The Springdale news., 1912-09-06

waved me iinpatiently away. Finally, not desiring to delay too long over luncheon, l gave the waiter the order without consulting him. Mechanically he ate what was put before him, all the while keeping up his game with bread balls.
 Knowing him as we'll as I did, after studying closely his eccentric move ments. I felt sure that the array of pellets was closely allied with the mental process by which he was seek ing to solve the Parrish mystery. The larger pellets, I decided, must be the various theories about the yellow let ter or letters and their origin. The smaller pellets were the different per sons connected with the case One by one he pushed the larger pellets from the table until single pellet remained. The smaller ones he kept arranging and rearranging until at last he seemed satisfied. The single sur viving large pellet stood directly on crease In the cloth On one side equally distant from the crease, but close to each other, he had placed two of the smaller pellets. The rest were in three groups on the other side of the line. For perhaps five minutes he carefully studied their position without shifting them, and then with a quick motion of his hand swept them al to the floor.
 There was some purpose distinctly criminal connected with the yellow letters.s he said. as if for the first time aware of my presence, and be coming as loauaeious as he had before been silent When We have run This mystery to earth We will find that there afe two of the criminals-on1y two guilty"
 Guilty Of What?' I asked in amaze ment.
 T haven't the slightest idea as vel" he replied with such apparent frank hess that l suspected he was not tell ing me all his thought. Evil ideas are of three kinds-the solitary. the pair. the group. Crimes are merely the physical expression of evil ideas and bear the same classification The solitary evil idea manifests itself in variety of crimes. In this class be long defa1eations, poisonings, crimes against women and generally the as- sassination of private individuals. These are the hardest crimes to dis cover and punish The evil idea Is not communicated. This sort of criminal seldom has confdants Often. in fact almost always, he masks his villainy behiAd the cloak of responsibility. Most of these offenses are due to ma mia, to blood-lust. to desire for re venge for real or imaginary wrongs.
 Evil ideas of the pair are generally attributable to money-lust In such crimes as burglary. highway robbery. blaekmail. you will find two persons equally guilty. always the pair. Some times It is the man and the woman, sometimes the strong man and the weak man. sometimes two women. though seldom. for women have little of the inventive or creative faculty. even in crime. Notorious women crim- inals, just like all other feminine ce- lebrities Ill literature or art, have much of the masculine in their make up.
 The third kind of evil idea, that of the group. Is responsible for the strike. the mob. the conspiracy. It is the contagion of crime The Black Hand Is typical example. The mem- bers of this notorious organization, while they profit financially by their misdeeds. care little about that end of it. Their greatest pleasure Is in the torture of their victims. in the agony they suffer from the time the nameless dread of the Black Hand first seizes them until finally they are put to death for refusing the society's exactions. It Is this evil spirit that kills kings. burns witches. destroys property and lynches negroes. The