The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-12-02

ceased, all Of whose belongings were
stored in leather portmanteau much
battered by wear and plentifully sprink-
led with colored labels bearing the
names of foreign hotels and towns.
With some expectation -Mackworth |
opened it, thinking that here might lie |
some clew to the owners terrible death. |
With this idea uppermost in his mind |
the Inspector examined its contents; |
| a suit of clothes with empty pockets, |
some torn covered shilling novels of |
| sporting interest, and pass books con-
| tanning dates of races and columns Of |
| figures But there was neither letter, |
| photograph, paper, nor aught else /!
| which might serve to throw light on
the mystery Mackworth sought to solve.
Only one thing which the portman-
teau held possessed the slightest in
terest for him, this being an old pair
CT kid gloves, well Worn, stained and
| wearing the impress of the wearer's
| hands. Neither were they the shape
! nor size of the glove found upon the
path fronting Mrs Dumbarton's house;
the glove Mackworth had already COM
| pared with the hands of the deceased;
the glove which might or might not
have belonged to the man who caused
David Dumbartons death.
The inspectors disappointment
served to strengthen, if possible, his de-
| lGTn1lIldlltnl 10 ulSCoNeI SOlllt VI Vie de-
tails regarding the life of this man
details by which his actions might be
traced his associates known his MUIR
derer revealed. But at present Mack
worth had absolutely no guide to direct
his search; no clew which afforded him
the slightest aid toward indicating
where that search should begin.
Nothing daunted, by this, he and
those he employed began system OF
inquiry and investigation. so stringent
in itself, so Widespread in its raml-
tications, that the intelligence sought
must be found, always provided that
the deceased had not. during his short
stay in London purposely secluded
himself from friends and companions
and strangers alike. He had probably
visited England for the purpose OF So
letting or demanding help from his
Wife; it was possible he had intended
his stay to be short Had it been his
policy while in town to lead a perfectly
solitary life, as it seemed feasible to
suppose, from the fact that he seldom
left his lodgings during the day, the in
Vestigaton OF the detectives might end
in failure.
Then came the supposition that the
deceased would not voluntarily isolate
, himself II without a motive. Was that
motive fear? And if So did not fear
argue the existence of an enemy?
While inquiries We're being made re-
gardng David Dumbarton throughout
, the length and breadth of London,
Mackworth placed himself in communi-
+ cation with the foreign police, whose
pe%fect system OF espionage enables
them to track with ease and give with
readiness the information required re-
: garding those who have lived abroad.
!, 1t was with considerable eargerness he
> waited for information, which came in
the first place from the Partisan police.
;. The deceased, whose name, age,
height and appearance were perfectly
! given, together with the date on which
:, he had arrived in and subsequently
:. left the French capital, had said the re-
= port, lived in an apartment in the Rue
a Petit Maitre, on the left bank of the
q Seine, during the first five months He
= had habitually frequented race courses
= = and was well know to sporting men anc
y jockeys, who with the singers of the
= cafes chantants and the chorus of the
= opera house were his chief associates
- No charge had ever been made agains
: him. He was not, so far as known
: a member of any political society, MOI
n the spy of any government, nor had Il
= been discovered that his domestic re.
- lations caused the jealousy or emit,
of friend or acquaintance. He appeared
to be popular.
On his arrival In the city he hat
seemed prosperous. The source of hi.
income was not known. or late he hat
been impecunious. He had arrived il
Paris from Monte Carlo. where he wal
we'll remembered by the police, WHIT
We're unable to throw any light upon hi
private life, or to produce any accuse
ton against him. Further investiga
ton would be made concerning him.
With this report and the promis
with which it concluded, Mackwortl
was obliged to content himself for thu
present. The former contained n,
statement of social communications. NJ
hint at domestic wrongs; nothing, in
deed, that served to forshadoW or &C
count for the tragedy which had be
fallen David Dumbarton. But the de
tails given We're of the surface rathe
than of the private life Of the deceased
and it might well be that beneath tn
iovial exterior of this frequenter Of rae
courses and cafes chantants, this popu
lar English gentleman of convivia
tastes, thatinterests, intrigues and pas
sions, all the stirring elements of
stormy drama, played an importan
part in an existence unsupported b.
his companions, unknown to his friends
But though Mackworth considers
that revenge was the most probabl
motive that brought about Dumba.
y toms death, he assured himself it wa
not the only one which could be mad
to account for the tragedy. Anothe
"a had, indeed, presented itself to the in
spector's mind; motive at whicl
> through silent hours he looked from ev
!, cry IedSolldDIe point OIL view, EQeuDer
"a ating on it's possibilities, which grew
stronger from being constantly consid
cred, and dwelling on its feasibiitie
with something like fascination binding
him to his mental pursuit.
This motive was the love of MAJ
for woman whose husband stood be
tween the slayer and his happiness.
And the man whom Maclsworth sus
SRI apected was George Bostock.
CHAPTER X.
Now, as a man of the world who's
experience was extensive, Mackwortl
n believed that of all motives which actu
ate humanity, love remains the mos
. powerful. AS q force for good or evi
its strength was inculculable. It hat
proved the handspring of nineteenth
of the cases he had been called on t.
Investigate. He had known 1t befor
now to teach deceit to instigat
treachery, to@betray honor to perver
honesty, to cause bloodshed
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