The National tribune., 1901-04-04

Grange felt compelled to resiprocats a.
far as In his power. and billiards, with
| frequent drinks for the lawyer and q
liberal supply. OF water for the detective,
were In order until within q half hour Of
| the eastern-bound train time, when La
| Grange succumbed to an accumulation Of
good-fellowshig. and on his own sugges-
ton, as he wash rising y'n'g 'torney
y'know" accepted the hospitalitIes Of my
sons room, at the Rawlins Houss, where
| he left him sweetly sleeping at q rate
which would prevent the mailing OF the
| letters he had left locked in his office for
at least two days to come: as rising
young attorneys" as a rule, sober off in a
| carefully graduated diminishing scale Of
the original.
On the arrival of my son In Chica 20.
l Immediately caused to be written a let
ter addressed to Miss Lizzie Taylor, at
her post-oflce box in Philadelphia. of
which the following is copy:
Sherman House, Chicago, jan, 1868.
Miss Taylor:
MY dear Friend: You know Of nv In
tended absence from Cheyenne in the
South; During thai. trip, really never
had the time when l could write you so
fully as l desired and even now / am
only able to send you few words. am
en- route to Washington op business, and
have now to ask you to send the street
and number Of your fathers house. even
III II IS not magnificent one as you have
tod me, to my address, at the Girard
douse, IN your city, on receipt of this: as
l shall be In Washington but one day.
and would wish to see both you and your
people without delay. I not only greatly
wish to see you for selfish reasons, which
our long and pleasant correspondence will
suggest to you ms both reasonable and nat
urai, but there are other good reasons,
which You all will readily understand
when L tell you that | met him accident
ally just before my return to CHEYENNE
and that l have n communication of n
personal nature to deliver. While not
| cannot forget that | am his friend. and
he your brother.
I'm great haste.
Your true friend,
"ADOLPH LA c..
"P. 81 leave here for the East this
morning. Please answer on immediate
receipt. A T."
This was posted on the eastern bound
train not an hour after my sons arrival
from the West; and another note was
written upon the back of an envelope
which had passed through the mail, and
had got very much used appearance, and
ran thus:
Father Of Lizzie:
Treat Adolph well; you can trust him.
Lhe nun one OF tne photos taken at At
lanta in my full-dress uniform; keep one
other of the same for yourselves; but de-
stroy all the rest Have been so hurried
and worried that don't remember wheth-
er have said anything about photographs
before. But this is matter of imperative
necessity. Adolph will explain how he
met me. Good by. H"
1t was impossible to detect any differ
ence between this handwriting and that
Of Capt. Taylor's in his business CORE
spondence to Kuhn Brothers; and, armed
with this document, with the assistance
Of the epistolary self-introduction which
had preceded it, l directed my son to
leave for Philadelphia that evening. secure
admission to Taylor's residence and the
family's confidence, agreeable to the ap-
pointment made by mail, and thus not
only secure the mans photograph, but
other information that would be definite.
Ito be continued.)