Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-08-05
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reasonable, after all, to presume that
Maitland should prefer to hold his
own. Possibly Anisty had seen the
girl slip the canvas bag into Maitland's
pocket while the latter was kneeling
AID binding his captive However
that was, there was no denying that
he had trailed the treasure to its hid
ing place. unerringly; and succeeded
in taking possession of it with consum
mate skill and audacity. When Matt
land came to think of it, he recalled
distinctly the trend of the burglars
inquisition in the character of Mr.
SIaith," which had all been calculated
to discover the location of the Jewels
And, when he did recall this fact, and
how easily he had been duped, Matt.
land could have ground his teeth in
melodramatic rage-but for the cir.
cumstance that when first it occurred
to him, such a feat was a physical i'm.
possibility, and even when Engaged
the operation would have been painful
to an extreme.
Slipping the grateful drink which
O'Hagan presently brought him, the
young man pondered the case; with
no pleasure in the prospect he fore
saw. If Higgins had actually COM
municated the fact of Anistys escape
to the police, the entire affair was likely
to come out in the papers-all of it,
that is, that he could not suppress. But
even figuring that he could silence
Higgins and O'Hagan-no difficult task
though he might be somewhat late
with Higgins-the most discreet mag
Unable explanation of his extraordinary
conduct would make him the laughing
stock of his circle of friends, to say
nothing of a city that had been ac-
customed to speak of him as Mad
Maitland" for many day. Unless
All, he had it, He could pretend
$50 long as it suited his purpose, at
all events, to have been the man
caught and left bound in Higgins care.
Simple enough. The knocking over of
the butler would be ascribed to a nat
ural ebullition of Indignation, the sub
sequent flight to a hare-brained notion
of running down the thief. And yet
even that explanation had its Difficult
ties, How was he to account for the
fact that he had failed to cOmmuni.
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treasure had been ravished?
1t was all very involved. Mr.. Matt
land returned the glass to O'Hagan
and, grading his head in his hands
racked his brains in vain for salts.
factory tale to tell. There were SO
many things to be taken into consid.
GRAFTON. There was the girl in gray
Not that lie had forgotten her for an
instant; his fury ragged but the higher
al the thought that Anisty's interior
ence had prevented his (Maitland's)
keeping the engagement. Doubtless
the girl had waited, then gone away
in anger, believing that the man in
whom she had placed faith had proved
himself unworthy
But that telephone call?
"O'Hagan," demanded the haggarc
and distraught young man, who was
that on the wire just now?"
Being a thoroughly trained servant
O'Hagan had waited that question in
silence, a-quiver with impatience
though he was. Now, his tongue un
leashed,, his words fairly stumbled OF
one another's heels in his anxiety t.
get them out in the least possible time
Sure, an twas a Teddy, sor, be the
vice av her. asl1in' were We in, ant
mesilf havin' seen We go out no longer
ago thin wan o'clock and yersilf sayin
not worrud about comm back at al
az all, pwhat was to be tellin' her
, aven if ye were lynn there on the die
van all unbeknownest to me, which
the same mesilf can not"
Help" pleaded the young mar
, feebly, smiling. zone thing at time
please, O'Hagan. Answer me one ques
ton: Did she give a manner"
"She did not, sor, though mesilf-'
There, therel Wait bit. / wan
, to think"
OF course she had given no name; i
wouldn't be like her. What was h
thinking of. anyway? 1t could no
have been the gray girl; for she knew
him only as Anisty; she could neve
, have thought him himself, Maitland
But what other woman of his acquain
lance did not believe him to be out o
town?
With a hopeless gesture, Maitland
gave it up. conceding the mystery to-
deep for him. his intellect too feebl'
to grapple with all it's infinite ramifica
lions. The counsel he had givel
OHagan seemed most appropriate 4
his present needs: One thing at I
time. And obviously the first thin
that lay to his hand was the silencini
of O'Hagan.
Maitland rallied his wits to the task
"OHagan," said he, this man, Snaith
who was here this AFTERNOON. calle'
. himself detective. AS soon as VI
were alone he raped me over tn
: head with loaded cane, and, sus
: pect, went through the nat stealini
everything he could lay hands on
Hand me my cigarette case, please"
"'Tis gone. sorts not on the dssi
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