The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-01-07

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was not sure Of this. When he came
10 The words which stuck IN his throat,
the sentence about Miss Smith, she
smiled frankly. almost laughed.
AT the end Of the reeissl-and the
colonel had not omIs.ed q word or a.
look III his memory--she merely said
"Then you think Cary Mercer has1ud.
naped Archie. and the nice.looklng
Harvard boy Is helping him?'
Don't you think Il looks that way,
y%oursoif?"
She answered that question by an
other one. "But you don't think, do
you, that Janet is the Miss Smith men.
tlonedT"
HIS reply came after an almost I'M
perceptible hesitation; mot"
Again rhe smiled. "That Ia because
you know Janet, II you didn't know
her you wonld think the chances we're
IN favor Of their meaning herr Nat
urallyl Well, / know Cary q little. /.
knew his rather well. ! don't believe
he would harm q hair OF ArchIe's head
He isn't a cruel fel,ow-at least not
toward women and children. I've a
notion that what he calls his wrongs
have upset his wits a bit. and he might
turn the screws on the Wall street
crowd that ruined him. That Is, II
he had q chance: but he Is poor; he
would need millions 20 get W. a
chance for a blow at them. But a
child, a lad who looks like his brother
mo. you may be sure he wouldn't
hurt Archie, He couldn't"
"But-the name. Winter; II is not
such a common name; and the words
about a lady of-of-' The polite
soldier hesitated.
IAN old woman, do You mean? ?" said
Aunt Rebecca. with d little curying Of
her still unwrlnkled upper Up.
IL sounds so complete" submitted
her nephew,
Therefore distrust H." she argued.
dryly. 0Gaboriau's great detective
ana Conan Doyle's both have that
same maxim-not to pick out easy an.
swens."
Winter smiled in his own turn.
Still, sometimes the easy W. are
right. Now, here Is the situation; /
hear this conversation at the depot. !
End one Of the men on the same train
with Inc. lie. presumably " he fl
Cary Mercer, and / dcn't think | can
be mistaken In his ideatity-
Unless another man is making up
as Cary"
"lt may seem %concoited, but ! don't
think could be fooled. This man
had every expression Of the others,
and was too struck by the-I may
almost call It malignant-look he had,
not 10 recognize him NJ, II was Mer-
Ger: he would certainly recognize YOU,
and he wouli know who I am; he
would not be called upon TO snub me
as a possible confidence man"
"That ranklcs yet, Bertie?'
He made d grImace and nodded.
"But,7 he insisted, isn't II sog II
ne IS up 10 some mischief, any mischief
doesn't care TO have his kin moet
hlm-that is the way he would act,
don't you thinlig"
4He might he up to mischief. yet
have no designs on his kin"
HE might said the colonel. mu.
singly. A thought which he did not
eonEde to the shrewd old woman had
lust fIpped HIS mind. But he went
on with his plea.
"He avoids you; he avoids me-. He
Is seen going into Keateham's drawing
room, that means some sort Of an
acquaintance with Keateham. enough
Ia talk to him. anyway. How much. I
can't say. Then ONE the attack by
the robbers, he Is IN another car. so
there Is no call for him TO do any.
thing; there Is no llght whatever on
whether he had anything 10 with the
robbery
HThen we come here. Keatcham
has tho room next but one, Archie
goes into his own room; we see him
so, | am outside. directly outside; It
Is simply Impossible for him to 80 out
into the hall without my 3eeinR him;
besides, | found the doors outside all
locked except the one 10 the right
where we entered your suite then we
may assume that he could not 80 out
IT, enuIa 4ct atfnak ,tte - l.abad eefn.
dows on the third floor down a sheer
descent Of some 40 or so feet. Your
last room TO the right. Miss Smiths
bedroom, Is a conner room; besides,
she was In II; that excludes every exit
except that TO the left. We find Mrs,
Wigglesworth was absent; and there
were evidences ~of--an-an attack Of
some kind carefully hidden, afterward.
But there Is no sign Of the boy.
watch the rooms. II he is hidden
somewhere in = atcham's rooms. the
chances are. after Keatcham goes.
they win try to take him OF. l don't
think It probable that Keatcham knows
anything about The kidnapping: IN fact.
II Is wildly unavoidable Well. Keateh.
am goes Immediately ! set into the
room. The valet and the young man
visiting Keatcham. young Arnold, let
me in without the slightest demur.
Either they know nothing Of the boy
or somehow they have rot him away,
else they would not lei me- In so easily.
Maybe they are ignorant and the boy
IL gone, both, We 20 to the rooms
very snnn after. thore Is not The snail