New Ulm review., 1906-06-20

mo" answered calmly, for had
Been that the question was inevitable,
and even welcomed 1t, since it gave
me opportunity to get my guns going.
mo; the last time saw you I didn't
contemplate it, but a good deal has
happened since then. Would you care
TO hear?"
Oh, how relished tantalizing him!
II should like very exceedingly to
hear" he assured me and shifted his
position little so that his face was in
the shadow. "The beams of light
through the shutter makes my eyes to
hurt" he added.
So he mistrusted himself; so he was
not finding the part an easy one either!
The thought gave me new courage.
"You may remember" began, 'tthat
told you once that if 1 ever went to
work on the Holiday case I'd try first
to find the murderess. succeeded in
1otng it the very first day."
"Ahv' he breathed 'And after the
police had failed! That was, indeed,
remarkable. How did you accomplish
H?'
"By the merest chance; by great good
fortune. was making search Of the
French quarter, house by house, when.
On Houston street, came to restau-
rant, the Cafe Jourdain A bottle Of
superieur SET Jourdain's tongue to wag-
ging. I pretended wanted a ROOM
He dropped word, the merest hint,
and in the end I got the whole story.
It seems there was not only one wom-
an-there were two"
"Yes?"
"Yes, and man whose name was
Betuny, or Bethune, or something like
that. But didn't pay much attention
to him. He doesn't figure in the case.
He didn't even go away with the wom-
en-. The very day I set out on my
search he was picked up on the streets
somewhere suffering with apoplexy
and taken to a hospital, so nearly dead
that it was a question whether he
would recover. So he's out of it. The
Jourdains told me that the women had
sailed for France"
"You will pardon me- said my hear
or, "but in what way did you make
sure that they were the women you de-
sired ?"
"By the younger ones resemblance to
Miss Holladay," l answered, lying with
4 glibness which surprised myself.
AThe Jourdains maintained that pho
tograph of Miss Holiday was really
one of their lodger."
"Ah, yes,'' he said. "That was ex-
thought of that. That is worthy of N.
Lecoq. And SO you follow them 10
France; but surely you have some more
definite address than that!''
NO." said "It seems rather a wild
goose chase, doesn't it? But you could
advise me, Mr.. Martigny. Where would
It be best for me to search for them ?"
He did not answer for a moment, and
took advantage Of the opportunity to
select a second cigarette and light it.
dared not remain unoccupied.
THAT he began slowly at last,
"seems to me a most ah!-deefcult
affair, Mistair Lester-to search for
three people through all France. There
, seems little hope of success. Yet I
should think it most likely that they
have gone to Paris
nodded. s'That was my own the
ory," agreed, "but to find them in
Paris seems also impossible
"Not if one uses the police he said.
But, my dear sir" I protested, s.I
| n 11e<o bn /
least has committed no crime. She
| has simply chosen to go away without
informing US.
| You will permit me to say then,
Mistair Lester" he observed, with just
q touch or irony, 'ttnat I fail to COM
prehend your anxiety concerning her.
felt that had made misstep:
that I had need to go carefully.
1t is not quite so simple as that" I
| explained. "The last time we saw Miss
| Holladay she told us that she was i'll
and Intended to go to her country
| home for rest. Instead Of going
there she sale for France without
| Informing any one. indeed, doing
ayerythfng she could to escape detee
ton That conduct seems SO eccen-
tr1c that we feel in duty bound to in
vestigate it; besides, two days before
she left she received from US hun
| dred thousand dollars in cash.
| saw him move uneasily on his bed.
After all this advantage Of mine was
no small one
All he said softly, and again,
~ah! Yes, that seems peculiar, yet per-
! haps if you had waited for q letter
Suppose we had waited and there
had been no letter suppose, in conse-
quence OF waiting we should be too
lateT