in New York. Yes, she must
be told."
Officer Gates came to where we were
standing and laid his hand on* the physi?
cian's shoulder.
"I have arranged for that," lie said,
"only I must have a little time: and Mrs.
Green will oblige me by writing down
what has taken place here today, and
anything else that she may think of in?
terest."
I knew what he meant before he had
ceased speaking, and the thought filled
me with a sudden fear.
He must have noticed my agitation,
for he said kindly:
"Your narrative will not be entirely
new to me, Mrs. Green. I know pretty
well what it will contain; and 1 may add
now that you will help yourself and
your friends in every way by telling the
exact truth. I will call in the morning
for tho manuscript.,"
At the station house I met Mr3. Clark
Melville.
"You have seen my son," she said.
"Tell me about him. Is he in his right
mind? Will he live?"
I replied that he was sleeping when I
left, and that the physician believed bis
recovery to be only a question of time,
"What mystery is there between 3-011?"
she demanded. "Why do they exclude
the mother from tho room, and ad?
mit**
She stopped short and rested her face
on her hand a moment.
"There," she said, "I was wrong in
losing my temper. I am satisfied that it
is all for the best. I came here to be?
come security for your appearance wfaen
wanted. I am told, however, that bail
cannot be taken until a formal complaint
is made, and not even then if a charge
of murder is preferred. You may rest
assured that* everything possible will be
done for you. Have yoa said to any one
else what you said to mo in tho captain's
office yesterday?"
I had not, and I told her. so. How I
longed to throw myself at her feet and
tell her everything! I should have done
so C??IV for Officer C ates* warning.
And now, how shall I write down what
must be written?
I am positive that Mr, Charles Gates
knew nearly every point of my story be?
fore he asked me to write it down. If 1
thought otherwise I should not write it.
But then, there is some comfort in
what the physician said. I wonder if
his opinion would have weight in a court
of law?
Well, I did not see tho blow struck,
but I know who murdered my poor
brother.
Maurice Green kill rd lum at a time
when lie waa not responsiblo for his ac?
tions. At least that's what Mrs. Clark 1
Melville's family physician says. He j
ought to know. In order to prove my
statement that he was not responsible j
for his acts it is only necessary for me
to refer to one circumstance of the case.
He believed himself to be another per?
son. At the timo of tho killing he was
protecting what he believed to bo the
rights of that other person. That other
person was Richard Melville, who was
killed by tho explosion which sent Mau?
rice Green back into tho world with n
new name and a deformed mind. So
;tffected yeas Ins mind by thc wound and
?he unskillful manner in which it was
:ared for that he did not oven know me!
Another thing, anl this will show
afore than anything else how weak his
nind was. He was stricken down with
; pretty picture of a happy and Insurious
Sew York homo before his eyes; with
:ales of a petted and fondled existence
rom the cradle to the army lingering in"
md exciting Iiis mind: with the names of
Richard Melville's friends and associates
resh in his mind. His brain was full of
hese things w? .^n the explosion came.
Is it any wonder, then, that when
:inie and time again-Iths. Clark Mel
rille and her family physician brought
)ack these incidents and these names to
iwaken what they believed to be a slug?
gish memory-is it any wonder, I say,
hat under snell circumstances he should
lave miniaken the things which were j
ast in hi* mind for actual occurrences? j
tVhy, they told him in so many words j .
iir.t these things were a part of his j '
briner life, and that ho would be ^
aughed out of his set if he went bael: to j
STevv York with an intellect to'> stupid j
o recollect old scenes an 1 old friends. ^
?Vith all of his own early life blotted ! j
?ut by a diseased brain, is it any won- j
1er that he believed all they said, and K
aid hold of the fragments of the life !
hat had belonged to Richard Melville?
; would like to know just how many of j '
he recollections of that early life were ; *
earned, word bv word, from the lip3 of \ ^
te. Melville? " 1
I was a servant ia tho Melville hoase
before he had been back from the army
three months, and I knew how ho acted
then. He wandered from room to room
handling and examining the many
dainty things with which the house* is
crowded with tho air of a mau who had
never seen tho liko before. Maurice
Green came from the backwoods and
ate with Ins knife. The new Richard
Melville ate With his knife! I rememb2r
bow chocked Mru. Melvillo was at first,
but she l?hi it to the army.
I remember how, for days and days,
Mrs. Melville sat with him in a position
to see callers before they entered the
house. That is why ho was ablo to call
fchi-m by name when they took him by
the hand. Was Mrs? Melville honest in
all this? I am certain that she was. Yon
ses he remembered the thing.3 Richard
Melville was telling when tho explosion
came. That waa eno?gh ipr a fond
mother to start cn, wasn't it? And then
she did not know what was taking placo
when her son was killed.
One thing puzzled her. The oM Richard
Melville's temper was completely under
control. The new Richard Melville fre?
quently indulged in bursts of passion
which wero sometimes more than brutal.
I admit that Ma^ri'je Green had that
kind of a temper, but he never allowed
it to affect mc. It was in one of these
attacks of insanity that my brother was
killed, I know, because I was in the
carriage house and heard the words and
the blow.
It is said that there were murderers in
the earlier generations of my husband's
family, and that bad blood will tell. I
don't believe it. The act my husband
committed would have boen committed
by the most gentle of persons under the
same circumstances. The anny surgeon
ought to be held responsible- for them.
Send a man into the world-and a nesv
and false world at that-with an i Ti?
tated and diseased brain, and what won't
he do?
I depend upon tho evidence of medical
experts to acquit my husband. If he
dies I shall die with him. A thousand
hells could not be mere unbearable than
the life I liave lived for years.
I mean to have my picture-just as I
looked when we were married-shown
to him tomorrow. I wonder ir he will
recognize it? He did not know it wheu
I showed it to him after he came back
.from the hospital. Think of that His
own wife's picture, and taken in her
wedding dress! But then he recollecte?
nothing about Clifton or his friends
there. When I called the place by name
and described it to him-even the place
where he had lived-he paid no more at?
tention to it than he would had his at?
tention been called to a placo in China.
But that, thank God, is all past now.
The condition of mind that made him
for the time being Richard Melville,
in the end brought him back to me as
Maurice Green!
CHAPTER XX.
CONTRIBUTED BY CHARLES GATES.
tn a moment the m*mu*cript was burn?
ing in the grate.
It is an old saying that if you want
anything well done you must do it your
self. The people who have brought me
their manuscripts have not closed up the
case to my satisfaction.
For instance, Mrs. Caroline GreeD
knew that the man who murdered her
brother was secreted in tho closet at the
time when the oSicers and tho servants
were in the room viewing the body, but
she does not say so. She even stood by
the closet door in order that the noire
she made might conceal his heavy
breathing. That is a tough place to puf
a woman, isn't il? A wife shielding her
husband, who has disowned her, from
tho murder of her brother, who was
killed in her behalf! No wonder the
poor thing was accusal cf being insane.
In all my criminal experience I never
met anything exactly liker that
And then, again, both the hospital
steward and the keeper of the dead
house know of the striking resemblance
between Richard Melville and Maurice
Greon. It was so grca? that it deceived
the -mother and the family physician,
still they refer to it very lightly.
Then why should Mrs. Caroline Green
gloss over her husband's evil temper?
Perhaps she realizes that she is under
obligations to that same hasty temper,
For only for the taint of bad blood in the
Green family, and that cheap back?
woods passion of Maurice Green, the new
Richard Melville would havo walked
through the world as thc old Richard
Melville until the end of his days, anti
there would never have l>een a Maurice
Green again. Only for that murder i >
thc coachman's room no one would have
ever known that Richard Melville was
buried in Virginia in place of Mivuriee
Green, and that Maurice Green picked
np the life of Richard Melville wsere he
laid it down.
And i don't understand why Mr?,
??rc-en docs not explain her motive for
inducing her husband-at tiiat time
Richard Melville-to aid her i.i escaping
from thc asylum. Weil, sha car. do as
she pie.ises, bu< 1 shall always believe
that she would have been murdered that
night if the carriage had not met with an
accident on Twenty-third street, for ho
knew that she was acquainted with ail
the facts of her brother's death. The
foolish woman had used that to him as (
in argument why ho should accept her ?
us his wife, and in doing so hal imp^r- <
iled her own life. ?
Thut would have made two :>mrders
:or Mr. Maurice Green, alipj Richard
Melville-one committed to protect his ;
position in tba Melville family, and the 1
)ther committed to conceal the first ;
Sow. I have consulted the prosecuting j
)fiicers of the county and haif a dozen ,
nedical experts, and without exception
il1 crpress the opinion that it would be
iseless to put Maurice Green on tri ! for
he murder committed in tho name of J
licha rd Melville. It would be, they say, {
ike trying a man for an c?tense commit- ]
ed in hi.i bleep or during the frenzy of a j
>rain fever. All accept the conclusion .
irrived at; all have pledged themselves j
0 secrecy for Mrs. Clark Melville s sake, <
ud Mrs. Caroline Green has already |
icen released from custody. Iain told that i
he went straight to her husband at the
brooklyn hotel, and that lie recognized
1er iu spiteef l>l:r jLdcd and cha::jed ap
pu?Muvc. :.-? VVlt?l Liai Uzi t.?^ .- i.. ??CO?I
precKcted. Iiis New York lifo is ;:s i.-iizcii
of a blank to him now as his Kfe in Maine
was before, Mrs, Clark Melville is still
in ignorance of the true state .;f affairs.
She will know tlia-t the man she has cared
for so nnsel?shly is not her son for the
first time when she reads the history of
my investigation in the manuscripts f
have had prepared for her.
I don't like the looks of the thing! I
believe froiu the bottom of my heart
that Maurice Green is responsible for
the mnrder he has committed. 1 ha\e
no doubt that Maurice Green believe;!
himself to be Richard Melville. Such
cases are, I am told, not rare in the
books. It is certain, too, that he wa?
honest in rejecting the claims of his
wife.
Now to arrange tho manuscripts and
deliver them to Mrs. Melville. Perhaps
I shall see Mrs. Caroline Green there. If
I-flo I shall ask her to explain lier motive
in leaving the asricm. 1 already know
what hvr c-rapamosi's motive WMS hi
taking her away.
What will Mrs. dark Molvilb say?
* * * ? * " ?
There, 1 have seen Mrs. Clark Mel'
ville, and she has read the manuscripts.
She now knows thc truth;
How did she receive it? Let me write
down what took place.
When I rung the bell I was told that
Mrs. Melville had been expecting ino all
day, and was shown into lier private sit?
ting room, where I found her alone;
I laid my manuscript on the rabie.
"You have brought your report ia
writing," she said, turning paler than
usual with excitement. "Gome back in
two hours and you shall know what to
do next. Stop," she added as I turned
toward the door. "Have you heard from
Richard this morning?"
"I am happy to report that he is in his
right mind and orr the high road to re?
covery." ?
"Then why am I not pennitted to see
him?"
I pouted silently to the manuscript
and left the room. I returned in five
hours instead of twa
A bright coal fire was burning in the
gra*e, although the weather was warm,
and Mrs. Melville sat in front of it with
the manuscript in her hand. Her head
was bowed upon her hand, and her whole
attitude expressed the utmost dejection.
There were traces of tears upon her face
when she raised it to me, but the fine
strong lines evincing a resolute and un?
daunted spirit were still there.
"How many persons besides ourselves
know the contents of this manuscript?*
she asked.
"Two officers and two physiciens. To
all others a hypothetical case was stated
when I consulted them."
"Weil," was the reply, "I am sony to
say that I cannot agree with your theories [
or your conclusions. You have kept no :
copy of these papers?"
"No."
In a moment the manuscript was .
buming on the grate.
"I don't want it in the house," she
j said. "Richard might get hold of it{
You knew he was back here, ? presume.
I He was brought here this afternoon, at- .
; tended only by Mrs. Green and the fam?
ily physician. The accident reduced him
to the same condition I found him in in
Virginia, so no one will he allowed to seo
him. We are all going abroad as soon
as his health permits-Richard, Mrs,
Green and myself-and may never re?
turn. Remember your agreement with
me, that I was to be the sole judge as to
what action should be taken on your re?
port. If you are ever abroad, address us
through the America;: o ince at Paris."
She handed me a check and bowed mo
out.
And that ended my connection with
tiie Melville murder case.
* * * # * *
I reopen tko case to announce the mar?
riage, in Paris, of Mr. Richard Melville
and Mrs. Maurice Green! My informant
states that they aro as happy as though
the honeymoon was at eighteen instead
of twenty-five and thirty, and that Mrs.
Clark Melville is never happy out of
their sight They aro shy of the Ameri?
can colony, and live mostly in a pretty
villa just outside tho gates, where tho
husband is known as one of the most
loving and gentle of husbands and sonsl
Perhaps, after all, Mrs. Clark Melville
was right!
******
I open the case once more to introduce
a note from Mrs. Clark Melville:
Mv DfcAK MR. GATES-I mail voa notice o?
cay son's marriage to Mrs. Caroline Cf reen. It
seems they would hare been married the tiijrkt
she left tire asylum oniy for the aecfrlen*. T?wrt
was their purpose Wo have nimos* repro?
duced the old New York homo ia France.
Nellie Johnson and her husband are i Evaluable
assistants at the villa, and no ont- can cook like
Kate Donahue. I hoar nf thc marriage of Miss
Clara l?oberts to a Boston millionaire
Yours, Mus. CI<AI:K MUVIM.S.
Now, can any reasonable human being
suppose that she doubts the accuracy of
my report?
She knows as well as I do that Rich?
ard Melville lies dead in Virginia, and'
that Maurice Green fills Iiis place.
How the grand old lady braves it out!
I honor and respect lier for it, .
What won't a combination of fam?lyi
pride and womanly affection do?
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