Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-13

significant compared with the wide stretch
of ocean and the huge bowlders on the shore.
Crime may not always be found out but no
criminal can escape from the Nemesis that
he always carries with him in his own heart
think conviction must be relief to the
wretch that has been sl,ouching for months
in dirty alleys and byaways to escape the
punishment that he desc rves.
/ am not a sentimental man, but the
pathetic little lace haunted me for the rest
of the journey.
Reaching the apothecary's, went up to
the counter and presented the label, with
the words:
''The bottle containing this medicine was
broken, and want it rem sde up"
[ did not disturb the druggist in his
labors; but, when he placed a neatly pre-
pared bottle in my hand, asked:
sis this medicine dangerous"
''No; you might swallow the contents Of
that bottle without harm. Its principal in
gredient is bromide OF potassium. DR..
Brandt knows his business"
"You are acquainted with him?"
"By reputation and by his prescrip-
tions"
"You have put up great many of his?"
"a great many for his patient Mrs.
"Tbey were all as harmless as this?"
eyes, sir; chloral, bromide of potassium,
valerian and the usual run of drugs required
by a nervous lady,"
''I have a particular reason for asking,
an Detective Fox"
'If YOU were Christopher Columbus" he
answered, with unseemly levity, 81 could
only make the same answer. If you doubt
me, his prescriptions are all pasted in the
book over there, and you are welcome to
look them up"
''Thank you for nothingr' he said, diving
with a spatulainto a white pot, and chew
ing on a nasty looking black stuff with evil
dent Measure But / had satisfied myself
on one doubtful point, and left the drug
gist and retraced my steps. left the bottle
of medicine with the clerk at the hotel,
giving him orders that he should deliver it
70 Miss Grande Immediately. then sought
out Policeman Blind, gave him his orders,
and sent him over to the hotel. These little
points attended to- ielt in the proper con-
dition to devote little time to my friend,
the doctor. 1 found him buried up to his
nose in big folio vol lume. / sat down on q
chair and faced him.
''The bad weather has driven you IMP" he
asked, glancing over the top of the book.
81 never allow the weather or anything
else to interfere with my duty" / answered,
aggressively, almost Extensively. wished to
provoke him.
''You are, then, model policeman he
retorted, in his calmest voice.
81 am not satisfied with the condition of
Mrs Glaye, DR.. Brandt"
'I am not satisfied with the condition of
Mrs Glaye, Detective Fox, but that won't
help matters"
81 am SO dissatisfied that 1 have sent to
the city for physicians"
"You might have asked me first; but 1
am content just the same"
"They will probably be here this even
ing"
ing" he said, drYly.
"While waiting for them it is nv desire
that you re rain from repeating your visits
TO her."
my good friend, can only answer in
your words: 1 never allow the weather or
anything to interfere with my duty. If 1
am called will go; unless you sit on nv
breastbone. ceased to be baby one, two,
three years ago"
'I should think, doctor, that YOU would
see the wisdom of my request"
81 have not the hundred eyes of a fiy or
the sun-stare of the eagle" he said with
malicious ehuekle. but let us see, nv
friend, am to consider myself under ar
rest?'
'tNoP' L answered, staggered by the
blunt question.
fGood. Then if am called, will nav a
visit to my patient. You are a bold man,
nv friend" he said, with a frown, ito rub
the hair of lion the wrong way. But you
are 'Lecoq' Fox, and you are cunning, vet
ungrateful. When you came and inter-
rupted me with your gasconnades, was
reading this old book to discover some new
recipe TO tickle your gustatory nerve. They
are all recipes OF the old monks, nv friend,
and ochl but they knew how to eatl'
"You are very kind"
at is my hobby. II ] were rich. nv
friend, would rise above q foolish Hello
gzbulus He was only stomach; l am
stomach dominated by brains. II had dis
covered the pate de foie gras, should have
died content. One man nibbles at Shakes.
peare or Goethe, while hundreds gorge on
food. Real lame, nv friend, is a question
Of digestion, and he who invents a new dish
will be remembered when your Fichtes.
your Lockes, your Voltaires, your Dantes
are forgotten"
81 am not interested IN food, 81 answered,
angered that he should so underestimate my
talents as 10 imagine that could not read
through the mask he was assuming
"You are oyerworked," he said, with
mock sympathy. "You think too much,
nv iriend."
''TOO much for the comfort of certain peo-
pie"
"Do you mean me?" he asked with ag.
gravating calmness. "My poor friend, did
lear you, and were il worth my while,
puff and you would vanish like a thistle
down in q tempest But you amuse the
drowsy lion, and he allows you to touch his
whiskers with the tips of your fingers. But,
my friend, his whiskers are not his teethp'
"If / feared you, doctor, would not will
ingly remain in the lions den. One weaves
a hempen rope to catch the lion," said,
giving him a thrust for a blow.
''Simple little friend, no rope you weave
is strong enough to hold meP'
"We shall see after tonight" retorted,
losing my patience Let me inform you
that despite the efforts Of her enemies, Mrs,
Glaye has not lost her senses or her memory,
and probably by tomorrow with her aid, l
may weave a rope that will not only hold,
but strangleP
In certain matters / con fess l am weak,
which is another way Of saying that l am
human. In DR.. Brandt saw the imper-
sonaIion of wickedness, braZen impudence
deiying the majesty of the law, represented
BY my humble SELF He deserved 10 be
strangled, but regretted the hasty speech
almost as soon as it was uttered, but he was
exasperating, leering at me with his fshy
eyes from ost Of his dull rhinoceros skin.
1 itched TO place the manacles on his wrist,
and had not the man Durand confessed to
the crime, 1 would have done so. You may
be sure that l did not intend to eat dinner
with him on that evening; for if he was too
cunning to kill me outright, a little dose OF
opium might have sent me into dresmland
lust at the tiIne when ] most needed nv
wits. A lot OF pretty tough work Was be-
fore me, and so / went up to my room and
took doze for a couple of hours while 1
had the opportunity. Like Napoleon and
other famous men, 1 had the power OF fall
ing asleep and waking up at the hour fixed
on, 1 lay on the bed at l o'clock and walked
up on the stroke OF 3, just as intended. 1
had given Policeman Blind the order that
he was not to admit the doctor into Mrs.
Glaye's room until he heard from me again,
even II he had to use force in doing SO, and
so 1 was easy on that score.
Ats o'clock train was due from the city;
ftar 2 nd me he sfa