The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-05-31
CHAPTER VII.
MAXEY MAKES A BEGINNING.

| MsXEY MAKES A BEGINNING.
Maxey read the letter in the fading
| light by the window. while the messen-
ger who had brought the note to his
rooms waited, cap i'll hand. 1t was as
| follows:
HOSPITAL, Dec. 80, 1884.
The girl has spoken. Her name is Dye Hor
| father lives in Flood street LAMAR.
Short, epigrammatic, to the point.
There will be no answer" said
Maxey.
He heard the door close behind the
retiring messenger and began to pace
the floor, his hair erect and his neektie
asllew, while his inpatient thoughts
travelled over the wide range Of possibil-
ities which the information in the doc
tors letter seemed to open before him.
Surely now he was on the verge of the
most important revelations, and yet he
hesitated for the moment how to act in
the emergency.
1t was question to him whether it
were better at once to intrust this mat
ter to those whose business it was to in
vestigate crime or to attempt that in
yestigation by himself, alone and un-
aided.
In the first case there would be the ex-
perience and educated acuteness of a
craftsman plying his vocation. In the
second case there would be the native
shrewdness of novice whose heart was
fired with an enthusiasm, and whose
mind was stimulated by an interest, for
the intensity of which Maxey himself
was sometimes, in the rare moments
when he INDUCED in self examination,
at loss to account.
While the artist was still debating
with himself this problem Miss Maxey
came in. She cried out almost before
she opened the door;
"Oh, Julian, have you heard from the
hospital?'
II have Annette has spoken. She
has told her father name. "
Miss Maxcy uttered glad cry and
somewhat astonished her brother by i'm
pulsiyely throwing her arms about his
neck and kissing him
am so glad could cry, she ex-
claimed. "She will get well, Julian.
She will get we'll in spite of everything
Tell me the rest Mt once. Who pushed
her from the road? Why did he do it?
Why didn't her father answer the ad.
yertisement?n
My dear sister, you forget that she
must still be a very sick girl. It is
terrible operation to survive. DR.. La.
mar told mo something about it. Ughl
They have to go into the very brain it
self "
Miss Maxey shuddered
Don't, Julian-please don'ti''
Forgive me. forgot your sensitive,
ness. Let us come to other things.
want to know what you think about
certain matter that has been troubling
me- Shall put this new clew in the
hands Of the police, or shall undertake
to investigate il by myself"
by yourself. in the name of all that
leads to success How many times have
we been to the police? And what have
they done for us? Julian, we have tried
them. We know what they can do.
Now try yourself, and if you fail -
Yes, . assonted MaXey, IF / fail?n
"Why, then we shall see what can
do. y
This was so good joke that both of |
them-so Ignorant are we of that which |
even a few days may bring forth--both
of them laughed
Still think you are right, Ellen. |
Our private affairs have been sufficiently
discussed i'll the public prints already
1t is about time that we again relapsed
into oh5eumty. The police includes the
press That is my first objection. and