Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
a he read this letter from hi,

Penlyu - he read this letter from hfs
friend.
During the two or three days that had
elapsed between writing to Smerdon and
receiving his answer, he had been buoyed
up with the hope that in Guffanta the
man had been discovered who would be
the means OF bringing the assassin to
justice, and this hope had been shared
by all the other men interested in the
same cause.
put ne had come, in the course Of hia
long friendship with Philip Smerdon, to
place such reliance upon his judgment.
ana to accept so thoroughly his ideas. that
the very fact of his doubling the Seniors
statement, and looking upon it as a mere
attempt to extort money from him, almost
leo MIN also to doubt whether, after all.
ne mad not too readily believed the Span.
lard. Np"A
Yet, he reflected, his actions. "a he
stood before him foretelling the certain
doom OF that assassin when once thev
should again be face to face. and hi. calm
certainty that such would undoubtedly
happen, bore upon them the Impress of
truth.
And his story had earned the belief If
.he otners-that. surely, was in favor of
~ oelhg true. Stuart had seen him. had
listened to what he had to say. and had
formed the opinion that he was neither
lying nor acting.
Dooson also, the man who to the Sc
nors mlnd was ridiculous and incapable.
had been told everything. and he, too.
had come to the conclusion that Guf-
lahta story was an honest one. and that.
or all other men, he who, in some mystic
fious manner, knew the murderer's face.
would be the most likely to eventually
bring him to justice, and he was also very
ANXIOUS to know what the secret was that
led to his desiring Lord Penlyn to have
the garden securely closed and locked.
tie could find in his own mind no con.
meeting link between the place Of death
IN the park and Lord Penlyn's garden
t~although he remembered that. strangely
enough. his lordship was the dead mans
brother). and he was DESTROYS that the
Senior should contide in him.
But the latter would tell him nothing
more than he had already made known.
and Dobson. who had always in his
minds eye the vision of the large rewards
that would come to the man who found
the murderer, was forced 20 he content
and to work, us he termed it, "in the
dark"
You must wait, my good Dobson, you
must walt the Spaniard said. until /
tell you that l want your assistance.
though ! do not think it probable that I
shall ever want it. You could not find
out that was Corot. you know, although
had many times the pleasure Of lunch
ing at the next table TO you; / do not
think that you will be able any the better
to find the man l seek. But when I find
him, Dobson, l promise you that you shall
nave the pleasure of arresting him, so that
the reward shall come to you. That is, if
l do not have to arrest him suddenly upon
the moment, myself, so as to prevent him
escaping"
And what are you doing now, Signor?"
Dobson asked, giving him a title more
familiar to him in its pronunciation than
the Spanish one; what are you doing to
find him?"
Il am practicing a virtue, my friend,
that l have practiced much in my life.
l am waiting"
Il don't see that waiting is much good.
Signor. There is not much good ever
done by waiting"
AAC siSdttsI eOpu III Tie WOrlU, LODI
son, the very greatest. And you do not
see now, Dobson, because you do not
know what l know. So you, too, must be
virtuous, and wait"
1t was only with banter Of a slightly
concealed nature such as this that Senior
Guffanta would answer Dobson, but, light
as his answers were, he had still man.
aged to impress the detective with the
idea that, Don or later, he would
achieve the task he had vowed to per-
form.
But" as the man said to one of his
brethren, "why can't he get to work, why
don't he do something? He won't find
the man in that Hotel Lepanto, where
he sits smoking cigarettes half the day,
nor yet in Lord Penlyn's house, where he
goes every night"
perhaps he thinks his lordship did it,
after ALL" the other answered, "and is
watching him."
"No," Dobson said, she don't think
that. But I can't make out who the
deuce he does suspect"