Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-07-18
Con'mued from Int week:
SYNOPSIS.

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0e harmed Of existence Of hidden treas
esw Chinese border. Hayle only half be-
.sss account but nevertheless agrees to
h search.
PART 11.-Reaching Sengkor-Wat, the
1a0 make their way through the ancient
ne.0sse and toward the once splendid pal
~ Toward dusk after most tedious
@9r1aund va1l,s. IN VAIN are discov-
- great quantities Of bar gold I'd uncut
- and sapph!re* Hayle fills hoth
ya1 eatside again. On reaching camp they
- heir two Burmese servants. Slain end
1nu1hsJ mutilated,, Chinese fashion. Dur
LIZ a2e night Hayle secures treasure and
A1Ls away into the jungle.
nsnse1ous, Hayle is found by English off,
AD near frontier station Of Nampeung
- ooo1 ~ Able he leaves for Rangoon
- thence to England. .
R11T 1.-TWO months later another
Nk1 at Nampoung, while out on q hunt
@e. across Kitwater and Codd. Kitwa-
~ explains they were traders who had
A1e1 into hands Of Chinese who had put
axsr. After recovering somewhat from
N95eetS Of exposure and tortures they set
IL ~ pursuit Of Hayle.
EHAPTER 1.-George Fairfax relates
- he became detective in Australia
- finally came to- open up an office In
aHAPTER IT.-Kitwater and Codd try
- RecuEe :Fairfax's services. They repre-
1aHk tAemselves as missionaries returned
...S over to S1 them on 'i his Death death p sreat
=M1e which was stolen by a guest
1zya9 at the mission. Fairfax almost
annzsz'des not to: take case.
CHAPTER I1I.-Miss Kttwater calls on
sea4s "a persuading him to take up the
- 1aa.sn Edvard Bsyley, Of the santa
- Mining company, seeks to get Fair
-4&eE who is suspected of embezzle-
-4 Detective replies he now has case
H1tch will engage hdm for some time:
@Hsually large uncut stones have there
IA Seen received, and gets description Of
Ann Il whom they were bought.
CHAPTER ".
II will be truism to declare that
ANsan nature is about as complicat-
nj II piece of machinery as could be
Mpzsd In the human world. And vet
= In not know why it should be con-
1kzxd SO. All things and all men
ID nsf rum in grooves: A man to be
u Gz1minal need not be hopelessly
MI II every other sense: I have met
-1erers. who did not possess suffi-
s9zs nerve to kill rabbit, burglars
WAe ~ould rob q poor man Of all his
DsDessions in the world, and yet
1 mot dsipoil. little child Of a
H1Epenny. The fact Of the matter
Is ~ an have our better points, our
sH: nnate knowledge OF. good and
ssR Hsyle had betrayed Kitwater
- Cedd in, the cruelest fashion
DsBIe, and by so doing had con-
dI1ed them to the most f1endish
oxears the mind of man could con-
oEM<~ Yet it was through his one:
EDsd paint, his weakness, if l might
- describe it, that was enabled to
xnne to my first grip with him. -
m was between the hours of two
11 shree that entered the gates of
HsuPton cemetery and commenced
~ examination of the various graves
asss. contained. Up one path I
x11dered and down another. in
araEsAr of the resting-place of tho
pear crippled sister of whom Gideon
1ayle had been so fond. It was q
@E time before I found it, but at
Ase was successful. To my aston
aDenf the stone was plainly q new
-. and the grave was tastefully
a1essated with flowers. As . matter
II fact il was one of the prettiest in
III Reighborhood, and to me this told
On avn tale. went in search of the
aeeessary official and put the case to
RR- He informed me that was COR
nee1 in my supposition, and that the
ssuna' Had only lately been, erected,
anE what was more TO the point, he
a.1nrmed me that the gentleman who
hs1 given the order for it had only
sAe week before paid the necessary
- for insuring the decoration Of
IL grave for many years to come. J.
=. gather from your words that
HE gentleman, who must be rela-
ssr OF the deceased, has been here
1.e<sy," said. - !: 80. ss>o
IKE was here last Sunday after
- the man replied. HE is a
-It Kindly and generous gentleman,
and must have been very fond Of his
mz3eT: The way he stood and looked
n that stone the last time he was
A@e was touching to see. He'd been
II foreign parts, sir, and is likel v to
20 out there again, so! 1 gathered
un what he said. It. is a pity
0eze are not more like him"
= This was news, indeed, and 4
DEfed up my ears on hearing it.. -.
Having learnt afl=~I-was likely: to
! 1ReveH,5I thanked the man for his
Anf.ess and left the cemetery. If
: - done nothing else, I had at least
sded myself upon one point, and
~ Was the fact that Gideon Hayle
- hees in London within the week.
eD such circumstances it should
- b very difficult to obtain his adj
ANA But I knew from experience
- ~hen things seemed to be run;
@c NEST smoothly they are %
2A liable to q breakdown 90 It
- other time-sometimes even
D0e 3d. 4 accordingly hailed . cab
- drove back to my Office. Once
tA1s entered up my diary accord
- to custom, wrote q note to Kit