Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-01
CHAPTER XII.
Mr.. eryee Finds an Antidote for Old
AGE.

Mr.. Gryce Finds an Antidote for Old
AGE.
"Sweetwater, how came you to dis
cover that Mr.. Dunn OF this ram
shackle tenement IN Hicks street was
Identical with the elegantly equipped
Rdmirer of Miss Challoner?"
Just this way. The night before
Miss Challoner's death was brooding
very deeply over the s. Hicks street
case. It had SO possessed me that I
had taken This street in on my way
from Flatbush. walked, by the place
and / looked up at the windows. No
inspiration. Then l sau8tered back
and entered the house with the fool /
intention OF crossing the courtyard I
and wandering into the rear building .
where the crime had occurred. But !
my attention was diverted and my ,
mind changed by seeing a man COM
ing down the stairs before me. OF so
fine a figure that ! involuntarily I
stopped to look at him.
MY interest, you may believe, was 1
in no wise abated when l learned that
he was that highly respectable tenant
whose window had been open at the
NALAS "hOA AGAl AAAN AAHAdGSE VI AlC W.
buildings had rushed up to his door,
only to find a paper on II displaying
these words: Gone TO New York;
will be back at $50. Had he returned
at that hour? don't think anybody
had ever asked; and what reason had
for such interference now? But an
idea once planted in my brain sticks
aight, and kept thinking of this man
all the way to the bridge. Instructive
1y and quite against my viii, found
myself connecting him with some
previous remembrance in which
seemed to see his tall form and strong
features under the stress OF some
great excitement. But there my mem
DRY stopped, till suddenly as l was
entering the subway. II all came back
70 me. ! had met him the day went
with the boys to investigate the case
In Hicks street. He was coming down
the staircase of the rear tenement
then, very much as / had just seen
b him coming down the one IN front.
Only the Dunn OF today seemed TO
have 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
han one man and woman In those
halls who had wore 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 6: 80,
and then changed his mind SO sudden
ly that he was back in the tenement
at three. sharing the curiosity and the
terrors OF its Mortified inmates.
But the discovery, while possibly
suggestive, was not OF so pressing q
nature as to demand instant action;
and more immediate duties coming
up. 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 problem very
nearly the counterpart OF the one then
occupying me.
"But l did not see any real connec.
ton between the two cases, until. in
my hunt for Mr.. Brotherson, came
upon the following facts; that he was
not always the gentleman he ap
peRred; that the apartment in which
be was supposed TO live was not his
own but a friends named Conway
and that he was only there by spells
. WhS, he was there. he dressed like q
. and it was while so clothed he
ais meals in the cafe of the Hote
ermout
J'"Of BrOtberson himself saw moth
ing. He had come TO Mr.. Conway's
4 apartment the night before-the nigh
OF Miss CEalloner's death. you under
Etlnd-but had remained only Ions
enough 70 change his clothes. Where
he went afterwards is unknown to Mr.
Conway, nor can he tell US when t
look for his return. When he doe!
show up, my message will be giveI
him. etc. etc. / have no fault TO fnt
with Mr.. Conway.
You have heard how Brothersol
bore himself at the coroners office
what his explanations were and how
completely they fitted in with the pre-
conceived notions Of the inspector an,
the district attorney. In consequence
Hiss Challoner's death Is looked upol
Es a suicide. A weapon was in he
tand-she impulsively used it. and an
other deplorable suicide was added Z
The melancholy list Had | put in m
par at the conference held in the corr
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