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 When he was boy, cattle were oflVen to the eastern markets in droves rom Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, ? unused Oeehrane. Mir. Powell was born in the country, as l suspected All our most successful men are. That's why I thought l would succeed in the city Good night, MT Kendall. Twill be here early in the morning. ''
 Nor did Cochrane forget his promise. TOT when John reached the office in the morning he found him pacing up and down the corridor quite impatiently. Then followed another long series of questions, some of which had been asked the day before, but many upon fresh lines At length, when it seemed as though he had exhausted every possible trait in the missing speculator's make up, Oochrane suddenly asked if it was PoWell's practice to shave himself.
 Formerly 1t was, :" replied Kendall,
 but of late years he patronized bar Der, and don t think he missed visit to the same shop single business day Tor at least ten years. He was very reg ular In every habit and practice. D
 Where that shop" asked Cochrane, stroking his chin T need shave. "
 In less than an hour he returned to the office greatly pleased with the TO- suit of his visit, for the loqaacious bar Der had given him i'll minute detail the incidents attendant upon Powell's last visit to his shop.
 Mrs Kendall was present when Coch- rane returned, and he took the oppor- tunlty to question her upon the same points he had already covered with her husband. Slowly he drew from them every detail of a day neither could ever forget. Time after time he had them describe just how MT. Powell appeared, but not once did he ask for their i'm. pressions as to why the cold, cynical and austere man had i'll a night changed into a gentle, confding, solicitous, gen. eroas friend He wanted a picture of the man he was endeavoring to find, not & mere photograph. Features may be changed by disguises, sickness, lapse of time, exposure or death. Cochrane wanted to see the man himself, and he could only do so through the eyes of others. He wanted to read Powell's mind and discover his motives, and he could only do so by asking others to re- call distant incidents, hoping that upon some one of them might hang the thread that would guide him from the laby- rinth of mystery into which all were plunged. Late ill the afternoon he asked John if Powell's apartments were re talned for him and were in practically the same condition as when he left them.
 ''They are, '' replied Kendall. My instructions were to pay the rent and provide for the care of his suit until his return. The detectives have made the rooms q number of visits and search ed the letters, papers, clothing and fur niture. They discovered no more than they did here. ''
 Which was nothing, said Cochrane. Let us go and see for ourselves. Imay be better able to judge the man when examine his home surroundings.
 MT Powell's apartments were not overfurnished. The rooms were three ill number, the larger one being used as a library and sitting room. It contained 2 bookcase, desk, easy chairs, q handsome couch, several fine pictures, most of which were rural scenes, and a mantel upon which were some rare bits of bric. a-brac. His bedroom was the picture of comfort The third room contained a of 1,,rJa0 atx of light gymnasium apparatus Opening from this were elothespresses and the bath. All were in perfect order, and though the rooms had been ransacked by the detectives several times, it was evident that all had been restored by careful hands.
 These rooms are as NIT. Powell left them, said Kendall as Gochrane looked inquiringly about him. II have spent many hours here i'll restoring order, for 1 knew 1t would grieye him to return and find things out of place. 1 do not think if he were to return this moment he could find any disarrangement of his effects that would suggest to him that he had been absent. l have even kept lying upon his desk the book he had doubtless been reading the day before he left. I found 1t the first time I came here, and so have left it with his book mark in the exact place he put it. ''
 Cochrane picked up the book and glanced at it's title. ' Ben Hur, " he said. Not bad book for anybody to read He has quite collection of books, notice. Was he much of reader?'
 "I do not think he was," replied Kendall. Rather his reading was mostly confined to newspapers. have heard him say, however, that when he saw book he thought he would like he bought it, and that some time he was going to take year off and read them all. ;
 Cochrane turned the leaves of the lit tie copy of "Ben-Hur " Suddenly he stopped and glanced curiously at a slip of paper that had dropped from the book and fluttered to the floor.
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