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[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] flis ISLAND PRINCESS. FROM THE NOTES OF RUPERT DE LA TOUCHE (1825), BY W. CLARK RUSSELL (AUTHOR OF THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR," "OYERDUE," &c.) CHAPTER XIV. ( y THE MURDER. c<>ntinued to blow a pleasant, gallant aU the evening-, and -when I woke in ^'?ht I heard the wind fresh and steady *ea tree?- 1 slept welL In truth' 1 WJVS tije ry through not having closed my eyes on enight, and the day's labour in 5q the man to get away had been heavy Sun" wo'te- as I sajr> *n trees, and found Lil I asked if she was watching. Sho gho could not help looking and listening t?linkin?; could not sleep; she did aDd Wish to watch. I bade her close her eyes „j sleep, as there was nothing to fear. th lJast night Mr. Cotton lay close beside niats, but this night a wide space of tjje us, and hark to the wind among boughg! Every hour speeds him further." Ity v8 sayin& I fell asleep again, and when I; *^e ^S^t of the morning was shining £ ui i-'y thronsb the open windows, and 31ie jja{j rjseT1 aTlf[ was clothing herself. that day nothing happened proper to «iv« ^ere. I seemed to find something pen- ih Eulalie's manner. She was not quick tw **er smiles, she laughed seldom, a.nd then ^hi tllat rich' heartiness tlian Ina^e her laughter melody. I put this H."ner jn her down to the loss of the boat, I thought elie would not complain of, of knew my views, but felt as a removal e one chance that remained to us to taijf16 ourselves if no ship came. I had to her eo much of London, and of the cod?S visited, and of such gaieties as I fa<«v re*ca^- the dresses of the quality, Qf n!°n.aMe gatherings in the parks, bands }aJjt,asic and dances by the light of coloured JiPj.11-8' that there had naturally grown in ijj great wistfulness and plaintive yearn- £ to eot>, as it were, behind the back of the where the plate reflected Jier n existence and things. In ten years .Maiden's heart was weary of the voic-e t}j surf and the cataract, and the view of to ^lcano and the valley, and I had come y. €ach her love, to make her know that she beautiful, and to sigh in vain for those nn ."ties of civilised life which I had again j again figured for her. Vf Was two mornings after the departure of t0 *^°tton from our island that I went down d Catch fish from some rocks on the north of the mouth of the creek. I was so used Jjer ee'ng the boat in the creek that I missed ii&aJ^th something like a sigh and a pang of a'oh ^'h?n I looked at the old canoe floating g]a Whilst I fished I happened to send a •ft}, Ce into the north-east recess, and saw- Of a I so veritably believed to be the gleam p- 8ai^ that I sprang to my feet and stood low *'ke on'e a trance. My eyes were brojf^^d, and the horizon, therefore, was Vpjjj.^ht, close, and the distant fragment of e hovered and came and went in a -r so exasperating to my imagination thnging down the line, I ran to the %iwe ^or the glass, and discovered, sure 0r| ? £ by the steadiness by which it rested that the white speck was a sail. ^as I)rove °t no nse to us, for in jft a quarter of an hour it melted out. was indoors, and I had no heart to Jl0 ^Point her by reporting a sail that -was re £ °0(* than the phantom ship. So I itjq j1 hack to the rock, and fell a-fishing again, t, and marvelling over this eecond Is]acail appearing in sight of the tCrUlr) ^'tbin a couple of days or so. For I ba.d d. not but remember tbat Captain Scott tltat assured me—and I fully believed him— fovjr ln ten yoara he had only seen three or ij0Vf vessel?. and one of those two were hnll q,aj r- The sight of the sail, however, that my spirits. I could not conceive ts]a seas, which teemed with fruitful I f6it should sleep year after year unvieited. convinced that a day would come, and bo 8Peedily than I dared allow myself to hov6' ^'hen I should look and behold a vessel tor +1^° the island, with a boat making &5d • sh°re. And such was the poignancy Ijjijj *lvidness of this day-dream that it deter- of tne to stack ever in readiness a mass nd that would send up a great smoke, <Ja,jrs also resolved to occupy eome coming stitching pieces of white and coloured MwL into flags, and fixing them to trees, they would blow clear, on bold and liel lellotis parts of the coast. att(} caught as many fish as I needed, j-fy haprien.^d to be a small, sweet white our whiting, but bigger, I strung ])])1" and departed for the house. As I %ar(j_a°hed I saw Eulalie standing in the in a posture of expectancy, a« though I .Waited me. And, indeed, when she saw .■'having the trees she comes running to me, ^somewhat brea.thless cries: Rupert, there is a man in this island." jn nliere?" says 1, standing stock still, for t) an instant I understood it was ridiculous associate that distant ship, whose glimmer 1iio^nvas had melted out' T'ith the arrival of ther man. 0 to the garden." says she, "and I will ■yyj On where I saw him." 11d en, we came near the graves she stopped, ft into the south-west. There was S13erable growth of trees there, which distance from the east coast into 0 of the island, where the land lay 0n, t_ open. But still trees abounded, si?ht iy in one cr two Places could you catch th ° clear savanna. said that my wife's eyesight was mar- •+ searching and far-seeking. I might 1H(J au It was Nature's gift, reconcilable with the dewy, Vr p't softness of the pupils. She had seen *H-h n when I could only make him out th?r^a ?lass> and now when sho told me that to ij^tWas a man on the island I was willing Va-3tlv ancl helieve, thoueh I confess I was ^ch She asked me if I observed ,an<i such a group of trees, I told her a. little to the left, half-way between the cluMP of trees and the hillock where ftjjj ^oanut trees are. I saw the figure of 'TUn? pass through that place." says I. I « twenty minutes ago," she answered. t:ntered the house, put down the fish, and It with the glass. se^rng to me impossible," eaid I, "that eee the figmre of a man all that dis- b off." pouted, and said she was sure she was ■Retaken. he clothed? Was he a savage?" I tQtoe could not tell that. It was something *>o ^^oved. It was not a shadow; there were *iot to throw moving shadows. It was the)r hush, either; bushes do not glide from Places. What she saw was alive, and a I'ledgred the whole area of the country to "It she had pointed, but could see nothing. It) tIt :may be," says I, "that a canoe arrived night. Did you see only one man?" t Illy one," she answered. (tiatnOW told her that I had caught sight of a it nt sail, which had disappeared, and that aLd Igh have been the sail of a canoe which b'1 fitted the island in the night, leaving i*c'tei? raore behind. I was greatly hy this news, a.nd as much at a loss bt act as when Cotton was ashore. I had *>or ,ets and pistols in plenty, but no powder 4 sav man that my saw was he had companions—for why fel^A one savage be set ashore on this *cCOp 7-I might suppose they would be armed thjit • g .to the custom of their country— JJ' with sizars and bows and arrows— out Q case, even though there should be han?' mnst be at a heavy disadvantage, tajj no weapon I could use at a die- Jift j For the bows and arrows which hung > M?r dinin^-room ^ere of no more good than had they been children's toys, and «Uri{^ no match with a savage at •a sp?ar- °ur little house was no *t in which we oould fortify ourselves. ,a shed, and when the mate, which TV- ,e windows, were raised it looked one. ,a-Hrt re' if had enemies to fear in the JtJrsJ had no house in which to barricade r- CV8' and' indeed' after our experience of ^Org ^ton I scarce knew which to dread rl'O' the arrival of a white man or a visit III 4.11 eetvages. r^-el t morning I kept a look-out with a liel8' and often came to my side "eith with her penetrating gaze. But ns Baw the least signs of anything *0 ^?hling a man. It would have been idle 'Vj^'ore for him in that island, for there thousand secret places in which a man hide himeelf as securely as though he U she Eulalie with passionate earnestness sure that what she saw was a man. her desire not to increase my "<>t g made lier reluctant, but she could »v shay "no-" She painted aguin as vividly could the image of the moving thing "^h«ld. Then said I: »x 0^ a C'U'5 and go along the coast, and t there is any boat oome ashore, and :°f jyhile keep yon a bright look-out here, ^thjn meet with nothing, and you see ^^}"|^m°ving throughout the day, I shall °i^,yoa were deceived and that we are ^(J, ^hat I took down a small native clnb. » hoirf1?Pill!? a wide 8traw hat on my head JrM the telescope, I set out in the sun, ka,rebd away to the coast on the west, er gating vigilantly inland as I went to I J Ve^ea'nst a surprise. Ki8 1^1 ^own on the beach, where the traot fc|, an^ level- I paced to the end of this fc|, an^ level- I paced to the end of this ^Owpeweoioe rooka cak-wMch. the sea, waa breaking prevented me from going further. This brought me to a. bend, which furnished a view of the coast for nearly a mile. But I saw nothing-nothing, I mean, to alarm me. The heat was excessive, the distance great, and I was fairly exhausted when I got back to the house The east side of the island remained to be explored, but I could not attempt it on foot that day, nor would I venture it in the canoe, not being used to the handling of that sort of craft. Eulalie had seen nothing The afternoon was now far advanced, and in all the hours since the early morning- no signs of a man had beon visible. I could not imagine that if a boat's crew of savages or white men had come ashore, or even one man, whether black or white, they would remain in hiding all day. They could not fail to see the house, and, as they would find no inhabi- ¡ tants in that part of the island where Eulalie had seen the figure moving, they would natu- rally make for the house. For, though my fears had painted the figure that Eulalie saw as an enemy, there was no reason why he should prove one. Nay, if the figure was not a phantasy of my wife's eight, he might be some poor forlorn creature like to the wretch whose dead body had been found in the canoe, thankful to fall in with strangers and hospi- tality. So, though I meant not to relax my vigilance that night, I dismissed my fears, and did my best to re-assure Eulalie, who, however, continued very pensive and watch- ful, often stepping out to send a look over the land, and, when sitting out with me, dart- ing such searching, tireless glances in all directions as very well persuaded me without further assurance from her that the convic- tion of her heart was that what she saw was a man. We kept watch and watch that night. Eulalie's dagger was at her hand, and I had my native truncheon. My short slumbers were broken. I was constantly starting up and listening, and asking Eulalie what noise that was. The murmur of the wind in the trees sounded something like the crunching of dead leaves under stealthy naked feet. My brave girl's rest was equally disturbed. Onoe she started into a sitting posture, sprang from the bed, and, grasping her dagger, stood breathing hard with her weapon in her hand, poised as if to stab, as though she saw a man. The reflection of the oil-lamp in the dining- room came through the uprights where the mats were raised, a,nd we could see easily. I was so amazed and alarmed by her sudden action, and her posture was so to the life like that of confronting and defying an enemy, that I believed she saw a man, and, taking a good grasp of my club, I made a step to the window towards which she looked, which was "Stood breathing hard, with her weapon poised as if to stab." I black with the trees beyond, though the stars shone above them. "What is it, Lil?" I exclaimed in a loud whisper. She turned her head slowly, the hand that grasped the dagger fell to her side, and, with a sigh and a shudder, she said: "It was a dream." 'Twas one of those dreams which make the sleeper glad when the sun awakes him. When the morning came we found that the alarms of the night were of our imagining, and that nothing woroo had happened than Eulalie's dream. But I could not help think- ing as I stepped forth with my spy-glass that life would become perfectly intolerable on this island if we were to be visited and haunted and worried and held sleepless by such fears as had come to us, first with Mr. Cotton, and next the thing which Eulalie believed she saw glide from the body of the trees to the hillock where the cocoanut trees stood. I said to Eulalie that I would rather take my chance with her in that old canoe than go on enduring such a state of life, hearing an assassin in every midnight rustle of leaves that sounded like a footfall. I pointed the glass with diligent scrutiny into every part of the island, and Eulalie also directed her keen gaze everywhere, but no hint of human life was revealed to us. "Well, dear," says I, "what do you think now?" "I may have been mistaken," she answered. "If there is a man, why should he hide?" "But we may aJso say if there is a man why should he be an enemy?" said I. "After breakfast, to satisfy my mind, I'll explore the eastern side of the island." All the while that my wife prepared the meal I kept a look-out with my spy-glass. Then, after breakfast, I did as on the pre- ceding day. I took a club, and searched, this time, the east coast of the island, which was more accessible than the other. I got upon the coral strand south of the creek. This strand was continuous and winding. It went round the base of the cliff like a serpent, till it vanished at a point which corresponded with the situation of the littie forest above. Hero were no gullies nor creeks, nor did I expect to see any, but I knew that if a man was arrived in this island he must have come in a boat of some sort, and if that boat was not on the west side, nor on the east, as I now perceived, where was she? Unless, indeed, the gleam of canvas I had caught sight of the day before was the sail of some- thing—canoe, boat, or ship-that, as in the case of Cotton, but this time at night, had left a man on the island My second exploration satisfied me that Eulalie had been deceived, and that the island held no other inhabitants than our- selves. I came back mighty weary and half roasted. "Have you seen anything move whilst I have been away?" I asked, the hour then being about noon. No. she had seen nothing. "Burt have you looked, Lil?" "Yea, again and again," she replied. "And you are now satisfied, as I am, that we are alone!" "I wish I could feel sure," she exclaimed, "bUlt I am not." This apprehension I put down to nervous- ness, which I knew would presently wear off when nothing more should nMet her eye to betoken a human presence. But, though she had slept but little in the night, she did not go to her bower for her afternoon nap, as was her custom. A spirit of restlessness was upon her. She was too perfectly natural in character to conceal it. If we were within doors I would observe her sending unwonted glances through the windows on either hand, and when out of doors her eyes were cease- lessly exploring the prospect. Another evening came, another night. I had made up my mind to dismiss all alarm, persuaded that if a stranger had come into this island he would have arrived at the house or shown himself in some part of th-e land during the long day. We sat in the garden in the evening, and I smoked my pipe I and talked with Lil. The young moon was cow making a stronger light. The ooean lay in a magic calm. I could scarce hear a ripple Trpon the beach. Ktever aoigh of wind passed through the trees, and the only noise that broke into this majestic peace was the hooting of a night bird, which Eulalie described as a sort of owl. Our conversation this evening was coloured 'insensibly by melancholy. The delicate moon- shine gave us a sight of the graves, and I spoke of Captain Scott, and Lil of her mother, and she told me 6ome more tales of her child- hood in Lima and the voyages she took with her father in his schooner. But we were both weary, and a little before nine vre went to rest. As on the night before, so now, the mats in rest. As on the night before, so now, the mats in the windows of our room were raised, and the scene of black, rising grove or wood lay out- side, with the stars over it. Two of the mats betwixt our room and the dining-room were also raised, and the oil lamp made a little light, for now what lustre the moon shed was in front of the house, and by this hour she was sailing ov-ec the sea. We both lay armed, Eulalie with the dagger, and I •with my club. The room was so unpro- tected, a-s. indeed, was the whole house, that sleeping in it was the same thing as lying out of doors, unless the window mats were lowered, but these were a sort of shutters that cozened the sight only; they might serve against the driving wet, but could not keep out a man. Eulalie rested very quiet; she breathed so regula.rly that I fancied she slept. After I had been lying down half an hour I thought I heard the noise of a footstep, and, rising and taking up my club, went to one of the spaces that looked into the dining-room, and watched and hearkened. Eulalie lay quiet, with her eyes closed. I was sure she slept. I had never before thought the figure-head which had decorated the prow of the New Zealand canoe, in a hideous presentment of a man's head, looked more grim and ghostly than now as it stared down in that dim light from where it was hung. It seemed to mop and mow up there, as though it were alive. To satisfy myself, I crossed the room and passed out of doors. The night scene was a picture of heavenly tranquility, the moon wa-s sparkling in the midst of the stars, and the ocean lay as smooth as a shield of polished steel. But I was weary of this sort of vigil, and heartily tired withal, and, returning to the bedroom, lay me down by Eulalie, who still seemed to sleep, and in about ten minutes' time, exhausted by the heat of the day and the la-ck of sleep the night before, I sank into a profound slumber. I afterwards came to know that it was about three o'clock in the morning, when I was awakened by a. cry or deep groain and the sound of a heavy fall. I sprang up and saw the body of a man stretched upon the floor, and Eulalie in the act of reeling and falling. I caught her in my am as she was sinking, crying in my bewilderment and horror, "Oh, my God! what is this?" and laid her upon the bed. She breathed fast and spoke brokenly: "I was sure he was in the island. I have killed him-he has stabbed me—I am dying, Rupert." I now perceived that the white tappa that she wore as bed attire was dark with blood over and about the right bosom. I sprang like a madman into the dining-room for the oil-lamp, and, snatching at another, lighted it, and brought them both in and set them down, and by their illumination I saw that the man who lay upon the floor, evidently stabbed to the heart, was Silas Cotton. I was so thunderstruck that for an instant I stood as one petrified, for.I had supposed this ma.n to be hundreds of leagues away from the island by this time, instead of which the villain must have sneaked back in the mid- night darkness, and moored his boat in some secret creek, waiting till we should be off our guard to steal to the house and murder me and seize my wife and our property. I broke from the wild fit of amazement that transfixed me, and knelt by Eulalie. She had been stabbed through the breast and the lung, and it was manifest that she bled inter- nalLy and was dying. I have no words to express the agony of my mind, the language to acquaint you with the awful, desolate sense of loneliness and helplessness that crushed my heart as I knelt by my dying princess, my queen, yet again the preserver of my life, this time at the sacrifice of her own precious blood, with the miscreant Cotton's corpse stretched along the floor behind me. She whispered with faultering breath; she asked for water, for cold water, and begged me to fan her. Oh, the misery of it was that I could not staunoh tub bleeding, that I knew not what to do, that there was no help, though even then I felt as I looked upon her face that had the first surgeon in the world been in that room he would pronounce her past all human aid. I gathered from her broken speech in intervals after I had given her drink and whilst I fanned her that she was sure Cotton was in the island, and that, though she pre- tended to be asleep, she was keeping watch for him. She saw him come into the room armed with a long knife, which he had found in the dining-room, on which she sprang up, and, as I knew well her marvellous alertness, having been a spectator of her agility in the water, I could well understand the deadly skill with which she had played her terrible dagger, and easily judged, when she told me she had jumped up, that Cotton then was a dead man. Nor do I believe that he designed to kill her, but that in protecting himself from the lightning dart of her steel he jumped round and, so revolving, drove his knife into her breast. I could do nothing but watch her, fan her, kiss her, weep such scalding tears as visit men's eyes, put water to her lips, and watch my darling die. She grew delirious, she ceased to know me, and she passed away in' unconsciousness, at which hour the dawn had broken, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and I knelt alone by my dead island princess. The sequel to this simple, but romantic and tragic, story must be briefly related. With a broken heart de la Touche set about the I sad and solemn task of burying the remains of a girl whose picture, with its hundred subtleties of mood, natural passion, arch humour, incomparable beauty in form, gesture, and motion, and so on, demands such skill in the artist as shall not be found in these pages. In that climate interment must needs be swift. He toiled all day, and by the evening, and before the moon a,gain shone, Eulalie was sleeping in her grave, alongside her father's. And now there were three where there had been but one on la Touche's coming; and whilst the lonely man stood looking down upon his work, and thinking of the jewel that had been ruthlessly torn 'from the casket of his heart, Captain Scott's pas- sionate clinging to the island for the love of her who rested in it grew intelligible to him. He scarcely regarded it as a madness; his heart was buried in the grave he had made, and he would leave it there when he quitted the island: He denied decent interment to the corpse of the murderer. He took a rope and attached it to the body, and dragged the thing, villainous even in death, with its scowl of brow and its tusk of tooth, to the edge of the cliff, and hurled it over to lie and rot. His business was then to find out where the boat was hidden. Guessing that Cotton had come ashore on the southern side of the island, he made his way in that direction, and found a little creek in the south-west corner, opposite the pla-oe where the scoundrel had been marooned. This creek was so richly sheltered and hidden by palms, cocoa trees, and a tall undergrowth of luxuriant vegeta- tion that the boat lay, as it were, in a sort of green tunnel, and it waa merely by the accident of detectiult the gleam of water through the trees that he discovered the creek and the boat in her. He brought the boat round to the other creek where the canoe was. She contained the cask of water which he had helped Cotton to put into her. In her, too, were the musket and ball the fellow had been put ashore with. She was ready for &ea. La Touche had but to add to the stock of pro- visons, which he did. When he had done with his boat, he went to the house, and made a little parcel of his wife's property—the diamonds, the Spanish pieces in gold, the twenty-eight- guineas, the silver dollars, the gold crucifix, the watch and chain, and ear-rings, but the wedding ring was on his wife's finger. As he looked at these things the tears ran down his cheeks. Surely, a cruel, needless murder! She was so young, so fresh, so fitted for the life he had hoped to carry her to. Four times had she preserved him from death. Why had it not been God's will that He should have requited her by averting the blow of the assassin? Before he quitted the island he constructed on his wife's grave such, another crops as lay on the other two. He likewise planted the mound richly with flowers. When his task was ended, he removed his hat, and stooped and kissed tho grave, and bade Eulalie fare- well, uttering the words aloud, even as Cap- tain Scott used to speak aloud to his wife, though la Touche was no madman. He then went down to the creek, entered the boat, hoisted the sail, and put out to sea. This was on the third day after the murder, and the hour of his sailing was about seven in the evening. He headed north-east, and continued to steer that course, and for three daya was without a sight of land. On the morning of the fourth day after leaving the island, when day broke, on looking over the bow, he saw a ship right ahead. He signalled to her, and was seen, and she backed her topsail to enable him to approach. She proved to be the whaler Johanna, bound to Valpa- raiso, at which port Mr. de la Touche was landed. It does not appear that he made any attempt to recover the rest of the property, consisting of the ca-rgo of the wreck left on tho island. These brief particulars are coUected from his notes, but five times the length of this tale would not contain his adventures after his arrival at Valparaiso. [THE END.]

OUR NEW SERIAL. Next week will be commenced a Novel of absorbing interest, entitled "THE BLACK RIBBON," by Mrs. L. T. MEADE, whose work is so widely known and appreciated as to have placed her at the HEAD OP THE POLL in a recent competition organised by a London paper with a view to deciding upon the MOST POPULAR LADY NOVELIST.

THE PENTRE MUUDEll CASE. PRISONER'S ANTECEDENTS AND REAL NAME. It transpires from inquiries pursued by th.3 chief-constable of Middlesbrough that the man who was on Wednesday last committed at Pontypridd Police-court to take his trial at the Glamorgan Assizes on a charge of wil- fully murdering Mr. J. Emlyn Jones, land- lord of the Bridgend Hotel, Pentre, gave a false description of himself. His real name is Eugcn Lorenz, and he is a Russian subject who has spent much of his time in Germany, subsequently settling down at Middlesbrough. where he was employed at various works for about four years. He married a Miss Bridget Gollagly, by whom he had two children. On the 3rd of September he handed his wife 25s., and ostensibly went to Darlington to look for work. He was always of a reticent disposi- tion, and spoke little of his antecedents or his family connections. His passport shows that he was born in 1876. The most remark- able development of the evidence against the prisoner is the fact that Lorenz was engaged at the Bridgend Hotel as billiard-marker by the late F. C. Gould-the then proprietor— and left at the end of five weeks with a written character, which is in the hands of the police. This is dated the 24th of August, 1901. Whilst so employed those who knew him stated that he never went outside the premises. The date of his leaving Middles- brough and the day of the commission of the murder would strongly support the evidence of the barmaid that he had been in the neighbourhood for a few days, which the man endeavoured to refute. Lorenz joined the steamship Port Antonio at Middlesbrough after his marriage, and when tue vessel arrived at Cardiff was paid off, and wrote to his wife informing her that he had obtained employment at the Bridgend Hotel, Pentre, as a billiard-marker, and asked her to join him. This, however, she refused to do. PRISONER'S FORMER CONNECTION WITH THE PLACE. The above statement created a great deal of stir at Pentra, and there are a number of people who say that they recollect that there was a foreigner engaged at the hotel as billiard-marker, and that he was particularly smart at his work. Miss Morgan, who has been a barmaid at the Bridgend Hotel for the past four years, was interviewed upon the matter on Monday, and she eaid that she remembered the man Eugene Lorenz very well, and that he was engaged for about five weeks at the hotel as billiard marker and general servant. Asked what were the man's habits, Miss Morgan said he was of a very quiet disposition, extremely reserved, and he would not say anything at all as to his family connections. When she'saw the man Eric Lange on the Sunday of the tragedy she then felt certain that she knew the face, but could not recollect where she had seen him. I told several people at the time, and also Inspector Williams," she continued, "that I knew the face well, but where I had seen him I could not then tell. I was very excited and upset. When Inspector Williams came over here the other day and asked me about the diaries kept by the late Mr. Gould, which contained the names of the servants engaged by him, I came across the name Eugene Lorenz, and it then flashed upon my mind that he was the same man." "Could you identify him now?" Miss Mor- gan was asked. "Identify him!" she replied. "Yes; I would know him anywhere. I remember tne day when he came here very well and also when he left Mr. Gould thought the world of him, and gave him a character when he left. Mr. Gould was very sorry that he went away, and used to say how very quick he was and how very clean he kept the place." Miss Morgan further said that she ™as now absolutely certain that Eric Lange and Eugene Lorenz were one and the same per- son. In further conversation Miss Morgan said that when Lorenz went away she, knowing the fact that Mr Gould was very sorry to lose him, suggested to him that he should stay, but his answer was that he did not like the place. Asked how Mr. Gould came across him, Miss Morgan said she thcught it was through a registry office at Cardiff, where Lorenz had put his name in as being open to an engage- ment as billiard-marker. Prisoner's wife, interviewed by a. Darling- ton reporter, stated that his real name is Lorenz, and he is a German. He served in the Navy, and afterwards worked for a con- tractor in Middlesbrough. He also went to sea. He was good to her, and she does not believe that he is guilty of the crime with which he is charged. INTERVIEW WITH A TREHERBERT MAN. Mr. Walter Burbridge, of 8, Station-street, j Treherbert, was a co-employe and a bedmate of Lorenz during his stay at the hotel. In an interview with our representative, Mr. Burbridge said that he had no doubt what- ever that his former companion was the man who was now charged with the murder of the late Mr. Emlyn Jones. At first, how- ever, this had never occcurred to him, but from the description given him of the prisoner by Inspector Williams, he felt con- vinced that he would be able to identify th>0 man. The photographs which had also ap- peared helped him to come to this conchT- sion. Lorenz was of an extraordinarily reserved disposition. He could rarely be induced to refer to himself, and made a con- fidant of none; but he was very obliging, aitid in this way had ingratiated himself into Jiihe good graces of both Mr. and Mrs. Gould, as well as his fellow-employee at the Bridg/end Hotel. BEREAVED WIDOW REMOVE'S FROM THE HOTEL. Mrs. Jones, widow of the late Mr. E-mlyn Jones, removed from the Bridgend Rbtel. Pentre, on Friday, and it is understood that the management of the hotel will be faken over by Mr. Fisher Morgan, a son of the late Alderman Morgan, of Aberdare, the well- known miner's agent-

FALL OF A CLIFF. TWO TEACHERS KILLED: A THIRD INJURED. ———- Graham Allen, aged nineteen, assistant to Mr. Thornton, M.A., head-master of Bridling- ton Grammar School, and two boarders, J. B. Broomhead (thirteen) and J. Baker, lettering, were out walking on Sunday morning on the south beach, about a mile from the town, when a portion of the cliff gave way and fell upon them. Allen was killed on the spot, I and Broomhead died as he was being removed in the ambulance, attended by a nnrse and doctor Baker was knocked down, but | escaped willi alight injuries.

IIUSH DEVOLUTION PLANS. CONDEMNED BY MR. GEORGE WYNDITAM, M.P. The report of the organising committee of the Irish Reform Association (of which Lord Dunraven is chairman) estimates the annual expenditure on purely Irish services at about of money voted by Parliament. They are strongly of opinion that, if local know- ledge were brought to bear upon expenditure, the money oould be made to go further, and would be more usefully employed than it is under the present system. They suggest that the control over purely Irish expenditure should be taken from the Treasury, which is now only interested in effecting economies for the Imperial account, and entrusted, under Parliament, to an Irish financial coun- cil, interested in making savings for Irish purposes. The council should be under the presidency of the Lord-lieutenant, and might consist of twelve elected and twelve nomi- nated members, including the Chief Secre- tary, wfho should be vice-president. The deci- sions of the council should be final, unless reversed by the House of Commons. It would be the duty of the council to prepare and submit the Irieh estimates to Parliament annually. The report goes on to advocate the reform of Irish Private Bill procedure, and to express the opinion that power to deal with much of the business relating to Irish affairs, which Parliament is at present unaMe to cope with, might with perfect safety be delegated to an Irish body to be constituted for the purpose. Mr. George Wyndlia.ni, in a letter in to-day's "Times," with reference to the report of the organising committee of the Irish Reform Association, says he does not for a moment question the sincerity of the asso- ciation's intention to avoid any course which might impair the Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland. But the chances of the realisation of their aspirations are prejudiced, and not enhanced, when they are confused with any plans, however tentative, for the multiplication of legislative assemblies within the limits of the United Kingdom. To any such plan the Unionist party is opposed. The proposals are also condemned by the executive committee of the Iri3h Unionist Alliance.

AMERICAN RAILWAY SMASH. OVER 50 PERSONS KILLED MANY INJURED. An eastward-bound passenger train from Knoxville to Salisbury, North Carolina, col- lided on Saturday with a local passenger train from Bristol, Tennessee. The cars were demolished, and a number of persons are reported killed and injured. According to telegrams received by Southern Railway officials, it is believed that 50 persons have been killed and 75 injured. Later.—Both the engines, three coaches, and several other cars were wrecked. Between 50 and 75 of the passengers in the coaches were killed, as well as both engineers, and from 100 to 150 were injured. The accident was doe to the fact that the officials of the train from Bristol to Knoxville overlooked or disregarded the order regarding the passing-place of the two trains.—Renter.

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MARRIAGE COMPLI- CATIONS. REMARKABLE DISCLOSURES AT CARMARTHEN. A peculiar set of circumstances occupied the attent,ion of the Carmarthen county magis- trates on Saturday when Charlotte Williams, of Llwynfilwr, Pontyeates, charged David Tre- harne, Forestfach, Pontyeates, with assault, and also applied for four affiliation orders against him in respect of four children of which ho was the father, according to his own admission. Mr. H. Brunei White, solicitor, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that at the outset he was instrudd to apply for a separa- tion order against Treharne, with whom his ciin1t had lived as his wiÎ for the l:1l't seven years. When he (Mr. White), however, sifted the facts he found that his client was the defendant's deceased wife's sister, and that, as there could not, therefore, have been a legal marriage, he could not procecd under an application for a separation order on the ground of persistent cruelty, as his client desired. He had get out of the difficulty by advising her to take out a summons for com- mon assault instead, together with four appli- cations for Ilillliation ordei-s in respect of tbe children she had borne to him. Mr. D. R. Edmunds, solicitor, Llanelly, who appeared for the defendant, said he admitted the paternity of the children and that his client had always regarded and treated the plaintiff as his legal wHe, and was quito pre- pared and anxious that that understanding should continue. T'he complainant gave evidence that she went through a form of marriage at the Car- marthen registry 0:1 July 30, 1396, believing that there no impediment to the union. Four children had been born and defeu- dant also had fonr children by his first wife, her sister. An order of 2s. fid. per week in respect of each child was made.

FOREMAN BEATEN. WAYLAID ON THE CANAL BANK: AN ACT OF REVENGE. John Pickervill, a foreman in the galvanis- ing èepartruent of the PhŒnix Works at Pont- ypool Road, appeared at Fontypool Police- court on Saturday in support of a summons he had taken out against Adolphus and Albert Evans, two brothers, labourers, of New Inn, charging them with assaulting him Oil Sunday week. Mr. A. W Watkins, Usk, who appeared for the complainant, characterised the assa 1.:1t as a most aggravated one. On Saturday week the complainant had occasion to sum- mon the defendant Albert Evans for assault. a fine of 20s. and costs then being imposed. The following afternoon the two brothers waylaid Mr. Pickervill and treated him in a brutal manner. The complainant, in his evidence, stated that 011 Sunday afternoon he was going along tht canal bank, near Pontypool Road, for a walk, when he came across the two defen- dants sitting down. They appeared to him as though they had been drinking, and im mediately tackled him about the previous day's police-court proceedings at Pontypool. The Bench regarded the assault as a most agcrraTated one. and fined the defendants £3 each, or in default of payment a month's imprisonment. Of the fine the complainant will receive £2.

A SCENE IN COURT. BRUSH WITH THE BENCH AT CAR- MARTHEN. On Monday at Carmarthen Thomas Randell Lewis, Mira-dor-crescent, Swansea, son of Mr. Augustus Lewis, his Majesty's inspector of factories, was charged with recklessly driving a motcr-oar, to the danger of the public, in Priory-street, Carmarthen, on the 13th inst. Mr. Viner Leeder, solicitor, Swan- sea, appeared for the defendant, who pleaded "Not guilty."—Police-constable Llewellyn s'aid the car was being driven at the rate of thirty miles an hour.—Defendant maintained that he was not driving faster than seven or eight miles an hour, and that the ear (a 6-h.p. one cylinder make) could not go more than twenty-five miles an hour under any cirCUDlstanoes.-Mr. W. M. Thoanas, deputy- ohief-constable of Swansea, who accompanied the defendant in the car, said he could not say what the pace was, but he was certain they were not driving to the danger of any- one in the street.—Defendant was fined £1 and costs.—Mr. Leeder gave formal notice of appeal, and added, I do not think that the case has been fairly tried." Mr. W. Morgan Griffiths (one of the magis- trates): I do not think you have a right to make a remark of that kind. Mr. Leeder: But I do so. because three of the magistra.tes were putting evidence into tho witnesses' mouths. Mr. Morgan Griffiths: Tha.t is a most in prop8r remark fOT any ma-n to make, and I I should have thought that a person who had had some experience at Swansea- would not have shown his spleen because he did not succeed in getting his own way. I think you ought to apologise for it. Mr. Leeder (warmly): Oh, no, indeed; and my remark applies most distinctly to you, because I do not think you tried tile case at all judicially. Mr. Morgan Griffiths: Thank you very much. The next time you appear here I shall know how to deal with you.

SAILORS WHO CANNOT SWIM CORONER'S COMMENTS AT A CARDIFF INQUEST. At the Town-hall, Cardiff, Mr. E. B. Reeee (district coroner) held au inquest on Monday afternoon on the body of Richard Hennis, 39 (Bristol), of the trawler Willie, who fell over- board in the Roath Basin and was drowned at 11.10 p.m. on Saturday. Deceased was sitting on the side of the vessel when he oyer- balanced himself, and, falling overboard, was drowned. There was a wound on deceased's forehead, caused, apparently, by falling against the trawler Anne, which was lying alongside. Deceased was seen paddling with his hands, and efforts by a seaman named Osmond to rescue him proved unavailing. The body was picked up in about an hour with grappling irons. Mrs. Hennis, the widow, in reply to the ooroneT, eaid her husband could not swim. The Coroner, commenting upon this, eaid it was extraordinary that such a large propor- tiQn of seamen were unable to swim. Had deceased been able to keep himself up, if only for a moment, no doubt Osmond would have been able to have reached him and have saved his life. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

TO AVOID MORGANEERING. NEW CHARTER TO THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY. A special general meeting of the proprietors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company is to be held in London on October 5 for the purpose of considering the supplementary charter which has been granted hy the Crown to the company. The charter confers upon tho company the right to extinguish the liability on the existing shareholders, and also creates £600,000 additlona-l capital, which t, may be issued in preference shares or stock. In the new supplementary charter the Crown has inserted clauses whereby it is to be regarded as a cardinal principle that the company is to be and remain under British control, and accordingly it is provided that no foreigner shall be qualified to hold office as a, director, or he employed as one of the principal officers of the company. Regula- tions have also been made governing the allotment and transfer of shares so as to prevent the acquisition of shares by foreigners or foreign corporations. The chairman of the company is Mr. Owen Philipps.

FIGHT WITH A BURGLAR. DETECTIVES ATTACKED WITH A SWORD. Liverpool houses have during the past few weeks been burglariously entered in the absence of families for holidays, with the result that about £500 in valuables have been carried off. A man was seen by detectives suspiciously trying the back-door of a house in Newsham Park early on Friday morning, and after he had entered the house the detec- tives followed. Caught red-handed, he seized a sword, part of his booty, which he used in self-defence, but a detective's baton ulti- mately felled him after a desperate struggle. The burglar's name is Titterington, and in his house was found most of the missing pro- perty.

BIRMINGHAM'S WELSH WATER. The Welsh water from Rhayader, turned on by his Majesty the King two months ago, ie now reaching Birmingham in sufficient volume to furnish about one-third of the city's water supply, and the huge reservoir a-t Frankley is completely filled. The extreme softness, which it was pre- dicted would play havoc with the lead pipes, has been reduced by the long journey of 70 miles through the mains; but, looked at in bulk, the liquid has a peaty stain very common with moorland water. Nothing, it Is said, will remove this; but it is declared bo be ctuite harmless.

PICTURE PUZZLE SOLUTIONS. SUGGESTED BY AN OXFORD M A, ANSWERS Airy, Aniso, Arson, Ashy, Hair, Ralry. Hoar. Hoary, Horn, Horny, Horsy, Hour. Houri, Hyson, Iron, Irony, Noisy. Nourish. Nous, Noyau, Onus, Bahu, Rain, Rainy. Rp.sh, Rhino, Roan, Rosin, Rosy, Ruin, Rasa, Rush, Rushy, Shin. Shiny. Shorn, Shun, Snary, Soar, Sori, Born, Sory, Sour, Unsay, Uras, Ursa, Urson, Yarn, Yoni, Ayuho. CHRISTIAN HERALD Part XVIII.—And it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go that the Egyptians pursued after them, and over- tool, them by the set, and the Children of Israel cried unto the Lord. And Mosea said, "Fear rot; stand still and see the salvation of the Lord; for the Egyptians whom ye have sesn to-day ye shall aee them again no more for ever." PEOPLE'S FRIEND COMPLETE AND BEVISED LIST. 1. 4s. Id.; 2, Canary, Lark, Linnet. Nightin- gale, Parrot, Thrush; 3, 154; 4, Cork; 5, Lomond; 7, Kitchener; 9, Cupar. Oxford, Derbv. Forfar. Cardiff, Dover; 10, Sir Henry De Bolnn; 11. Kaiser and R-oosevelt; 12. Adze. Chisel. File, Plane, Pliers, Trowel; 13, Tognj 14, For those that want to buy 'em; 15, Wellington; 16. Bedford, Flint. Hunting- don. Bsrwick, Antrim, Me-ath; 17, "Old Mor- tality"; 13, 21 m's, 16 w'e; 19, Cod. Had- dock, Ifackerel. Salmon, Sturgeon. Trout; 20. But the auld house is awa'; 21, Kenilworth, Tvanhoe, Talisman, Heart of Midlothian, Waverley, Bride of Lamm-ermoor; 22, Mas- tiff; 23, Codling; 24. Milford Haven; 25, Yorkshire; 25, Tennyson; 27, Cart; 28, Dishonest; 29, Sunflower; 30, A fool and his money tr2 soon parted; 31, Mr. John I )r ey, 32 1. f, 8. 4 3f.)rley; 32, 1. 2. 8, 29; 35, "U heat; 34, "William Pitt. Earl of Chatham; 35, Divid Copper- field, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Niekle'r, A Tale of Two Cities, Martin Chuzzlewit; 36. "Waste 110" want not; 37, Eskimo of Alaska; 38, Nothing; 39, Imper- tinent (T., Roi, Ellen, Pollute, Mediation, Im- peachment*; 4), If the grate be empty, put coal on; if the grate be full, stop putting coal on: 41. Dundee; 42. The latter. £ 75; 43. Pink; 44, Mary, Elizabeth, Ann. Sarah, Jane, Rose; 45. Time is money; 46, Spenser, "Wordsworth, Keats, Gray. lie mane. Hood; 47, Disconsolate; 48, 23 j's, 33 f's; 49. Shunt; 50, Five letters lost in the Middle of Manchester —large reward if returned to A., Crown Inn, Blackpool; 51. Six; 52, Ash. Cedar, Elm, Oak, Pine, Walnut; 53. Cod; 54. John, William, Thomas, Henry. Edward, James; 55. Mole; 55, In neither's favour; 57, Apple, Banana, Grape, Nectarine, Orange, Plum; 58, 792; 59, When the cat is away, the mice will play; 60. Pahnated; 61. Creed; 62, Winking; 63, Nine: 64, Candytuft, Daffodil, Hyacinth, Lily. Marigold, Poppy; 65, 15s. 6d. and the hat; 66. 4jlhe; 68, 12ilb3; 71, Neither. SMITH'S WEEKLY. DECIDER FOR THIRD MISSING LETTER COMPETITION. Be, Beck, Bed, Bedtick, Beg. Begin, Begird, Being, Ben, Ben, Bent, Berg, Bet, Bi, Bice, Bicker. Bickern, Bid, Bide. Bidont, Bidet, Bier, Big, Bin, Bind, Binder. Bine, Bing. Bird, Birk. Birt, Bit, Bite. Biter. Brent. Bret, Brew. Brewin?. Brick, Bride, Bridge, Brig, Brigue, Brine, Bring, Brink, Brit, Brite, Brueino, Brueit-e, Bruin, Bruit, Brunt, Brute, Buck, Bucket. Bucking, Bud, Budge, Budget, Bug, Bun, Bung, Bunk, Bunker, Bunt, Bur, Burden, Burg, Burin, Burke, Burn, Burnet, Burnt, Burt. But, Cent, Cerin, Cetin, Cid. Cider, Cinder. Cintre. Cit, Cite, Credit, Cretin, Crew, Crib, Cringe. Crude, Cruet, Crut, Cub, Cube, Cubit, Cubited, Cud, Cue, Cur. Curb. Curd, Cure. Curt, Cut, Cute, Cw, De. Debit. Debt, Debut. Deck, Decking, Deign, Den, Dent, Dew. Di, Dib, Dice, Dicer, Dicker. Die, Dieb. Diet, Dig, Dike, Din, Dine, Ding. Dint, Dire, Direct, Dirge. Dirk, Dirt, Drib, Drink, Drub, Drug, Drunk. Dub, Duck. Ducker, Duct. Due, Duet, Dug, Duke, Dun, Dunce. Dnne, Dung, Dunt, Dure, During, Dwt., Ea, Ec, Edict. Edit, Educt, Eking, End. Endict, Engird. Erg, Erin, Etc., Etui, En. Gen, Gent, Geruna. Get, Gibe, Giber, Gid. Gin. Gird. Girt. Gite, Gnu, Grice, Gride, Grin, Grind, Grit, Grub, Grunt, Guide, Gun, Gurnet, Gut, I, Ice. In, Inbred, Incur, Induce, Inducer, Induct. Indue, Inert., Ink, Inter, Intrude, Inure. Ire. Irk. It. Keg, Keir, Ken, Kern, Ket, Kibe, Kibed, Kid, Kin, Kind, Kine, King, Kit, Kite. Knew, Knit, Kurd, Neb, Neck, Net, New, Newt, Xib, Nice, Nick, Niàge. Nit, Nitre, Nude, Nudge, Nut. Re, Rebut, Reck, "Red, Reauct, Red-wing, Reign. Rein, Rend, Rent, Ret, Retund, Rib. Ric, Rice. Rick, Rid, Ride, Ridge, Rig, Rind. Ring, Rink, Rite, Hub, Rubied, Ruck. Rude, Rue, Rugr, Ruin, Ruined, Run, Rune, Rung. Runic, Runt, But, Ted, Teg. Ten, Tend, Tern, Tew. Tic, Tick, Tick-en, Tide, Tie, Tier, Tig, Tige. Tiger, Tike, Tin, Tinder, Tine, Tined, Tinge, Tink, Tinker, Tir, Tire, Tred, Trend, Tri, Tribe, Tribune, Trice. Trick, Tride, Trig, Trine, Triune, Truce. Truck. Trudge, True, Trug, Trunk, Tub, Tubs, Tuber, Tubing;, Tuck, Tucker, Tug, Tun. itine. Tuner, Tunic, Turbid, Turbine, Turgid, Turn, Twice, Twig, Twin, Twinge, TJn- bed. Unbid, Unhit. Unbred. Undeok. Under, "Ungird, Ungirt, Unit. Unite, United, Uniter, Untie. Untied. Untired, Untried, Unwed, Urge. Urgent, Urine. Urn, Ut, \Ve, Web, Wed, Weir, Weird, Wen, Wend, Went, Wert, Wet, Wick, Viewed, Wiekpn. Wicker, Wicket, Wide, Widen, Wig. Yfin, Wince, Wincer, Wind, Winder, Wine, Wing, Winged. Wink, Winker, Winter. Wire, Wit, Wite, Wreck, Wren, Wrings Writ, Write, Wrung. NEW COMPETITION. (T G T H Ri, Strengthened 12. (O S A N E), Ostentati-ousness, 16. (C B T I), Incombustibleness, 17. IE N L U A q), Enaliosaurians, 14. (R N G T O). Transmigratory, 14. (G P L S), Orga-noplafitic, 13. 14. (V U B E). Invulnerableness. 16. (E E E; E E), Enterogastrocele, 16. iN R S T), Incomprehensibility, 19. SUNDAY CIRCLE. Chapter XY.—My holiday was now over (finished, completed, ended), but I had still time to pay another visit. I had been long before to the famous holiday resort of Scar- borough. On this trip I was alone, for mv companion was called to Wales. I had a pleasant spin across lovely country to this favourite place, and spent a delightful time. -T.A.T. s 1. Burning; 2, Room or House; 3, Speak: 4, Creeping; 5, Top; 6, Filled. TIT-BITS. County: 1, Kent; 2, Norfolk; 3, Suffolk; 4, Somerset; 5, Devon; 6, Cornwall.—Missing: 1. Jug without handle; 2, Candle without vick; 3, Picture without na.il; 4, Screw without slot; 5. Matches without phosphorous. Sentence: Read "Woman's Life" every Tues- day.—Titles: 1. Uncle Tom's Cabin; 2, Pilsrrim's Progress; 3, Grimm's Fairy Tales; 4, Robinson Crusoe; 5, English History. WEEKLY TELEGRAPH 163, Employ; 164. Curb; 165, Cockroach; 166, Titmouse; 167, Shamrock; 168, Size. WOMAN'S LIFE. "Rabbit," 19; "Sheep," Rabbit; "Goat," Parrot. YES OR NO To arrive Sept. 24.-1. Yes; 2. No; 3, No; 4, No; 5, No; 6, No; 7, Xo; 8. Yes.

INHERITANCE FRAUDS. REMARKABLE CHARGE AGAINST A LABOURER. At Willesden on Monday Harry Bensley, 29, described as a labourer, was charged with obtaining £ 67 from John S. Bradley and 13DO from Thomas Jordan by false pretences. Mr. Scfton Cohen, for the Treasury, said that accused, "Ii,) was employed by Mr. Jordan, an engineer, as stoker, posed as a son of Sir Robert Burrell, engineer, of Tliotford, Norfolk, and told a story of being heir to th.a late 'Mrs. Holland, of Errieswell Court, Thetford. She. he represented, left him the estate of 12,500 acres and £ 9,000. He would come into the property when thirty, but uudcr the terms of the will must not raise money on it. Jordan advanced ClO on loan to accused, who asked him to see the will at Somerset House first. Prisoner showed him typewritten letters purporting to come from a moneylender named King offering to lend him money, and telegrams were received from King offering Mr. Jordan £ 50 if he induced accuse-d to borrow and another offering him £ 100 if ho induced him to borrow ZELOOO Accused said he believed that King was in league with the trustees to make him break the covenants of the will. More money was lent, accused showing prosecutor correspon- deuce purporting to come from a trustee at Thetfoid. and then came a letter from a trustee resident iu London asking prisoner to go on a yachting' cruise with his sister, and suggesting that he should raise £ 200 on his furniture. Prisoner said he again saw an attempt to induce him to do what was forbidden in the will, and Mr. Jor- dan lent him The stories told Mr. Bradley, who was Mr. Jordan's brother-in- law, were, said counsel, on all fours. Pro- secutors had been defrauded of their life savings and of their provision for their children by the stories, the whole of which were bogus, King being a myth. Evidence of prisoner's arrest at Cape Town was then given John Sidney Bradley, warehouseman, of Paddington, gave evidence bearing out coun. sel's statement, and stated that the accused said that his Tather, Sir Robert, wished him to marry a certain woman and he refused, although she was worth L14,000 a year. Thomas Jordan deposed that accused in his description of his property said that it was not only Errieswell Court, but included the Priory, occupied by Mr. Musker, the owner. Evidence was also given to show that the name of Mrs. Holland was not known at Thetford, and a solicitor from that town whom the accused had mentioned as his trustee disclaimed any knowledge of the will. He believed that the prisoner wa? a labourer of Thetford. The accused was remanded in custody.

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