The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-08
CHAPTER XXI.
DISTRICT T..

In order to an understanding of this
event, we must turn backward a day OF
two, and find out what Inspector Byrnes
has been dong.
The chief of the detectives had been not
a little piqued by the failure of himself
and subordinates to solve the mystery of
the matchmaking letter writer and he de-
termined to make final effort to get at the
heart of the problem. All the ordinary
methods i'll vogue i'll such cases, and sew
eral that were not ordinary, had been
tried without effect and the artificial panic
on the exchange, out of which so much had
been hoped, had given not the slightest
clew TO the offender; who had, apparently
for what reason it was impossible to con-
lecture-not operated on that occasion at
all, although, had he done so, he might have
made a very large sum of money As it
was, several outsiders had been enriched,
many innocent people had suffered loss. and
nothing whatever had come of it.
This will never dor said the Inspector
to himself, as he paced up and down his
room, at an hour when most of the inhabi-
tsnts of the city had closed up their bust
moss for the day and gone home to dinner
and relaxation. This will never dol" he
repeated There must be some way of
getting hold of that fellow and 1 must find
out what it is. Comet common sense can
find its way through anythingl Where is
the weak spot in that fellows armor2 He
has written over twenty letters; isn't there
single clew in any one of theml or in all
of them put togetherp
He took half dozen more turns up and
down, thinking intently. The room was
perfectly quiet, and the Inspectors football
on the soft carpet gave ont no sound. The
curtains were drawn; the lights burned
brightly; the glazed cases on the walls, full
of the relics of former crimes. reflected in
distorted fragments the movements Of the
detective as he paced TO an fro-five PAGES
this way, a turn, and five PAGES back again.
AT length be stopped, went behind the table,
and sat down in his chair.
Let us seeW he muttered. 1--WE know it
is not Cowran; we know it is not CunliRe ;
and no one else has been suggested. We
have tried decoy advertisements, and they
have only served to induce the fellow TO
continue his letters; we have tried manipu-
latinR the stocks in which he was interested;
and if he has profited by the information
given him, he has left no trace by which
we could follow him. We have offered to
give him cheeks or money, and he has re-
fused the cffer. We have attempted to lure
him into communicating with us in some
other way than by advertisements, and he
has declined the proposition. What else is
there to be done9 One might by accident
happen to see him in the act of posting one
va NE ioOVoi . "nly, one WOulu nave 70 naNc
quick eye 10 read the address while tine
letter was being popped into the box; ind
II one were ne ir enough to do IL, the fellow
would probably either not post it at aR, or
else do it in such way that the address
would be invisible. Besides there are two
or three thousand letter boxes in the City
no, that is impracticable. And, even IL a
man was seen to post letter addre ssed TO
Maxwell Golding, that would no, Justify
his arrest Mr. Godiu0 has mon, coyras-
pondents than one, or than one Hundred: to