The Huttig news., 1913-01-11
SYNOPSIS.

'llN Hft d FGHaIkADle man come out . the Clermont hotel, look around furtively Nash his hands in the snow and pass on
 ohifhoton attracts them to the Clermont where t is found that the beautiful Mis taith Challoner has fallen dead on th mezZanine noer
 CHAPTER TT-Anderson describes u .Ilti Td3h i:e saw wash his hands in the snow dt ddMt hoteL manager declares him to ofl2n-2 ErotherSon.
 CHAPTTR 1II=Thysicians find tha MSS Ehalloner Nas stabbed and not sho z,a'ch seems 10 clear Brotherson of sus
 CHATTER IV-Grvce an aged d~te. tive and Swt W4ter. his assistant. la up the case ls4ey believe Miss Cha'lone stabbed hcrself
 .s.1t. G,t..1T- -. "A paper cutter founs hear he the scene of tragedy is believed te ne the weapon used
 CHAPTER VI MT Challoner tells If 2 batch of letters found in his daughter aGSk. .% signed with initials strange to him l All are love letters except one whiei sh""s that the writer was dispiease1
 CHAPTER VII-This letter was signed l pN Orlando Brotherson. Tine others bore l iia}s which lead to the conclusion that ifrotherson wrote all of them.
 CHAP1 FIR VIH-Anderson goes with l SWectwater to identify BPothorson, who 1 lS 10 a2Gress a meeting of anarchists The place Is raiaed by the police and
 f1tHersan escapes without being idenH 1 4"d
 Now I feel easier" remarked the giant. swelling out his chest. He was unusually tall as we'll as unusually muscular. T never like to carry arms; put sometimes it is unavoidable Damn It, what hands!" He was looking at his own, which certainly showed soil Will you pardon me-" he pleasantly apologized. stepping towards a wash stand and plunging his hands into the basin. T cannot think with drt on me like that. Humph, hey, did you speak?"
 He turned quickly on George who had certainly uttered an ejaculation, put receiving no reply, went on with his task, completing it with a care and disregard of their presence which showed him up in still another light.
 But even his hardihood showed shock, when. upon turning round with a brisk, Now I'm ready to talk" he encountered again the clear eye of Sweetwater. For, in the person of this none too welcome intruder, he saw very different man from the one upon whim he had just turned his back with so little ceremony; and l there appeared to be no good reason ! for the change. He had not noted in his preoccnpation, how George, at sight of his stooping figure, had made sudden significant movement. and 1 if he had, the pulling of a necktie straight. would have meant nothing to him. But to Sweetwater it meant everything, and 1t was in the tone of one fully at ease with himself that he now dryly remarked:
 MT. Brotherson. if you feel onite clean, and if you have sufficiently warmed yourself, I would suggest hat we start out at once, unless you prefer to have me share this room with you Till the morning."
 There was silence Mir. Dunn thus addressed attempted no answer, not for full minute. The two men wore measuring each other-George felt that he did not count at all-and they were quite too much occupied with this task to heed the passage of time.
 "Brotherson?" repeated their host. after the silence had lasted to the breaking-point. "Why do you call me that?"
 Because it is your name."
 You called me Dunn a minute ago"
 That Is true"
 Why Dunn if Brotherson Is my name?"
 Because you spoke under the name of Dunn at the meeting tonight, and If l don't mistake, that is the name by which you are known here"
 And you? By what name are you known?"
 'It is late to ask, isn't 1t? But I'm willing to speak 1t now, and I might not have been so little earlier in our conversation. l am Detective Sweet water of the New York Department I of Police, and my errand here is very simple one. Some letters signed by you have been found among the papers of the lady whose mysterious death at the hotel Clermont is just now occupying the attention of the New York authorities. If you have any information to give which will in any way explain that death your presence will be welcome at Coroner Heath's office in New York. If you have not, your presence will still be welcome. At all events, I was told to bring you You will be on hand to accompany me in the morning, l am quite sure. pardoning the unconven- tional means l have taken to make sure of my man?"
 The humor with which this was said seemed to rob it Of anything like attack and Mir. Brotherson as we shall hereafter call him, smiled with an odd acceptance of the same, as he responded
 'I will go before the police cort9in- ly. l haven't much to teii, but what I have is at their service. It will not help you, but have no secrets. What are you doing?"
 He bounded towards Sweetweter who had simply stepped to the win-