The Washington times., 1910-05-25
THE GREENLAND
Copyright-Frank A. Munsey Company.

4 will you, and see if you can find out
anything from it? Anyhow. Deal did
US a servie oy bringing 1T back.
At first blush there didn't seem 10 be
anything about il TO help US out. The
] inner case was engraved with the Ia
miliar Inscription To Amelia Pace, F"
etc, and the back lid bore nothing
but the case number, the carat mark,
and the makers name.
Il don't see anything here, / grum-
bled, shutting the thing gain.
But then my eye was caught by the
CLEAN Of the raw gold where the pawn
brokers' file had tested the genuineness
Of the metal, and II occurred 70 me that
the back lid had been more than or
dinarily hard to open.
Turning IL over. / saw thai IL bad
peen opened eeIoref ana evld5ntly re,
Gently; knife point or some metal
object had been used. and he had left a
slight abrasion on the edge.
Thereupon I reOpened the rear lid
and noticed the same thing on the inner
case lid which protects the works
This being In its turn pried Open the
works were exposed. and the end OF
our search was in plain sight.
In the slight space between the works
and the Id there was a slip, a very
thin slip, Of faded paper.
I had II out in a tTice. II was cover
ed with fine characters. in the hand Of
readily from the former specimen I
! had seen.
Faraday gave an exclamation Of de-
''There 1t isl he cread What does
7 was straining my eyes over it 10 no
purpose.
You get me a magnifying glass. and
III tell YOU ! answered.
After little searching he produced the
desired article
The following is the text Of the letter.
as nearly as I could make Il out: some
of It had faded so badly as to be entire
" iilegible:
MY dear son:
''fn event Of nv demise. this watch
will be handed 20 you by my friend Dr.
SpotswoOd, on your twenty-1rst birth
day. Il belonged I inclose this
70 eXp84ln Mernorandun 70 pc
filed with my viii and testament, tell
ms now TO obtain access 70 secret
TO con- ain valuable jewelry and
a sum of money In gold amount
which Is all that ] have 70 leave you
] do not know you, my son. and have
dearly wife loved more
adopt this means. peculiar as II is, TO
Provide that my fortune may not al fall
into the hands Of that arch
IT. n. FARADAY. NJ. D.
N. BIO work out instructions IN
memo, begin at corner library
waInscoting."
~ W ell. ciled karauayr al LAc CoA-
clUslOn OF this translation.
WHAT" I demanded, a little al
loss, 10 tell the truth
Here we are, all plain as day. Ny
denly and inte.Jected a remark which
| had troubled ne: I wonder what he
was 50 scared Of? The man who killed
MIN?
well. then. my father hid his for
tune away In a secret compartment or
he library wainscoung in the Della
pierre plaCe-the room wherein our
friend, the green lamp gentleman. holds
| forth now.
His method of concealing his secret
" as ingenious enough. Heaven knows.
He mighty nigh defeated his own pUr-
pose by beStOwing his directions so
promiscUOusl p. Never heard Of any
, thing so utJ Tly without rhyme or rea-
son Guess he Nasn't so very anxious
for me TO come into my own, after ali,
from the way he acted
However. we've got his precious
memorandum, and all we have 10 do
now Is 10 go TO the library in the haunt
ed house and fellow directions"
If we 10, / hope our fair purpose
and intent will lay the ghostly visi-
tant. said l fervently.
Wen, who's afraid? Wait a minute
lets have another look at his direc-
lions. / put them in a pigeOn-hoie in
the desk here just after I came back
Here they are No. by George. 1
must be mistaken Let me think No
sir. I distinctly remember putting them
into this desk"
He rummaged feverishly through the
whole piece Of furniture, every drawer
and compartment OF II, and when he
was done 7 took a hand at the search.
But to no purpose: in the end we
were obliged 10 confess ourselves de-
feated. The paper was not there.
You are sure I began. skepti-
cally.
SURE? BY thunder. I know I put
Il there"'
Faraday considered a minute or two
then brought down his fist upon the
table with 2 resOunding thump.
Deals GOingsi' he cried furiously,
| Blast the little sneakI'
I forgave him the curse.