The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
BROTHERS OF
THE LEFT HAND PATH
BY FRANK LOWELL NELSON.

EDITORS Note: This story is filled
with surprising revelations and is based
on an attempt to establish the ancient
practices of the Black Art in a modern
city. a professor of languages, his
daughter, and an abducted millionaire
are the chief characters, the last two
furnishing the love incident. Carlton
Clarke, with his keen mind and broad
knowledge OF men and things, succeeds
In solving the mystery that arises)
ne events recorded in this narrative
areSso recent, the actors so highly
placed, and the interests involved so
delicate that / may be pardoned in de-
parting from the usual custom of these
>records in withholding even the APP
proximate date. 1t is needless to say
that the names of the principals are
disguised and the localities inaccurate,
but otherwise the narrative is a record
OF the facts as they came under the
observation of Clarke and myself.
Our introduction to the mystery was
prosaic. i had enticed Clarke into
game of billiards at the Athletic club
one evening. This was something l
was seldom able to do, although he
played a remarkable game, and was
giving me two strings in three and
beating me without effort.
We had played our third game when
McIlvane. whom 1 knew but slightly
entered the room in an excited man
ner and said:
81 say, have any of you fellows seen
Richard King in the last week.?
None of the crowd which had gath
cred to watch Clarke's play was able
TO answer in the affirmative.
well. he's evidently disappeared
continued McIlVane. He hasn't been
home for a week. His folks just tele-
phoned 10 see If he was here. l told
them to call up the Press cub. They
said they had done so. and he hasn't
been there. And say, here's the funny
part OF 1t: you fellows may not know
it get. but he was to have been mar
riejN next month. The cards were COM
ing out in about a week"
ooh, that explains ii. then" drawled
Shapley of the rotund face and the
flaxen hair. Every fellah feels like
taking to the woods just before he
gets married. Felt the same way my
self five years ago. Haven't quite got
over it yet. Kings simply gone and
done it,
This brought a laugh as Shapley's
absent devotion TO his family was pref
~ we'll known.
What sort of fellow is King?"
asked. II don't believe 1 know him"
Quiet chap" answered Shapley
Didn't mix much; lived down in Ken
some sort of mines somewhere in Rus
STA. Died there and left King and hi:
sister five millions apiece. Dick livet
over there till he came here to col
lgsge Graduated at Princeton and thei
6Faveied in India and ali such places
as that. Got some sort of a fad abou
occultism and all that sort of thing
Studious sort of a chap: always sittln;
around somewhere with a book. Don
see what he wanted to belong to thi
club for
II suppose the police have been no
tified?" said Clarke, who had Joined ou
group.
I'D make a book they haven't. Oh
lady proud as a queen. She's Rus
sian. Some sort of a princess or some
thing over there. Not the kind tina
likes their names in the papers much.
The sensation. which seemed com
rnonplace enough to Clarke and myself
was an epoch in the lives of these idle
rich young men. and the discussion q
= Kings unwonted absence ragged fiercel
for a time, although he was know
personally to but few of the members
The general consensus of opinion wa
that Shapley had assigned the tru
cause and King was just keeping OF
OF sight and would bob up serenel
in time for the wedding.
But Richard King did not turn vi
The DAYS dragged into weeks and stl
there was no word of him. Short hint
OF the affair got into the papers, an
Q7e sensational afternoon sheet printe
* glaring and garbled story; nut L
v,>prd of il was given to the police an
the proud mother and Kings one beat