The Washington herald., 1913-12-21

long-legged young person ran OF ON
her errand. She gave Mr.. Tung the
envelope as he was stepping into the
carriage. He had not time even to
realize that he had got it before she
was off again. ! saw him glance with
startled face at the envelope, open
it, hurriedly scan what was within,
then make a dart into the compart-
ment by which he was standing,
emerge with a bag in his hand, and
hurry from the station. Conscience
had been too much for him again The
big, burly man, seeing him going, went
hurrying after him, as the train was
in the very act of starting. As it
moved along the platform the face of
the third man appeared at the window
OF his compartment, gazing in apparent
astonishment after the other two. He
might go to London by the hve-6ve
if he chose. l did not think it mat
tered if he went alone. | scanned the
newspapers very carefully the next
day; as there was no record of any
thing unusual having happened during
the journey or afterward | concluded
that my feeling that nothing was to be
feared from that solitary gentleman
had been well founded, and that the
lady in the gray dress had reached her
destination in comfort and safety.
What became of Mr.. Tung when he
left the station | do not know; l can
only say that he did not return to the
hotel. That Buxton episode was in
August. About a month aftSrward,
toward the close of September. ! was
going north. | started from Euston
station. l had secured my seat, and,
as there were still several minutes be-
fore the train went off, strolled up
and down the platform. Outside the
open door of one of the compartments,
just as he had done at Buxton station.
Mr.. Tung was standing.
The sight of him inspired me with
feeling of actual rage. That such
a dreadful creature as | was convinced
he was should go through life like
some beast of prey, seeking for help
less victims whom 1t would be safe
to deStroy-that he should be standing
there. so well dressed, so well fed, so
seemingly prosperous, with all the ap-
pearance about him of one with whom
the world went very well-the sight
of him made me positively furious.
| was seized with a sudden desire to
give him a shock which would at least
destroy his pleasure for the rest of
that day. Recalling what l had done
at Buxton, | went to the bookstall and
purchased for the sum of one penny
an envelope and a sheet of paper. I
took these to the waiting-room, and
on the sheet of paper | wrote three
lines-without even a moments consid,
Grafton:
You are about to be arrested. JUS
tice is going to be done.
Your time has come
Prepare for the end
/ put the sheet of paper containing
these words into the envelope, and,
waylaying small boy, who appeared
to have been delivering a parcel to
some one in the station, / instructed
him to hand my gentleman the enyel-
ope and then make off. He did his
part very we'll Tung was standing
sideways, looking down the platform,
so that he did not see my messenger
approaching from behind; the envelope
was slipped into his hand almost be-
fore he knew it, and the boy was off.
For him the recurrence of the epi-
sode of the mysterious envelope was
in itself a shock. l could see that
from where l stood. He stared at 1t,
as he had done before, as if it had
been a bomb which at any moment
might explode. His lips twitched; he
seemed to be shaking; he looked as il
it would need very little to make him
run. With fingers which l am sure
were trembling he opened the envel-
cups; he took out the sheet of paper
and he read.
When he had read he seemed to be
striving to keep himself from playing
the cur; he looked across the platform
with such an expression on his face
and in his eyes! A constable was ad-
vancing toward him, with another man
by his side. The probability is that,
scared half out of his senses, con-
science having come into its own, he
misinterpreted the intention of the ad-
vancing couple. Those three lines,
warning him that he was about 10 be
arrested, that his time had come, to
prepare for the end, synchronized so
perfectly with the appearance OF the
constable and his companion, who
turned out to be a plain clothes man
engaged in the company'S business
that in his suddenly unerved state he
jumped to the conclusion that the
warning and its fulhllment had come
together-that those two officers of the
law were coming to arrest him there
and then.
Having arrived at that conclusion,
he seems to have passed quickly to an
other-that he would not be taken
alive. He put his hand into his jacket
pocket, took out a revolver, which
had no doubt been kept there for quite
another purpose, put the muzzie to his
brow, and while the two men-think-
ing of him not at all-were still few
yards off. he blew his brains out, He
was dead before they reached HIM
killed by conscience,
They found his luggage in the com
partment in which he had been about
to travel. The co1.ents OF his vari-
Gus belongings supplied sufficient eX,
PLANTATION of his tragic end. He lived
in a small fat off the Marylebone
road-alone; the address was con-
tanned in his bag. When the police
wen there they found miscellaneous
collection of articles which had GER
tainly. in the original instance, never
belonged to him. There were feminine
belongings of all sorts and kinds.
Some of them were traced to their
former owners, and in each case tle
owner was found to have died IN cir-
cumstances which had never been aoe.
quately explained. This man seemed
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