The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-02-23

But VINO was the murdered man!
We shall see soon.
Sargent Howell, rejoicing once more
IN his American freedom, returned
home-straight for the Windy City.
he was not longing for more Arizona
jobs of the kind he had had.
Mona Dunlap was again visiting her
cousins and friends in Chicago One
day while these three graces-not the
three little girls from school-were
out shopping Sargent Howell discover
ed man shadowing them. Sargent
privately employed himself to dog the
heels of the man who was bounding
the all-unconscious young girls. When
they passed Grief's Hall the shadow
suddenly disappeared. Pancake Bill'
CHANGING to turn the corner at the
moment saw d man enter Griefs Hall;
Here was a system Of espionage that
resolved itself into unmistakable and
inexplicable mystery. Neither Sargent
ny pancake Bilp' could see through
It, To them 1t was like the peace Of
God-lt passed all understanding, as
the pedantic James I Of England once
said
Arthur Hamilton, now accused of
being a destructive anarchist and the
owner Of the iron-bound old trunk,
was confined in a close cell. He saw
no one but his lawyer Marchall Will
liams. But his keen, vigorous, phil
osophtcal, constructive mind set Ger.
tain events In his experience in rela-.
tive order. and the long, long weary
days in seclusion were worn slowly
away In drawing what seemed to him
clear conclusions. As he pointed out
his conclusions to williams, this at
torney was again made to marvel at
the penetrating, comprehensive mind
Of his young client. In brief, Arthur's
| conclusions were, that the sly and
great pressure brought to bear in the
prosecution of Sargent Howell for the
death Of Sam Godolphus was by some
secret anarchistic organization; that
the same power sent him the White
Cap notice and at length succeeded in
having him arrested; that there was
deep, damnable method in all this;
that If his conclusions were true, then
Godolphus was a member Of the group
Of cut-throat anarchists; that if God
olphus was a member Of this secret
group, he was no other than Cave
Norwhal to whom the cipher telegram
had been sent and therefore no other
than Miliken Belisarius, the real owner
of the oron-bound old trunk, which
the police now desired to force Arthur
to possess. OF course, If Godolphus
| was in very truth Belisarius, he had
now given the slip to all human courts
here on earth, and was at present at
least, practicing his anarchism in the
courts of the eternal world beyond.
However, Arthur had been apprehend-
ed before Godolphus persisted by one
of natures inviolable laws, and now
it was absolutely necessary to carry
out what had been begun, in order to
avert suspicion from the organization
itself. Thus Arthur had a sort Of
| mystic divination of the tricks and
| crooked ways Of this entangled snarl
into which fate seemed to have drawn
him.
When Sargent Howell revealed to
the three girls the fact that a spy
was after them whenever they went
out upon the sHeets, Mona Dunlap ex-
claimed without hesitation-"anarch-
ists." She declared she would forever
leave this modern Babylon. this worse
| than Sodom and Gomorrah, in which
| Steade could find no, Christ. In fact
| the three girls were dreadfully alarm
ed at this information from Sargent
Had Mona not spoken to the police
man and Arthur on the street, she
! would not have come under the eye
Of suspicion from suspicious charac-
tiers. (They who watch, need watch
ing) Sargent was in peril Of his life,
| and was liable at any time to meet
the fate that DR.. Cronin met at the
hands of the Clannagael-his body
! might be found sometime in a sewer
In the trial of Arthur light was shed
on this dark mystery. Pancake Bilp'
| identified the man whom he saw dart
into Greifs Hall that time," and Mrs.
Lulu Cowen was sure he was the man,
Dugal O'Connor, who came to her at
| first about the iron-bound old trunk;
but the telegraph operator was not
absolutely sure he was the man who
sent the cipher telegram to Cave Nor
whal, though he thought he was the
same identical man." And Sargent
Howell remembered to have heard
Sam Godolphus once say he worked
as switchman in the yards at Dallas.
If the evidence was not absolutely
clear that Godolphus was none other
than Belisarius, it was most clearly
demonstrated that Arthur Hamilton
! was not he. Arthur was a victim of
the police through the dark, deep
Vaccinations of the thugs of the Chi
cago gutter-than which there is no
fouler social place in all America.
Arthur was set free, but without re-
compense for all the losses and dam
ages sustained by his unjust imprison-
| ment.
Mona Dunlap unhesitatingly wrote
Arthur a letter of congratulation on
the successful vindication of his good
name and his fair honor. This letter
clinched all the little asides and og-
lings that had preceded it, and in time
we saw in the papers that they were
married. Sargent Howell and Pearl
Harcourt made a snook on u.s. and
married without telling anybody.
| Grace Hall, the last we heard, was
visiting at Nona's home in st. Louis,
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