Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-11-22


make no efforts to find me, for If YOU
do YOU may only be finding me for an
enemy. We have always been known
by the name of Tremayne, but this.
although your Christian name. Is not
your surname. I shall not write that
down. but if happier days come.-if
God grants that should put my arms
about YOU again-then we shall be
known by the name of our forbears. i
have watched you from a tiny child,
have handled you on my knee, and J.
have felt all a fathers pride as saw
YOUR thews and sinews shapeing them
selves to mans estate. You have
never told me falsehood yet. Try
and act in the same way to everyone.
"When you have read this, ponder
over it for while, until you thor
oughly understand it's contents, ana
then destroy it. You will find every
thing arranged with the proprietor,
and Your. first act or self-control will
be to sit down and eat your breakfast,
as though my absence We're some
thing you expected. Lose no time IL
taking train to the north.
And now, my dear son, goodbye.
AZ
You. and may God grant that when we
meet again. be it in this world or the
next. we may be able to say, one to
the other: Il have done nothing for
which you need feel shame You were
sleeping so calmly that, when I kissed
YOU. you never moved. Fear God. hen
or the Queen. do your duty, and re-
member that I am now, as ever shall
be. Your loving
"Father."
Little need had he to tell me to pom
der over his letter. I read it and re-
read it, and I am not ashamed to say
that my tears fell upon it, and at last
I rolled it up, and, setting fire to it,
threw it under the crate, and when 1t
had burned out broke up the ashes.
I found the purse under the pillow,
and I had finished my toilet and fast
ened up my bag. when I saw on the
floor, under the head of the bed. a
Snail parcel. Tt had. apparently. rolled
oft the table. and it might have been
placed there for me: or, again, my
father might have intended to take it
with him, and. i'll the tumult of his
feelings-and judged by my own, this
must have been great-have forgotten
it. 1t was neatly and securely fast
ened. hut I deemed it best and per-
haps curiosity helped me to the decis-
ion, to open it. and when the outer pa
per had been unrolled. I was sure of
part Of the contents. for the scent Of
heliotrope. though very faint, was still
perceptible.
When I had opened it completely
found. as ! had suspected, the little
lace handkerchief that had lain so
near the dead man, and. in addition to
it, there We're five small cards and
some newspaper cuttings Besides the
thee cards I had seen, and which I
have described, I now saw that there
were two others-.to- the six and
seven of spades, each of them show
ing their pips plainly standing out
from red background.
I glanced at the printed matter and
so interested in it did I become that 1
read it through. and this is the sub
stance of what I read. 1t appeared
from the longer of the two cuttings
that on certain morning, which was
alluded to as that of the day before
yesterday, a boy was tending some
cattle on the marsh land near the
town of Oldburgh on the cast coast.
1t was about eleven o'clock in the
forenoon when he noticed a gentle
man riding along the turf on the far
side Of dyke that bounded the marsh.
He was walking his horse and had
come abreast of the boy, and some
two or three furlongs from the rushes
in which he was lying, when man.
apparently a tramp. rose UP from
amongst the gorse. AS the tramp and
the horseman were coming together
the former suddenly threw up his
arms and fell on his face. The gentle
man dis,nounted and, holding the
bride, bent over the PROSTATE man.
In an instant the fellow sprang to his
feet, there ives flash as of STEEL the
gentleman reeled backward and fell
on the turf, and the tramp mounted
the horse and rode eff at a gallop.
The boy was naturally terrified at
what had happened.
His masters house was quite half a
mile away, and thither he ran at top
speed. as it would have been useless
for him to attempt to reach the in
jured man. since the dyke was deep
and broad, and the boy could not
swim.
Mr. Byrne, the master, was quick
witted man. He remembered that he
had seen the inspector of police go
ing towards Thorne, fishing village
some distance along the coast, SO he
set the boy on pony, and bade him
ride with all speed to this village-to
reach which he must of necessity
pass the place where the gentleman
lay-and bring back the official, while
he himself hurried off to Oldburg in his
tax-cart to bring the doctor.
Byrne was some considerable time
infinding the medical man, and when
at last he and that gentleman arrived
at the spot indicated they saw plainly
enough the bloodstains on the grass
and the marks where the horse had
started off at a gallop, but there was
no official, no boy, nor any wounded
man to be seen.
In due course the inspector sum-
noned Thorne by another messenger
arrived and making a somewhat more
extended search than the others had
done he found under the first line OF
f,1ryehruS she's three small cardS-twO