The Yale expositor., 1913-07-24
CHAPTER Xll.-continued.

CHAPTER Ell.-Continued.
Only the Dunn of today seemed to
nave all his wits about him, while the
huge fellow who brushed so rudely by
me on that occasion had the peculiar
look of a man struggling with horror
or some other grave agitation. This
was not surprising, of course, under
the circumstances. | had met more
than one man and woman in those
halls who had worn the same look;
but none of them had put up a sign
on his door that he had left for New
York and would not be back till $50.
and then changed his mind so sudden
~ that he was back in the tenement
at three. sharing the curiosity and the
rerrors of its Mortified inmates.
But the discovery, while possibly
suggestive, was not of so pressing a
mature as to demand instant action;
and more immediate duties coming
IN. I let the matter slip from my
mind, to be brought up again the next
day, you may we'll believe, when all
the circumstances of the death at the
Clermont came to light and / found
myself confronted by a problem very
nearly the counterpart of the one then
occupying me.
But | did not see any real connec-
ton between the two cases, until, in
my hunt for Mr.. Brotherson, l came
upon the following facts; that he was
not always the gentleman he ap-
peared: that the apartment In which
he was supposed TO live was not his
own but a friends named Conway;
and that he was only there by spells
When he was there, he dressed like a
prince and 1t was while so clothed ne
ate his meals in the cafe Of TIE Hotel
Clermont.
OF Protherson himself ! saw moth
ing. He had come to Mr.. Conway's
apartment the night before-the night
Of Miss Challoner's death, you under
stand-but had remained only Ions
enough TO change his clothes. Where
he went afterwards Is unknown to Mr.
Conway, nor can he tell us when h
look for his return. When he does
show up, my message will be giver
him, etc, etc. have no fault to fine
with MT. Conway.
You have heard how Br0thersor
core Himself at the coroner's Office
what his explanations were and how
completely they fitted in with the pre-
conceived notions OF the inspector ant
he district attorney. In consequence
Miss Challoner's death is looked upor
as a suicide. A weapon was in hel
aand-she impulsively used it, and an
pther deplorable suicide was added Il
the melancholy list. Had l put In my
oar at the conference held In the coro
ner's office; had / recalled to Doctor
Heath the curious case of Mrs. SPOTS
and then identified Brotherson as thu
nan whose window fronted hers from
the opposite tenement, diversion
might have been created and the out
come been different. But feared thu
experiment I'm not sufficiently II
with the chief as yet, nor yet Will
the inspector. They might not hav,
called me fool-you may; but that
fifferent-and they might have lis
tened, but 1t would doubtless hav,
been with an air could not have hell
up against, with that fellows eye
fixed mockingly on mine. For he an,
I are pitted for a struggle, and I d.
not want to give him the advantag
OF even a momentary triumph. He
the most complete master Of himsel
OF any man / ever met, and II will
take the united brain and resolution
OF the whole force to bring him t
book--if he ever is brought to book
which I doubt. What do you thin
about it?"
THAT you have given me an ant
dote against old age" was the ringin
and unexpected reply, as the thought
full. half-puzzled aspect of the old ma
yielded impulsively to a burst OF hi
early enthusiasm. "If we can get
good grip on the thread you speak o
and can work ourselves along by 4
though II be by no more than inc
at time, we shall yet make our wa
through this labyrinth of undoubte
crime and earn for ourselves tr
ymph which will make some Of thes
raw and inexperienced young fellow