Show I AGATHA WE > BB S A Powerful New Story By I ANNA KATHARINE OREEN Author of The leavenworth Case Copyright 1699 by S S McClure Co SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS CHAP-TERS Just after a ball at the Sutherland mansion Agatha Webb and her servant are found dean and Philemon Vebb Aga thas husband who for years has been growing demented in discovered asleep at the dinner table A trace of blood on Ills sleeve Indicates him as the murderer mur-derer Miss Page the niece of Sutherlands housekeeper persists in reo malnine about the Webb premises and discovers blood on the grass The money drawer is found to be empty and robbery Is added to the mystery Frederick Sutherland Suth-erland a wayward youth calls his father to witness his determination to be a better bet-ter man and promises not to marry Miss Iace by whom no has been fascinated illss Page tellsFrederick that she followed fol-lowed him the night of the murder ana knew where he had secreted a thousand dollars She gives him a week to decid whether to marry her or be proclaimed as the murderer of Agatha Webb It is learned that the money was in new bills and the keeper of a mall store produces one that a strange man gave him late tae nlglit of the murder A detective arrives i Irom B I case Boston and reports Simple Murdered for money Find the man wIth a I flowing beard Suspicion falls upon one of het Zabel brotheis Frederick Visits the hollow tree The money Is gone Wattles a Boston gambler arrives and demands K > M of Frederick in payment pay-ment of a gambling debt Frederick se cires a check for the amount from his father The Zabel brothers are found dead of satrvation one of them clutching the iIltalu loaf tho other a blo stained knife The Boston detective declares the mystery solved but young Sweetwater astonishes the company by a new chain i of evidence pointing to another perpetrator perpetra-tor of the terrible crime This time Ama bel Page Is suspected Sweetwater finds t the hidden money where he has seen MIss Page hide It Mibs Page is confronted by the detectives and oflliers and tells what she saw the night of the murder Frederick Fred-erick ovcihears the talking and joins the group and Miss Page tells just erougn so that a later confession will implicate Frederick if he refuses to marry her On the following day occurs the funeral of Agatha Webb and late that night Mr Sutherland discovers Frederick Freder-ick weeping over her grave On the way liome he learns of the death of Philemon Agathas husband Sweetwater suspects and follows Frederick and Is thus discovered dis-covered by Mr Sutherland Frderlck places a package of old letters into Agnes Jlallidays hands and his father seeks an explanation Agatha Webbs will is opened and by Its terms Mr Sutherland Is made executor and Frederick sole heir of a J1POOOO estate Sweetwater reasons that Frederick is the murderer but because Mr Sutherland once saved hIs life Sweet water Is unwilling to give evidence In order to keep his secret he plans to leave home and in suspicious haste pretending to be In search of an important witness boards an outgoing fctcamer bound for Brazil He is thrown overboard that night and picked up at dawn by a fishing crew which takes him to New Bedford Fowl and clothing are given him and he earns Si by delivering a suspicious box An accidental chance takes him on a mission to Boston The man he finds it AVattles the gambler who wishes Sweetwater to carry a mes cagp to none other than Frederick Sutherland Suth-erland at Suthcrlandtown CHAPTER XXIX The round had come full circle uy J oCirili ll etr Various Chances and a train of circumstances circum-stances for which he could not account ac-count he had been turned from his first intention and was being brought backstage back-stage by stage to the very spot he had i thought it his duty to fly from Was this fate He began to think so and no longer so much as dreamed of struggling strug-gling against it But he felt very much dazed and walked away through the now partially deserted streets with an odd sense of failure that poorly compensated com-pensated him for the hope now present within him of seeing his mother again I and being once more Caleb Sweetwater of Sutherlandtown He was clearer however after a few blocks of rapid walking and then he began to wonder over the contents of I the letter he had and how they would affect its recipient Was it a new danger iV al I ger he was bringing him Instead of aiding 3Ir Sutherland in keeping his dangerous secret was he destined to bring disgrace upon him not only by his testimony before the coroner but by means of this letter which whatever what-ever it contained certainly could not bode good to the man from whom it was deigned to wrest sooThe soo-The fear that he was destined so to do grew upon him rapidly and the temptation to open the letter and make himself master of its contents before leaving town at last became so strong that his sense of honor paled before it and he made up his mind that before he ventured into the precincts of Suth erlandtown he would know just what sort of a bombshell he was carrying into the Sutherland family To do this he stopped at the first respectable lodging lodg-ing house he encountered and hired a room Calling for hot waterplping hot he told themhe subjected the letter to the effects of steam and presently pres-ently had it open He was not disappointed disap-pointed in its contents save that they were even more dangerous than he had anticipated Captain Wattles was an old crony of Fredericks and knew his record better than anyone else in the world From this fact and the added one that Frederick had stood in special need of money at the time of Agatha Webbs murder the writer had no hesitation in believing him guilty of the crime which opened his way to a fortune and though under ordinary circumstances cir-cumstances he would as his friend Frederick already knew be perfectly willing to keep his opinions to himself him-self hewas just now under the same necessity for money that Frederick I I3r himself had been at that fatal time i and must therefore see the color of SoOO before the day was out If Frederick Fred-erick desired to have his name kept out of the Boston papers That it had been kept out up to this time argued that the crime had been well enough hidden to make the alterations thus offered an important one There was no signature Sweetwater affected to an extent he little expected reseaied the letter made his excuses to the landlord and left the J house Xow he could see why he had not been allowed to make his useless i satrifke Another man than himself I suspected Frederick and by a word could precipitate the doom he already saw hung too low above the devoted Z head of Mr Sutherlands son to be i averted i Vet Ill attempt that too burst 1f Ithist f i Ib impetuously from his lips If I fail I can but go back with a knowledge of J I this added danger If I succeed why I I must still so back From some person I and from some complications it is useless use-less to attempt llighrL 1 Hemming to the clubhouse he had I first entered in his search for Captain I Wattles he asked If that gentleman I had yet come in This time he was I jintfvered by an affirmative though I lie might almost as > icll have not been for the captain was playing cards inn in-n private room and would not submit I to any interruption i He will submit to mine retorted Sweetwater to the man who had told I t him this Or wait hand him back I this letter and say that the messenger refuses to deliver itt This brought the captain out as he I j had fully expected it would J Ywilege Ytl 1 f Why what began that gentleman I in a furious rage But Swcejwater laying his hand on the arm he knew to be so sensative I rose on tiptoe and managed to whisper I in the angry mans ear i You are a card sharp and it will be easy enough to ruin you Threaten I Frederick Sutherland in two weeks you will be boycotted by every club In I this city Twentyfive hundred dollars wont pay you for that I This from a nondescript fellow with I no grains of a gentleman about him inform r in-form featureor apparel The captain stared nonplussed too much taken aback to even be angry ang Suddenly he cried I How do you know all tills How do you know what is or is not in the letter I I gave you Sweetwater with a shrug that In Its quiet significance seemed to make him at once the equal of his interrogator quietly pressed the quivering limo under un-der his hand and calmly replied I know because I have read it Before Be-fore I put my head into the lions mouth I think it only proper to measure meas-ure its capacity And lifting his hand he drew back leaving the captain reeling reel-ing What is your name Who are yon shouted out Wattles as Sweetwater was drawing off I was the third time he had been asked that question within twentyfour hours but not before with this telling emphasis Who are you I say and what can you do to me I am But that is a insignificant detail unworthy of your curiosity As to what I can do wait and see But first burn that letter And turning his back he fie out of tho Iniilrlino nil ow il hv oath which if not loud were certainly deep and very farreaching I was the first time Captain Wattles had met his match in audacity I CHAPTER XXX On his way to the depot Sweetwater went Into the Herald office and bought a morning paper At the station he opened i There was one column devoted de-voted to the wreck of the Hesper and a whole half page to the proceedings of the third days inquiry into the cause and manner of Agatha Webbs death Merely noting that his name was mentioned tioned among the lost in the first article ar-ticle he began to read the latter with justifiable eagerness The assurance given in Captain Wattles letter was I I true Xo direct suspicion had as yet fallen on Frederick As the lover of Amabel Page his name was necessarily mentioned but neither in the account of the inquest or the editorials on the subject could lie find any proof that either the public or the police had got hold of the great idea that he was the man who had preceded Amabel to Agathas cottage Relieved on this score he entered more fully into the particulars and found thatthough the jury had sat three days very little more had come to light than was known on the morning he made that bold dash into the Hesper Most of the witnesses had given in their testimony Amabels being the chief and though no open accusation had been made it was evident from the trend of the question put to the latter that Amabels connection with the affair was looked upon as criminal and as placing her in a very suspicious light Her replies however as under a similar but less formal examination failed to convey any recognition on her part either of this suspicion or of her own position yet they were not exactly frank and Sweetwater saw or thought he saw naturally failing to have < a key to the situation that she was still working upon her old plan of saving both herself her-self and Frederick by throwing what ever suspicion her words might raise upon the deceased Zabel He did not know and perhaps it was just a well that he did not at this especial juncture junc-ture that she was only biding her time now very nearly at hand and that Instead of loving Frederick she hated him and was determined upon his destruction de-struction Reading as a final clause that Mr Sutherland was expected to testify soon in explanation of his position I po-sition i as executor of Mrs AArebbs I f Sweetwater grew very serious and while no change took place in his mind a to his present duty he decided that his return must be as unobtrusive as possible and his only too timely reappearance reap-pearance on the scene of the inquiry kept secret till Mr Sutherland had I given i his evidence and retired from under I un-der the eyes of his excited fellow citizens citi-zens zensThe sight of me might unnerve him was Sweetwaters thought precipitating pre-cipitating the very catastrophe we dread One look one word on his part indicative of the inner apprehensions that his son had a hand in the crime which has so benefited him and nothing noth-ing can save Frederick from the charge of murder Not Knapps skill my silence or Amabels finesse The young man will be lost He did not know as we do that Amabels finesse was devoted to win mabels fnesse ning < husband for hersbelf and that in the event of failure the action she threatened against her quondam lover would be precipitated that very day it the moment when the clock struck 1 Sweetwater arrived home by the way of Portchester He had seen one or two persons he knew but so far had him self escaped recognition The morning light was dimly breaking when he strode into the outskirts of Sutherland town and began trl descend the hill As he passed Mr Hallidays house he looked up and was astonished to see alight a-light burning in one deeply embowered window Alas he did not know how early one anxious heart woke during these troublous days The Sutherland louse was dark but as he crept very close under its overhanging eaves he heard a deep sigh uttered over his head and knew that some one was up there also in anxious expectation of < cay that held more than even he anticipated an-ticipated Meanwhile the sea grew rosy and the mothers cottage was as yet far off Hurrying on he came at last under un-der the eye of more than one of the early risers of Suthlandtown I What Sweetwater Alive and well Hey Sweetwater we thought you lost on the Reaper Halloo Home in time to fee the pretty Amabel arrested Phrases like these met him at more than one corner cor-ner but he eluded them all stopping only to put one hesitating question Was his mother well Home fears had awakened within him at his near approach to that hum lum ble cottage door CHAPTER X Had Batsy Lived I was the last day of the inquest and to many i bid fair to be the least I interesting All the witnesses who had anything to say had long ago given in I their testimony and when at or neor noon Swpetwater slid into the inconspicuous incon-spicuous feat he had succeeded in obtaining ob-taining near the coroner i was to find in two faces only any signs of eagerness and expectancy that filled his own breast to suffocation But as these faces were those of Agnes Hal day and Amabel Page he soon recognized recog-nized that his own Judgment was not at fault and that notwithstanding outward appearances and the languid Interest shown in the now lagging proceedings pro-ceedings the moment presaged an event full of unseen but vital consequence conse-quence Frederick was not visible in the great hall but that he was near at han soon became evident from the change Sweetwater now saw in i Ama bel For while she had hitherto sat under the universal gaze with only the te faint smile of conscious beauty on her Inscrutable features she roused as the hands of the clock moved toward noon and glanced at the great door of entrance with a evil expectaancy that startled even Sweetwater so little had he really understood the nature of the passions laboring In that venomous breast Next moment the door opened and Frederick and his father came in The air of triumphant satisfacton with which Amabel sank back into her seat was as marked in Its character as her previous suspense Tat did it mean SwePtwater noting it and the vivid contrast it offered to Fredericks air of J l < F 00 < depression felt that his return narl been well timed wel tmed v Mr Sutherland was lookinng very feeble As he took the chair offered him the change in his appearance was apparent to all whi knew him and there were fewthere who did not knaw him And startled by these evidences of suffering which they could not understand un-derstand and feared to Interpret even to themselves more than one devoted friend stole uneasy glances at Frederick Freder-ick to see If he to were under the cloud which seemed to envelop his father almost beyond recognition But Frederick was looking at Ama bel and his erect head and determined aspect made him a conspicuous figure in the room She who had called up this expression and alone comprehended comprehend-ed i fully smiled as she met his eye with that curious slow flipping of her dimples had more than once confounded con-founded tne coroner and rendered herat her-at once the admiration and abhorence of the crowd who for so long a time had had the opportunity of watching her herFrederick to whom this smile conveyed con-veyed a last hope as well as a last threat looked away a soon as possible possi-ble but not before her eyes had fallen in their old inquiring way to his hands from which he had removed the ring which up to this hour he had invariably in-variably worn on his third finger In this glance of hers and this action of his began the struggle that was to make that day memorable in many hearts After the first stir occasioned by the entrance of two such important persons per-sons and possible witnesses the crowd settled back into its old quietude under the coroners hand A tedious witness was having his slow say and to him a full attention was being given in the hope that some real enlightenment would come at last to settle the questions ques-tions which had been raised by Ama bels incomplete and unsatisfactory testimony But no man can furnish what he does not possess and the few final minutes before noon passed by which had already been presented for general consideration As the witness sat down the clock began to strike As the slow hesitating hesitat-ing strokes rung out Sweetwater saw Frederick yield to a sudden but most profound emotion The old fear which we understand if Sweetwater did not had again seized the victim of Amabels ambition and under her eye which was blazing full upon him now with a full and steady purpose he found his right hand stealing toward the left in the significant action she expected Better to yield than fall headlong into the pit one word of hers could open He had not meant to yield but now that the moment had come now that he must at once and forever choose between be-tween a course that led simply to personal per-sonal unhappiness and one that involved in-volved not only himself but those dearest to him in disgrace and sorrow he felt himself weaken to the point of I clutching at watever would save him I from the consequences of confession Moral strength and that tenacity of purpose which only comes from years of selfcontrol were too lately awakened awaken-ed in his breast to sustain him now As stroke after stroke fell on the ear he felt himself yielding beyond recovery and had almost touched his finger in the significant action of assent which Amabel awaited with breathless expec ation when was It miracle or only the suggestion of his better nature the memory of a face full of holy pleading rose from the past before his eyes and with an inner cry of Mother he threw his hand out and clutched his fathers arm in a way to break the charm of his own dread and end forever for-ever the effects of the intolerant fascination that was working upon him Next minute the last stroke rang out and the hour was up which Amabel had set as the limit of her silence A pause which to their two hearts if to no others seemed strangely appropriate propriate followed the cessation of these sound then the witness was dismissed dis-missed and Amabel taking advantage of the movement was about to lean toward to-ward Mr Courtney when Frederick leaping with a bound to his feet drew all eyes towards himself with a cry Let me be put on my oath I have testimony to give of the utmost importance im-portance in this case The coroner was astonished everyone every-one was astonished No one had expected ex-pected anything from him and instinctively in-stinctively every eye turned towards Amabel to see how she was affected by his action Strangely evidently for the look with which she settled back in her seat was one which no one who saw i ever forgot for-got though it conveyed no hint of tier ler real feelings which were somewhat I chaotic I must own Frederick who had forgoten her now that he had made up his mind to speak waited for the coroners reply If you have testimony said that gentleman after exchanging a few hurried hur-ried words with Mr Courtney and the surprised Knapp you can do no beter than give i to us at once Mr Freder ck Sutherland will you take the stand standih a noble air from which all hesi ation had vanished Frederick started towards the place Indicated but stopped before he had taken a half dozen steps and glanced back at his father who was visibly succumbing to this last shock Go Ill whispered but in so thrill ing a tone it was heard to the remotest corner of the room Spare me the anguish an-guish of saying what I have to say in your presence I could not bear it You could not bear i Later if you vlll wait for me in one of the rooms I will repeat my tale in your ears but go now I is my last entreaty There was silence no one ventured a dissent no one so much as made a gesture of disapproval Then ll Suth erland struggled to his feet cast one last look around him and disappeared through the door which had opened like magic before him Then and not till hen did Frederick move forward The moment was intense The coroner seemed to share the universal excitement excite-ment for his first question was a leading admission lead-ing one and brought out this startling I have obtruded myself into this inquiry In-quiry and now ask to be heard by this jury because no man knows more than I do of the manner and cause of Agatha Webbs death This you will believe when I tell you that I was theperson Miss Page followed Into Mrs AVebbs house and whom she heard descend the stairs during the moment she crouched behind the figure of the sleeping Phile mon It was more Infinitely more than anyone any-one there had expected I was not only an acknowledgment but a confes lon and the shock the surprise the alarm even which it occasioned even to those who had never had much confidence con-fidence in this young mans virtue was almost appalling In its intensity Had It t not been for the consciousness of Mr < Sutherlands near presence the feeling would have risen to outbreak and many voices were held In subjection by the remembrance of this venerated mans last look that otherwise would have made themselves heard In despite of the restrictions of the place and the authority of the police To Frederick i was a moment of immeasurable im-measurable grief and humiliation On very face in every shrinking form in subdued murmurs and open cries he read Instant and complete conilemna ton and yet in all his life from boyhood boy-hood up to this hour never had he been so worthy of their esteem and consld ratlon But though he felt the iron enter his soul he did not lose his determined deter-mined attitude He had observed a change in Amabel and a change in Agnes Ag-nes and if only to disappoint the vile triumph of the one and raise again the drooping courage of the other he with stood the clamor and began speaking again before the coroner had been able to fully restore quiet I know said he whaf this ac knowledgment must convey to the minds of the jury and people here assembled sembled But if any one who listens tome to-me thinks me guilty of the death I was so unfortunate as to have witnessed he will be doing me a wrong which Agatha Webb would be the first to condemn > > C 0 L Dr Talbot and you gentlemen of the jury 1n the face of God and I here declare that r Webb in my presence and before my eyes gave to herself the blow which has robbed us all of a mos valuable life She was not murdered I was a solemn assertion but it fal d to convince the crowd before him As by one impulse men and women broke into tumult Mr Sutherland was forgotten and crfes of Never She was too good Its all calumny A wretched lie broke in unrestrained excitement from every part of the large room In vain the coroner smote with his gavel In vain the local police endeavored to restore order the tide was up and over swept everything for an instant till silence was suddenly restored by the sight of Amabel smoothing out the folds of her crisp white frock with an incredulous almost insulting smile that at once fixed attention again on Frederick Freder-ick He seized the occasion and spoke up in a tone of great resolve I have made an assertion said he before God and before this jury To make it seem a credible one I shall have to tell my story from the beginning begin-ning Am I allowed to do so Mr Coroner You a was the firm response Then gentlemen continued Fred crick still without looking at Amabel whose smile had acquire a mockery that drew the eyes of the Jury toward her more than once during the following follow-ing recital you know that Mrs Webb has left me the greater portion of the money tor which I she died possessed I I have never before acknowledged to anyone any-one not even to the good man who awaits this jurys verdict on the other side of that door that she had reasons se for this good reasons reasons which up to the very evening of her death I was myself Ignorant of as I was ignorant Ig-norant of her Intentions in my regard or that I was the special object of her attention or that we were under any mutual obligations in any way Why then T should have thought of going to her In the great strait in which I found myself on that day I can hardly say I knew she had money in her house this I had unhappily been made acquainted with in an accidental way and I knew she was of kindly disposition dis-position and quite capable of doing avery a-very unselfish act Still this would not seem to be reason enough for me to Intrude upon her late at night with a plea for a large loan of money had I not been in a desperate condition of 11 mind which made any attempt seem reasonable that promised relief from the unendurable burden of a pressing and disreputable debt I was obliged to have money a great deal of money and I had to have It at once and while I know this will not serve to lighten the suspicion I have brought upon myself by my late admissions it is the only explanation I ca give you for leaving the ball at my fathers house and hurrying down secretly and alone into in-to town to the little cottage where as I had been told early In the evening even-ing a small entertainment Miss Page who will I a sure pardon the introduction of her name into this narrative has taken pains to declare to you that in the expedition she herself her-self made into town that evening she followed some persons steps down hill This Is very likely true and those steps were probably mine for after leaving the house by the garden door I came directly down the main road to the corner of the lane running past Mrs Webbs cottage Having already seen from the hillsidei the light burning burn-Ing in her upper windows I felt encouraged en-couraged to proceed and so hastened o till I came to the gate on High street Here I had a moment of hesitation hesi-tation and thoughts bitter enough for me to recall them at this moment came Into my mind making that instant perhaps the very worst in my life but thC passed thank God and with nothing more desperate in mind than a sullen Intention of having my own way about this money I lifted the latch of the front door and stepped In I had expected to find a Jovial group of friends in her little ground parlor or at least hear the sound of merry voices and laughter in the rooms above but no sounds of any sort awaited me indeed the house seemed strangely silent for one so fully lighted and astonished at this I pushed the door ajar at my left and looked in An unexpected un-expected and pitiful sight awaited nil Seated at a table set with abundance of untested food I saw the master of the house with his head sunk forward on his arms asleep The expected guests had failed to arrive and he tired out with waiting had fallen into a doze at the board 1 This was a condition of things for which I was not prepared Mrs Webb whom I wished to see was probably upstairs and while 1 might summon her by a sturdy rap on the door beside be-side which I stood I had so little desire de-sire to wake her husband of whose mental condition I was well aware that I could not brine myself to make any loud noise within his hearing Yet I had not the courage to retreat AU my hope of relief from the many difficulties difficul-ties that menaced me lay In the generosity gen-erosity of this great hearted woman and If out of pusillanimity I let this hour go by without making my appeal nothing but shame and disaster awaited await-ed me Yet how could I hope to lure her downstairs without noise I could not and s yielding to the impulse of the moment without any realization I here swear of the effect which my unexpected presence would have on the noble woman overhead I slipped up the narrow staircase and catching at that moment the sound of her voice calling out to Patsy I stepped up to door I saw standing open before me and confronted her before she could move from the table before which she was sitting counting over u large roll of money My look and it was doubtless not a common look for the sight of a mass of money at that moment when money was everything to mr roused every lurking demon in my breast seemed to appall If It did not frighten her for she rose and meeting my eye with a gaze in which shock and some strange and pignant agony totally incomprehensible incompre-hensible to me were strangely blended she cried out No no Frederick You dont know what you are doing I you want m money take i if you want my life I will give It to you with my own hand Dont stain yours dont I did not understand her I did not know until I thought it over afterward that my hand was thrust convulsively into my breast in a way which taken with my wild mien made me leek as if I had come to murder her for the money over which she was hovering I was blind deaf to everything but that money and bending madly forward In a state of mental intoxication awful enough for me to remember now I answered an-swered her frenzied words by some such broken exclamations as these Give then I want hundreds thousand thou-sand now now to save myself Disgrace Dis-grace shame prison await me if I dont have them Give give Andmy hand went out toward i not toward her but she mistook the action mistook mis-took my purpose and with a heartbroken heart-broken cry to save me from my crime the worst crime of which humanity is capable she caught up a dagger lying only too near her hand in the open drawer against whicji she leaned and in a moment of fathomless anguish which we who can never know more than the outward seeming of her life can hardly measure plunged against it and1 can tell you no more Her blood and Batsys shriek from the adjoining room swam throughmy consciousness and then she fell as I supposed dead upon the nor and I in scarcely better case fell also This as God lives is the truth concerning con-cerning the wound found In the breast of this nevertobeforgotten woman The feeling the pathos the anguish even to be found in his tones made this story strange and incredible as I seemed appear for the moment plausible plausi-ble And Batsy asked the coroner Must have fallen when we did for I never heard her voice after the first scream But I hall speak of her again What I must now explain is how the money In Mrs AVebbs drawer came into my possession anq how the dag J < y it ger she had planted in her breast came to be found on the lawn outside When I came to myself I found that the blow I had been such a horrified witness to had not yet proved fatal The e e I had seen close as Ihad supposed forever for-ever were now open and she was look wer open wa ing at me with a smile that has never left my memory and never will There Is no brood on you she murmured mur-mured You did not strike the blow Was it money only that you wanted Frederick I so you could have had it without crime There are a thousand thou-sand dollars tin that table and half as much again in the closet over yonder Take them and let them pave your way to a better life My death will help you to remember Do these words this action of hers seem incredible to oyu sirs Alas alas they will not when I tell ouand here he cast one anxious deeply anxious glance at the room In which Mr Sutherland was hidden that unknown to me unknown un-known to any one living but herself unknown to that good man rom whom it can no longer be kept hidden Agatha AVebb was my mother I a Philemons son and not the offspring of Charles and Marietta Sutherland To be Continued |