The Washington times., 1910-01-20
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ALRaT PAYSON TERHUNE

At this surprised exclamation was
aroused from my stUpOr and glanced
more interestedly at the gold uIIle-
piece he was dangling in front OF me
1t was open faced and OF cnaSeu
gold At a glance II seemed 70 De
Marks old watcher its counterpart
But a second look showed me oiI-
ferent, more hashy design on tne
chasing The watch. too, was thinner
than Marks, and the figures on me
face were picked GU in black, not IN
red, like his
I stared at it blankly-
Where did you get thisZ.' / querled-
Il didn't get II at al, he denied
I never saw il before You can see
il isn't mine And tie chain IS alto
gether different Minis is a gold braid
chain with no charms on it. This IS
made up of small plain links And
there's a lOCket dangling from II near
the crossbar- See2'
I saw. I saw also that the cross bar
was lightly bent from my efforts at
prying 1t loose from between the joints
Of the StTlngpieCe. Yes. II was beyond
question the watch and chain had re-
covered last night on WhippinSers
dock But whose was it2
You said your watch fell out Of your
pocket l began
1t did" asserted Mark Il heard it
fan and strike the stringpiece when
He had been dressing Nov he picked
I'D his torn coat As he did so some
thing flashed from an inner pocket and
swung suspended from a bUtJOnhOIe.
It was ms watch
IL must have been mistaken" he
NTnuttered, confused Il wore no waist
coat. and I put the watch in the inside
pocket and put the cross bar OF the
chain through that inner butUOnhOle- /
remember perfectly But-but just the
same heard a watch strike the string
piece and heard the chain Jingle as
When did you hear it, 1 broke in
Nv hen2 Why, during the fight re
member one OF US gave q sudden TWIST
and nd, the watch few out and
"ODe Of whom / demanded.
"Why-either I or-or-'
He put his hand again TO his head in
, that old, helpless gesture
Why the deuce can't remember
he grOwled IN despeia alton Every thinS
I Is as clear as daylight up 10 certain
point. Then. all at once, its as mixed
! as a lot OF photos all taken on one
film You II think m crazy but
don't even know who I was fighting
with But I know I hated him I
wanted TO Kill him And"
And you did II. I'm afraid Was it
Vaughn? No. I'm sure-I-I-think-
no. I'm sure not 1 couldn't find
Vaughn I looked and couldn't I met
Brock And I asked him where Vaughn
/ was And he told me And I looked.
But Vaughn wasn't there-f
AT WhippingerS dock
! There was no guile IN The boys eyes
I
/ instant reply.
/ .'WbiPpinger's dockg-. he repeated
NO That wasn't the place, I'm ALSO
/ Iutely certain In fact. I never heard Of
! " hippinger's dock Where is it2-
It's the place where I found you al
/ / O'Clock this morning, senSeless and
/ covered with blood" I IetCrted-
/ Eut there was faint relief in my
! tone. II was not likely that Vaughn
Z should 90 to such a place as Whlpplu-
/ gers dock, or that Brock tvvho scarce
1 Is knew Baltimore at alb should have
/ directed Mark thi1her-
/ That theory. from first TO last. made
4 no sense al all. Nor from Mark 5
{ broken half-memorles- could I make
/ certain the boy was getting any OF the
I story straight
/ / was th0ughtIessly lingering the lit
tle lockeJ on the chain Of the watch
/ that was stiu in my hand Now, al
. some unconscious pressure or twist OF
my fingers, the locket few open
| On one side OF the glazed interior was
/ a curl Of black hair on the other a
! dark decidedly pretty Iace-a face be
/ longing apparently TO a member OF
/ one Of the Latin races II was stTiE-
! ing cOuntenance- apart from its vivid
! beauty
( / looked into the big pictured eyes,
R with a genuine sorrow The man whom
/ this girl Ioved-perhaps her husband
| or fatheT-lay at the Baltimore morgue
l awaiting Identification
| The pity Of il all And-tO add grue-
/ some horror 90 paLhos-nly own brother
I had hurled this unknown man 10 his
! death and I-whls now held IN my hand
the one probable clue TO the identified
! rfou-was sought by the police for that
! same crime An odd irOnical old world,
I is IL uOt2
/ Mark was looking over my shoulder
/ al the picture
: IS q good hater- They are eyes that
! can love But they can haze better, or
I I'm no judge Of woman s face
! He turned away. aDC rImuaged IN a
( cupboard for q coat 10 replace the torn,
/ stained garment that lay on the bed
J His back was turned I glanced stealth
/ ily at him; then pried open the back
/ case Of the watch
1 Engraved across the inner surface OF
8 the case were q date and a monogram
] sfOnaI cipher solver I cannot read The
/ modern fashionable u-OnOgTauls- Thus
/ the swirl Of hCurishes told me nothing
/ I closed the case with = snap as Marx
! turned back into the room carrying a
/ tweed coat and a neEliEe shirt that ne
/ had routed out of a lot Of last wear 5
/ His face had regained its old look Of
I tragic worry look that struck me @
1.-THE heart. For I had ever stood between
I him and trouble as though ne were my
! child instead OF my brother And my
q uOnentary anger against him had al
ready merged into compassionate scr
J I wish he said. desperately. Il wish
/ whoever I fought with had killed me
instead Of Just knocking me in tbs
head
Mark
/ II dOI'' he repeated i've made JUS
one horrible, hopeless mess Of my whole
life Sometimes think I'm not in my
right mind. When 1 look back on the
itakinC-the stealinE-Of those bonds
/ can't realize IL was Ia Lee-that did il
When get into such crazy RACES as
/ did last night when Kari Vaughn came
here seem to be another man than my.
/ self You told me last night that Vaughn
still had the bOndS-CT else gathered
II from the fact that he had come
straight on here from Boston I wen