Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

Now, he continued. 'Iet US see now
| nearly we can reconstruct the scene
which occurred in this room. Tremainc
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 mako
I an open emmy OF him. lest he spoil his
game here-Thompson had only to
speak a word to the police TO put Tire.
maine back in Sing Sing To serve out
his uneXpired term. Arrived at New
York he establishes himself in the
suite across the han, and spends
week or Two I'm 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 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 TO have the writer arrested for
blackmail. But she isn't so sensible
Perhaps she dsregards his first note:
perhaps she's unable to decide what 10
do. She has, Of course. been thrown
into q panic lie writes again; in de-
spair she seeks the advice OF her sis
ter, and Miss croydon. who is by far
the stronger of the two. offers to come
here herself see the man. and find ont
what he proposes TO do.
'Tremaine has secured Thomson
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 Ia
ralL hA hoe % .
time TO get Thompson out OF the way
again. Anyway, he's so dead drunk
that Tremaine anticipates no interfer
ence from him. lie 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 n milk
and-Water kind-both of them are fuu
of ire and they made the sparks Nv
Thompson is aroused by the voices
or perhaps wakes naturally-comes into
the outer room and interferes. He ia
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 win always stand in his
way, he draws his revolver and shoots
him through the heart That done ne
room and, at q favorable moment.
leaves the building"
He leaned back IN his chair and ap-
piled fresh match TO his cigar
That he concluded lis my idea OF
the story. There's one person who can
al 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 / think Ire
maine is pretty near the end of his
adventurous career
There's one thing" / remarked. af-
ter "a moment that diamond | found
on the floor here didn't come from Ire
maines pin | tried ii last night and
il didn't lt."
Godfrey smiled as he placed the clip
pings carefully i'm his pOcketbook
Il know it, he said II meant to tell
YOU. IT came from the ring belonging
to Jimmy the Dude. / saw him tonight
across the t-Simmonds had him In
for another sweating -Simmonds isn't
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 7
questioned him, he said he'd lost il
somewhere the night Thompson was
killed He probably dropped it here
as he was helping Thompson to bed
That's IT, no doubt" | agreed; "buf
it breaks one thread of evidence"
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