Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-18

fort had been made to erase it. After
man has started on the crooked path
he doesn't want any tattoo marks on
him; they make Identification too easy.
For Johnson, then, We'll hereafter read
Thompson"
l nodded; was beginning to be con-
vinced
"Weli," continued Godfrey, "Tre-
maine and Thompson, then, were ar
rested in New York July %, 1885, at
low resort where they were having
carouse. They had beaten and rob-
bed another sailor 1t seems that moth
ing was left Of the 10000 francs, and
naturally Tremaine found it difficult to
go honestly to work again. The fourth
clipping, undated, but probably some
months later, shows that Tremaine and
/ Thompson We're sentenced to three
years each in Sing Sing. But they
, didn't stay there so long," he added,
turning to the next clipping "at least
Tremaine didn't. On the night of Jan.
2, 1886, in the midst Of tremendous
snowstorm they managed to hide
themselves in one of the workshops
and afterward to scale the outer wall.
) In the morning Thompson was found
at the foot of the wall with his head
cut open and nearly frozen Tremaine
got clear away. Thompson was
brought around with the greatest diff
Guilty and would say nothing except to
indulge in terrible imprecations against
his companion. You see," concluded
Godfrey, looking up, eve begin to get
at the motive"
YES" l agreed; cts very plain,
now you've started on the right track.
It's good deal like Columbus; egg"
Godfrey smiled and turned to the
!; sixth clipping, the longest of them all.
| Its that way with most mysteries"
he said, "and here's the internal evil
dence that all this theorizing is pretty
straight. It's the clew, too, which
we've been seeking so long"
ut explains Miss Croydon's presence
here" asked, intensely Interested
and deeply stirred,
! "Just thats' he said, and shot me a
triumphant glance. Let us see if you
can catch it. The clipping Is in French.
and, though my French isn't of the
highest order. l can get the sense of it
pretty well. 1t is dated Suresnes and
is evidently letter from provincial
correspondent to Paris newspaper,
Who, like most other provincial CORE
spondents, is delightfully."- vague. How
ever, l gather from 1t that on the night
of Sept. 10, 1891, a beautiful young
English girl-name not given-ran
away from the convent school of the
Sacred Heart at Suresnes and that the
next morning she was safely married
to gallant enchman'-Tremaine of
course-by the cure of the little village
Of Petits Colonies. The marriage was
4 quite regular-though no doubt the
cures fee was larger than usual-for
/ the banns had been published as re-
quired."
But STILL" 1 objected, 81 don't see
that that explains anything"
"Let me help you. 1t was this clip
! ping happened to look at first the
night we found the body. read two
or three lines aloud. then Simmonds
! put it back in the pocket. 1t must
have been those few lines which told
Miss Croydon the nature of the clip
pings and their Importance to her. The
date line would have been enough to
do that. Besides, if she'd alfeady
known of them she'd have taken them
before we got here"
1 10, ~ al
who ran away with Tremaine? But,
then, she couldn't have been more
than ten or twelve years old in 1891"
ELEVEN" corrected Godfrey, and l
| was struck by the radiant expression
Of his face as he took yellow paper
| from his pocket. LET me read you
two sentences from this old report con
corning the Croydon family. You
ought to have recalled them, my dear
Lester"
"Go ahead" 1 said helplessly.
"'Eldest daughter, Edith, born in
France, Aug. %, 1874. Educated at
school there, but broke down from
overstudy and returned to Beckenham.
Religion, Catholic Now" he demand
ed, do YOU understand who it was
married Tremaine at Petits Colonies
in 1912"
AT last saw it, and could only sit
and stare at him, marveling at my
own stupidity. This was the key-the
key to the whole enigma. Miss Croy-
don had taken her sisters place, had
tried to buy him off to get him out of
her sisters way. 1t was Tremainc
who had opened the door; it was Ire
maine whom she had come to the
Marathon to meet. But-and I started
upright they We're Catholics,
only his death could release Mrs. Del
roy! Perhaps it was Thompson, after
all, and his death had released her!
But, no, and in an instant the whole
terrible position Of the elder woman
burst upon me. She was not Delroy' S
wife; she was
| $50" said hoarsely, :Tremaine is,
then, the true husband of Mrs. Del
royw
"Let us finish the story of the clip
pings before going into that" suggest
cd Godfrey. II confess I don't quite
see the bearing of this next one It's a
New York dispatch, perhaps to Lon
don paper, under date of Feb. Is, 1892
and chronicles the loss of the bark
Centaur, with all on board, off the
coast Of Martinique. The Ccntaur was
bound from Marseilles to Fort-de-
France, with cargo Of wines and
musllns. Let us leave it for a moment