Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-19
copyright, 1911, Street & Smith.)
,-onvrieht, 1911, by Dodd, Mead e CO..
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.

There was sidence. Mr.. Dunn thus
addressed attempted no answer; not for
f,u minute. The two men were meas
,rine each other-George felt that he did
not count at aIl-and they were quite
too much occupied with this task to
hoed the passage of time. To George,
Who knew little. if anything, of what
his silent struggle meant to either, it
saer7ed that the detective stood no show
before this Samson of physical strength
ord Intellectual power, backed by d pis-
,o,d inst within reach of his hand But
a. George continued to look and saw the
squre of the smaller man gradually di-
,ato while that of the larger the more
notent and the better guarded, gave un-
r,istakable signs of secret wavering, he
slowly changed his mind and, ranging
himself with the detective, waited for the
word or words which should explain this
situation and render ineligible the
triumph gradually becoming visible in the
Young detectives eyes
But he was not destined 10 have his Gu
rosity satisfied so far. He might wit
ness and hear, but it was long before he
understood.
"Brotherson?' repeated their host,
after the silence had lasted to the break
ing uOlft, ny 90 you Cdil THAT
Because it is your name"
You called me Dunn a minute ago
THAT is true
"Why Dunn, il Brotherson is my
nance
Because you spoke under the name Of
Dunn at the meeting tonight. and if I do
not mistake that is the name by which
YOU are known here"
And you? BY what name are you
known
1T is late to ask. isn't it? But I'm
willing to speak it now, and | might not
have been so little earlier in our con-
yersation. / am Detective Sweetwater of
the New York department of police, and
my errand here Is very simple one.
Some letters signed by you have been
found among the papers of the lady whose
mysterious death a. the Hotel Clermont is
just now occupying the attention of the
New York authorities. If you have any
information to give which will in any way
explain that death, your presence will
be welcome at Coroner Heaths office
in New York. If you have not, your
presence will still be welcome. At all
events, l was told to bring you. You will
be on hand to accompany me in the morn
ing, I am quite sure, pardoning the I'M
conventional means ! have taken to make
sure Of my MANI
The humor with which this was said
seemed to rob 1t OF anything like attack,
and Mr.. Brotherson, as we shall hereafter
call him, smiled with an odd acceptance
Of the same, as he responded:
'I will go before the police certainly
haven't much to tell, but what I have
is at their service. 1t will not help you,
but have no secrets. What are you do
ing?'
He bounded toward Sweetwater. who
the shade and looked across at the oppos-
ing tenement.
81 wanted to see II it was still snow
ing explained the detective. with a
smile, which seemed to strike the other
like blow. IF it was a liberty, please
pardon it."
Mr. Brotherson drew back. The cold air
Of elf-possession which he now assumed
presented such a contrast to the unwar-
ranted heat of the moment before that
George wondered greatly over it, and
later, when he recapitulated to me the
whole story of this night, it was this in
c'dent OF the lifted shade, together with
the emotion 1t had caused, which he ac-
knoWledged as being for him the most
lnexplicable event of the evening and the
one he was most anxious to hear ex-
planned.
As this ends our connection with this
affair l will bid YOU my personal fare
well have often wished that circum-