Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-27

rescued his portmanteau from the hurly-
burly, he decided to carry it himselfinto
the open yard in front Of the station,
and then get hanson to convey it and
himself home. But as he emerged from
the station on to the long line of pave
ment running from end to end of it in
front of its many entrances, he saw COM
ing toward him q man whom he instant
ly recognized. There could not be a
shadow of doubt about it. There were
the thick, curly-brown hair, the singular
| ly bright blue eyes, the tall, welI.knit
figure, and the very costume, with its
noticeable tint and material all exactly
as he had seen them. 1t was the man of
his vision at Lucerne?
Whoever or whatever he might be, he
was now walking unconcernedly out of
Victoria Station, carrying travelling bag
in his hand and evidently looking for a
cab. In minute he hailed one, and got
into it. The crowd was at one of its
moments crisis, and it was impossible to
move otherwise than slowly. Mr.. Gar
ston determined to see whittier went.
A hanson drew up close by him.
"Do you see that cab p he said, point
ing out one. Follow it wherever it goes
and be sure not to lose sight Of it."
He sprang in. The cabman maneuv-
cred 80 cleverly that he followed the I'M
known closely out of the yard; and then
long chase began.
Through street after street, round cor
ner after corner they went, sometimes
separated, but never far apart or out of
sight, until at last the journey ended at
the door of house in Regents Park.
The unknown alighted, rang the bell
and paid the cabman. 1t was evident
that he meant to stop at this house; was
probably at home there.
Mr.. Garston hesitated what to d. but
the sight of the man in the full light of
day, and in London was SO linked with
the recollection of him as he plunged
his long knife into Minnie Sterling's
heart, that it seemed impossible to let
him 90 without some certainty about
him. After all, he could plead misdi-
rection, mistake. To penetrate into
that house, to clear up the mystery of
this identity, had become an imperious
necessity.
As the stranger entered the door with
the air Of one familiar and expected, Mr..
Garston jumped from his cab and follow
ed him. An astonished footman suffer
ed the second visitor to pass. He pur-
sued the man upstairs, saw him open
door and heard EXPLANATIONS of well
come. Almost too quickly to recognize
the voices, he had also entered and
found himself in the presence of the
Sterlings!
He thought afterward how fortunate it
was that in their warm welcome they
forgot to be very exacting in the matter
of explanations. They took it for grant
ed that he had somehow learned that
they were living in this furnished
house" for a few weeks to make prepare
tons for Minnie's wedding, and they |
only said: How lucky he had not gone
to Manchester to look for them" But
when Minnie came to him and said shy
Iy that Fred did so want to thank him
for all his kindness to her at Lucerne,
and he felt himself compelled to shake
hands with the man of his vision, so
strong a horror thrilled all through his
frame that the remembered horror of his
dream was as nothing to it.
Minnie had been for some time the
wife of the dream-murderer. What the
end of this true story will be no one
knows,