Mrs. Grundy in the
meanwhile began to be suspicious, and rumors, at first vague and
indefinite, became almost pointed accusations against Mrs. Clarkson.
The poor husband, although not altogether crediting the fact that
there was a foundation for these reports, saw the necessity, in the
equivocal position in which both he and his wife stood, of putting a
stop to all suspicious intercourse with the Count; and, being
resolute enough when so disposed, he forbade his wife to meet Von
Alba any more in private, or to invite him to her house.
This, as may be supposed, brought matters to a crisis and brought on
a terrible quarrel between the abandoned woman and her husband. She
saw that the game was up as far as Detroit was concerned, and so,
managing to forge her husband's name to a cheque for several
thousand dollars, she went the next day with great boldness to the
bank where he kept his money and presented it; it was cashed by the
clerk without hesitation, and that evening, abandoning both Clarkson
and her children, she went, accompanied by her paramour, to the
depot and took the train for Montreal, where they went to an hotel,
registering their names as Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer, of New York.
Notwithstanding their false names and altered attire they were traced
to the St.
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