St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-02-27

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S9ESfffT1SHA ments one morning in
EkllD midsummer A shade Of
lgE$N anxiety passed over the
En1EA face of my house mate.
WI.IllIEH Strange, | thought, that
IItIIIHlW Carlton Clarke, the great
@ataAaznS te-epathic detective, should
be disturbed by so ordin-
airy an event as che receipt of tele-
gram. Clarke took the yellow en-
.Velope and held it thoughtfully in
MS hand as a woman studies a teIe-
gram before sunmoning the courage
to open it.
DO you remember Thaida?" he
asked suddenly, still holding the en-
Velope as / signed the messengers
book
Did | remember Thafda? AS if I
could forget that glorious vision of
young Womanhood that had flashed
into our presence in the ghetto dis
trlct or New York and whose psy-
chometric mind had aided us in the
solution of the puzzling mystery of the
Blue Bokhara"
Il see you do" continued Clarke.
Wen, my mind has been filled with
forebodings concerning her all morn
ing. have no word from her for
several weeks. Something tells me
that this message concerns her and
that the news is not good We will
see, and he tore open the envelope
and read it hastily A look OF distress,
passing quickly to black frown of
anger, overspread his face. Without
word he passed the message to me-
read: J.
ON board s. s. Magellan, off Pen
sacola, Fla, Marconi Station. The
VOLTS fangs-''
No signature. A cipher? None that
was familiar with, yet it must have
meaning and a deep and terrible
one, for as looked at Clarke his eyes
blazed with anger and beneath it he
wore a look of the deepest concern.
1T is from her. The wolf! must
save her, but how? Sexton, can /
count on your
You know that without asking" |
replied; but | haven't the slightest
idea what 1t all means"
"Of course not Come into the II.
brary and | will tell you while we
plan some method of action, do not
yet know what
Il first met Thaida" continued
Clarke. when we were seated in the
library, when | was an inferno at
Bellevue She was student, delving
deeper than the mind of woman or
dinarily goes into subjects phil
osophical and psychological She
was true friend, a jovial com
panion, ana these traits, allied with
the beauty of which you can testify,
had the effect OF gathering about her
an ever charging court. But with an
admirable reserve she held them all
at length.
| alone came tlfe nearest to her-confi.
dence and the life we lived was ideal,
both too busy for our chosen work to
mar It by thoughts of anything closer,
both protected, she by her womanly
reserve, ! by my sincere respect for
her.
Then Compile Armand de Loup
came into our lives. He was a young
French nobleman, very rich, living
where ana how he pleased. We were
attracted to him by his love OF the
occult which he had studied in India
In Tibet, wherever the minds of think
ers run in the direction of the unknow.
able. He was suaye, handsome and
at first, charming In every way. II
was not long however until his adj
nounced as to cause her to fear him
and me to hate him with all my heart
When 1t became necessary for her
definitely to repel his offers he went
out of our sphere as suddenly as he
had entered 1t, but leaving behind him
ais curses and his vows of the most
Fsrrible vengeance his fiery Gallo
spirit could invent.
Nine years have passed since then
and no blow has fallen. unless this is
1t. After he left, translating his name
literally, we called him the wolf.
We often talked iokingly of the time
when the threatened fangs of the
wolf would. close upon us. The fangs
Of the wolf 1t must be Thaida."
AS Clarke was speaking the bel
rang again and second messenger
arrived. Clarke feverishly tore oper
the cover and reading it passed it tc
me. It was:
- have struck. Save me-"
Like the first 1t was sent by Marcon
system from the steamship Magellan
Wait exclaimed Clarke. I'VE car
do nothing. There will be third. She
is sending me word despite some ter
rible obstacle"
He had hardly finished when the
third message arrived. Sent from the
same station, 1t read:
e. come to -"
Would there be fourth that would
give us the final clue% All the day W.
waited with all the patience We coalt
summon. but ii came not. Clarke
spent the time porting over the time
tables of the North and South lines. A
last he gave up and throwing the tins
tables from him he exclaimed: Some
thing has happened. She cannot fin
ish. But there is another means i
only she will try it."
Then he lay back in his chair ant
closed his eyes. Fer more than al
hour he did not stir. II began to thinl
he slent. Then he jumped up SO sud
denly that he startled me.
Quick! | have it. We are going
PACK Don't forget the arms AM
plenty of ammunition. and put in thos
four automatics we go. the other day