Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-01-23

|, must about it. 1 am an officer of
the law, and I am anxious to find
th&zman. I am sure you will tell me
everything which might help me, and
| ( don't ask to know more"
| She considered 1T for moment.
md then took counsel of frankness.
.sHe admitted it because I asked
! ilim.''
Griffin smiled, and then explained
| the smile. @ q @
.Pardon me-" he said. ST was
| thinking that no one but a woman
would ever have Thought of doing
sucks thing as that. I fancy you
surprised the admission out of him. %
mo, dD not think did. He adj
mitted the fact very willinglv,
| thoagh he would not admit that 1t
| was wrong" @
"Ah; that helps more than you
might imagine. They have all been
looking for seasoned criminal. you
know" @ . GO
.sHe wasn't that she said, with
| an air Of conviction. apart from
| this one great wrong which he had
done. he seemed to bsaa gentleman.
It may seem Incredible to you, but
/ nc IdIIty 1uSlStc0 UPO4 luy
TO Mr.. 0nlbraith."
assuringly. What she was telling
him fitted in admirably with the only
tenab1eA theory he had formed; that
the robbcr was no criminal; that he
was onlye monomania on the social
| side. - O.
"Afnd when he did that he doubt
less assured you that he would con-
slider himself bound in honor not to
take advantage OF your frankness3s'
HE did just that How did you
know?" she asked.
81 merely inferred it. And his
parole was to expire at st. Louis Pr
1T vast did, "a
Griffin rose and found his hat.
81 am greatly obliged to you, Miss
Farnham. ] know you haven't found
it easy to speak of this to a sfran-
ger"
O. While the identity OF the man isestill
a mystery, you have helped more
than you know. Good morning"
Griffin left the house, but instead
of taking the street, he turned aside
to stroll aimlessly along the lake
shore. giving a new theory time to
grow 3 little more definite. Az. has
been said. his trade of man-catcher
had come to be apassion with him.
and he had genius where others Ia
bored sonly with talent. When the
new theory had taken shspe. it
slipped into musing speech.
"She can't account for his little
vagary. but cam He simply fell in
loveewith her at first sight, and be-
cause he was in love with her he
made her do that which she knew to
be right, at whatever cost to himself
That being the case, he is as sure to
turn up here sooner or later as the
I sun is sure to rise tomorrow morn
ing. Better than. that, he may be
here now. I'll camp down and study
my environment for awhile. It's a
pretty place. and I'll call it my va
cation" Q
u In a weeks time Mr.. Thomas Grit
fin had.aearned more about Wahaska
Ethan the ordinary summer visitor
would have learned in a years resi-
dence. He knew Jasper Grierson and
his ambitions, and Jasper Grierson's
daughter and hers. He knew all
about the social teapot tempest, and
could identify the adherents of each
of the factions. de knew that An
dreYo Galbraith was a guest at the
summer hotel on the point, and was
soon able to draw his own conc, IL
sions touching the growing intimacy
between Grierson and the New Or
lqeans banker. The drawing of these
conclusions cost the detective trip
to the pine-land region in the north
ern partoof the state, and the in
Formation he sought and obtained
had no bearing upon the bank rob
berry. jasper Grierson held the re.
version of some worthless pine land
d which he was trying to sell Andrew
Galbraith: that was all.
But in another field Griffin sent his
arrows of Investigation nearer the
target, and that without Knowing it
He came to know all about the Ray.
mers, the iron works company, and
the reorganization of the same with
: one Kenneth Griswold for a partner
Probing a bit deeper into this. more
to account for the odditys of a mar
likes Griswold interesting himself il
; business affair than for any Other
reason. the detective ueearthed {
thing which, the prime movers in il
. were not bruiting abroad. jasper
Grierson had GLIB but succeeded il
smashing young Raymer's enter
. prise; would have smashed it but fol
Griswold's intervention. That wa.
: fact the first. And fact the SECOND
was this: That Jasper Grierson re
pulsed was not Jasper Grierson de
feated. Having failed to smash Ray
mer, he was now trying to obliterats
!. both Raymer and the new partner
t To this end he was ofashioning TIVE