Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-06

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DoriSon ana EuStdcC acre nGnifeStly
drGlCR tOlCdyd each other.
Wondering who the stranger could
be. and what business he could have
with him, and specializing as to what
the message so strangely communicated
could portend, DOriSon lit cigar and
wandered into the office. Pacing up and
down the long corridor he thought upon
the singularity of events which had
crowded upon him during the previous
forty-eight hours.
While he was specializing upon the
possible outcome of these events, Cath
cart suddenly appeared before him.
You were wholly right" he said
quietly, before DOriSon could remark
upon his failure to appear in time. 1T
ia the hand and the glove as well. ]
observed the gloves as he put them on. "
Dorison stared at him in astonish-
ment. A light broke upon him.
You were the man with the black
! hair and beard" he said.
Eyes; didn't you know me?"
"Know you. did not dream it was
you. You were completely disguised. "
"You did your work excellently well, "
said Cathcart, ignoring the compliment,
! as II DISCUSSES were matters OF hourly
occurrence. "But l was never more
puzzled than l am now. If one could
! only trust to appearances. II | were to
! do so in this case would dismiss all idea
! of young Eustace being implicated in
! that murder as preposterous. had my
lesson, however, twenty years ago. |
was given the work Of tracing the muir
der of a whole family in a town in Hi
nois. Indications POINTED to a young
girl living in the family. When L saw
| her sweet, soft innocent eyes, her face
almost angelic in its expression and her
pretty, coaxing manners, / dismissed
suspicion of her and went off on the
DRY which led TO nothing. She moved
away, and two years after was caught
in the very act of crime. Having been
convicted, she confessed these murders,
/ aud an examination into her life showed
her to be d monster OF depravity. 1t
was inconceivable that one so young
and tender could be so black"
'You have returned to the theory
| then that Eustace Is the man you
want?" commented Dorison, disappoint-
ment and regret plainly visible.
81 have neither returned to nor aban-
doned that theory" replied Cathchart.
Il hold everything in allegiance pending
further inquiry. Our puzzle does not
ft-the pieces do not match. We sup
pose the wearer of that glove was tall
! and slim, with brown hair. In other
words, that the wearer Of the glove, the
! tall, slim man, and the walker in Union
/ square were one and the same man.
What we have discovered is that the
wearer Of the glove is one person.
| Whether the tell slim man and the eX-
quisite of Union square is one or two
persons has yet TO be determined. My
theory has gone astray just so far. What
was IL we learned in school? 'Falsus in
uno falSus in omnibus If l am wrong
in one particular l may be wrong in ALL"
''EuStace could not have been either
! the caller at stated intervals nor the ex-
! QuiSite OF Union square, exquisite though
he is"
"Why?"
because he has been continuously
absent from the country for SIX years
until four months ago"
Another complexity. Why should
he return home after so long an absence
10 murder two inoffenSive women?"
He Is surgical student, having
/ studied here and abroad" said DoriSon.
The devil" said Cathcart. 1.-The
proofs accumulate against him. You
know that to be true?"
"HlS friend Bushnell told me So"
1.-The case presents more perplexities
than any | ever was engaged in"
Those gloves we're not made In this
country" said Dorison, irrelevantly,
though thoughtfully.
Just what l have been thinking
since you told me he has just recently
returned from Europe. Well" continued
the old detective, there has been
substantial gain. We have dis
covered the owner of the glove,
and at the proper time we can compel
him TO explain its close proximity to
the body of the murdered woman. He
must have had some relation to the
women, and, il not guilty of the MUIR
der, must be possessed OF knowledge
concerning them. You must gain con-
fdence. You are in q fair way to
it,"
81 never entered upon an enterprise
with greater reluctance or loathing, "
replied Dorison. II freely confess I
have sn extraordinary liking for the
young fellow. 1t seems like treachery
TO seek his friendship to his own undo
ing"
That does not necessarily follow. :"
sharply replied CRthcart. but YOU
must put aside all such notions II Won
propose to succeed in your search. Rec
olect the interest You have 1t stake
the rehabilitation of your own good
name"
II know, 1 know" hastily responded
DorisOn. Nothing shall swerve me from
that. But even with this before me. ]
crnnot repreSs feeling Of regret for
that proud father and tender sister
when disaster shall over'ake the son and
brother, nor the remorse feel in An.
ticipation that I shall be an instrument
OF its precipitation"
Better curb that Imagination al
yours until you see that you have ure.
cipitated disaster upon them" said
Catheart contemptuously, evidently an.