The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-12-26

plan: and thompson. TO get even Tor
that treachery at Sing Sing. gives him
away. Tre1naine, no doubt, got a peni-
tentiasy sentence. He probably broke
Jail again. for in 1899 he appears at
Martinique, supposedly from South
America. He has considerable money,
which he no doubt stole somewhere.
and perhaps he chose st. Pierre as a
safe place to stay in hiding until the
hue and cry after him was over. He
would have some acquaintance with
the island. if he landed there from the
wreck.
Thompson learns where he is-per-
haps even sees him at st. Pierre-and
puts a bouquet to his revenge by driv-
ing him into fits of rage by reminding
him of that Australian treachery. But
at last ne sends him a message, which
brings him to New York"
Yes" l said, and l nave %cudgelled
my brain in vain trying to imagine
what that message could have been"
Well remarked Godfrey, while we
can't, OF course, give its actual text. I
don't think 1t very difficult to guess it's
general tenor. We know what Ire
maine came here to do-he came to
blackmail Mrs. Delroy. It's pretty safe.
then. to suppose that the message old
him that she was Observation-Disclosures
other words, that she had married a
rich man. No doubt, Tremaine's money
was running low, n he jumped at this
chance OF replenishing his purse.
thompson was working his way toward
st. Pierre to Join him. and actually
reached there on the PARMA just as
7rematne was leaving. Perhaps Ire
maine had tried to play Thompson false
a second time.
Now" he continued, lei us see how
nearly we can reconstruct the scene
which occurred In this room. Tremafue
supplies Thompson on the voyage UP
with whisky, and agrees to keep him
supplied, believing that he may be use
ful-not daring. ut any rate, to make
game here-Thompson had only to
speak a word to the police to put Ire
maine back In Sing Sing to serve out
his unexpired term. Arrived at New
York, he establishes himself in the
suite across the hall, and spends a
week or two in LOOKING over the
ground, ostensibly boosting his rail-
road scheme. Thompson. who has been
In Jail. joins him inc takes these
roons.
AT last Tremaine is ready-or per
haps his lack of money forces him to
act. He writes a note to Mrs. Delroy.
telling her he's alive and wishes to
snare In her prosperity. He demands
that she meet him in these rooms, ask
ing for Thompson-that leaves him
otiou0l SIlG SHOW
the note to her husband and should he
attempt to have the writer arrested for
blackmail. But she isn't so sensible.
Perhaps she disregards his first note:
perhaps she's unable to decide wha to
do. She has. of course, been thrown
into a panic. He writes again; In de-
spalr she seeks the advice of her Sis
ter, and Miss Croydon, who Is by far
the stronger OF the two, offers to come
here herself. see the man. and find out
what he propose to do.
"Trematne has secured Thompson,s
key, given him some n and sent
him out to get drunk. But for Jimmy
the Dude he would have stayed away
probably in the Iockup-but Jimmy
orlngs him home. Tremaine has to
time to get Thompson sui OF the way /
again. Anyway, he's so dead drunk. !
that Tremaine anticipates no tnferfer-
ence from him. He shuts him in the
bedroom, and sits down to wait for
Miss Croydon.
She arrives promptly, despite the
rain. n we can imagine that the dia
logue which followed wa not Of a milk
and-water kind-both of them are full
IRE and they made h sparks fly.
IS aroused by the voices.
or perhaps wakes natura 1Iy-comes into
the outer room and inferferes. He is
still half-drunk; perhaps he threatens
At any rate. Tfemaine. picks
up the iron pr and knocks him down:
hen. in a sudden black frenzy Of an
ger, remembering Australia, seeing how
thompson will always stand in His
way. he draws his revolver and shoots
him through the heart. That done. he
walks out. closes the door. goes to his
and, at a favorable moment.
the building"
He leaned back in his chair and ap-
Piled q fresh match to his cigar.
That" he concluded, lis my idea Of
he story. There's one person who can
Ill In details. I'm going to apply
% her as soon as I get back from Bos-
You mean Miss Croydon?"
Yes" he nodded. and I think Ire
maine is pretty near the end Of III.
adventurous career"
There's on thing" I remarked, at
.er a moment, that diamond I founh
IN the floor here didn't come from ire
pin. I tried 1t last night and
t didn't fit"
carefully In his pocketbook
Il know It," he said: 81 meant to te1,
7ou: 1t came from the ring belonging
% Jimmy the Dude. I saw him toniphf
lcross the street-Simmonds had him In
another sweating-Simmonds ISM
Iuite convinced vet that Jimmy's inno-
,ent-and / noticed a ring on his finger
containing a cluster of little diamonds
one OF them was gone, and when +
Questioned him. he said he'd LOST a.
'omewhere the night Thompson was
Tiled. He probably dropped 1t here
Is he was helping THOMPSON to bed"
! b nnats Il. no dou6t. agreed; but
(contiHued Next Weck.l
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