Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28

YOU dare address to me another such insulting remark
Take my advice for which, unlike yourself | charge
fee. Go to DIR. Samson, and beg him to attend to
your hurts.
"Do you, Sir, refuse issue a warrant when l take
the responsibility of charging Samson oath to be
burglar and attempted murderer
"Pooh!' cried the magistrate "Of course l refuse.
Go home and put cold compress on your head and
see you can revive whatever conmonsense former
y lodged there 1t you persist, III write you order
quickly enough; but it will be one committing you
the county lunatic asylum"
Richard Mizare stood there enraged but nonplussed,
and, confident though he of the justice of his case
he began to doubt the wisdom of pressing it to issue
against man who stood SO high in the esteem of his
neighbors did Dr. William Samson While he stood
with bent head before the angry magistrate, servant
entered and wished know his Honor could receive
DR.. Samson.
CERTAINLY said the magistrate. "Come along
- in Wliam' he reared. "Even the humblest may
approach the throne of British Justice
.The footstool rather replied DR. Samson, with
smile. "You know your re not really Judge, but
of the great unpaid. All, DR.. Mizare, good morning
Have you met with an ACCIDENT
This man. snorted the magistrate, "has had his
thinking apparatus damaged by blow of some sort,
and it would be only neighborly turn William if you
to look after his headpiece.'
DR.. Samson benignly approached the wounded man,
who stepped back pace two, clenching his fists but
feeling that somehow circumstances were too strong
for him.
permit me- said the elder aloud, intending
unloosen the bandage, while the other evidently de-
termned to prevent him doing so; then in whisper
Kane, you of all should know that charge may
be true and yet cannot be proved in court
The face of his changed color to pasty yell
low. His alert mind showed him that William Samson
knew not only his secret of the present. but also his
secret of the past.
The skilfu fingers of the elder doctor removed the
cotted bandage from the younger's head.
"Ah," he said "a lucky escape! little higher up,
and the consequences might have been serious. l wish
struck this blow. 1t required firm hand and strong
wrist. When did you receive t?' He deity clipped
away the matted hair with pair of surgical scissors he
had taken from his pocket
AN hour before daylight this morning., snared the
victim.
"A burglar, them
"A burglar, evidently.
"Dd he get away with anvthing?"
Nothing tangible, DIR. Samson
There was silence between them while the doctor
dressed the wound with sympathetic care
"You will soon be all right again. said Samson. "The
blackened eye decorative rather than dangerous and
it would be super1uous to tell skilfu your
self how to treat it. advise you to take 1T very easy
for few days.
THANK you, said Mizare quietly; then, turning to
the magistrate, he continued, II fear Sir was some
what dazed and excited when | entered this room. |
therefore apologize if | said anything to offend YOU
4Thats all right" replied the bluff magistrate. do
you wish to make a charge against anyone?.
against one, your Honor. My assa1lant was
masked, and in any probably does not belong to
this neghborhood."
TT was a fortnight later that the tragedy occurred.
The face of Dr. Samson became and more hag-
gard; for he knew time to be his greatest enemy. His
preparations were all made, and he was the watch
practically night and day. The tension fast
ing him down. and he feared failure of strength when
the climax He had determined to divide his task
sections, the certain thus to make 1t
complete,-frst the burning of the mansion secondly,
the assassination of DR.. Mizare.
These things must be accomplished almost stimuli
taneously and he feared the craft and energy of Dr.
Mizare that he dared not risk burning up the in
the house of which he a tenant. Aware that San
knew his secret Mizare almost certain to
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