Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-09


Quickly reviewing the possibilities of
the affair, he came to the conclusion
that the travelling Frenchman really
understood little, if any EngliHh, but
that he had caught the name of the
fugitive from the Sultan's wrath and
had forthwith betrayed an interest in
their conversation which was, to say
the least, remarkable. At the exit from
readily enough ascertained Brett's
destination, but he clearly regarded 1t
as important hat Gaultier--the man
who claimed Hussein-ul-Mulk as a
friend-should be tracked, and had
given the necessary Instructions to the
confederate who awaited his arrival.
Although Gaultier had not said as
much, Brett guessed that his destina-
ton wal the British Embassy in the
Rue du Faubourg st. Honore. The
route followed by the cabman led
straight to that w~ell-known locality.
The Frenchman in the second cab evil
IDENTIFY thought likewise, for, at the cor
ner of the Rue Boissey he pulled up,
and Brett was just in time to give his
driver instructions to go ahead and
thus avoid attracting undue notice to
himself.
Gaultier turned into the Embassy,
and Brett himself halted a little further
on. Diminishing his cocher with a lib
eral fare, he walked rapidly back. and
saw the spy enter into conversation
with the night porter on duty. The
latter parsonage. however, was clearly
a trustworthy official, for he loudly
told the other to be off and attend to
his own affairs.
Then followed a most exciting and
p%erplexing chase through many streets,
and it was only by the exercise of the
utmost discretion that Brett finally To-
Gated his man at a definite number in
the Rue Barbette, a tiny t~horoughfare
in the Temple district.
BY this time dawn was advancing
over Paris, and the streets were be-
ginning to fill with early workers. He
inquired from a passerby the most like
ly locality in which he could find a cab,
and the man civilly conducted him to
the Rue de Rivoli. Thence he was not
long in reaching the Grand Hotel,
where he found the astonished cocher
of his first vehicle still safeguarding
his bag and arguing fiercely with a
porter thai he had unquestionably
obeyed the Englishman's instructions.
Tired though he was. Brett did not
fail to scrutinize the list of arrivals
at the hotel on the preceding Tuesday.
He instantly found the entry he sought.
The arrival of Mr.. and Mrs. John Tai
bot, London" was chronicled in the
register with uncompromising boldness.
Hastily comparing the writing in Tai
bots letter with that of the visitors
book, Brett was at first staggered by
their similarity, but he quickly recog-
nized the well-known signs which in
dictate that a man who himself writes
a bold and confident hand has been
copying the signature of another with
the object of reproducing it freely and
with reasonable accuracy. There are
always %perceptible differences in the
varying pressure of the pen and the
distribution of the ink.
Allowance had evidently not been
made for the fact that Englishmen al
most invariably write their names very
badly in continental hotel registers,
owing to their inability to use foreign
pens. The man who not only forged
Mr.. Talbot's name, but also supplied
him with a wife, labored under no such
disadvantage. Indeed, Talbot himself
would probably not have written his
own nam so legibly.
THAT is all right" said Brett wear
lily. traversing a corridor to gain his
room. Now, / Wonder If there is any
connection between Hussein-ul-Mulk
and the Rue Barbette."