The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-02-27

Arriving at the corner OF Fifty-slxtii
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.
It was the residence of Herbert Clar
vering Eustace.
"This is my card" he said to the serv-
ant. But it will convey nothing to
Mr.. Eustace. Please tell him my call
is not social one, but OH business, I'M
portant business"
| He was called into a rear room, which
Mr.. Eustace reserved as his study.
II have brought you here because we
would be free from interruption. said
Mr.. Eustace IL am at your service.
SIR"
Cathcart bent his head moment as If
thinking how to begin his business. Mr..
Eustace waited patiently and courte-
ously.
Il am here" said the old detective.
lin pursuance Of an inquiry am con-
Quoting. and recent developments have
suggested to me that you may have
much knowledge of the matter"
He lifted his head as he completed his
sentence. and regarded Mr.. Eustace fix
eddy.
"Unless am further informed" re-
piled Mr.. Eustace smiling, ~ shall be
unable to tell whether have the infor-
nation you desire or not"
Son the fourteenth day of July,
eighteen hundred and seventy-o ne." said
Cathcart, ignoring the remark and pro-
ceeding as in continuance Of his begin
ming, 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 it was intended to be addressed
never was known, is not known now,
but it did great wrong. It 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
implication-indeed. one may say by in
ference alone-these crimes were charged
against his only son. young man upon
whom he had lavished his affection and
of whom he had apparently been very
fond"
"Ah!" said Mr.. Eustace, deeply inter-
ested, II can confirm that"
THE executor and the immediate
friends. however, insisted that the letter
condemned the son, and indeed en-
ployed the police to trace the crimes
charged, and the friends of the young
man cut him and snubbed him. He
strove as frantically to disprove the
charges as the police worked industri-
ously to trace them. Both failed utterly,
and the son, at last despairing and
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. am a
western detective"
Mr.. Eustace gave great start, and a
look of blank amazement spread over
his face. 1t was as if he had said in
words. "You detective! never would
have believed it. 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 ex-
ecutors discovered 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
unfortunate letter"
He handed Mr.. Eustace a sheet of pa
per which he had taken from his pocket
After it was read Mr.. Eustace returned
It, saying:
II was abroad at the time of Mr.
Dorison's death. had been for several
7ears. and for two years after. At the
exact time was in the far east upon a
special diplomatic mission, and there
ore not until my return to Paris, many
months afterward, did hear of its &C.
presume by that time inter-
st IN the events surrounding it had SUBJ
lded, and upon my return to this city was
'lmost all forgotten. and what was re-
ne1nbered was perverted. All that [
heard was that the young man had be-
laved very badly. and had been discard
"a by his father previous to the fathers
leath; that he had disappeared. thought
strange, for the very last letter | had |
rom Reuben Dorison, written some |
weeks before his death, but received by
ne many months after it, while speak
ny OF troubles complicating his old age,
eferred in enthusiastic terms to the
onfort and pride he had in his only
on"
lyon maintained close intimacy with