Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-10

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Denham and the sleeping Indian, he
rang the telephone.
He ordered from the nearest police
station a patrol wagon, for the prisoner,
and an ambulance, with all the COM
forts available, for the transportation
of an invalid. Then he came and looked
down at Kola's face.
II presume you found Gielow pretty
bad off" remarked Denham. There was
something in his tone which showed
vast respect for Hendricks.
Hendricks nodded, and then he
stretched his hand over Kola to the
young officer.
my boy, you saved three lives this
morning, and showed the sort of stuff
you are made of. I shall never forget
you. You won't lose by 1t. I shall
speak to your chief about you. II he
ever goes back on you, or you need en-
Ployment, come to me-"
Denham flushed to the roots of his
hair.
Thank you, Mr.. Hendricks" he
said, feelingly.
At this juncture the Indian opened
his eyes and stared fixedly at Hendricks.
II hate you, Hendricks" were his
arst words.
"Flies seem to do the same thing in
the summer" answered Hendricks,
drily, "but I manage to get along. l
am not bald-headed."
III you will guarantee safety to
me-" said Kola, after a moments DELHI
GRAFTON, 81 will restore Gielow to
you. He may be alive yet, but If I do
not reveal the secret of his hiding-place
he will never see the light of day. 1
tell you ! am positively the only living
possessor of the secret"
Hendricks face wore a comical ex-
preston. He glanced at Denham and
said:
Erich, isn't it?"
Denham nodded, and Kola's bead-like
eyes rolled back and forth wondering
ly as his gaze vibrated between them.
ut is not an unreasonable request"
said he.
you forget" replied Hendricks,
suavely, that you have already court
eously volunteered all the information
necessary. You are a gem, Count Ban
tinni. You actually dose many good
deeds that you forget about them. You,
OF course, remember telling us about
the head of the dragon, the lantern,
the stone stairs, the long cavern, and
the cell at the end"
Kola's face darkened. BE reflected
a moment and then said:
81 see you made me talk unconscious
ly. | acknowledge that you have un-
done mt completely"
He sat up and his handouts clanked
as he folded his hands over his knee.
us Gielow alive? ?" he questioned.
Thanks, yes;" said Hendricks.
well. I am glad of that, anyway. He
stood between me and my desire, that's
all I had against him."
Half an hour later Hendricks went
out on the veranda and looked down
the road. DR.. L.ampkin was there walk.
ing back and forth.
"How's Gielow?" asked the detec-
tive.
"Tip-top," answered the doctor.
He'll be at his easel in q week. How's
the prisoner"
Resigned and meek as a lamb" an
swered the detective. "He made a COM
plete confession to Denham and my
self just now"
And presume the mystery is solved
at last" remarked Lampkin, tenta-
lively. II must say, however, that
/ am still in the dark on one or two fea-
lures of the case. For instance, it
seems an unnecessary thing for Kola
to cremate the body and inform you
anonymously that the remains would
be found in the hotel"
THAT seems to have been an after
thought, and there was a reason f~orit,"
explained Hendricks. "He was spend
ing a pleasant evening with his victim
in Caruthers' rooms and committed the
deed sooner than he really intended.
Caruthers, it appears, was just begin
ming to suspect that Kola was not an
Italian, and a dispute arose between
them. Kola struck him a single blow
in the temple, and he fell dead with
out a sound or blood"
"Ah, I seel" exclaimed Lampkin.
'DThen," went on Hendricks, "Kola
feared, as he was seer to enter Car
uthers' rooms, that he would be sus-
pected, SO he quickly resorted to the ex-
cellent scheme of making it appear
that his victim had suddenly left the
city.
HE first crowded Caruthers' body
into n of his big trunks and deliber-
ately went down to the street and en-
ployed . passing haggageman to come
up for the trunk, pretending that it
was his. Without attracting notice,
he got the trunk delivered at his own
rooms in town, and early the nextmorn-
ing had it removed out here by his In
dian servant. He next dropped Car
uthers' valet a note from Philadelphia,
which was mailed in that city by an
eastern confederate, and later he
forged another communication to Miss
Huntington.
"But, in the meantime, he was think
ing of some unique means of totally
destroying the body. He ended by cut
ting it up and reducing it to ashes by
oxy-hydrogen flame. all except the
hand, which, for a time, escaped his
notice. He was about to throw the
ashes away when he ran across the
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