Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-14

personal matter wanted 10 see Min ABOUT
Il don't know when he will return, Miss Camp
bell announced.
Hatch stared at her for moment; he making
up his mind At last he took the bit in his teeth.
I'VE understand, Miss Campbell he said at last
slowly and emphatically, that your brother, Halves
Campbell, has some information which might be of
value in unraveling the mystery surrounding the
theft of Mrs Dillingham's necklace"
Miss Campbell dropped into chair, and uncon-
scously Hatch assumed the defensive. Mrs Diing-
ham is very much annoyed, as you must know,
Miss Campbell said, about the publicity given to
this affair; particularly she is confident that the
necklace will be returned within short time. Her
only annoyance beyond the wide publicity, as l
said is that it has not already been returned
"Returned?' gasped Hatch.
Miss Campbell shrugged her shoulders She
knows she continued, that the necklace is
in safe hands, that there is danger of it's being
lost to her; but the situation is such that she cannot
demand it's return
Mrs. Dillingham; knows where the necklace is,
them" he asked
YES" replied Miss Campbell.
Perhaps you known?
Perhaps 1 do" she responded readily. Il can
you that Mrs Dillingham; is going to take the
affair out of the hands of the police, because she
knows her property is safe-as safe as if it was in
your hands, for instance. 1t is only question of
time when it will be returned"
Where is the necklace?" Hatch demanded sud-
denly.
Again Miss Campbell shrugged her shoulders
And what does your brother know about the
AFFAIR.""
Il can't answer that question: of course" was
"Well, why did he go to Mrs Dillingham's early
IN the evening, then 60 away, and return about
For the first time there came a change in Miss
Campbels manner, subtle, indefnable something
which the reporter readily saw but to which he
could attach no meaning.
g l can't say than have said" she replied
aftet moment Believe me- and there was a
note of earnestness in her voice, it would be far
better for you to drop the matter because otherwise
you may be placed in-in a ridiculous position
And that was ala threat, delicately yelled it is
true, but threat nevertheless She rose and led
the way to the door.
Hatch didn't realize the significance of that re-
mark then, did it to him that the myster-
affair in the automobile had not been mentioned
between them; for here material, knotty, in
coherent, inexplcabe material, for The Thinking
Machine, and there he took it. Again he told the
story; but this time all of it-every incident from
the moment he hailed the automobile in front of his
office on the night of the robbery until Miss Campbell
closed the door
why didn't you tell me all of it before?" de-
manded The Thinking Machine irritably.
couldn't see that the affair in the automobile
had any connection with the robbery" explained
the reporter
Couldn't see!" storned the eminent man of SCI
ence Couldn't see! Every trivial happening
this whole round earth bears every other happen
ing, no matter how vast how dscon-
nected it may seem; the correlation of -
facts makes perpetually unbroken Ami
cham. In other words, if Mrs. Leary \M =
hadn't kept COW, Chicago would not ".
have been destroyed by fire. Couldn't LS -.
see!' ~
ged at hm an hf the ehanse om
petulant annoyance to deep abstraction, II e.
as that singular brain turned to the N.Y.
problem in hand, was almost visible
1t uncanny. Then the scientist
dropped back into his chair with eyes
turned upward, and long slender fingers 7
pressed tip to tip. Ten minutes passed.
twenty, thirty, and he turned suddenly
to the reporter.
What was the number of that automobile?" he
demanded
Hatch grinned in sheer triumph Of all the ques-