The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-08

/ 8tGtNt-O lnIUt1KB S1OoIIGy y GCN-OAut
OF the afYair while ! ate my breakfast
and noted with amusement the sly
digs taken at Commissioner Grady.
| Under the photograph OF the unknown
| woman was the legend:
mfr Vantines Mysterious Caller
tCrady Please Notice.
! And Il was intimated that when
Grady wanted any real information
about an especially puzzlinR case he
| had TO go 70 the Record To get t.
This. however was merely by the
way. for the story of the donbie trag
edy. fully illustrated Was dung scross
many columns and was plainly c0nxid.
cred the great news feature 0f the
day
] glanced at two or three other pa.
pers on my way downtown All u
them featured the tragedy with riot
Of pictures. But when It came TO the
. story Of the tragedy itself their &C
counts were far Ie~s detailed and tnt1-
mate than that IN the Record. . aus
pec'ted that IL was the realization OF
! the Records triumph which had caused
the descent OF the phalanx Of report
ers upnn the vantine place.
! went over the whole affair with
Mr. Royce as sOon as he reached the
office and spent fhs rest OF the day
arranging the papers relating To Van
tines affairs and getting them ready
To probate Parks called me up once
or twice for instructions a. to various
details. And then. toward the middle
of the afternoon. came the c9hlPgram
fr0m Paris which | had almost for
guften 70 expect:
Royce q Letter New York:
Regret mistake In Shipment exceedingly.
Our representative Will call 10 explain
ARMAND n SON
So there was an end Of the romance
Godfrey had woven and which had
b~~n almost ready 10 beiieve--the 70
nance Of design. OF carefully laid
plot and all that It had been merely
accident after all
put the whole thing impatientiy
away from me and turned to other
work bot found . could not conquer
certain deep seated nervousness. % at
last Z locked my desk told the boy
would not be back and took q cab for
q tong drive through the park ] was
able TO greet Godfrey with a smile
when he called for me at 7 O'Clock.
= "I've engaged table ut q little
place aruund the corner" he said 'Tt
is ma naged ny q friend Of mine. and
think you'll like It."
did Indeed. the dinner was 20
Rnnd that it demanded undivided at
tention.
"Anythfng newT I asked az we
puahsd hack our chairs
''No. rothing Of any importance. The
man At the morGue has not been tden,
tilted In the nr><t place. the Paris 20
Hoe have never taken his Bertillon
measurements He has never been AZ
rested More peculiar IN the fact that
he hasn't heen retognized here. The
police have no report Of any such man
missing"
That On peculiar. isn't ftr- eou-
Msemted
LITE very peculiar. vt means one oR
two things either the fellows friends
are keeping daFk purposely or he didn't
have any trends. hers In New York
ut least"
"T'erhaps he had Just reached New
York and went dires't 20 vanttne'A"
GOdfrey's face lighted up. /
prom the steamer. Of cour<e2
ought to have guessed 40 much from
the cut OF bis hair He hasn't besn
out OF France more than ten days or
90. Excuse me a moment
He hurried away. and Owe minutes
passed before be came hack.
81 ph0ned the once to send ecens
men around % the bOatS which came
IN yesterday. II he was u passenger
some one Of the stewards will reccg-
nize his photograph. There were three
boats he might have come on-the Ad
riatic and Ce<.ilie from CherbOurg and
nothing else that ! know off, be added
except that Freyiing
hulsen thinks hs has discovered the
nature OF the poison He says &c ts
some very powerfu! variant Of peusstc
acid"
Yes" I said sY beard him say
something Of the sort last night
"FreylinGhuisen says that whoever
concerted this particular poison has
evidently discovered a new way Of do
ing tt-OY rediscovered an old way. In !
other words. II you can get a fraction |
Of drop Of II In O mans blood you
kill him by paralysis quicker than II |
you put a bullet through his heart"
Nothing can save q man. them ] /
questioned.
Nothing on earth Freyiingnuisen |
thinks it is new discovery. ] don't |
! think some one has dug up one Of |
the old Medici formulas Maybe Il !,
was placed In the secret drawer. % |
that there wouid never he any hack q |
ammunition for the mechanism"
Godfrey" I said. ARE you sttll bent |
on fOollng with that thingT
~More than ever. I'm going b fsnd !,
that secret drawer. and II the fangs ;
a$riks.- nall I'm rsadx RcR ehAa.rn Sea |