Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-05-26
CHAPTER VII.

Lampkin did not see the detective
again till late in the afternoon Of the
IL: th7,S begun. lie met Hendricks as
<cnnrch, on Broadway.
II have but a minute to spare" the
detective said. "There is much to look
into. l am sending out trusty young
1cllows in many directions. AS for me,
i am just now studying cremation
"You want to see if"
eff a one-handed man has been taken
'Ko a regular crematory."
"Ah, good idea, of course. Have
you read the papers?"
"Only the headlines. They are
'e15ough for me. Denham's star is in the
ascendant, but it will sink eventually
anto mud-puddle."
HE seems not to have got a word out
OF Gieqow's servant" replied the doctor.
"He didn't know how to do it,"
cgrinned the man of experience In such
things There are many theories adj
rvancea, l 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 proverbiai spoon in her pretty
mouth, but all the same she is credit
to woman ood-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 a
..cold-hearted, cool-headed villain, who
not satisfied with killing his man. Gre
mates his body simply to show the ma
.I1gnIty of his hatred"
Hendricks was moving away, his
raand ontstretched, when a sudden
Thought lighted up his face and he
said:
"Anything in the papers about his
having thee1l last seen in the company
of Count Bantinni?"
"Not word"
y Then Denham is minus the chief
.clew to the whole business. Poor Gle
soaH'' One of the headlines dubs him
:Dr. .Jekyn and a Mr.. Hyde, man who
~paints Madonnas and angels, and at the
same time is the devils vilest agent"
III hope you will run across some
thing in Gielow's favor" said Lamp
kin.
MAY God help him if 1 can't" said
the detective, with feeling. This fore
:17oon went all the way out to Kola's
lp1ace on the Palisades, hoping he might
aid me in some way. found him alb
sorbed in crystal-gazing, and knew
II would irritate him to be interrupted
till it pleased his fancy. His eastern
servant had led me into the great dark
~,'>n where Kola-sa and whispered
.1i]."tI must wait till the prince Of occult
bs<: lerdash 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 cheeks on
stiff muscles. He is fit subject for a
museum. He has had some accident
~with an explosive with which he was ex-
{peTlmentlng and his hair was singed off
close. He actually looks uncanny. l
aat without word or sign of recogni-
ton from him till got tired and stole
away"
IT didn't know he had moved out
&there," said the doctor.
~'.Oh, yes, and the place suits him to a
81. He found an old colonial mansion
built half of brick, half of stone. in q
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
dong, and got couple of years lease on
1t, and recently he received carload Oh
oriental rubbish from somewhere anc
has turned the interior into the queer
est cooking retreat you ever saw.