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CHAPTER 1
;Wilton Stoddard arose unsteadily
from the round table and stood weav-
ing slightly in his tracks as he con-
fronted his companions.- His face was
pale, white save for the dark pouches
that hung underneath his eyes, and
his hand quivered like a wind -thrum-
med reed as he pointed one finger like
a ,hostile pistol at Grayford who sate
Apposite. And at Stoddard's ominous
_ uprising the other three sitters at
the table slid back in their seats and
gripped their chair -arms with the
watchful nervousness of men who half
expect a sudden exchange of fierce
blows in their midst; while the other
loungers who happened to be near
ceased their talk and eyed the table
expectantly. Then Stoddard's voice
shaken by anger and much strong
drink broke the silence.
"Grayford, you lie and you know
that you lie."
The thick neck of the one addressed
swelled at the words and his skin took
on a purplish hue. "By heavens, I'll
not permit any man—" he. began as
his hand closed about the .knob of his
whip -like walking stick. But Stod-
dard's voice snapped the sentence in
twain as scissors snap thread,
"You will permit anything I choose
to say. To -day you shall listen to
me in silence, as I have silently listen-
ed to you in the months past. And
mind you what I say, Grayford, I'll
tolerate no further attacks by you up-
on myself ,,be they made openly or
through the ambush of repetition. You
have said that I was a drunkard and
I let it pass, for whether a man is
drunk or not is largely a matter of
personal opinion. You have sneered at
me as a gambler and I did not resent
it, though I have bet no more and no
oftener than do half the members of
this club. You have openly charged
that I was a disgrace to this organiza-
tion where none but gentlemen are
supposed to enter, -and I was silent.
But when you accuse me of trifling
with the love of good women I say,
Grayford, you lie."
An inarticulate sound came from
Grayford's lips, a gurgling intake of`
his breath between set teeth as h
arose to his feet with his stick=grip-
ped tightly. Whether he was about
to strike the roan before him or
whether he merely sought to leave his
presence in peace none who saw him
get upon his feet felt sure, but Stod-
dard, suddenly snatching up the heavy
match receiver that stood upon the
little table in the nook, drew back his •
arm and hurled the Missile violently
at the arising man. Just above the
eye it struck him and the onlookers
saw a strip of white suddenly show on
.. his forehead as the projectile cut the
scalp and then, glancing, crashed in
fragments against the opposite wall.
Grayford threw up his ,hands with a
gurgle and fell heavily -backward, -
Fronr all sides arose exclamations
of dismay as the dull thud of the fall-
ing body sounded in their ears; then
they quickly gathered and bent over
it—aIl save the one who had dealt
the blow and who still stood white
and weaving, with his eyes fastened
upon his fallen enemy. Blood was
streaming from the cut upon the fore-
head and the -body lay in a position
that was not pleasant to look upon.
Quickly they straightened him out -to
his full length and ministered to him
as. best they knew how, chafing his
wrists with their palms and dashing
water in his face; but he still remain-
ed limp and breathless, with his gray
- eyes wide open and staring uncannily
into those of the one who had felled
hire. Then Price who had dabbled in
physics, opened e fallen man's shirt
basorn and plac dl his ear above his
heart. For a moment he listened in-
tently and then arose with a gray face
which he turned upon Stoddard.
"Yea have killed him," he said cold-
ly..
The one accused swayed more zfiol-
ently, staggered and seemed about to
fall as the other man had done; then
his wandering hands fourid the rim of
the- table and he grew steadier. "No
no," he gasped in a voice that sound-
ed as faint and hollow as though it
had come from a man coopered up in
a cask or deep in a well. "It can't
be that. He is only stunned—knocked
out, you knew." He stepped forward
and looked close into the eyes of the
prostrate one, while a great horror
seemed to slowly freeze his vitals.
"Hold that man and telephone for
a physician and the pollee," cried a
voice from the rear. And at. thistle
words Stoddard, witi the start of a
wild animal thatears the sadden
onrush of an enemy, traightened him-
self and stood ten and alert, all
tremblings. gone and the glitter of
desperation, in his ;eyes. The fierce
at
first instinct of prorilial man who
found himself face to face with deadly
danger arose surging within him; and
like primordial rear .he stood l efi re
them watchful and threatening, con-
scious only that he would fight to the
bitter end should they seek to lay
hands upon. him. ;And though they
knew' he was but the shell of his
former self, the wild look in. his eyes
and the vivid reiiembrance of his
past prowess awed them, and they
made no move as rhe slowly backed
away froth them and towards the door.
And having. reached it ` and standing
with one hand upon the knob, he for
an instant stood facing those who for
years had been his closest friends,
now turned his " most ;dangerous
enemies; then turning the latch dart-,
ed down the flight of marble steps and
plunged into the crowd of the street.
At the first corner'
he turned to the
right,' and passing through a hotel.
lobby left it and entered another street;
ran down an alley and emerging from
that cast .himself more slowly into
the current of the great gulf -stream
that swept solidly through the human
sea of the city. With a hundred
thousand human beings around him to
screen his tall figure he adapted his
stride to the pace jof the stream as
he drifted aimlessly i onward with eyes
staring straight ahead and brain
whiffling dizzily. And then with the
realization that imminent danger was
past, his steadiness; vanished and the
palsy of reaction to k its place. His
knees grew weak beneath him, his
hands shook and Ini muttered as he
walked, with the unintelligible utter-
ances of one who tries to talk in his and that his black despair of the last looked at him with the dull,-uncompre-
slee as his brain,' befuddled again ! hour had been but a hideous nightmare hen ing stare of one who totally fails
now that the excitement was past, that his heart leaped strongly within to utderstand the meaning of familiar
clumsily began arranging the order him and h walked the street more words grouped into an unfamiliar
formula, while Stoddard, dropping his
of things which he ;must next do. ' y eyes to the bundles she carried, saw
Already the cringing guilt of the ng s p p r
fugitive was upon him, and as a fa- that it 'Was a soiled satin dress, fes-
miliar face passed he dodged as if tooried with cheap -lace and wrapped
struck at .and went by with averted about by a flowing vei1,--her wedding
eyes,' when but an hour before 'he finery beyond almost the shadow of a
would have stopped and held out his doubt. The silver- was still clutched
hand. A woman whom he had 'known in his hand, and acting upon the im-
nearly all .his life sniiled at him from p p d pulse of the moment he dropped it
the crowd, and his knees smote each upon the dress and brushed by her into
other as he fumbled for his hat to �, f ld t h' h the street. She .did not call after him
return the salutation. Yet she was d to thank him, she uttered no word of
one of the few who had defended recognition of his charity and he did
him valiantly through all, as -she ly, d not look around to see the result of
stoutly maintained that he was not p, p ed d ' d his hasty almsgiving, Money was - the
lost, but only for the moment gone
astray. From behind him he heard
a voice . that held the merciless sting
of Grayford's, and he leaped aside at
the sound and turned at bay in a
nearby entrance until he realized that
Grayford's voice was forever stilled,
4Then he leaned against the wall and
covered his face with his hands, like
a man who has gaged into -the eyes
of death from a yerd's distance and
would» shut out what he . saw there.,
When he looked up, a minute later a
dozen loiters were staring at him with
the insolent vulgarity of curbstone -
loafers, and he gathered himself to-
gether and passed rapidly on.
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had paid the usurious debt of the
law: Under the statutes his homicide
"had been clearly ''of the second sort.
He had not .intended to .kill or even
conscience because of the difference
of the Mice or hair, while he, -no more
giaiilty than they, Must become a con-
vict: Anoith►en goad unxiol1ed itself
to seriously 'hurt; yet he bad used a before `hien, as his thoughts ran one a
-deadly weapon in wrath and when road that led not to destruction but to
neither .defending his •ovnt life or body = life, to effort, to reparation, and turn -
from
' great Harm or even believing ing his back upon the blue -coated
life or limbs were in great' jeopardy. giant of the crossing he went swiftly
For an hour he sat by the window..as away.
he racked his - brain for a single ray ' He entered a lesser street which had
of hope; then as the afternoon wore been' abandoned to the under -world,
thin and melted into evening, hope where Chinese restaurants and cheap
came in a wild thought. Upon the clothing stores flying three gilded balls
streets the newsboys were shouting . were upogi every side, and entered. one
their wares, and Stoddard leaping to of the latter places. From the counter
his feet went bounding down the steps he selected a rough, ill-fitting suit of
that led outside. Surely Grayford i workingman's clothes worth a dozen
had been only stunned after all. An dollars at the most and in exchange
all -wise Providence having taught 'him for them and a handful of silver gave
an unforgettable ` lesson, , had in its his own apparel which had cost a full
infinite mercy intervened and, granted hundred. At the -doorway in passing
him one last chance for the redemp- out he nearly Collided with a care
tion of soul . and body. So convinced faced young woman and drew aside
did he become that this must be so, I with a brief sentence of apology. She
LIFT OFF CORNS9
Apply few drops then lift sore,
touchy corns off with
fingers
With every minute it came to him
more insistently that he must get off
these streets and into some private
refuge. Thousands of people of whose
very existence he had no knowledge,
knew him by sight. , Of all the famed
athletes of the great university which
lay beyond the city, he in his day had
been the most noted and the one who
had oftenest brought it victory. Just
ahead of him he saw the sign of a
Cheap hotel, and into the place he
went and registered under a name
which was not his own, after which he
fe`llowed a bell -boy to the room allot-
ted him. ` Locking the door he threw
himself upon the bed. -
Doesn't hurt a' bit t� ' Drop a little
Freezone on an aching corn, instantly
that corn stops hurting, them you lift
right out. Yes, magic i
A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a
"few cents at any drug store, but is suffi-
cient to remove every hard corn, set
corn, or corn between the toes, and the
,calluses, without soreness or irritation.
Freezone is" the sensational discovery
oI g �cinuatx geeius L �t is ndprful_
Slowly his_; mind wandered along
the crooked trail of the past. As
though he lived it again he saw his
boyh,000d life at home; the death of
hisParents; his inheritance of his
father's fortune and his years at
college when his name was a by -word
for physical might and good fellow-
ship—when all womankind smiled up-
on him and all men delighted to do
him honor. Then when his books had
been laid aside, the l aimless, drifting,
and occasional drinking bouts'that had
merged so imperceptibly into steady
tippling and his sinking to the level
of the rarely sober club. lounger. Af-
terwards how one by One, by pairs and
by whole companies his former friends
had turned their backs upon him until
only a score of the loyal remained—
and the only because they must
pardon his vice in the name of their
own. Even in his club, the e one
could.. do almost as one wille; be had
been daily ignored or almos openly
insulted by innuendoes that lie could
not resent. And now realizmg that
he was only tolerated there by reason
of thepast, he had more than once
written his resignation and sat fumbl-
ing it with nervous hands, only to
finally tear it to shreds and arise with
the fierce resolve that his manhood
should triumph and that he would a-
gain stand with his shoulders squared
among- his fi;iendsl 'Yet month by
month the old life had gone on until
—the tears welled from his eyes and
his fingers buried themselves like
talons in the coverlet as his half
wrecked nerves shook him from head
to! foot. The .stimulus of the liquor
that he had drunk earlier in the day
had passed and he was as weak as
a child; shaking and; numb of brain
when now of all times he should be
alert and keen -witted. Arising he
went to the telephone and ordered
whisky, and when it ::came gulped it
down eagerly. It steadied him instant-
ly and swept the fog from from his brain
as a keen wind sweeps the mist from
the sea. Once more he could reason
logically.
He had killed a fellow man. It
had been unwittingly done to be sure,
and while he would have giver all
but his own life to hive undone the
deed, his act had been inexcusable un-
der the law, and the law would cry
aloud for vengeance. While at college
he had read the criminal code and
none knew the statutes bearing upon
homicide better than he. Sternly
they had said to him that he who
shed the blood of his fellow man cold-
bloodedly, premeditatedly and witha
wicked and abandoned heart ---that
man had committed murder in the
first degree and by man should his
blood be shed. But he Who killed not
intending to do so, but in wrath and
with a weapon of death and while
not defending or believing that he de-
fended * his »own life or; body from
grievous hurt—that mail should be
deemed guilty of murder in the sec-
ond or lesser degree, and should be
swallowed by dungeons until through
death or long years of servitude he
lightly. Ea
ing's paper
firm 'his he
An urahi
most ran be
clutched- at
clutched at an eel.. Dropping a coin
into the dirty hand he snatched a
paper from it an steppedintoa near-
by entrance. Slowly, as a condemned
criminal might unfold a writ which
contented either his deathwarrantor
his pardon, his heart beating tumult!,
uous his breathcoming quickan
sharp, he opened it and rea Then
be lurched forward and crumpling the
sheet between his fingers went stag-
gering down the street with drawn face
and eyes' that were dulled by horror.
The headlines had told him all. Wil -
ham Grayford, retired architect and
prominent clubman, hada been struck
down and killed in his club by Wilson
Stoddard, former college man and not-
ed athlete, now a wealthy but convival
man -about -town, who had fled immed•
-
iately upon the consummation of the
murder. - But already he had been seen
upon the streets by several! who knew
him, and the police'we're unusually
confident of his early capture—a con-
fidence that seemed warranted by
reason of his well-known habitats and
wide circle of acquaintanceship. Me-
chanically Stoddard threw the paper
aside and stood' at' the.. crossing until
the firot' brunt of the shock was over.
He was a rnarked man. Not in this
or in any city, town or hamlet of the
civilized world could he long. remain.
unknown. His swarms of college
mates had scattered as the winds had
blown them and besides them were
the tens of thousands of trotters
the `earth who had watched him, con=,
spicuous by reason of his fame and
powerful figure, in the great athletic
events in' the days -when. columns had
been written about his most trivial
acts. Yet this great city, his home,
was manifestly the unsafest place of
all. At first thought flight . seemed
cowardly : even though it were not the
act of a coward,' and cowardice he had
always despised as having ,no place
within him. Only one road seemed to
lie before him. In a sudden blaze
of unreckoning anger he had slain a
fellow ; being; and though guiltless of
intent to kill, he had by that act for-
feited his right to freedom and now
must surrender himself and bear his
punishment as best punishment could
be borne. Knowing that the road be-
er1 he sought an even -
hat its silence night con-
e.
howling incoherently al -
ween his legs, and Wilson
him as he would have
•
tow.ii that »seeMed either a trifle less
disreputable or a trifle more discreet
than ,the;Other,, he fo d a dingy hotel
1 eearir1g . the , title of "Lumbermen's '
RRest:" ° and 'registered there with an
illegible scrawl, after' which he ate a
little of what was brought to him and
then retired to his box. -like mein deep
in thought., Why not make this place
his headquarters as well as some point
further on? Repellant though 1.is sur-
rotlndings were, no place could be
more obscure or more unlikely as his
'habitat. Here he could ostensibly, at
least, engagein some occupation that
would serverto avert suspicion until
he had gained ; sufficient tune to per-
fect his plans for the new and better •
life that wasto be his in the ,time to
come. He favored the idea, but being
clothe& in the garb of a eity mechanic;
'his next step 'must be to .again dis-
card his wardrobe in favor of the
prevailing fashion of the place, that
he might be less conspicuous and more
quickly identify himself as part - and
parcel of the people about him. This
he determined to do as his first act
in the morning. After that he would
make'a. search far some small business
which' he could purchase as an occupa-
tion until its became • safer »for him to
leave for some remote land. Once a-
broad and his train grown cold, hidden
beneath another name and a whiskers -
covered face, he could enlarge his
scope and pursue the plan that was
forming vaguely in his brain. A'thous-
and or two dollars invested. here—a
sudden chill swept him and hastily
drawing all his money from his pock-
ets he counted it into a little pile »on
the bed. It amounted to less than
twenty-five dollars. For a second
time black despair settled upon him as
with, staring eyes he gazed • upon the
few small bills and scattered pieces- of
Silver that lay upon the cloth. For
with a »hundred thousand dollars in
gilt -edge bonds, with more than that
amount 'in mortgages and interest-
bearing notes, with ten thousand dol-
lars cash in bank, he was practically
a pauper._ His quarter of a million.
was useless to lfim as though he
were already in a prison, cell; as in-
accessible as though buried upon a
star. Not a dollar could he draw
from the bank, not a mortgage could
he release or foreclose, not a note»
could he collect or discount without
affixing' his signature to check,re-
lease, receipt or power of attorney.
Nor could he receive a penny unless
he appeared in person or by an agent
duly authorized, who . in turn must
know his whereabouts in order that
he might remit the proceeds to him.
least of his' troubles. A quarter of a 1 And to trust. any -man with the secret
million well invested stood in his own i of his hiding place was not to be
name and right, and with the hope
that the handful of silver might spare
her a heartache he thought of her no
more. -
• At another store he bought coarse
underclothing and other wearing ap-
parel, cap unci_ boots, a cheap "teles-
cope" in which to carry therm, and a
pair of spectacles. At a barber shop
he had his hair clipped until nothing
remained but an outcropping, bf
bristles, but his face he ordered left
untouched by the razor.. His beard
was naturally of, quick and heavy
growth, and he knew that a week's
neglect of it would disfigure him al-
most beyond recognition. Next he
took. a car and sought a workingmen's
hotel hard by a Brat . depot from
- which trunk Miner» iated like the
meshes of a spider}s webs and as nine
o'clock boomed from the depot belfry
he crept into bed exhausted of mind
and body, but cold sober upon retir-
ing for the first time in a year. An
hour later he was sleeping, but it was.
with fitful tossings and mutterings at
the grotesques that haunted the land
wherein his mind wandered. --
When, morning came he drew an his
rough clothes :and proceeded down
stairs. His face was haggard 'de-
spite 'his rest, and his hands shook
like the hands of one who walks near
the end of life instead of near its be-
ginning. The craving for his morn-
ing's drink tortured him keen as the
water thirst of a man whose body is
a furnace from fever, but he passed
the obtrusive bar without a glance in
its direction and hastened to a re'staur-
rant where he drank several cups of
black coffee. This ,warmed and stim-
ulated him somewhat and in a measure
relieved the cravings of his stomach.
After that he begun to carefully form-
ulate his plans for the future. Obvious -
fore him ran straight to the prison ` lyi his first 'step to contin
gates, and that there could be no more `liberty must be to leave the city fauedr
in life for him than a felon's thoughts behind him and with that object in
and a felon's end, he stepped unfalter- mind he secured a time -table and rail-
ingly upon it. With clenched teeth road map and studied them with great
and eyes set he strode straight to attention to detail. From the time -
wards a policeman who - stood at the table and railroad map he learned»that
opposite corner. [ the Winnipeg Express would leave the
Half way there he became aware station in about an hour, but Stoddard
of an unusual uproar in the street. feeling certain that.. all departing
Arising above the grind of wheels and trains would be carefully watched by -
the clank of iron' shoes arose hoarse detectives dared not venture the board -
cries of "thief, thief," and "stop him," ing of a car by common avenues of
and Wilson glancing towards the spot the public. Remembering,however,
from which the tumult arose saw a
young man with a mottled face fight-
ing desperately for freedom in the
midst » of a crowd. Hurrying - on he
reached the scene of the struggle just
as two detectives fell upon the battl-
ing one, saw them twist his arms into
helplessness and heard the sharp
click of the handcuffs as they made him
their captive and dragged him still
struggling to a patrol box at a near-
by corner. Stoddard, following the
throng, awaited the arrival of the
police wagon and watched the victim
thrown into it as though he had been a
man of rags, hearing from within the
sound of savage blows followed by a
despairing cry for mercy; then turned
away with a shudder. And this other
criminal whom they were torturing
because he true to the first instinct
that the Winnipeg train made a brief
stop at a crossing about a mile . down
the yards, he procured his telescope
and proceeded carelessly among the
labyrinth of tracks to the point :which
he had in mind, swung himself a-
board the smoker' as the train came
to a halt, and at the first suburban
station hurried from the train and
purchased a ticket to the Canadian
city of the far north, `When night
came twelve hours later he was well
among the pine woods. Riding but a
few stations further, he slipped quick-
ly from the wrong side of the train
at a small lumbering town out of
which a logging spur of the main
railroad ran into the heart of the
pineries. In the city which he had
left behind him that morning the air
had been soft and the pavements
of animal kind clung desperately to warm under the sun, but here a light
thought of, even- though, one could be J
found who would consent to give a
sistance and encouragement to a flee;
ing-murder. He was an outlaw amorh
men with every man's hand raise
against h4im—he whose careless good
nature had been almost a proverb
among - those who knew him whose
heart had ever been the friendliest and
most generous towards mankind, and
whose only fault had been a weakness
and whose only sin an accident.
Almost penniless despite his for-
tune and. having mastered neither
trade r r profession which he might
now invoke to earn his daily ,bread,
Stoddard sank limply into a chair and
closed his eyes in a great weariness
of soul and brain. He slept none that
night.. Repentance, remorse and vain
regrets rode him with bit and spur.
liberty, was but a petty pickpocket snow covered the groand and the
whose crime was the stealing of a
watch. If the law which he had been
taught to revere as calm, as just, as
merciful, treated an unconvicted Mis-
creant so mercilessly in the very hear-
ing of all who cared to listen, what
then would- be -the fate of a murderer
once withili the muffling walls of a
dungeon? Was it best to surrender
and be buried alive after all? Could
not man make better atonement to the
society that he hand outraged and do
vastly more for his own salvation int
remaining free, doing a man's work
and living the life that it had been
intended he should live when the
breath of life had been breathed into
him? There seemed to be but one
answer to the question as he put it
to hiinself now. Nor was - flight nec-
essarily cowardly. 11e had not intend-
ed to kill, he had merely struck' as
a million other men had struck when
driven to great an er, - and the only
difference between their blows and his
had been the weight of an ounce or
the variation of a hair. Yet they had
lived and died`; unchallenged by law or
breath of the north made him button
his coat as he passed along the rickety
sidewalksof the shanty town with his
glance wandering at random in search
of a place of lodging, Noisy saloons
and smoke-filled dance halls crowded
with uncouth lumber jacks upon their
last carouse before facing the deep
snows and bitter cold of the mighty
woods were about him on every side.
Gambling dens with doors flung wide
invited him within, and tawdry women
were at his elbow nearly constantly.
But while he passed all these with
small notice, .their existence in this
place met with his approval, he re-
garding them as safeguards thrown
about him_ For of all haunts in which
to search - for the immaculate, the
critical and the luxury -loving, the last
would be in the squalid atmosphere
of a backwoods logging town where
the food was as coarse as the tan bark
upon the streets, the liquor an. abomi-
nation to the palate and a decently
made suit of clothes an object of
derision. .
Passing on. to a portion of the
INCOMORMID
CHAPTER II•
He breakfasted from dishes which
he scarcely glanced at, and had the
food which he ate been sawdust from
the streets it is to be doubtful if he
would have taken note of it. His
head ached with dull monotony, and he
gladly left the table in the hope that
the crisp air of the morning might
bring him some relief . More snow
had fallen during the night, and the
wind nipped him with a sharp tooth
as he walked briskly from street to
street .of the town. The river was
filled with logs moored in rafts, over
which rivermen in sharp corked boots
leaped or galloped as they herded the
logs to the pull-ups of the sawmills.
The whine and snarl of many circular
saws came to his ears, and the damp
aroma of new sawdust frilled his nose.
He must seek employment at once
either among those buzzing teeth or in
the town, even though the wages
earned would but bring him board
and lodgings, and turning from the
river he scanned the scattered business
places critically as he took mental in-
ventor/ of their 'character. At the
end of a five minutes' walk along the.
main street he struck his balance.
Two sawmills, two planing mills,
twelve saloons, three dance halls and
gambling rooms, two general mer-
chandise and lumbermen's outfitting
stores, four alleged hotels and barn -like
boarding places, a blacksmith's shop
and a logging compani's office com-
prised
the business interests of the
settlement. It would have been hard
to find a place less promising for a
search such as Stoddard was bent up-
on, but in the precariousness of his
finances. he must exhaust the possi-
bilities of the town before squander-
ing precious money upon railroad fare
that his search might be continued in
other places. He had never bevii face
to face with actual want before. Many .
thousand dollars had always interven-
ed between him and the necessities of
life, and like a tyro who suddenly finds
himself confronted by a grim enemy,
his lack of self confidence caused him
much apprehension where a more ex-
perienced warrior would have smiled
and counted the odds all his own.
Clerking, driving a team or doing_
porter work seemed to be his best
hope, and he decided that the general
stores should be the first objects of
his attack. Drawing a long breath he
entered the larger of the two and
stood at the counter as he waited for
an opportunity to speak to one of the
employees.
(Continued Next Week)
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