Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-12-27

7 plan; and Thompson, 10 get even FOR
that %treachery at Sing Sing, gives MIN
away. Tremaine, no doubt, got a peni-
Tertiary sentence. He probably broke
Jail again. for in 1899 he appears al
Martinique, supposedly from south
America. He has considerable money.
which he no doubt stole somewhere,
and perhaps he chose st, Pierre as d
safe place to stay In hiding untll 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 OF st. Pierre-and
puts a bouquet to his revenge by drlv-
ing him into fits of rage by reminding
him of that Australian treachery. But
at last ne sends him a message, Whlch
brings him TO New York.
"Yes,",I said, "and / have cudgelled
ny Dl8tfir IN VAN lying 90 lt6dsitE
what hat message could have been.
Well remarked Godfrey, while We
can't, OF course, give its actual text, l
don't think 1t very difficult to guess us
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 tina she was blackmailable-in
other words, that she had married a
rich man. No doubt, Tremaine's money
was running low, and he jumped at this
nance of replenishing his purse.
Thompson was working his way toward
st. Pierre to join him. and actually
reached there on the Parma just as
Tremaine was leaving. Perhaps Tre-
maine had tried 20 play Thompson false
a second time.
Now" he continued, 'let us see how
nearly we can reconstruct the scene
| V.I,, al xaZ,,-r,l - flfc Trnnainn
supplies Thompson on the voyage up
with whisky, and agrees to keep him
supplied, believing that he may be use
ful-not daring, at any rate, to make
an open emmy OF him, lest he spoil his
game here-Thompson a only TO
speak a word to the police to put Ire
maine back in Sing Sing to serve out
his ~uneNpired 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 and takes these
rooms.
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
share In her prosperity. He demands
that she meet him in these rooms, ask
ing for Thompson-that leaves him
free from suspicion should she show
the note to her husband and should he
attempt 10 nay 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 q panic. He writes again; in de-
spair she seeks the advice OF her sis
ter, and Miss Croydon, who is by far
| ~ 81 p. nF tho fnyn nffnru tn nm
here herself. see the man. and find out
| what ne proposes to do.
"Tremaine has secured Thompson'5
key, given him some money, and sent
him out to get drunk. But for Jimmy
the Dude he would have stayed away
probably I'm 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 Interior
ence from him.. He shuts him in the
bedroom, and sits down to wait for
Miss Croydon.
She arrives promptly. despite the
rain, and we can imagine that the dia
logue which followed was 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 naturally-comes into
the outer room and interferes. He is
still half-drunk; perhaps he threatens
Tremaine. At any rate, Tremaine picks
up the iron pipe and Knocks him down;
then. in a sudden black frenzy OF an
ger, remembering Australia, seeing how
Thompson will always tai 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 ap-
| piled a fresh match TO his cigar.
That" he concluded, "is my idea of
the story. There's one person who can
fill In the details. I'm going to apply
to her as soon as / get back from Bos-
ton"
you mean Miss Croydon"
Yes" he nodded. and l think Ire
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. l tried it last night and
Ii didn't fit.'
Godfrey smiled as he placed the clip
pings carefully In his p~ocketbook.
II know It," he said: II meant to tell
you. IT came from the ring belonging
to Jimmy the Dude. / saw him tonight
across the street-Simmonds had him in
for another sweating-Simmonds isn't
quite convinced yet that JIminy'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 IL here
as he was helping Thompson to bed
That's it, no doubt" l agreed; but
1t breaks one thread of evidence"