Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-09-02

Surmlse0. yet IL seems tHdt LcienSouiA
was in the habit OF going up to that
spot and lettering there In the eve
ming in order to meet Chatter In secret,
as the latter was in hiding in a small
hotel in Dumfries. Therefore those
who formed the plot must have en-
deavored to throw suspicion upon
Leithcourt. 1t is plain, however, as
both myself and Armida knew the
gang, it was to their interest to get
rid of us, because the suspicious of
the police had at last become aroused.
Poor Armida was therefore delib-
erately enticed there to her death.
while the inquisitive man whom the
assassin took to be myself was also
struck down."
by whom?"
Not by Chatter. for he was in Lon
don on that night"
"Then by Woodroffe?" Durnford
said.
without a doubt. 1t was all most
~cleverly thought out. 1t was to his
advantage alone to close our lips,
because in that same fatal chair in
Lambeth old Jacob Moser, the Jew
bullion broker of Hatton Garden, met
his death-a most dastardly crime,
with which none of his friends were
associated, and of which we alone
held knowledge. He therefore wrote
to us as though from L%eithcourt,
calling us up to Rannoch, in order
to strike the blows in the darkness,
he added in his peculiar Italian nan
ner. Besides, he feared we would
tell the signore the truth"
"You have not told the police?"
81 dare not, signore. Surely the less
the police know about this matter the
better, otherwise the Signorina Leith-
court must suffer for her fathers
avarice and e~vil-doing,"
Yes" cried Jack anxiously. That's
right, OIinto. The police must know
nothing. The reprisals we must
make ourselves. But who was it who
shot me in Suffolk street,"
1.-The same man, Martin Woodroffe."
Then the assassin is back from
Russia?"
He followed closely behind the
Signor Commentators, Markoff, a
clever secret agent of Baron Oberg's,
came with him."
Then for the first time | recollected
that the man / had recognized in the
Strand was a fellow l had seen loung.
ing in the anteroom of the palace OF
the encouragement of Finland. The
pair. fearing that | should reveal what
l knew, we're undoubtedly in London
to take my life in secret, Now that
Leithcourt was dead, Woodroffe had
united forces with Oberg, and intend
ed to silence me because they feared
that Elma, besides escaping them, had
also revealed her secret.
Il trust that the Signorina Leith
/ court has explained the story of the
yacht and it's crew." Olinto remarked
! "And has also shown you how l was
implicated. You will therefore discern
the reason why ] have hitherto feared
to give you any explanation"
5 Yes / said, Miss Leithcourt ha'
told me a great deal, but not every
thing, I cannot yet gather for wha
reason she and her father fed from
: Rannoch."
Then | will tell you" said Murie
Z quickly. my father suspected Wood
roffe of being the assassin in Ran
!, noch wood, for he knew that he hat
r broken away from the original com
pact. and had now allied himself will
e Oberg. Yet it was also my father.
e object to appear in fear of them, be
cause he was only awaiting an oppoI
tunity to lay plans for poor Elma'
8 rescue from Finland. Therefore on
Il evening Woodroffe called, and my ia
Their encountered him in the avenue
V and admitted him with his own Latch
n key by one of the side doors of tn
castle, afterwards taking him up t
s. the study. He knew that he had CON
to try and make terms for Obert
" therefore he saw that he must fly a
once to Newcastle. where the Iri
was lying, get on board, and sa
o away.
i" with some excuse he left him |
the study, and then warned my mothe
% and myself to prepare to leave. Bl
al while we were packing, 1t appeare
that Chatter, who had followed, wa
;, shown into the study by the butle
~ or rather he entered there himself, b
~ ing well acquainted with the hous
- Thus the two men, now bitter en-
=, mics met. A fierce quarrel must hay
ensued, and Chatter was poisoned an
:, concealed, Woodroffe, Of course, b
lieving he had killed him. My fath'
=, entered the study again, and seeir
"a only Woodroffe there, did not kno
what had occurred. Some words pro
10 ably arose, when my father aga
80 turned and left. Then we fled
~ Carlisle and on to Newcastle, al
- next morning were on board the vac,
out in the. North sea, afterwards Ian
ing at Rotterdam. Those" she adde
- "are briefly the facts, as my poor I
- Their related them to me-"
And what of poor Elma-and
OF her secret? When, wonder. shall
n. see herr" | cried in despair.
TX "You will see her now, signore," a
de swered Olinto. "a servant of 4