Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-09-05
THE DIAMOND RIVER

BT DAVID MURRAY

mourning coach, and when Harvey and
Monboddo reached the porch Jethroe was
waiting there.
Come with me-" he said, and led the
way swiftly to Harvey's sitting room.
THAT fellow suspects" he whispered,
when he had closed the door.
He knows" said Monboddo.
NO" said Jethroe, Laughing at the
doctors face, which was notified and
shining with anxiety: che doesn't exact
business, Monboddo, to knock him of his
perch. You'll get into converse with
him; he stays in this hotel. You'll play
the fool, you understandable loose
tongued fool who can't hide anything
You'll hint at a mystery. Harvey here
is to be horribly detected because he
can't find something which the deceased
is supposed to have possessed. Work up
tc the problems. Do II cleverly, Mon
boddo. You may drink up to point,
and you may make him fancy that you're
tipsy; but, Monboddo"-he paused and
shook his heavy forefnger in the doctors
face-'if you let him be right in that
guess"
"Oh, assure your cried Monboddo.
II shall lay you out, Monboddo," said
Jethroe; II viii fill that coff1nw
mo, nor cried the doctor. as If the
threat had been a real one. There shall
be no need for you to trouble about any
thing of that sort, do assure you, sir
l really and truly do assure you, sir"
You can trap that fellow as easily as
you can kiss your hand" said Jethroe
Co. 4 II
something else TO talk about"
Monboddo had a holy dread of this
big and clustering patron, and was glad
to shuttle from his presence. The hotel
smoking room was cozy, with its snug
fire and its deep armchairs, and the
sound of the ceaseless rain that beat
against the window made the place ten
fold more comfortable and attractive.
The stranger of the cen etery was there,
with a big tumbler before him.
"A dreadful, dreadful day, SIR" said
Monboddo.
YES" said the stranger, cts a dirty
day"
Monboddo drew up his chair to the
others table
do you know" said Jethroe to his
nephew, striding up to him and Selling
him by the arm at the instant at which
they were left alone, do you guess who
that fellow was who was at the cemetery
to-dsyP"
NO." Harvey answered. "How should
| Y'
That" Jethroe whispered, crouching
his tall figure till his eyes were on a
Level with his nephew's, and gripping
him unconsciously until he WINGED, that
is the man Of whom that fellow Taylor
spoke as Little William"
THE murderer Harvey asked.
1.-THE murderer" said Jethroe. with a
dozen slow mods of the head and a pout-
ing under lip that seemed to threaten
something, 'the man who meant to have
my life the very night you and 1 first met
in Chicago; the man who killed my de-
faulting partner in mistake for me-"
"And he suspects your identity now.
in spite of all your plotting and con-
irving"
He suspects; but if Monboddo man
ages his business we'll he will not sus-
pect long"
But why" cried Harvey, In a sud
den anguish of rage, why skulk and
to the police|
Il have answered already" said Jeth-
roe, as cool upon a sudden as if the talk
had been about the weather "All the
police in the world could not guard my
secret If 1 had evidence to hang this
scoundrel, would hang him; but that
would avail me nothing, for there is
whole syndicate in pursuit of me and of
what l carry about with me- Monobddo
should have something to report this
evening. In the meantime shall we sit
down to a game of chessW
"Chess" cried Harvey impatiently.
81 couldn't play chess at a time like
this to save my soulv'
"Ah, WELL" said Jethroe, with one of
his queer laughs, Il suppose it's ques-
ton of temperament"