Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-01
CHAPTER XVIII.
A DESPERATE REMEDY.

/ took the two envelopes from the
man and told him he might go. Now
or it! I thought. Now to see whether
he edifice | had built had but foun-
alton of sand, or whether Wildred had
hereby been clever enough to pull wool
bver the eyes of the police!
My heart was humping with excite
ment as opened the first envelope.
.St. Paul in tonight. First class
passenger on board named Harvey
| Farnham'
| laid the bit of paper down dazedly
| and took up the other. 1t was from
| the manager of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
in New York. Mr.. Farnham tele-
graphed to keep room for him. Is
spending day or two with IA friend
l did not know what to think. 1t
all sounded straightforward enough,
land it was not credible that either the
official in the office of the American
liners or the manager of an hotel could
be in collision with Carson Wildred.
Still, was far from being satisefid.
For the moment | had done all that
could do. If Farnham was stopping
with friend, whose address was I'M
known to me, | could not at present ex-
pect to receive an answer either to my
New York or Denver cable. In a day
or two the police would hear something
from the other side and meanwhile 1
lnust possess my soul in patience.
This was G thing easier said than
pIe, especially as, when aimlessly
hncing at weekly paper in the club
bxt day, | came across a paragraph
Fhich gushed in the convertially
iauseous manner over the forthcoming
marriage of the beautiful young heir
SIS, Miss Karine Cunningham, and Mr..
arson Wildred, the well known mil
ISnaire and popular man in society"
Days never dragged as they did with
NE until l received the promised init
nation from my friend the inspector
that tidings had arrived from the po~
far as my friend was concerned, and
need have no further fears regarding
bis safety. The body found in the
Thames was certainly not that of Mr..
Harvey Farnham, as he was in New
York, and had actually been interview
Ned there. He had been very i'll in
frossing and had the misfortune to fall
own the compaEionway on shipboafd
heavy gale, sprain1ng his ankle.
would not be able to resume his
hey and proceed to Denver for some
to come but had laughed at the
of any foul play. When question
}n the subject of the ring, he said
he had given it to his friend, Mr..
drcd, at parting, and jokingly add
that he had experienced great diff
y in getting it off In these cir
stances, as there could be no fur
doubt OF Mr.. Farnham's living
.ence in New York, no possible
hdow OF suspicion need any longer
st upon Mr.. Carson Wildred, who
Id throughout done all in his power
further the Investigations. The
arch Tor the man from the camp near
he Dackwalter would, therefore, be
Arried on, upon the same lines as be-
lore.
A hot sense of injustice burnt within
me- | had been thwarted on every side,
hot, | believed, by the revelation of
truxn, ~urr5 by Carson Wildred's super
Tor cunning He had boosted to me
that, in the role of villain, he would
nave been more successful than L; and
/ was quite ready TO agree with this
Statement. All things seemed against
bne, and yet something which l took to
be instinct cried aloud that my dream
had not deceived. l could not under
stand how it was that the New York
Jolice had been made to believe in the
IDENTITY of man falsely representing
himself to be Harvey Farnham, yet
was convinced that in some devilish
way even they had been cozened. No
Their man living, perhaps, could have
Undertaken such a huge scheme, with
b many different strings to pull at one
nd the same time, and successfully
arried it through, save Carson Wild
3D.. But Carson Wildred had attempt
it, /, concluded, and having gone so
r, there was every reason to suppose
would triumph if I-who alone of
men seemed personally interested
a not set myself to the finding of a
Nv method for blocking his game.
could, | thought, understand what
motive for so foul a murder might
We been. He had just purchased a
luable gold mine from Farnham.
onld Farnham be made to vanish
thout fear of suspicion falling upon
ildred, the latter might not only be
owner of the mine, but repossess
hself of the purchase money, which
st have, comprised a very large
AX here was no further hope from the
police They had done their duty, had