The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
My Stangest Case
BY GUY BOoTHBY.
Author Of cdr. Kikola," "The Beautiful
White Devii.' "Pharos, The
Egyptian" Etc.
lcopyrighted, 1901, by Ward. Lock & Col
CHAPTER XII.

1t was in the early afternoon fol.
lowing our leaving Paris that we
reached Naples. But this time, in spite
of our endeavors to prevent it, Miss
Kitwater was quite tired out. She
certainly pretended not to be, but it
was difficult, if not impossible, for
her to conceal the fact. Immediately
on arrival we conveyed her to the best
hotel, of the proprietor Of which Lee
:glosse had already made inquiries, in
order to find out whether or not Hayle
had taken up his abode there.
1t was with relief that we discov-
cred that no person answering at all
to his description was located there.
That done, we commenced our search
for the man we wanted. We decided
to first try the offices of the various
steamers plying across the Mediter-
ranean to Port Said. Considerably
Ito our amazement, however, we hap
-pened to be successful at the arSt cast.
A man signing himself as Henry Gift
ford had applied for first-class pass
age to Colombo, with the intention of
changing at that port into another
steamer for Hong-Kong.
"What was he like?" / inquired of
the clerk; ''and did anything strike
you as peculiar about him or his ap-
.pearance?
"Well, there was one thing" he
said. "And at the time must say
I thought it funny. When asked him
his name he began Gideon and then
suddenly corrected himself and said:
''Henry Clifford I remember wonder
iing whether he was using false name
'or not. He booked his passage at the
aast moment, and seemed in a great
hurry to get aboard-being afraid he
would miss the boat
questioned him as to the mans gen
eral appearance, and when 1 had
Learned all he had to tell us, was per-
fectly satisfied in my own mind that
Hayle was the man who had gone
aboard.
"He didn't lose much time" said Lee
glosse. "Marle my words, he'll leave
the steamer at Port Said, and will
either come back on his own tracks, or
go up the Palestine coast to Jaffa, and
thence back to Europe. What do you
think is the best thing to be done?"
''See the agent of the company
here and get him to telegraph to Port
Said" [ answered. Both to their
agent there and the captain of the
steamer. If the captain telegraphs
back that Clifford is our man, we must
wire to the police authorities author
izing them to detain him pending our
arrival. There is bit of risk at
tached to it, but if we want to catch
him we must not think of that"
We accordingly interviewed the
agent and placed the case before him.
We told him who we were, and Lee
glosse explained to him that he held
a warrant for the arrest of one Gid
con Hayle, an individual whom he had
every reason to believe was endeavor-
ing to escape under the assumed name
of Henry Clifford. The clerk was next
called in, and gave his evidence, and
these matters having been settled,
the kilograms were dispatched to both
the captain and the agent.
Some four days we knew must GER
tainly elapse before we could receive
a reply, and that time was devoted to
searching the city for Kitwater and
Codd. That they had not booked pas
sages in the same boat in which Hayle
had sailed, we soon settled to oul
satisfaction. In that case we knew
that they must be domiciled in Ma
piles somewhere. In the intervals be
tween our search Leglosse and l usec
our best endeavors to make Miss Kit
water enjoy her stay. We took her to
oompcii, climbed Vesuvius together
visited Capri, Ischia, the great mu
scum, the kings palace, and dined to
gether every evening. | had not beer
acquainted with the girl much more
than a fortnight, and yet | felt as if
had known her all my life, and thu
greater my experience of her was, the
better [ liked her. AS for Leglosse, he
,outdid himself in his devotion. He
made the most extraordinary toilets
in her honor, and on one occasion
went even so far as to inform me that
if all Englishwomen were like this
particular specimen, he would say