The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-09

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face.
"'The Maitland Jewels" he read.
half aloud: Daring Attempt at Burg
larry. Mad" Maitland Catches Hand
some Dam 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 a monosyllabic oath, which can
hardly have proved any considerable
relief 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 busy re-
porter to whom Maitland had refused
an interview while in his bath, some
three hours earlier Maitland discoV-
cred with relief that boiled down to es-
sentials 1t consisted simply Of the
statement that somebody presumably
himself) had caught somebody (pre-
sumably Anisty) burglarizing the IL
brary safe at Maitland Manor that
morning; that one of the somebodies
(no 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.
It was not to this 80 much that Matt
land objected. It 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 estates: a dia-
gram Of the library, as fancifur as the
text It Illuminated, and two portraits.
side by side, Of che heroes, himself
and Anisty, excellent nkenesses both
of the originals and Of each other.
Mr. Maitland did not enjoy his din
neF.
Anxious and preoccupied, he tasted
the dishes mechanically; and when
they had all passed before him, took
his thoughts and cigar to 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
oAo Hk0 hull hof ~
was action, something that he could
do; wherever else he thought to move
he found himself baf1ed by the blank
darkness Of mystery. or by his fear
of publicity and ridicule.
At 1920 he decided to move upon
Greenf1elds at once, and telephoned
O'Hagan, advising him to profess ig-
norance of his employers where
abouts.
At 1922, OF 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 a 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 Greenf1elds
Denied the shelter alike Of his lodg-
ings, his club, and his country home,
the young man in despair caused him
self to be conveyed to tbs Barthold
hotel, where, possessed of devil Of
folly. he preserved his incognito by reg
istering under the name of m. Dan
iels." And straightway retired to his
room
But not to rest. The portion of the
mentally harassed, sleeplessness. was
his; and for an hour or more he tossed
upon his bed upon which he had
thrown himself without troubling TO
undress), bordering, to no profit Of
his, the hundred problems. difficulties
and disadvantages suggested or ere
ated by the events Of the past "a
hours.
The gray girl, Anisty, the jewels,
himself; unfagging, his thoughts cir
cumnavlgated the world of his ro-
nance, touching only at these four
ports, and returning always to linger
longest in the harbor of sentiment
The gray girl: Strange that her
personality should have come to domi-
nate his thoughts in a space of time
so brief! and upon grounds of init
macy so slender, Who and what was
she? What cruel rigor of circum-
stance had impelled her to seek live
lihood in ways SO sinister? At whose
door must the blame be laid, against
what flaw in the body social should
the Indictment be drawn, that she
cborId baua I'm forood into tho ron be