Evening star., 1912-09-15


detective. 4And his sporty friends call him Curly
| wonder why? Now, he strikes me as the sort of man
who doesn't quite answer to either Co-Clo or
Curly. Must be on the principle OF the old maid who
called her black cat SNOWFALL. y
At Narragansett, by being even more daringly
dental with the manager of the hotel than he was with
Rice, Clancy ascertaned every scrap OF tact and
fancy attached to Claude Waverton's brief visit Es-
pecaly he interested in the singular experience OF
John Stratton Teae, who when seated in the veranda
had watched WavertonS remarkable rescue OF his own
child from drowning.
AS the detective was in Narragansett during the
luncheon hour, it was easy matter to have good
look at the telescopesing stranger well set up, hand
some man of the stockbroker type; but oddly enough,
Clancy did not enter the dining room himself protesting
the hosptabe manager that he felt compelled to look
up some friends in the town.
He made great effort to find them, however
After brief scrutiny of the hotel register, he oitercd
about the promenade. He even beginning to look
at his watch, when his patience rewarded by seeing
Tearle, who smoking in his favorite veranda rise
quickly from chair, and lift his hat to two women who
came out of the hotel and entered waiting carriage
The three chatted with the of old friends, until
Normandy nurse appeared leading little girl by the
hand When these two had been safely disposed IN the
carriage, the coachman drove off, and the vehicle hap
pened pass the seat that held Clancys small body
"The wife, the sister, the baby, the nurse and the
villain said he
Then he turned his back on Narragansett; and, as
Mrs Daunt's coachman most respectable man,
it may safely be assumed that the detective was not
thinking of him when ticking off the five persons OF
whose identity he had taken stock before bidding fare
TT his custom, when opportunity served, to pass
hour at night in Steingalls sanctum at Center-st
There, high above the neighboring buildings looking
out over a anp-spanged vista of downtown New
York. the two who knew of the city secrets
than any others then living would discuss the day
events.
AS it happened late as it Steingall was in when
Clancy tapped at the door, and he thrust aside pile OF
papers with sigh of relief.
"Well-any resuts?" he asked
II really don't know said Clancy seating himself on
the edge of chair and placing his hands on his knees
That was his characteristic attitude He seemed to be
always ready for sudden spring in pursuit OF either
malefactor a theory Stengal used to chaff him by
pretending to believe that he slept in that pose in
a specially constructed bed.
"You did not wholly waste your day, take 1T, went
on the big man, pnchng the end Oft a cigar
mo. Before you light up, tell me what brand this
is, and Clancy held out the cigar given him by Claude
Waverton.
at is genuine Havana,-not the export type; but
the sort of smoke the planters themselves like said the
chief Inspector, after close examination.
"I thought so. An acquired taste, | believe?'
ayes. Cubans and South Americans affect then and
buy them here"
"But this lively member of the Four Hundred IS
neither Cuban nor an Argentine.
"He was drunkard bon pigant a frst-nighter at
theaters, and frequenter OF boxing clubs!
Exactly"
4But the have seen has INDUCED to ex
cess in anything unless it was hard work"
"How do you n1ean-the you have SEEM!
II interviewed Claude Waverton at Providence and
the impression he left of young New Yorker
who had roughed it in the West, either as miner or
cowpuncher and having succeeded to good estate,
settling down into the quiet dignity of country
life
"You must try again, Clancy laughed Steingal.
Claude Waverton has been bailed out of the night
court at least three times Once he narrowly escaped
Imprisonment for bucklng up bouncer at the Casino,
and when his steady three years ago. he had
his automobile license withdrawn in this State. Why,
man alive there livelier spark in Manhattan than
he at this mnute!"
4He called it catalepsy," sniggered Clancy.
Called what cataepsy?"
"The change, the Transformation it all down