Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-20
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| As Dorison went out of the room,
Cathcart called on some one in an ad-
joining room. The officer who had shad-
owed Langdon and Pittston appeared.
''Mr. Dudley is threatened with in
| jury" he said. ''by Langdon and Pitts
ton. They won't do it: some one whom
they employ will, il it is done at all. l
want you to be on his track and see II
he is followed. He obstinatelY refuses
to believe in it. / think disguise will
be necessary"
Il can follow him home to-day with
out one. After that l will fake up
something"
Every we'll"
So soon as the officer had hurried out
after Dorison, Cathcart gathered up his
papers on the table and placed them In
wooden box on the floor, which he
locked carefully. Downing his topcoat
and taking his hat, he went out, walking
to the Bowery. Here he sought drug
store, and entering, asked permission TO
look at the directory. Securing the ad-
dress he desired, he took an up-bound
Fourth avenue car.
Arriving at the corner of Fifty-sixth
street he descended and walked In the
direction of Fifth avenue. Near that
thoroughfare OF fashion and wealth he
stopped and assembled the steps OF one
| of the handsomest dwellings OF the
block.
1t was the residence OF Herbert Cla-
vering Eustace.
This is my card" ne said to the
servant. "But it will convey nothing
to Mr.. Eustace. Please tell him my
call is not q social one, but on business,
important business"
He was called into rear room, which
Mr.. Eustice reserved as his study.
~ have brought you here because we
would be free from interruption" said
Mr.. Eustace. 81 en- at your service,
sir"
Cathcart bent his head moment as
il thinking how to begin his business.
Mr.. Eustace waited patiently aud cour-
teously.
81 am here" said the old detective.
sin pursuance Of an inquiry l am con-
Quoting, and recent Developments have
suggested to me that you may have
much knowledge of the matter"
He lifted his head as be completed his
sentence, and regarded Mr.. Eustace fix
eddy.
'FUnless am further informed" re-
piled Mr.. Eustace smiling, II shall be
unable to tell whether l have the infor-
nation you desire or not"
''On the fourteenth day Of July,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
said Cathcart, ignoring the remark and
proceeding as in continuance Of his be-
ginning, "Reuben Dorison died. When
found an unfinished letter was before
him. He had been stricken with death
in the very act OF Its composition. To
whom il was Intended to be addressed
never was known, is not known now,
but it did a great wrong. IL charged
some one with the commission OF many
crimes, to cover which and to pay the
damages Of which had wasted his for
tune. He was asking for assistance. BY
mplicaton-indeed,o one may say by in
ference alone-rhese crimes were
charged against his only son, q young
man upon whom he had lavished his
affection aud of whom he had apparent
ly been very fond"
"Ah" said Mr.. Eustace, deeply inter
ested, 81 can confirm that"
THE executor and the Immediate
friends, however, insisted that the let
ter condemned the son, and indeed en-
ployed the police to trace the crimes
charged, and the friends Of the young
man cut him and snu0bed him. DE
strove as irantically to disprove the
charges as the police worked industri-
ously to trace them. Both failed utterd
lyf and the son, at last despairing an-
wholly miserable, abandoned further eff.
| fort, left the city and settled in the west
At this late day / am employed in an
endeavor to solve the riddle. | ain q
western detective"
'Mr. Eustace gave great start, and
o look OF blank amazement spread over
his face. 1t was as II he had said In
words, "You a detective! never would
have believed 1t. You do not meet my
preconception Of detective at ALL"
This movement instituted by the
young man, after the lapse OF eight
years, has no other purpose than that OF
removing from his name the stigma
placed upon it by that unfinished letter.
He seeks no property, for his fathers
executors discovered that there was no
property left"
mo property left" exclaimed Mr..
Eustace. "Why, he had a splendid
property"
"Had. yes. But not when he died.
Permit me to show you copy OF that
uDFortunata latter"
He handed Mr.. Eustace sheet Of pa
per which he had taken from his pocket,
After It was read Mr.. Eustace returned
it, saying:
al was abroad at the time OF Mr..
Dorison's death, had been for several
years, and for two years after. AT the
exact time was In the far east upon a
special diplomatic mission, and there
fore not until my return to Paris, many
months afterward, did / hear Of its &C.
currence. presume by that time inter-
est in the events surrounding IL had sub
sided, and upon my return TO this city
was almost all forgotten, and what was
remembered was perverted. All that L
heard was that the young man had be-
hayed very badly, and had been dis
carded by his father previous 70 the
fathers death; that he hal disappeared.
/ thought 1t strange, for the very last
letter had received from Reuben Dori-
son, written some weeks before his
death, but was received by me many
months after it, while speaking OF trou-
bles complicating his old age, referred
in enthusiastic terms TO the comfort and
pride he had in his only son
"You maintained close intimacy
with Mr.. Dorison?" asked Cathcart.
Eyes, it could hot be closer" replied
Mr Ensfaca warmly. "At one period