The Huttig news., 1913-05-10
SYNOPSIS.


 Edith Challoner has fallen dead on the mezzanine floor
 CHAPTER II-Anderson describes the man he saw wash his hands in tie snow Tie hotel manager declares him to be or!ande~ Rrotherson.
 CHAPTER III Physicians find that Mss Challonet was stabbed and not shot. Nh.eh seems to clear Brotherson of sus- pie'on.
 CHAPTER Tv-Grvce. an aged detec- tive, and Swe water his assistant. take up the case They believe Miss Challone stabbed herself
 e'If7II TX "A paper cutter foun near the scene of tragedy is believed | be the weapon used.
 CHAPTER VI-Mr Chslloner tells of batch of letters found in his dauShter desk, signed with initials strange to him All are love letters except one whiel shows that the writer was dispieased
 CHAPTER VTT-This letter was signed bV Orlando Brotherson. The others hor" ,itials which lead to the conclusion tha Rrotherson wrote all of them
 CHAPTER VIII-Anaerson goes wit Sweetwater to identify Brnthcrson whf The place is raided by the police, anf Rrotherson escapes without being ident fled.
 CHAPTER IX-Brotherson is found liy ing in a tenement under the name of Dunn He is an inventor.
 CHAPTER x-Brotherson tells the cor oner of his acquaintance with Miss Chai loner and how she repused him wit ssorn when he offered her his love.
 CHAPTER xI-sweetwater recalls the mystery of the murder Of a washerworn= an in which some details were similar L the Challoner affair Brothersou was tenant of the building adjoining the on In which the woman died.
 CHATTER Further comparison nf the two cases spurs Gryce and Sweetwa ter to renewed activity.
 CHAPTER xITI-Challoner admits his daughter was deeply interested, if not in love with Brotherson.
 CHAPTER XIV-Brotherson gives the police a plausible explanation of his con duct. Gryce and Sweetwater are given permission to pursue their investigations Independently.
 CHAPTER -Sweetwater plans to disguise himself as carpenter and seek lodgings in the same building with Broth erson.
 CHAPTER XvI-He watches the inyen. tor at work at night and is detected by the latter. The detective moves to room adjoining Brotherson's.
 CHAPTER xVII=He bores a hole in the wall to spy on Brotherson. He visits him and assists the inventor in his work
 CHAPTER xvuI-Repetition of the Miss Challoner's death arouses the sleep Ing Brotherson to uneasy mutterings
 CHAPTER xIX-A girl sent by Sweet water with Edith Challoner's letters Is ordered out by Brotherson. He declares the letters were not written to him
 CHAPTER xX-sweetwater is un- masked by Brotherson. who declares he recognized him at once.
 CHAPTER XXI-Sweetwater gets a message that Gryce has made dlS S'oV- cry which changes the whole situation.
 CHAPTER XXII - Closer inspection shows that the letters signed 70. B. were written by two different men. Sweet water goes 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 XXIII-Deris is found act Ing nurse for Oswald Brotherson, who is critically i'll from typhoid fever and calls in his delirium the name ef Edith. He is the manager of the local works and is idolized by the people
 CHAPTER XXIV-Oswald passes the crisis and the doctor says he will recover CHAPTER XXV-Sweetwater comes across peculiar hut in the woods lie sees load of boxes marked 70 Broth erson." taken into the hut under the su pervision of Doris Scott.
 CHAPTER XXVI-Sweetwate returns fo New York and reports to Gryce. but omits mention of the hut in the woods. the sole discovery of importance.
 CHAPTER XXVII-Challoner appears Tn Derby
 CHAPTER XXVIH-Doris tells Chal- loner of seeing in a dream tive face Of the man who killed Edith. The door oell rings and she recognizes in the visitor the man of her dream.
 CHATTER XXlX-1t is Orlando Broth erson. who requests an interview with his brother It is denied. He seems greatly perturbed when Doris tells him the boxes have been safely placed in the hut
 
 agitated at the realization that he has fallen in love with Doris He demands to be present when Oswald is informed of Edith's death.
 CHAPTER XXXI-It develops that Or Iando is working on living machine. which SweetWater who has arrived again on the scene declares will revolutionize air flight.
 CHAPTER XXXII-oswald is told of Edith's death.
 CHAPTER XXXIII-Orland9 teiis his brother of his repulse by Miss Challoner.
 CHAPTEs XXXIV-Orlando asks his brother to assist in tests of his air car. as he can trust no one else. Oswald re- fuses owing to his weakened condition.
 CTiAf =.-I-.. .l.S-IV oiidtrins JV,i Tne near approach of the test of his machine and the lack of a suitable assistant Or lando is startled by a knock at the door of the hut and admits Sweetwater.
 CHAPTER XXXNI~Sweetwat offers his serx ices as an assistant a,d shows he knows something ef Brotherson's idts
 CHAPTER xxx 2-II-The air car proves a success
 CHAPTER XXN ylII-Oswald declares his grief over Edths death renders him incapable of accepting his brothers offer ta share in his work and trumphs Or lande offers himself to Doris and is re- fused He spends the night in the nam gar in . daza1 coel .+i6n
 No answer, yet she was there. He knew it in every throbbing fiber of his body. She was there and quite aware of his presence; of this he felt sure ; yet she did not bid him enter. Should he knock again? Neyeri but he would not quit the threshold, not if she kept him waiting there for hours. Perhaps she realized this. Perhaps she had meant to open the door to him from the very first, who can tell? What avails is that she did ultimately open it, and he, meeting her soft eye. wished from his very heart that hi. impulse had led him another way even if that way had been to the edge