The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

: That's how it seems to me, but he
J is an obdurate old ass
4 wish / might have a look your
I bruised member" sad Maitland care
/ lessly I studied surgery once and
{ might find reasons Tor disagreeing with
I this old sawbones. fSpOse we take a
/ look at it, anyway
Could you put it up again so that he
wouldn't suspect
Right and tight as. package. Of
/ tea said the detective, draining his
+ glass.
The baron poured out some brandy
/ and drained It at a gulp. ITO it then
Z before MolIie gets back I half suspect
! she stands in with the doctor to keep
me housed up here for fear 1 will see
/ the little girl
! Maitland needed no second invitation.
/ With his penknife he quickly cut the
I stitches and rapidly unrolled the band
I ages. His hand shook and his face
/ flushed as fold after fold was wound
Z away. The other watched him coolly
( without once wincing. At last the
/ splints lay bare. Maitland lifted them
/ gently away, his gaze rfveted on the
! fingers.
What's the matter with you, man?
/ It's the arm that is broken. up here
( The fingers are all right"
repeated
! the detective, setting his teeth to hide
! his disappointment ct isn't the same
/ at ALL"
What isn't the same? They haven't
1 changed hands ON me, have they?"
/ II could almost believe they had. -
| Maitland rejoined under his breath.
But, say, you don't need to be cooped
I up here any longer. That old doctor is
a fraud. Your arm is in fine shape. I'll
/ put on the bandage and we'll go out to-
! gether for an airing. What do you
/ say to a drive out to the hill 10 see Ma
/ bel?''
I'm with you" cried the other.
| Hurry up and we'H get off at once
That night Maitland paced his room
/ for hours trying to find the end of the
/ thread that would unravel this mys-
/ terry. The deeper he had gone into it
the more he was puzzled. The hand Of
/ the baron was not the hand of the rob
/ Der. OF that he was certain. And yet
] the money ne was spending lavishly
was no doubt the very money taken at
\ that time. Had the tramp been one Of
I a company to commit the crime his ac-
/ completes would have shown up for
| their share of the plumber. Yet here he
was spending it openly and in a manner
/ to attract the greatest possible atten-
/ tion TO himself. Then there was the i'm
/ print of the hand on the dust under
/ the carpet. That was left by the real
/ thief. Who was he and how did he
! learn of the secret hiding place? Could
/ il be MOllie-yes, why not? The belief
/ that the hand under the bandages was
the guilty hand had blinded him. She
was an accomplice of the real thief and
was helping him to get the money that
I he had somehow lost to the tramp. It
was through her that he must work to
catch the real criminal.
/ With this end in view Maitland vis-
I tied daily with the baron and encour-
| aged the latter's attention to Mabel.
! This was not a difficult task. Mabel
was such a sweet little body that the
! baron was soon head over heels in love
with her. He showered her with pres
ents, dressed her in silk and laces, took
her to drive daily and gave out every
whore that they were 70 be married.
MOl,ie was furious, but her hold on the
baron was gone. He refused her en-
trance to his quarters. sent back her
letters unopened and PASSED her on the