The Washington times., 1907-12-01
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theDetecfve IN
the Very Nick
of Time, ana
The Tangle is
WoqU Almost
Ended.

the little town where the sister haa
died and the child he'd been lost sfEht
OF. He had learned nat q certain man
living In Grantsdale, sent I'D for
few years term abo It the time OF the
brothers conviction. had finished his
sentence and come home
He and his wife were chfldless. and
she was a cripple. They had gone 10
the poorhouse and adopted a child. who
might or might not have been the one
We sought. but whica answered to her
description In point OF age and gen
eral delicacy. They had vanished with
the child. leaving neither sign nor
trace. and Grantsdale never heard Of
them again.
II was not so difficult to trace them
as IL had been TO trace the others. The
man was rascal and was never out
cf prison very long at a time. His
disgraceful record was to be found on
the prison files in whatever town he
stopped. and at last traced them TO
Quivering Bayou"
Traced them where?''
Hush. Walter. We have but little
lime 70 lose. you know"
That day. that last day It was
finished the work and was able 20 re-
port TO Mr.. rFaiEfax that 1 had at Isst
succeeded in locating the girl for whom
he had sought so long-
I am not going 70 deny It. Mr.. An
nerly-I had been listening 10 the devil
for months / knew Sylvester Fair
fax for the black-hearted scoundrel
that he was. And I knew the day was
coming when he would tire OF me and
when there would be no more dirty
work for me to do for him And when
this time did come
Il was on the train one day coming
out from the city when lot OF doc
tors were on their way home from
big convention or something. DR.. Dal-
ton was among them. and heard one
OF them in introducing him TO another
say that he was a crank on the sub
ject OF poisons.
The Deadly Havanas.
They talked about poisons a long
time. one or them said that there were
a lot OF people poisoned Of whom no
body ever heard.
After a while they drifted out OF the
or AtL .0lllE AfIE0AA W nAAAtE A4lAAA AAAN
car 7-as nearly empty save for this
lite man and another who was sitting
"a rils seat with him and myself
And then the little man took a
paper from his pocket and showed the
CHER man q short item in II about
neSg poison. He read the whole thing
alCCd. Why. with a tiny bit OF that
drug communicated. say by means OF
cigar. you could kill a whole regiment
without being detected he declared
The devilish suggestion fell IN fer
tile soil I went back 20 town next
day and bought some cigars. and after
Nt~eating some OF them with the poison
licked them securely away.
Then one day got IN late from the
city and went home with the inten-
ton Of reporting to Major Fairfax
later the success OF my mission. That
was the day 1 had succeeding in locat-
ing Bogare in the old cabin on Culver
ing Bayou
when 1 got home the devil took
possession OF me- I found that Fair
had been to my house and had seen
and talked with my daughter. who was
rather better than usual IN q spirit or
sheer deyiltry he had told her OF my
temptation and fall and his own in;en-
ton OF placing me In the penitentlery,
II, as he expressed IT. II took every
cent he had in the world Hs told her
that he had sent for Aaneriy from the
city, and the case would be put in his
hands. Ny race WAS run. he declared.
and I should be held UP TO the world
as a perjurer and a thief The nurse
overheard him
(To Be Continued Next 5unday)