Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-23

ing the human race that we would in
breeding horses or dogs"
"Oh, bosh" said I. II ask you how
you account for the hypodermic
syringe in Crandall's rooms and get
a sermon" A
Lawyer though you are, retorted
Davis, I'm afraid that you are weak in
logic. Having decided that Crandall
had no criminal connection with the
case, what then? set up the theory
that his connection was exactly the
same as your own. You were in love
with Louise and were determined to
trace the hidden danger that was
threatening her father. He was in love
with Katharine and was trying 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 damnatory was perfect
iy applicable on this theory
"Yes,' + grudgingly admitted as I
hastily reviewed them in my mind, II
suppose they could all be explained in
that way"
"The question then came to me"
continued Davis, chow could Crandall
have known of the hidden danger that
threatened General Parrish? It was
highly improbable that the general
would confide q thing of this sort,
either to his daughter or to her
fiance He must have come on 1t in
some other way. Judged that when
he revealed his knowledge to the gen.
eral, the latter, in fear that his daugh-
ter might learn what he had been try
ing to keep from her, in rage ordered
Crandall from the house.
"The only logical way for Crandall
to be restored to favor was for him to
clear up the mystery that was
menacing the general AS he
had been at work on it for
some time, I felt sure that in
his rooms we would find a clue to the
address of the persons we were seek
ing. I was confident, too, that affairs
we're approaching crisis. Crandall APP
parently had taken Katharine into his
confidence. It looked as II some plan
they might have made had failed and
that this failure had driven Katharine
to despair With the lock box In Ard
way as 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
springer" asked again.
Il hardly gave it second thought.
For all knew, 1t may have come there
by accident, yet Crandall quickly ex-
planned it's presence in the talk that
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 to blackmail the old general.
When Young disappeared he left the
syringe behind him.
$50" I exclaimed in excitement,
'tthe mystery Of the yellow letter was
Matchmaking plot against General
Parrish" ..,..
mo" said Davis, ri don't think the
Parrish case had anything to do with
the other chain of suicides, unless 1t
was that both devilish plots originated
in the drug-fevered, malevolent brain
Of the poor fellow in yonder. 1t is true
that General Parrish got yellow let
tiers. Once a week for months and
months he has found one in his mail,
each more threatening, more menac-
ing, than its predecessors. He has for
long, long time been living in daily
dread that tht .write- of these letters
might at any moment carry out his
threats and expose him to public