The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-03-07

the money she could possibly need.
and she's lost her fatner, @2ooo, NS
quite certain, she loved dearly so
what remains
only one thing" i said, deeply in
terested in this exposition. u
passion
He nodded exultantly,
..That's ii, Now, who was the wom-
an? From the first l was certain 1t
could not be his daughter-the very
thought was preposterous. IL seems
| almost equally absurd, however, TO
suppose that Holladay could be mixed
up with any other omar He GER
| tainly has not been for the last quar-
ter of a century-but before that
| well it's not so certain. And there's
one striking point which seems to in
dictate his guilt
"Yes-you mean OF course, her re-
| semblance to his daughter"
Precisely. Such a resemblance must
exist-a resemblance unusual. even
striking-or 1t would not for a mo-
ment have deceived Rogers. We u
remember. however. that Rogers office
IA not brilliantly lighted. and that he
merely glanced at her. Still. whatever
| minor differences there may have been.
she had the air, the general appearance,
the look of Miss Holiday. Mere facial
resemblance may happen in a hundred
ways by chance: but the air. the look.
the altogether is very different-it in
dicates a blood relationship. My theory
is that she is an illegitimate child. per-
haps four or five years older than
Miss Holiday.
l paused to consider. The theory was
reasonable, and yet it had it's faults.
Now. let's see where this leads U.s."
he continued. Let us assume that
Holiday has been providing for this
Legitimate daughter for years. At
last. for some reason. he is Induced to
withdraw his support: or, perhaps, the
girl thinks her allowance insufficient.
At any rate after. let US suppose, in
effectual appeals by letter. she does
the desperate thing of calling at his
Office TO protest ia person. h finds
him neXorabie-we know his reputa-
ton for obstinacy when he had once
made up his mind. Ii r~epfoaciies him
she is already desperate, remember
and he answers with that singing ar
casm for which he was noted. In an
ecstacy of anger, she snatches up the
knife and stabs him; then, in an agony
Of remorse, e~ndeavors to check the
blood. She sees at last that it is use
less, hat she cannot save him. and
leaves the office. All this is plausible,
isn't it,"
= - piouSipiNp l. oSSSiilCN, loofAIilS
at him in some establishment. You
forget one thing, however. Rogers tes-
titled that he was intimately ac-
q%uainted with the affairs of his en-
ployer, and that he would inevitably
nave known of any intrigue such as
you suggest
My companion paused for a mo-
ment's thought.
II don't believe Rogers would so in
evitably nave known Of it." he said,
at last. But, admit that-then there
is another theory. Holiday has not
been supporting his illegitilnate child,
who learns of her parentage, and goes
to him to demand her rights. This fits
the case. doesn't it?"
Yes" l admitted. 1T also 10 plaus-
ible."
1T is more than plausible" he said
quietly. Whatever the details may be.
The body of the theory itself is unim-
peachabie-ft's the only one which fits
the facts. | believe it capable of proof.
Don't you see how the note helps prove
it?"
The note?"
] started at the word. and my sus-
picions sprang into life again. L looked
at him quickly, but his Eyes We're on
the cloth. and he was rolling up In
Vulnerable little pellets Of bread.
That note" he added, proved two
tililiSs. oHe was ln2L the Writer was
deeply interested in Miss Holidays
welfare: the other was that he or she
knew Rogers, the clerk, Intimately
more thar intimately-almost as well
as a physician knows an old patient"
II admit the first I said. You'll
have to explain the second"
THE second is self-evident. How did
the writer of the note know OF Rogers
infirmity?"
His inflrmityo"
"Certainly-his color-blindness. I con-
TESS. I'm puzzled. How could anyone
else know it when Rogers himself
didn't know it? That's what I should
like to have explained. Perhaps there's
only one man OF woman in the world
who could know-well, that's the n
who wrote the note. Now, who is it?''
But, | began quickly. then stopped;
should l set him right? Or was this
a trap he a prepared for me?"
Ills eyes We're not or the cloth now,
but OF me. There was a light in them
l did not quite understand. I felt that
1 must be sure of my ground before I
went forward.
1T should be very "a to trace the
writer of the note" 1 said.
The police have not found it So"
MOP"
mo. 1t was given to the doorkeep-
err by a boy-just an ordinary boy of
from IL 10 IA yearS-the man didn't no.
tice him especially. He said there was
no answer and went away. How
+ the police to find that
boy? Suppose they do find him?
Probably all he could tell them would
be that a mar stopped him at the cor
ner and gave him a quarter to take the
note to the coroner's office.
He might give a description of the
man." I ventured.
Continual Ne~$ woeL @
Mixed on His Dates.
Some day some poet of sufficient cal