Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-26
Copyright, 1911, Street & Smith.)
copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Co.
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.

ur Gryce Finds an AntIdote for Old Age.
81 thought l should make you. sit up.
really calculated upon doing so, sir
Yes, have established the plain fact that
Rrotherson was near it, If not in the ex-
oct line of the scene of the crime in each
u these extraordinary and battling cases
A very odd coincidence, is it not?" was
The dry conclusion of our eager young
detective
odd enough if you are correct in your
statement. But l thought it was con-
ceded that the man Brotherson was not
personally near-was not even in the
building at the time of the woman's dea tn
in Hicks street; that he was out and had
heen out for hours, according to the jan
itOr
"And so the jsnitor thought, but he did
NOT quite know his man I'm not sure
that | do But I mean to make his &C.
opaintance and make 1t thoroughly be-
fore | let him go. The hero-well
will say the possible here of two such
Observation-Disclosures some attention from
one SO interested in the abnormal as
myself
or that Mr. Dunn. of this ramshackle ten
.ment in Hicks street, was identical with
the elegantly equipped admirer Of Miss
Challoner?
Just this way: The night before Miss
Challoners death | was broodng 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 swarmlng
courtyard was going to settle any such
question as that! l walked by the place
and looked up at the windows. No in
spration Then l 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 little less carelessly, had he
worn his workmans clothes a little less
naturally, l should have thought him
soma college bred man out on a Summing
expedition, But he was entirely too much
81 home where he was, and too uncon-
scious of his Jeans for any such con-
cluston on my part. and when he had
passed out l had enough curiosity to ask
who he was.
MY interest, you may believe, was In
no wise abated when | 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 70 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 1 kept thinking of this
man all the way to the bridge. Instinc-
lively and quite against my will, l found
myself connecting him with some pre-
Vious remembrance in which I seemed TO
zee hts tall form and strong features un-
der the stress of some great excitement.
But there my memory stopped, till sud
denly as | was entering the subway, il all
came back to me. l 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 tene-
nent then, very much as I had Just seen
him coming down the one in front Only
the Dunn of today seemed to have all his
wits about him, while the huge fellow
who brushed so rudely by me on that oc-
caston had the peculiar look of man
struggling with horror or some grave ag-