Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

fact he was not very badly off for health,
and he had an impulslye way OF using his
fair degree Of strength.
=. Did YOU say, and returnHn the ticket
seller asked, with look and a tone COM
Ini;erat.vc of the man who, apparently, was
: buying Il seat that ne would never Sit in.
Jasper was sensitive about his false show
of Illness and very rctalatory. too. He
reached through the window, gripped the
young man. and hauled him hall way out.
Don't hurt him. Joseph interposed !;
che is aware now that you're not in Il pre-
cariouS slate OF health
YES" the aSsailcd fellow said, going
back into his seat like rubber doll that
had been stretched and then let 20 Of.
s-Yes-ycs-I know-you're not in pre-
carious state OF health"
\ man with Sidelong eyes and edgewise
attitudes watched the episode with very
conspicuous slyEesS. That man was a pri
vate detective. Sometimes he feared that
people would not know ii. He liked to be Il
SPY. When he was not spying for pay he
was spying for pleasure. SO the Hadeus
had not disappeared into the wilderness ii
week befOl,. he knew who they were; how
rich was the one who looked poor in health,
and how poor in money the one who looked
rich in health: aud that the reason why the
irascible one liTnped was that the left foot
was IN artificial member.
The twins encamped on the shore of Bas-
com pond ana tshed and hunted with the
help OF Reuben Brown, an Adirondack
guide Reuben showed them how to hook
the trout and bullet the deer, ana ne was
their proxy in much of the sports which
proved at all dangerous 10 the dumb Great
l.ras But he has never revealed the fact
of their failure As spartSmen, not only be-
cause il WAS IA professional secret. but also
Tor . reason which Will preseucly appear.
The hunting and fishing, sucn as they were,
went on for few days ordinarily. The
campers told one another that they liked
the discomforts Of camping, and they con-
WINGED themselves that the uampness of the
rainy dals the chiliiness of the windy
nights and the lack of sanitary things all
The tine were conducive TO robust Vi%Ur.
Jasper Haden never realized either the
truth or the falsity Of those theories. He
died in Ba-c0m pond.
although Jasper was 2 quiCk-tcmpered
man. rs We have already seen, the reader
viii he SURPRISED to learn that it was not he
who killed the suaye and unctiOuS Joseph,
but il was Joseph who killed Jasper. The
murder was far from an lmpuiSlVe act. l.
was i roolly calculated achievement, look
ing 10 a transfer of fortune from the man
of Soruid mercantile pursuits 10 the man OF
ioyial professional leisure. Joseph would
be the only natural heir of Jasper in case
OF that wifclc,s, chiidlcss mans death, and
there WAS Lo will in existence. So when
tho brothers capSiIed their canoe while fish
lug. and Il was not unlikely that the lean
one woIld sink and the fat one float, 10
Seph cid Roy depend upon such natural re-
suits. lie chung 10 the overturned boat
and pushed his brother of until a most de-
hbcrato and diabolical fratricide had been
committed Then he removed the artificial
loot from h.s dead victim and pOcketcd it
carefully. stripped OFT all The clothes ana
placed them where he could recover them
later, ana hid he body under the water by
means of rope and 4 stone.
'ftcuucu" said Joseph Iaden 10 the
guide upon returning to the tent (and here
see how the murderer kept his conscience
clear u any liy', my brother Jasper has
heed drowned and / have escaped with my
life g"
Reuben went 70 search for the body of the
dead Eaaen, leaving the live Hadcn SILVER
ing with chill, Tor his clothes were wet.
and. besides 4 man naturally feels q creepy
sensation after he has murdered brother
for he first time. The guide rowed hither
and th!lheT, peeriuC down into the pond and
reaching with paddle, but never finding
Jasper in the dark little waterpit into
which lie was sunken. He returned to the
tent after an hour OF TWO and saw . thing
that aStouishod him.
Joseph Hadeu sat enveloped from neck
10 heels in I big bag Of rubber. Steam was
escaping q little III the throat, and the eX-
posed face looked parboiled. The enclosed
nan was taking Turkish bath, by shutting
himself III with lighted lamp, after the
manner common out of the woods, but
Reuben didn't know il.
J am taking precautions against ccld,"
Joseph said. I'm l physician, you know,
nd am fully aware of the danger of pneu-
uolia following the chill I've had''
Heuben had heard of folks boiling with
rage and he was now impressed vaguely
with the thought that this bagged man was
boiling with grief for his drowned brother.
II so, he was bound to be well done. for he
sat there hour after hour until nightfall,
with The perspiration dripping from his
head down the outside of the bag, inside of
which the accumulation of water threatened
to rise high enough to eXtinguish the lamp
The fire dad burn itself out at length. ard
then the simmering man trunbled weakly
from the seat.
Take off the rubber" he whispered
That's it; How lay ne out straight and rub
ne with that woollen jacket. Hard
harder-that's right
The friction dried the man, drepched the
jacket and tired the man.