The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-07-18

luncheon.
by all means" said Louise, bring
him right over. l want to meet him
and there may be some things l can
tell him which will aid him"
When | returned to the cafe on the
Broadway side, where | had left the
inspector, l found him abstractedly
rolling little pellets of bread and plac-
ing them in various positions on the
cloth. So absorbed was he in his &C.
cupation that he hardly seemed to note
my return. His flying fingers would
hastily mold three or four pellets in
as many seconds. Placing them in
row, he would eye them intently.
Occasionally he would swoop down on
some unoffending pellet and sweep it
to the floor. Two or three times !
tried to interrupt him to learn what
he wished 10 eat. but each time he
waved me impatiently away. Finally,
not desiring to delay too long over
luncheon, | gave the waiter the order
without consulting him. Mechanically
he ate what was put before him, all
the while keeping up his game with
bread balls.
Knowing him as we'll as l did, after
studying closely his eccentric move
ments, ! felt sure that the array of
pellets was closely allied with the
mental process by which he was seek
ing to solve the Parrish mystery. The
larger pellets. l decided, must be the
various theories about the yellow let
ter or letters and their origin. The
smaller pellets were the different per-
sons connected with the case. One
by one he pushed the larger pellets
from the table until a single pellet
remained. The su aller ones he kept
arranging and rearranging until at last
he seemed satisfied The single sur
viving large pellet stood directly on a
crease in the cloth. On one side
equally distant from the crease, but
close to each other, he had placed
two OF the smaller pellets. The rest
were in three groups on the other side
of the line, For perhaps five minutes
he carefully studied their position
without shifting them, and then with
quick motion OF his hand swept them
all to the floor.
There was some purpose distinctly
criminal connected with the yellow
letters" he said as if for the first
time aware Of my presence, and be-
coming as loquacious as he had before
been silent. When we have run this
mystery to earth we will find that
there are two OF the crimiuals-only
two guilty"
Guilty Of WHAT" asked in amaze
ment.
q haven't the slightest idea as yet"
he replied with such apparent frank
ness that l suspected he was not tell
ing me all his thought Evil ideas
are of three kiuds-the solitary, the
pair, the group. Crimes are merely
the physical expression Of evil ideas
and bear the same classification The
solitary evil idea manifests itself in
variety OF crimes In this class be
long defalcations. poisonings. crimes
against women and generally the as
sassinatiOn Of private individuals.
These are the hardest crimes to dis
cover and punish. The evil idea is not
communicated. This sort Of criminal
seldom has contidants. Often, in fact
almost always, he masks his yillainy
behind the cloak of responsibility.
Most Of these offenses are due to ma
mia, to blood lust, to a desire for re
venge for real or imaginary wrongs.
Evil IDEAS of the pair are generally
attributable to money-lust In such
crimes as burglary, highway robbery.
blackmail, you will find two persons
equally guilty, always the pair Some
times 1t is the man and the woman,
sometimes the strong man and the
weak man, sometimes two women,
though seldom, for women have little
Of the inventive or creative faculty,
even in crime. Notorious women Grim
inals, just like all other feminine ce-
lebrities in literature or art, have
much Of the masculine in their make
up.
At Oul4 u hAAiu VI tfl lNtd, tudl VI
the group. is responsible for the
strike, the mob, the conspiracy. 1t is
the contagiOn of crime The Black
Hand is typical example. The mem
bers Of this notorious organization,
while they profit financially by their
misdeeds. care little about that end
Of it. Their greatest pleasure is in
the torture OF their victims, in the
agony they suffer from the time the
nameless dread Of the Black Hand
first seizes them until finally they are
put to death for refusing the society's
exactions 1t is this evil spirit that
kills kings, burns witches, destroys
property and lynches negroes. The
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