The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-17

mas 1--WE, he IoI4lSllS Sldlu etl Itull-
hill. He speaks with a strong Lanca-
shire accent and there is a detailed
description of him published as the
forty-fourth entry in to-day's Informs
ton sheet 1t is doubtless correct, for
the memo. bears your own signature,
Superintendent Shore"
The superintendent sprang to his
feet. 1.-THE man who told you this
shall be dismissed from the force" he
Kissed, with an oath.
Don't you think you had better find
him first?" replied the other, with just
the suspicion of sheer. And you
may discover, when you have got him,
that he is not under your authority.
The city police and the metropolitan
constabulary are very different bodies,
as you know" Few men would at
tempt to bluff Scotland Yard superin-
tendent in his own milieu, but Mr..
Lowe tried it for the sake of the friend
ly police officer who had shown him the
information sheet. The bluff came off,
and the king of clubs was safe, tbut the
superintendent never knew that it was
the only card in his opponents hand.
Il am going to Liverpool tonight"
Mr.. Lowe remarked, as he buttoned his
overcoat, ito follow this thing up"
1--WE shall be delighted to hear of
your discoveries said the superinten-
dent, sarcastically, by the way,
call on Inspector Williams-he is in
charge there-and tell him that his
brother has committed a murder in
Australia. He will be SO pleased to see
| you"
Thanks for the hint" rejoined the
pressman. II shall certainly call on
Inspector Williams 1 shall tell him
that do so at your request, and that
am instructed by the Scotland Yard
authorities to furnish them, with any
information that l may gather. Your
recommendation will, no doubt, be of
great service to me- And he bowed
himself out, leaving superintendent
Shore fully three inches smaller in
/ ginning of the interview.
Where the deuce is Rainhill?" asked
Mr.. Lowe, anxiously, in the Office after
ward.
"Rainhill," replied Mr.. Townend
oracularly, emerging from a dusty file
of the Liverpool Post, appears to be a
lunatic asylum about ten miles out of
4 Liverpool, but you had better hurry up
or you will miss the express
ct seems to be rather a wild-goose
chase, doesn't it?" said Mr. Lowe
Mr.. Townend looked at him straight.
Its the biggest wild-goose chase a
man was ever sent on" he said. "but
we have our instructions, and we must
carry them OUT Then he turned out
| his pockets and produced couple of
sovereigns, and As. Sd. in silver, which
he handed to Mr.. Lowe, refnarking that
the banks were closed, and that he
would want some money. The petty
cash box yielded another fen pounds,
and with this provision against imme-
diate necessities the amateur detective
entered the next stage of the inquiry
and a coy firsf-class carriage on the
1905 p. m. express to Liverpool.
/ At $50 next morning he presented
himself at the headquarters of the, Iiv-
erpool detective department in Dale
street, and the officer in charge. though
at first suspicious andsreticent, gradu-
ally thawed under the influence of the
strong personal communications from
superintendent Shore, which Mr.. Lowe
presented glibly by word of mouth,
adding, with delft adaptation of the
superintendent sarcasm, that Flle was
commissioned blythe Scotland Yard au-
thefitfes to furnish them with all pos
sible information about the @mufder
Thus it was that he enlistedEthe as
sistance Of the officer, who, by merely
pressing an electric button, summoned
to the joint consultation constable
who was well acquainted with Rain
hill, and in the space OF few minutes
Mr.. Lowe learned that Rainhill was a
township with a population of about
two thousand. that it contained a luna
tic asylum, two churches and railway
station on the Liverpool and Manches-
ter line. But the constable knew nc
one there of the name of Williams
Mr.. Lowe ruminated for few min
utes, chewing the end Of his big mus
taehe. Can you put me on to the To-
cal gossip he said; "the man or wo.
man who takes an intelligent interest
in other peoples business, and knows
all about the births, deaths, and partic-
ularly marriages, that have taken
place in Rainhill for the last twenty
years or 500"
There's John Higham," said the con-
stable, refectively; she's the local let
ter carrier, and he knows every one in
the place Perhaps he might heir
, you" OF course; just the very man
, and Mr.. Lowe felt that he was close te
the haunts of the wild goose, after all
1t had been showing and blowing
hard all night, with thunder and light
ming, and hurrying squalls of hail ant
sleet. In the morning the storm hae
almost blown itself out, but it was still
! pierceingly cold; the air was thick ant
: Opaque, and the half-seen sky wa:
| leaden so that the day suited well witt
| the task in hand. 1t was fitting
weather for following up the deatf
$ trail. Everyone knows that nature car
accommodate herself to human moods
especially the poets, and Browning let'
: the interdependence be seen very plain
ly. In "Prospice," that Alpine storm
! in verse, cannot one feel the fog in tn,
r throat, the mist in the face, and thu
cold blasts that blow about the marrow
pass where death sits waiting? In thu
: song from "Pippa Passes" on the 9th
2 er hand, or Home Thoughts from
4 Abroad" does not one get life at it
brightest in flood of sunshine? Lis
l ten how sfthe chaffinch sings on the or