New-York tribune., 1907-04-14

personal matter wanted to see him about +"
Il don't know when he Will return, Miss Camp
bell announced.
Hatch stared at her for a moment; he was 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, Hawes
Campbell, has some information which might be of
value in unraveling the mystery surrounding the
theft of Mrs DIllnghamS necklace.
Miss Campbell dropped into a chair, and uncon-
scously Hatch assumed the defensive Mrs Dilllng
ham is very much annoyed, 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 now
in safe hands, that there is danger of its being
lost to her but the situation such that she cannot
demand its return.
Mrs Dillingham; knows where the necklace is,
them" he asked
Yes" replied Miss Campbell.
Perhaps YOU know
Perhaps do" she responded readily. Il can
assure YOU that Mrs Dillingham; is going to take the
affair out of the hands OF the police, because she
knows her property IS Safc-as safe If II in
your hands, for instance 1t is only question OF
time when II 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"
Well, why did he 60 to Mrs Dinghans early
in the evening, then go away, and return about
eleven o'clock insisted the reporter bluntly
For the first time there came change in Miss
Campbcls manner, subtle, indetinabe something
which the reporter readily but TO which he
could attach meaning
Il can't say more than | have said, She replied
afte. moment Believe me and there a
note of earncstness IN her voice, 1t would be far
better for YOU drop the matter, because otherwise
you may be placed IN q ridiculous position
And that was all Ia threat, dehcatelv vcIed 1T IS
true but threat nevertheless. She and led
the way 20 the door
Hatch didn't realize the significance OF that re-
mark then did II to him that the mystcri-
affair IN the automobile had not been mentioned
between them; for here was material knotty. in
coherent, incxplicabc material for The Thinking
Machine and there he took IL. Again he told the
story; but this time all OF it-evcry incident from
the moment he hailed the automobile in front OF his
oitice on the night OF The robbery until Miss Campbell
closed the door
Why didn't YOU tell me all Of it before" de
mandcd The Thinking Machine irrjtaby
couldn't see that the affair the automobile
had any connection with the robbery explained
the reporter.
Couldn't sect" stormed the eminent man of SCI
ence Couldn't seel Every trivial happening on
tins whole round earth bears on every other happen
my, no matter how vast or how dscon-
nected II may seem; the correlation of -
facts makes a perpctually unbroken
chain. In other words, if Mrs Learv ~
hadn't kept a cow. Chicago would not "
have been destroyed by FIRE Couldn't ~ -
scci' u
For an instant The Thinking Machine
glared at him; and the change from - -
petulant annoyance to deep abstraction. & e. -
as that singular brain turned TO the Nv y
problem IN hand, almost visible
1t was uncanny. Then the scientist
dropped back into his chair with eyes
turned upward, and long slender fingers r.
pressed tip to tip. Ten minutes passed
twenty, thirty and he turned suddenly
to the reporter