Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-26
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.

A., cryce Finds an Antdote for Old Age.
.,r thought l should make you sit up.
rstn. calculated upon doing so, sir.
~, have established the plain fact that
Patterson was near it, if not in the ex-
line of the scene of the crime in each
=, these extraordinary and battling cases.
worry odd coincidence, is it not?" was
.ts arv conclusion of our eager young
.,54 enough if you are correct in your
statement. But l thought it was con-
.,saG that the man Brotherson was not
.,r..rafly near-was not even in the
,rHatrg at the time of the woman's death
,r Hicks street; that he was out, and had
fssr out for hours, according to the jan
TOR.
"Ard SO the jartor thought, but he did
rot quite know his man. I'm not sure
that do But I mean to make his ac-
,natrtauce and make it thoroughly be-
fare ! let him go. The hero-wel.
will say The possible here of two such
g5vertures-deserves some attention from
me So interested in the abnormal as
myself
"sueetwater, how came you to discov-
- that Mr. Dunn. of this ramshackle ten
ement i'm Hicks street, was identical with
.he elegantly equipped admirer of Miss
yaalouer''
"Just this way: The night before Miss
CharOuer's death | was brooding very
deeply over the Hicks street case. 1t had
so possessed me that l had taken this
street on my way from Flatbush; as if
staring at the house and its swarming
courtyard was going to settle any such
question as that! | walked by the place
and looked up at the windows No in
spiraton Then | saUntered back and en-
tered the house with the fool intention of
crossing the courtyard and wandering
into the rear of the building where the
crime had occurred. But my attention
was diverted and my mind changed by
seeing a man coming down the stairs be-
fore me, Of so fine a figure that l invol-
UNFAIRLY stopped to look at him. Had he
moved d little less carelessly, had he
worn his workman's clothes a little less
naturally, l should have thought him
some college bred man out on a stunning
expedition. But he was entirely too much
at home where he was, and too unCOn-
scious Of his jeans for any such con
cusion on my part, and when he had
passed out I had enough curiosity to ask
who he was.
My interest, you may believe. was in
no wise abated when l learned that he
was that highly respectable tenant whose
window had been open at the time when
half the inmates of the two buildings
had rushed up to his door, only to find
paper on 1t displaying these words:
Gone to New York. VIII be back at $50.
Had he returned at that hour? I don't
think anybody had ever asked; and what
reason had l for such interference now?
But an idea once planted in my brain
sticks tight, and I kept thinking Of this
man all the way to the bridge Instinc-
lively and quite against my will, I found
myself connecting him with some pre-
vlous remembrance in which I seemed to
see his tall form and strong features I'M
der the stress of some great excitement.
But there my memory stopped, till sud
denly as was entering the subway, ii all
came back to me. had met him the day
| went with the boys to investigate the
case In Hicks street. He was coming
down the staircase of the rear teue-
mHnt then, very much as | had Just seen
nm coming down the one in front Only
The Dunn of today seemed to have all his
wits about him. while the huge fellow
VINO brushed so rudely by me on that oc-
cason had the peculiar look Of a man
struggling with horror or some grave ag-