Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26

guilty Of such a crime Between YOU and
me- looking al his visitor sharply out OF
the corner OF his eye "G should not he
at all surprised II Il turned out that May
nsrd had been killed by some one else,
after Fletcher had left him at the Earls.
wood hotel"
But they never went to the hotel
Indeed! How do you know that2 That
is a very important piece OF evidence II
YOU can prove it,
This time HARTLEY turned scarlet THE
fact. is" he stammered. thing hard and
fast. and getting redder. n that were pos.
sible, every second--"the fact Is l was
little worried about the pocketbook being
empty. and as I couldn't get Maynard on
the phone in the morning, l went up to
the Earlswood, thinking he might still be
there"
Indeed drawled the doctor. And
where Is the hotel? l never heard OF Il
before"
This was poser Hartley had not the
slightest idea where the hotel was. He
stammered something about having driven
there in a cab and not noticing particularly
and so forth, and then, beginning to feel
decidedly uncomfortable. he concluded to
take his leave
As he went down the steps he congratu-
lated himself that he had kept his secret
about johnson. 1t was some satisfaction
to think that he had found out all that
the doctor knew without telling anything
himself 1t might have hurt his pride
somewhat had he known that the doctor
also had his little secret There was one
little incident which the doctor had not
mentioned to his visitor. probably because
10 IN lie t.aH
that as soon as the false number OF the
cab was discovered, and the owner named,
the doctor went round TO sec the man.
Having hired cabs from that stable many
times. and being good customer, the doc
tor felt at ease in taking the stable owner
into his confidence and telling him that
although the cabman was unable to rccol-
lect the house from which the cab had
run away or had been stolen the fact was
that cab No. 1lA had disappeared from
in front Of his own office, and that the
cabman's fare. who had given the driver
s., was one OF his patients
Now" the doctor went on, you know
# might hurt my practice quite a little
IL this were known, and L don't want any
notoriety Of that kind. The man that came
to my office in the cab is prominent
man: one of my best patients ! was ont
at the time. lie went with the driver TO
look for the cab and didn't come back
want to be candid with you and tell YOU
the whole story 1t appears that he invited
the driver inside, and they had several
drinks; that Is, the Cabman did While they
were inside filling up with whissey tho
cab horse ran away, or some one ran OIL
with it, Now, that is not a nice story tc
get into the papers about my Office Is 1t
l should have pictures of my place In al
the papers and a mob of loafers round tn
door Why, 1t would ruin my practice
The stable owner shook his head, as /
he realized that it was a bad business
The doctor went on:
Now don't want your driver to freshel
up his memory any more than necessary
and"
''Thatu be all right, sir" interrupted
the liyeryman, beginning to understand
what was wanted of him.
What l am coming to is this" tn
doctor continued. your cab was damage'
quite a bit, l understand, and your drive
was locked up, and all that sort Of thing
Now let me pay you $50 toward the damag
TO the cab, and II there Is anything left
make Christmas present Of 1t to tn
driver; but give him to understand tina
he is to forget where he went that night
Is that fair?''
The liveryman insisted that 1t was M
the doctors fault that the cab was al
mussed up" as he expressed IT. but he di
not like to refuse the $50, and he promises
the doctor that nothing should be salt
about where the cab was when the hors
ran away. He always protected his Gus
toners, and the doctor was good one