Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-11-12


 nent joints and knuclzles and with dis proportionately long thumb. but it was incased by the mate of the very glove he had that morning examined
 It was the same in color, in quality, in form and in the peculiarity of it's make Like that one, it fitted in every part of the hand that wore it perfectly.
 For moment or two everything swan before his eyes He seized the arms of his seat to prevent himself from falling The sensation, as powerful as it was, passed away and he got himself under better control He studied the hand and glove. There could be no mistake. The opportunity for close examination was ample before the young man with drew his hand.
 From this moment the drama on tho stage lost all interest for him. He now was concerned in tragedy before whose dread events the puny happenings of the comedy paled into insigniicance He studied the face of the young man with new interest and from another point of view.
 "It is the hand and the glove" he said to himself, "but it is difficult to believe that that face could have been concerned in such awful workr'
 Yet, while he expressed this thought, he did not falter in his belief that the murderer of Mrs. Parish and her daugh- ter sat before him. For brief moment he contemplated the wild idea of de- nouncing the man there and then This was due to the strength of Cathcart's theorizing Though the old detective would have laughed at Dorison's certain ty, he could not have failed to have been complimented by this sincere testimony to the power of his reasoning What Dorison did determine to do was to wait until the play was done and fol low the young man, with a view of dis covering who he was. He grew so inn patient for the curtain to fall, and so nervous over the slow progress the comedy made, that, unable to sit still longer, he left his seat and went into the rear of the theater, from whence he could command view of the house and not lose sight of his prey. After what seemed to him an interminable time the curtain fell and the large audience slow ly made its way out. As the two upon whom his eyes were fixed approached the spot where he stood, the companion of the man with thumb recognized Dori- son with courteous bow and passed on. Dorison followed. At the outer door the twain stopped and conversed earnestly. And suddenly, before Dorison could an- | ticipate the act, the man with the thumb flung a laughing negative to some per- suasion of his friend, darted across the pavements, leaped into waiting car riage and was rapidly driven away. The other turned to watch the people pass out. Dorison stepped up, and salut- ing him, said:
 "1 have been strangely attracted by the face of your companion of the even- ing. have rarely seen one more win ming. May ask his name?" The gentleman, who was one intro duced to Dorison through the maneuver- ing of Nettleman, laughed as he replied:
 'The common experience. Every one is attracted by it. tell him that, like the traditional girl, he carries his for tune in his face. He is as good fellow as it indicates. His name is"- At that moment gentleman with a lady on either arm addressed the speaker, and the sentence was stopped short of the information it was to convey. Lift | ing his hat to Dorison with request to be excused, he offered his arm to one of the ladies and walked away. | Dorison was disappointed, but he con- soled himself with the thought that the information was not lost, only delayed, since he could soon find the gentleman who possessed it.
 Quite excited he strolled down the street and entered that great thorough fare, the Hoffman House. Having made a tour of the corridors and the art gal lery without finding any one he knew, he turned to go out, when he saw the man with the thumb enter the door.
 To his great surprise, also, he saw the young man whom he had seen twice be- fore that day under most dissimilar cir cumstances-the insolent young man start up from corner and address the other.
 The man in whom he, Dorison, had SC great an interest returned cold and un- mistakably naughty bow and passed on, | while the other colored, drowned and re- turned to his corner.
 The man with the thumb supplied himself with a cigar at the case, went out again, and leaping into his cab was driven off.
 Strange" muttered Dorison, 'sthat that man should cross my path three times today, ending up with showing he knows the man I want to know SC badly"
 CHAPTER X.
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