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If it does not suit you, you can return, and we can make our arrangements afterward." The matter was thus disposed of, and William Bucholz journeyed to South Norwalk with his employer. The gay soldier had become the humble servant, the prospective farmer had been transformed into the obsequious valet. These two men had journeyed across the seas, for a far-off land, and thus had strangely met.
Many rumors were at once put in circulation, and many wild and extravagant stories were soon floating through the crowds that gathered at the corners of the streets. Samuel Waring and Bucholz had gone directly to the office of the coroner, and informing him of the sad affair, had proceeded to the drug-store in the village, with the view of having the wounds upon his face dressed.
After the murder he had visited the hotel in company with the officers who had him then in charge, and had paid his bill and taken his trunk away. The barkeeper shrugged his shoulders and declined to have anything to say when asked about any suspicious actions on the part of Bucholz during his residence in the house or since his engagement with Mr. Schulte.
Those upon the shirt were alleged to have been produced from the bleeding of the face of the prisoner who was wounded upon the same evening, and the pantaloons, it was claimed, had received the stains upon them from the blood which had dropped while Bucholz was assisting the bearers to carry the corpse to the house after the preliminary investigation by the coroner.
Bucholz passed a sleepless night after the conversation just had with his companion, Edward Sommers; the buoyancy of his hopes was shaken, and between the fitful, restless slumbers, dark dreaming and frowning visitants came to him in all the forbidding presence of accusing spirits.
Bucholz immediately arose, cordially shook hands with the stranger, and engaged him in conversation. The History of William Bucholz. An Abused Aunt who Disappoints His Hopes. A Change of Fortune. The Soldier becomes a Farmer. The Voyage to New York. William Bucholz had been an inmate of the hotel for several weeks prior to this time, having arrived from Germany in the latter part of July.
"You have just come over from Germany, I understand," said Bucholz, addressing his companion in German. "Just arrived to-day," replied Bruner. "Did you come alone?" "Oh, no; I came with the old gentleman who has just gone to bed." "Have you been long with him?" "Long enough to want to get away from him," was the reply.
"What is the matter now?" asked Sommers, astonished at this strange behavior, and picking up the discarded paper. "Look there!" exclaimed Bucholz, pointing to a passage in the paper. "Read that. That is the first time that paper ever said I was guilty." The article to which he alluded was in regard to a statement which Bucholz had made at the time of his arrest.
Samuel Waring and Bucholz at once volunteered their services and started towards the village to notify the coroner, and those whose duty it was to take charge of such cases.
From this person it was also discovered that a mail package, evidently containing some money, had been received at the hotel, addressed to William Bucholz.
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