The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-12-26

plan; ana Thompson. 20 get eve tor
that treachery at Sing Sing, gives him
away. Trenaine, no doubt, got a peni-
tenttary sentence. He probably broke
Jail again. for In 1880 he appears at
Martinique. supposedly from South
America. He a considerable money.
which he no doubt stole somewhere.
and perhaps he chose st. Pierre as q
safe place to stay In hiding until the
hue and cry after him was over. He
would have some acquaintance with
the island. II he landed there from the
wreck.
Thompson learns where he is-per-.
hapg even sees him at st. Pierre--and
puts a bouquet to his revenge by driv-
ing him hi 1ts of rage by reminding
him OF that Australian treachery. But
nj last ne sends him a message, which
brings him to New York"
YES" / said. "and I have cudgelled
my brain In vain trying to imagine
what that message could have been"
We'll" remarked Godfrey, while we
can't. OF course. give its actual text, I
don't think II very dificult to guess its
general tenor. We know what Tre-
maine came here TO do-he came to
blackmail Mrs. Delroy. It's pretty safe,
then, to suppose that the message told
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other words, that she had married O.
rich nan No doubt, Tremaine's money
was running low, and 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 ar
Tremaine was leaving. Perhaps Tree
maine had tried to play Thompson false
a second time.
now" he continued, 'let as see how
nearly we can reconstruct the scene
I which occurred In this room. Tremaine
s0pplfes' Thompson on the voyage up
with whisky. and agrees to keep him
supplied, believing that he may be USE
ful-not daring. at n rate, to make
an open emmy OF him, lest he spoil his
game here-Thompson had only to
speak a word to the police to put Tre-
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 q
| week or two in LOOKING over h
ground. ostensibly boosting his rail-
road scheme. Thompson. who has been
In Jail. joins him and takes these
rooms.
cat last Tremaine IL ready--or per-
haps his lack OF money forces him to
act. He writes q note to Mrs. Delroy.
telling her he's alive and wishes 10
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THAT shell meet him In these rooms. ask
ing for Thompson--that leaves him
free from suspicion shoudi she 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 what to
do. She has, of course. been thrown
into a panic. He writes again: In de-
/ spair she seeks the advice OF her sis
ter, n Miss Croydon, who Is by far
the stronger OF the two, offers to come
here herself. see the man. and ind out
what he proposes to do.
"Tremaine has secured Thompson's
key, given him some money, and sent
him out to get drunk. But for Jimmy
the Dude he would have stayed away
probably in the lockup-but Jimmy
brings him home. Tremaine has to
make the best OF It. since there isn't
time to get Thompson out OF the way
again. Anyway, he's so dead drunk,
that Tremaine anticipates no interfer-
ence from him. He shuts him In tho
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 vas not OF a milk
and-water kind-both OF them are full
of fire and they made the sparks fly.
Thompson is aroused by the voices.
or perhaps wakes acknowledgements into
| the outer room and interferes. He is
stu half-drunk; perhaps he threatens
Tremaine. At any rate, Trematne picks
up the iron pipe and knocks him down;
then, in a sudden black frenzy OF am
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
room, and, at a favorable moment,
leaves the building"
He leaned back in his chair and APP
| piled a fresh match to his cigar.
That" he concluded, lis my idea of
the story. There's one person who can
I'LL In the details. I'm going to apply
to her az o as I get back from Bos-
tom
You mean Miss Croydon"
Yes" he nodded. and I think Tre-
maine Is pretty near the end OF his
adventurous career"
There's one thing" I remarked, af-
ter a moment, that diamond I found
on the floor here didn't come from Ire
maine's pin. I tried It last night and
Ii didn't ht."
Godfrey smiled as he placed the clip
pings carefully in his p~ocketbook.
IT know It," he said: IT meant to tell
you. IT came from the ring belonging
to Jimmy the Dude. I saw him tonight
across the street-Simmonds had him in
for another sweating-Simmonds isn'e
quite convinced yet that Jimmy's inno-
cent-and / noticed a ring on his finger
containing a cluster OF little diamonds.
One OF them was gone, and when T
questioned him. he said he'd lost it
somewhere the night Thompson was
killed, He probably dropped 1t here
as he was helping Thompson to bed"
That's II, no doubt" I agreed: "but
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