Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-07-23

?en,vn rs he read this letter from his
friend.
During the two or three days that had
elapsed between writing to Smerdcn and
receiving his answer, he had been buoyed
up with the hope that in Gufanta 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 III the
same cause
But he had come, III the course Of his
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 mere
attempt to extort money from him, almost
Leo him also to doubt whether, after all,
ne mad not too readily believed the Span
lard
Yer, lie reflected, his actions, as he
stood before him foretelling the certain
ooom OF that assassin when once. they
snould again be face to face, and his calm
certainty that such would undoubtedly
happen, bore upon them the impress Of
truth.
And his story had earned the belief of
the ethers-that, surely, was in favor of
1t being 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.
Dobson also, the man VINO to the Se-
nors mind was ridiculous and incapahIe-
had been told everything, and he, too,
had come to the conclusion that Cuff
fanta,s story was an honest one, and that,
OF all other men, he who, in some mystic
rlous 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.
lie could find in his own mind no con-
meeting link between the place Of death
In the park and Lord Penlyn's garden
(although he remembered that, strangely
enough, his lerdship was the dead mans
orother), and he was DESTROYS that the
Senior should confide 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 to be content
and to work, as. he termed it, sin the
dark"
You must wait, my good Dobson. ye,,
must wait" the Spanard said. ..untiT r
tell you that | want your assistunce.
though do not think it proba ole THAT I
shall ever want it. You could not find
out that was Corot You know, although
l mad many times the pleasure of lunch
Ing at the next table to you; I do not
think that you will be able any the better
to lind the man seek. But when find
MN, Dobson. promise you that you shall
have the pleasure Of arresting him, 60 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 title more
familiar to him i'll its pronunciation than
the Spanish one; what are you doing to
find him."
Il am practicing a virtue, my friend,
that I have practiced much in my Life.
am waiting"
Il don't see that waiting is much good.
Signor. There is not much good ever
done by waiting
1.-The greatest good in the world, Dob
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 watt
1t was only with banter of 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, sooner 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, land is
watching him."
''No,' Dobson said, she don't think
that. But I can't make out who the
deuce he does suspect"
TTo he continued