The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-24

"And now, let me entreat You tc
make no efforts to find me. for II you
| do you may only be finding me.for an
enemy, We have always been known
nv the name of Tremayne, hut this,
although your Christian name. IL no
your surname. I shah not write that
| down. but IL happier days come-if
I.God grants that should put my arms
about YOU again-then we shall be
known by the name Of our forbears. ]
have watched you from aatiny child, ]
have handled you on my knee, and ]
have felt all a fathers pride as 1 saw
your thews and sinews shapeing them
selves, to q mans estate. You have
never told me q fa1sehO0d yet. Try
and act in the same way to everyone.
"When you have. read this, ponder
over 1t for a while, until you thor
ouehly understand its contents, and
then destroy 1t. You will find every
thing arranged with the proprietor,
and your first act of s~elf-control will
be to sit down and eat your breakfast,
as though my absence were pm
thing you expected. Lose no time in
taking train to the north. III,
b. ANQ uONy lily uCoA oOAaS2 5S0NAISSSs
Pray for me as I shall eve do for
you, and may God grant that when we
meet again, be it in this world or the
next, we may be able to. say, n to
the other: u 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 / am now, as I 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 I 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
small parcel. 1t had, apparently, rolled
off the table, and 1t might have been
placed there for me-: or, again. my
father might have intended to take 1t
with him, and, in 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. but I deemed 1t best, and per-
haps curiosity helped me to the decis-
ion, to open 1t, and when the outer Pa
per had been unrolled, I was sure of a
part of the contents. for the scent Of
heliotrope. though very faint, was still
perceptible.
When I had opened it completely I
found, as / had suspected, the little
neal the dead man, and, in addition to
it. there We're five small cards and
some newspaper cuttings. Besides the
three cards I had seen, and which I
have described, I now saw that there
were two others-to-wit. the six and
seven Of spades, each Of them show
ing their pips plainly standing cut
from g red background.
I glanced at the printed matter, and
so interested in 1t did I become that /
read it through, and this is the sub
stance Of what / read. 1t appeared
from the longer of the two cuttings
that on a 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 east 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 a 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 q 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 ~dismounted and, holding the
bride, bent over the PROSTATE man.
In an instant the fellow sprang to his
feet, there was q flash as of steel, the
gentleman reeled backward and fell
on the turf, , and the tramp mounted.
the horse and rode off 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 n In
jured man. since the dyke was deep
and broad, and the boy could not
swim.
Mr.. Byrne, the master, was a quick
witted mar. He remembered that ne
had seen the Inspector Of police go
ing towards Thorne, q fishing village
some distance along the coast, SO he
set the boy on q pony, and bade MN
ride with all speed to this village-to
reach which he must Of necessity
the place where the gentleman
iay-and bring back the official. While
he himself, hurried*off to Oldburg IN MS
to bring the doctor.
Byrne was some considerable time.
tnflnding the medical man. n when
at last he and that gentleman arrived
at the spot indicated they saw plainly
enough the b%loodstains on the grass
and the marks where the horse had
started OF at gallon, but there y
no oficial. no boy. nor any
man to be seeng
+ In due course the inspector SUM
moned Thotne by another messenger
arrived and making e. somewhat nor
extended search than the others had
done he, found under the first ineSo q
.fu~rzebrushes three small cards---tNsXos,
aces Sandsthe six ofgspadas;;RSand "a ma
say here that the description of these leeaNs
cards tailed exactlysswith hat g three
ofSthose I found In the pareei. N INK
but In spitefSof the help q . the teieS