Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-30
Copyright. 1911. Street & Smith,
copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead A. Coz
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.

mouth. which means a lot in my case
Then my complexion II must be changed
naturally I'll consult a doctor about
that No sort of make believe will go
with this man If my eyes look weak.
they must really be So If / walk slow
" and speak huskily, it must be because
can not help it. | can bear the slight
inconvenience of temporary ILL health in
cause like this: and il necessary the
cough will be real, and the headache
positive"
"Sweetwater We'd better give the
task to another man-to some one Broth
erson has never seen and won't be sus-
picious off"
Hell be suspicious of everyb who
tries to make friends with him now; only
little more so with me, that's all. But
I've got to meet that, and I'll do it by be-
ing, temporarily of course, exactly the
man | seem. Ny health will NOT be good
for the next few weeks. j. sure OF that
But I'll be model workman, neat and
conscientious with just a suspicion of
dash where dash is needed He knows
the real thing when he sees it, and there
is not a fellow living more alive to shams
won't be sham III be it. You'll
see
But the doubt Can you do all this
in doubt of the issue?'
NO; must have confidence in the end.
and | must believe in his guilt Nothing
else will carry me through I must be
lisve in his guilt"
Yes. that's essential
| of
thing than | am OF that. But I'll have
the deuce of time To get evidence
enough for a grand jury. That's plainly
to be seen, and that's why I'm so dead set
on the business It's such an even toss
up"
II don't call it even. He's got the
start Of you every way. You can't go
10 his tenement; the ianitor there would
recognize you even if he didn't"
Now | will give YOU piece of good
news. They're to have a new janitor next
week. ! learned that Yesterday. The
present one Is too easy. He'll be out long
before I'm ready to show myself there:
and so will the woman who took care
OF the poor washerwoman's little child.
I'd not have risked her curiosity. Luck
isn't all against us. How does Mr.. Chal-
Toner feel about it,"
Not very confident but willing to give
you any amount of rope Sweetwater, he
let me have a batch of letters written by
his daughter which he found in a secret
drawer. They are not to be read, or even
opened, unless great necessity arises.
They were written for Brotherson's eye
or so the father says-but she never sent
them; too exuberant perhaps. If you
ever want them can not give them to
you tonight, and wouldn't if | could-don't
30 to Mr.. Challoner-you must never be
seon at his hotel-and don't come to me,
but to the little house in West Twenty
ninth street. where they will be kept for
you, tied up in package with your name
on it. BY the way, what name are you
going to work UNDER
my mothers-Zugg
Good! I'll remember. You can al
ways write or even telephone 10 Twenty
ninth street. I'm in constant commune
cation with them there, and it's quite
safe
Thanks. You're sure the superintend-
ent is with me?"
Yes, but not the inspector. He sees
nothing but the victim of a strange coin
edence in Orlando Brotherson."
again the scales hang even But they
wont remain so One side is bound to
rise. Which? That's the question, Mr.
Gryce"
Opposed.
There was d new tenant in the Hicks
street tenement. He arrived late one
afternoon and was shown two rooms, one
in the rear building and another in the
front one. Both were on the fourth floor
He demurred at the former, thought it
gloomy, but finally consented TO try it.
The other. he said. was too expensive.
The ianitor-new to the business-was
not much taken with him and showed it,
which seemed to offend the newcomer
who was evidently an irritable fellow
owing to Ill health
However they came to terms as have
said. and the man went away, promising
TO send in his belongings the next day
He smiled as he said this and the jan
itor, who had rarely seen such a change
take place in a human face, looked un-
comfortable for a moment and seemed
disposed to make some remark about the
room they were leaving. But thinking
better of it, locked the door and led the
way downstairs. AS the prospective
tenant followed, he may have noticed,
probably did, that the door they had just
left was a new one-the only new thing
to be seen in the whole shabby place
The next night that door was locked
on the inside. The young man had taken
possession As he put away the rem
nants of a meal he had cooked for him
self he cast a look at his surroundings,
and imperceptibly sighed, Then he
frightened again, and sitting down on his
solitary chair he turned his eyes on the
window which, uncurtained and without
shade, stared open mouthed, as it were,
at the opposite wall rising high across the
court.
In that wall, one window only seemed
TO interest him and that was on a level
with his own. The shade of this window
was up, but there was no light back Of it
and so nothing of the interior could be
seen. But his eye remained fixed upon 1t,
while his hand stretched out towards the
lamp burning near him, held itself in