The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-03-04

"Ch. q little money SOFA make
taat sort o. person speak,. snee-
90 90. gardener However. ] had n5
t.f. I.y u learning where Mr.
'ork aas stopping .n New YJr5
had p,,a.y of cash with my ala--
legacy and 90! oRu income. 90 saw
lo-llng %, the sale oi the rusr
shop Lease 90 Giles. so d.t.rmia
% % toUJa. reached New York
TO- due course and compelled 81.
Monk % take m. as bis secretary.
So tha; col.d keep aim under
my .ye
Monk gr aned have had
cruel time with you d cruel time
Better than you deserve
swear. added strye-. turning
again 90 me. that never believed
Nr Monk 20 1e guilty 1a'H ! found
'H, eye"
What ! -prars 90 my fee. ia
sheer ast1ni.Am.u, Yoa found ;l
,yee.
Mons changing alternately from
Hl.t. 90 r,d with nervous fear.
would have burst into emphatic
denial. bur S;r.yer cast such h.aes
!. .oh in his direction tha, the words
died on l.. lips Then che garden
el took OUT u A.. pocket smaH
morocco case. such Us JeN-.er, use
20 eLc.os, watches. and passed l,
90 me. opened IT, silently aud
there Oh the plTy white silk. lay
glass eye u found that, said
Str.,er slowly. "Wai.e -clrch.ug the
luggage Of Mr. Mink
You had no righ, 70 search my
luggage ahimp-red Monk. 10 vas
most unfair
Unfair %, hanged You were 50
certain that Miss Gertrude Was Ia.
u1cent ana talked 80 much about
defending A,r with your life tha;
began to -lspec: you OF the deed
{ hunted when YOU were ont. amcng
your luggage and papers for some
proc, Of your guilt ! found my
aunts glass eye"
Il never saw u before" cried
Monk. rising in his excitement you
paced it among my papers to in.
I crimina,e me"
MIR Vance, said StrNer, coldly.
"lo-k at Ia, initials on the outside
/ of that case. You vii, see they are
Wentworth Mars intals-W. NJ
They also stand FOR Walter Monk
ended StriNer with sneer. and
when glanced at the case I sax
that be- spoke the truth.
The case is mine, admit. said
Nonh. trying to speak calmly: "'t
Was IN my drossngca. .e---"
Where | found II. coaauias the
eye" put in S,riy,r. Sharply
You did not, YOU did not, n.
case was empty as was wear!n-
the watca this watch Monk jerk
ed a ld,n chronomcter out of nj.
Wai,tcoat pocket. The jcweler
whose address is inside the case
can prove that the watch was iu
ir when hc sold 1t to me-"
d.rcsay' .ucered Strycr quI
city, "bu, you wore the wat,h and
placed ia, eye u the empty case
Ics and wiki that eye you learned
the secret OF the whereabouts OF
/ Nj Gortrude's fifty thousand
pounds aud You have been living
on j, under the name OF Went
" r,h Mari Tn" story os your Aus
tralian legacy and Australian cous
In is mere invention.
81 tell You have spoken the
truth deny everything"
DO you deny that you were in
Nr, Caljer,haW's shop" asked
preventing Stnycr from speaking by
a gesture
Monk stared and WINGED. How
do you know that
MIR Wentworth Mari was At
Murch'strr on ia" day when the
rim" was committed lie iam,
q -wn in hi, motor and stopped At
the Lion Ho,c' lie left q card
for Lord Canniugton at the Mur.
chester Barracks lie also went to
Mootlcy 10 sy" Anne Caldershaw."
You can't prove that" said
Monk. ana wiped the pcrsWra,iln
from ms brow neyously i ad
nit tll, did m-tor down to Muir
| Dh.-t, 10 ask Cauuington to lnflu
F enc, hi, sister In my favor !
.al,d iu the afternoon and left a
ri Then stopped the night A.
thc Lion Hotel. and returned u