The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-29
The High Financial Adventures of Sir John KY

his tether- Whether or not MIR. Rus
selr' came to the full possession OF his
senses; Sir John knew that in two days
time Mrs. Meadows and his daughter
were due to arrive In England. To i'm
pose on a mans wife, and daughter he
pro propose % to at attemp1 p IT. He S besan M % to fold old
up his tents before silently stealing
away. He had carefully dealt with all
ception Of the purchase of the Times.
Mr.. Meadows would find nothing TO OBJ
iect to- The baronet sent a. wire to
| sence. and stating that he was called
away to Germany on business, but hoped
to be back In a week.
that night. He felt confident that after
the previous trouble the hotel would hes
itate for several days before again an
would give him time TO cover his tracks.
lie was SIT. sitting quietly In the COURTYARD
Mr.. Meadows. Sir John saw him In the
| fun blaze Of light in the doorway-there
| could be no mistake.
John got UP and walking slowly into the
Strand: he jumped into a taxi and drove
iavatory he quickly divested himself of
his. embonpoint removed his pince-neZ
and left his overcoat behind him. Walk
| Ing along Oxford street for some dis
| tence. he hailed another taxi and was
driven TO his chambers.
Packing bag. he told the man in at
week or two. and crossed over TO Hol-
land by the night mail In fortnight
he had travelled half over Europe, chang
Ing the notes In desperate haste. Had
he known. he might have done 1t at his
leisure. for II was six weeks before the
question arose as to where the money
other people knew. they assumed he
knew. and so the matter was never mem
toned. Finally. Sir John had invested
It In various French securities in half a
dozen different names. for which he
opened banking accounts in Paris,
Mr.. Russell. pronounced by the doctor
to have vastly improved had been per-
mitted to go out, and had taken a cab
TO Hyde Park, where he sat in the sun.
iIsa,I1 He thought n he would doze. for he felt
some hours later. and wondered what
on earth he was doing there. He dis
tinctly remembered the previous even
ing he had beer walking in Piccadilly
and he remembered nothing more. Why,
that must have been nearly twenty four
hours ago! He jumped TO the conclu-
sion he had been drugged and robbed.
and instinctiyely felt for his watch and
his money. They we're there Puzzled to
the last degree. he walked along Piccadil-
ly, hailed taxicab and drove to the Cecil
Passing upstairs to his rooms he found
them unoccupied. This was not unusual
at that hour. when Paul would know he
was at liberty. Picking up the Times
he commenced to read 1t, but there
seemed no continuity In ii with the news
he remembered on the previous day. He
looked at the date and saw 1t was tho
18th. Now. he distinctly remembered
yesterday was tine 4th. But there was
the file Of the Times with an Issue fol
each of the intervening days. And what
was a file OF the Times doing In his room
He turned to his letter book. Yes. ht
remembered the letters he had dictated
on the 4th-there were none on the 5tl
or the 5th- On the 7th there were
, number, evidently replies to an accumu
latlon, but he could remember nothint
about any of them. nor any of those ol
, the subsequent dates. And yet they wer'
Just such letters as he might have die
tated himself-the very things had beer
done which he would have done, eXcep
that he could not understand the letters
: : In reference to the Times. What hat
he got to do with the Times2
He turned TO his cable hooks. cables re
, ceived and cables sent, and then he real
ized that he had bought the Times. ant
that the newspaper was his property
Three million pounds seemed an extrava
CANT price TO have paid for 1t, but
, meant selling out some profitable invest
ments. What had he sold? And then h
came across the cables to his bank. !
! he had really wanted to buy the pape
and had been satisfied 1t was worth tn,
money. he supposed what had been don.
was the kind Of thing he himself woult
l have done. But what had induced hin
to buy the paper?