Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-29

sidered every possibility, he began 10
look with curiosity at every face. At
length he came to feel an even greater
interest In the identity of this hidden
friend than in the result of the struggle
itself. But investigations-no matter
how Enthusiastically resulted in
prompt and imperative warning to desist
upon pain of running everything.
Gradually In his mind the conviction
assumed certainty that the omniscient
informer could be none other than Gaze
sar Marufi. and to that end he fire.
quented the Red Wing club as Donnelly
had done. The more he saw of the fell
low the more firm became his belief. He
recognized at their first meeting that
Caesar was unusuai-there was some
thing unfathomable about him-but pre-
ciseiy what this popularity was he
could never quite determine.
| AS for Marufi. he met Norvin's ad-
vances half way, but althogh he was
| apparently more than once upon the
verge Of some disclosure. the terror of
the brotherhood seemed always to in
/ tervene. Feeling that he could not
/ openly voice his suspicious until the
other was ready TO show. his hand. Blake
/ kept a close mouth and thus the two
played at cross purposes. Marufl-if he
4 were, indeed, the author of those letters
unthinking instruments of the Malta
would he ever bring himself to impii-
/ cate the man, or men, higher up? Blake
( doubted II. "A certain instructive dis
trust Of the Sicilian was beginning to
master him, when a letter came which
put a wholly different face upon the
matter. -
The men who really killed Chief
Donnelly," IL read, ARE Salvatore ii
1 nj Cfnr1aun Enf1a
and Lorenzo Cardoni.", Blake gasped:
these were men of standing and repute
in the foreign community. "Larubio
and his companions were but part of
, tho machine, these are the hands which
set them in. motion. These four men
dined together on the evening of oct.
is at Fabacher's then attended a theater
where they made themselves conspicu-
I GUS From there they proceeded to the
lower section of the city and were pur-
! posely arrested for disturbing the peace
about the time OF Donnelly's murder,
in order to establish incontestable ali
/ bis Nevertheless IL was they who laid
the trap, and they are equally guilty
with the wretches who obeyed their or
ders. It was they who paid over the
blood money, and with their arrest you
viii have all the accessories to the
crime save one. OF him 1 can tell you
j MQLninE. L rear can never AAnQ nAnif
for he walks in shadow and no man
dares identify him."
The Importance of this information
was tremendous, for arrests up to date
had been made only among the lower
element An accusation against Di Mar
CO. Garcia. Bolla and Cardoni would set
the city ablaze. O'Neil was aghast at
the charge. The mayor was incredulous,
I the committee of fifty showed signs
a..
reputation on the genuineness OF the let
ter and urging the reliability of the
writer as shown on each occasion in the
past. won his point, adm the arrests were
made.
The italian press raised a frightful
clamor, the prisoners themselves were
righteously indignant and Norvin found
that he had begun to lose that confidence
which the public had been so quick to
place in him. Nevertheless he pursued
his work systematically. and soon the
mysterious agent proceeded to weave
new web around the four suspected men,
while he looked on fascinated, doing
as he was bid. keeping his own counsel
as he had been advised, and turning
/ over the results Of his inquiries to the
police as they were completed.
Then came what he had long been
i dreading-a warning like those which
had torres nauOWeQ DonueilyS death
and he began to spend sleepless nights.
His daylight hours were passed in a
strained expectancy; he fought con-
stantly to hold his fears in check: he
began sitting with his face to doors.
turned wide corners and avoided side
streets. He became furtive and watch
ful. HIS eyes were forever fitting here
! and there, he chose the outer edges Of
\ the sidewalks. and ne went nowhere
= after nightfall unattended. The time
as past when he could doubt the con-
ttancy Of his purposes but he did fear
nervous breakdown, and even shud-
dered at the thought of possible IN
anity. Being in fact as sane a man as
ever lived, his irrational nerves alarmed
i'm all the more. He could not conceive
that an event was Immediately before
i'm which. without making his position
safer. would rouse him from all thought
u self.
Our lives are swayed by trifies;
feathers weight may alter the course
Of our destinies. A mans daily exist
ence is made up Of an infinite series OF
choices every one Of which is Of the
utmost Importance, did he but know it.
n We fellow paths OF million forlkings,
none OF which converge. A momentary
I, within. a passing fancy, broken prom
ise turns our feet into trails that wind
n into realms undreamed of.
1t so happened that Myra Nell War
Z rem yielded to an Utterly reasonless i'm
pulse to go calling at the utterly absurd
hour Of 10 a. m. Miss Warren followed