Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-09

fortune with her. This learned from
questioning Miss MacFarren."
Parton's heart beat wildly.
She tells me-" went on the inspector
that when the mother reproached Parton
he felt bad. and then did a silly trick. He
wrote out for her on half sheet of note
paper an assignment of all his interests in
the stones. and gave 1t to her, just to prove
that he loved her as much as ever and that
whatever he had was also hers. He ought
to have been an attorney, that young man.
for that assignment was as legal and ship
shape document as you ever saw in your
life, although there were only few words
in It, / suppose that 1t was understood be-
tween them, really, that they should share
would have been all right If she had lived. u
"What?' asked the captain. Did she
die?"
Yes" said the inspector, "she died that
night. No one expected her to, and no one
was with her when she died. MacFarren
was the first person to go to her room after
she died. and he found under her pillow
the assignment that the young man had
given to her. He put it into his pocket,
of course"
Parton had been listening to his narra-
ton with strained attention that attract
ed the captains notice. The skipper inter-
rupted the narrative so that Parton would
have an opportunity to recover himself,
and insisted that they should all three take
another drink. After he had finished with
his whisky the detective went on:
"MacFarren soon showed his hand. The
mother, having believed that her son was
dead, not having heard from him for SO
long, had made MacFarren her sole heir
and executor. OF course, you see what that
meant. He had in his possession the as
signment, and that placed the diamonds
which the son had brought from the Cape
among the mothers personal property
wei. he was bit too greedy, for he
went to young Parton that very day and
demanded to know where the stones were.
al h {ner 10
toner, for he never turned q hair but
treated the demand as a matter of course.
He had the diamonds In some safety de-
post vault, and he gave the old man a
Key which the old fellow believed to be the
right one. That was yesterday IlIckiIv
for the young man, 1t was foggy day. and
the old man. eager as he was to get hold of
the jewels, did not start after them at
that he was afraid of his legs. I don't he.
lleve that any respect for the dead would
have kept him at home
wen, bright and early this morning he
went 10 the vault and found that 1t was
one where the young fellow had held n life
drawer given to him by his father when he
was a small boy, and all there was in n
when the old man pulled 1t out were some
olu letters an old savings bank book, which
carried an account started by him when a
nero lad, and a few little keepsakes s,,oh
as boy would think We're the most vaIu-
able things in the world. The diamonds
This. as ! have said. was early in the
morning, and as the young man had nnt
oeen at home the night before. aIthoupb he
nad teiegraphed to them that he would he
there late. the old man at once mada nm h;s
mind that he had run away -
ne telegraphed to US, and ona Of our
men round out In about half an hour that
me young man had had box also at the
Royal Union Companies. and that he had
gone there the afternoon before and taken
out some things which he had carried awav
with him. OF course, no one knows i,,st
what 1t was that he carried away: but II 10
reasonable to suppose that It was the dia-
monds. The old man at once declared tba =
MS stepson had stolen the stones. and in
the circumstances it was theft, He put orr
people 10 work at once and we had no diff
Guilty in getting the trail.
He went to the Safety Deposit COMPANY
In cab. and from there he took another
cab to telegraph office. stopping once mr.
twice on the way. Then he went to the
Charing Cross hotel and took a room under
false name. While he was there or inst
before he took the room he took a first
class circular tour ticket to Paris under his
own name. That seems like a strange thing
for him to do; but these young fellows whom
some break like that There are those at
the Yard who don't believe that he used the
ticket. and We won't know for sure until
tonight whether he did or not.
Some chaps up there at the Office have
an idea that the Paris ticket was a blind
and that really he has sailed out on some
ship or other. We have had all the liners
he Is probably already in custody. But you
know how thorough we are at the Yard.
and they thought that In addition to watch.
ing the DooamerD there ought TO be ono a.