Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-10-27

him alone, guess"
Why isn't she witness enough
then?" asked the district attorney.
Well. she's mixed up in 1t in rather
a nasty way She's afraid she'll suffer
II her part of 1t is made public"
i can fix that" said Rutherford
coolly enough. "A promise of immun-
lily, and"
She won't do it." returned the
chief. You can drive these women
just so far. and there you stop. Be
sides, 1t amt never goin' to come into
court"
What do you mean2" asked Ben.
son.
Il mean" said Connell emphatically,
that Gormly is goin' to give up the
game"
Give up the camel" repeated Hal
dane
That's what said. It's goin' to be
put up to him as to whether he wants
this told or whether he withdraws
from the field"
You might back your put up to
him with warrant for murder. | Is
lieve," said the district attorney. "If
the evidence is what you say, I'll have
charges preferred against him."
All right" answered the chief.
Mr. Rutherford and will fix that up
Now. gentlemen, you leave this to me.
! am accustomed 10 deal with Grim.
inals. and I'll fix Gormly. / ought to
have all the reports in my hands the
day after tomorrow"
Wouldn't 1t be well to spring II to.
night?"
Hardly. Besides it's too late. Not
even Gormly himself could keep the
] stun out of the papers now.
Il guess now, Mr.. Haldane," said
Rutherford, as the assembly dissolved
and the two found themselves alone
together. the others being gone, that
you are rather glad than otherwise
that your bride did not work"
Yes, suppose so. l don't know
answered Haldane brokenly. 81 had
heard some limitations of this, moth.
Ing definitely Connell has been very
close mouthed. tried to blum CORN.
ly with that don't know what eff
feet the disclosure is going to have
| don't know how true 1t is. II seems
rather suspicious
Cornell had better be careful what
he does" returned Rutherford. He'd
better be very sure of his facts"
why did you leave the handling OF
the affair to him?"
We'll, he'd make q good scapegoai
If anything went wrong" answered
Rutherford with cynical indifference.
Now, as It happened. Colonel Bill
Hamilton was not so guileless as he
looked. After the first exclamation
and the erst few condolences over tn.
drinks which he gave to the plair
clothes man who had so adroitly
sought to get his story on that event
full night. Colonel Bill shut up like
clam. The interest of the stranger II
the story was suspicious. Colonel BIZ
knew great many things that he hat
not told, and did not intend to tell un
less II was necessary. Therefore, h
soon got rid OF his new friend an,
went TO hts room to think It over.
He was morally certain that Gormll
and the man whom he had known as
boy as George Fordyce were one anC
the same. Fortunately he had always
liked Fordyce, and he was not dis
posed to do anything that would in
jure him.
or course he had heard. as had ev
eryone else In the United States, oil
the remarkable campaign of George
Gormly for the mayoralty of New
York. He had not had great amount
OF personal interest in the matter
however. But when he identified
Gormly with Fordyce, the affair al
once engaged his keenest attention
Since the day he had left XIII Devil
Camp, he had never heard one word
of either the man or the woman. He
had supposed, as everyone else had
that they had persisted In the storm
and although their bodies had never
been recovered there were plenty oil
reasons to account for that.
What was he to do? Was he to see
Gormly. or Fordyce as he called him
and put him on his guard? or was
he to wait and be governed by cir,
cumstances? This was not an easy
problem to decide; but Colonel Bill
Hamilton finally came to the conclu.
sion that his best game was the wait
ing one. Besides he liked to play a
lone hand, and he felt every conf
dence that he could do II.
Meanwhile he determined to fortify
himself with such evidence as he
could secure, and at the proper time
If the story was ferreted out and an
attempt was made to make use of It,
he would, as he phrased it. butt into
the camel" He set the telegraph to
work. therefore, and presently receiv
ed from his partner In Butte by ex
press a tin box full Of very private
official documents. Thereafter he
amused himself by following the prog
ress Of the campaign and doing some
highly profitable local Investigating on