Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-04-20
CHAPTER XIII.
EN- VOYAGE

Mr., Graham's congratulations next
morning quite overwhelmed me-
Il never expected such complete and
speedy success, Mr.. Lester" he said
warmly. You've done splendid work"
! pointed out TO him that, after all.
my success Was purely the result Of
accident Had | really been clever. |
should have instantly suspected what
that sudden seizure on the station
platform meant, | should have hurried
/ back to the scene and followed Mar
/ tiSny-as ! still called him i'm my
thoughts-to the hospital, on the chance
of securing his first address Instead OF
which If chance had not befriended me.
! should have been as far as ever from
q solution Of the mystery ! trembled
. think upon what "a slender thread
my victory had hung
But my chief would not listen he
declared that man must be Judged
by his achievements, and that he
judged me by mine
Let us find out how our friend is"
/ said at last, so the hospital was called
up. We were Informed that the pa
tient was stronger, but would not be
able TO leave his bed for two or three
days.
The Jourdains may tell him of my
call, said They'll suspect some
| thing when / don't return today-vet
they may wait for me a day or two
! longer-they have my money-and one
day is all ! want. It's just possible
that they may keep silent altogether.
They've nothing TO gain by speaking
its plain that they're not in the CON
spiracy. Anyway tomorrow III be
| out Of Ie2ch. QwSsa
Mr.. GTahaf7 nodded.
"Yes-thats plainly the next step.
You must follow them to France-b,It
where m France will you look for
them didn't think of that before.
| Why the search is Just beginningi
thought it impossible to accomplish
what you have accomplished. but that
seems easy, now, beside this new prob
! lem"
Yes" I assented; Still it may not
| be SO hard as II looks. We must try
to find out where the women have gone
/ and | believe Rogers can help us. NV
| theory is that they're from one OF the
/ towns which the Holladays visited
when they We're abroad. and Mr.. HolIa-
/ day must have kept In touch with his
| office. more or less, during that time 3"
My chief sprang up and seized his
/ hat.
THE very thing" he cried There's
no luck about that bit of reasoning,
/ Mr.. Lester. Come, I'll go with you %
! Rogers had been carrying on the rou-
4 tine work Of the business since his en-
/ ployer's death, and was supervising the
! settlement Of accounts, and the thou
sand and one details which must be
attended to before the business could
! be closed up. We found him I'm the
/ private Office, and stated our errand
without delay.
Yes ne said, Mr.. Holladay kept
/ in touch with the Office, of course. Let
me see-what was the date?'
Let us look for the first six months
of 1876" / suggested
He got down the file covering that
period, and ran through the letters.
Yes, here they are ~ he said after a
/ moment I'm January. he writes from
! Nice, where they seem to have re-
NAMED during February and March,
About the middle of April, they started
north-heres a letter dated Paris, April
l9-and from Paris they went 10 a place
! called Etretat They remained there
through May, June and July. This
Is all the time covered by this file. Shall
l get another?"
No" / answered; but / wish you'd q
make an abstract of Mr.. Holiday S
! whereabout during the whole time he
was abroad and send 1t TO our Office
not later than this afternoon"
Very well. sir, he said, and we left
the room.
But why didn't you let him go far
there" asked Mr.. Graham, as we went
down in the elevator.
Because ! think I've found the place
| sir" l answered. Did you notice-the
time they stayed at Etretat covers the
period OF Miss Holladays birth, with
| which, I'm convinced these people
| were in some way concerned. We must
look up Etretat."
A map at the office showed us that
il was a little fishing hamlet and sea