set her feet on a strange path, and one
that was to wind down to her final
resting place in the muck of an
Essex farnryard.

After the week-end at Bourne-
mouth, the captain—who no doubt
by this time had sized up the extent
of Camille’s investments—suggested
that they slip away and live together
—forever. Fascination for Dougal
stifled his partner’s conscience. It was
another step—and she took it.

So a few weeks later she left Elgin
Crescent with the good wishes of her
fellow boarders ringing in her ears.
Of course she let it be known that she
was leaving to be quietly married to
her very attentive captain.

As Mr. and Mrs. Dougal, the happy
pair went to board with a Mrs.
Wisken, in the little old world town
of Saffron Walden, in Essex. It’s
Elizabethan shops and houses, made it
a delightful spot to spend a honey-
moon. Unfortunately although the
“sroom” had charm—of a sort—he
had no money. Mrs. Dougal paid the
rent. The landlady was told that a
few letters might be re-directed to
Miss Holland, for as their’s had been
a surprise wedding not all their
friends might know of it. Mrs. Wisken
smiled, and understood.

After a few months, Dougal began
to think of himself as a property
owner. They should have a place to

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themselves. And so day after day he
happily cycled around the district
looking for a likely piece of freehold
to purchase—or rather for Camille to
purchase.

There was just the trace of a
shadow among the sunbeams about
this time—for Dougal had begun to
realize that his little companion had
developed a tightness with funds. She
was definitely holding the purse
strings, and apparently meant to keep
on doing so.

At last Dougal found what he con-
sidered the ideal piece of property;
Coldham’s farm, six and a half miles
away, near Clavering.

He enthused about it to his lady
love, until eventually the deal went
through. Miss Holland’s solicitor in
London drew up the necessary papers,
and Dougal was very helpful. In fact
he went up to London and had the
lawyer make out the purchase papers
in his name. But Camille heard of
this, and she quietly slipped up to
town and changed the instructions.
The property would be in her name.
To avoid any friction, she said
nothing about this to Dougal.

It was on April 27, 1899 that Dougal
and Miss Holland moved out to
Coldham’s farm; the little spinster
had sent up to London for some furni-
ture she had in storage, and Mrs.
Wisken said they both seemed very
happy when they bade her good-bye.

Dougal was much impressed by the
moat around the farmhouse, and
nothing would do but he change the
name from Coldham’s to Moat Farm.

Now Camille Holland might not
have been so happy, had she known
that the real Mrs. Dougal was
Dougal’s third wife, the first two having
died suddenly under mysterious cir-
cumstances in the married quarters of
Halifax Barracks in Nova Scotia. And
before meeting the current Mrs.
Dougal, he had brought a Halifax
girl to England with him. After a
child was born Dougal had cast her
off, and the unmarried mother made
her way back to Canada, telling her
parents that her husband had “died”
in England.

In fact, Dougal’s exemplary army
service could merely be reckoned as
“twenty-one years of undetected
crime.” So far as the army was con-
cerned, he had satisfied its regula-
tions; privately he had preyed on
scores of women.

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