Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-20

This he took to well-known photographers,
aud ordered several hundred small photo
graphs of it to be prepared as soon as pos
sible. The minute description which he had
| given me of his fanCtul creation was printed
| at the foot Of each copy. As soon as the
| first batch of these precious photographs was
sent home, to my great JOY he did what he
should have done days ago: yielded to my
wishes, and put the matter into the hands
of the police.
was glad to And that in giving details
of what had happened, he said nothing about
the advissbility Of keeping watch on Ralph
| Carriston's proceedings He did indeed offer
an ahsurdly large reward for the discovery
of the missing girl and, moreover, gave the
officer in charge of the case packet Of pho
| tographs OF his phantom man, telling him in
the gravest manner that he knew the orig
| inal of that likeness had something to do
with the disappearance of Miss Rowan. The
officer. who thought the portrait was that Of
| a natural being. took his Instructions in
good faith, although he seemed greatly sur
| prsed when he heard that Carriston knew
neither the name nor the occupation, in
fact, knew nothing concerning the man who
was to be sought for. However, as Carris-
ton assured him that finding this man would
insure ths reward as much as If he found
combine the two tasks, little knowing what
waste of time any attempt to perform the
latter must be-
Two DAYS after this Carrston came to me.
"a shall leave you tomorrow" he said.
Where are you goingf l asked. why
do you leaveN
II am going TO travel about. / have no
intention of letting Ralph get hold of me.
So ! mean to go from place to place until
find Madeline
BE careful ! urged.
81 shall te careful enough I'll take care
that no doctors, surgeons, even apothe-
carries get on my track. shall 60 just as
the 1t sezes Inc. II ] can't say one day
where / shall be the next, it wll be I'M
possible for that villain to know"
This was not bad argument. In fact IL
1e carried out his resolve of passing quickly
from place TO place did not see how he
.ould plan anything more likely to defeat
he intentions with which we credited his
,ousin. As to his finding Madeline by so
iong, that was another matter.
His idea seemed to be that chance would
.ooner or later bring him in contact with
the man OF his dream. However, now that
the search had been intrusted TO the proper
persons his own action in the matter was not
worth troubling about ! gave him many
cautions. He was to be quiet and guarded
words and manner He was not to con-
verse with strangers. If he found himself
logged or watched by anyone he was TO
, communicate at once with me. But, above
al, begged him not to yield again to his
mena al infirmity. The folly of a man who
could avoid it throwing himself into such
state ought to 10 apparent to him.
Not oftener than | can help" was all the
promise ! could get from him But see her
| must sometimes, or shall die"
had now given up As hopeless the combat
with his peculiar idiosyncrary. SO, with
many expressions of gratitude on his part,
we bade each other farewell
During his absence he wrote TO me nearly
very day, so that ! might know his where
sbouts in case had any news to communi-
,ate. Brt had none. The police failed to
find the fainteSt clew. ! had been called
Ipon by them once or twice in order that
they m ght have every gram Of information
| could give. ! took the liberty of advising
hem not to wa ,te their time in looking for
he man, his very existence was prob
ematlcal. II was but a fancy of my
friends, and not worth thinking seriously
about. ! am not sure but what, after hear
ing this, they did not think the whole affair
was an imagined one, and relaxed their
efforts.
Once or twice Carriston, happening to be
n the neghborhood Of London, came to see
me, and slept the night at my house. He
also had no news 20 report Still, he seemed
hopeful as ever
The weeks went by until Christmas was
over and the New Year begun; but no sign,
word or trace of Madeline Rowan. II have
seen her" wrote Cairiston, several times.
She is in the same pace-unhappy, but not
| ill-treatedn