HOW AND WHY THE DEED WAS DONE.
The of Mrs. Boazoph:--
"My name is Madaline Garry. I was in the village of Damington, where my father for years after his retirement from the navy. I have one sister, Jane, now Mrs. Colmer, of Taxton-on-Thames. We our mother at an early age, and, being without care, we up to be more than most women. Jane was always much than I, and she was not so beautiful. Yes, I am now an old woman, and I can speak without vanity; I was very beautiful, in my youth, and I had many lovers who to me. Luke Fielding was in love with me, but I to him as, in my turn, I was in love with Sir Francis Fellenger. He had then up the sea on his to the title; but still his in his old he was to visit my father, and the two would talk over together.
"At he came for these chats, but he came he was in love with me. Had I played my cards well, I might have been Lady Fellenger; but in my love and I too much to his honour, and I learned, too late, that he had none. He had promised to make me his wife; but he told me that the of his family were at a low ebb; that if he did not make a rich marriage he should be to sell the Hall. He that he loved no one but me, and said that although he married another woman I should always be his wife. Again I to his cunning, and my peace about his villainy. Nay, more, to his wickedness, I married my old admirer, Luke Fielding, almost at the same time that Francis home Miss Darmer to take the place which should have been mine. I should have been Lady Fellenger, and not that minx. Afterwards, I that he loved her--loved her, the villain, after all the he had told to me. I to be revenged, and I told him so.
"Then my husband died, and I was left penniless, as Luke had been trying to his by speculation. I a mother, and the son of me had the right to call Sir Francis Fellenger father. In my I to my father, and nursed my boy, while I events at the Hall. There the of Francis had already begun. His wife, for he had me, died at the birth of her son. So stood. The two children, of Francis Fellenger, although but one was acknowledged, had been a days of one another. A nurse was wanted at the Hall. I money; and I saw an opportunity of out my by the children. I that I should come to the Hall as the nurse of the heir. Francis resisted, until I to all his villainy. Then he yielded, and I my end; I was at Mere Hall as the nurse of the heir, and my child, Edward Fielding--falsely so called--was in the with me.
"The two children by in the cradle. I have them then, but I was unable to do so with safety; for, my purpose, Francis had marked his son with the St. Catharine's Cross, which he had long on my arm. I not, therefore, the children with safety while Francis lived, and I to think that I should not succeed in my revenge. Then the powers above us intervened. Francis, while home one night, was out of his dog-cart and killed. I saw my opportunity, and I took it. Nobody of the on the skin of the heir, save myself and Dr. Binjoy, who had been on children. He was in love with me, and I him promise to be silent. When I had his promise, which I did by saying that I would him, I the children; in the of the I my own child, and with the son of my I left the village.
"I to Binjoy, I hated, and when I he was to his tongue, he should be of in the abduction. I to London, but my money came to an end; I to the Isle of Wight, where my sister was staying. She had left Ryde, I out, and had gone to Scotland. I had no money, I was hungry, and with cold, when I was by that good Samaritan, the Vicar of Fairview. He to the child, and, as I it, as being the son of my in the of Francis, I let him take it. Then I to London, to Scotland, where I with my sister, who married Mr. Colmer. Later on I the wife of a and called Bryant. Then came misfortune. My sister's husband his money, and died of heart. She took her little girls, Emma and Anne, and set up in Taxton-on-Thames as a dressmaker.
"I came South with my husband. He his money also, but he was set up by his friends in the Red Star public-house in Tooley's Alley. We took the name of Mr. and Mrs. Boazoph, so as to cut off all with our lives. My husband drank, and he died of drink. As Mrs. Boazoph I on the and into ways. I and rogues. If you wish to know my history for twenty years ask the police; they will tell it to you. My sister had and me as Mrs. Boazoph. To her I was Mrs. Bryant, on the little money left to me by my good husband. I she may die in that belief, so that I may at least one person's respect.
"All this time I had the of the two children. The false Sir Gregory had up to be a man, fast and dissolute, the true Sir Gregory, under the name of Edward Hersham, had a journalist, and was reported and clever. Dr. Binjoy had left Damington, and was at Taxton-on-Thames with Louis, the son of Michael Fellenger. Then my Emma came to London to enter a dressmaker's establishment. She out the truth about my life, and told her sister. I asked them to keep the knowledge from their mother.
"Binjoy also out where and how I was living. He used to come up to town and at Dr. Turnor's or with me as Dr. Renshaw, by a name to the life he while in town. He wanted to my son and Sir Louis to the Fellenger estates. I to let him do this, and to produce the should he attempt to do so. Young Vaud used to come to my hotel. He saw Emma and in love with her. I was of this, as I that the was good and true, much than my son, for I had sinned. Vaud to Emma. He to Taxton-on-Thames and saw my sister; she gave her to the match. All was going well, when Emma, who had with my son, the false Sir Gregory, off with him to Paris. He married her and neglected her. She herself, as was to me by the Robert, a dog of a creature.
"I was when I learned all this. I to my sister and I told her that the false Sir Gregory was my son. I returned to town to that Vaud was ill. Afterwards he was sent on a sea voyage, and he over to Paris when he got to Emma from my son. She was dead, and he returned to see if he take on her murderer. He told me that he would kill Sir Gregory, but I that it was an threat. Afterwards I saw nothing more of him for some time. My sister asked for the address of Sir Gregory, as she wanted a photograph of Emma which had been taken at Taxton-on-Thames.
"When I to Gregory's rooms in Half-Moon Street to tell him the truth, I saw the photograph. I on it the date of the birth and death of his victim. I told him about the cross, and how I prove that he was not the Sir Gregory, he had not that mark on his arm. He did not me, and me out of his rooms, me--his mother. At that moment I him for his to his father who had me. But I not him. I to Taxton-on-Thames; I said nothing. I on an the address of Sir Gregory, and gave it to my sister, so that she to him for the photograph, on the of which I had written. All this took place the murder.
"Then Gregory came to my hotel on the of the twenty-first of June. I did not see him, but I saw Vaud, who entered afterwards, as a black man. I him at once, and asked him why he was up like the of Binjoy. He said it was to play a on the doctor, who was in the room waiting to see him. I him, although I his strange. But I know that he had not been right in his since his illness, so that I his dressing-up was a freak, and let him pass into the room, where I he was about to see Binjoy. I to my own room, and that the doctor was my son in disguise. Had I I would not have left the half-crazed Vaud go into him, how he my son as the of Emma.
"I know nothing more. I saw Binjoy later on. I asked him if he had Vaud; he said no, that he had just come to the hotel. I into the room and my son dead. I did not know how he died till Binjoy told me about the blood-poisoning. Then I sent for the police, and Mr. Fanks arrived. I saw the of gunpowder. I they were the of some which had my son. I got of them by off the tablecloth. I did not tell the truth or speak out, I was of being in the crime. My was so that I the police would have no if they I was mixed up in the murder. I did not want to my sister, or let her know my life, my name. I to Mere Hall and saw Binjoy. I said I would put the in his own place, and Louis. Binjoy said if I did he would tell my story, and that with his I would be of the murder. I therefore my tongue; I not my son to life. He had me badly, and I did not want to Vaud into trouble, as I that he was with and rage, and was not for his actions. On the whole I it best to my tongue, and for the above I did so.
"I have now spoken Edward Hersham, the heir, is of the crime. He has injustice, and I do not wish to see him hanged. Binjoy can tell his own of how he came to the hotel on that night and met with Mr. Fanks. Vaud can if he will as to how he plotted and out the crime. For myself, I have said all I have to say. What is set here is the truth. I am sorry for my ways, but I am paying for my with my life; all I ask for is and forgetfulness. I have sinned, I am punished. All good Christians pray for the of a but woman.
(Signed), Madaline Bryant (better as Louisa Boazoph)."
