Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-07-18

II regret that such q sthlng IS OUT
Of my power" I answered. The
man came into and left this room.
without being hindered by me. : s#s'ss#
Kitwater sprang to his feet with
an oath that struck me as coming
rather oddly from the lips of q mis-
sionary. x s.sr
!. II see it. all. You are in leagne
with him. he cried, his face suffnsed
with passion. You are siding with
him against us. By God you are, and
III have you punished for it. You
hoodwinked us, you sold us. You've;
taken our money, and now you've
gone over and are acting for the
enemy 80 ~a 4. s.Ess .:.ssss ,.s,s .S.
: / opened the drawer of my table
and took out the envelope he had
given me when he had called. For :
reason of my own I had not banked
the note it contained. -
Excuse me, Mr.. Kitwater," I said,+
speaking as calmly as could, "but !
there seems to be q little misunder-
standing. have not sold you, and
I have. not gone over to the enemy.
There. is the money you gave me,
and I: will not charge you anything 7
for the little trouble 1 have beert
put to. That should convince you of
my integrity. Now perhaps you will
leave my office, and let me wash my
hands of the whole affair."" =: .
l. noticed that little Coddx placed
his hand upon the others arm. It
travelled down until their hands. met.
saw that the blind man was MAX
ing an effort to recover his. COM
posture, and felt sure that he re-.
GREETED ever having lost it. A mo-
ment later Codd came across the
room to my table, and, taking up a
piece of paper, wrote upon it the
following words: @*.,. ~.:>.. - i, 3
, ,*Etwater is sorry, am sure. Try
to forgive him. Remember what he
has suffered through Hayle." i 4 &
The simplicity of the message
touched me. /:
pray sit down minute, Mr.. Kit
WATER" 1 said: "and let me put my
self right with YOU: It is only
natural that you should get angry
if YOU: think have treated you as
you said. just now. However, that
does not happen to be the case. I
can assure you that had F. known
who Hayle was, Izshould have taken
very good care that he did not leave
this Office until you had. had an in
terview with him. Unfortunately,
however, I was not aware of his
identity. I have encountered some
bold criminals in my time, but 4 do
not know that have ever had q
more daring one. than the man who.
treated you so badly"
I thereupon proceeded to give him
a rough outline of Hayle's interview
with myself, and his. subsequent
treatment of me. Both men listened
with rapt attention. X
= THAT is Haylez all over" said Kit:
water when / had finished. ut is
not his fault that you are not a.
dead man now. He will evade us If
he possibly can. The story of the
roughs you have just told us shows
that he is aware that you are on the
trail, and, if know him at all, he
will try the old dodge, and put run
ming water between you and himself
as soon as possible. As 1said to you
the other day, ne: knows the world
as well as you know London; and, in
spite of what people say, there are
still plenty of places left nit where
he can hide and we shall never, find
him. With the money he stole from
us he can make himself as comfort.
able as he pleases~ wherever he may
happen to be. To sum it all up, if
he gets weeks start of us, we shall
never set eyes on him again.
IF that is so we must endeavor to
make sure that he<does not get that
start" 1 replied. II will have the
principal ports watched, and in the
meantime will endeavor to find out
where he has slowed himself away in
London. You may rest assured. of
one thing, gentlemen, l took this
matter up in the first place as an
ordinary business speculation. l. am
now going OH for that reason and
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me that have never had attempted
before, and for the future he is my
enemy as we'll as yours. 1 hope I
have set myself right with you now.
You do not still believe that am
acting in collision with him?"
II do not" Kitwater answered,
vehemently. "And I most humbly
apologize for having said what l did.
It would have served me right il. you
had thrown the case up there and
then, and I regard it as q proof of
your good feeling towards us that
You consent to continue your work
upon it. To-day is Friday, is it not?
Then perhaps by Sunday you may
have something more definite to
tell u.s." .~-~'-'~-2" & -.
1T is just possible, I may" re-
turned. !
I'm that case 1 am instructed by.
my niece to ask if you will give us
the pleasure of your company at
Bishopstowe on that day. After the