The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-08-19
Double Trouble, BY Herbert Quick

chanFsd by some Silly trick OF new
Journalism. some straining for effect
Ike the agreement a all the people ia
the world lss fancie6 by DIT. Holmes)
10 say Boo al 81 once 20 the
mc0u7 He ran his eyes over the news
columns and found them fun Of mat
ter which was real news. indeed. 10
him President Kruger was reported
as lbout 10 visit president Mckinney
for tHe purpose Of securing mediation
fr some South African war and SEN
ator Lodge bad made Speech asking
for an army OF one hundred thousand
men 30, OF all places. the Philippine
Islands. The twentieth century, and
with f. some wonderful events, had
stolen on him as He slept-lf. indeed,
he had sIept-there could be no doubt
OF that
He found his hands trembling again.
and. fearing another collapse, threw
himself uDon the bed. Then, as drow-
siuess stole on him, he thoughr OF tho
five years gone since last be had yield
60 10 that feems. and started up,
afraid 10 sleep. He saw lying on the
table the unopened kilograms, and tore
them open. Some referred 20 sales Of
oil. and other business transactions;
one was 10 inform BrassneId that
man named Alv0rd would Hot meet him
in New York as promised, and one was
in cipher, and signed stevens
He took from his pocket the letters
OF BrassdeId. and read them. One or
Two were Invitations 20 social functions
In BeLeyaie. one was bin for dues
iu a boating club another contained
HE tabulated pedigree OF horse
owned iu kentucky. A very brief one
was iu the same handwriting as tho
mIssIEa he had first read. was signed
-E. W." and merely said that she
would be al home ia The evening But
most OF them related 70 the business
Of tle Brass-eld Oil Company, and re-
ferred To transacuons in oil
He lav back on the bed again. and
Thought. thought. thought. beginning
with the furJh-st stretch OF memory
and coming down carefully and con-
secuuyely-to the yaWnlng cha5In
which had opened ia his life and swat
lowed up five years. Time and again,
he worked down to thls abyss, ana
was forced 70 stop. lie had heard OK
loss OF memory from Illness, but THIS
was nothing of the sort lie had been
tired and nervous that night at Elm
Spring Junction, but not ID; and now
he was in robust health. Perhaps some
great III OF passion had torn that OBJ
uterating furrow through his mind.
Perhaps in those five years ne had
become changed from the man Of
strict integrity who had so well man
aged the HazeInursJ Bank, into the
monster who had robbed Eugene
BrassneId of-hls Clothes. his property.
the most dearly personal Of his pos
sessions-these, certainly lfor Amldon
knew tie rule Of evidence which brand
as a chief the p0ssessor OF stolen
ga0dsl: and who could tell OF what
else? Letters bags, purses. money
these any vulgar criminal might have,
and bear no deeper guilt than that Of
theft: but. the clothes, Mr.. Amidon
shudderad as his logic carried him on
from deduction 20 deducuon-to mIr-
der. and the CHASTITY putting away Of
murders fruit. Imagination threw its
lfmeIignt over the horrid scene The
deep pool or taru sending up Oily SIS
bubbles OF accusation; the shadowy
wood with It's buisiug mound Of earth
and leaves swept hy revealing rains
and winds: the =oldy vat OF corrosive
liquid ca ding away the damnlng evil
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