Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-06-28
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Dalziel did not pause in his agitation
paclngs, hardly made any resnonse
whereupon Weems took up the decanter
ana 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
lntelllgence IN regard to the Scarborough
Inns was presently accomplished. and
then, after considerable delay. he retnrn-
ed to the inner office, accompanied by the
lawyer.
Daizlel had, apparently, taken little no
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 hard and desperate resolve fixed
upon his face.
Out with what you know, Chelms-
ford!' said he, harshly.
Il am thoroughly prepared with my re-
port, said the lawyer. 80 far as our
common conspiracy is concerned, we are
perfectly safe; though | wish l could say
as much in your personal behalf, Sir
Luke
what do you mean?' said Dalziel, af-
eCA l1iCS Auu ellpttSU lu6lE SldSSGS.
Let me proceed Systematically, then,''
said the lawyer, seating himself before
the fire. I'm the first place, then, YVES
unable to purchase an evening paper, ow
ing to the lateness of the hour, but man.
aged to get glimpse of one at the hotel,
which amounts to the same thing. Pshaw!
we have taken fright at nothing. There
is nothing more than,a mere paragraph, a
dispatch from Gibraltar, saying that four
or five survivors of the Scarborough had
been landed there from the storeship Mil
tiades week or so ago, and that they
had ventured upon a vague and rambling
opinion, to the effect that the ship had
been destroyed by a torpedo secreted in
her hold. There isn't particle of proof
against us. We are perfectly safe"
Now this report was altogether false,
and had just been concocted by the law
yer, on Weems' advice, for the especial
deception of Dalziel. Chelmsford had, in
deed, read the paragraph referred to
from Gibraltar, the actual report of
which was as follows:
There We're put on short at this port
few days ago, by boats from H. B. Ms
storeship Miltiades, six castaways, picked
up from a raft in the equatorial seas off
the coast Of Africa, whose story is of
most astounding, not to say incredible,
character. According to their statement,
one of the rescued parties was a 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 22d of November by an in
fernal machine, or clockwork contrivance
for the explosion of concealed dynamite,
struggled into her hold by some party or
parties. just before the commencement OF
the homeward voyage, for the purpose of
securing the insurance on bogus diamonds
that had been shipped on the same vessel
after being insured to an immense
amount in the agencies of several English
companies at 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 little boy, Robert Mac
kenzie, whose father died of exposure on
the raft. All are Britons, and all were
passengers on the Scarborough at the
time of the disaster. Whether exaggerat-
ed or not, their true story, when slfted
and published, will probably form a
strange sensation in the annals of marine
misfortune. The delay in the transmits
sion of these facts by telegraph will here
after be explained"
Such was the real and alarming purport
of the dispatch. 1t had almost taken
Chelmsford's breath away at the time of
reading it, but he had nevertheless, push
ed his inquiries to the uttermost; and
now. having received his cue from
Weems, he was ready enough to belittle
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
Dalziel at any cost.
tTo be continued.l