The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-07-23
Mystery of the
Bayou Woods
BY WALKER
Copyright, 1905. by VAN. Kellogg Newspaper Co.
CHAPTER IX.-CoNTINUED.

CHAPTER IX.-CoNT1NUED.
"You may not remember it, but my
husband was robbed by one of his
clerks a few months ago. The thief,
who has never been caught, took
several hundred dollars in money,
and he may have accidentally disar-
ranged or carried off some of the pa
pers."
"Or he may have done SO purpose
ly. Among Mr.. Wright's last CORE
spondence I find an unaddressed and
unfinished letter. 1t is dated a few
read it to you"
Mr.. Everett then read the following
fragment:
"'Dec. 49,.
"I have misplaced my copy of the
agreement. All danger is now past
and it is time that we should carry
out the terms of the contract; and
I would like for you to appoint a
day for a consultation. Recent ad-
vices have satisfied me that the Colo
RADIO
"This fragment as you will see re-
fers to a contract or an agreement.
The memorandum also refers to an
agreement with Franklin which CON
tanned a schedule. 1t. seems reason
ably certain that this letter was in
tended for. Franklin, and that there
was some kind of an agreement in
fvrifinr hotuyoor 4hn-asz- To-. 1~-,o
reason Mr.. Wright did not send the
letter, and without knowing anything
about the provisions of the agree.
ment, J. should commend his prudence
in not sending it.. If he had lost his
copy of the contract he was practi-
cally at the mercy of the other party
to it, and to notify that party of the
fact would have been very poor judg-
ment. I have not gone through Mr..
Wright's correspondence yet, and I
hope it will throw some light on the
dark places. I half suspect that
there is something of a most impor-
tant character behind the surface,
and I hope I shall be able to get
at it,"
Mrs. Wright remembered that
shortly after the killing of Baxter
she had signed some sort of a real
estate transfer, which she did not I'M
derstand, but which her husband had
told her was a mere matter of form.
Mr.. Everett was of the opinion that
this must have been the transfer to
the Shelby Real Estate company.
"And what do you think of my
brothers. case?" asked Miriam, who
had been an unmoved auditor during
the preceding conversation.
II can't give you an opinion on it,"
said SIR. Everett. "You know I have
been in the case only a day, and I
haze done nc work on it at all. I
have told Herbert to keep his mouth
shut. Tomorrow we are to have an
interview, and he is to give me his
case"
When MI. Everett reached his office
Irving, Warde was waiting for him.
The lawyer had known Irving ever
since he was a boy and had always
taken a warm personal interest in
him. Whenever Irving got into n
kind of a tangle he consulted Mr.. Ev-
erett, and it was owing to these con-
situations that he managed to write
correctly about some abstruse legal
topics and to avoid the shoals of libel.
The lawyer had the utmost confidence
IN the young man and knew that
when he unbosomed himself frankly,
but privately, no public use would
ever be made of his opinions.
II came to see you about the
Wright case" said Irving. ct have
just learned that you will defend him,
and I want to tell you what I know
The lawyer expressed his willing
ness to listen. Irving gave him an
account of the striking incidents with
which the reader has already been
made familiar.
In addition" he said, "to the I'M
explained features of the circumstan-
tial evidence, you can readily estab-
fish the fact that the pistols we're
changed. 1t is generally understood
thai Herbert Wright has a story to
tell which will place a new phase on
the murder and possibly implicate
some one else. So an attempt is made
to poison him. I have announced nv
intention of working at the puzzle,
and have made some important dis
coveries. What is the result? I am
lnred into o den of crime and tumble