The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1912-08-03

waved me imratiently away FINAL
net desiring 10 delay too long owe
luncheon. | gave the waiter the orde
without consulting him. Meehanicall
he ate what was put before HIN. al
the while keeping up his game witt
bread balls
Knowing him as we'll as I did, afte1
studying closely his eccentric move
ments. | felt sure that the array ri
pellets was closely allied with thu
mental process by which he was seek
ing to solve the Parrish mystery. The
larger pellets, | decided, must he tbs
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 a single pellet
remained. The smaller ones he kept
arranging and rearranging until at last
he seemed satisfied. The single sur
Yiving large pellet stood directly on n
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" he said as If for the first
time aware of my presence, and be
coming as loaua cious is he had before
been silent when we have run this
mystery to earth we will find thai
there are two of the criminals-onl,
two guilty"
Guilty of what?" asked in amaze
ment.
81 haven't the slightest idea as yet
he replied with such apparent frank
ness that ! suspected he was not tell
ing me oil his thought. Evil ideas
are of three kinds-the solitary, thu
pair. the group. Crimes are merel,
the physical expression of evil idea
solitary evil idea manifests itself IL
a variety of crimes. In this class be
long defalcations. 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 eenfidants. Often, in fact
almost always, he masks his villainy
behind the cloak of responsibility.
Most of these offenses are due to ma
mia, to blood-lust, TO a 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.
blackmail 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 Grim
inals, just like all other feminine ce-
le5rities in 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. 1t Is
the contagion of crime. The Black
Hand is a 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
out to death for refusing the society's