The Huttig news., 1913-03-15
SYNOPSIS.

wash his hands in the snow and pass on ''pflfHGtion attracts them tc the Ciernof where t is feend that the beaut.tul Ms" FGith Ghallaner has fallen dead on the rncz2a nine floor
 CHAPTER TI-Anderson describes the man he sa# wash his hands in the snow The hotel maaager declares him to be ''fl1n-o l3rother2on.
 CHAPTER TI=Physlcians hnd that Miss Ghalloner WAS stabbed and not shot pie an.
 CHATTER Yv-Grvce. an agrd detec- five. ard SUe water his assistant. tale up the case aa.ey believe Miss ChalloneI stskhcd 1awsoif
 If177- s..7, "A paper cutter found near. the scene of tragedy is believed to De the weapon used.
 CH PIER VI@Mr Challoner tells of batch of letters found in his daughter desk, signed with initials strange to nm X Il are love letters except one which shows that tie writer was diSpeAs6i
 ell PIER VH-This letter was signed .itials witch lead in tho conclusion that Rrotherson wrote all of them
 GHA PIER FfIT-Anderson goes with is to address a meeting of anarchists, The place Is raided bv the police and Er2therson escapes without being ldehn- fed
 CHAPTER Brotherson Is found liv-
 
 Dunn. He ie an inventor
 CHAPTER -Brotherson tells the cor nuer of his acqua ntance with Miss Chai- loner and how she repulaed h'm witf ss'orn when he offered her his love
 CHAPTER XT-sweetwater recalls the mystery Of the murder Of a washerwom- an in which sonle details were similar to the Challoner affair Brothersnn was tenant Of the building adjoining the one .n which the woman died.
 -g-o of the two eases spurs Gryce and Swcelwa- ter 10 renewed activity.
 CHAPTER XlIf-Challoncr admits his daughter deeply interested, If not in love with BrothPrson
 CHAPTER XIV-Brotherson gives the police a plausible explanation of his con d'lct. Gryce and SWeetwater are given permission te pursue their investigations independently
 CHAPTER Xv-Sweetwater plans to disguise himself as carpenter and seek lodgings in the same building with Broth ersan.
 CHAPTER XyI-He watches the inven- tor al work at night and is detectea oy room adjoining Rrothceson's.
 CHAPTER XVIIZIe bores hole in the wall to spy on BHutherson. He visits him and assists the inVentoV in his work.
 CHAPTER xVuI-Repetition of the tune played by the orchestra the n7sht oF
 
 1 ing Protherson to uneasy mutterln@s. CHAPTER XIx-A girl sent by Sweet l water with Edith chailoDer,s letters IS 1 ordered out by Brothcrson He declares the letters were not written to him. CHAPTER XX-Sweetwater is un- masked by Brotherson who declares he re"ogniZed him at once.
 CHAPTER XXI-Sweetwater gets a message that C1Vce has made a dis nT- erN which changes the whole situation.
 CHAPTER XXfI = Closer inspection shows that the letters signed Q were written by two different men Sweet water gees to Derby in search of the sec ond 70. B.. whom he expects to find through one Doris Scott. mentioned In Miss Challoner's letters
 CHAPTER XXIlI-pcris is found act ing nurse for Oswald Brotherson, who ts critically i'll from typhoid fever. and ca Is in his deirum the name ef Edith. He is the manager of the local works and is idoizea hv the people.
 CHAPTER XXIv-Oswald passes the crts's and the doctor says he will recover CHAPTER XXV-Sweetwater comes across a peculiar hut in the woods. He sees load of boxes marked 70. Broth erson." taken into the hut under the sn- pervision of Doris Scott.
 Remember that I'm not speaking for myself. Miss Scott, when I seem litt.e too persistent and inquiring. You have corresponded with Miss Challoner; you have been told the fact of her secret eags cement to Mir. Brotherson and you have been wit ness to his conduct and manner for the whole tiae he nas been separated from ner. Do you, when you think oe it carerui,y. recall anything in the whole story of this romance which would throw light upon the cruel trag- cdy which has So unexpectedly ended it? Anything, Miss Scott? Straws show which way the stream flows"
 She was vehement, instantly vehe- ment, in her disclaimer.
 q can answer at once," said she, "because I have thought of nothing else for all these weeks Here all was well. Mir. Brotherson was hope ful and happy ana believed in her han success. And this success was com ing so fast! Oh, how can we ever tell him. How can we ever -Wer his questions even. or keep satisfied and calm until he is strong enough to hear the truth. I've had to ackrowl- edge already that have had no letter from her for weeks. She never wrote to him directly. you know, and she never sent him messages, but he knew that a letter to me was also a letter to him ard l can see that he is troubled by this long silence, though he says l was quite right not to let her know of his illness and that I must continue to keep her in igno- rance of it till he is quite well again and can write to her himself It is hard to hear him talk like this and not look sad or frightened"
 Sweetwater remembered Miss Chal- loners last letter. and wished he had 1t here to give her. in aefault of this he said.
 Perhaps this not hearing may act in the way of preparation for the shock which must come to him sooner or later. Let us hope so, Miss Scott" :"
 Her eyes filled.