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Show ' THE MISSING MAN By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of " The Bank Tragedy " Copyright, CHAPTER XXI. The Test. tense as to be almost painful succeeded the plaintiff's words, and the summons to admit the defendant while the plaintiff passed him on his way to the seclusion of the office. Mr. Hamilton, for such he was, undoubtedly, whether the true or false claimant, was deeply moved, as was apparent to all when he stood in the witness-bobefore them all. His face was pallid, his eyes were gleaming, his hands were tightly clenched. All glances were riveted upon him with astonishment as he said in a strange tone, not waiting to be questioned at all "I will go to get it. I will go to get A stillness so x : it.- Twice he said it, and then stood looking at vacancy rather than at the judge. The judge directed that the counsel for both parties and the jurymen attend the defendant to his destination, if not too distant, and see the search take place. Meanwhile the court would adjourn until one o'clock. And His Honor went to dinner. The sheriff followed the thirteen, who filed down the street toward the bank building, no doubt the place to which the defendant was leading them. Tall, erect, impassive, he passed on as in a dream, never hesitating, never speaking, neither looking to the right nor to the left. Thus he led them to the bank and up the steps. Pushing open the door, Mr. Morley explained their errand to the cashier. "It Is in the vault, the safe, the small drawer," said the defendant, and the cashier successively opened each receptacle except the drawer. "I have no key to that," he said. "1 have never been able to find it. The directors told me nothing was ever kept in it, because it was not accounted a safe receptable, being poorly " my-- - by 1 ud Sheprl and them, that he seemed familiar with all their past lives, while the other claimant did not. The testiwas very mony of these witnesses strong, and upon it the plaintiff's counsel relied much for the success of the case. The last witness to be called was a man from Valparaiso, who testified to the fact that Ashley was known to him, and that he recognized the de-- j fendant as the man. The plaintiff he had never seen but once before. He stated that he had been engaged in various nefarious undertakings with Ashley, who he knew to have been in Boston at the very date when the altered note was presented at the bank. That since then he had been converted under the auspices of the Salvation Army, and had seen in a newspaper the advertisement inserted by the plaintiff's counsel for information re garding the suit, and he had answered it in person. When he left the witness-stanand the case closed for the plaintiff, there were many among the audience, and among the jurymen, too. if their faces did not belie their minds, who were more than half persuaded of the claims of the plaintiff. Next day Mr. Ferguson spoke for upwards of an hour in an easy, graceful manner natural to him, and his outline of the case held the enrapt attention of every person in the court room that morning. There was little of labored ?.giiment, but starting with the supposition that his client was suffering a fraudulent attempt at ejection from his own premises, he proceeded to put the matter before the jurymen in this light. He said in substance something like the following: "My client, who is none other than the true Vane Hamilton as you can see for yourself, his looks fully corrob- orating my statement returns after an absence of many months to his home. He has been in the habit of taking his yearly outings in May. as he is inclined to bilious difficulties and the place of another, and to basa this they are compelled to set up its ansurd atory of the twin brother There Is no twin brother, for he died in infancy. "Ashley was visited next morning in jail by his wife. lie denied that sh was his wife, and she did not contra diet him until afterward. Then sne said that she was his wife. Ashlej got clear on the plea of being insane, and was sent to the asylum. Prom there he escaped, was supposed to have been drowned, worked awhile at a mill, and then came to Grovedaie, where he got employment in the mill here. He gave his name as Primus Edes. said he was never married, could not write; indeed, he appeared to be very illiterate. He worked as a common hand at the mill until he chanced to meet Mrs. Hamilton at church and fell violently in love with her. "He began to persecute her with attentions, and finally won her interest by finding her little boy who wandered away to the woods and got lost. Mrs. Hamilton marie him sundry presents and professed to think he resembled her husband. Ashley, alias Edes, began to learn to write, and learned astonishingly fast, writing the name Constance over and over again. a violin ami began to was a fine player, as we shall prove, and he was also well educated Mr. Hamilton could not play at all. Neither was he an ingenious workman. Ashley was. Mis. Hamilton put on mourning and hail a monument made to erect to the memory of her husband. She often opened her window to listen to the strains of the violin played by Primus Edes as she knew him. "Then Mr. Hamilton returned with a straightforward story of loss of memory as the reason for his detention from home, and, very honorably, settled up the bank troubles, as ne said he could not absolutely affirm that he had not done what was alleged of him. for he knew nothing of his acts after he left Grovedaie on the fifteenth of May. Mr. Carter and his children received Him with open arms. Not so his wife. She preferred to doubt him. Mr. Hamilton took up his place in the mill and in the community, unchallenged by a soul except his wife. Reports were brought to him of her affection for the man known as Edes. but he paid no attention to them, except to call him to the office and warn him against being seen on his premises. "In about a week afterwards Edes was shot there by some one unknown, probably by Edes himself, to awaken suspicion against Mr. Hamilton. He was ill for three or four weeks afterwards, and when he was partially recovered he professed to recollect that be was Hamilton instead of Edes. Mrs. Hamilton professed to beiieve his statement, or at least did not deny his claims. Proof would be offered that before his illness she wrote him a letter, calling him her dear husband, and signing herself Calla Lily, as she sometimes did in her letters to her friends, it being a pet name applied to her fair, stately beauty when a schoolgirl. (To be continued.) In New Definition. A For my wife. Give it to her," and At this moment Tony Osborn came forward with a key. "I found it not long ago," he explained, "under the corner of the safe." "Try It," said Mr. Morley, but the cashier handed it to the defendant, who inserted it in the lock. The jurymen crowded forward to see what was in the drawer. Nothing, evidently, but a piece of tissue paper, unless that paper contained the diamond stud. It did. A flash, a gleam, and the defendant thrust it into the hands of Mr. Morley, Instead of his own counsel's. "For my wife. Give it to her," and then he fell prone on the floor. Had he fainted? Was it a fit? The doctor was called and pronounced it the last, but he soon revived and was in a short time apparently as well as ever. He attended the afternoon session of court, and was the center of curious interest to all. Indeed, it was generally admitted that he had triumphed by leading the jurymen straight to the hiding place, though it could not be denied that the other claimant had indicated the place just as surely by his words. Strange that both should know what was a secret except to one of them and to Mrs. Hamilton! She seemed dazed by the circumstances, while a hopeless, delected look settled over her countenance. Tony Osborn's testimony was taken In the afternoon, and told against the defendant, since It was plainly made evident that he had distrusted him from the first. "Mr. Osborn," said Mr. Morley. "have you any reason for believing (hat the claimant is not the true Vane Hamilton?" "None, sir, except the color of his hair. He has stood evry test I have applied to him. He knows all about he affairs that took place at the bank when we were there together; he seems to be the true Vane Hamilton as I knew him." Two witnesses testified that Solomon Marks had been seen by them near the mill on the day before the shooting of the plaintiff, and that he appeared to wish to avoid recognition. Next, several citizens of Grovedaie were examined, snri they testified that they believed the plaintiff to be Vane Hamilton, for he hud t'Jd them of many tlw1u:',,' nr." i only to himself then fell prone upon the floor. is not so well able to pursue his business in the spring as in the summer. Far from making any mystery of the matter, he has invariably told his wife that he went away for his health. On one or two occasions he had other business of a special nature connected with the mill which it was believed best to keep secret for a time. "You all know how that is, and that ladies are sometimes apt to mention such matters in their confidences with other women, so that they leak out, often to the serious detriment of their husbands' business. Knowing this, .Mr. Hamilton did not always explain the full reason of his trips, and his wife chose to make a mystery of them. They had nothing to do with seeking for a twin brother. That silly fiddle-faddlhas no part in the defense. The only other children born to the Hamilton parents were a boy and a girl, who died in their infancy. The confession of Hannah Sargent is of no account, she having told at least half a dozen different stories about the matter. "When Mr. Hamilton was away he was taken with a peculiar malady, a species of Insanity. He forgot his name, place of residence, everything. Mr. Barnstead. I shall prove by the evidence of his friend Hurd. did not see Hamilton on the fifteenth; that it was the next Thursday that he witnessed the meeting at Portland depot, instead of Friday, when Mr. Hamilton left home. The claimant is none other than the notorious Ashley, who got cornered at Portland depot that very day, and was arrested by the sheriff from Goodwill. Harrison county. Nebraska. "You will recollect that Mr. Barn-steaIn his testimony could not swear that he saw the meeting take place Friday; but Mr. Hurd is ready to affirm, on his oath, that It was nearly a week later that he heard the account from Mr Barnstead. and that it was told to him as if it occurred on Thursday. "Ashley was taken to Ooodwili and incarcerated In jail there, and It was in that town his hair changed from light to dark. The prosecution does not deny that this man, the prisoner, was the claimant, or that It was ihere 'he remarkable change In the color of his hair took place. It would be useless to do It. They only venture to iut lo th rde- -. t'lat he arrested e Former Mayor Patrick Collins of Boston told this one as the Irish cab driver had narrated it to him in Dublin. Cabby took "a fare" out into the country one night. The gentleman paid him well, and told him to "look under the seat." There cabby found a quart bottle of pure Irish whisky, and he sampled it He also gave some to immediately. the horse, who seemed to like it. Telling the story cabby said: "Afther I'd been givin' av th' baste on'y foor or foive rihrinks he got gay; he did. Th' first thing Oi knowed Oi wor in th' shafts pullin' th' keb, an' th' baste wor up in th' sate lashin' me wid th' whip, makin' me pull hand an' dance." "Well, what was the result?" inquired Mr. Collins. "Oi've niver give th' baste another drop fr'm that day till this." "Yes. but what was the result that night? You were drunk, of course." "Oi wor not dhrunt, at all at all. " "Were you entirely sober?" "No, Oi II not He about it. Oi wor not into! rely sober." "If neither drunk nor sober, what was your condition?" "OI wor on th' !.fenlve "Pittsburg Dispatch. Opera In Arkansas. "See you had a comic opera here night before last," said the patent churn man. who had just come to town on one of his periodical visits. notice the bills prom "How was it? lsed a great scenic production, and all that " ( nine here!" hissed the landlord of the tavern at Polkvllle, Ark. Hooking a forefinger through a buttonhole in his guest's raiment, he led the astonished man off from the porch, out across the yard and around t behind the smokehouse. That's what they called It, on paper 'a scenic production' but my wife (she ain't anywhere around within hearin said - yon know how women . the best are, but kind o' skinny ones; wife, when she seen the chorus In tights well, from the way she acted then and what she's said to mr 'most ever since. I sorter surmise 'hat she considered It an obscenlc production." San Fran cisco Call. I "Ps-s-s-s- t! "Ps-s-s-s- ) that-away- A Great Light. Homeless Holmes His here paper says dat soap is good for moskeeter bites. Petered Pi S Say, I been a wonder-In- ' AM stuff was Kxd all nie fer. ' BIRTHPLACE OLD FAMIL' STANDING STILL VIRGINIA. MANSION IN" Home Where Great General of Confederacy First Srw Light Day a Fine Example of Colonial Architecture. the of Richmond. Va. Robert E. Eee was born one hundred years ago In Stratford, Westmoreland county, Va. Who, gazing upon his secluded and now somewhat home, could neglected fancy the child born to it would stand revealed a century later as one of the world's greatest generals and one of its noblest men? This first mansion of the family in the New World was built in the early years of the eighteenth century by Thomas Lee, fifth son of Richard Lee. whose father. Col. Richard Lee, was the first of his house to go to the Virginia colony. Col. Lee left his English home, in Shropshire, in 1641, forced by his loyalty to the royal cause to abandon his native land. The American home was named after the family estate in England. Proud might its founder have been had he known that Stratford on the Potomac would witness the birth of many men of his line who would stand forth as leaders of men in peace and in war men loyal enough to the country of their adoption to make and administer its best laws and to stand for their state even In a losing cause. The builder of Stratford was president and commander-in-chie- f of the Colony of Virginia, and after serving in this capacity for some time the king made him governor by royal apin a pointment. A flat tombstone covers the grove near the house graves of his wife and hineelf. It Is inscribed: "Here lies buried the Hon. Col. Thomas Lee, who died November 14, 1750, aged 60 years, and his beloved She departwife, Mrs. Hannah Lee. ed this life January 25, 1749." President Lee had six sons, who all grew to honorable and honored manhood. They were Philip Ludwell, Thomas Ludwell, Richard Henry, Francis Lightfoot, William and Arthur. Two of these brothers were of Indesigners of the Declaration pendence. Philip Ludwell Lee, eldest son of the founder of Straford, and its had a daughter, Matilda, who became the first wife of her cousin, somewhat removed. "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, and they made their OF LEE. home in Stratford. Here, after his first wife's death. "Lighthorse Harry" brought his second bride, Miss Ann Carter. Sho became the mother of Robert E. Lee on January lit, 1S07. The home in which Gen. Lee and his distinguished forbears were born and reared readily lends itself to a mental picture of its distinguished past, for it is still well preserved in many of its features. It is a massive pile of English brick, constructed In the form of the letter "H." It is al most ruggedly simple, and is unique In architecture from the high basement to the two great clusters of chimneys on the roof. No ornamental feature beautifies or mars its substantial simplicity. It stands solidly and squarely on its Arm foundation, as did Birthplace of Robert E. Lee. its builders and residents throughout all their generations. Like most of the colonial mansions of the south, the house has two fronts, the more formal northern approach and that opening upon the broad, shaded pleasure grounds fronting upon the river. Stratford contains 18 large rooms. Old Stratford, standing amid the thousand acres which is now its dower, presents a typical Virginia picture. The house and Its Immediate grounds are surrounded by a high brick wall, now broken in many places. The two original front gateways must have been elaborate, as remnants of carved sandstone columns and caps are to be seen strewn on the grass around the present utilitarian entrance. Some distance from each of the four corners of the house stand small brick outhouses, like satellites around their major luminary. These were the kitchen, servants' quarters and offices. The place of worship attended by the Lees was old Yeocomico Episcopal church, which celebrated last June its anniversary. It is 16 miles from Stratford, but in the old plantation days time as well as money was plentiful and distance a small item of consideration. "BLA CKIE'S" PRNCEL Y LIFE. couches and soft chairs upon which to curl. Imagine his scorn when a letter the came from a western woman saying Pa. All over Wllkesbarre. needed was a world are people who are Interested in that what Blackie the welfare of Blackie, the famous cat couple of kittens to play with kittens which would romp up and down the room, pull his whiskers, pursue his tail, bite his ears and claw his nose She even offered to furnish the kittens, and guaranteed that they would give him the time of his life. Think of the curl of his nose when came a letter from a New York woman who, preparing to go abroad with her husband for some months, wrote offering to senrl her cat to keep Blackie company while she was away and suggesting that, as her cat was a well-breaniand mal, Blackie would be pleased. Such presumption! The $40,000 Cat Accepts Luxuries as a Matter of Course. highly-cultivate- MAYOR ELECT OF PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia - John Edgar Reyburn mayor elect, of Prtiladelphia, was born "Blackie." the $40,000 Cat. of this city, which has inherited a lives in 40,000 estate, solitary apart-n-ngrandeur In a large witli 12 rooms to gambol in, and an attendant to tare for him t. two-floo- ilone. When his mate, Pinkey, died a short time ago and Blackie Inherited Pinkey's share of the $10,000 left to them both by their master, the late Benjamin F. Dilley of this city, the news was published and Is still traveling. Miss Addle Ruch. who Is Blackie's attendant, and who receives a life pension from the estate for caring for him, would have to engage several assistants if she put Into practice all the suggestions she received In the scores of letters sent to Blackie and to her from all over the world, but she has paid no attention to any of them, and having brought Blackie up since he first opened his eyes, 16 years ago. she feels capable, she says, of doing what Is best for him. and of making his life as long as It Is possible for a cat to live. Already he Is far older than most cats, and he seems to realize his unique position as a cat of Inherited wefclth. for he Is stately and dignified, he does not lavish caresses iion anyone, not even his devoted attendant, Miss Huch. Truth to tell. Blackie. as If he does not find comfort In riches, Is a rather morose animal, and takes life far too Perhaps If he had to seriously. hustle for his meals like many cats who are heard at night singing their paeans of satisfaction, he might be happier. Blackie sits up at table, has shrimps, Italian chestnuts and other baskets dainties to eat, has fur-line- In which to repoii- rind maujr cy (Newly JOHN E. REYBURN. Elected Mayor of Philadelphia.) In New Carlisle, O., February 7, 1845. was educated by private tutor anil at Saunders institute, West. Philadelphia, and studied law and was admitted to the bar In Philadelphia In 1870. He was a member of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania In 1K71, 1874, 187.1 and 1876; was elected a member of the senate of Pennsylvania for a term of four years In 1876 and reelected In 1880; was elected president pro tern, for the session of 188.'!; was reelected senator In I8S4 and again elected In 1888. He was elected to congress In 190 and was reelected to the five succeeding congresses. And Some Never Learn It. Wc have noticed that a good many girls marry without any definite Idea as to the best way to kill the odor of cooking csbbrrt. Topeka t'apltal. -- WITH UTAH LAWMAKERS. After a sharp struggle in the house. the bills abolishing the office of dis trict attorney were killed. The annronriations bill distributes $1,765. 74;"). 4:i for state purposes during the years 1907 and 1908. House bill No. 255, by Robinson, pro viding for the appointment of election judges, was killed in the senate. Two measures providing for the de signation of depository banks for state, county and city funds went down to defeat iu the bouse. Th Winner lull nrnvldlncr for the an- polntment by the governor of a fire and a police commission for Salt Lake, was done to deatn in the senate. After having once been passed in amended form by the house, that body finally put to sleep the bill giving to smelters the right of eminent domain. The house adopted senate Joint resolution No. 2. proposing a constitutional amendment fixing the the rate of state taxation based on valuation of property. , A message from the governor stated that he had vetoed the famous osteopathy bill, No. 28, by Mr. Johnson, because he thought that one medical board was enough. The State Mental hospital at Provo is to have a new bath building to cost $11,000, and $105,320 is set aside for the maintenance of that institution for the next two years. Next to the university the state prison is the most proliberally vided for. receiving $174,850. Of this amount $60,000 is for the new cell house, which is badly needed. b submitted The appointments Governor Cutler of members of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing society and state board of madical examiners were approved by the senate. A communication to the house from the Merchants &, Manufacturers' association protesting against the passage of senate bill No. 95, the railroad bill, was laid on the table without reading. A good start was made toward the accumulation of funds for the new state Capitol building when the hous passed a bill providing that $25,000 shall be set aside annually as a sinking fund. A large part of the money appropriated by the legislature goes to the various state institutions, the university faring best in that It receives $230,000, while the Agricultural college receives but $85,000. The senate passed the Benner X. Smith bill granting to smelters the right of eminent domain under restric Hons. The vote was 12 to 4, Senators Bullen. Gardner, Seely and Walton voting in the negative. The bill allowing the district attorexney their actual and traveling penses in the performance of their official duties and their contingent office expenses, failed to pass the house by a vote of 21 ayes, 14 pays, 9 absent. session of the senate The fifty-nintwas devoted almost exclusively to the bills were passing of bills. Twenty-onpassed at the forenoon and afternooi, sessions. Most of the bills that, were passed were amendatory of existing statutes. The house on the 13th passed bills providing for a board of horse commissioners; relating to experiments and demonstrations In arid land farming; for education of deaf, dumb and blind, and several measures of not so much Importance, s. B, No. 158, prohibiting railroad transportation or other common carriers from issuing free transportation except to certain persons, was put upon its final passage in the senate and failed to pass on roll call by a vote of 9 to 8. There was a warm debate in the house over bill 206, by Clegg, which related to the sale of liquor on Sunday and during certain hours on other days The measure was finally passed fixing the hours of closing from midnight to r a. m. The consolidation of the Agricultural college and the University of Utah problem, was definitely settled by the senate when Senator Hollingsworth's bill, providing for a joint board of regents for the university and Agricultural college was laid on the table. The Sunday Amur.oment bill, whict is a house measure, was loaded up with amendments until grown out of all proportions, upon roll call was passed by tin- senate by a vote of 10 to 8. Senator Seely voted no on the measure, it is said, because his amendment making It Illegal to brand a stray calf was voted down One of the most important measures passed was senate b.,1 No. 89, by the Torens establishing system of transferring land titles. , Senate bill No. 199, by Boilings-worthappropriating 14,000 for an exhibit at the National Irrigation congress to be held in Sacramento, Cal., this summer w'as passed. Because Senator Charles R. of Ogrien persisted in readand complex amendments to long ing the Benner X. Smith measure Insurance companies doing business in the state and creating a state the senate department of Insurance, all the bills became disgusted and laid on this subject on the table. On a small table in the center of the hall on the house floor on Friday was a roll of paper tied with a piece of crepe. On a placard was this inscription enclosed in a black border: OALVB8TON BILLS. S. B. 34 to 46, and 73. House bill No. 2S6 passed the house without opposition This measure pro vldes for the protection of the individual rights of every individual. All persons, says the hill, may accept emwhomsoever they ployment from please and at whatsoever compensa tion Is satisfactory to themselves. e regu-laVn- g |