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Updated: May 15, 2025
The physician said there was some hope of the man's recovery, but that quiet and rest were imperative. Sir Donald and Esther were loth to go, but the hospital rules were strict. They left, much interested in the fate of William Dodge. The confession, though confirming Sir Donald's theory of this conspiracy, was startling. That Paul Lanier had murdered both Oswald and Alice was evident.
The evening passes pleasantly, though at times Paul feels a creepy sense of dread. He is loth to leave. From mute signs he concludes it is better to go. Paul hurries away about midnight. Within half an hour the rooms occupied by Sir Charles and Agnes are vacated. Two figures in male attire enter a closed conveyance, and are driven rapidly in an opposite direction from that taken by Paul Lanier.
Poet and prophet have always recognized the weight of the past as a serious problem. One has made all sorts of mistakes; he is entangled in the consequences of his "errors and ignorances," if not in his sins, and how can he enter on a Life Radiant with this burden? Well does Sidney Lanier express this feeling in the stanzas:
Who is suspected of murder? Whose happiness could be promoted by such disclosures?" Sir Donald is now sure that this man knows nothing of the facts prompting these reservations. "Alice Webster and Oswald Langdon are supposed to be dead. Alice is alive and now in the adjoining room. Paul Lanier committed the assault. Pierre Lanier has defrauded Alice out of a large estate.
Hayne's work is even less important, for he did not, like Timrod and Lanier, touch an occasional height of inspired utterance. His name is cherished in his native state of South Carolina, and in Georgia, where his last years were spent; but his poems are little read elsewhere.
We talked and talked of poetry. He brought down a huge treatise on English versification, translated from some German scholar's life-research to prove a point ... he discussed what Sidney Lanier whom he had known might have done with metrics, had he only lived longer.... And "no ... no ... take my advice," he said, "don't go down to Eden."
An eye-witness to this crime saw Alice and Oswald both fall into the river. Fully confide in me, and I will aid you in recovery of the big estate taken from Alice by Pierre Lanier. Do this without explicit pledges of any kind. I make no promises." The stranger hesitates. "If we are to tell you all, why do you refuse us your confidence?"
That this disguise was assumed to spy upon Sir Donald's actions is evident. It is quite probable that no stranger would act thus, except he had reasons for wishing not to be identified. Whoever has resorted to such shifts must be interested either in thwarting search for the Dodge family or in unmasking of the Lanier plot.
Their stops had been sufficiently prolonged for comfort and intelligent impression. Though in regular communication with the London office, Sir Donald knows nothing about the present location of either Lanier. That William Dodge disappeared from Calcutta seems certain. After the death of Nellie this unfortunate man was released.
And finally, in such fragments as the following, Lanier uses a regular metre of "English verse" it is true with a highly irregular third line "And then A gentle violin mated with the flute, And both flew off into a wood of harmony, Two doves of tone."
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