Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-19
A STORY or MAMMAL TAN.

hfs eoHntanance. aovarthe'esa he was
serteHgiy disturbet tIa haa hoped bat
no one BUT hlwNetf would suspect Miss
C7-oyton'g lack of frauNnegs lie felt
certain irritation against her she
shOuin have been more caFrtui she
should have foreSeep rhat he clippings
would De traced ta er @hc NaS Feiy-
Ing zoo mucn ou hIs f0rebearaHce- He
must 90 Hia best 10 control Sjwmouas
Well perhaps SHE aasU ac said
slowly after moment bur maybe
she not muga e elaine for hGt after
al4 Anyway wes got 90 work E be-
case from The other end We've got o.
identify Thompson FIRST
Yes greed Simuouda that cur
best 4olI Touf et He know you
Gud uut luyfainEg
'gf auree aid Godfrey gsard
with .urt bod "a went aur 4I4 1osI
the stops ,a lhe treet
49, rhe aHes Ee found $3.50 aror
awaiting giw aEte Na- Ham .a ueu
ne aad scent ioHa aa 4oeEs- ta
tOuud no me mo taul3 4et le
photograph f Thowusoa. The eae~
was feom )eiaacy tae head " -He E,ea-
0r& 8 intelligence department tt
O'Clock aat morning l4gt before retire
Ing Godfrey "a pheued use y
tbe office
DELANEY want ali me Information
f
Croydon family 70 which Mrs Hienard
Deiroy ana Grace croydon belong
This was the reyut
tffIsLave Crnyduu- notary aud money
lender SO. l7 Rue q AEtu PARTS re-.
moved with ais wife and young 8augh~
thr about 1878 10 BecserHam. tuat south
0f london England WAY ne removed
from France not known HIe 'tHf.n
has been sompletnly abuit r.ta'a asJ
tulfry years and only person there now
who remerlD hers croydon 81 au HlI Io-
tdry named Fahre who Eas Boa office &
the ecruec ~ Rue &c. Augustin He
has Eaeua memory 8Gt croydon eff
Franco go avoid criminal prosecution pr
some sort.
vd0n bought small country place
near Becke1ham aul IiEed There quiet
iy In aefni-retlrement Fortune ppar-
entity aot large tn 1891 lOrtgaged as-
tate for - GOO, mortgage paid >3T
Religion, Catholic Excellent auUtatlon
~ }teckeuham
eldest daughter Edith born n
France. August rs 1874 Educated ar
school there hut broke down from ver
stu8g t1l returned To- faecLcrhaus.
where she became Interested Iu social
settlement work. There ueg Richard
l)eroy New York who was making n-
NesJiga tiau ~ London charities Mar
ried aim june s. 1900 ua went ume-
diateiH o1 %ew York
Only other child younger daughtar
tTrace born at BeckeuAam, MAY t1
: 1880 Educated at hoWe No unusual
incidents in life SO far AZ known
Croydon aad wife died typhoid fever
1901 Deroys came t8 England. aud
after selling property and settling es-
I tate TOOK Grace home With them F.s-
tate, left wholly 90 Younger sister. paid
( inheritance lax or Ls5O0
Godfrey raad mis- through SLOWLY
dwelling upon iJ point by point
4 This skeleton be said 20 himself
'is pretty plain--it lies concealed some
where behind croydon departure from
France. There must have been some
unusual reason Ter tnat--a reason more
serious, perhaps, than tbls threatened
prosecution 1.-The clippings would tell
4 tne story
I But is ii worth while trying 70 dip
I 10 upg II wouldn't be a difficult thing
/ 20 do " the newspapers handled it al
I the time. but / don't know" and lao
stared out through his window with
drawn brows IF irs buried again
I believe I'li Jet 81 rest--f0g the present.
anyway and be whirIed back 70 his
desk
! He wrote the story Of The days de-
( velopments and turned it ia.
Z We've been lucky" said the CITY
editor, with a gleefui smile as ne ook
/ the copy We've got photographs oi
all the principals"
Have we2"
'Yes--they cost $500 but they're
worth it. No other paper in town win
have ena"
< That's good said Godfrey. but "A
was a. half- hearted eommendafton
and he left the ONCE u q frame "a
mind not wholly amiabie The meth
I DDS OF a popular newspaper are not al-
ways above reproach.
Z Thank heaven ne added 10 him.
self, his face clearing a little there
nothing in my story 90 implicate either
I Miss Croydon or Mrs Delroy there
no hint 81 the skeleton. ] took care "a
/ thag--which," he concluded, with 3
grim smile, Is mighty lorbearing ir
4 a yellow journalist"
y What further tests there were to bf
4 ef bis forbcarance not even lie sus-
Z rpgfedf