The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-16

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in him again.
"Well," he continued, with a sob, Il
went to you, uncle and said that was
going to make fool of myself, and
it's certain that have kept my word.
L ought to have told my father, and /
tried to do it, but as soon as l limited
that there was anything wrong with
Carl l saw that he was as strongly
prejudiced as you were. And, as for
my mother, couldn't tell her half the
truth or ask her to believe what was
so bad that l couldn't believe it my
self really couldn't.
"Now, there's something in my char
acter that is going to be rooted out of
it. There is a tendency to think of
trickery as a resource when l am
hard pressed In games. while l am
always fair. have most unholy gift
of footing the other fellow. But l
fight against this fault. and | am going
to fight harder.
'In this emergency l fell bac! upon
my besetting sin. OF course have al
ways known that You believed me to
| be queer boy with certain super
natural gift. Why. it seems to me that
l found it out before | was five years
old: 1t used to make me miserable and
! ashamed years ago. and | never would
, say anything about it except to deny
that | was different from others. Yet
sometimes this deep seated influence
in me would boil up. and l would go
out and fool somebody just to get the
thing off my mind"
At this Donaldson dropped his head
into his hands and groaned.
Il know it's pretty bad. father" said
Donald. You have a perfect right to
be ashamed of me. And. oh. my moth
er! What shall say 70 her? But
mustn't think of it. Let me get on
| with my confession. How many tricks
have | played"
This was probably not intended for g
question. and yet | answered it. Sin
gularly enough, my answer conceded
with the general view as it was ex-
pressed in the long continued public
discussion that followed. both in and
out of print.
There ere seven chief mysteries
here, as | see the case said l, count
! ing them off on my fingers. There's
| the matter of the expected robber, the
| finding CT the diamond collar, the ex-
| posture Of Gillespie, the matter of
Walmsley's hand the prediction of the
/ vote, the disclosures regarding Jim
Bum and the prediction of Gillespies
| death"
Dent don't" cried Donald II new
! err meant to predict his death. I've
Il I,
more idea that he was going to die
/ than | had that | was going to die
| l meant Just what said-that if he
| didn't speak then he'd never have the
| chance. Coincidence can always be
| counted upon except when you want it
| right away. Wait, and it will always
| come.
LAS to the robbcr. made up any
sort of story that would make you
watch the safe. Healy gave me de-
! scriptiOn of the packages. He had
| seen you put them away. l thought that
| the money was still in them. and
| hoped that YOU would scare Bum away
or catch him if he was really planning
such crime. happened to have seen
| William Hackett in New York, and
|
saw in that Il chance to impress you
! uncle and | had made up my mind
that you must come to believe more
and more strongly in my powers in or
der that you would finally take my
word against Carl Archer'S. Later, OF
course, | did all that could to impress
Mr.. Bum. I just worked on his feel
ings l dragged him up to Mr.. Kel
wins that night. l did everything tC
increase his superstition so that he
would eventually be afraid of me ant
confess to me and obey me. as he sub
| seQuently did"
| "Thank heaven"' interjected.
GAS to Gillespie" continued Donald
che was brought out here first by Carl
, who by that time had Mr.. Bum com
, ! pletely in his power and was afra il
. | that | might shake the hold Car
also wanted to know what | was try
[ ing to do, whether | had trapped an,
secret, whether l was aware that HI
I was plotting to drive your business
I into the trust so that he might be mad
l the manager of the concern and exc,
+ | else a spurious generosity toward m.
\ father.
+ Tim Healy saw conversation be
, | tween Gillespie and Carl in your room
:. and that let me into the whole trut
j about Gillespie ard about the fight tina
e would be made for the control of til
o branch road. l frightened him ava
: the first time by having Healy tell hir
l. that he had received telephone me:
q sage from Il Princeton friend of min
d saying he'd be in Tunbridge by the 3 g
I train.
d eff you see young Mr.. Donaldson 6
the house. professor said Healy, wi
v you give him this message?
Il "rhe bogus professor was in no pos
r ton to meet a man from Princeton