Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03
CHAPTER VII,

IL
Lampkin did not see the detective
again till late in the afternoon of the
cay thus begun. He met Hendricks as
he sprang from a cab in front of Grace
church, on Broadway.
II have but minute to spare" the
detective said. "There is much to look
into. l am sending out trusty young
fellows in many directions. AS for me,
am just now studying cremation"
"You want to see If"
"If a 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 word out
of Gielow's servant" replied the doctor.
HE didn't know how to do it,"
grinned the man of experience in such
things. 'There are many theories adj
yanced, presume?"
The doctor nodded.
"All of them point to Gielow's love
affair and his recent flight. They make
Miss Huntington disagreeably con-
spicuous."
"And a 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 a credit
n e{,,fp ~
great men are made Of"
III 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 a
cold-hearted, cool-hended 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
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 word"
"Then Denham is minus the chief
clew to the whole business. Poor Gle
low! One of the headlines dubs him a
DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde, a man who
paints Madonnas and angels, and at he
same time is the DEVILS vilest agentI'
Il hope you will run across some
thing in Gielow's favor" said Lamp
| kin.
May God help him if ] can't" said
the detective, with feeling. This fore
noon I went all the way out to Kola's
place on the Palisades. hoping he might
aid me in some way. l found him alb
sorbed in crystal-gazing, and 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 could see Kola behind screen.
His profile was towards me. His lips
were moving constantly, and his eye
balls standing out from his checks 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 slnged off
close. lie actually looks uncanny. ]
sat without word OF n sign Of recogni.
ton from him TIL got tired and stol,
away"
II didn't know he had moved on,
there said the doctor.
"Oh, yes, and the place suits him to q
L. y -1.l
built half of brick, half of stone, in a
wooded portion of Cliffside Park, the
most inaccessible part of the Palisades
He found out by accident that it was
under contract to be torn down before
long, and got couple of years lease on
1t, and recently he received u carload OF
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,
have nothing to say, for New Workers
the wealthy ones--love to be hum
plugged, and Kola has discovered thai
they are willing to pay for it to boot
The vast mystery with which the rasca
invests his personality does the work
He couldn't have chosen better place
The old mansion is reputed to have beer
the headquarters of gang of thieves O.
long standing, and when they were dis
banded ten years ago I heard much
about the place. One Of the thieve!
who died in prison said gang of coun
tcrfeiters had operated there for IF
| teen years and had the most perfect out
fit In the cellars beneath the house tina,
was ever owned in America. AS said
the mystery does the work for Kola
He receives applicants for psychic mes
saRss IL the aark. or when he Is cowled