Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-26

O VI uIeLH Hdu put up a sign on
their door that they had left for New
York and would not be back till $50
and then changed their minds so suddenly
that they were back in the tenement at
| o. sharing the curiosity and the terrors
Of its Mortified inmates.
But the discovery, while possibly sug-
gestlVe, was not of so pressing a nature
as TO demand instant action; and more
immediate duties coming up. I let the
matter slip from my mind to be brought
up again the next day, you may well be-
lieve, when all the circumstances of the
! death at the Clermont came to light and
found myself confronted by a problem
very nearly the counterpart of the one
then occupying me.
But | did not see any real connection
between the two cases until, in my
hunt for Mr. Brotherscn, | came upon
the following facts: that he was not al
ways the gentleman he appeared; that
| the apartment in which he was supposed
to live was not his own, but friends
that he was only there by spells. When
| he was there he dressed like a prince and
! II was while so clothed he ate his meals
! IN the cafe Of the Hotel Clermont.
But there were times when lie had
been seen to leave this apartment in a
very different garb, and while there was
no one to insinuate that he was slack
| in paying his debts or was given to dis
| sipation or any overt vice it was general
| ~ conceded by such as casually knew
! MIN that there was a mysterious side to
! his life which no one understood. His
frtend-a seemingly candid and open
minded gentleman-eXplaired these con-
tradictions by saying that Mr.. Brotherson
was humanitarian and spent much of
his time in the slums That while so
engaged he naturally dressed to suit the
occasion, and if he was to be criticised
at all it was for his zeal, which often
| led him to extremes and kept him TO his
task for days, during which time none
Of his uptown friends saw him Then this
enthusiastic gentleman called him the
great intellectual light OF the day and
well, if ever ] want a character | shall
take pains to insnuate myself into the
good graces of this Mr. Conway
"Of Brotherson himself l saw nothing.
He had come to Mr.. Conway's apartment
the night before-the night of Miss Chal-
| loner's death you understandable had
remained only long enough to change his
clothes. Where he went afterwards is
unknown to Mr.. Conway nor can he
he does show up, my message will be
given him. etc. 1 have no fault to find
with Mr. Conway.
But I had an idea in regard to this
elusive Brotherson. I had heard enough
about him to be mighty sure that to-
gether with his other accomplishments he
possessed the golden tongue and easy
speech of an orator Also, that his
tendencies were revolutionary and that
for all his fine clothes and hankering
after table luXuries and the like, he cher
Shed a spite against wealth which made
his words under certain moods cut like a
knife But there was another man, known
to us of the -- precinct, who had very
nearly these same gifts, and this man
was going to speak at secret meeting
that very evening This we had been told
by a disgruntled member of the Asso-
ciated Brotherhood. Suspecting Brother
son. | had this prospective speaker de-
scribed, and thought I recognized my
man. But ! wanted to be positive in my
Identification. so | took Anderson with
me, aud-but I'll cut that short We
didn't see the orator and that go went
for nothing; but ] had another string to
my bow in the shape of the workman
Dunn. who also answered to the descrp-
ton which had been given me; so lugged
poor Anderson over into Hicks street.
1T was late for the visit I proposed,
but not too late. If Dunn was also the
orator who, surprised by raid had not
been let into. would be making for his
home, if only to establish an alibi. The
subway was near and I calculated on his
using IT, but we took a taNicab and so
arrived in Hicks street some few min
utcs before him. The result YOU know.
Anderson recognized the man as the one
whom he saw washing his hands in the
snow outside of the Clermont and the
man, seeing himself discovered, owned
himself to be Brotherson and made no
difficulty about accompanying us the next
day to the coroners office.
''You have heard how he bore himself;
what his explanations were and how com
uletely they fitted in with the precon-
ceived notions of the inspector and the
district attorney In consequence. Miss
Challoner's death is looked upon as a sui
cide-the impulsive act of a woman who
sees the man she may have secuted but
whom She secretly loves turn away from
her in all probability forever. \ weapon
was in her hand-she impulsively used it,
and another deplorabe suicide was added
to the melancholy list Had | put in my
oar al the conference Helb Ill inc CORFU
ners office; had | recalled to DR.. Heath
the curious case Of Mrs. SPOTS, and then
identified Brothersun as the man whose
window fronted hers from the opposite
tenement, a diversion might have been
created and the outcome been different.
But ! feared the experiment. I'm not
sufficiently in with the chief as yet nor
with the inspector. They might not have
called me a fOol-you may, but that's
different-and they might have listened,
but it would doubtless have been with an
air ! could not have held up against.
with that fellows eyes fixed mockingy
on mine For he and l are pitted for a
struggle, and ] do not want to give him
the advantage of even a momentary
triumph. He's the most complete master
Of himself Of any man I ever met and it
will take the united brain and resolu-
ton of the whole force to bring him to
bool-if he ever is brought to book, which
/ doubt What do you think about it?"
THAT you have given me an antidote
against old age" was the ringing and
unexpected reply, as the thoughtful, half
puzzled aspect OF the old man yielded
mpusvely to a burst Of his early en-
.husiasm. IF we can get good grip