Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-12-15

ly to the view of anyone who hap
pened to pass by.
zone hundred pounds reward" and
but for the detectives advice, this
sum would have been doubled and
trebled by the son of the murdered
man.
"Wait and see what happens, were
the words of the oracle in the person
of Mr.. John Sharp. Let nothing be
done to excite the alarm OF the In
dividual under suspicion"
Ted had written to DR.. Jeremiah
according to promise and the doctors
answer, when it came, contained the
news of an approaching flying visit
to London-an expedition which was
to combine business with pleasure.
Under these circumstances, OF
course, he must be invited to make
| Magnolia Lodge his headquarters.
| The invitation was dispatched and
accepted, and, in due time, the doctor
arrived, gold-rimmed spectacles, mil
| itary bearing and all complete.
1t is hardly necessary to state that
he made himself quite at home in an
astonishing short space of time.
Il like your DOCTOR" said May Bur-
rift to her brother. Il liked him be-
fore l saw him, from what you told
me about him; but l like him better
even than thought l should now I've
met him."
Later on, in the retirement of the
best spare bedroom, DR.. Cartwright
was communing with himself:
Il had an idea she'd be a nice girl,
and I wasn't far out. If I'd said an I'M
commonly nice girl, l should have
been nearer the mark. Seems sensi-
BILE girl, too, this one. | should say
her waist was quite twenty-five inches
and an appetite to match! And her
names Mayl Pretty name that
short and sweet"
At the same moment that the doc
tor was pursuing these reflections,
Ted Burritt was inserting the key
into the lock of the study door, Dur
ing all this time, he had allowed none
to enter the room except himself. 1t
seemed to him to be full of mysteri-
GUS associations, which no outside
influence should be allowed to dis
turb.
Nothing had been moved. His faith
er's chair, pushed back against the
wall, remained just as he had left 1t
on the last time he had entered the
room. The pen lay beside the blot
ting pad, and the dust had accumulat-
ed over everything. He placed the
lamp upon the table and drew up a
chair.
Then he unlocked that same COM
partment, removed the bundles of pa
pers as before, touched the spring
which opened the secret recesses and
took from it the burnt letter.
Again he took a sheet of paper and
a pen from the desk-he would not
use that other which lay beside him,
with the ink dried upon it-and be-
gan again to write and re-write the
words which he knew by heart:
Have not forgotten -. of twenty
years -. on receiving this letter -.
at once for Dover -. expect to reach
-. There is that between us which
=. not allow you to deny -. l ask
and many -. you alone can -. If
you refuse. shall -. that you -. as
he criminal -. of your youth -.
After working at this for about half
In hour, without being able to add so
much as a single syllable to what he
lad already deciphered, he threw
Town his pen.
81 would give anything to be able
o discover the missing words, but 1t
S quite beyond the bounds of posi-
'ility. And there is no hope this time
f any Internationally guiding in
uence to direct me-to point out the
vay-of any spirit voice to speak to
ne and tell me"
Taking up the sheet of paper again
n which he had been employed, he
aw, to his surprise, as he turned it
yer, that it was the same on which
is father had written those words:
My dear" The letter which had
ever been finished; 1t was strange
e had not observed this before
hen he took up the pen which his
lther must have last used, with the
aces of ink dried upon it. Should
e put 1t away carefully as relic?
r should it remain where it was
tile longer? He dropped it and gave
Spression to something between
lwn and sigh. I'm uncommonly
eepy," he said, "and yet don't feel
the least inclined to go to bed.
i've sort of feeling as though l
I'd to sit up for someone" He gave
short laugh. Suppose l turn in on
e sofa for bit? l wonder what
axes me so sleepy? l didn't take
ything at dinner but little"
Is ewes closed and In a few minutes