Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-12
CHAPTER XII.
The Perez Family.


I'm a remote corner of Central PARK
Rosalie was holding a conference
= with Grimaldi, her specially-as-
signed detective in the Hanska case.
| He was a small italian of the piohu
| northern type, throwback to some
| remote Gothic ancestor. He showed
his race, however, in contour, in man
ner, and in certain personal peculiarl-
ties, as the care with which he Waxed
! his mustache, the loud color In MS
shirt and cravat, the neatness OF MS
small pointed shoes. Schoolmaster
that he had been, linguist that ne
was, he spoke English in academic
form, but with trimmings of police
slang.
II think" said Grlmaldi. that the
real name Is Perez"
How did you get that?"
1T took little time. First l frisked
his room. l went in as the gas IN
spector.''
(Which was tahn' risks" admon-
ished Resale.
mot the way did it. The real in
spector is my friend; had his per-
pretty good" commented Rosalle.
can you found nothing about-what
I'm after?"
mo. That was the suspicious thing
Il mean, the absence of any sign OF
identification 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 all
the old ones. examined his clothes.
They look English to me-certainly
they aren't the work of an American
tailor nor yet a Spanish. Perhaps you
don't know that tailor generally
sews somewhere behind a pocket a
little tag giving the date, his own
name and the name of the customer
Don't II" inquired Resale. A hun
dred times she had used that peculiar
ity of tailors as a part of her "fne-
diumship."
"well," said GrimaldL they are
gone!"
Rosalie 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 / found one
thing which didn't amount to much,
except that it was an opening. He
has a camera. / don't know why I
examined that, unless it was hunch
It was foreign made-American boxes
are manufactured by trust, and
al oil hxr
range scale l found a nickel plate
such as agents always put on came-
ras. 1t read: j. Lichenstein, Came
ras and Camera Supplies, Port of
Spain, Trinidad
where's that?"
Trinidad is an island off the coast
of South America-near Venezuela.
Port of Spain is the main town. It's
a British possession, but there are
many French and Spanish residents.
| had taken the precaution, when I
started out, to have the police pho
tographer get a snapshot of this Es-
trilla. 1 took the picture lowell.
never mind who he is. He's lived
all over South America. He knows
every Spanish colony in town. He
helps the police. as stool
pigeon, which is why I'm not
telling his name. And he gave
me what may be an identification.
He's almost sure that Estrilla is a
Spaniard from Port of Spain named
Juan Perez. The Perez family were
cacao growers in Trinidad. The head
of the family was named Miguel
Perez-I suppose, though, you aren't
interested in the family
That's just what I want to know"
miguel Perez was this mans
father-if the stool-pigeon rs right in
his identification. The. stool pigeon
was down there about three or four
years ago. At that time Miguel
Perez had just died, and this Juan
had inherited the business. 1t seemed
that he wasn't getting on well with
1t. At least, that was the gossip.
That's all-oh, yes, the stool-pigeon
remembered one other thing about
Miguel Perez He'd had an early ro-
nance with an English girl-navy
people. Miguel Perez married her.
and she didn't live very long. After
that he married again-a Spanish
girl from Caracas-and Juan Perez
was the son of that marriage. That
was about all he could remember"
Still. the camera marked Port of
Spain seems to fix it, somehow"
ut seems to. But, of course, you
can't be certain. He may be a rela-
tive and have family resemblance.
Your friend didn't know whether
old Miguel Perez had any children by
his first marriage-to the English
grip"
He didn't say, at least"
Rosalie CONCEALED to a pose with
the advent of an idea.
Tell me-" she asked, when a
'ather and a mother are of different