Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-11-04
CHAPTER VII.


I am Just now studying cremation"
'You want to see if"
.If one-handed man has been taken
to a regular crematory.'
"Ah, good idea, of course. Have
you read the papers?"
"Only the headlines. They are
enough for me. Denham's star is in the
ascendant, but it will sink eventually
into mud-puddle."
HE seems not to have got a word out
of Gielow's servant" replied the doctor.
"He didn't know how to do it,"
prinned the man of experience in such
things. ''There are many theories ad-
vanced, presume?"
The doctor nodded. a~.a
"All of them point to Gielow's love
affair and his recent flight. They make
Miss Huntington disagreeably con-
spicuous."
"And blasted shame, tool" NUT
tered Hendricks. "She belongs to the
swell gang and all that, and was born
with the proverbial spoon in her pretty
mouth, but all the same she is credit
to womanhood-the stuff mothers of
great men are made Of"
IF she reads the papers she will feel
sorely hurt, for not one of them cred
its the poor fellow with even temporary
insanity. They have made him out
cold-hearted, cool-headed villain, who,
not satisfied with killing his man, Gre
mates his body simply to show the ma
Lightly of his hatred"
Hendricks was moving away, his
hand outstretched, when a sudden
thought lighted up his face and he
said:
Anything in the papers about his
having been last seen in the company
of Count Bantinni?"
"Not a word"
"Then Denham is minus the chief
clew to the whole business. Poor Gle
low! One of the headlines dubs him
DR.. Jekyll and NJ. ii, man who
paints Madonnas and angels, and at the
same time is the DEVILS vilest agent"
II hope you will run across some
thing in Gielow's favor" said Lamp
kin. #r ......... ...a
MAY God help him if I can't" said
the detective, with feeling. "This fore
noon l went all the way out to Kola's
place on the Palisades, hoping he might
aid me in some way. I found him alb
sorbed in crystal-gazing, and Il knew
It would irritate him to be interrupted
till it pleased his fancy. His eastern
servant had led me into the great dark
room where Kola sat and whispered
that must wait till the prince of occult
balderdash had received some psychic
impression or other. From where was
placed I could see Kola behind a SCREEN.
His profile was towards me. His lips
We're moving constantly, and his eye
balls standing out from his cheeks on
stiff muscles. He is fit subject for a
museum. He has had some accident
with an explosive with which he was ex-
perimenting and his hair was s!nged off
close. He actually looks uncsnny. I
sat without word or sign of:ecogni-
ton from him till got tired ohd stole
away"
81 didn't know he had moved out
there" said the doctor.
"Oh, yes, and the place suits him to
built half of brick, half of stone, IN
wooded portion of Cliffside Park the
most inaccessible part of the Palisades.
He found out by accident that it "as
under contract to be torn down beftre
long, and got couple of years lease on
it, and recently he received carload ~
oriental rubbish from somewhere and
has turned the interior into the queer
est looking retreat you ever saw.
got onto his idea not long ago, and,
while it is not exactly above board, l
have nothing to say, for New Workers.
the wealthy ones-love to be hum
plugged, and Kola has discovered that
they are willing to pay for it to boot.
The vast mystery with which the rascal
invests his personality does the work.
He couldn't have chosen better place.
The old mansion is reputed to have been
the headquarters of gang of thieves OF
long standing, and when they were dis
banded ten years ago I heard much
about the place. One of the thieves
who died in prison said gang Of coun-
terfeiters had operated there for If
teen years and had the most perfect out
fit in the cellars beneath the house that
was ever owned in America. AS said,
the mystery does the work for Kola.
He receives applicants for psychic mes
sages in the dark or when he is cowled,
gowned and masked. I heard of one
multi-millionaire who wanted his adj
vice and went out there one afternoon
III coach with six armed attendants
to drive off possible highwaymen.
Kola's ambition is to get rich rapid
ly, and think he is making consider
able money. He has founded sort of
cult, and assure you none but the rich
are admitted"
"Do you think he can really tell peo-
pie things they don't know" asked DR..
Lampkin.
"He often gives me valuable hints, y
answered Hendricks, with a shrug. Il
have no idea how he gets his informa-
ton. You know my weak point is ST.
perstition; I can't help it. l shall talk
with him about this case before it is
ended. He is sensitive cuss and would
take offense if didn't. I want to know
particularly if he has ever met Ban
tinni, and if he has I want to know what
. he thinks of him. Icalled at the counts
rooms this morning and found he had
left the city. His housekeeper was as
mum as a gravestone with the top
knocked Off interviewed Caruthers'
valet. I wanted to see the letter he re-
ceived from Philadelphia, but Denham
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