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VOLUME XLI.
JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING
Only a baby, with winsome face,
Daintily showing each baby grace,
Only filling a baby's plAce—'
Yet tho dear Lord sent It here.
Only a child with golden hair,
Gathering sunshine, instead of care,
Followed by many an earnest praypr,
And many an anxious fear. •
Only a maiden, loving and two,
AVaMug for some great work
,to do;
Looking forward, the long ye:vB through—
But the Loyd was over all.
Only a mother, with patlenOeet,
With tender love for her little one sweet,
Praying for wisdom to guide her feet,
And the dear Lord heard ; the call.
Only a woman, laded and old,
With hair of gray, instead of gold;
With the years of her life a stun all told,
And finished the work begun. -
Only a coffin, with flowers dressed ;
Only a patient face at rest,
Ifith folded hands on a peaceful breast,
For the Lord bath said, done.”
Only a grate, In a churchyard cold.
With the pale moon shining In beams of gold,
For the Lord bath gathered safe Into the fold
Ills child—all labor past. s
Over the river, where angels dwp4i,
NOlere songs of praises raise and swell,
IVheri`Christ Is King, and all Is well,
She met her:turd at last.
1 -
A QUEER, CLUE.
IN TWO CHATTERS.,
CHAPTh
As an ex-detective, I am often
asked to, relate my adventures, and
at ;one time I was ready enough to
do so; but I soon found that my
tales wore looked upon as dull, prosy
things, and not at alf like what de
tectives ought to have to say for
themselves. Everybody, seemed to
think that detectives ought to find
things out by a sort of magical divi
nation ; but I was reckoned a - pretty
good one,. and I have known some of
our greatest celebrities; and the only
way any of us ever 'found anything
out was by inquiritg of everybody
who was likely to know a little, keep
in!, our eyes on any probable party,
holding our tongues, and putting all
the scraps together. Now and then
We are befi fended by a lucky chance;
and when this happens we'get a hun
dred times' more praise than when
we puzzle out the darkestand tough
est cases. The last affair I wus ever
engaged in was of this kind.. I was
first concerned in it two'years before
It left the Police—after, by-the-bye,
I had quite given up the detective
branch ; and I resumed it three years
afterward, that is three years after I
' had left the Police ; a p t] this is how
it occurred. I must Isay, however,
that I don't at all regard this as one
of the dull, prosy cases I referred to;
in fact, it was the most exciting bus
iness I was ever engaged` in.
Iliad left the detecti'e work, As I
said, and indeed had left London, for
when I grew a little tired of the bus-
I iness I was recommended to the au
thorities of Combestead, a thriving
markekowni in one of the home
counties; and I had a very comfor : ""
I table situation there, having little to
do, very good pay, and being head'a
I the borough Police. Of - clitirse ther,
is a great deal of difference between.
life in the country and life in town,
and from a policeman's view it per
haps appears greater than it does to
anybody else; and whereas I had
often wondered how anybody could
be detected in London, I was equally
surprised to think how anybody
could hope to escape in the country ;
for, excepting when strangers came
down on sonic carefully planned bur
glary, we 'could nearly always lell
where to look 'fur our men if any
'thing went wrong ; in short, I ktiew
everybody. As a matter of course,
everybody knew me.
There was a middle-aged party
lived in a quiet row of houses in Or-
Chard-street---,which ran parallel with
our Iligh-streets Miss Parkway,
who was repnted. to be pretty well.
off, although not extremely riot], and!
reputed also to., be rather eccentric.
S.he lived by herself, in the sense of
having none , of her relatives with
her; but there were other persons,
although not many, in the large
honk where she lodged. I had my
attention drawn to her by seeing her
walking repeatedly in c r 6mpany with
a young man of no very good char,
acter, who was fully 20 years her
junior, and at last I heard she was
going to be married to him: All the
town professed- to he surprised and
s!iocked at this, bin I wasn't.
Whether detectives get hard of heart
in such things or not I can't say, but
nothing in the way of a woman of
live-and-forty marrying' , a man of
five-and-twenty would ever surprise
me nor shouldq be surprised at the
man marrying the woman, if she had'
•
obey, as in this case. After all,
al iough I have said John Lytherly
—that wits his name—was of no very
good character, yet them was noth
ing serious against him.- He *as a
g?od-tempered, good-looking, easy
sor: of a fellow, with a lot of clever-
nes'a about him, too, that always
showed itself when it wasn't wanted;
and never showed itself when it
might be of ,service. He now called
himself a - photographer r_ but had
been a solicitor's clerk, an actor, a
traveler for a wine•merchant, a bar-
Man, and had once, before his mother
died, been bought out of the lancers.
However, it was now pretty well
known th'at John was going to marry
Miss Pai;kway, and half the young
chaps in Combestead ridiculed -and
envied him by turn's.
Matters-. progressed so far that it
was known the lady had given orders
to Bunnyman and Company, our
chief bankers, to call in a tlthusand
pounds of her money which was out
on mortgage; and it was said she in
tindO to buy one of the houses in
tite High-street and fit it , up as aipho
tographer's. • It was also reported
that old Mr. Bunnyman said: " I
hive, Miss Parkway, that whatever
you do with your money, you will do
nothing that you have not well con
sidered." And it is alsn said that Miss
Parkway replied : "If I wanted to
be ',preached to, Mr. Bunnyman I
shduld go to your brother, the Ran
ter u—perhaps because Mr. Bunny
man had a 'brother- who preached,
though he wasn't a• ranter at:
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however, as these two were by them
selves, I don't see how any one could
bavo known what passed ; and these
confidential conv ersations
, in books
and histories ardi certainly things I
don't believe in.
It was known for certain, however,
that aloe had not only given notice,
but had actually withdrawn the
money ; and among other things' it
was said that she had admitted to
her landlady, Mrs. Ambliss, that the
match with Lytherly would break
off all intimacy with her friends.
She only had one relative who came
to see her, and that was a gentleman
living some 40 miles away, but he
had not been to Combestead lately.
Whether be was offended or not, nei
ther the;; andlady nor lodger could
say ; but the latter feared' it was, , as
she had written told him exactly how
affairs stood and what steps shilad
taken, but had rtceived no reply to
her letier. Lytherly seemed, very
naturally, to be brightening up and
took our jocular congratulations—
for I had my say as well as the.oth
ers—in a gooditempered although
rather a conceited style. One an
noyance he felt, which was that eve
rybody to whom he owed money—.
which was every one who would
trust him—was anxious to be the
first , paid ; and, 'thinking that a lit
tle gentle pressure might, help them,
two or three of the tradesmen took
out County Court summonses against
him; and this, as he said, was very
hard on him and very selfish. How
ever, there seethed a little chance
that they would defeat themselves,
for, harassed and worried by these
doings, he was forced to ask Miss
Parkway for an advance of money,
being the first time he had ever done
so. He had received money from
her, but she bad always offered it,
and pressed' it upon him when be
made a show, if he was not-actually
in earnest, of wishing to refuse it.
Whether she ,was in a bad temper at
the time,'or whether she was hurt at
his, making such a request, Lytherly
cotild not say, but she refused to
make the advance, and they parted
worse friends than they had been for
some time.
'All this the young fellow let out
at the Bell on the Saturday, as the
refuial happened on the Friday. A
great part of it in my hearing, for I
generally took my pipe and glass at
the Bell, and I 'saw that he was well
on for tipiy. He had indeed been
drinking there some hours, and
would perhaps have stopped •Jonger,
but.that the landlord persuaded him
to go home. He was hardly able to
walk, and as I did not wish him to'
get into any trouble, which might
mean also trouble to me, I followed
him to the door, determined I would
see him to his lodgings if necessary;
but: just then his landlady's son'hap
pened to come by. The poor chap,
as I well remember, had been to the
dentist's to have a tooth drawn, but
his face was so swollen that Mr.'
Clawes would not attempt to draw it
ill daylight, and the poor fellow was
half distracted with pain. He offered.
to see Lytherly home, and as he lived
in the samelouse and slept in the
same room, of course he was the
fiti
test party to do so; and so off they
went together, and in due course of
time I went home too.
Next day was Sunday, and a quiet
day enough it always was in Combo
stead. Younger men might have
thought it dull, but it suited me.
hail lived fifty years in London, and
did not object to the steady-going
ways of the little town ; in fact I
took, to going to church, and all sorts
of things. Well, the day passed by
withoht anything particular, and I
was really thinking of going to bed,
although it was only 9:30, for I felt
sleepy and tired, when I heard some
body run hurriedly up our, front gar
den, and then followed a very loud
double knock at ,the door. I lived,
Idshould mention, at a nice house in
Church-street, which was .a turning
that led from the High-street into
Orchard-street, where, as I have said,
Miss Parkway lived. I was just
about to drink., a glass of eggliot,
whicliis a thing I am very partial to
when I have a cold,• and this-was
Winter-time; but I put the tumbler
down to listen, for when such a hur
ried step and knock came, it was
nearly always • for me; and sure
enough, in another haltminute the I didn't put handcuffs on him or
door was opened, and I.heard a voice anything of. that; and when we got
asking if the Superintendent was in ; into the street he saw the fly, round
then, without any tapping or waiting,' tibial there had already gathered at
my door was thrown open, and I saw least a score 'of boys and girls, who
a young woman' whom I knew as ser- bad, I suppose, seen me go in. He
rant to Mrs. Ambliss. The moment looked around, and said: _"
.This was
I saw her I knew something serious very thoughtful of you, Mr. Robin
was the matter; long experience en- son ; I sball not forget it." We drove
abled me to decide when anything off, and spoke no more until we ar
really serious was coming. rived at the town-hall. Here the.
"Now,jane," I said, "what is it?" magistrates were sitting; and here I
"Oh, Mr. Robinson!" she exclaim- found a tall, dark, gntve-looking gen
ed, (I forget whether I have men- tleman talking very earnestly to Mr.
tioned before that my name is Rob- Wingrave, our chief solicitor. I soon
inson, but such is the fact;) "come found this was Mr. Parkway, the
round at once , to missus's, for tyre cousin of the murdered lady. He
have found, poor Miss Parkway stone- was giving instructions to the lawyer
dead and murdered in her room P l ', to spare no expense; to offer a re-
And with that, as is a matter , of ward if he , thought it necessary ; to
course with such peopleoff she went, have detectives down from London, '
into strong histcrics. I couldn't stop and goodness knows what. Mr. Win
with her; so I opened my door, and grave introduced me, and was kind
equally; as a matter of course , there enough to say that there was no ne-
I found ' l the landlady and her servant cessity for detectives to be brought,
listening. "Go in and take care of as they had so eminent a functionary
that girl," I said; "and one of you as myself -in the town.
'bring her round to. Orchard-Street as It was supposed that this would
soon as she can walk." I didn't stop be merely a prelminary examination,
to blow them up, and they were too but it turned out differently. A few
glad to escape to say a word; so oft of Lytherly's companions—although,
I went, and found a little cluster of atilt transpired afterward. they fully
people already gathered round the believed him guilty—w,ere yet deter=
gate of the house I wanted. .." Here mined he should have a chance, and
is the Superintendent!" I heard them so subscribed a. guinea for old. Jem
say as they made way for me. I bur- my Crotton, the most disreputable
tied through, but had-no occasion to old fellow in, the town,'but a very
knock at the door, for they were on clever lawyer for all' that; and Jem
the watch for me. Mr. , and Mrs. my soon came bustling in. Re had
Ambliss were in the passage, and a a few minutes' conversation with
neighbor from next . door ; all looked Lytherly, and then asked 'that the
as pale and flurried as people do un- hearing might be put off for an hour.
der the circumstances. . ' This was of course granted, and by
" This is a most terrible affair, the end of that time he - had over-
Sir," says poor old Ambliss, who was whelming evidende to prove an alibi,
a feeble, superannuated bank clerk. for the landlady's son hadn't slept a
"We have sent for you, Sir, and the winkfor =his toothache, and he was
doctor, as being the best we could witk'lltherly until dinner-time on .
do. But perhaps you would like to. Sunday ; and then the accused went,
go into her room at once?" for a walk with • a couple of friends,
I said I should, as a matter of and did not return until after dark,
course, and they led me to her rooni. having spent two or three tours at a
There was a - llghi there ittel . *girth*, 'house "souse 04: as th 9
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brought more up, so that everything
was plainly visible. The people had
not liked, or had been afraid to dis
turb anything, so the room was in
the same state as when they had en
tered it. It appeared they had not
been surprised at Miss Parkway-not
coming down in the morning, for this
was not uncommon with her ; but
when the 'afternoon and evening
passed away and she did - not appear,
and no answer was returned to their
rapping at her door,
they grew
alarmed, and at last forced an en
trance, when they found the furni
ture in confusion, as though a strug
gle had taken place, and poor Miss
Parkway in her night-dress lying on
her face quite dead. They had lifted
her on to the bed, and froM the
marks on her throat had judged she
died from strangulation. As I could I
do no good to - her i I noticed as close
ly as I was able the appearance of
the room, and especially looked for
any fragments of cloth torn from an
assailant's clothes, which :often re
main after a struggle ; or a dropped
weapon, or any unusual marks. But
I could see nothing. There was no
difficulty in deciding how the assas
sin bad entered the apartment and
howl he bad left it, for the room was
on the ground floor, and the lower
sash• of one of the windows was
thrown up, although the blind was
drawn .fully down. The furniture
was knocked over and upset; the
rash-stand, which was a large and
somewhat peculiar one, of a clumsy
and old-fashioned description, had
, bee'n overthrown, and bad fallen into
tllefire-place, where it lay resting on
the bars in a very curious manner ;
while the jug had" fallen into the
grate, deluging the fire-place with
rater, but, extraordinary to relate,
Without being broken; not broken to
pieces, at any rate, although badly
cracked. A great deal of noise had'
probably been made, and cries for
help' probably uttered ; but Ambliss
and, his wife were both deaf, and
they and the servant all slept at the
top of the big house in the front,
while poor Miss Parkway slope at
the bottom at the back, and in a
room which was built put - from the
house itself.
I bad time to bear and notice all.
this before the doctor came, and his
attendance was; of course, a mere
matter of form. No one could help,
or harm the poor woman now ; so,
with the information I bad gained, I
went to the house of the nearest
magistrate,''a very active gentleman
and a solicitor. I °nett to have
mentioned that the drawers in which
Miss Parkway kept tier money and
jewelry were forced open and every
valuable obstructed, the only trace of
them being a few links of a slight
chain of very Unusual pattern,
which, with a curious stone, the lady
generally wore round her neck. This
chain bad evidently been broken by
the violence need and Fonds of it
scattered about; '.•the stone was
gone.
Information was of course sent to
Miss Parkway's relative who came
sometimes to visit her. And the re
sult of all' the inquiries ma'he was to
make things look So, very suspicious
against young - Lytherly, and so much
stress was laid upon his quarrel; with
Miss Partway upon her refusal to
lend him money—which seemed
known to everybody,--that I' was
•obliged to apprehend him. I .didn't
want to hurt his' feelings ; so I went
myself with a ly , although his lodg
ings were not half a mile from , the
town ball, so as to spare him from
walking in custody through the
streets. I found him at home, look
ing very miserable, and when he saw
me he said : " I have been expecting
you all the morning, Mr. Robinson ;
I am very glad you have come."
"Well, I'm sorry," I answered.
"But you may as' well remember
that theleast said is soonest mended,
Mr. Lytherly."
" Thanks for- your caution, old
friend," he says with a sickly smile ;
" but I shan't hurt myself, and I feel
sure no one else can do so.l Why I
said I was glad you bad come, wa's
because from Sunday night, when the
murder was found out, until now,
middle day on Tuesday, everybody
has shunned me and avoided me as
if I had the plague. I know why,
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and came to England, and he was ,
tolerably well off. He naturally talk
ed about the Combestead „murder,
and said frankly enough, that—ex
cept the people with whom he lodged,
and they were suspected, he said, of
perjury—he thought I was the only
person in town who did not believe..
him guilty of the murder.
"But murder w,ill out, Mr. Robin
son," he;Paid, "and you will see this
will be found out' , some day."
" Well, I am enure I hope it will,
Mr. Lytherly," . I answered him.
"But as for ' murder will out' and
all of that, I don't think you - will find
any'policeman or niagistrate who will
agree with yon there; -and there was
less to help us when you had got out
of the scrape in this Combestead
business than any affair I was ever
concerned in."
"I don't care," he says; "it will
come out, Mr. Robinson. I dream
of it almost. every night; and my
wife consulted some of the best for
tune-tellers .in India, and. they all
641 her it would be discovered. '
Hum !" I said ; "we don't - think
ouch of fortune-teliers i here, you
know."
"I am perfectly aware of that'," he
says; '" and I shouldn't give them in
as- evidence; but if you ,had lived
three years in India with imople who
knew the native ways, you might
alter your mind about fortune-tellers.
Anyway, you, will remember when
it's found oat, that I told you how it
would be."
I laughed, and said I should ; and
after we had another glass together,
and he had given me his address and
made ,me promise to call on him, we
parted. - •
I told my wife all about it; and it.
is very curious to see how women are ,
all alike in curiosity and superstition
and all that; for although my wife
-had been married to me for 30 years,
and so had every opportunity of
learning better, yet she caught at
what young Lytherly—not so very
young now, by the by—had.. said
about these fortune-tellers, and was
quite ready to believe and swear that
the murder would be found out. It's
no use arguing with a party like that;
so I merely smiled at her and passed
it off.
It was the very next day that Mrs.
and myself had agreed to go.and see
a new exhibition of paintings whicli
some one was starting in tondon,
and tickets were pretty freely,giveu
away for it ; but the same reason
which stoppilil my wife from going to
the Canterbury, stopped her from
going to the exhibition. I went, of
course, because I couldn't be of any
use, under the circumstances, to my
married daughter; . and a very
,good
exhibition it- was too. There 'were
plenty of paintings, and. I had gone
all through all the rooms and enter
ed the last one. There were very few
persons, I. was sorry to see in the
place,- so that yon could have an un
interrupted view of any picture you .
pleased. After glancing carelessly
round the room, for one gets a kind
of surfeited with pictures after a-bit,
I was struck by a gloomy-loOking
painting to the left of the doorway.
which 1 had not , noticed on my first
entry. When I came to look closer
into it, I was more than struck—l
was astouireled. It was a :picture
representing the finding of old Trap
hoie,., the miser, in the Fortunes of
Nigel The . heavy dull room was
lighted only by the candle which the
young nobleman held above his head;
and it appeared to be excellently
painted. But what drew my atten
tion was that, as apart of the confu
sion in which the s truggle 'between
the old man and his murderers had
placed the room,: the washstand bad
been upset, had 'Fallen into the fire
place, and the ewer had rolled into
the grate, where it was shown as un
,broken, although the water was flood
ing the boards—all exactly as I bad
seen the same things five years be
fore-Lao exactly, that I was perfectly
sure no chance ,coincidence had pro
duced the resemblance, but that who
ever had painted this picture had
seen the room where Miss Parkway
was murdered, and had had the fea
tures of the scene stamped on his
memory. Who so likely to have the
scene so stamped. I instantly thought,
as the murderer himself? As this
rushed on my mind, I could not re
press an exclamation, although pretty
well guarded as a rule. The only
other person in the room heard me,
and came to see what had excited me
so strongly. Apparently, he was dis
appointed, for he loeked from the
picture to his catalogue, then to the
pieture again, then at me, back to his
catalogue, and then wept away with
a discontente i grunt. I did not
move, however, bet remained quite
absorbed.n the study of this mysteri
ous painting ; and the more I looked
the more Convinced I became that it
was copied from the scene of Miss
Parkway's murder, There were sev
eral little points which I had not at
first noticed,i and in fact- had quite
forgotten ; such as the position of
Abe fire-irons, the direction in which
the water had run, &c., which were
all faithfully shoirn in the picture.
To be brief, I had made up my mind
before I left the room that I had at
last found the real clue to the Combe
stead murder..
The artiat's_name was Wyndham;
, and I determined that I would very
soon, as a natural theginning, make
. some inquiries about this Mr. Wynd
ham; and, indeed, I began before I
left the exhibition. I engaged the
hali-keeper to have a glass with me
at the nearest tavern, and itrben I got
fully into conversation with him, ask
ed carelessly where Mr. Wyndham
lived, tie thought I bad known him
Many years ago, giving a description
of some entirely imaginary_ rierson.
The hall-keeper said no : 'No, that
Was not the Sort of 'man at all. Mr.
Wyndhamilleas " (heiv he'de.scribed
him; ) . '!:and he doesn't live at-the
west.e.nd 'of:London, as you said, Sir,
but; i n Essex, not very fat
from Ernie r." He knew where
he livelf,4oause - be had tieveral
times postM letters 'to MIMIC- 44 Tb°
Mount: l MM* was alma an I got
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landlord, who happened , to be inthe
town, it being market-day, helped to
prove; • the fest of the time ke was
in the Bell, as-was nsnal, poor fellow.
There was no getting over this.
There was not a shadow of pretense,
for remanding him, and'so---much to
Mr. Parkway's evident annoyance—
Lytherly was discharged. He be
came more popular than ever, Among
his associates, although the respecta
ble people of the town looked down
upon him, and they had a supper in
his honor that night, at which old
JemmyVrotton presided. In default
of Lytherly, no clue could be found.
Not shilling of Miss Parkway's
money was ever discovered in her
apartments; so her murderer had got •
clear away with his booty. Many
wiseacres said we should hear of
Lytherly quietly disappearing after
things had settled down. .
Some little excitement was created
by Lytherly attempting to get into
the sole funeral carriage that attend
ed the hearse; but Mr. Parkway
would not permit such a thing, and
was himself the only, follower. It
was very clearlthat the stranger, in
common with many others, was not
half satisfied with the ! explanation
which had secured Lytherly's es-
Cape, and as I was on the ground at
the funeral, I saw, as did everybody
else who was there, the frown he
turned on the young man, who, in
spite of his rebuff, had gone on foot
to the church-yard.
Mr. Parkway left that evening,
having - placed his business in the
hands of Mr. Wihrave ; for as there
was no will, he w ls the heir-at-law.
Now this was a veiy curious affair
about the will, because Miss Park
way "had told her hilidlady hot many
days before; that she had made her
will, and in fact had shown her the
document as it lay, neatly "tied up in
her desk. However, it was gone
now ; and she had either destroyed
it, or the person who had killed her,
had taken that as well as the money;
and even if the latter was the case,
it was hardly likely to turn up again.
So, as I have said, Mr. Parkway
went home. The solicitor realized
tbepoor lady's property ; and all our
efforts were in vain to discover the
slightest clue to the guilty party.
As for Lytherly, het soon found it
was of no use to think of remaining
in Combestead, for guilty or not,'no
one 'of any respectability cared to as
sociate with him ; and, as. he owned
to me, the work, part of it all. was
that old Crotton, the lawyer, whenev
er they met at any tavern, would
laugh and wink and clap him on the
shoulder, and call upon every one
present to remember how poor old
.)jemmy Crotton got his young friend
„off so cleverly ; how they " flummox
'ed " the magistrates and jockeyed
the peelers, when it was any odds
against his young friend.
So he went; and a good many de
-Oared he had gone off to., enjoy his
'II -gotten gains ; but I never thought
) • and one of our men going to
Ch t atham to identify a prisoner, saw
Rytherly in the uniform of the Roy
al Engineers, and, in fact, had a glass
Of ale with''him. The young fellow
shid it was.his only resouree2 r -dig he
could not, and to beg where he was
known would be in vain. He sent
his respects to me, and that was the
last we heard for a long time -of the
Combestead murder.
CHAPTER 11.
I had left the Police altogether,
and was living-very comfortably, my
good lady and I, up at Islington, in
the same street with .my married
daughter, who was doing very com
fortably too, her IMsband having a
good berth in the city. 1 had always
been of a saving turn, and had bought
two or three houses; so with a tidy
pension, which I had earned by 30
years' service, I could afford to go
about a bit and enjoy myself. if
course in all that time I had malle
the acquaintance of a good many
professional people; and there were
very few theatres or exhibitions that
I couldn't get admission to. We—
my wife and I, I mean—made it a
rule to go everywhere that we could
get tickets for; and whether it was
the launch of a ship, the charity
Children at St. Paul's, or Saw Cowell
at the Canterbury Hall, it didn't
matter to us -we went. And it was
at the Cantertiury IL first had the
-Combestead murder more particular
ly recalled to my mind.
I was there myself, the old lady
not being willing to leave my mar
ried - daughter—because ' well, it was
in consequence of her being a mar
ried daughter—so I went by myself.
There was' a young woman -who sang
a comic version of "There's a Good
Time Coming;" splendidly • and as I
always was of &chatty turn, I couldn't
help remarking -to the person that
was sitting next to me how first-class
she did it, when he exclaimed :
"Rollo! why, never! Superintendent
Robinson !" A ii.n& then he held out
his hand.
It was young Lytherly, but so
stout, and brown, and, whiskery—if
I may say so—that Ii didn't know
him. t
" Mr. Lytherly I" I exclaimed, " I
didn't expect to see you • and xou're
right as to my being Robinson, al
though Police officer, no longer.
Why, I thought you Were in the
army."
"So I was," he returned; " but
I'M out of it now, and I'll tell , you
how it was."
It seems he had been tolnlia, and
got some promotion after three years'
service ; and had the good fortune to
save his Colonel from drowning, or
what was more likely in those parts,
being taken' down by a crocodile,
under circumstances of extraordinary
bravery. He did not tell me this
last bit, but I heard 'so afterward.
Lytherly was- always a wonderful
swimmer, and I remembered his
taking a prize at London. The ex
ertion or wetting broughLon a fever,
and be was recommenddibr his 'die
chine. The Colonel bevel most
liberally. But what was the best of
all, the oid fellow who kiptithe can
teen at the station died atmukthis
time, and: Lytherly had bear court.
ing his daughter for *good brt; more
to: the girl's sathenetkon. than that 'of
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deuce, but this was altogether an ex
ceptional case ; so, after a little re
flection, I went straight to the ad
dress John Lytherly had given me,
and told him what I-had seen. He
of course introduced me to his wife,
a very pretty dark-eyed young
woman; and when I had told all they
exchanged looks less of surprise than
triumph. "Oh, it is coming all right I"
he exclaimed. "I knew the murder
would cry out some day.• And now
you will have a little more respect
for Indian fortune-tellers."
"I am not quite sure about that,"
I said. "But don't you go making
so certain that we are going to find
out. anything, Mr. Lythery ; . this
may be only an accidental resem
blance." Because, as you may sup
pose, I had not - told 'them how confi
dent I felt in my Own mind. .
"Accidental 1 Nonsense I" was all
he said to. that; and then/he asked
me what was the first step I propos
ed -to take. I told him that I thought
we ought to go down to this village ,
and see if we conld learn anything
suspicious about Mt. Wyndham; and' ,
by my old detective habitn, and the
way in which the officers about would
be sure to help me, I thnught we :
might reckon on finding out what
was was wanted. He was delighted,
and asked when we should start, and
when -I said that very night, he was
more delighted-still.
It is always my, rule to strike the
iron while it's hot; and nothing could
possibly be got by waiting now; so I
had made up my mind just to run
home, get a few things in my bag,
and go down by the 10 o'clock train.
My wife, you may- be sure, was very
much astonished ; but, as I expected
she would be, was just as confident
in the murder being found out as
young Lytherly•liimself. Of course
the latter was ready. ,And.vM were
put down at our destination about
12 o'clock ; too late for anything that
night, but still we were on the spot
to bin the first thing in the morn
ing.—And accordingly directly - after
breakfast we began. John Lytherly
would have begun before bieakfast,
but As an old hand I. knew better '
than that; because the party we were
after, allowing he was the right party,
after a five years', rest, wasn't going
to bolt now ; so it was no case for
hurrying and driving. Well, soon
after breakfast, I sauntered into the
bar, and began talking with the land
lord, who was an elderly sort of
party about my own age, and who
bragged—as if it were a thing to be
proud of—before we had talked three
minutes, that he had lived, man and
boy, in Chum - ply, which was- the
name of the 'lively place, 'for more
than 50 years.
"Then you're just the fellow for
me," I thought; and then began talk
ing of an old master of mine who
was now living somewhere down in
this neighborhood, by the name of,
Wyndham.
" Wyndham? Let me see; Wynd,
ham!" says tie landlord, putting on
his wisest look, !
I can't re
member any party Of that, name.
There's Wilkinson ..Smi Wiggins:
perhaps it's one of tlieml
I told` him they wijuld ot do; and
then added thht the party I meant
was something of an artist, painted
pictures partly for pleasure and part
ly for profit. This was only a guess
of mine, but it was a pretty , safe one.
't Oh ! there's lots of them about
here l" exclaims the old boy, grin
ning very much, as if it was a capital
idea. "There's Mr. De Lancy Chop
kle; Miss Belvedera Smith, Mrs. Gal
loon Whyte ' Mr. Hardy Canute, and
a lot more; but I don't think there's
a Wyndham."
" A h, well, it don't matter," I said,
very carelessly still; "1 may be mis
taken. I heard; however, he lived
down here at a place called the
Mount. Is there such a place I"
" Is there such a place !" says the
landlord, with - as much contempt.
in his voice as if I ought to be
ashamed of myself for not knowing.
" Yes, there is ; and a first-rate
gentleman artist.lives there too; but
his name ain't Wyndham; his name
happens to 'be Parkway, Sir, Mr.
Philip Parkway; though I have heard
that he is too proud to paint under
his own name." '
"I think, landlord," I said,. " that
I'll have just three-penn'orth of
brandy cold;;" which I took, and left
him without another word, for when
I heard this name I felt struck all of
a heap;beeause it made a guess into
a certainty, though in a way I had I
never dreamt of. ' I couldn't even go
back to Lytherly, for a little while; '
it was ill so wonderful ; and I was so
angy with myself for never having
thought at the time that the man
who, of all others in the world, had
the most to gain by the poor woman's
' death, might have been the . one who
killed her. In the bitterness of my
feeling I could not help saying that
any one but a detective would have
pouncea,upon this fellow at the first.
However, I got over the vexation,
and went back to Lytherly to tell
him my-news. , We were each very
confident that we had the right scent
now ; but yet it was not-easy to see,
what we were to do. - I could not
very well apply for a warrant against
a man because he had-painted a
picture; and so we walked and talk
ed until we . could think of nothing
better than ping down to Combe
stead, and with our fresh, informatiOn
to help us, seeing if we could not
rake up something there..
We came to this resolution just' as
we reached a toll-gate, close by which
stood a little house, which appeared
to be the beer shop, baker's, Post
Office, and grocer's for the neighbor
hood. Not tench of a neighborhood,
by the bye, for, excepting a few gen
tlemen's seats, there was hardly an
other house within sight. One small'
but comfortable-looking residence,
we were informed by the chatty old
lady who owned the " store," was the
Mount, Where Mr. Parkway dived,
He was a very retired, silent sprt of
a gentleman, she said, and people
thought his wife didn't have the hap
piest of lives with him. He had been
married for a few yeara, the obi lady
went on ; soon a ft er a relation:had
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he married Miss Dellar, who was an
orPhan, with a -good bit of money
too, but quite a girl to him, and they
went to live at the Mount. At this
point the old lady broke suddenly
off, and said : " Here they are!"
going to the door Immediately, and
dropping her very best courtesy. - We
followed ~her into the little porch ;-
and there, sure , enough, was Ularge
carriage, drawn by one horse, and in
it sat a gloomy, dark man, whom I
had no difficulty in recognizing, and
by. his aide a 'slight, very pretty, but,
careworn-looking young woman. Mr:
Parkway looked coldly enough - at us,
and we as carelessly returned his
glance, for we were both_ so !cinch
changed since the Combestead days,
that there was little fettrVitf his re
membering us. •
It seemed that they had called
about 'a servant; which the. Poet.
Office keeper was to have: recom
mended, and Mrs.. .Parkway alighted
from the carriage to_ write some,
,memorandum on the business. Park=,
way had never spoken; and I thougl4
I could see in his,' harsh features'
traces' of anxiety and - remorse:
Lytherly had followed
,Mrs. Parkway
into the shop, i and' "tut could see
from where I stood, on the lady ask
ing for a pen, lie drew his gold pen,
cil-2ase from his pocket, and offered
it, as probably containing 'a better
implement 'than any the Post Office
could afford. The lady stared, look
ed a littled startled, but after a mo
ment's hesitation i aceepted it with a
very sweet smile. While Mrs. Park
way was engaged in writing her let=
ter, Lytherly stood by her side, and
sauntered out after her. I• had been
waiting in the porch, watching her
husband, whose face was so familiar
to me that I half expected. to see a
look of recognition come into his•
eyes • but nothing of the sort hap
pened. Lytheily watched them drive
off, then turning suddenly round, ex
claimed: " hit as good as over, Rob
inson „ We've got them !"
"Why / what is there afresh ?" I
asked.
"Just sufffelent to hang the scoun
drel," said-L,herly. " You, remem
ber, of contle, that among other
things whietti were stolen 9n the
night of the murder was' a curious
locket which poor 'Miss , Parkway
used to- weary, and that some frag
ments of the chain were afterward
found."
'. I remembered this very well,. and
told him so. • •
"Very good;" he continued. "I
gave that locket and chain - to the
poor. old girl; it was the only valua
ble I possessed in the world; and
Mrs. Parkway_has the _central car
buncle in her brooch now."
"Nonsense 1" I exelaithed, not
knowing exactly what I dare say at
the moment.'
"It is a fact," he said, "and I can
swear to,it. What is- more to the
point, perhaps, is that although the
stone is in, a strange setting, and no
one but Myself, probably, - could re
coonize i yet'l can identify it. On
the one side sic my initials cut in al
most miciescupical chayactcis... If
they ire . thpre, that settles it if they
are not, put me down as an impostor,
and fix the murdei on .me 'if you
like."
There was a good deal more said
after this, but the upshot of it is that
'we went oVer. to Colchester, and laid
the matter before the authorities;
when after a little hesitation, a war
rant was granted for the apprehen
sion of Mr. Philip Parkway; and two
officers, accompanied by Lytlierly
and , myself, went over to esS ute it.
It was a ft er nightfall whthi i t
we ar
!rived at the Mount and On knocking
at the door; we found that Mr. Park
way. was in; but his wife was out,
having gone out, (so the elderly wo
man that was called ly the foot boy in
formed us,) to play* the harmonium
at the weekly. rehearsal of- the village
choir. "About, the only amusement
she has, poor thing," the woman
muttered, and she seemed in, a very
bz.d temper about something. .We
said we wanted to see , her master,
and that she need not announde us.
And, as I live, I believe that womari,
guessed directly who we were, and
what we had come for. At any rate
quite a glow of triumph came- into
her face, and she pointed ,to a door
nearly opposite' to where we stood.:
We opened it, and found, ourselves
in a sort of large study, where, seat
ed at a table, reading, was the man
we wanted. He looked up in sur
prise as we ‘ entered, , and the light
falling strongly on his face, while all
the rest of th! room was in dark
ness, I thought I 40,`W a paleness i
come and go on , hie gloomy features;
but that might have been fan - cy.
" What is your business,?" he be-
gan ; but Mr. Banes, the `Chief icon
stable, cut him short.
"I am sorry to inform you, Mr.
Parkway," he said, "that I hold a
warrant for you arrest, and pia burst
consider yourself in custody,"
Parkway stared at him, mechani
cally closed the book he' was reading,
and said : ' -"On what charge, Sir ?"
" For murder," says Banes; and
then I was sure Parkway did turn
very white: For the murder of
Miss Parkway, at. Oombesteadi in
186—." \,•
Parkway looked from one, to the
other of us fur a few seconds without
speaking; at last his eyes _settled for
an instant on,Lytheily ; then turning,
to Banes, he said, -pointing straight
Ist Lytherly "It was that man, I
have no doubt, wbo set you on."
"You had better not say anything,
Sir," said the chief constable, "but
just give your servants what orders
you wish, and come with us, as we
cannot stop." j.
" I dare say it was. he," continued
Parkway, not answering Mr. Banes,
but seeming to go" with. his. own
thoughts. "I fancied he was doul,
for whaikl took to be his - ghost has
been seen in my 'room every night
for this Month.. Where is my wife ?"
We, to ld him she was not at home,
and tha we - were anxious =to spare
'her as far as possible; but he gave
each a bitter smile, and said : "
will_certainlygbe vexed , to
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of ad% so got him s w ay ; not with
out some little, trouble though ; and
if there - had not been so many of us,.
we should have had a scene; as it
was, we were obliged to handcuff
him.
The servants, four or them, were
nature* alarmed, and were in the
hall when we went out. Mr. Park—.
way gave a very kiv_directions, and .
the elderly woman , gri , ruied quite
spitefully at him. ; • -
" Don't insult the man, now
he's down," I . said in' , a whisper, "
- while Parkway and the'lwo officers .••
got into the fiy. Lytherly and
. .I
were to ride outside and drive. -
".Insult him I the _wretch!" she
said "'Jlron don't mean to suppose
he has nny feelings to hurt. He has __
- been trying to drive my poor young
mistress, that I nursed when a baby,
into herlgrave, and he would have -
done it if I had not been here. The -
only excuse is, he is,-and always has -
been, a dangerous lunatic."
We 'drove off,- and I saw no more
of her, and never heard how Mrs.
Parkway took the intelligence.
The lady was present at , the'pre
liminary examination ; and to* her ..
great suOise her carbuncle . brooch, ,_ -
was taken from her and used against
her husband. This' examination was
on the next morning, and we obtain- - -
ed . more . eyidence than we had at
first expected. .Not- only was the
carbuncle 'marked as Lytherly had,
said it would be, but I had been np
at the station, being unable to s hake
off old habits , and - had made 'some
inquiries there. Strangely enciffgh,
the man who was head-porter now
had been head-porterfive years ago
(it is a very sensible. way railwaya
have of-keepinea good man in the
same position always • promotion r
,
generally upsets and confuses things,)
and he was able,, by seconda t ty facts,
to .fix the dates and to show that not.
only did Mr.- Parkway go to Conibe
stead for the funeral, but that be
went to London and back jiiat before; •
from London, of course, he could
easily get to Combeate;d, and.his
absence left him about time to do so._
We proposed then to have a remand
and get evidence from Combestead ;
but it was never
_needed.
NUMBER 5
Parkway had been expecting this
bloiv for years, and always kept some •
deadly poison concealed in the hOl-
low of his watch-seal. This he took, _
t on the night after' his examination, i ,
and was found dead in his cell by the
officer who went the . rounds. He • .
first wrote a very long 1 and minute
confession, or rather. justification, .
showing that his motive had been to "
prevent his cousin's marriage wi .
Lytherly, whom he seemed to ha
t
very much, although the young m a
had never harmed him He said he
went expreisly to Combestead to get _
possession of the money his misguid
ed relative had drawn, and to-kill
her. He felt that if he left her alive -
she would carry out her scandalous
plan, and therefore. it was his duty
to kill - her ; so, in doing . this he felt
he had committed no crime, but had
only, been an instrument of-justice.'
So I suppose he• was, - as the house
keeper declared, a dangerous lunatic. -
however, the reward of :MO had
never beep withdrawn, - and 4 got it; ,
it was paid out of Parkway's estate,
...`
too, which .was about the strangest
go I ever i heard of. Lytherl' and
his wife are great 'friends with Mrs.
Robinson . and myself ; indeed, -we _
have usually one of their young ones
staying with us, when we haven't one -
or two from my ; married daughter.
Mrs:Parkway, I heard, sold oft at -
the Mount, and .Werit, away;. and ,
some time after I saw by the papers
that she was married to some one
else.
.I hope,she-made a better match
the second time. " •
On the whole," on' looking back I
am inclined to think that of a ll the -
eines by which I ever found anybody
out, this was really the queerest.—
Chamber's Journal.
-A LITTLE PRACTICAL JAKE.—AII
Oil City man - took home some arse
nic
the other day for rats. He open
ed the . package on-the table when he
sat down, and - played in the -white
stub with his fingers until his, wife
came down. . Then. with a sad ex
pression he said : " Dearest, I've got
tired of living and have taln some. - -
of
of this arsenic, and—" But his wife
darted out so suddenly' and scream
ed so loudly that he didn't finish the
sentence. Her fright - caused - him so
much merriment that when the
neighbors, whom his wife . c called,
came he was nearly doubled up with
laughter. = Thy next moment they
seized him, Ore; him on .a - lounge
and tried to fore a couple of raw
(Its down his throat He spit them
out - and attempted,to explain; but a:
six-foot neighbor sat down on his
stomach and grabbed the man's nos
trils between his fingers and before
they let him up they had made
swallow- half a dozen, raw eggs, a
pint of whiskey, a quart of sosp•suds
and half a - dozen other remedies.
They poured so 'much stuff down his
throat in five: minutes. that it took.
him hair a day to throw itt up, and
he came out of the struggle so hol
low that when his wife slapped hint
on the back it sounded like-' a bass
drum..
YouNo man, when you see any
thing you want, ask for it like a man.
If you want to borrow five dollars of
a man, or if you only want to marry
his daughter, don't slide up to him
and hang on to your hat and talk
politics and religion and the weather,
and tell old stale jokes wherbof you
can't remember the, point, until yon
worry the old man into a nervous
irritation. Go to him' with a full
head of steam on and your bow
ports open, like an ironclad pulling
for a shore battery. -
Strawberry.beds ought not to be
covered heavily with manure, or with
lumps. A slight &easing of lOose
horse-manure, or of \straw, allowing
it to remain in the Spring as a mulish,
is_the best. If the bed should be in.
a spot likely to be wet during the
Winter—though a strawberry bed-•
never should be in such a place—it
is better to leave it uncovered.
IF God has taught us all truth in teach
iug us to love, then He has given us in
interpretation of nur wthole duty in our
own households.
TUAT life is long which answers life's
great end ; the tree that hears no belt de
serves no name ; the mat of wisdom is
the man of years.
Finnrong the things to be thankfal '
for ie a 'thankful spirit .. Some , people
would g mble at aooommodati.mein
heaven they ever got there.
• Tan * kin - bee-hive Which - ire
are h for honey ;the few are sue
aniful; i the-many only receive' etliv!
and . .. in the effort. /
Tata arn'n great manypeopl6 bi tit* -
world ar - eaound,3)"thlicknektimet
blood to . e =inertia** that he .
up two .V Ank.torldminit '-
for the Inik thinthe'•eat
tended' for : the'-Lind_bmtbessi
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