The Washington times., 1912-09-14
CHAPTER XVII (continued).

"AT night. Mr. keene was TN
happy; next day, miserable;
II on the third day he con-
trived to find that Nicholson had
left the town. and his buoyancy and
good spirits returned to him fourfold.
1t had. then, been nothing but an
accidental meeting. He dismissed the
unfortunate matter from his memory
and resumed his pleasant, peaceful life.
Inspector Nicholson, 1t was true, had
left the town, but 1t was on Mr.. Keene's
business. He had received letter from
Leeds that morning in reply to his own,
and 1t had first set him thinking a good
deal and had then made him resolve
to spend the remainder of his holiday
in fishing for the solution of mystery
rather than for trout in the Welsh
rivers.
He looked out trains and steamers,
noon was on his way to Holyhead and
Dublin. And on the way he read his old
1rlends letter several times and tried
TO see through all that it presented to
him. 1t was not a long letter, yet 1t
was full Of suggestions to a man like
Inspector Nicholson. who saw signih-
canoe where most people would have
The Inspectors friend said that the
man Joe, or Joseph. Kilner had left
Leeds rather more than three years
previous, and that it was understood
had set up as, a publican. The friend
further remarked that he had never
heard anything of him since. and that
lowed the. passage which Inspector
Nicholson found invested with much in
teEest and signihcanee; ,., ;,
wrote the inspectors correspondent,
that this man Kilner was in some way
connected-or, rather, that his name
was mentioned in connection with-a
Dublin mystery. which so far as know
mas never been unraveled.
You may remember something of it
an Irish lady Miss Driscoll,, Travelled
from Castleford to Limerick and was
robbed In Dublin by two men who turn
Baxendale from Castleford, the other, a
Leeds man who was we'll known to the
police under the names of Richard
Claye and James Creighton.
These two men disappeared almost
Immediately after the robbery-which
was Of diamonds, the exact value of
which, for some reason, was never
made publie-and they have never been
tions, speaking from memory. that Bax.
endale was last seen in the neighbor.
hood OF this man kilner's bar, or sa-
Ion.dnas loonnI am certain kilner's name was
recognized it as that of this man from
Leeds who kept the oyster saloon
'Kilner was not at all implicated in
this affair, SO far as 1 know. But
have learned something since your let.
ter reached me this morning-KilneI
was a great friend OF Claye's, oil
Creighton's, and had at one time beer
in his employ as keeper of a tobaccon
lists shop in Bradford, where a good
deal of betting business was carried on
IT don't know whether this was
known to the Dublin police at the timt
Il wonder II there was any business
being done at the time of the Driscol
robbery between Claye and Kilner? 1
seems not unlikely, when you come tC
consider matters.
"As for Claye. he has never beer
heard of since the Dublin affair, and 1
has always been supposed that he anc
BaXendale made their escape to th'
continent by the south of Ireland"
Inspector Nicholson read the com
munication over and over again before
he reached Dublin at o'clock tha
evening. He had no time to waste OF
arrival, but Immediately set to work Il
find the man who had charge of the
Driscoll robbery, and before o'clock h
was closeted with Davidson-now, likt
himself, an inspector-in the latter''
room.
Il wanted to talk to you" he said
about one or two matters in which yoI
were concerned two and a half years
ago. Do YOU remember an Englshmar
named Joseph Kilner, who managed ol
was proprietor of a saloon or drinking
bar here in Dublin?'
"oh, very weL," answered Davidson