The Huttig news., 1913-02-22
SYNOPSIS.

He Clermont hotel look around fur ivelV wash his hands in the snow and pass oa 'ommction attracts them to the Ciernont Where 1t is foHnd that the beautiful Mss tdlth Chalioner has fallen dead on the nez2anine floor
 CH AFTER II-Anderson describes the aan ne SAW wash his hands in the snow 5he hotel manager declares him to bt 2rlan1o I2rothereon.
 CHAPTER T1I-Paysicians find thar iss Challonel was stabbed and not shot dcion.
 CHAPTER TV-Grvee an aged drtee- i've. and SW5 'ater his assistant ta'@. p the ease. 'fttey believe Miss chaione 5tahhee ha.self.
 Sti|. -, "A paper cutter four lear the scene of tragedy is believed 'le the weapon used
 CHI PIER VI-Mr Challoner tells of : patch of letters found in his daughter 3esk. signed with initials strtne. to hin Al are love letters except one whic SHOWS that the writer was disp;eaSed
 CHAPTER VIT-This letter was signe 9f Orlando Brotherscn. The others bnrf sfjals which lead to the conclusion tha t'rotherson wrote all of them.
 GH &PT FIR VIII-Ande-san goes wit Sweetwater to identify Bratherson. wi to address a meeting of anarchist The place is raided by the police ane fotherson escapes without being ident led.
 
 9ner of his acquaintance with Miss Chal. toner and how she repulsed him wit sSern when he offered her his love.
 CHAPTER XI-Sweetwater recalls the mystery of the murder of washerwom m In which some details were similar L. 'he Chaltoner affair. Brotherson was 2 tenant of the building adjoining the onr n which the woman died
 GH AFTIT X7f 1-utT,ler comparison O. he two cases spurs Gryce and Sweetwa ter to renewed activity.
 GH AFTER XIfI-Chaloner admits his daughter was deeply interested. if not in love with Brotherson.
 CHAPTER KY Brotherson gives the police a plausible explanation of his con .'urt GrYce and Sweet water are given permission to pursue their investigations independently
 disguise hiMeif as 9S a carpenter S and seek lodgings in the same building with Broth erson.
 CHAPTER Xvl-He watches the inyon- tor al work at night and is detected by the latter The detective moves to q room adjoining Brotherson's.
 CHAPTER XVII He hores a hole in the wall to spy an Rrothersan. He visits him and assists the inventor in his work CHAPTER XVuI-Repctition of the tune played by the orchestra the nfsht of Miss Challoner's death arouses the sleep ing Brotherson to uneasy mutterinss.
 -.4e pause which followed told lit tie; but when Sweetwater heard the man within move with characteristic energy to the door. turn the key and step back again to his place at the table, he knew that the danger mo nent had passed and that those let CTS were about to be read, not casual. y, but seriously, as indeed their con .ents merited
 This caused Sweetwater to feel seri- us himself. Upon what result might !e calculate?
 Impossible to tell. The balance of probability hung even, Sweetwater ecognized this, and clung, breathless, his loop-hole. Fain would he have seen, as we'll as heard
 Nj Brotherson read the first letter. ig. As it soon became public property, l will give it here, just as 1t afterwards appeared in the columns of he greedy journals;
 Beloved:
 When l sit, as I often do, in per feet quiet under the stars, and dream hat you are looking at them too. not or hours as 1 do, but for one full mo- ment in which your thoughts are with ne as wholly as mine are with you, 1 eel that the bond between us. unseen by the world, and possibly not wholly recognized by ourselves, is instinct with the same power which links to- Sether the eternities.
 Tt seems to have always been; to nave known no beginning, only a bud. ding, an efIlorescence the visible prod. uct of hidden but always present reality. month ago and I was igno- rant, even, of your name. Now, you seem the best known to me, the best understood, of Gods creatures. One afternoon of perfect companionship- one flash of strong emotion, with it's deep, true insight into each others soul, and the miracle was wrought. We had met, and heneeforth, parting would mean separation only, and not he severing of a mutual bond. One hand, and one only, could do that now. l will not name that hand. For us there Is nought ahead but life.
 Thus do l ease my heart in the si- fence which conditions impose upon us. Some day I shall hear your voice again, and then"
 The paper dropped from the read er's hand. It was several minutes be- fore he took up another.
 This one, as it happened antedated the other, as will appear on reading it:
 My friend:
 T said that I could not write to you that We must wait. You were will ing; but there is much to be accom- piished, and the silence may be long. My father is not an easy man to please, but he desires my happiness and will listen to my plea when the right hour comes. WI en you have won your plaee-when you have shown yourself to be the man I feel you to be. then my father will recog. nize your worth, and the way will be i cleared, despite the obstacles which