The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-12-27

out Of Jail and make him j real live
Bart. Of K. b, !" % Sir Roger itch.
borne Of Varying ana vvagga Wagga
fame called " AEas ~ mean fest. and
Mr.. Hank had not undertaken its &C.
complement without weighing the
chances Of discovery. 3.
He knew that the odds were inshis
favor once he got his client safe to
London, because there would be
wealth behind him. The man who
can hire q motor car can always beat
man who has to take q bus. In the
matter Of keeping safe distance be.
tween them, Sir Mark was in the mo.
tor and the police were In, the bus.
Mr.. Hank knew the system which
constantly assisted the criminal and
retarded the efforts Of Scotland Yard.
He had himself once taken a hanson
In order to get to a railway station
where he expected to find q wanted
man starting by a train, and the fare
had been deducted from his bill of ex-
penses on the contention that he
could have taken an omnibus.
So far as he could be, with his
knowledge of the hue and cry, Sir
Mark was now safe. He had told him
so, and he had added that there would
be no risk in his coming back to Eng
land, and taking his place among his
tenantry in Kent, or in the world of
fashion in London if he preferred It,
But discovery would be the ruin Of
his prospects of good yearly in
come. He wanted to make assurance
doubly sure, and he had thought out
an ingenious plan and was anxious to
see If its execution was practicable.
He had persuaded May Wilson that
her husband was dead, and he had as
certained that she had gone into
mourning for "a relative"
Why should the not try and get it
put into the records of the police that
John Wilson was dead? That would
remove the last remnant of risk to
Sir Mark.
The drawback was that the police
would want more proof than he had
offered the wife. They would want
to see the grave.
He thought the thing out, and at
last he thought he saw daylight. With
money generously spent and the exer-
else of little ingenuity it would be
quite possible for the police to dis
cover the grave of John Wilson under
circumstance which would leave no
doubt in their minds as to its genu-
ineness.
When, on the morning that he left
his house by the $3.50 bus, after an
hours work in the garden, Mr.. Hank
reached his Office, he opened his let
tiers, answered one or two of them,
and then set out for the Albany. Sir
Mark rockingham, on his arrival in
town, had taken chambers there, and
had installed himself luxuriously be-
fore going down to pay brief visit to
Draycott Hall and his Kentish proper.
ty.
Hank found the baronet at home
and in the best of spirits. To the
young man with wealth at his COM
mand the future seemed radiant. He
had, by one of those astonishing self
receptions of which many men, espe-
cially adventures and criminals, are
capable, brought himself to look upon
John Wilson as really a dead man.
But Sir Mark Buckingham was
very much alive, and he was going to
enjoy life to the full.
He was at first inclined to resent
Mr.. Hanks visit. He considered that
the allowance he had agreed to make
that gentleman should have disposed
Of all necessity for the continuance of
an intimacy which belonged to past
he wished to forget.
But when Hank confided his scheme
the baronet became interested.
He agreed that the suggestion of a
gravestone was an excellent one. To
be dead was good for John Wilson,
but to be buried would be even better.
Mr.. Hank mentioned the sum, fair
ly large one, which he thought he
should require to put his plan into ex-
ecution.
Sir Mark made, no demur. He was
agreeable to find it. But he suggested
with s:ai'c that the sum would have
placed very handsome monument
above him. while what Hank proposed
was ve"r simple gravestone indeed.
'Ycu car Rave the money" said Sir
Mark. rs t''ey parted. when you
have carried out your plan, let me
know. Tut don't trouble to come and
let me knew how it is going OIL
have vow busy time in front of me,
and I don't, for reasons which you
should be the first to appreciate, want
to associate more than can help with
the old friends of Mr.. John Wilson,"
fro "a con+,nu.aN