Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-07-27
are, Sir Luke. 1 viii attend to lettine

him In"
Dalziel did not pause in his agitation
pacings. hardly made any response.
whereupon Weems took up the decanter
and went into the outer Office. closing the
dividing door behind him. His chief oh
Ject was to be the first recipient of what
ever information should be brought con-
corning Sir Philip, and the state of public
Intelligence in regard to the Scarborough.
This was presently accomplished, and
then. after considerable delay, he return
ed to the inner office, accompanied by the
lawyer.
DalZiel had. apparently. taken little mo-
tice of the delay; but now he suddenly
paused and looked at them both with a
forced calmness in his mien, but with the
lines of a hard and desperate resolve fixed
upon his face.
Out with what you know, Chclms-
ford" said he, harshly.
Il am thoroughly prepared with my re-
port said the lawyer. $50 far as our
common conspiracy is concerned, VIC are
perfectly safe; though l wish ] could saw
as much in your personal behalf, Sir
Luke"
What do you mean?' said Dalzicl, aft
ter they had empticd their glasses.
Let me proceed Systematically, Them
said the lawyer, seating himself before
the fire. I'm the first place, then, I.was
unable to purchase an evening paper. ow-
ing To the lateness of the hour, but l man
aged to get ii glimpse of one ut the hote!,
which amounts TO the same thing. pshaw.
we have taken fright at nothing. There
is nothing more than IL mere paragraph. a
dispatch from Gibraltar. saying that four
or five survivors of the Scarborough had
been landed there from the storeship Mil
tiades Il week or so ago, and that they
had ventured upon Il vague and rambling
opinion, to the effect that the ship had
her hold. There isn't Il particle of proof
against us. We are perfectly safe"
Now this report was altogether false,
and had just been concoctcd by the law
yer, ON Wccms' advice, for the especial
deception of Dalzicl. Chelmsford had. in
deed, read the paragraph referred to
from Gibraltar, the actual report Of
which was as follows:
There were put on short ut this port n
few days ago. by boats from III. Ii. Ms
storeship Miltiadcs. six castawnys, picked
up from Il raft in the equatorial st.;ls off
the coast of Africa. whose story is OF Il
most astounding, not to say incrcl.. !c,'
character. According to their statement,
one of the rescued parties vas Il Mr..
Guy, second officer of the South African
steamer Scarborough, while the rest were
passengers from Cape Town. They rep
resent themselves as her sole survivors,
saying that She WAS blown up on the
evening of the 2.d of November by an in
fernal machine. or clockwork continuance
for the explosion of concealed dynamite.
struggled into her hold by some party or
parties just before the commencement of
the homcwarl voyage. for the purpose of
securing the insurance on bogus diamonds
that had been shipped on the same vessel
after being insured In an immense
amount in the agencies of several English
companies mt the Cape. The names OF
the rescued passengers have just been
made public. They are as follows: Miss
Muir. Mr.. Dunmore and servant, Mr..
Eastwood and n little boy. Robert Mac.
kcnzic. whose father died of exposure on
the raft. All are Briions. and all We're
passengers on the Scarborough at the
time of the disaster. Whether
cd or not. their true story. when sifted
and published. will probably form a
strange sensation in the annals of marine
misfortune. The delay in the transmits
sion of these facts Ivy telegraph will here
after be explained
such VAS the real and alarming purport
of the dispatch. 1t had almost taken
Chelmsfori's breath away ut the time of
reading ii. but he had. nevertheless, push
ed his inquiries to the mttermost; and
now, having received his cue from
Weems. he was ready enough to Ielittle
it, and to follow up the new and desper-
ate plot. which he had fallen in with. for
the purpose of getting rid of Sir Philip
DalZicl at any cost.
ITO be continued.l