Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-11-22

make no efforts to find me, for II 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 H happier days come-if
God grants that I should put my arms
about you again-then we shall be
known by the name Of our forbears
have watched you from tiny child. I
have dandled you on my knee, and
+ ave felt all a fathers pride as saw
your thews and sinews shapeing them
selves to a mans estate You have
never told me a falsehood yet. Try
and act In the same way TO everyone.
! when you have read this, ponder
over IL for while, until you thor
oughIy understand it's contents, and
then destroy IT, You will find every
thing arranged with the proprietor,
and your first act of self-control will
be to sit down and eat your breakfast,
as though my absence were some
thing you expected. Lose no time In
taking train to the north.
"And now. my dear son. goodbye.
Pray for me, as shall ever 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, one TO
the other: Il have done nothing for
which you need feel shame You were
sleeping so calmly that; when ] kissed
you. you never moved. Fear God. hon
or the Queen, do your duty, and re-
member that am now, as I ever shall
be. Your loving
p Father"
Little need had he to tell me to pom
der over his letter. read It and re-
read It, and / am not ashamed to 'ay
that my tears fell upon II, and at last
7 rolled IL ZIP, and, setting fire to IT,,
threw It under the crate, and when #,
had burned, out broke, up the ashes.
found the purse under the pillow,
and had finished my toilet and fast
ened mp 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 It 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
1t. 1t was neatly and securely fast
ened, but deemed II 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 a
part OF the contents. for the scent OF
though very faint. was still
a. i
When had opened It completely I
found. as I had suspected. the little
lace handkerchief that had lain so
near the dead man, and, in addition to
II, there were FIVE small cards and
some newspaper, cuttings. Besides the
three cards had seen, and which /
have described. 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 a red background. vy
I glanced at the printed matter, and
SO interested in 1t did become that I
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 az 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.
It was about eleven o'clock in the
forenoon when he noticed a gentle
man riding along the turf on the far
side Of q 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 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 a fash 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
mile away, and thither he ran at top
speed. as II 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 a quick
witted man. He remembered that he
had seen the inspector of police go-
ing towards Thorne, a fishing village
some distance along the coast, so he
set the boy on a 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 gaIlop. but there was
no official, no boy, nor any wounded
man to be seen.
In due course the inspector sum-
moned Thorne by another messenger
arrived and making a somewhat more
extended search than the others had
done he found under the first line OF
furzebrushes three small cards--two
aces and the six OF spades; and may