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Chas. Saxe was loafing around
in El Dorado Thursday.
E. L. Mitchell visited with friends
at Phillips. La., last Sunday.
Mrs. J. H. Williams of Danville.
La., is visited friends at Cecil this
week.
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Miss Denie Mahony was an El i
Dorado visitor the latter part of
last week.
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Mrs. F. W. Miles arrived home
Saturday from a visit with relatives
at El Dorado.
C. Howard was among those
from here who attended court at
El Dorado this week.
Ernest Spencer was promoted
on last Monday and is now sawing
at No. 2 mill at night.
Mrs. D. A. Keasler and children
visited her mother at Ruston, Le..
the first of this week.
Willie Phillips has accepted the
position of clerk in the Iron Moun
tain depot at Felsenthal.
Mrs. E. L. Adams of Camp No. 1
was the guest of her sister, Mrs.
W. H. Moore, this week.
Mrs. C. A. Berry and sister. Miss
Edith Carter, were at Hampton
this week visiting with relatives.
Frank Parsons, who is located
at Randolph. La., is here visiting
his S'Ster, Mrs. A. J. WiHey, and
%mily. __ _
Mrs. S. M. Cates of Gurdon was
nere several days this week visit
ing her brothers, D. F. and E. N
Collett. __
J. U. Brown, formerly postmas
ter here but now located at Pres
~ott. was here this week visiting
Hands. _ _
Pan Taylor arrived in Huttig
rdnesday afternoon on a visit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Taylor.
A. F. Woolley and family who
have been living at Camp No. 1 for
ojveral months, have moved back
in Huttig.
Rev. J- L. King was called to his
home at Bernice, La., the first of
the week on account of illness in
his home.
Z. L. Chambless. the obliging
clerk at the Iron Mountain depot
here, is back on duty after a few
days of sickness.
Last Sund'y was the banner
Sunday for this year at the Union
Sunday school and it is hoped the
attendance will increase even more.
Joe Freeman and wife passed
here Saturday afternoon enroute
to Litroe from Shreveport where
he underwent an operation for ap
pendicitis.
Quite a number of the men who
were working for Wisconsin Lum
ber Co. before they shut down their
plant here, are working for the
Union Saw Mill Co.
A large number of the farmers
fronrvthis neighbhorhood were at
El Dorado the first of the week as
witnesses in the circuit court in the
case of the American Tie and Tim
ber Co, vs James Smith.
Since the Monroe-Womble tram
on the Iron Mountain has been
running through here on account
of the high water it has been run
ning about on time until Wednes
day evening when it wrecked near
Monroe which caused it to be sev
eral hours late Thursdiy.
Chester Byrne of Brookhaven,
Miss., who put on the "Tom Thumb
.1
Wedd ng and "Popping the Ques
tion here some time ago. delivered
his lecture Dreams and Dream
ers at Strong last Friday night to
an appreciative audience. He in
tended to deliver it here but the
revival meeting being in progress
it was postponed until a later date.
There were received at state
wide headquarters last week 2319
signatures to the prohibition peti
tion. 1 here are very nearly
enough now on file to secure the
initiation of the pet;tion, 12.800
being required, but it is the pur-J
pose of the committee to keep up^
the fight without intermission and
secure at least 50.000 names.
This wil1 make it all the stronger
before the people for the Septem
ber election.
To the Vo.'ers of Lapile Township.
As I cannot see all of you psr
sodally 1 take this method of thank
ing you for the support given me in
the primary and will endeavor to
merit your confidence in the future.
Yours very truly,
J. C. WALLACE.
3LUFF AMONG THE NEGROESj
Little Story of a Quarrel That Illus
trates Their Love of Flourish
and Poses.
Love of bluff is a curious charac- I
teristic of the negro. Sometimes the
deadly razor becomes active with a
vengeance, but. countless other times
it is merely flourished with frightful
threats and boastings of its slashing
qualities. These are vanity poses.
One night recently 1 saw a striking
living picture of this kind. 1 was
one of a crowd which got off an early
morning elevated train. A negro
quarrel was in progress in front of a |
house on the opposite side of the
street and all stopped to watch it.
One husky black was about to apply
an axe to the cranium of a smaller
negro, when an ally of the lesser one
threatened the husky individual with
a blackjack from behind. Thus it
stood—if the axe fell cn one skull
the blackjack would descend on an
other. Neither participant seemed
willing to “start anything.’’ There
was the tableau and it simply died j
away like a moving picture climax ;
on the screen.
Evidently this scene of inaction
overtaxed the patience of the dusky
spectators, for they broke the lull by
tossing beer bottles at one another.
This, too, was without ginger. .lust
its I stepped behind a telegraph pole
;o avoid the flying glass, an excited
old darkey appealed at the door and
fired a shotgun over the heads of the
disputants.
A peaceful citizen next to me was
taken to the hospital and I limned
home with bird shot in my legs. The
old man’s bluff was effective and the
careful blacks dispersed, seeking their
beds to dream of flocks of chickens
and traiuloads of watermelons.
DO NOT LEAN UPON OTHERS
Learn to Stand Alone or You Never
Will Become Strong or
Original.
Power is the goal of every worthy
ambition, and only weakness come"
from imitation or dependence on oih
era, says Orison Swett Maiden in Sue
cess Magazine. Power is self-devel
oped. self-generated. We cannot in
crease the strength of our muscles by
sitting in a museum and letting an
other exercise for us.
Nothing else so destroys the power
to stand alone as the habit of leaning
upon others. If you lean, you will
never be strong or original. Stand
alone or bury your ambition to be
somebody in the world.
The man who trl-s to give his chil
dren a start in the world so that they
will not have so hard a time as he had.
is unknowingly bringing disaster upon
them. What he calls giving them a '
start will probably give them a set- \
back in the world. Young people need
all the motive power they can get.
They are naturally leaners. imitators, j
copiers, and it is easy for them to do- ;
ve'op into echoes, imitations. They
will not walk a'one while you furnish
crutches; thev will lean upon you Just
as long as you will let them.
King Corn.
Corn, the gift, of the new world to
the old. is the king of grains. Each
year some new use is found for it.
Even after everything, seemingly, has
been extracted from it there is left
a valuable residuum known as corn
oil cake, which is sold here and
abroad and is used in the fattening of
sheep and other animals. Nearly 50.
000,000 pounds of this material are an
nually shipped to Great Britain and
Germany and there used by farmers,
who find it cheaper than materials of
a similar nature which they cau grow .
at home.
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—The story opens with a
•cream from Dorothy Marche, a charm
ing debutante, in the opera box of the
wealthy widow, Mrs. Doris Missioner, at
the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York City. It is occasioned by Mrs. Mis
sioned diamond necklace breaking and
scattering the string of rare and cosily
gems all over the floor. Curtis Griswold
and Bruxton Sands, two society men,
both of whom love Mrs. Missioner, gather
up some of the diamonds, but the gem
or the collection, the celebrated Mahar
anee. is missing. Griswold steps on the
apparent missing diamond and it crushes
under his heel. A Hindoo comes from an
adjoining box, and picking up a flake of
tie crushed gem pronounces It a fraud,
not the genuine Maharanee, but—paste.
CHAPTER II—The entire party proceed
to the elegant mansion of Mrs Missioner
where she takes them to a room having
a safe containing other diamonds. She
afterwards sends for a Mr. Rascome, »„
expert, who pronounces the stone s all j
copies, substitutions, of the original gems.
CHAPTER III- Bruxton Sands tele
phones police headquarters and two de
tectives. Donnelly and Carson, arrive on |
the scene. They examine the safe and i
decide that the theft of the original d a !
monds was accomplished by some one in j
tlie house The servants are questioned, !
but without result. Then they learn that
Miss Elinor Holcomb, the confidential
companion of Mrs. Missioner, has a dupli
cate key to the safe and they and for |
her.
CHAPTER IV—The detectives Incline to
the belief that Miss Holcomb is involved
in the robbery. They search her room
and in a cabinet, wrapped in tissue pi- j
per, they find ore- of the original dia- j
moods. Mrs. Missioner protests that i
Elim»r is guiltless, but the delicate girl j
is marched off to prison.
11 Ji.K \ — Meantime, In an up-town
mansion, th<* Hindoo of the theater episode
who is known as the Swumi. and a Hindoo
prince Kananda, discuss the arrest. They
are in the United States to recover the
Maharanee, which is a sacred relic of
India, and are puzzled at the discovery
of the imitation.
CHAPTER VI- Oetectlve Brltz. an ex
per* of the police force, now lake* up the
; ase. He interviews Elinor who is pros
trated by the cloud resting on her. The
defective evidently believes the girl inno
cent.
CHAPTER VIT—Dr. Eawrence Pif^h
the flame of Elinor, visits her in prison,
ohe is ren. inked for trtal on suspicion or'
being- the thief. Brltz talks encouragingly
to hitch and asks his co-operation in
running down the real criminal.
( HAPTER VIII—The detective advises
that Elinor does not seek bail until they
have located the real culprit. lie makes
a close investigation of affairs at the
home of Mrs. Missioner.
CHAPTER IX—Brltz learns that Mrs
Missioner while visiting Paris had the
diamonds with her. He cables the polio,
lino- and they ascertain that the dupli
°ates were made from drawings of the
original stones. The person ordering the i
subsUHites gave the name of Elinor Hol
CHAPTER X The detective has an In
tervU'w with Miss Marche He learn?*
who of Elinor’s friends can draw. He
clumsily draws a picture of the safe.
Griswold offers to assist him, showing
skill as an artist. Eater as the detective
is walking through Central Park he is
suddently seized and thrown Into a closed
automobile.
CHAPTER XI—A wild ride ensue* and
Brits finds he has been made captive by
thr^e Hindoos. He endeavors to escape
but is bound and drugged.
CHAPTER XII—His captors imprison
Brilz in a deserted house. He tinallv
manages to get free from his bonds, es
capes and reports at headquarters now
convinced that the Hindoos are materially
‘nterested In the rase,
C H APTER XIII- Pretending to he a
newspaper reporter. Brltz Interviews the
Swarrii as to the r, re diamonds of India
After he leaves the Swumi inform.
Prince Kananda that he has penetrated
.he disguise of the detective
CHAPTER XIV Mrs. Missioner visit:
Elinor in prison but is dissuaded from
balling her out until her innocence is
proven. Britz learns of an insane dia
niond expert on Ward s Island and asks
Pitch to go with him and interview th*
man.
CH APTER XV— The insane diamond ex
pert tells enough to lead the detective t<
believe that either Griswold or Sands em |
ployed him to make counterfeits of the !
M'ssioner gems.
CHAPTF-R XVI—OrlswoM. !n(*r\'!fwpil
by Hrltz. Intimules thm Sands is on the
verge of failure He evidently wtsla* the
detective Ir> helievp that hi* rival In lo\ •
may have something to do with the dla
mond robbery.
CHAPTER XVII—Two Hindoo* hurgta?
Ize the home of Hands, evidently thinking
that he may have the Maharanee dia
mond Brit* captures them and on one
discovers a note addressed in "Curtin"
and signed "Mllllienl" which thev have
found somewhere in their wandering
search for the gems.
CHAPTER XVIII The Pwnml v'sps
Mrs Mlsshmer and tries to solve the mvs
lery of the diamonds. latter at ids
own house he directs his Hindoo allies to
continue (heir search for the mysterious
ly missing gem.
CHAPTER XIX Rritz locates a woman
named Milllrent Delarm he. He learns
tt at secretly she Is affianced to Curtis
»* r: s wo I d.
Rut somethin* told him he must he
stir himself even irrtre vigorously than
he had done to date. If he was to trace
the Missioner diamonds before the
suave subtle men from the Hast could
find them and pit* them forever be
yond the reach of any Westerner.
One thing was In his favor. Undoubt
edly he had broken the Swami's line
of communication by seizing the spies
before they could roport the finding ot
the Millicent note in Sands'apartment,
lie had a vague sense that the scrap
of paper would he of immediate value
as a clue to the Rrahmin that If ho
had not intercepted It. the scholar by
now would have been close upon the
discovery of the diamonds. It remain
ed for Rritz himse'f to ascertain the
Identity and whereabouts of Millicent
before the Oriental prisoners could
communicate with their chief. Those
prisoners were s-afe enough for the
present in the Tf nderloin PoUee Sta
tion: but. although it was in the de
tective's power to prevent their im- I
mediate arraignment In the Night.
Court by a word to the precinct com
mander. he could not long keep them
in eel's. They were entitled to a
-peedy examination before he mag's- |
rratp. and he was certain that unless
their failure to report to the Swami I
should alarm that gentleman sooner, |
steps would he taken in the morning
to have the prisoners produced in
court. They were -tire to he arraign
ed in Jefferson Market at next dav’s
afternoon ses ion. It not ear'lt - Brltz
felt that, once in their pwitre. the
Swaral. though he might he separated
Iron them by the lemrb of the room,
would find means to learn all they
knew, to the last microscopic detail
He must find Millieenf that night.
That done, he had l'ule doubt he
would be close to the t 'loner jew
els. anti probably to tb< p on who
had taken them from their scan l a
bor In Mrs. Missioners library.
"I'll send for the copies, Purlen."
Rrltz said, as he slipped from the
stool and started to the door, "hut
don't let the original leave your hanos
until I call for it myself.”
The detective was so absorbed in
his thoughts as he walked down flight
after flight of the dark stairs that he
did not see a pair of eyes gleam ini’
from one of the lower hn’ls. Those
eyes were ns black as the darkness
that formed tl elr background, and the
teadquarcers man would have been
even more than ordinarily on the alert
if he had seen them glistening In the
remote recess. As the detective passed
on toward the street, the eyes ad
vanned along the dusk of the hall, arm
in the faint g'ow of a lowered gas jet
at the foot cl one of the higher flight'
of stairs, there hccame visible behind
them a man who. in most respects,
was a counterpart o' the two Orientals
at that moment detained In the West
Thirtieth Street Station. The owner
of the eyes, while Pritz walked dow n
stairs, as (ptickly and far more quiet Ij
went tin.
Pritz turned hi« steps toward 300
Mttlb'rry Srroet. In hit own ofee,
after a glance Into Manning's room
that showed him it was empty, he call
ed Dr Fftch on 'he telephone turn
made an appointment to meet htin in
two hours in the bar of the Holland
House.
"It’s one of the quietest places In
She Had Known for a Long Time That
Sands Was in Love With Her.
Manhattan," rnti the detective. "and
I want to ta'k 10 you very privately.
They are net likely to know me
there.”
Rritz pushed a button, and when a
Headquarters attendant appealed
sent him for th» Central Office man
w hom, next to himself, he tt listed
most.
' Send down to Rurlen's plane In an
hour and a half, Rawron " said Brit?
to the other detective. "He'll have a
hundred facsimiles of a letter signed
Mlilleent Have as many men as pos
sible pet busy among the horpls I
want to trace the woman who wro'e
that signature. They will have to look
through every register for a year past
It’s got to he done tborongh'y, and 1
want it done quickly. Here. I'll give
you a list.” and he hastily scribbled
the names of a half-hundred ho'telries
of a class such as he thought the lair
Millirent might patroni7e
"What time will I see you?” asked
Rawson.
"If I'm not hark in three hours. I’ll
call you up." said the detective.
Then, having arrived at a pause In
the pursuit of the jewels, he haste’ ed
to a Turki-h hath, where, being a lit
tie weary from much mei ronn'lt-in
Journeying and muscle-bound front toss
Was a Counterpart of the Two Orien
tale.
of sleep, he ha"? himself baked. steam
ed, chilled, kneaded, and pounded into
shape.
"iTie great detective's Indulgence tn
that luxury ail unknowingly gave to
the other side an advantage in the
race for the Mlssioner Jewels that well
might prove fatal to his success. Long
before Fritz reached the hot-air room
oi the bath, the iran with the glisten
ing eves who had passed hint in tl e
hail of the tumh'edown loft building
was at the door of Hurlen's workshop,
straining the angle of his vision to fol
low the photo-engraver at work. Those
glittering eves forcused their gaze
hrough the keyhole on a piece of pa
per which Burlen had fastened with
'humbtacks to a board, and which. In
the glare of an arc lamp, confronted a
big camera with a powerful tens. Al
though the eyes followed Burlen as
well as they could about the room,
their owner was not so much interest
ed in the artisan's activity as he was
In the small white sheet of paper on
which he could discern lines traied in
a woman's hand. Patiently waited the
owner of the oy< s He was ol a race
that had cultivated patience through
the centuries. Soon or late, undoubt
edly. the man inside would go from
the bench beside that grpat white
light to another part of the room. A
few yards would srfPce for the man
with the eyes, and even whi'e Brit*
still was talking to Rawron in Police
Headnuarters. Burlen btiskly covered
'hose dozen or so feet to get a chem
"ai in the inn of botles tn the rack
it the far end of the shop The man
outside crouching until he was little
higher thin an uurepred cobra of hit
• alive land, slipped through the door
way. crawled aero; s the intervening
pace between the threshold and the
camera, whisked the Mllllcent note
rout the board, and ns sBently made
ii.~ escape be'ore Burlen had replaced
he cork in the bottle By the tfm<
Detectivp Lieutenant Britz was en
ve’oped in the fog of tile steam room
lint little note was in the possession
'•f the Swuml and Prince Kananda
Hid those worthies were studying it
n swiftly and so profitably that ere
Mid tho Maharajah's son made a
■witter. deeper dive toward the hear
if lho Missioner mystery. It was as
a rf'siilt of what they learned from
viUirent's missive that the Swaml
nd rhe Prince went separately to thf
ballroom of Doris Mlssloner's most
"ashlonable friend. It was also Ir.
npsequenoe of the information glean
'1 from those petulant feminine lines
that the Swanil found Mrs Missioner’s
oeiety so interesting and that thr
Prinee. before and after that tete-a
'efe. experienced keen curiosity con
periling the doings, characteristics
aid state of mind 01 Curtis Griswold
The thCd result, of MlUleent's littlr
'otter and the Easterners' joint visit
to the Fifth Avenue ballroom, wa,
heir ria-h in separate rahs to a bach
elov apartment in a side street jus*
off Central Park, where, shortly after
their several arrivals, they were in
c’ose eonsu'tation tor an hour or mor*
with All. the supposedly devoted re
tainer of the rich Mrs. Missioner.
For the second note fe Cords C"i
wold thpf fell Info the hands of the
Ff'ndnos—Ihp one Prince Kananda in
tercepted at the door nt the Filth Ave
ntie mansion In which tbe great hail
was held was written on a letterhead
"hit revealed to Sandy and the
Swaml an address thev ve-y much de
sired to kt'ow Had that address fend
Its way f<* Deiective-T.ieii'ennnt Rri’s
ns soon, ft would have saved him
much delay, and would have spared a
large part of the city’s detective iurce
the necessity of a laborious search
through Manhattan's hotel registers.
Burien was one of the most aston
ished yruing men in 'otter Manhattan
when, turning from his row o' l.ottlea,
h-> found the nnie entrusted to him by
Prtt7. had vanish’d. At first he as
and that ft had fa'len to the floor. A
quirk hunt showed hurt he was wrong.
He extended his search to every part
of the room, and it v. as not until he
had disturbed the dust of ages that
he realized the snap of paper actually
was pane. fits sensations following
1 hat realization were rot of the pleas
antest. Rritz was one oi his lest cus
tomers. ami he knew from the detec
tives earnestness the note was of ex
ceptional Importance It solaced him
only in part to find on taking the plate
from the camera and putting it
through a deve oping process that the
Ions had done its work more faithfully
than he lie he'd in Ills hand a perfect
duplicate of the letter. That would
not satlrfv Rritz, of course, but it was
better than it would have been if the
note had disappeared oetore the photo
graphing was complete. Rttrlen hasten
to subject the lit'.le piatc of copper to
the acid bath, and as the minute
poin's of the halftone came out with
riRtit vine distinctness, the young man
rejoiced that he at least was able to
produce the facsimiles the Headquar
ters man had ordered. Remorse
spurred him so effectively that all the
hundred impressions were readv when
haw son sent for then) Half an hour
atterward, as many detectives were
comparing the halftone prints with
the signatures of all the Milllcents In
the registers of New York's more
fas-hionatve hotels.
Rritz. as fit as a fiddle after his par
boiling. walked briskly to the marble
lobby of the Holland Home and join
ed Pitch in the bar. That hotel is not
patronized by the Plight Light sot,
one reason bring that it sturdily re
pels all attempts at such patronage.
Half a dozen men of undoubted fa h
ion were in the cafe when Rritz and
Fitch draped themselves over one end
ot the liar, and began absorbing loner,
< o'd drinks in punctuation of their in
let ested ink
"We're getting warm, as the yourg
sters say." said Rritz, and he tod
him of nil that bail happened sin a
th»lr last meeting "Your young lady
won't have to stay in th“ Tombs mtteh
longer. I’m thinking, unless we have
a stroke of bad look. Vni puzzled on
one point, however, and that's wha* I
wanted to see von about. What do
von know a! out Pruxton Sands'.'”
”! know he’s all right." Huh re
plied. "One of Hie best ever.”
“Known him long’"
Several years. I was forfunaie In
the case of a bred her of his. and that
made me pretty solid with the who a
family. Pruxton has done me several
good turns.”
"You think that square look of his
Is rot a front, thee?" inquired the de
tective.
"No," said the doctor, who fallen
more at his ease with the detect;\e
than he would have dreamed of doing
wi'h any of his fashionable patients.
"He's the goods.' ’’
“Well,” rejoined the s'.eurh, “I’m
glad to hear you say so I don’t mind
telling you he made me a little sus
picious this evening I must say that
for an honest man his attitude was a
little queer.”
“In what way?”
"Weil,” said Hrltz. “he wouldn't let
me see a hit of paper that might have
he'ped me a whole lot in this matter;
and just for a moment 1 began to won
der whether he was as eager to have
the Mlssioner mystery solved as lie
pretended to be "
“There's no pretense about Rrux-nn
Sands." said Fitch very positive'v.
"He does want this thing straightened
out. and he wouldn't do anything ‘n
any wav. If lie could help It, to bind r
you,"
Hrltz then told the physician mors
fuPy how stubborn Sands had b en
In regard to the note the millionaire
himself had taken from one of the
Hindoo burglars.
"1 II admit it seemed strange.” sr'd
fitch. F'uit if .von gn on the assumo
Hon there is anything wrong behind
It. you'll lose your point. Sands is as
square as they make 'em "
You don't think, then," asked the
detective, “it is possible h*s infati.a
tion for Mrs. Missloner would le d
him to do anything to queer his riv
als?"
‘Mo»t assuredly not." , Fit oh.
"In the first place. he Is not InfatupN
etl. Rruxton R^nds Is gepulre’v in
love with Doris Mlssinper, and hr is
the hind of man who knows the ?c-t.
of woman he wants. In the ne-t
place he wou'dn't dream of doing an",
thing underhand, even if he ssw thnt
!he other fellow was undoubtedly win
ning out. He always plays the game ”
“Well, maybe he does," said Britt!;
"hut, from w'hat I've observed In my
fourney through life, this love gr.ma
Is one that is plavrd without ati»
rules. I've knnwti men who would take
a million if it were handed to them on
a p'atter, yet who'd go pretty close to
a mix-up with the Grand Jury to cut
out a fellow' who was after the same
girl.”
"You talk as If your experience ‘n
the heart lire were all second-hand.”
said Fitch, smiling.
"Never been In love In mi" life and
never expect to be,” said Rritz. "Rut
hind them. T also know what women
'■an do to a. mnn’s common sense even
when they don’t know they're dol'g
It. The lady who gets the loot Isn't
alwavs a par's- to the crime."
"Well.” responded Fitch, “i won’t
undertake to pit niv experitnee
g-lnst yours: hut there's nothin, of
hat spr* in this ease Sands loves
Mrs. Ml u inner shout a* much a-- a
t’sn can He was fond of her b’rore her
•nsTr-'e-v and most of us thought he'd
win her then. 1 don't know why be
4idnT, but 1 do know that from the
Jay he learned of her husband's
death, he had betn twice as attentive
to her as before, and even In the days
when she wraa the star bud of Auntie
Paran's beauty show, his fondness for
her was pretty noticeable. I remem
ber particularly one Patriarchs' Ball
when he grabbed every dance on her
card and got her to sit out most of
thorn.''
"But he knows Griswold is trying
to win h«r. too," said Rritz. "and If he
has any reason to think the other fel
low lias a good chance he might be
tempted to put him down and out.
even If he had to go to such lengths
as taking the Missioner diamonds, and
then throwing suspicion on Urts
wo’d ?"
"Not a bit of It!” exclaimed Fitch.
"1 tell you. the man la dead square.
He wouldn’t do anything of that kind
if Mrs. Mlssioner were the only wom
an In the world, as she really Is, so
far as he is coneerned. You donit
know Rruxton Sands the way I do. He
may be short on conversation, hut,
he's long on honor. He plays the
game right out on the gridiron with
out any monkey business on the side
lines, and you can just hank on that!"
Brltz raised his glass and drank
slowly, meditative’}’, until the lee
chilled his nose. Then he sit the
tumbler firmly down or. the bar. faced
Fitch, and said with an air of finality:
"If that's the case. Griswold's the
man! He may have had assistance
from Blodgett, but 1 doubt It. Has
too toxy to trust his neck to a serv
ant. As for All, I thought he might
have turned the trick, but he didn't,
because If he had. he and all the test
oi that Calcutta bun. h w ould lie well
on their way toward their heathen
temples by this time. There is now
on'v Mr. Curtis Griswold to eomlder."
Fitch looked at him wt h a per
plexed air. He had his own thought*
In regard to the Identity of the thief,
but he recognized the detective's su
perior ability In solving the mystery
and. being a scientist, he had an open
mind.
"What causes you to suspect him?"
he asked.
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