The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-16

in three minutes with its ill-obtained
wealth on board"
"And your father"
She was silent, and saw tears stand
ing in her eyes.
"There was tragedy" Jack explained
in low, hoarse voice. Gle and the cap
tain did not, unfortunately, get suili-
GENTLY far from the yacht when they
blew her up, and they went down with
her."
And I looked in silence at Muriel, who
stood with her head bent and her white
face covered with her hands.
Almost at the same moment there was
q low tap at the door, and the servant
maid announced:
"Mr. Santini, miss"
"Ah!" exclaimed Jack quickly, as
Olinto entered the room. "Then you had
my note! We have asked you here to
reveal to us this dastardly plot which
seemed to have been formed against Mr.,
Gregg and myself. As you know, I've
had narrow escape"
81 know, signOre. And the Signor
Commentators is also threatened"
"By whom?"
"By those who killed my poor wife,
and who intended also to silence me-"
was his answer.
"The same who compelled you to take
me to that house where the fatal chair
was prepared, ehy"
at was Archer, who, fearing that you
came to London in search of them, 10
vised that devilish contrivance," he said
in his broken English. Then continuing,
he went on fercey: "Now that ! have (
discovered why my poor Armida "as
killed, I will tell the truth, and not
spare them. Since you left Scotland,
signore, have been up in Dumfries, and
have discovered several facts which prove
that for some reason known only to him
self, Lcithcourt, while at Rannoch, wrote
making an appointment to see us Mt tho
same time at that spot on the edge If
the wood, rs he had some secret COM
mission to entrust to us. The letter ad.
dressed to me apparently fell into some
one clse's Lands-probably one of the
secret agents of Baron Obcrg, who were
always watching Leithcourt's doings,
and he, anxious to learn what was in
tended, made himself up to look like
me, and kept the appointment in my
place. Armida, having received the let
ter unknown to me, went up to Scotland,
and was also there at the appointed
time. What actually transpircd can
only be surmised, yet it seems that
Leithcourt was in the habit of going up
to that spot and lettering there in tho
evening in order to meet Chatter in Sc
crct, AZ the latter was in hiding in
small hotel in Dumfries. Therefore
those who formed the plot must have
endeavored to throw suspicion upon
Ieithcourt. 1t IL plain, however, as both
myself and Armida knew the gang, II
WAS to their interest to get rid of ~.
because the suspicious of the police had
al last become aroused. Poor Armidn
ws therefore deliberately enticed there
to her death, while the inqusitve man
whom the assassin took to be myself was
also struck down..
"By whom"
"Not by Chatter, fer ne was ir Lon.
don on that night"
"Then by WoodroffeT Durnford said.
"Without doubt. IL was all most
cleverly thought out. 1t was to his ad.
vantage alone to close our lips, because
in that same fatal chair in Lambeth old
Jacob Moser, the Jew bullionbroker uf
liattOn Garden, met his DEATH most
dastardly crime, with which none of his
friends were associated, and of which
we alone held knowledge. He therefore
wrote to us as though from Leithcourt,
calling us up to Rannoch, in order to
strike the blows in the darkness he
added in his peculiar Italian manner.
Besides, he feared we would tell the
signore the truth"
you have not told the policef"
u dare not, signore. Surely the less