The Washington times., 1910-10-05
L'HOMME SANS FIGURE
1.-THE NAN WITHOUTA FACE
Copyright. The Frank A. Afunsey

We can speak, asked the lawyer.
suSpiciOusly.
The foreign language seemed TO en-
barTaSs him.
"0h. yes. Mr.. Charles Douglass is one
Of my best friends. You may speak
freely You were saying
THAT your son, DR.. William kingsley.
has decided TO employ every means
which the law offers to put an end 10
the arbitrary sequestration Of which
Lucie We'll is the victim 1 presume,
sir, that you are not ignorant Of the
TigOr Of the law, and IL is painful 20 see
a son use IL against his own father"
Kingsley burst out laughing in the
lawyers face.
"Ah. So you are charged with ny
sons interests. Is IL 10 his interest TO
marry LuCie Wen2''
THAT is a matter OF sentiment 1
must reserve decision on that point"
SAID the lawyer
Very well. But you speak Of seaues-
| traton- There is no Sequestra ton. You
can put yourself at ease on that score
in five minutes Take the trouble u go
as Tar as the Neuilly town hall There
YOU Will see the banns published. CON
! bly, with the law. for the mar
riaSe of Charles Douglass. of Boston.
my old friend, who Is here present. and
MademOiSelle LuCie We'll who is a very
practical young lady. She now cOnsid-
ers dowry of 100000 francs prefer
able TO the empty hand Of a poor alien
ISL. tndt Is all.
l had half turned round. and I saw
Marcadian take off his glasses and wipe
them neTVOusly.
That" he said. SIS a most advantage
GUS solution ! will inform my client -
Tell your client also that ne is max
Ing a grave mistake in resorting to law
over So simple an affair, and the best
ming that he can do for his complete
pacihcation IS 70 come here and con-
verse with his happy rival
i an ~ -I--Ts-
more pleased than I can possibly tel
you. If ] could only tell you why I am
personally delighted, but 1 cannot =
we-that is to say
/ turned round and looked at Mar
cadian: What could make him SO nerv-
ouS2 What was he faItering about9 He
was always So lucid and seIf-p OSsessed
what sentiments could he be hiding to
snow agllauon before strangers. He was
certainly in great state of nervous ex-
Citement.
The millionaire at once put his emo
ton down 10 the grief he had suffered
lately through the tragedy in his family
L know, my dear SIR he said Like
everyone else, I have heard Of the ter
rible trouble you have had recentIv The
press did noC say all did it?''
nat more would you have It say ."
But the pOliCe2'
THE police, All! YOU want the uor-
der-workings of Sherlock Holmes
some thrilling stories to dream about
why do YOU expect the police to be
more intelligent than the assassin :?
Have you ever seen PLAYER who holds
in his hand the strongest trllmn card
I (Which Is the case Of the assassin he
cause he knows what the other Is
charged 10 discover attempt to Law down
the game?
Do You know, Mr.. Kingsley" he CON-
unued, warming up TO the subject ..tbat
Ine established statistics on 100 known
criines-you understood me. known
Z crlmes-the average statistics Of the
. crimes discovered is twentv-six-I re-
peat, twenty-siN, that of these twenty
SIX there are twelve Of them where the
criminal is unmasked by being caught
IN the northumberland finally. of these
twelve, 81 repeat. nine-are confessed
Dy The criminals. In the last ana IySis.
men We have modest ) per cent cred
~teq 10 the energy Of the police"
lie cOuEhed and made a pause
Now, II is necessary" he continued
Tor me To tell you that for 100 known
crimes which are founded on the dis
appearance of persons, one can eStimat re
at 800 those which Will never be dfscov-
ered2 Ought l 10 add that for 300 dis
appearances there are as many. p.r-
hapS, of which the police are not avs. re2
Ihen We can conclude that OF 200 m,r-
derS committed the budget for DOlire
protection serves to discover three of
them Yes, three, Mr.. Kingsley. But /
know we'll enough that II is not with
hgures that exciting stories are rlade"
/ could scarcely believe il was LAWYER
Marcadian talking. Kingsley, who did
not care about figures, tried to change
he converse ton
There may be, perhaps, some inter
esting stories 10 tell in the fate of Bar
rabas, the sculptOr-the man whom the
people called the King OF Fools All,
but they had a sense of humort'
The sense of humor Of those people
and the perspicacity of the detectives
are on par. Barrabas, whom | know
better than anyone, was a man of