Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23

thence (dogged by specter Of lone
liness) to the bar. and finally in sheer
desperation, to the dining room. where
he selected a table and ordered an
evening paper with his meal.
When the former was brought him,
he sat up and began to take new in
terest in life. The glazing headlines
that met his eye on the front page
proved as bracing as slap in the
face.
1.-The Maitland Jewels" he read,
half aloud: Daring Attempt at Burg
larry. Mad" Maitland Catches Hand
some DAN Anisty in the Act OF Crack
ing His Safe at Maitland Manor.
Which Was Which? Both Principals
Disappear.
A dull red glow suffused the read
er's countenance; he compressed his
lips, only opening them once, and then
to emit monosyllabic oath, which can
hardly have proved any considerable
relies to his surcharged emotional ma
ture.
The. news-story was exploited as a
beat" it could have been little else,
| since nine-tenths of its Exclusive de-
| tails" had been born full-winged from
| the fecund imagination of a busy re-
porter to whom Maitland had refused
! an interview while in his bath, some
three hours earlier. Maitland discoy-
cred with relief that boiled down to es-
sentials it consisted simply Of the
| statement that somebody presumably
HIMSELF had caught somebody (pre-
sumably Anisty) burglarizing the Ii
brary safe at Maitland Manor that
morning: that one of the somebodies
tho one knew which) had overpowered
the other and left him in charge of the
butler, who had presently permitted
his prisoner to escape and then talked
for publication.
1t was not to this so much that Matt
land objected. 1t was the illustra-
| lions that alternately saddened and
maddened the young man; the said il
Illustrations comprising blurred half
tone reproductions of photographs
taken ON the Maitland estate; dia-
gram of the library, as fancisul as the
text it Illuminated, and two portraits,
side by side, of the heroes himself
Of the originals and of each other
Mr. Maitland did not enjoy his din
ner.
Anxious and preoccupied, he tasted
the dishes mechanically; and when
! they had all passed before him, took
his thoughts and a cigar to a gloomy
corner of the smoking room, where he
sat for two solid hours, debating the
matter pro and con, and arriving at
no conclusion whatever, save that Hig-
| gins was doomed
At 1915 he began to contemplate
with positive pleasure the prospect of
discharging the butler. That, at least,
was action, something that he could
do; wherever else he thought to move
he found himself baff1ed by the blank
darkness Of mystery, or by his fear
of publicity and ridicule.
At 1920 he decided to move upon
Greenfields at once, and telephoned
\ " f1dEctu, IllAli W plOlCSS
norance of his employers where
aboutS.
At 1922, or in the midst of his ad-
monitions to the janitor, he changed
his mind and decided to stay in New
York; and instructed the Irishman
to bring him a suit case containing a
few necessaries; his intention being to
stay out the night at the club, and so
avoid the matutinal siege Of his lodg-
ings by reporters and detectives.
| At 10:45 a club servant handed him
the card of n representative Of the
Evening Journal. Maitland directed
that the gentleman be shown into the
reception room.
At 1916 he skulked out Of the club
by a side entrance. jumped into a cab
and had himself driven to the East
Thirty-fourth street ferry, arriving
there just in time to miss the last
train for Greenhelds.
Denied the shelter alike of his lodg-
4 ings, his club, and his country home,
the young man in despair caused him
self to be conveyed to the Bartholdi
hotel, where, possessed of devil OF
folly. he preserved his incognito by reg