Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-16
how did you learn that?"

How ala you learn IudI!
Young, it seems" the inspector
continued, lis we'll known in Ardway,
his boyhood having been spent in the
town. His father was a well-to-do
lawyer who became addicted to drugs.
His mother died In the state asylum
for the insane, The constable, Dodds,
has known him for many years. He
went to Harvard and there was q
classmate for a while of Crandali, He
has been going from bad to worse,
each time he returned to Ardway on
his periodic visits seeming to be more
and more addicted to morphine. His
inheritance was spent long ago and
it has been a mystery to every one
where he got considerable sums that
he has had at times. With all his
faults, he has much magnetism and a
plausible tongue and makes friends
readily. So far as | can discover,
after he had ~concocted his plot against
General Parrish he had some difficulty
In obtaining satisfaction and tried to
enlist the aid of Crandall. Crandall
went at once to General Parrish and
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dali, despite his treatm ent by the gen
eral, was determined to solve the mys-
terry, and for months kept track of
Young, trying to worm out the secret
and render him powerless. At times
he gave Young small sums and for a
while, as l have said, had him in his
rooms. One day Young disappeared,
taking with him some jewelry of Gran
dalI's and it was only a few days ago
that Crandall succeeded in finding him
here in Ardway. Young, having
failed to blackmail General Parrish,
tried to open up negotiations for the
sale Of his documents through Gran
dali. Crandall, of course, could not
communicate with General Parrish, so
he called Katharine on the telephone
and made an appointment with her.
Evidently he explained the whole af-
fair to her, and when the negotiations
failed it was more than she could
bear"
THAT all seems logical" | said, but
I fail to see yet what connection there
is between General Parrish and old
Andrew Elser. Nor do I see the con-
n~ection between the suicide of the old
woman in the hotel at Ardway and
the suicide of the young woman in
the park lake, yet in each of these
cases there were yellow letters"
Il do not see it myself, yet" said
Davis frankly, and yet l know it ex-
lists. I know that the hellish idea that
drove them all to death was planned
by that distorted brain inside the cot
tage there"
He was silent for several minutes
as he gazed at the rising sun, seeming
ly absorbed in the glorious spectacle.
"Ill find out!" he said explosively.
"Ill make him tell"
What are you going to do?" I
asked. "How will you make him?"
For answer he took from the pocket
OF his coat two sets of thin steel cuffs,
one for the arms and the other for the
ankles, and stepped within the cot
tage. I followed wonderingly and
watched him as he turned Young over
on his face and, bringing his hands
together behind him, snapped on the
cuffs. He shackled his feet, too, and
iuSn pIChluS up d SIOuC rope, passed
1t between the two sets Of shackles
and around a beam in the side OF the
cottage wall, leaving enough slack
to permit the shackled man a small
amount of liberty. During the whole
operation Young hung limp and ap-
parently lifeless, still in the drug stu
pOr, but as Davis finished his work
he began to talk incoherently.
THE shaking up | gave him in fast
ening him up" said Davis, will bring
him to. He will wake up in a few
minutes and hen I'll find out every
thing I want to know. I'll make him
tell"
what are you going to do" /
gasped, torture him?'
NO" said the Inspector grimly as
he dragged a stool over neal the couch
and placed on it a hypodermic syringe
he had found in the cabin, and with
it a morphine preparation.
He gagged the distance with his
eye, and moved the stool so that while
it would be in plain sight Of the
shackled man when he awoke, it would
be utterly impossible for him to reach
it.
NO" he said, I'm not going to
torture him. His drug-racked nerves
will do it for me-"