The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
fectly we'll the matchbox which Yox
handed oft >, -

handed out.
do you suppose there was anything in
those pockets besides the matchbox;
anything, l mean, calculated to give away
the wearer of that foul blouse?"
mo. If there had been; if, in other
words, he had found anything there which
suggested a member of the Gillespie fam
lily, he would never have aired the matter
in the presence Of his friends. He would
have gone at once to the police, or en-
deavored to make such capital out of it
as such find would suggest"
"Then you really think he does not
know that the tools he is playing with
have mighty sharp edges?'' -.
II am confident he does not..''
'"That is relief yet he cannot remain
in such ignorance long if I call him to
my assistance
THAT depends -~---z .*r>-"' ~-----,
"HOW, depends?'' ,.'
upon what you want him to do" go:
| For this I had no answer. My plans
were as vague as the wandering smoke
Wreaths curling upward at that instant
| from my neglected cigar.
you have never liked Leighton T re-
| marked, in the hope of adjusting my
thoughts before entering upon the more
! serious portion of this conversation. "Nei-
Their have I,since surprising a very strange
! expression on his face the night Of his
| fathers DEATH
"Yet three quarters of the people who
knew him would tell you that he is a
good man, very good man, the best of
the three, by far"
Notwithstanding his low associates %
ventured.
| Notwithstanding everything. People
are SO deceived by few words uttered in
prayer meeting, that their judgment is
apt to be hlunted to the real character
Of man like Leighton Gillespie
HE must be an odd one I observed.
| 'The lights and shades of such nature
are past finding out In appearance and
| manner he is gentleman, yet if Yox's
| story is true he finds no difficulty in Wis
| iting the worst Of places under circum-
| stances and in garb which bespeaks a
personal interest in them. The nature of
that interest we have dared to infer
from the part played in his visit by the
mysterious Ihial But how account for
such instincts, such murderous impulses
| in man brought UP as he has been? The
! motive must have been serious one to
| drive a man Of his connections into crime.
lean you name it? Was it the need of
money, craving for perfect liberty to
| pursue his own strange courses I'M
| checked, or just the malice of revenge
| full spirit cherishing some ranking
| grudge, which only the death Of Its OBJ
| ject could satisfy?'
| do not ask me. I'm not going to sup
| ply facts and reasons, too, in this mat
! ter. What! Going?"
| Eyes, never don my thinking cap to
any purpose save in privacy and under
| the influences enanating from my own
| room and it's familiar surroundings"
! very good-you shall seek such in
! spiration as is to be found there in Just
another moment. But first let me give you
little further insight into tbs character
| of the man we are discussing This is
something I saw myself: One day last
fall l was going down West Broadway
when I came upon Leighton Gillespie
standing near an elegant turnout, talking
with an ill-shod and bedraggled woman
| AS philanthropy is his fad and occurrences