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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1907)
acau. i .. it "" I h. 11 uwwWK ...ni i- l -. ." ViJE'?" i' rV""jr8BIW' st -j m. ? A MAKER OF HISTORY Oy E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, Author of "The Mtwlrr Mummer." "A Prince of Stniici," "MiMcrioui Mr. SaMn," "Anna the Adventurer," Etc Copyright. 1005, 1000, by Little. Urown, nnd Compnny. .Continued from Png Three.) Hint Micro Ih tiottiliif? more to do done.1 He wits grieved iiiitl polite because .nmdoniol.sollo was beautiful and In fitrotililr. Tor the rest, lie was a littlo ifilrcd of her. Brothers of twenty-onu who liavo never been In I'arls beforo snnd cannot speak tho language must occasionally get lost, nnd the British embassy avhh not exactly a transported .Scotland Yard. "Then," she declared, with a vigor ous little stamp of her shapely foot, "I don't see what wo keep an anibns Kndor hero for at all or any of you. It Js scandalous!" 'The Hon. Nigel Fergusson dropped "2ils oyoglnss and surveyed the young Jady attentively. "My dear Miss Poynton," he said, "I will not presume to argue with you. "Wo are here, I suppose, for some pur Ijcjo or other. Whether wo fulllll 11 or .not may well ho a matter of opinion. Hut that purpose Is certainly not to Jook after any young Idiot you must excuse my speaking plainly who runs .amuck in this most fascinating city. In your case tho chief has gone out of Ills way to help you. lie has Inter viewed the chief of the police himself, Trvought his Influence to bear In varl tons quarters, and 1 can tell you con scientiously that everything which pos sibly can be done Is being done ut tho present moment. If you wish for my -advice It Is this: Send for some friend Kto keep you company hero and fry to flio patient. You are in all probability making yourself needlessly miserable." &he looked at him a little reproach fully. He noticed, however, with so cret Joy that she was drawing on her loves. "Patient! He wns to meet mo here rtcn days ago. lie arrived at tho hotel. .Ills clothes are all there and his bill unpaid. He went out the night of his .arrival and lias never returned. Pa Jlent! Well, I am much obliged to you, -Mr. Pergusson. 1 have no doubt that ;you have done all that your duty re quired. Wood afternoon!" "Good afternoon, Miss Poynton, and tlon't be too despondent. Itemomber .that the French police are the cleverest Wu the world, and they are working for ;you!" .She looked up at him scornfully. "Police, Indeed!" she answered. "Do jou know that all they have done so far Is to keep sending for me to go .and look at dead bodies down at the .morgue? I think that 1 shall send over -for nn English detective." "You might do worse," lie answered, -'Ibut In any case, Miss Poynton, I do laope that you will send over for some SrJond or relation to keep you com jpauy. Paris is scarcely a tit place for fou to be alone anil in trouble." -"Thank you," she said. "I will re zncmber what you have said." The young man watched her depart -with a curious mixture of relief and .regret. "The young fool's been the usual -round, 1 suppose, and he's either too much ashamed of himself or too bo ..sotted to turn up. I wish she wasn't 4.julte so devilish good looking," he re .marked to himself. "If she goes about nJone she'll get badly scared before who's llnlslied." Phyllis Poynton drove straight back .to her hotel and went to her room. .A sympathetic chambermaid followed iher In. ".Mademoiselle hns news yet of her ftorotherV" she inquired. Mademoiselle shook her head. In deed her face was sutllclent unswer. "None at all, Marie." The chambermaid closed the door. "It would help uiadenio'lselle per .Imps if she knew where the young gen lleman spent tho evening beforo ho disappeared V" she Inquired mysteri ously. "Of course! That is Just what I want to find out." JMarlo smiled. ""There Is a young man here In the Umrber's shop, mademoiselle," she an nounced. "Uo remembers M. Poynton quite well. Ho went in there to be shaved, and lie asked humc questions. I think if mademoiselle were to seo .him" The girl jumped up at once. ""Do you know his name':" she asked. "M. Alphonse, they call him. lie is itn duty now." .Phyllis Poynton descended at once to -the ground floor of tho hotel and push ed open tho glass door which led Into .the coiffeur's shop. M. Alphonse was -waiting upon a customer, and she was jglven a chair. In a few minutes he descended tho spiral Iron staircase and desired to know mademoiselle's pleas- tire. "You iin":ik English" she asked. "Hut certainly, mademoiselle." She gave a little sigh of relief. "I wonder." she said, "If you remem ber waiting upon my brother last Thursday week. He was tall and fair and something like me. He had just arrived in Paris." M. Alphonse smiled. He rarely for- i got a face, and the young English man's tip had been munlllceiit. i "Perfectly, mademoiselle," ho an swered. "They sent for me because monsieur spoke no French." "My chambermaid Mario told mo that you might perhaps know how ho proposed to spend the evening," she continued. "lie was quite a stranger in Paris, and ho may have asked for some Information." M. Alphonse smiled and extended his hands. "It Is quite true," lie answered. "Ho nsked me where to go, and I say to tho Folios I'ergeri-s. Then ho said lie had heard a good deal of the supper cafes, and be nsked me which was tho most amusing. I tell him the Cafe Mout martro. Ho wrote It down." "Do you think that he meant to go there'" she asked. "Hut certainly. He promised to come nnd toll mo the next day how ho amused Himself." "The Care Montmartre. Where Is it?" she asked. "In the Place do Montmartre. Put mademoiselle pardons she will under stand that It is a place for men?" "Are women not admitted?" sho usked. Alphonse smiled. "Put yes. Only mademoiselle un derstands that If a lady should go there she would need to lie very well escorted." .She nne and slipped a coin Into his hand. "I am very much obliged to you," she said. "By the bye, have any other people made inquiries of you concern ing my brother?" "No one at all, mademoiselle!" the man answered. She almost slammed the door behind when she went out. "And they say that the French police are tho cleverest In the world!" she ex claimed Indignantly. M. Alphonse watched her through the glass pane. "Ciol! Hut she is pretty!" ho mur mured to himself. She turned into the writing room, nnd, taking off her gloves, she wrote a letter. Her pretty fingers were inno cent of rings, nnd her handwriting She found eomcthlng which lie had con sidered It worth while to preserve. wns a littlo shaky. Nevertheless, it is certain that not a man passed through the room who did not And an excuso to stenl a second glance at her. This Is what she wroto: My Denr Andruw I nm In grent dis tress hero nnd very unhappy. I should havo written to you beforo, but I know thnt you havo your own troublo to bear Just now, nnd I hntcd to bother you. I arrived here punctually on tho dnto nr rnnBed upon between Guy nnd myBolf nr.d found that ho had arrived tho night beforo nnd had ongaged a room for mo. Ho wns out when I camo. 1 chnnged my clothea and eat down to wait for him. Ho did not return. I made Inquiries nnd found that ho had left tho hotel at 8 o'clock tho previous evening. To cut tho mntter short, ten days havo now elapsed, and ho hns not yet returned. I havo been to tho embnuBy, to tho po- Hco nnd to tho morgue Nowhere havo I found tho siiBhtcst trnco of him. No ono seems to tnko tho lenst Interest In his dis appearance. Tho pollco shrug their shoul ders nnd look nt mo na though I ought to undorstnnd ho will return very short ly, they aro Quito sure. At tho embassy tlioy linvo begun to look upon mo as a milsnnci. Tho morgue honven send thnt I mny ono dny forgot tho horror of my bnsty visits tlierol I havo como to tho conclusion, Androw, that I must search for him myself. How, I do not know; whoro, I do not know. Tint I Hhnll not lenvo l'nrlB until I havo found him. Androw, whnt I Want is n friend hero. A few months ago I should not havo hesitated a moment to ask you to como to county It was tho consensus of opln ' i!L,?T-j; ion of these gentlemen that tho aver- rnssment to both of us. Do you know of i nvn.vi niitu iiuui- wtiij ') till v.nai nny ono who would como? I havo not a tolngl1 relative whom I enn nsk to help me. Would you udvlso mo to wrlto to Scotlnnd Vnrd for n dotectlvo or go to ono of tlioso nijencles? Jf jipt, nn you think of nny otic who would como hero nnd hflp fie, cither for your nakc as your friend, or, better Htlll, n dotecttvo who ran spenk French and whom ono enn trust? All our lives Guy nnd I havo consmtulntcd ourselves thnt wo have no relation nearer than India. I nm flndlni? out tho other nldo of It now. I know thnt you will do whnt you enn for me, Andrew. Write to mo by return. Yours In great trouble nnd distress, PHYLLIS POYNTON. Sho settled and addressed her letter tfind saw It dispatched. Afterward she crossed the courtyard to the res taurant and did her best to eat some dinner. When she had finished It was only half past 8. Sho rang for tho lift nnd ascended to tho fourth floor. On her way down tiie corridor a sud den thought struck her. Sho took a key from hoi pocket and entered tho room which her brother had occupied. Ills tilings wore still lying about in some disorder, and neither of his trunks was locked. Sho went down on her knees nnd calmly proceeded to go through ills belongings. It was rather a forlorn hope, but it seemed to her Just possible thnt there might he in soiiio of ills pockets a letter which would throw light upon ids disappear ance. She found nothing of the sort, however. There were picture post cards, a few photographs and a good many restaurant bills, but they were all from places in ('ermany and Aus tria. At the bottom of the second trunk, however, she found something which he had evidently found It worth while to carefully preserve. It was a thick sheet of olllclal looking paper, bearing at the top an embossed crown nnd covered with German writing. It wns numbered at the top "17," and It was evidently an odd sheet of some document. She folded It carefully up and took It back with her to her own room. Then, with the help of a Ger man dictionary, she commenced to stu dy It. At the end of an hour she had made out u rough translation, which she lead carefully through. When sho had finished sho wns thoroughly per plexed. Sho had an uncomfortable sense of having como into touch with something wholly unexpected nnd mys-. tcrlous. I "What am I to do?" she said to her self softly. "What can it mean? Where on earth can Guy have found this?" There was no one to answer hot, no ono to advise. An overwhelming sense of her loneliness brought tho tears Into her eyes. Sho sat for somo time with her face burled In her hands. Then she rose cp, calmly destroyed her translation with minute care and lock ed away the mysterious sheet at tho bottom of her dressing bag. The more she thought of It tho loss, after all, ' $ho felt inclined to connect it with his disappearance. TO be continues. NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Nebraska Drought Broken. Lincoln, Mny 18. Southeastern Ne braska last night got effective relief from tho long period of dry weather. Heavy showers fell over a wide dis trict. In Lincoln there was a high wind, but no damage of consequenco was reported. Suicide of Shelton Man. Snoshoni, Wyo., May 17. Despond ent over money losses and being out of work, William Conroy. who camo here recently from Sholton, Neb., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. Tho remains will be sent to the old homo for burial. Knowle8' Sentence Approved. Stin Antonio, Tex., May 22. The sentence tlxed by the court-martial in the ense of Corporal E. L. Knowles oi the Twenty-fifth infantry, recently tried for having assaulted Captain Edgar A. Macklln of tho same regi ment at Fort Reno in December last, five years at hard labor In the peniten tiary at Fort Leavenworth, was ap proved by General Albert L. Moyer, commanding the Department of Texas. Tho court found Knowies guilty on two specifications, assault and bat tery with Intent to kill and assault with intent to commit robbery. Iowa Odd Fellows in Session. Sioux City, May 22.Tho Iowa grand lodgo of Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., opened .hero with a large at tendance from all parts of tho state. The Daughters of Robekah, a woman's auxiliary organization, also Is hero for I a three days' session. A street parade, followed by various social functions, wore features of tho oponlng day. Grain Men Find Crop Damage. Hastings, Neb., May 20. 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Curia irtlp dl.onoi t hair tilling. av.nndtUOM Dru.'rHU commission declined to grant a hear ing to express company representa tives, who oppose a reduction In rates of 25 per cent. Tho commission has decided to take no action on the ex press rate act, aB well as with regard to tho Aldrich maximum freight rato bill, carrying a 15 per cent reduction. It will at least decline to consider any Phowing against the operation of tho law until It goes Into effect, which will be in tho first week of July. BRUCE BUNDY IS CONVICTED Jury Finds for Manslaughter, With Recommendation for Mercy. Tekamah, Neb., May 20. Tho jury in the case of Bruce Bundy, on trial for tho killing of Herbert A. Austin, his neighbor, with whoso wlfo it was charged ho had been unduly Intlmato, returned a verdict finding Bundy guilty of manslaughter, with a recom mendation to the court for mercy. Sentence will bo passed today. Bundy is tliirty-tlireo years of ago and un married. 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