The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09
MRS. PRINCE OF
wi SMILING INN.
Detective Cronkite Tackles Two
Cases at Once and Learns the
Secret Of a DISAPPEARANCE.

Cant you tackle them both at once.
Cronkite2'. asked Judge Marcellus
l. That's what I am bordering over, sir.
the detective answered absently
at would seem So" the old &wyer went
On. enjoying his theory the more as 1t de
velored. THE limbo OF the disappeared
Is a b~oundless country at first glance. yet
in reality immigrants to it choose their
native zones. not OF temperature, but OF
temperament.
cit must be so; the hardest person for a
man TO escape from is his own self. / have
often heard you say that appearances can
be disguised, but not habits. That is but a
corollary to the main thought, which Is that
common impulses Lead in the same direc-
ton.
Now TO apply, and the Judge looked
around. as any old jurist will for fear lest the
bar may miss his point. "0n the one hand
we have Cassius Waldo, a dashing young
Englishman, who managed through the
highest credentials to secure a position of
trust at the Legare Bank, and is now miss
ing with valuable securities and more
valuable papers.
@0n the other hand, we nave Remsen's
madcap daughter. Clara, who in a fit o
piaue has vanished because OF her fathers
marriage to her former governess, Miss
Pruyn.
widely apart and utterly distinct, the
two cases, and yet there ia this one point
in common: Each principal is p~assionately
fond of society. Butterflies both, they
must from their very nature keep in the
sunlight where they can admire and be
admired
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looked up as il impressed for the first.
You near, sir, I take it, he said. that
neither will remain in hiding; that both
will seek scenes remote, perhaps, yet con-
genial to their tastes. At this time of the
year that might readily mean some fashion
able seaside resort
More interrupted the Judge, brighten
ing, more than all, it should be remem-
bered that neither is distressed by thoughts
of pursuit.
CLARA has done no wrong. She has
taken the fortune her mother left her and,
hguratively speaking, has shaken the family
dust from her feet. She believes, too, that
her father is so infatuated that he will be
indifferent to her fate.
Waldo, IL is true, is a defaulter to q
large amount, but he was shrewd enough
to take private papers which under no
circumstance would the bank allow 10
become known. He, therefore, must feel
that he has the whip hand. And the fact
that there has not been the slightest pub
licity in either case must make both prin-
cipals the more confident"
Take it the other way, unused Cronkite.
Work back from your theory instead of
forward.
Here are two young persons of like social
standing in the same city. with similar
social tastes and aspirations. Isn't il
inevitable that they must have met and
been attracted TO each other? Isn't it
plausible that they may have gone away
together?'
MAY have; yes sneered the Judge.
'but rather a gratuitous assumption.
Clara's engagement TO Noel Vance was
broken of only a month ago.
Not altogether gratuitous, sir. You
spoke to me first OF the Waldo case, you
will recollect. | at once concluded from
all ! could learn OF the young mans habits
and tastes, linked to his sense OF immunity.
tina he might we'll nave taken a female
companion with him.
IF he had, il was plain that he couldn't
rave chosen a more dangerous time for
doing 30. Why? you will ask. Because
for the last week the whole country has
been intent on the Bayliss elopement.
"Its moral sense has been shocked at
the idea Of a clergyman deserving his wife
and family for a young girl. whom 1t was
his first duty to protect. Its fervent hope
has been that the fugitives might be found
and the man brought TO punishment.
with what result? Simply this, that
the police have been appraised OF the where
abouts of every couple in any degree re-
sembling them TO whom rumor, surmise or
fancy could attach the faintest suspicion.
"You know, sir, my confidential relations
with Headquarters. Well. I looked over
the reports of these unavailing clues. How
does this strike you on-Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Prince, guests at the Smiling limp"
by Jove, Abel" cried the Judge, after
he had read the comprehensive descriptions,
they are wonderfully like. The Smiling,
too, is just the sort of place they might have
chosen: off the usual route of fashion, ex-
elusive, yet gay. You must run down
there at once.
AT your commands. sir returned the
detective. And they are
First to secure the private papers OF
Ine LeRdIe DdIh now III dluO 3 possession.
Second. to return Clara Remsen to her
home. Use u own discretion as TO
means, subject 10 this prohibition: There
must he no publicity in either case"
IL.
The Smiling Inn, situate on an island
between the Capes, drew its guests from
the South and West, with the occasional
exception Of foreign tourists, persuaded
by the charms Of the bay to linger there.
1t was due to such exception hat the Princes
we're accepted at their own valuation; for
the purser Of the boat had been the secret
informant, and the police had been circum-
spect in making inquiry.
To such exception. too, was due the
general acquiescence in Cronkite's presence:
his close beard and somewhat heavy
features, his grave ta%citurnity and the
scholastic spectacles he had donned gave
warrant TO the report that he was Poi.
Banner, resting after his exhaustive in
vestigation into the fauna Of the region.
The Princes from their pretences held the
attention Of the Inn. Az was natural for
English folk Of rank they had separate
apartments Of the best and individual ser
wants. II was noticeable, too, that each