Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-08


. down the shade.
This seemed to esta blish an alibi
Instead of writing a threatening note
to the playwright. Mr.. Worthngton
simply reported the fact to him that
he had been again informed of meet.
ing of MIR. Deane and his daughter
and would like to know if it were true
Deane wrote a reply stating that he
had not left his residence at A. on
the day he was reported to have met
Miss Worthingt0n.
third report of a meeting between
the lovers came to MIR WorthingtCn.
but not through either of his deteC-
tives, The lovers were said to have
been seen walking in park near the
center of the city. The person report
ing the meeting was a sister Of Mr..
WorthingtOn. who, in the event of his
daughters death or disinheritance.
would inherit the principal part Of his
property. He telephoned at once to
his spy in A, asking if the playwright
was seen in his home on the day and
hour named. The reply came that Mr..
Deane had not been seen there after
10 O'Clock in the morning, when he
had driven out with his mother.
Since he was reported to have been
seen walking in the park with Mabel
at in the afternoon he would have
had ample time to go to the city to
keep an appointment at that hour. Mr.
WOrthington. who was now moving
more cautiously. wrote Mr.. Deane.
stating the facts and asking for an ex-
PLANTATION. Mr.. Deane's reply contain
ed atfidayts of three different persons
that they had seen him driving in L..
suburb of the city, fifty miles dis
tant, between 3 Or o'clock in the
afternoon OF the day in question.
When Mr.. Worthington read these
replies his brow lowered He was
aware that his sister was next of kin
after his daughter, and ne at once sus-
pected her of plotting to prevent Ma
bells marriage. The more he thought
OF such scheme the more feasible it
seemed to him. He remembered that
If girl set her heart on a man and
meets with disappointment she is
very apt not to marry any one else. II
Miss Amelia WOrthington could secure
Mabeps disinheritance, that would be
even better scheme than to prevent
her marriage. If he had been conyinc-
Ell or plot on the part of his sister
he would have consented to his daugh-
DIT
ter was merely a suspicion.
However, he was not sure but that
some one was acting in opposition to
Deane and Mabel, and this Modified
MN considerably. When one evening
Mabel asked him to take her to the
theater he consented. 1t was the first
night of new play. but the old gen
deman knew nothing about that. All
he did know was that as the play
the audience, including him
self, became very much impressed with
It and finally enthusiastic. When the
curtain fell at the end of the third act
shouts We're made for the author.
When he appeared Mr.. Worthington
found himself joining in the storm of
applause. Then. putting on his glasses
and taking another look at the re
cipient, what was his astonishment
when he saw in him his would be SON.
n-law.
Mr.. Deane's play was reported by the
,ritics in the morning newspapers as a
great hit, and the playwright found
himself famous, Not only living. but
4 fortune was assured. From the mo-
nent of Mr.. Worthington's leaving the
playhouse he ceased his opposition to
his daughters match. his change of
mind not only being due to Deane's
but to what Worthington sun !
posed to be a plot on the part of his |
sister to get possession of his property |
after his death. So one day, after
between him and his dauph.
Ter she left him with his consent to
her marriage
one day some time after the wed
dlng Mr.. Worthington. who had be-
come quite fond of his son-in-law. ey-
PRESSED the opinion to him that Miss
Amelia Worthington had laid plot
10 secure. his property.
l can't permit any one to suffer un-
ostly.' said Deane, so must exon.
rate your sister from any such sus-
'lclon. This involves a confession.
men as an actor | was studying the
echnlque of the stage took a double
art requiring my appearance on the
odrus when was not there A dummy
'aS constructed that was my exact
win. When you put detectives upon
lie this dummy was placed in nv
.udy window and afterward. when 7
rove out with my mother. was car.
ed wrapped in shawl into the car. !
age got out at the station and nv !
other drove to L. with the dummy
tting beside her. while / went to ]
eet Mabel in the park"