The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-07-08

peCtcu tHdL IL was tue FeaIZaLIOn or
the Records triumph which had caused
the descent Of the phalanx Of report
ers upon the vantine place.
/ went ever the whole affair With
Mr.. Royce as soon as he reached the
office and spent the 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 as to various
details. And then. toward the middle
of the afternoon. came the cablegram
from Paris which had almost for.
gotten to expect:
Royce & Lester. New York:
Regret mistake In shipment exceedingly
Our representative will call TO explain.
ARMAND & SON.
So there was an end of the romance
Godfrey had woven and which | had
been almost ready to believe-the TO
nance Of design, Of carefully laid
plot and oil that 1t had been merely
accident after all.
! put the whole thing impatiently
away from me and turned to other
work. but found could not conquer
certain deep seated nervousness, so at
last locked my desk, told the boy
would not be back and took a cab for
long drive through the park. was
able to greet Godfrey with a smile
when he called for me at o'clock.
"Tve engaged table at a little
place around the corner" he said. 'It
is managed by friend of mine, and
think you'll like it."
did. Indeed, the dinner was SO
good that it demanded undivided at
tention.
Anything newT asked as we
pushed back our chairs.
"No, nothing of any Importance. The
man at the morgue has not been iden.
titled In the first place, the Paris po-
lice have never taken his Bertillon
measurements. He has never been ar.
rested. More peculiar Is the fact that
be hasn't been recognized here. The
police have no report of any such man
missing"
''That is peculiar. isn't it% l COM
mented
Its very peculiar II means one of
two things--either the fellows friends
are keeping dark purposely or he didn't
have any friends. here In New York
at least"
Perhaps he had just reached New
York and went direct to Vantine's."
Godfrey's face lighted up.
From the steamer, of courseI l
ought to have guessed as much from
the cut of his hair. He hasn't been
out of France more than ten days or
so. Excuse me moment"
He hurried away. and five minutes
passed before be came back.
II phoned the office to send some
men around to the boats which came
In yesterday. Ii he was a passenger
some one Of the stewards will recog-
nize his photograph. There were three
boats he might have come on-the Ad-
riatic and Cecilie from Cherbourg and
La Touraine from Havre. There is
nothing else that | know Of" he added
thoughtfully, except that Freyling.
huisen thinks he has discovered the
nature of the poison. He says it is
some very powerful variant Of prussic
acid"
YES" said II beard him say
something of the sort last night"
"Freylinghuisen says that whoever
concocted this particular poison has
evidently discovered new way of do.
Ing it--or rediscovered an old way. In
other words, If you can get a fraction
of drop Of 1t in a mans blood you
kill him by paralysis quicker than If
you put a bullet through his heart"
Nothing can save a man. then?"
questioned.
Nothing on earth. Freylinghuisen
thinks II is a new discovery. | don't.
| think some one has dug up one of
the old Medicl formulas. Maybe II
was placed in the secret drawer, so
that there would never be any lack of
ammunition for the mechanism"
Godfrey" | said, "are you still bent
on fooling with that thlng"
More than ever. I'm going to find
that secret drawer and il the fangs
strike-wen, I'm ready for them. See
here what | had made today"
He drew from his pocket something
that looked like a steel gauntlet such
as one sees on suits of old armor. He
slipped it over his right hand.