Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-06
BY FREDERIC REDDALE
CHAPTER VII.

Richard Dysart's first act, after set
ting foot on dry land at Southampton
was to dispatch two letters-one tc
Marcia at Gatewood, the other to Stella
to Denecroft. All his boyish anger
with Sir Arthur had long since evapo-
rated, and he rightly Judged that his
brother would meet him halfway on
his homecoming, and let by-gones be
by-gones. He would arrive almost as
soon as the letters
Ninety minutes later he was in the
metropolis via the steamer train, and
after breakfast at his old club, the
Raglan, he made sundry visits to the
tailor, the haberdasher and his bank
ers, and then drove to the identical
private detective agency in Yelling
ton street which Rossiter Kane had
visited only a few hours before.
If the case had gone to Scotland
Yard he might've do not say he
would, but he might-have learned
that there was sort of polite hue-and-
cry out after himself. But the private
inquiry people do not do business that
way; they have for one of their mot
toes. Let not your right hand know
"hat your left hand is doing" and
then proceed to collect backsheesh
from both. Which is all in the way
of business.
Being a straightforward sort of fell
low, Richard wrote his name on a
sheet OF paper, intimated that he
would like to see the manager in per-
son, and was forthwith shown into
the sanctum Of the great man, when
the following colloquy ensued:
What can we do for you, Mr.-er-
Dysart" inquired the manager, as
though he had not heard the name of
his visitor in that very room consider
ably less than a week previously
1 want you to undertake little in
qulry for me-" was the reply.
connected with any particular per-
SON."
NO one that can name to you now
that is for you to discover"
"Quite sufficiently vague" was the
retort, but if you will give me your
instructions we will endeavor to carry
out your Wishes
Il wish TO find out whether there
has suddenly appeared in London-or
in Europe, for that matter-within the
last year any man of great wealth hail
Ing from South Africa, and whether
that person has been in any way con-
nected with the diamond fields, or has
marketed any considerable quantity
of stones. That's it, think, in a nut
she'll"
The instructions are explicit
enough. Mr.. Dysart," said the man
ager, "but | may be allowed to point
out that there are probably a dozen
men in London or in Amsterdam at
this moment who would come under
your classification
Every good,' said Richard, coolly,
"and the person I want will be one of
the dozen. If it lies within your prov
ince, send me description of the Go
ings Of EACH
Every good, sir. Anything more?"
II think that will be enough for
starter" said Richard, Except that
should like you to trek at once-I mean
make haste, you know-and you need
not worry about the expense" laying
a fifty-pOund Bank of England note
on the desk.
''You will hear from US in a few
days, Mr.. Dysart. Have l your adj
dress?'
"Denecroft by Blandford, Dorset"
and so saying he took his departure.
Eve must give them both run for
their money" soliloquized the astute
manager, "but it strikes me as case
of Tweedledum and Tweedledee The
first thing is to notify Mr.. Kane that
his man is in England"
But before the report was prepared
in the customary verbiage of the
agency, there arrived a dispatch from
Rossiter Kane in these words:
''Discontinue search; the gentleman
has been found"