The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, July 22, 1908, Image 7
:T WM NlTiW1Nl IT NLnLmiUAL BrJEALF zASHLET WZKXST SYNOPSIS. Giles Dmllev arrived In San Francisco to Join his friend and distant relative Henry Wilton, whom he was to assist in an important and mysterious task, and who accompanied Dudley on the ferry boat trip into the city. The re markable resemblance of the two men is noted and commented on by passen cers mi the ferry. They see a man with snake eyes, which sends a thrill through Dudley. Wilton postpones an explanation of the Strang.- errand Dudley is to per form, but occurrences cause him to know it is one of no ordinary meaning. Wilton leaves Giles in their room, with instruction to await his return and snoot any on.- who tries to enter. Outside there is heard shouts ami curses and the noise of a quarrel. Henry rushes In and at his request the roommates quickly ex change clothes, and he hurries out again. Hardlv has he cone than Giles is startled bv a cry of "Help." and he runs out to find some one being assaulted oy a half dozen men. He summons a police man but they are unable to find any trace or a crime. Giles returns to is room and hunts for some evidence in-n might explain his strange mission. Jic finds a map which he endeavors to K cipher. Dudley is summon-! to tm morgue and there finds the dead bod . m his fri-nd. Henry Wilton And thus Hilt on dies without ever explaining to l urn ley the puzzling work he was to nerrorm in San Francisco In ord. r l d.scn er the secret mission his friend had entrust ed to him. Dudley continues his dlsuiM and permits himself to be known .is. Ilenrv Wilton. Dudley, mistaken for Wilton, is employed by Knapp to "? il a stock brokerage deal. "Dl"Uy takes lb- -t-ipposed Wilton to Mother Uorton s. M..t; ISortnn discovers that he is not Wilton. The lights are turned out and a Trc for all light follows. Giles Dudle tinds himself closeted in a room with Motrier Uorton who makes a confidant r him. He can leain nothing alout the tnxsterious bov fin titer than that it is fini Terr.ll and Darby M.ek.-r who are ift.-r him. Ho is told that "Dicky Nani -Is a traitor, plaving both hands in the smiik. Giles tinds himself locked in a -ooiii. He es.ap.-s through a window. The siitipose.! Wilton carries out his dead riend's work with Doddridge Knapp. He las Lis lir.st experience as a capitalist m he Hoaid Itooin of the Stock Kxcliallge. Duilley receives a fictitious note purport- ng to be lrom Knapp. the forgery of .vhich he reaihlv detects. Dudley gets his irst knowledge of D.vker. who is Knapp's enemy on the Hoard. The forg d note mystifies Knapp. Dudley visus he home of Knapp and is stricken by he beautv of l.uclla. bis daughter. Moie nysterv about "the boy." I.uella pn-.at.-lv informs Dudley that she has dis overed his deception and knows he ss lot Wilton. CHAPTER XIII. Continued. The sight that met my eyes was as tonishing. Clothes, books, papers, were scattered over the floor and bed and chairs. The carpet had been partly ripped up, the mattress torn h part, the closet cleared out, and every corner of the room had been ransacked. It was clear to my eye that this was no ordinary case of robbery. The search, it was evident, was not for money and jewelry alone, and bulkier property had been despised. The men who had torn the place to pieces must, I surmised, have been after papers of some kind. I came at once to the conclusion lliat 1 had been favored by a visit from my friends, the enemy. As they nad failed to find me in, they had looked for some written memoranda A the object of their search. I knew well that they had found nothing among the clothing or papers that Henry had left behind. I had searched through these myself, and Ihe sole document that could bear on the mystery was at that moment fast :n my inside pocket. 1 was inclined to scout the idea that Henry Wilton had hidden anything under the carpet or in the mattress, or in any secret place The threads of the mystery were car ried in his head, and the correspond ence, if there had been any, was de ;ttoed. As 1 was engaged in putting the room to rights the door swung back, and ! jumped to my feet to face a man who stood on the threshold. "Hello!" he cried. "House-cleaning i ainV" It was Dicky Xahl. and he paused with a smile on his face. "Ah. Dicky!" 1 said with an effort to keep out of my face and voice the suspicions I had gained from the in cidents of the visit to the Borton place. "Entirely unpremeditated, 1 as sure you." "Well, you're making a thorough job of it." he said with a laugh. "Fact is," said I ruefully, "I've been entertaining angels of the black kind unawxires. 1 was from home last night, and I find that somebody has made himself free with my property while I was away." "Whew!" whistied Dicky. "Guess they were after you." 1 gave Dicky a sidelong glance in a vain effort to catch more of his mean ing than was convened by his words. "Shouldn't be surprised." I replied dryly, picking up an armful of books. "I'd expect them to be looking for me in the book-shelf or inside tiie mattress-cover, or under the carpet." Dickly laughed joyously. "Well, they did rather turn tilings upside down." he chuckled. "Did they get anything?" And he fell to helping me zealously. "Not that I can find out," I replied. "Nothing of value, anyhow." "Not any paper, or anything of that sort?" asked Dicky anxiously. "Dicky, my boy." said I; "there are two kinds of fools. The other is the man who writes his business on a sheet of paper and forgets to burn it." Dicky grinned merrily. "Gad, jou're getting a turn for epi gram! You'll be writing for the Argo naut first we know." "Well, you'll allow me a shade of common sense, won't you?" "I don't know." said Dicky, consid ering the proposition doubtfully. "It might have been awkward if you had left anything lying about. But if you had real good sense you'd have had the guards here. What are you pay ing them for, anyhow?" I saw difficulties in the way of ex plaining to Dicky why I had not or dered the guards on duty. "Oh, by the way," said Dicky sud denly, before a suitable reply had come to me; "how about the scads spondulicks you know? Yesterday was pay-day, but you didn't show up." I don't know whether my jaw fflD QaB5-72Z&J5fL eQKzx7rr dropped or not My spirits certainly did. "Ry Jove, Dicky!" I exclaimed, catching my breath. "It slipped my mind, clear. I haven't got at our ahem banker, either." I saw now what that mysterious money was for or a part of it, at all events. What I did not see was how I was to get it, and how to pay it to my men. "That's rough," said Dicky sympa thetically. "I'm dead broke." It would appear then that Dicky looked to me for pay, whether or not he felt bound to me in service. "There's one thing I'd like explained before a settlement," said I grimly, as I straightened out the carpet; "and that is the little performance for my benefit the other night." Dicky cocked his head on one side, and gave me an uneasy glance. "Explanation?" he said in affected surprise. "Yes," said I sternly. "It looked like a plant. I was within one of get ting a knife in me." "What became of you?" inquired Dicky. "We looked around for you for THE" 5GffT 7724TT3FTI2y'72:S msASTQNTSffllfG an hour, and were afraid you had been carried off." "That's all right, Dicky," I said. "I know how I got out. What I want to know is how I got in taken in." "I don't know," said Dicky anxious ly. "I was regularly fooled, myself. I thought they were fishermen, all right enough, and I never thought that Ter rill had the nerve to come in there. 1 was fooled by his disguise, and he gave the word, and I thought sure that Richmond had sent him." Dicky had dropped all banter and was speaking with the tone of sincerity. "Well, it's all right now, but I don't want any more -slips of that sort. Who was hurt?" "Trent got a bad cut in the side. One of the Terrill gang was shot. 1 heard it was only through the arm or leg. 1 forgot which." I was consumed with the desire to ask what had become of Borton's, but I suspected that I was supposed to know, and prudently kept the question to myself. "Well, come along." said I. "The room will do well enough now. Oh, here's a ten. and I'll let you know as soon as 1 get the rest. Where can I find you?" "At the old place," said Dicky; "three twenty-six." "Clay?" I asked in desperation. Dicky gave me a wondering look as though he suspected my mind was go ing. "No Geary. What's the matter with you?" "Oh. to be sure. Geary street, of course. Well, let me know if any thing turns up. Keep a close watch on things." Dicky locked at me in some appar ent perplexity as I walked up the stair to my Clay street office, but gave only some laughing answer as he turned back. But I was in far from a laughing humor myself. The problem of pay ing the men raised fresh prospects of trouble, and I reflected grimly that if the money was not found I might be in more danger from my unpaid mer cenaries than from the enemy. Ten o'clock passed, and eleven, with no sign from Doddridge Knapp, and I wondered if the news I had car ried him cf the activities of Terrill and of Decker had disarranged his plans. I tried the door into Room 16. It was locked, and no sound came to my cars from behind it. "I should really like to know." I thought to myself, "whether Mr. Dodd- t ridge Knapp has left any papers In his desk that might bear on the Wilton mystery. I tried my keys, but none of them fitted the lock. I gave ur the attempt indeed, my mind shrank from the idea of going through my employer's papers but the desire of getting a key that would open the door was planted' in my brain. Twelve o'clock came. No Doddridge Knapp had appeared, and I sauntered down to the Exchange to pick up any items of news. It behooved me to be looking out for 'Doddridge Knapp's movements. If he had got another agent to carry out his schemes, I should have to prepare my lines for attack from another direction. Wallbridge was just coming rapidly out of the Exchapge. "No," said the little man, mopping the perspiration from his shining head, "quiet as lambs to-day. Their own mothers wouldn't have known the Board from "a Sunday school." I inquired about Omega. "Flat as a pancake," said the little man. "Nothing doing." "What! Is it down?" I exclaimed with some astonishment; "Lord bless you, no!" said Wall bridge, surprised in his turn. "Strong and steady at eighty, but we didn't sell a hundred shares to-day. Well, I'm in a rush. Good-by, if you don't want to buy or sell." And he hurried off without waiting for a reply. So I was now assured that Dodd ridge Knapp had not displaced me in the Omega deal. It was a recess to prepare another surprise for the Street, and I had time to attend to a neglected duty. The undertaker's shop that held the morgue looked hardly less gloomy in the afternoon sun than In the light of breaking day in which I had left it 1 when I parted from Detective Coogan. i n The office was decorated mournfully to accord with the grief of friends who ordered the coffins, or the feelings of the surviving relatives on settling the bills. "I am Henry Wilton." I explained to the man in charge. "There was a body left here by Detective Coogan to my order, I believe." "Oh, yes," he said. "What do you want done with it?" I explained that I wished to arrange to have it deposited in a vault for a time, as I might carry it east "That's easy done," he said; and "he explained the details. "Would you like to see the body?" he concluded. "We embalmed it on the strength of Coog an's order." I shrank from another look at -the battered form. The awfulness of the tragedy came upon me with hardly less force than in the moment when I had first faced the mangled and bleeding body on the slab in the dead room. The undertaker was talking, but I knew not what he said, I was shaking with the horror and grief of the situa tion, and in that moment I renewed my vow to have blood for blood and life for life, if law and justice were to be had. f V V !; -i X ESKIMO IS NATURE FAKER. Thinks That Bears Should Be Treated Like Gentlemen. . The Eskimo can say that he had a friendly feeling toward all living things, notwithstanding that he fed on flesh and that wild beasts some times fed on him. says the Contem porary Review. Not that he ever talked of wild beasts, for he had no tame ones. He had not a vocabulary of rude terms about animals. He was inclined to credit every species with many potential merits. The Eskimo is afraid .very much afraid of bears. Yet he is the first to admit that the bear is capable of acting like the fin est gentlemen. A woman was in a fright at seeing a bear, and so gave him a partridge; that bear never for got the trifiing service, but brought her newly killed seals ever after. An "We'll take it out any time," said the undertaker, with a decorous re flection of my grief upon his face. "Would you like to accompany the re mains?" I decided that I would. "Well, there's nothing doing now. We can start as soon as we have sealed the casket." "As soon as yon can. There's noth ing to wait for." The ride to the cemetery took me through a part of San Francisco -that I had not yet seen. But I paid little attention to the streets through which we passed. My mind was on the friend whose name I had taken, whose work I was to do. I was back with him in our boyhood days, and lived again for the fleeting minutes the life we had i lived in common; and the resolve grew .stronger on me that his fate should be avenged. Arriving at the cemetery it was soon over. The body of Henry Wilton was committed to the vault with the single mourner looking on, and we drove rapidly back in the failing light. I had given my address at the under taker's shop, and the hack stopped in front of my house of mystery before I knew where we were. Darkness had come upon the place, and the street lamps were alight and the gas was blazing in the store-windows along the thoroughfares. As I stepped out of the carriage and gazed about me, I recognized the gloomy doorway and its neighborhood that had greeted me on my first night in San Francisco. As I was paying the fare a stout figure stepped up to me. "Ah, Mr. Wilton, it's you again. I turned in surprise. It was the policeman I had met on my first night in San Francisco. "Oh, Corson, how are you?" I said heartily, recognizing him at last. I felt a sense of relief in the sight of him. The place was not one to quiet my nerves after the errand from which I had just come. "All's well, sor, but I've a bit of paper for ye." And after some hunt ing he brought it forth. "I was asked to hand this to ye." 1 took it in wonder. Was there something more from Detective Coog an? I tore open the envelope and read on its inclosure: "Kum tonite to the house. Shure if youre life is wurth savein. "Muther Borton." CHAPTER XIV. Mother Borton's Advice. I studied the note carefully, and then turned to Policeman Corson. "When did she give you this and where?" "A lady?" said Corson with a grin. "Ah, Mr. Wilton, it's too sly she is to give it to me. 'Twas a boy askin' for ye. 'Do you know him?' says he. I do that," says I. 'Where is he? says he. 'I don't know,' says I. 'Has 'e a room?' says he. 'He has,' says I. Where is it?' says he. 'What's that to you?' says I " "Yes, yes," I Interrupted. "But where did he get the note?" "I was just tellin ye, sor," said the policeman amiably. "He shoves the note at me ag'in, an' says he, 'It's im portant,' says he. 'Go up there,' says I. 'Last room, top floor, right-hand side? Before I comes to the corner up here, he's after me ag'in. 'He's gone,' says he. 'Like enough,' says I. 'When'll he be back?' says he. 'When the cows come home, sonny,' says I. Then there'll be the divil to pay,' says he. I pricks up my ears at this. 'Why?' says I. 'Oh, he'll be killed,' says he, 'and I'll git the derndest lickin',' says he. 'What's up?' says I, makin' a grab for him. But he ducks an' blubbers. 'Gimme that letter,' says I, "and you just kite back to the folks that sent you, and tell them what's the matter. I'll give your note to your man if he comes while I'm on the beat," says I. I knows too much to try to git anything more out of him. I says to meself that Mr. Wilton ain't in the safest place in the world, and this kid's folks maybe means him well, and might know some other place to look for him. The kid jaws a bit. an' then does as I tells him, an' cuts away. That's half an hour ago. an' here you are, an here's your let tei." I hesitated for a little before saying anything. It was with quick suspicion that I wondered why Mother Borton had secured again that gloomy and de serted house for the interview she was planning. "That was very kind of you. You didn't know what was in the letter then?" "No, sor," replied Corson with a touch of wounded pride. "It's not me as would open another man's letter unless in the way of me duty." "Do you know Mother Borton?" I continued. "Know her? know her?" returned Corson in a tone scornful of doubt on such a point. "Do I know the slickest crook in San Francisco? Ah, it's many a story I could tell you, Mr. Wil ton, of the way that ould she-divil has slipped through our fingers when we thought our hands were on her throat. An.l it's many of her brood we have put safe in San Quentin." (TO BE CONTINUED.) other bear saved the lif of three men who wished to reward him. He polite ly declined their offer, but if in winte: time they should see a baldheaded bear will they induce their compan ions to spare him? After so saying he plunged into the sea. Next winte.1 a bear was sighted and they were go ing to hunt him, when these men, re membering what had . happened, begged the hunters to wait till they had a Icok at him. Sure enough it was "their own bear!" They told the. others to prepare a feast for him, and when he had refreshed himself he lay down to sleep and the children played around him. Presently he awoke and ate a little more, after which he went down to the sea, leaped in, and was never seen again. It is estimated that there are 2,- ! 500,000 dogs in Great Britain. ' FORMER WATER BOY RUNS ROAD Patrick H. Houlahan Promoted to General Manager of Alton. Chicago. Patrick Henry Houlahau. general superintendent of the Chicago & Alton and the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroads since January 1, 1908 has assumed the duties of his re cent promotion general manager of two great combined railway systems, with headquarters in this city. From a water boy and track hand in 1S70, to one of the country's most prominent railroad men in 190S, has been the experience of Mr. Houlahan, P.N.HOULAHAN and each step he has taken in his up ward climb has shown him to be the possesor of those qualities of pluck and energy which are the essentials of really forceful men. Mr. Houlahan was born March 13, 1855, at Ottawa, III., and at the age of 12 years entered the railway mail service. In 1870 he was a water boy and track hand on the Ottawa, Oswe go & Fox River Valley road. Later he was employed on the same road in various positions from track hand up to baggageman and station agent. In 1S75 to 1880 he was brakeman and conductor on the Chicago & Alton, and in 18S1 was promoted to assistant trainmaster of the St. Louis division. On July 1, 1884, he was appointed trainmaster o'f the St. Louis division of the Burlington system; May tc November, 1886, master of transpor tation, Missouri and Kansas division, St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railway. From November, 1SS6, to April, 1890, trainmaster, and April, 1890, to May, 1891, assistant superintendent; May, 1891, to June, 1892, superintendent west division; June, 1S92, to Decem ber, 1904, superintendent, Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad. From December, 1904, to date, Mr. Houlahan has been general superin tendent of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western, and from January 1, 1890, i also general superintendent of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company. BLIND MAN RUNS FOR OFFICE. Murry Sandusky Hopes to Win by Means of His Wife and Voice. Macon, Mo. A man totally blind Is making the race for the Democratic nomination for treasurer of Macon county, an office which pays about $1,200 a year. He Is Murry Sandsky, and he frankly admits that personally he will not be able to perform the cler ical duties of the office, but his wife is bright and familiar with figures, and she is ready to attend to the real work of the office. Mr. Sandusky is a barytone singer, and when attending political meetings or rallies he sings instead of making speeches. He has become popular be cause of his strangely sweet voice. At one night meeting the lights went out, but he did not know it, and kept on with his song. Mrs. Sandusky accompanies her hus band on his campaigning tour and guides him about from place to place. They make no secret of the manner in which the office is to be run. but pledge themselves that the duties will be faithfully performed. Mr. Sandusky was born in Sullivan, Ind., 39 years ago. The greater part of his life has been passed in Mis souri. For some time he tilled a large farm northwest of Macon. One day he suffered a sunstroke. He re covered the use of his body, but he has not been able to see since. Small Per Cent, of Exports. Of an annual output of manufac tures valued at $15,000,000,000, we ex port only about five per cent., and if from this amount we deduct such near ly crude manufactures as copper, pe troleum and its products, iron and steel in bars, pigs and rails, we have an export of the more highly finished products of only about three per cent, of our total manufactures. Oldest Park in America. Xew York city has one public park that is 250 years old, and that is Bowl ing. Green, which was the playground of the first Dutch settlers. MURlZYJANI?UcJJGf HAZY.- Publisher The third chapter la this manuscript la ao Blurred I caa't make It out Author Tea; that la where I uaad London atmosphere. 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