The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-09-07

A little cry OF Joy came from her
lips as l handed her the envelope.
Come. she cried jubilantly. lets
take II 10 Katharine at once! The
sight OF It VIII do more to cure her
than all tho doctors IN the world"
Together we fastened to Kath-
arine's room, where we found her sit
ting up In bed. much stronger than
when ] had last seen her, though a
nurse was still in attendance. Hugh
Crandall was seated In a chair beside
the bed. The Joy read in the faces
OF Katharine and Crandall as Louise
handed her sister the envelope was
reward enough for all had gone
through since had set out TO solve
the mystery.
Franucally Katharine tore open the
envelope and inspected three docu-
ments It contained.
They are all here" she exclaimed
with a sigh OF relief as she passed
them 10 Crandall.
YES" echoed Crandall happily,
they are all here"
Burn them, Hugh; burn them at
once" she demanded.
Crandall, gathering them up with
the envelope in which they had been
encased, crossed 10 the CRATE where
a cheerful fire was burning and one
BY one fed the documents to the
flames, watching carefully to see that
every fragment was destroyed.
That was three months ago. Louise
and are married now and Katharine
and Hugh are on their honeymoon,
TOO, taking a six months European
trip. Though we never mention the
mystery of the yellow letters in the
presence OF our wives, for It recalls
too many sad memories unnecessarily,
my new brother-in-law and / had
good laugh the night before ] mar
ried Louise AS | at first suspected
him OF being one Of the conspirators,
so II seems he had suspected me. II
was he who peered into the post Of
fee that night as / was examining the
books by the light of my electric
lantern He knew that Young had
an associate and was trying TO find
him. | had 10 admit that my con-
duct in Ardway fully justified Gran
dall's suspicious Of me, and he real
ICES that | was justified in suspecting
him.
The mystery OF the disappearance
Of the yellow fragments that had CIV
en- us the first clew Is mystery no
longer. IL merely had slipped behind
the drawer In which Louise had put
IT, Aleck Young is serving a we'll
deserved sentence OF fourteen years,
as nonchalantly, / presume, as he un-
derwent his trial. So long as prison
keepers can be bribed to keep him
supplied with his beloved drug,
doubt II he bothers over his lack of
freedom Sometimes | think his pun
ishment falls far short when | recall
all the misery and suffering he
caused, yet my new-found happiness
has softened my view of life. find
myself wondering whether after all
Inspector Davis is not right when he
says that criminals, even the worst
OF them, should be treated as sick
children, 10 be cured, rather than as
bad children, 10 be punished ! can
not help but feel that the parents OF
Young We're far more 10 blame FOR his
crime than he.
AS for General Parrish. he died
three weeks after Young's arrest
Before the end he regained his facul-
. Toe ifsfa In 20 nj Hat he
papers that had menaced his peace
and reputation had been destroyed.
In his last hour he put Katharine's
hand into Hugh Crandall's.
What was in the documents that
Katharine and Hugh Crandall burned?
What was the secret with which
Young threatened him for months and
months?
do not know.
Louise does not know
We never discuss Il even among
ourselves Il Is better so Only
Katharine and Hugh Crandall and a
poor drug sot I'm a distant cell know
what those papers We're. ! might
conjecture II l cared, and what would
be the use2 After General Farrish's
death II came out that HIS vast estate
had shrunk 10 almost nothing I'm
fortunate investments In his old age
had swept away his fortune. He was
the custodian OF various trust funds.
II may be that in senile effort TO
recoup HIS losses he had misused
some one else's money and Young,
with his devillsh ingenuity, had
found Il out Certain II Is that while
the papers commented widely on the
small estate he left, in none Of them
was there the slightest hint OF scan
dial. Equally certain am that neither
his daughters nor his sons.in-law be-
moan the lack OF an Inheritance.
! Louise and I, I know. have learned
that happiness lies not in wealth and
luxury. but in towing service each to
the other
l I'D ono fhlpO mara