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Going by the description, however," added Link, "she is inclined to believe that Berwin was her husband." Denzil was much pleased with the courtesy of the detective Link in permitting him to gain, at first hand, further details of this mysterious case.
"Evidently," replied Lucian; "but I am almost as much in the dark as you are, Dr. Jorce. Tell me how Vrain came to be placed here, and, exchanging confidence for confidence, I'll let you know all I have discovered since the death of the man in Geneva Square who called himself Berwin." "That is a fair offer," replied Jorce, clearing his throat, "and one which I willingly accept.
A Bryson man did show up at the hearing a slick-looking operator named Berwin. His claim was that Hawkes had been affiliated with Bryson a number of years ago, and that Hawkes' money should revert to Bryson by virtue of an obscure law of the last century involving the estates of professional gamblers killed in criminal actions.
But in this quest, which was intended to put money into her own pocket, she failed entirely; and during the whole six months of Berwin's tenancy she never saw a living soul in No. 13 save her employer; nor could she ever find any evidence to show that Berwin had received visitors during her absence. The man was as great a mystery to Mrs.
To add to the wonderment of the public, it came out in the evidence of Lucian Denzil at the inquest that Berwin was not the real name of the victim; so here the authorities were confronted with a three-fold problem.
Mark Berwin, the tenant of the Silent House." "The dweller in the haunted house," sneered Berwin, evidently relieved, "who stays there with ghosts, and worse than ghosts." "Worse than ghosts?" "The phantoms of my own sins, young man. I have sowed folly, and now I am reaping the crop. I am " Here his further speech was interrupted by a fit of coughing, which shook his lean figure severely.
In this way Clear, calling himself Berwin, which was the name of Vrain's house in the country, came to live in Pimlico. We also removed the real Vrain to Mrs. Clear's at Bayswater, and he passed as her husband. So weak were his brains, and so cowed was his spirit, that there was no difficulty in keeping him in the house, and the neighbours were told merely that Clear was ill.
Berwin showed no signs of leaving, they left off speaking of the ghost and took to discussing the man himself. In a short space of time quite a collection of stories were told about the newcomer and his strange ways. Lucian heard many of these tales from his landlady. How Mr.
Vrain herself, and several people brought up from Bath by the assurance company, swore that the corpse buried under the false name of Berwin was that of Mark Vrain, for decomposition had not proceeded so far but what the features could be recognised.
Bensusan a week's rent and left her house two days after Christmas. I returned to Berwin Manor, and shortly afterwards Ferruci joined me there, as he had successfully incarcerated Vrain in the asylum under the name of Michael Clear. "When the advertisement came out, it was I who hinted to Lydia that the dead man seeing that he was called Berwin might be her husband.
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