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S. HURON ORANGE DIRECTORY.
1891
Names of the District Masters, Primary
Lodge Mastees, their post office ad-
dresses and date or meeting.
BIDDULPII DISTRICT.
John Neil, W.D.M., Centralia P. O.
219-S. Harlton Greenway, Friday on
or before full 'noon.
662 -Thomas Coursey, Lncan, Saturday
on or before full moon.
493 -Richard Hodgins, Centralia, Wed-
nesday •mor before full moon.
826-Willi....i Haggart, Grand Bend,
Wednr- • .y on or before full moon.
890-W, E. \IcRoberts, Maplegrove,
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924-11em•y I, .„ibrook, Exeter, 1st Fri-
day in eo, Mouth.
1071 -John li , Is, Elimvlllc, Saturday
on or bell, • full moon.
1097 --Jame 1 • 'hers, Sylvan, Monday
on or bell..• lull moon.
1210 -lames t• . •,son, West McGillivray,
Thursday on or before full moon.
1343 -Robert Silos, Crediton, Tuesday
on or before lull moon.
610 -Joseph }Instable, Centralia, Fri-
day on or alter full moon.
GODi.RIC11 1)ISTRiC P.
Geo. 1i. Hanley, sV.l).M., Clinton 1'. 0.
145 -Willis hell, Gocicrich, 1st Monday
in each month.
153 -Andrew Million, Auburn, Friday
on or before full moon.
182-y'. 11. Marney, Goder'ich, last
Tuesday in each month.
189 -Adam Cantelon, 1tolmesvil1e,Mon-
day on or before full moon.
262 -Jaynes Wells, Saltford, 3rd Wed-
nesday in each month.
306 -George A. Cooper. Clinton, 1st
Monday in each month.
HULI.L'1"1' UISTItICT.
A. M. Todd, W. 1'. \f., Clinton P.O.
710-W. G. smith I Linton, 2nd Mon-
day in each m:mt 1.
813 -James Horsey, Winthrop, last
Wednesday before hill moon.
928 -Thomas Mcllveen, Summerhill,
1st Monday in each month.
825 -John Briutneil, Chiselhurst, 1st
Monday In each month.
STANI.E1 DISTRICT.
Joseph Foster, W.D.M., Varna P. 0.
24 -John Pollock, Bayfield, let Monday
In each month.
308 -.lames Keyes, Varna, 1st Tuesday
in each month.
883 -Robert Nicholson, Blake, 1st Wed-
nesday in each month.
733 -John Berry, Hensel], 1st Thursday
ln,ea mon�ytrh�.
1085-'Villiarn htil MAvi'ffi "ErIYT`f)Yt( 'hair
Thursday in each 01011th.
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Weduesday..April SO,. 181)1.
A STRANGE PASSENGER.
When my packet ship, the Her-
nlioue, was preparing, to sail from
Liverpool for New York 1 was
warned to take precautions against
receiving as passenger a certain
Mary Youngson, who, while nurs-
ing her sick husband -a man con-
siderably her seuioar-bad poisoned
him to death, laid hold of all the
money aid valuables she could get
and then had Made ofl' It was
thought that she would try to leave
England on some outward bound
ship -moat likely for America,
where she had friends, and there
fore. I sharply scrutinized the
paeseuier8, eight in number, who
were brought off to my little vessel
ill a tender. As they stepped
aboard I was relieved to perceive
that none of thew tallied with the
description I had obtained of Miss
Youngson, Who, I was told, was a
beautiful woman, over 35 years of
age, about 5 feet 6 inches in height
and very slender, with brown hair
dirk eves, and a clear complexion.
She had been born and educated
abroad, but her father had been an
EnglishmalI and an amateur actor,
from whom she had inherited a re-
niarkahle capacity for deceiving
people as to her character.
Two of the female passengers
who now came aboard were married
ladies, and of dark complexion ,
there were also two young women
of about 21 ; one a Miss Lorton,
plain and stout ; the other, Miss
Merwin, slender and tall, apparent
ly nut less than 5 feet nine inches,
with the most childish, innocent -
looking face, for one of her age, that
I ever saw- She had brown hair
and eyes, s nail, baby like features,
and smooth, glowing cheeks, which
were constantly dimpled with
smiles. As she elightly lifted her
long skirt, we sttw that instead of
shoes or boots she wore ornamental
buskins of some kind of soft leather
which made no noise when she
walked. Afterward we heard that
she had lately sprained her feet
and could not yet bear harder
leather.
From the first I could see that
my sou Tom, a young man of 25,
and chief officer, was greatly im-
pressed by this girl.
He had always liked tall women,
and anything "babyish" in their
looks or manners particularly pleas.
ed hint. Still, I was surprised at
tl a end of one short week after we
sailed to learn that he had actually
proposed and been accepted.
was the only ,0110 whiz -noticed
her 18t that time, i i" pu meetit,g
my ,gaze she dew hack as quick
ea a Nab end vanished in the
cabin.
The
witnessed for a moment almost
took away my breath. My whole
mind was fixed upon tliia one thing,
and when my eon cause up, a few
hours later, to take the deck, 1 des-
cribed the singular change I bad
noticed in Miss Merwin's stature.
"She is so artless, so ingenuous,
so free from guile of any kind,"
said Ile, "that you can read her
heart at once ! We are to be mar-
ried on coming hack to Liverpool,
at the house of her aunt, who is
expecting her. With her usual
childish frankness elle informed me
that, although having a small
fortune in 3 per cents, left to her
by her father, who was•a merchant,
sire ie at present short of cash,
which would hinder her from per,
chasiug, on landing, certain little
articles she desired toward a wed•
ding outfit. I was so touched by
her shy, infantile way, blended with
timid 'distress at having to tell me
this, that I at once went to nay
room and procured the $5,000
United States bond, which you
know I lately Nought with my
savings, and gave it to her, telling
her where she could get it cashed,
and bade her then take out of it
whatever she needed.".
"Why, Tom, you don't say so ?" I
cried rather startled.
"Of course," he answered. "Why
not 7 We are engaged, and it ought
to be the sante about money mat-
ters as if we were married."
He went below, and 1 sat long in
the clear moonlight, thinking it
over as a hasty, foolish piece of
business, when suddenly I was
startled by the cry of the look out
forward.
"Sail ho ! right ahead !"
The stranger -a large ship -pat
her helm sport, so I had no doubt
she would pass us safely enough ;
hut, RR she was going hy, her
helmsman raising his wheel too
soon, her how swung off. and her
jibboom caught under nay spanker
sheet, lifting the spar and snapping
it of with a crash.
There was noise and confusion as
we worked briskly to keep the two
vessels apart and prevent further
damage, in the midst of which
several of the passengers catne run-
ning up, somewhat frightened, to
find out what the matter was.
"It is nothing ; we are all right
now 1" I cried, to reassure them,
VI the other ship swung clear of
us.
Miss Merwin had emerged from
the companion way after the others,
and
as I looked toward her form,
distinctly revealed by the moon-
light and one of the lanterns, I
stood stock still in the utmost
8trailg0 phenomenon I had
He stared at me first as if he
thought we mad,then broke out into
au incredulous laugh, saying that,
my eyes or the imperfect light
must have deceived we.
I knew better, however ; but
finding I could not convince hull 1
told him to wait until the young
lady should appear at breakfast in
the morning, when he might see for
hinhself,
Two hours later the second mate
came up to relieve Tow, who then
went below. The officer, tieing me
seated in a reverie on the quarter-
deck, walked amidships, where he
stood looking carelessly forward.
All at once, judge of wy surprise
when, raising my head, I beheld,
leaning against the rail near nie, a
person I had never seen before -a
slender, middle-aged man, of rather
low stature, with hair covering
nearly every part of the face except-
ing the eyes, which glittered like
fire balls in the moonlight.
"Why, halloo ! Vile are you 7
Where did you come from 1" I
cried.
"Pray don't excite )ourself," he
coolly answered. "I nen a detective
and got aboard in the harbor through
the connivance of one of the crew --
1 am not going 'to tell you which
one -who also supplies rhe with
food. I have been all along in the
iitate-room next to Miss Merwin's,
with my carpetbag. Had you look-
ed in the room you would have seen
me, but you probably missed the
key, or thought it was lost."
"That is true ; but-"
"Here is my warrant," he inter-
rupted, handing the a paper, which,
on reading it by the lantern's light,
I perceived was a signed document,
apparently from the proper authori'
ties, instructing John Clews, the
bearer, a detective, to conceal him-
self aboard the Hertnione and act
as lie might Ree fit in his endeavor
to detect the murderess, Miss
Youngson, who it was xuspected
was a passenger in disguise aboard
the vessel.
"She is here," was his confident
reply when 1 remarked that there
must be some mistake. "I have
not watched through the hole 1
bored ill the partition for nothing."
"Why wan I" I cried aghast,
"she can not be the guilty one -
She is innocence itself -as artless as
a child. Besides, she is very tall
and young; whereas I have been
told that the murderess was much
shorter and nearly twice as old.",
He laughed in a way which to
11110 was indescribably disagreeable.
"It is not Miss Merwin I allude
to," lie 'aid. "You will remember
that the state -room of DIiss Lorton
is alert next to mine."
"What !" I exclaimed almost as
as much surprised as before, "you
suspect that stout young lady
who --7"
"I"don't suspect," he interrupted,
'+l. know her to be a criminal."
"But 8110 ie young, plain, . and
stout ; the accused woman was
slender-"
"11th t" 11e again interrupted.
"Disguise ! That will explain all.
It is very easy for a woman of that
kind to Geake herself look younger
and stouter than she really is.
Should we fall in with a good Liver-
pool hottr,d ship I shall arrest this
woman and take her on boin•d of it
with ole. 1 will go back to 1uy
room now. You may or may not
see ole again before we sight a
homebound craft."
With that he glided like a shadow
into the cabin.
Now, then, I had something to
keep ole awake -to drive all thoughts
of turning in from my Mind. So,
after all, that woman -that terrible
murderess -was aboard my iliip !
I commenced to walk the deck in
no pleasant frame of mind, and the
morning light stole around me before
I was aware that the hour was so
late,
�.8tt1S,Q 11.it1�k!1I g11,tr:,�,1f: llpu� I'!>�a.!� •e�:.fl:41 _�Q�
living Man, her stature now seemed
at least three inches shorter than 1
had hitherto seen it
1910, uueaailyt r'Iil sa. 1lx0)'W1Z 1113
not yet ah0wn herself."
The day wore 00. without seeing.
her. 1:ven at supper time she did
not make her appearance. -
Tuw looked pale and concerned.
Finally he went and knocked at her
door, calling her name. There was
no response.
"I do not know whet to make of
'it," be said to me on deck. "Oh,
father 1'' he added, wildly, "is it
possible that she can have suddenly
died 1"
"I don't think so," 1 answered ;
"she seemed to be in good health ;"
and then thought to myself: "Were
it not that we are where we are, sad
elle a different sort of person, I
Might huspeet that she had abscond-
ed with your money." •
As night approached her non-
appearance excited General comment,
and I was advised to break open
the door, which was locked. I dill
so, and we found her roost empty.
Her trunk was still there, but she
was gone.
My son looked at we as pale as
death.
"My Go•l ! what can have be-
come of her 1" he groaned.
In fact, it certainly was a very
peculiar case and, coupled with my
previous observation of the strange
shortening of the young woman'a
stature, it seemed to me to partake
almost of the supernatural.
•'May she not have gone on deck
last night and fallen overboard 7"
inquired one of the passengers.
"Imporeible 1'' I answered. "It
was clear moonlight. I was on
deck all night ; and, besides, I had
good lookouts posted about the
ship. The thing could not have
happened to us."
We looked to see if we night not
tied a dote or something explana-
tory, but in vain.
Then I ordered a thorough search
to be made throughout the ship.
This waesdone ; hut no, she was not
to be found, though every nook and
corner was looked into.
Then it occurred to me to speak
to the detective about it ; and, as
soon rte I could do so unobserved, I
knocked at his door. He cautiously
opened it, and on seeing who was
there lie invited me in.
I told him what had happened,
not even omitting to mention the
sudden change I had previously
noticed in tl,e�Ouug lady's height.As I proceeded, I observed that his
keen eves seemed to glow larger,
while the thick beard ghat covered
the face of this singular man kept
twitching, as if every hair was in-
stinct with life.
"Give Ire time," he said solemnly,
when I had finished, "and I will
solve this mystery. In a few days
I may be able to do it -perhaps
not for a week."
I left him and went on deck.
Tom was there, looking so downcast
and forlorn that I resolved to
acquaint him with the presence of
the detective, and tell him what be
said, and so perhaps brighten hits
up a little.
I did do but nay words had an
effect I had not expected. Reflect-
ing a moment, be cried out, ''Father,
I believe that than is a humbug
But, whether lie be a detective or
not, I now suspect that he is a thief
and a murderer ; that he knew of
Miss Merwin's leaving that $5,000
bond, and that, in order to possess
(himself of it, he has killed her and
thrown her body overboard !"
When breakfast was ready in the
cabin, Mist.; Merwin was absent
from her accustomed place at the
table. During the progress of the
meal I looked more than once at
Miss Lorton -the stout young lady
whom the detective had positively
asserted was Mary Youngson, the
poisoner.
The quiet dignity and composure
of her manner, the frank, honest
expreasion of her face, and its undo-.
niable plainness, seemed to me so
natural, so real, that I marvelled
how the detectiye contrived to pene-
trate through eo perfect a disguise.
Feeling tired out after breakfast
I slept until near noon. .
When I went nn Aleck Tom .was
siiperinfeniling trepairitig of the
spanker boors.
"•Tt ie very strange," he said to
partition, and looking tbrough it T
saes the detectlye in the next apart.
anent, kneeling by his open carpet
bag, from which now protruded the
identical buskinfa---1 could trot miss
take them -which Miss M(tetwin bad
worn. Spread out before him he
held a five thousand dollar bond -
evidently the one wy boll had giveu
to the young lady.
"You see," he whispered. "Was
I not right? He has murdered and
robbed her."
Low as the whisper was the elan
evidently heard it, for he pushed
the buskins and after them the hpnd
hastily down into the bag, which Le
then closed.
Before I could hinder hire Toni
melted out and threw himself against
the detecj.iye's door with a force
which broke the lock and admitted
him into the room. Ile flew at the
man, clutched him, and shook him,
when the fellowdrew a dirk,but in his
futile strugglea to use it -for I held
his wrist and soon disarmed bita-
ble beard fell ofl, showing it was a
false one, and at the saute time his
shirt bosom was torn away about
the throat. Then both Tom and I
uttered a simultaneous cry of sur-
prise on perceiving that this pretend-
ed detective was a woman over 35
years of age -or, in other words, it
was Miss Merwin herself, deprived
of the cosmetics and other applianc-
es which had, while in the natural
attire of her sex, made her look so
much younger than she was.
The whole truth broke upon Ire at
once. This woman, 1 suspected, was
in reality Mary Youngson, the
murderess, for her face and height
now answered to the description I
had of her; and we found, while
looking .for my son's carpet bag,
some articles bearing her 15050, and
others marked with that of her vic-
tic. Ih fact, afterward, while 5111,
she confesed to being Mary Young.
8011.
Her motive in disguising herself
was apparent. She bad feared,
after I discovered the strange
shortening of her stature, that I
might suspect who she really was ;
and besides, the ruse would, she
thought, enable her the better to
escape from Tom and get off with
his $5,000. The mystery of her
having, as Miss Merwiu, looked so
Much taller than she was, we found
explained by her buskins, which
proved, like those sometimes worn
by actors on the stage, to be pro-
vided with veru thick cork soles, to
give an appearance of elevation to
the stature.
On the night she eo astonished me
by the difference in her height, she
had, in her hurry and alarm, come
up in her slippers, having forgotten
to put on her buskins.
It 18 hardly necessary to say that
the detective's warrant she had
shown 1.110 wan forged, written by
11r.rself ; nor scarcely need it be
mentioned that Toni was now dis-
gusted with this woman and entire-.
ly cured of his infatuation.
Subsequently she died . of a
malignant fever while being con-
veyed a prisoner back to England--
thue escaping the punishment she so
richly merited for her odious crime,
although there were not wanting
those who stoutly maintained that
the charge had by no means been
conclusively brought home to her.
However, after occupying the public
mind for more than the proverbial
nine days, the "Youngson Case," as
it was called, gave place to a fresh-
er sensation.
I stated at him in amazement and
told him I feared that hie grief had
disturbed his reason. How was it
possible, I asked him, that the
man could have got the b3dy over-
board without our knowing it.
"IIe could have choked her to
death, carried her to ono of the, cah-
iu windows, and dropped her
through that," he replied.
"Impossible," I answered, wit'. -
out the splash being overheard by
the man at the wheel or by some
one on deck. Besides, I doubt if he
could have sqeezed the body through
either of our cabin windows, which
you know are very small."
Tom however, seemed to think it
could have been done, owing to
Miss Merwin being so slender, and
in spite of all my efforts I could not
entirely rid his mind of that horri-
ble idea.
Days passed, for we had head•
winds, which kept us ofl' our course,
but as yet the detective had nothing
to tell me, though he said he soon
might be able to explain the whole
affair.
A strange affair enough. N ever
before had I such an experience, or
anything approaching to it, in any
craft I commanded. The passer'.
gees were equally puzzled ; it was
the talk of all aboard the ship. Aa
for Tom, he gredr paler and thinner,
wilder every day. At last, one af-
ternoon, when we had entered St.
George's Channel, he came up to ole
and said in a husky voice : "It is as
I thought ! Quick ! I have. eotne-
thing to show you! Make no
noise I" '
1 followed him. We both worn
white.. ,slippera,,..ansle.,wvithout. noise
entered the room Miss Merwin had
occupied. He pointed to a crevice
which he had evidently made in the
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