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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1910)
11 SYNOPSIS. T.tnvir t-ir-f niakcley. lawyer. Roes to !PlttslmrK with the forced note In tiio Bronnon e-nno to got tho deposition of John Gllmorc, millionaire. In the lattor's homo lie I nttrnctod by rt, plctura of a young sir!, whom tho millionaire explains Is his crunddnUKliter. A huly requests Hlnkelo to buy her n Tullman ticket. Ho Klves her lower uleven nnil retains lower ten. He ilndn a drunken man In lower, ten and retires In lower nine. Ho nwu Itens in lower seven and finds lila clothes nnd ImK mlRslnp. Tile mnn In lower ten N found murdered. Circumstantial cvl denro polniH to both Blakoloy and tho unknown tnitn who had exchanced clothes with Mm. Hfnholey becomes IntefeHtfd In n girl In blue. Tho train Is wrecUed. Hlakeley In rescued from tho burning car by tllo Klrl tn blue. Ills arm Is broken. They (tn to tho Carter place for breakfast.- TIiY plrl proves to bo Alison West, his partner's sweetheart. Her peculiar nellons mystify the luwyer. She drop her Knlfl baK nnd lllakejev puts It In his pocket, niakeley returns, home. Ho Undo that he Im under surveillance. Movlnc pIctnrcB of the train takon Just before the wreck reveal to IJIakelcy a man leaplns from the train with hla, stolen grip. Hlakeley lcatna that a man named Sul livan lenmtl from the train near M ttd sprained his ankle. He stayed some time nt the Carter placo. CHAPTER XVII Continued. "Wns tho name Dlnkoley?" J asked. "It might have been I can't Bay. Hut the man wasn't thoro, nnd thero Vy'uk n lot of noise. I couldn't hear well. Then In bulf nn hour down camo tho other twin to say tho gentleman was taking on nwful and didn't want the message sent." "lie's gone, of course?" "Yep. Limped down hero In about three days and. took the noon train for tho city." It seemed a certainty now that our man, having hurt himself somewhat In his jump, had stayed quietly in the farm houeo until ho was ablo to trav el. Hut. to bo positive, wo decided to visit tho Garter place. I gave tho station agent a five-dollar bill, which ho rolled up with a couple of others and stuck in his pocket. I turned as wo got to a bend in the road, and ho was looking curi ously after uh. It was not until we had climbed tho lilll and turned onto tho road to tho Carter place that I realized whero wo were going. Although we approached It from another direction, I knew the farm house nt once. It was tho ono where Alison West nnd I had break fasted nine days before. With a new restraint between us, I did not tell McKnlght. I wondered afterward If he had suspected It. I saw him look Ing hnrd at the gatepost which had figured In one of our mysteries, but ho asked no questions. Afterward ho grew almost taciturn, for htm, and let me do most of the talking. Wo opened tho front gate of tho Carter place and went Blowly up the walk. Two ragged youngsters, alike tven to freckles nnd squints, were playing in tho yard. "Is your mother around?" I asked. "In the front room. Walk In," they answered In Identical tones. As we got to the porch wo heard voices, and stopped. I knocked, but tho people within, engaged in anlmat ed, rather one-sided conversation, did not answer. '"In the front room. Walk In,' " quoted McKnlght, and did so. In the Btuffy farm parlor two peo pie were sitting. Ono, a pleasant faced woman with a checked npron, rose, somewhat embarrassed, to meet us. She did not know mo, and 1 was thankCult Hut our nttontlon wns rlv eted on a little man who was sitting lioforo a table, writing busily. It was Ilotchklss! He got up when ho saw us, and had tho grace to look uncomfortablo. "Such an interesting case," ho said nervously, "1 took tho liberty " "Look here," said McKnlght sud denly, "did you make any Inquiries at tho station?" "A few," he confessed. "I went to the theater last night I felt tho need of a little rolaxation and the sight of n picture thero, a cinematograph af fair, started a new lino of. thought Probably tho same clow brought you gentlemen. I learned a good bit from the station agent" "The eon-of-a-gun," said McKnlght. "And you paid him, I suppose?" "I gave him five dollars," was tho apologetic answer. Mrs. Carter, hearing sounds of strife in tho yard, wont out, and liotchklsH folded up his papers. "I think tho Identity of tho man Is established," ho said. "What number of hat do you wear, Mr. Blakoloy?" "Seven and a qunrter," I replied. "Well, It's only piling up evidence,' ho enld cheerfully. "On tho night of the murder you wore gray silk under clothing, with the second button of the shirt missing. Your hat had 'L, 11, In gilt letters inside, and thoro was n very minute hole in tho too of ono black sock." "Hush," McKnlght protested. "If word gets to Mra. Klopton that Mr, lUakol'cy waa wrecked, or robbed, or whatever It was, with a button miss Ing and a hole In one sock, aho'll re tiro to the Old Ladles' home. I've heard her threaten it." Mr. Ilotchklss was without n sonso of humor, llo regarded McKnlght uravely. nnd went on; "I've been up In tho room where tho man lay while ho was unablo to get MAN ' LOWER T AOTHOa or Urn rrxfrrr ILLUSTRATIONS Jby lyi. "You Don't Think Ho away, and thero Is nothing thero. Dut I found what may be a possible clew In tlfe dust heap. "Mrs. Carter tolls mo that In un packing his grip tho othor day sho shook out of tho coat of tho pajamas some pieces of a telegram. As I fig uro It, the pajamas wero his own. Ho probably had them ' on when ho ef fected tho exchange" I nodded assent. All I had retained of my own clothing was tho suit of pajamas I was wearing; and my bath robe. 'Therefore tho telegram was his, not yours. I have pieces1 here, but some nro missing. I am not discour aged, however." lie spread out some bits of yellow paper, and wo bent over them curious ly. It was something ltko this: Man with p Got Ur Wo spelled It out slowly. "Now," Ilotchklss announced, "I make it something llko this: Tho 'p Is ono of two things, pistol you re member the little pcurl-handled af fair belonging to the murdered man or Is it pockctbook. I am Inclined to the latter view, as the pockctbook had been disturbed nnd the pistol had not." I took tho piece of paper from tho table nnd scrawled four words on It. "Now," I said, rearranging them, "It happens, Mr. Ilotchklss, that I found one of these pieces of tho tele gram on tho train. I thought It had been dropped by "somo ono oltfo, you sec, but that's immaterial. Arranged this way it almost makes sense. Fill out that 'p ' with tho rest of tho word, as I Imagine it, and it makes 'papers,' and add this scrap and you lavc: " 'Man with papers (In) lower ten, enr seven. Got (them).'" McKnlght slapped HotchklsB on tho bnck. "You're a trump," ho said. "Br Is Bronson, of course. It's almost too easy. You see, Mr. BJakeloy hero en gaged lower ten, but found It occupied by tho man who was later murdered there. Tho man who did the thing was a friend of Branson's, evidently, nnd In trying to get tho papers wo have tho motive for tho crime." "T,here aro atlll somo things to bo explained." Mr. Ilotchklss wiped his glasses and put them on. "For one thing, Mr. BInkeley, I am puzzled by that bit of chain." I did not glanco at McKnlght. I felt Hint tho hands with which I was gathering up the bits of torn paper wero shaking. It seemed to mo that this astute little man was going to drag in the girl in spite of mo. CHAPTER XVIII. A New World. Jlotchkiss jotted down the bits of telegram and rose. "Well," ho said, "we've dono some thing. Wo'vo found whero tho mur derer left tho train, wo know what day he went to Baltimore, and, most Important of all, wo have a motivo for tho crime." "It Booms the Irony of fato," said McKnlght, getting up, "that n man should kill another man for certain pa pers ho Is supposed to bo carrying, find ho hasn't got them after all, tie cldo to throw suspicion on another man by changing berths und getting out, bag and bnggago, and then, by tho merest fluke of chance, tako with him, CART - AX.. ta rrn r G. 1JTTNER I Locked tho Door Himself?" In tho valise he changed for his own, tho very notes ho was after. It was a bit of luck for him." "Then why," put in Ilotchklss doubt fully, "why did ho collnpso when ho honrd of tho wreck? And what about tho telephone message the station agent sent? You remember they tried to countermand it, and with somo ex citement." "Wo will ask him thoso quctylonB when wo 'got him," McKnlght Bald. We wero on tho unrnilcd front porch by that time, and Ilotchklss had put away his notobook. The mother of tho twins followed us to tho steps. "Dear mo," sho explained volubly, "and to think I was forgetting to tell you! I put tho young man to bed with a spice poultice on his nnkle; my mother always was a firm bellevor In spice poultices. It's wonderful what they will d6 In croup! And thon I took tho children and went down to seo the wreck. It wns Sunday, and the mister had gone to church; hasn't missed a day since he took tho plcdgo nine yenrs ago. And on the way I mot two pcoplo, u man and a woman. They looked half dead, so I sent them right hero for breakfast and somo soap and water. I alwayH aay soap is better than liquor after n shock." Ilotchklss was listening absently; McKnlght was whistling under his breath, staring down across tho field to whore a break In tho woods showed a halt dozen telegraph poles, tho lino of tho railroad. "It must have been J2 o'clock when we got back; I wanted tho children to see everything, because It Isn't likely they'll over seo another wreck llko that. Kows of " "About 12 o'clock," I broko In, "and what then?" "Tho young man upstairs was awake," bIiq went on, "hammering at his door like all possessed. And It was locked on tho outsldo!" Sho paused to enjoy her sonsatlon. "I would like to seo that lock," Ilotchklss said promptly, but for some reason tho woman demurred. "I will bring tho key down," she said and dis appeared. Wheu sho returned nhe held out nn ordinary door key of tho cheapest varloty. "We had to break tho lock," sho vol unteercd, "nnd tho key didn't turn up for two days. Then ono of tho twins found tho turkey gobbler trying to swallow It. It has been washed since," she hastened to assure Ilotchklss, who showed an Inclination to drop It. "You don't think ho locked the door himself and threw tho key out of tho window?" tho llttlo man asked. "Tho wlndowb ar. covered with mosquito netting, nniled on. Tho mis ter blamed It on the children, and It might have been Obadlnh. He's tho quiet kind, and you never know what he's about." "Ho's about to strangle, Isn't he," McKnlght remarked lazily, "or Is that Obadlau?" Mrs. Carter picked tho boy up and Inverted him, talking amiably all tho time. "Ho's always doing It," sho said, giving him a shake. "Whenever we miss anything we look to seo If Obadlnh's black In tho faco." Sho gavo another shake, and tho quarter I had given him shot out as If blown from a gun. Then we prepared to go back to tho station. From whore I stood I could look Into the cheery farm kitchen, whoro Alison West and I had oaten our nl fresco breakfast. I looked at tho tablo with mixed emotions, and then, gradually, tho meaning of some thing on It penetrated iny mind. Still In Its pnpers, evidently Just opened, wns a hat box, and protruding over the edgo of tho box was a streamer of vivid grcon ribbon. On tho plea that I wished to nsk Mrst Carter n few moro questions, I lot the others go on, I. watched them down the flagstone walk; saw Mc Knlght stop and examine tho gate posts and saw, too, tho quick glanco he throw back at tho house. Then I turned to Mrs. Carter. "I Would llko to Bpcnk to tho young lady lipstalrs," I suld. Sha throw up her hands with n tlutck'gosturo or surrender. "I've dono all Jl ;could," sha exclaimed. "She won't like It very well, but Bho's in the. roin over tho parlor." I went eagerly up tho lndder-llko stairs, to the rag-carpotcd hall. Two doors wore opon, showing Intorlors of four poster beds and high bureaus. The door of tho room over tho parlor was almost closed. I hesitated in the hallway; after all, what right had I to Intrude on her? But sho sottlcd my difficulty by throwing open tho door and facing me. "I I beg your pardon, Miss West," I stammered. "It has just occurred to me that I am unpardonnbly rude. I Baw tho hot downstairs and I I guessed " , "Tho lint!" she snld. "I might l'o known. Docs Rlchoy know I am horo?" "I don't think so." I turned to go down tho stnlrs again. Thon I halted. "Tho fact is," I said, in an attempt at Justification. "I'm In rather n moss these days, and I'm apt to do irre sponsible things. It Is not ImpoBslblo that I shall bo arrested, In a day or so, for tho murder of Simon Ilunlng ton." She drew her brenth In sharply. "Murder!" sho echoed. "Then they have found you after all!" "I don't regard It as anything more than or Inconvenient," I lied. "Thoy can't convict mo, you know. Almost nil tho witnesses nre dead." She waB not deceived for n moment. Sho camo over to mo and stood, both hands on tho rnll of stair. "I know Just how grnvo It Is," sho said quiet ly. "My grandfather will not lenvo ono stono unturned, and ho dan be terrlblo terrlblo. But" sho looked directly Into my eyes ns I stood below her on tho Btalrs "tho tlmo may come soon when I can help you. I'm afraid I shall not want to; I'm n dreadful coward, Mr. Blakoloy. But I will." Sho tried to smile. "I wish you would let mo help you," I said unsteadily. "Let us make It a bargain; each holp tho other!" Tho girl shook nor head with a sad llttlo smile. "I am only ns unhappy as I desorvo to be," sho said. And when I protested nnd took a step to ward hor - bIiq retreated, with her hands out before her. "Why don't you ask me nil tho qucs tlons you nre thinking?" sho demand ed, with a catch In hor voice, "Oh, I know them. Or nra you afraid to ask?" I looked at hor, at tho lines nround hor eyes,' nt tho drawn look nbout hor mouth. Thon I hold out my hand "Afraid!" I said, as she gavo mo hers. "Thoro Is nothing In God's greon earth I am afraid of, save of troub'lo4 for you. To ask questions would bo to Imply a lack of faith. I ask you nothing. Somo dny, perhaps, you will come to mo yoursolf nnd let me help you." Tho next moment I was out In tho golden sunshine; the birds woro Blng Ing carols of joy; I walked dizzily throught rainbow-colored clouds, past tho twins, cherubs now, swinging on tho gate. It was a now world Into which 1 stopped from tho Cnrtor farm houso that morning, for I had kissed her! (TO UK CONTINUED.) He Could Not Recommend It. Tho editor of the Flunkvlllo Argus was seated at his desk, busily engaged In writing a fervid editorial on tho no ccsslty of building a new walk to the cemetery, when n battered speclmon of tho tramp printer entered tho ofllco, "Mornlr.', bosB!" saftl tho caller. "Got any work for a 'print'?" "I have," answered the editor. "You happened In Just right this time. I'vo got only a boy to help mo In tho ofllco and I need a man to sot typo for about a wcok. I h'avo to make a trip out west. You can tako off your coat nnd begin right now. I start to-morrow morning.'' "All right," Bald tho typographical tourist, removing his coat. "What road nro you going to travel on?" "Tho X., Y. & Z., mostly. I'vo never been on It. Know anything about It?' "I know nil about it. I'vo traveled It from ono end to tho other." "What kind of a road Is It?" "Punk!" said tho printer, in a tone indicative of strong disgust. "Tho ties aro too far apart!" Youth's Compan ion. Must Walt for Remarriage. In Louisiana tho law permits a wld ow to marry again only provided she has waited until ten months aftor tho death of her husband. Queer Questions. Queer questions como over tho telo- phono to tho newspaper offlcoB. Horo was ono that tho man who chanced to answer tho phono had put up to him tho othpr day: "Bay," began tho unknown seeker after tho truth, "do you do you ro member who it was that killed Abol?" Why, Cain, of courso," ropllod tho nowspnpor mnn, who put In several years nt Sunday school, "Who'd Ju suppoco?" "well, observed tho man nt tho other end In nn annoyed tono, "doggon It I nln't gono and mndo a fool o' my self. 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