The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-11-07
CHAPTER XNIV,

When the two men gained the OMEN air
no cab WAS in sight
''If You will rest awhile here" said Han
bury. I'm fetch a cab. cannot see one
I'D or down rhe street"
mo" said Leigh. a shuddrr passiuc
through his frame Let us walk. if YOU
do not mind. | could not bear to stay
near this place any longer. Is it not
strange that you should have wanted a
cab in this spot forty-eight hours ago.
and | should want it here now"
1T is strange" said Hamburg. "but the
world is very small, and our absolute
wants in it are very closely circumscrib-
ed" The manner Of Leigh had changed
in marked manner. His steps had be
come slow ana more ragged his breath
ing more lahored, and he had lost all
swaggcr and bounce, and self-assertiye-
ness.
Sir" said Leigh. this slow pace BELTS
a funeral. This is my funeral"
"Dh. Won mustn't say So. | am sure
vour clock must have been terrible loss
but not irrcnarabIe."
Il shall begin no other clock The
sands in NV own ho,lr-gIass are rIpnino
low already. When man of my make
cndures great shock and = great dison-
lie dies Now an too veal, ia lao ,.,,,r
enemy. and lam fit only IN he vour friord
Won viii not snurn me-" Un named j.,
their walk and looked nm anxiousIv irta
Uanburv's face
"AssnredIv not. I will do onvtbiro
can for you "
"Yon win be astonished 70 boor +b,t
vas attracted towards vo,, from ~ ,.,o
monr saw vou-,ha ,ttrao+ir, sc -,
nuIsion no douht b.vo Ma J., ra,,..
q life Of loneliness and ronrassio, ,,.or,t
. fn,v bours of oannonionsbin o,,I &c.,
sncoI,ip, before do
"tnv+hip- vo,, mo- toll ,,, - .or;,--.
your mind I shall treat ne q socro+ IF INV
own"
q know. I wish I were rs sure &C any
thing rlsr rs I an, of vou Iiad +, ,o,,
very considerable iiad hocausa had
Imagination: because I bod yanitv. he.
cause people are such i,1iots
What | said obout Miracle Cola rros
mostly 4 lie also"
Il knew thar"
"AU right. Most of what 7 ,old ro,,
about Miracle Gold was \ Iie An toI1
YOU about making il was a lilo I 1ros
about 10 enter into y lea,,na Win thieves
to take stolen gold. ana pretend ;, makc
it. | was going 10 do his for tho eoka
of the fame not the profit"
"A very dangerous Kind of olobonv"
ANYWAY | b,va +oid ,,,, r.bor nv
scheme was. toll Mrs Ashton ,bo-
my clock was indenendent of NV hands
for winding Mn. You heard Williams
the publican. say they saw mo v-ind ~,
MY clock last night Wen was not roo,
my clock last night"
But he said he saw vou."
He did. Now Won can understand how,
necessary il was for me n lie
Il candidly confess | cannot"
well, when l conceived the notion Of
making Miracle Gold knew ran =
great risk. l thought it might become nee
esSary to prove Alternatives a. all events.
The proposition Of an aIibi is an affir1na-
tive, the deduction negative. | told Won
my clock was my friend Well. | made
is help me in this | gave out in the puh-
lie house that my clock had now become
50 complicated that | had arranged 10
connect all the movements. The clock
was to he wound up by lever fixed near
the window, n which | sat when AT work,
the only window in the room. Night after
night | worked ut this lever for half All
hour, turning round exactly Mt 4 quarter
past twelve to nod at the people Mean
while. | was busy constructing n Nfc-Sjzod
figure-the body Of a man every way as
ike me as possible. l have skill. a good