Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-03

nence in the person of Colonel Alpheus.
Then he noted that | was now of age, and
Immediately went on to say: This means
that you must be told certain facts. with
out the knowledge of which you would be
no true Moore. These facts you must
hereafter relate to your son or who
ever may be fortunate enough to inherit
from you. 1t is the legacy which goes with
this house and one which no inheritor
yet has refused either To receive or to
transmit. Listen. You have often noted
the gold filigree ball which | wear on my
watchguard. This ball is the talisman of
our house of this house. ii. in the course
of your life you find yourself in an ex-
tremity from which no issue seems possible
mind the strictness of the injunction-an
extremity from which no issue seems posi-
be-U have never been in such case: the
gold iilgree ball has never been opened by
me)-you will take this trinket from its
chain press upon this portion of il so, and
use what you will find inside. in connec-
ton with Alasi it at this point
John Judson came rushing in and those dis
closures We're made which lost me my
fathers regard and gave to the informer
my rightful inheritance. together with the
full secret of which | only got part. But
that part must help me now to the whole.
/ have seen the hligree ball many times:
Veronica has it now. But its contents have
never been shown me. If / knew what
they We're and why the master of this
secret always left the library
Here the memorandum ceased with long
line SlTdSSllllS from llle IetltI as IL the
writer had been surprised at his task.
The effect upon me of these remarkable
words to heighten my interest and
raise me into state of renewed hope, if
not of active expectation.
Another mind than my own had been at
work along the only groove which held out
any promise of success. and this mind, hay-
ing at its command certain family tradt-
tons had let me into most valuable
secret. Another mindi Whose mind?
That a question easily answered RUC
one man could have written these words;
the man who was thrust aside in early life
in favor of his younger brother, and who
now, by the sudden death OF that brothers
daughter had come again into his inherit
ance. Uncle David, and he only, was the
puzzled inquirer whose self-communings L
had just read. This fact raised a new
problem for me to work upon, and l could
but ask when these lines were written-be-
fore or after Mr.. rfeiffer's deatis-and
whether he had ever succeeded in solving
the riddle he had suggested, or whether il
was still battling mystery to him. l was
so moved by the suggestion conveyed in h s
final and half-iinshed sentence that / soon
lost sight of these lesser inquiries in. the
more important one connected with the fill
gree ball. For / had seen this fligree bail.
l had even handled it. From the descrp-
ton given i was very certain that il had
been one of the many trinkets | had OBJ
served lying on the dressing table when I
made my first hasty examina ton of the
room on the evening of Mrs. Jeffreys death.
WHY had no premOnltlon OF lis importance
as a connecting link between these trage-
dies and their mysterious cause come to ma
at the time when it was within reach of my
hand? 1t was too late now. 1t had been
swept away with the other loose objects
littering The place, and my opportunity for
pursuing this very promising investigation
was gone for the night.
Yet it was with decided feeling of tri-
unnph that / finally locked the door of this
old mansion behind me. Certainly / had
taken a step forward since my entrance
there to which / had but to add another
of equal importance to merit the attention
of the superintendent himself
(To be continued tomorrow