Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-18
CHAPTER XII (Continued) .

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mo, but enough to make me sure
the right one goes, and enough to
make me want to stop thinkin' Of what
will happen when we get through"
Her voice caught on this. MCGEE
looked at her sharply. Her eyes were
swimming.
III you listen to the people they
leave behind, as medium has," she
said. But goodness she dab
bed her eyes-"that will be about all
from me. Only"-a dimple flickered
this life on the fiesh-plane's hard
thing" They were at the car now.
"I'll send for you when wanted. Mar
tin McGee," she said AN remem.
ber-a purple auto veil In my right
hand"
Rosalie did not return home at once.
Instead, she proceeded to that house
in the Latin Quarter before which she
had paused and considered a problem
three days before. 1t Is one OF Rosa
lies pecularities that she shrouds
everything in mystery, but let's out
clue here and there to puzzle the
observer and to satisfy her individual
sense of humor. who write Of her
have caught that trick from Rosalie.
I will reveal now--as Rosalie would
have revealed 1t with fash OF eyes
and dimples-that this place bore the
sign, u. Martinez, Teacher OF Langu-
ages" and that the photograph which
she kept in her closet was a device OF
the Martinez Method In Languages.
She wah refreshing her somewhat scat
tered knowledge Of conversational
Spanish, gained years ago when she
played profitable season at trance,
test and development work in Ell Paso,
San Antonio, and other points near the
border. She spent half-hour In con.
yersation with Professor Martinez, did
a few necessary errands, and reached
her house at FIVE o'clock. Betsy-Bar-
bara was just coming in.
CHAPTER XII.
The Perez Family.
In q remote corner of Central Park,
Rosalie was holding conference with
Brimaldi, her specially-assigned detec'
tive in the Hanska case. He was a
small Italian of the blond northern
type. q throwback to some remote
Gothic ancestor. He showed his race,
however, in contour, in manner, and
in certain personal peculiarities, as the
care with which he waxed his mus
tache, the loud color In his shirt and
cravat, the neatness Of his small
pointed shoes. Schoolmaster that he
had been, linguist that he was, nc
spoke English In academic form but
with trimmings Of police slang. i
~ think said Grimaldi, that the
real name Is Perez" at
"Hcw did you get that?"
TT took little time. First
frisked his room. / went In as tine
gas inspector"
(which was takin' risks" admon
ished Rosalie.
mot the way did it." The real
inspector Is my friend; had his per
mission to impersonate him.
"Pretty good!" commented Resale
can you found nothing about
I'm after?''
mo. That was the suspicious thine
~ mean, the absence OF any sign o.
looked curious to me. ]
didn't have much time, so l went
straight to the favorable places. This
Estrilla or Perez had only four or five
books. There was no writing in them
but the fiy-leaf was torn out OF al
the old ones. I examined his clothes
They look English to me-certainly
they aren't the work of an American
tailor nor yet Spanish. Perhaps
YOU don't know that tailor generally
sews somewhere behind q pocket q
little tag giving the date, his own
name and the name Of the customer
Don't II" inquired Resale. A
hundred times she had used that
popularity Of tailors as part OF he1
"mediumship."
"Well," said Grimaldi. they are
gone!"
Resale looked her surprise.
Gone, every one Of them, ripped
right out" said Grimaldi. You
could see where the threads had
been. The same with the hats. But
II found one thing which didn't amount
to much, except that 1t was an open
ing. He has camera. don't know
why examined that, unless it was 9
bunch. It was foreign-made -Ameri
can boxes are manufactured by
trust, and they all look alike. Dowr
by the range-scale l found nicke
plate such as agents always put CT
cameras. It reads: j. Lichensteir
Cameras and Camera Supplies, Port u
Spain, Trinidad.
where's that?"
Trinidad is an island of the coas
OF South Americana Venezuela
Port OF Spain is the main town. III
British possession, but there arr
many French and Spanish residents
II had taken the precaution, when
started out, to have the police photo
grapher get a snapshot of this Estrilla
| I took the picture to- well, never
mind who he is. He's lived all ove1
South America. He knows every
Spanish colony in town. He helps tn
police as stoolpigeon, which is VIII!
| I'm not telling his name And n
gave me what may be an identified
ton, He's almost sure that Estrtl.:
is q spaniard from Port of SPAR
named Juan Perez. The Perez fam
lily were cacao growers In Trinidad
I; The head OF the family was namet
Miguel Perez-I suppose, though, yo'
aren't interested in the family.