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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1908-04-30, Page 6J 'Trio, ' WINGIIAI& TIMES, ,A.I'IRii'a 30, 1908 Canadian 'lair Restorer The _.— Marathon Mystery .A ,Story of Manhattan By BURTON E. STEVENSON a Author of "The fiolladay Case" Lcpyr,he. 1904. by fjenry Holt and Company 4 amemanianummoomo Then suddenly her face changed. "So here you are," I :aid, "ready to She swayed and caught at the rail for go back to that St. Pierre you love support. So much, Aren't you glad?" "She's going to faint, p.ardieu!' said "Ob, very glad," she answered, with Tremalne. t single listless glance at me. "I shall But she did not faint Instead she ,never come back to this horrible made a funnel of her hands and shout - place." ed a last message back a,: ns. "And Tremaine will join you In tWO Tremaine nodded as tho..'h he un, •,Weeks," I added. derstood and waved his hand. This time she looked at me -a light- '+Did you catch what she saki?" he , :ping flash -a glance that brought back asked. vividly my dream, "No, not a word of it. Tbat tag over "Will he?" she asked between her there whistled just then." :teeth. "I caught the word 'lit.' She prdba- "Why," I questioned, in affected sur- bly wants to. know how many she'll &prise, "don't you think he will?' have to get ready, but no matter," and She drew in her breath with a gniok be turned tb me with an expressive ;gasp. little shrug. "What does it matter? I'm only a "Why? Isn't the committee really tile -de -couleur. I shall laugh and for- stelae to Martinique?' get like all the others," and, indeed, a strange unnatural excitement had come into her face. I saw her eyes devouring Tremaine ..as he approached. "Everything is arranged," he said ,cheerily, shaking bands with me. "Here •are the checks, Cecily. Now take us down to your stateroom and do the .honors." "As you please, doudoux," she an- swered quietly, and led the way. It was a very pleasaut cabin, one of the best on board, rind I saw that some of her personal belongings were already seattered about it. Against the het water pipe in one corner was hanging Ise Fe's cage. A curtain had been tied .aboitt it to protect its tender occupant from the cold. "I see you're taking Fe Fe with you," I remarked. "To be sure she is," said Tramaine. "She knows the snake would starve to death if she left it with me. But we must drink. to a good voyage." IIe rose and touched the electric but- ton. Cecily followed him with eyes ,gleaming like two coals of fire. Look- ing at her, I felt a vague uneasiness - did she have concealed in the bosom of ;her gown that same revolver -was she only waiting a favorable moment? "The first toast is yours, Mr. Lester," :said Tremaine, as he filled the glasses. "To Cecily!" I cried. "Ilei health, :long life and happiness!" "Thank you, che," she said simply, :.and very gravely, and we drank it. Just then a bell sounded loudly from the deck and a voice shouting com- mands. . "Come, we must be going," said Tre- •'maine, rising hastily. "That% the shore bell." • I passed out first, and for an instant held my breath, expecting I know not •what -a? dull report -a scream. But ;in a moment they came out together. Tremaine and I made a rush for the •gang plank., while Cecily again took up 'her station against the rail. We wav- .ed to her and waved again, shouting got against him. ''Salty, 1t'>s no ease at all! Tbeorizing's All very well, but what a jury wants is evidence --plain, straight out, direct evidence --and we haven't enough of that to build a cob- web. X thought I'd. toned some yes- terday afternoon, but it was all the effect of self induced hypnosie," and I told bitn of my visit to Sing Sing. ]IIe listened with intent face. "I'm not so sure it was hypnosis," he said, when I had finished. "At least, I'll have a look at those p' )to - graphs myself before I accept tat theory. In fact, I rather think it's ].'remain who has hypnotized you, not 1." "I don't believe he's gt:ilty," I re- peated. "Then who is?" Jecily!" I said bluntly. "I believe she's the one who killed Thompson, anyway." "Where's your ,evidence?" haven't any," I said helplessly; "only a kind of intuition." "Well, I've the same kind of intuition it was Tremaine." .' "But we haven't any evidence ugaiust him, either;, not a shred of real, direct, convincing evidence." "Perhaps not," he agreed, "but we're gniug to get its -enough to convict him and some to spare." "Convict hint of what?" "Of two murders and one r< abery." Then you believe he's implicated in this b;dlePmere afrnlr?" ._ "Oh, a couple of engineers are go- ing to look over the ground and re- port." a.,;. "And you?" "I shall stay here." He waved his handkerchief again at the receding boat, thou passed it across his fore- head. "That takes a big load off my mind, Mr. Lester, I tell you, to get her safely off and be alive to tell the tale. I rather expected her to stick a knife into me last night. 1 made a great mis- take in bringing her with me.",, "But I thought you said"-' • "Oh, they do. laugh and forget in time, but just at first they naturally feel bad. Now, before the voyage Is over I dare say Cecily will have an- other doudoux-some I andsane creole returning home, perhaps. She's a mag- nificent woman, just the same," he added. "That she is," I agreed, and threw a . your client?" last look down the river. `Against Drysdale, by a personal investigation of the prem- TheI answered, lues. rsounhat's why we're going to Ed- boat was almost hidden by• the "the evidence seems to be unusually mere.'•' morning mist In a Mei:bent more it complete."'night have used a stronger "Godfrey," I said, "there seems to me had quite disappeared, bearing Cecily, )lstr its to be one great objection to your theory " "I'm sure at it" "But there isn't a shred of evidence against him," I protested again, com- ing back to my old objection. Really. Godfrey was allowing his prejudices to carry -1)1m too far. "Not a shred, apparently," he assent- ed readily. . • "Well, then, how" - "Here's the lauding," he interrupted. "We can talk it over on the train." We left the boat and hastened across to the station. The train was waiting the word to start and was in motion a moment after we stepped aboard. There were not many passengers, for the morning travel is toward the city, not. from it, and we Iiad no difficulty In finding a seat where we could talk without fear of being overheard. "Now," began Godfrey, "as you say, there isn't a shred of evidence, appar- ently, against Tremaine. How about Will restore gray hair to its natural color, Stops falling hair, causes to grow en bald hauls. Cures d andrutt', itching, scalp diseases, 1);f Its use thin hair grows luxuriantly. Contains, no oily or grew: y ingredients. Is entirely unlike any ether hair prepa.a• tato ever oiZered for sale. A good, reliable Canadian preparation. '1Insolteited Testimonials. Edith A. Burke, Missionary II. M. Church t h1iimiin, Egypt, and friends, greatly pleasecj Whit results atter two years'using, L. A. Hopes, Wilner, Montana. My hair color, dark of t and whiskers restored tonatural brown, by using Canadian Bair Restorer. M. Oram, Iiat•,essvilie, Ont. Canadian Hair ' the Lost 1 have over used. John G. 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We know that Tre- maine Is a criminal, and, therefore, capable of this crime. We suspect that he needs money, and the necklace would place him out of need for a long time to come. We know that he was within reach of the spot where the murder was committed, if he could get away from Delroy for an hour or so. In other words, we have a motive and the physical possibility of guilt, I may add that I think we shall find he had some reason to injure Drysdale -I'm sure we shall, in fact." "But the button -the pistol -Drys - dale's uneeplained absence?" "Those, points can only be cleared up Restorer is t storm came up, when I Went back to the house and, up to my room. No- body saw me. I spoke to nobody after I left Graham until I returned to the house. There's only my own word for it. What Was the use of telling the Police it story like that?" "No use at all," agreed Godfrey hastily. Tin glad you didn't tell it, But what on earth possessed you to behave in such a crazy fashion?" "That," answered Drysdale, still more quietly, "is one question which, X must absolutely refuse to answer." to death, a fortnight later, in the shadow of Pelee. And I doubt I I shall ever know another woman like her. aas ,the waved back at ads. goedbys as the last rope was cast loose and the steamer began to move away from the clock. She. waved back at us and kissed her hands, looking very beautiful• CHAPTER XXIV. HEN I opened the office door. twenty minutes atter, I was surprised to find Godfrey just within, in close conference with ear. Royce "Here he is!" ho cried. "No, no; don't take off your coat; don't even take off your hat! Come along; it's a mighty close thing now," and he caught me by the arm. "It's all right, Lester," said our junior, seeing my astonished couute-' nance. "Mr. Godfrey will explain on the way out" That was enough; I needed nda sec- ond ec elety m and bidding and ran after Godfrey to means that it has been artificially pro -I could he propose marriage to her sis the elevator. At the curb a cab was ter? That was a rock, as yet unseen waiting and we lumped into it. (duced, like a stage storm where the s lightning flashes at just the right in- stant. n- by its, which loomed ahead -which we "James slip," called Godfrey, and in aut. The fellow who arranged it could not avoid -upon which our theory, an instant we were off. wanted to be too sure. IIe overleaped must inevitably be dashed to pieces. The driver seemed to realize the need of haste, for we bumped over the pay- I himself." The train flashed past two or three ing stones at a prodigious rate, thread- "That may all be true," I said slow- big hotels, then the braked were ap- ing the dirty streets and finally pulling 11 after a moment, plied. up;;witli a whirl in the shadow: of Brooklyn bridge. "Come aen!" cried Godfrey, and we' crossed the ferry house at a jump, theh jump, The Famous pedestrian phrase. It's not only complete, consummately perfect. Not a link is that Tremaine killed Thompson. If Missing. ale was on the spot; his re- I Miss Croydon saw him do it, would volver is annul near by with blood on she consent to associate with him? it; a button from his coat is in the l Wouldn't her very knowledge of his dead man's hand; wheu he returns to crime give her a greater hold on "him the house he 10 risibly disturbed; at than he has on her sister?" the moment of his arrest he was pre- He paused to turn this over. • "Yes," he admitted at last; "it would; paring to escape; he refuses to ex- A''es, plain where he was at the time the • but a woman might not think of that." crime was committed; hes involved in I "A desperate woman would think of everything," I said, "and if your theory is right, both she and her sister must be very desperate." He nodded without answering, and very perfection is its greatest weak- sat staring before him, bis. brows ness. It's too perfect. Any one of knitted in perplexity. those things might have happened; 1. There was one couclusive objection I perhaps any two of them; but that !, might have urged, had I known of it - they should all have happened out- • but I was not yet possessed of the rages the law of probabilities. That i story of the house party. If Tremaine 1' 1- of the chain is complete I was the husband of Airs. Delroy, how w CHAPTER ZXV. kl sat' looking et him a moment in silence. It was evident • that he was suffering some exquisite mental anguish, though I suspected, somehow, that it Was not because of his imprisonment. There was something deeper than that; something that touched him more closely. "Oh, come, Sack," protested God- frey, at last, "this is no time to put on the high and mighty. You don't seem to realize what an exceedingly serious position you're in." "1 know one thing, Godfrey," re - tune); Drysdale, with a forced smile, "and that is that I didn't kill Graham nor steal the ueeklace. So I know they can't convict me." "I wouldn't be too sure of it. Things li'.;e that happen occasionally. How aid Graham get bold of that button oft your raincoat;" "1'm sure I don't know" "You wore the coat that evening?" "Yea." "And the button was ou It?" "Yes. I'd have iniesed it if it hadn't been. Begldes, I buttoned the coat up whey 1 started back to the house." Godfrey's Yaoe flushed, and his eyes beettn to glisten. •'You're sure, then, that it was on the coat when you returned to the house?" steel speculation and presumably needs ready money." "Well?" "Well," said Godfrey earnestly, "that "but it would be worse than folly to use that argument "Here's Babylon," said Godfrey, roes - worse a jury. To say that a man isn't ing himself from the profound reverie guilty because the evidence against into which my question. had thrown him appears to be conclusive"- him. We'll look in upon the prisoner "We're not going to use it to a jury. first and cheer him up a bit." slammed our tickets into c opp We're using it between ourselves, in an . - effort to find a working hypothesis. 1 i The jail was only a short distance and sprang aboard the boat just as it ; was casting loose. And here's another argument which from the station, and a five minutes' "That was a close shave," said God would carry no `weight with a jury, yet •i walk brought us to it. fret', sinkinginto the nearest seat and which with me, personally, is concha I "We're here in behalf of Mr. Drys- takiug oft his hat. sive: I know Jack Drysdale. I've dale," Godfrey explained to the jailer, I sat down beside him and mopped ; known him for a long time, and I know i "This is Mr. Lester of Graham & Royce away the perspiration. I bad need of I that it's utterly impossible that he of New York, who have been retained all my breath for a moment, but at last 1 should have committed such a crime.; to defend him. I suppose we may see sibly have done it." I managed to blurt out a question. , ; ? lie's not a very original, fellow,, not at him?" "What's it all about?" , , 1 he said, "Why not?" ill a geulu 3. lies never done .—-, '�j'll take in your cards,""Because he didn't lean°e the house; "Well," began Godfrey, putting on,. thin perhaps, rvillcii either o„ui of er looking us over. "I Mr, Drys was - his hat again anti looking &Fate with ai would think really worth doing; but ' da e'«'ants „,,, see yoal.t''s a 1 right, bud so bayiselro�•says. kMitt now rise � there quizzical smile, "in the first place the , he's kind and honest and gentle rind you'll be the first ones" back I saw him sitting by his lighted eminent and widely known firm of honorable, I repeat that u crimtIke i lsap eared into an inner room; . „ Graham & Royce has been engaged tae 1 this is as far beyond his lioritioii' ea it le ; •�; ' g e-� window, writing apparently, John Tolbert Drysdale nc w p th I'm sure than' w e Cart e t i f v d th 'Gentlemen: - 4'T was a martyr to catarrh of the head, throat and stomach. 1 was so bad the doctors feared consumption. I tried many physicians and medie.ines. A friend suggested Psycliino. I tried it and it was the only thing ever dial me any good. I am now perfectly well. 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Ite came forward with „ -He stopped suddenly and colored, and get the case ready. baud outstretched as soon ns be saw 1 ., 'Si'oI nodded.';."Yes, I read elf the Tell. Out with it." case in last night's papers. But Mr.. r i Godfrey. "I just happened to think that per - "This is mighty kind of you, Jim," I haps that fool of a coroner's got it. Drysdale has never, I think, been a A client of ours. How did he happen td' choose us?" "He didn't; 1 chose you. I wanted him to have the best in the market" "Thanks," I said, coloring a little. "But bow did the office come to take the case? We're always rather shy of criminal eases, you know." "Yes, I know you are. But If chinned your junior a bit." "That explains it!" I said, laughing. "Of course we'll do our best for him." "You'll acquit him," said Godfrey, with eou'Viction. "I was at Boston yesterday, or I'd have gone down to' Ilabylon at once and taken you with ole." "'T'hen I shouldn't have got to say goodby to Cecily." "To Whom?" 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