The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-24

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eliciting from the professor was tha'
Jeanes had visited the shop month
or so ago and had arranged that any
letters sent there for him should be kept
till he came for them. He had left hall
a sovereign on account and had called
four times, receiving three letters, in
GLIDING that which had been handed tc
him by the professor.
As for that precious rascal, l need
scarcely say that | placed no reliance
whatever upon what he said, and had
seriously considered whether the story
of his giving Jeanes the letter on the
stairs and then shadowing his customer
to the hotel might not be an entire fab
rication. / did not for moment believe
| that he knew who Jeanes really was.
for had he done so he would, felt sure,
| have lost no time in securing the re-
ward by handing the fugitive over to
the police. But quite recognized the
possibility of his being in Jeanes' pay.
and had seriously asked myself whether
the statement that Jeanes would not be
| having any more letters addressed t.
| the shop and would not be visitinf
| Stanby again might not be ruse t.
get me out of the way. But that the
professors surprise and dismay when
| be found Jeanes gone from the hotel
were genuine no one who had witnessed
| them could have doubted, and as the
circumstances generally tended to con-
firm his story was forced to the con-
! clusion that he had, in this instance at
all events, told the truth.
In that case should he wasting time
by remaining longer at Stanby. So after
arranging with the professor that il
Jeanes called again, or if any other let
ters arrived for him, the word "news"
should at once be telegraphed to an adj
dress which l gave l packed my bag
and caught the next train to town.
Mullen had called "check" at Stanby,
it is true, but Twas not without another
move, by means of which l hoped even
tually to innate" him, and what that
move was the reader who remembers
the contents of the intercepted letters
will readily surmise.
In one of those letters the person to
whom it was addressed was told that
the steam yacht by means of which he
was to escape would be lying just off
the boatbuilder's yard, where the lit
tie yacht was laid up Any one who
did not know from whom the letter was
or under what circumstances it had
been written would not be any the
wiser for this piece of information. But
to one who knew, as l did, that the
writer was the wife of Mr.. Stanley
Burgoyne, it would not be difficult
thing to ascertain the name of any small
yacht of which that gentleman was the
owner and the place where it was likely
10 be laid up.
Whether Mullen intended to abandon
or to carry out the plan he had formed
for making his escape by the help of his
sister had no means of knowing. If he
suspected that his letters had been in
tercepted, he was tolerably sure to
abandon the arrangement, or at a.!
events to change the scene of operations.
But if no was unaware of the fact that
| had taken up the thread which poor
Green had dropped, it was possible that
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now Green was-.salpfy out his original
OF, asarwiich event be would walk of
his own accord into the tran which
was preparing for him. In anv case |
LIQUID be doia- --rIguu an iIiuKIr4g- m
quiries about Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Bprgoyne and their yacht, and with
this end in view / purchased copy of
the current Yachting Register.
Turning to the letter b in the list of
owners, l found that Mr.. Stanley Scott
Burgoyne's club was the Royal London,
and that he had two boats, one big
steam yacht called the Fiona and the
other little five tonner named the Odd
Trick. 1t was no doubt in the former
that Mr.. and Mrs. Burgoyne had gone
to Norway and by means OF which
Mullen was to fly the country, and it
was probably to the latter that Ma
Burgny-pe !ssid iosor rorF IN neTIerrur.
No one can be led to talk "shop"
more readily than your enthusiastic
yachtsman, and it did not require much
diplomacy on my part to ascertain by |
neans of visit to the Royal London
clubhouse in Savile row-ip company |
with a member-that Mr.. Burgoyne's
little cruiser was laid up at Gravesend,
in charge Of man named Gunnell.
Him accordingly visited, under the |
pretext of wanting to buy yacht, and
after some conversation / remarked |
casually:
'By the bye, think you have my
friend Mr.. Stanley Burgoyne's eve
tonner, the Odd Trick, lai' up nere'
az did have ar" was the reply,
"bnt NJ r-.goyne he telegraphed that
T 90 20 lot his brother-in-law, Mr.
Cross, have the boat out. That there's
the telegram wot you see slipped in be-
hind the ohm mack. F"
For the second time in the course Of
this curious enterprise the information
I was in need of seemed to come in
search of me instead of my having to
90 in search of it. had felt when /
started out to pursue my inquiries about
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Burgoyne by in
terv iewing the waterman Gunnell that