Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-02-07
BY flAJOR ARTHUR GRlFFlThs.

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GUS l cannot, ought not. to believe If
But vet, by the Lord Harry stranpa
things do happen.
Then he pulled up short and faced me
as if We're a criminal and a tough.
II suppose YOU are to be trusted ,
Who and what do YOU cali yourself2
You haven't dreamed all this? You
weren't drunk last night?"
II am a water drinker Sir Charles
Collingham, and take 1T from choice.
not according to my physician's rule. -
l replied severely. ..You. conclude
from Your title are. n British army, nttt-
Ger. but do not consider YOU are a
gentleman to make such aspersions y
Come. come don't lose yonr ten,nars
never dots mistake-in business,
and you haven't told me vet who YOU
are and what YOU have TO do with Can
tain Wood"
The shortest way was to give him one
of my cards. He was not unacouainted
with the name of Saraband. and said
so courteously enough. Indeed. he he
came now so civil that, Judging him to
be really Il person of Importance, gave
him brief outline of the plot to which
we believed Captain Wood had fallen a
victim
You think 1T is the money. do YOU
Nothing else"' he asked sharply.
why, what else could there be-"
HE hesitated for moment, but said
at last:
II am rot at liberty to tell you, en-
actly. They arc confidential matters
connected with the service. But there
might be reasons to induce designing
people to carry off Captain Mood and
hide him for a time. He possesses GER
tain information of the highest value
to Well, I must not tell you. But
the disappearance of these papers, of
the dispatch box, i'm short, supports me
in that view
There are public grounds, then, for
instituting keen search for Captain
Wood"
Very much so, indeed, and we must
instantly call in the police. shall go
az once to Scotland Yard and set the
detectives In motion
Guess We been there already, and
lleS ohiS laughed at me.
By George they Will not laugh at
me. Why, this might become a cabinet
question. If those papers have fallen
INTO the wrong hands, there may be
lile deNll OIL row. Wood or no Wood,
i must have them back this very day
and can't stop talking here
one minute, SIR Charles. My-our
interest in Captain Wood is hardly sec
ond to yours. Anyway there are identi-
cal. ~ would be best, | submit, to
work together.
quite so. That Is very sensible.
liaVe you any plans? What would you
propose lie was as sweet as milk by
li!s .!ile.
Wen, obviously one thing presses
urgently. n descent should be made
by q posse OF police upon that house in
the Strathallan road"
IN any case, there Shall be no more
aeiaS. aere, YOU, sir'-this was to
saNofy-shall the first cab. I'm off to
scoliand Yard. Will you come With
me 60.
father meet you, Sir Charles, out
Sonder, for suppose you'll go yourself
with the police
Certainly l shall, possibly ahead of
'hem' so au reVoir.
stay, SIR Charles. had forgotten
.hls letter which came an hour ago. 1T
is addfessed to Captain Wood, and it
iillShl lhfoW some light on this mystic
rlous affair. TO be sure. it is in wom-
an hand, but was just about to open
~ When you appeared. Do you think 1
dare
Ivy ali means Every scrap of intel
hsehce is OF the utmost Importance
row. IL 10 IL. can settle aiterward
u necessary with Captain Wood"
20 ne broke the seal, opened the let
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cheery laugh.
emo, MISS Fllda, so you have not
been long in coming TO an understand
ing with our man OF many miilioas.
iseio H. ne sald, ana he handed me the
ieller. III was headed 213 Hill street.
ana was signed f'rida. There We're
only few lines:
What has become of you? l thought
we We're 10 see you early, before lunch
con. l have been simply furious. Now
am frightened Something must have
happened. 1T cannot be that you have
already forgotten--last night"
), Reckon L know what she means by
last night, for heard their parting at
the door of the house i'm Princes Gate
Where, no doubt, they had been bill
ing and cooling" added the general.
But she is entitled TO know what mas
happened. You had better go round by
Hill street on your way to Barnes.
Enough said. I'm eff
We soon started Savory and j, in q
second hanson. and at the mans sug
geston took the dog.
He'll surely find the captain" said
Savory, ''if there is amy sort of scent .
and the dog seemed TO understand his
business, for directly we reached Hill
street he was the first inside the house
and raced upstairs in Il businesslile
way and evidently quite at home in the
place.
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