The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-01-09

| / have here.
It is to be hoped that the slap he
gave his breast, at this point, carried
of some of his superfuous emotion.
you can't account for feeling. MI
Gryce. The man has no heart. He's
! as hard as rocks"
you've found no evidence against
him?"
"N-no."
"Then listen to this. The test with
the letters failed, because what he
said at2ut them was true. They were
not meant for him. Miss Challoner
had another lover"
"Only another! I thought there
were half-dozen, at least"
Another whom she favored. The
letters found in her possession-not
the ones she wrote herself, but those
which were written to. her over the
signature o. b. were not all from the
same hand. Experts have been busy
with them for week, and their re,
ports are unanimous. The o. B. who
wrote the threatening lines acknowl
edged to by Orlando Brotherson, was
not the o. B. who penned all of those
love letters. The similarity in the writ
ing misled us at first, but once the
doubt was raised by Mr.. Challoner's
discovery Of an allusion in one OF
them which pointed to another write,
than Mr.. Brotherson. and experts haG
no difficulty in reaching the decision
have mentioned"
1.-TWO o. BIS! Isn't that incredible
Mr. Gryce?"
Eyes, it is incredible; but the in.
credible is not the impossible. The
man you've been shadowing denies
that these expressive illusions of Miss
| Challoner were meant for him. Let
J Us see, then, if we can find the man
they were meant for"
"The second o. B.?"
EYES,"
Sweetwater's face instantly lit up.
do you mean that latter my
egregious failure-am not to be kept
on the ounces seat? That you will
give me this new job?"
Eyes. We don't know OF a better
man."
"The Experimentation does he
feel about it?''
HE was the first one to mentor
you"
"And the Inspector"
rs glad to see us on a new tack"
A pause, during which the cage,
| light in the young detectives eye
clouded over. Presently he remarked
| How will the finding of another o
B. alter Mr.. Brotherson's position? tt
my mind, this discovery of a more ia
vored rival, brings in an element o.
motive which may rob our self-relian
} friend of some of his compIacency
We may further, rather than destroy
our case against Rrotherson by locat
! Ing a second b. B."
| Mr.. Gryce's eyes twinkled.
"That won't make your task an,
more irksome," he smiled. "The lool
| We thus throw out is as likely te
! catch Brotherson as his rival"
"The prospect grows pleasing
! Where am to look for my MANI"
Your ticket IL bought to Derby, Pa
II he Is not employed in the great fac
tories there, we do not know where to
find him. We have no other clue"
II see. It's short journey have
before me-"
you will start tomorrow"
wish it were today"
"And you will first inquire, not 70,
o. B., that's too indefinite; but for 9
young girl by the name of Doris Scott
She holds the clue; or rather she 1,
the clue to this second o. B."
4 Another woman!''
! mo. a child well. won't say child
exactly; she, must be sixteen"
Doris Scott"
"She lives in Derby. Derby is !,
small place. You will have NO trouble
IN finding this child. It was to he
Miss Challoner's last letter was ad
dressed. The one"
II begin to See"
mo, you don't, Sweetwater. The al
fair Is as blind as. your hat: nobod,
sees. We're just feeling along
thread. o. BIS letters-the real o. b
- Imean, are the manifest effusions pos
sible. He's no more Of milksop thai
this Brotherson, and unlike your in
domitable friend he seems to hav
some heart. only wish he'd give u
some facts: they would have bee
serviceable. But the letters. reyea
nothing except that he knew Doris
!. He writes in one Of them: Doris i
= learning to embroider. It's like fair
: weaving a cobweb!' Doris-isnt-a yer
.. common name. She must be the sam
little girl to whom Miss Challone
g wrote from time 70 time"
WAS. this letter signed o. b.
"Yes:t they all are. The only di
ference between his letters and Bfutl
serson's 81 this: Brothersone retai
the date and address; the second {
SPA DO not. Z.
y: ''f16Wthot!.Yerp OF. do you mean
~ Ys Or rather. nettly cut away
3 ana as nome Of the envelopes Wer
: kept, tho only means by which we ca
{ locate the writer IL through this gil
r b6la, ~
2 III I reneps-- rightly Min. Cha