The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-11-28
Copyright, 1911, by Street a Smith
Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead = 90.

temporary flash, however, and quickly
yelled, and the tone in which this
Dunn now spoke was anything but an
encouraging one.
81 thought you were DESTROYS of join
ing socialistic fraternity" said he;
a true aspirant for such honors don't
care for beautiful things unless all
can have them. prefer my tenement,
How is it with you, friends?"
Sweetwater found some sort of q
reply, though the thing which this
man now did must have startled him,
as it certainly did George. They were
SO grouped that table quite full OF
anomalous objects stood at the back
of their host, and consequently quite
beyond their own reach. AS Sweet.
water began to speak, he whom he
had addressed by the name of Dunn,
drew pistol from his breast pocket
and laid it down barrel towards them
on this table top. Then he looked up
courteously enough, and listened till
Sweetwater was done. A very hand.
some man, but one not to be trifleG
with in the slightest degree. Both
recognized this fact, and George, for
one, began to edge towards the door,
'Now 1 feel easier" remarked the
giant, swelling out his chest. He was
unusually tall. as we'll as unusually
muscular. 81 never like to carry arms
but sometimes it is unavoidable. Damn
1t, what hands!" He was looking at
his own, which certainly showed soil
will you pardon me?" he pleasantly
apolcgized. stepping towards a wash.
stand and plunging his hands into the
basin. 81 cannot think with dirt on
me like that. Humph, hey! did you
speak?"
He turned quickly On George who
had certainly uttered an ejaculation,
but receiving no reply. went on with
his task, completing it with care and
disregard of their presence which
showed him up in still another light.
But even his hardihnnd showed
shock, when, upon turning round with
a brisk, "Now I'm ready to talk" he
encountered again the clear eye OF
Sweetwater. For, in the person of
this none too welcome intruder, he
saw very different man from the one
upon within he had just turned his
back with so little ceremony; and
there appeared to be no good reason
for the change. He had not noted In
his preoccupation, how George, at
sight of his STOPPING figure, had made
sudden significant movement, and
II he had, the pulling of a necktie
straight, would have meant nothing to
him. But TO Sweetwater it meant
everything, and it was in the tone of
one fully at ease with himself that he
now dryly remarked:
"Mr. Brotherson, if you feel quite
clean, and if you have sufficiently
warmed yourself, l would suggest
that we start out at once, unless you
prefer to have me share this room
with you rill the morning"
There was silence. Mr.. Dunn thus
addressed attempted no answer; not
for full minute. The two men were
measuring each other-George felt
that he did not count at all-and they
were quite too much occupied with
this task to heed the passage Of time.
"Brotherson" repeated their host.
after the silence had lasted to the
breaKing-point. "Why do you call me
that?"
Because it is your name"
You called me Dunn a rinute
ago."
THAT is true"
"Why Dunn If Brotherson is my
narne?"
Because you spoke under the name
of Dunn at the meeting tonight, and
If l don't mistake, that is the name
by which you are known here"
"And you? By what name are you
known"
1T is late to ask, isn't it? But Tn
willing to speak it now, and l might
not have been so little earlier in oul
conversation. l am Detective Sweet
water of the New York Department
of Police, and my errand here Is 9
very simple one. Some letters signed
by you have been found among the
papers of the lady whose mysterious
death at the hotel C1ermont lis just
now occupying the attention of the
New York authorities. If you have
any information to give which will
in any way explain that death, your
presence will be welcome at Coroner
Heath's Office in New York. If you
have not, your presence will still be
welcome. At all events, / was told to
bring YOU You will be on hand tC
accompany me in the morning, l am
quite sure, pardoning the unconven
tional means I have taken to make
sure of my man%
The humor with which this was said
seemed to rob it of anything like
attack, and Mr.. Brotherson. as we
shall eater call him, smiled with
J an odd .ceptance of the same. as he
respond. /:
Sc riU ro b~e--e the police certcin.