The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
CHAPTER vi.
The Man Who Was Diqo,nq.

Suddenly incident seeming
he had forgotten it till this returned his
with shock.
When he Oakley had been on the way to
Brighton together few hours she had turned the
versation to Jm life his cousins ranch in Colorado She
had shown attering interest in his since leaving
Oxford and England almost at the tmea troubled
time for him, it then his father had died, leaving
him legacy of but
to think of himself heir thousands. vvien
asked questions about ranch life, and finally illustrate
his answers he had searched his pockets for book in
which to draw rough sketch of the
his cousin had lived and the buildings adjacent.
The notebook forthcoming, had evidently
been forgotten but
eral letters and folded halfshee paper,
events the outside, he had carelessy
scripton Of the Colorado ranch What
paper afterwards he did not know might
the moor OF the carriage and lain there unnoced when they
left the train at Brighton Vven Oakley might kept
sketch
So little Importance attached to the memoranda
found in the portmanteau after the disappearance
photograph and the curl of hair that he had
membered which pocket put into as he had
been talking continually while pencil draw
ing it possible that he inadvertently
for his skechng
He wondered, if this case, which paper had
disappeared in such unlocked Already he
forgotten places named and the sums of
money either received to be sure
which The dates had entirely passed head with
exception of one which he hannened to raember hos
because it associated with familiar to him
that of satans Tor had to do
Tor on April 24th and when the note he
had been pricked by sight in the
quick croWding Of events) that
day.
st Marks eve!'' he murmured wondering how he who
knew SO little OF the church calendar should
Kept IN mind the date of a saints day.
mad always known when ST. Marks and
day seemed to be twned with ivy dapes
an oak Then from neglected shelf
down the missing parcel wrapped there
by the dear old superstious Darmoor been
his nurse During that unforgetabe to
Dartmoor, she had filled his strange ghost
stories redolen of the soil they like
evening mists Some peculiarly blood
curdng nature; and for afterward imaginative
little lad had lain awake at night thinking horrible
naked dead white that great worms thru
the churchyard of Darmoor ST. rearing their
hands like heads and using their naiswhch cleaned thru
the dark with PALE phOsphorescent lght-for eyes
These those people who would ;ie in
the parish during the next and had
inquired the date of this resolving that
ever happened he would avoid Dartmoor Marks eve
I wonder which of the five he thought
now. Curious if it that But, whichever it is
why should the be importance to this fell
low? He must have them all fixed memory and so
far as there nothing papers to
1ncrnlnate him others in into the
hands of strangers
Now that Breakspear had thrown away his chance of
meeting the unknown beauty mistress
Of his thoughts began keen1y quxotic i'm
pulsiveness Certainly it had degrading him and
her also that he should have haggled vugary with the
her acquaintance st4 he had coed evil He