The Springdale news., 1912-11-22

Ing to do the same thing In fact, he had several weeks the start of you Every one of his actions which you regarded as so suspicious and damna tory was perfectly applicable on this theory
 Yes" grudgingly admitted as I hastily reviewed them in my mind. T suppose they could all be explained in that way"
 The question then came to me. :" continued Davis. "how could Crandan have known of tho hidden danger that threafene General Parrish? It was highly improbable that the gen eral would confide a thing of this sort. either to his daughter or to her fan ee. He must have come on It in some other way judged that when he revealed his knowledge to the general. the latter in fear that his daughter might learn what he had been trying to keep from her, in rage ordered Crandall from the house.
 The only logical way for Crandail to be restored to favor was for him to clear up the mystery that was men acing the general. As he had been at work on 1t for some time. felt sure that in his rooms We would find clue to the address of the persons we were seeking l was confident, too, that af- fairs were approaching a crisis. Gran dall apparently had taken Katharine into his confidence It looked as If some plan they might have made had failed and that this failure had driven Katharine to despair. With the lock box in Ardway as a clue. with the left handed stamp as evidence and with Crandall's movements to watch, felt certain that We could quickly solve the whole mystery"
 But how about the morphine sy- ringe?" I asked again.
 'T hardly gave 1t a second thought For all knew. it may have come there by accident. Yet Crandall quickly ex- plained its presence in the talk that l have just had with him. He kept this chap, Young. there in his rooms for two weeks, trying to worm out of him the secret with which Young had been trying 10 blaekmail the old gen eral. When Young disappeared he left the syringe behind him"
 "So," I exclaimed in excitement. the mystery of the yellow letter was a blaekmailing plot against General Parish
 No said Davis, q don't think the Parrish case had anything to do with the other chain of suicides, unless fl was that both deyiiish plots originated in the drug-fevered, maleyolent brain of the poor fellow in wonder It IS true that General Parrish got yellow letters. Once week for months and months he has found one in his mail each more threatening. more menacing than it's predecessors He has for a long, long time been living in daily dread that the anonymous writer of these letters might at any moment carry out his threats and expose him to public shame, and disgrace him in the eyes of his beloved daughters
 "But how did you learn all this?" asked
 Young boasted to Crandall about the weekly letters So sure did he feel that General Parrish would not dare openly to prosecute him that with fiendish malignity he tool; delight in retailing to Crandall the dread inspir- ing. phrases he had employed and in dilating on the terror they undoabted- ly were causing the general It is small wonder that the sight of you and Louise examining the scrap of one of the yellow letters, coming as it did right on top of Katharine's desperate act, brought on a stroke of paralysis"
 Poor old man." I said, how he must have suffered."
 Far more than We can imagine" said Davis. T do not think any one