Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-13
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in the Field? It's simply disgracefuli' l
 Certainly it is most extraordinary | story ] declared. "Leithcourt evi ! dently wished to escape from his wis | itor, and that's why he drugged him
 "Why he poisoned him, you mean | Cowan says the fellow is poisoned, but that hell probably recover He is al | ready conscious. l hear"
 ] resolved to call on the doctor who 1 happened to be well known Co me and | obtain further particulars. Therefore l at eleven o'clock ] drove into Dunn | fries and entered his consulting room !
 He was a spare short, fair man, trihe bald. and when ] was shown in he welcomed me warmly, speaking with his pronounced Galloway accent !
 Well, it is a very mysterious case, l Mr. Gregg he said, after l had told him the object of my visit The gentle man is still at the hospital, and l have to keep him very quiet. He was poi soned without a doubt and has had very narrow escape of his life. The police got wind of the affair and Mac kenzie called to question him But he refused to make any statement what ever apparently treating the affair very lightly. The police, however. are mysufed as to the reason of Alr. Leith court sudden flight. and are very anx ious to get at the bottom of the curious affair"
 Naturally. And more especially after the tragedy up in Rannoch wood a short tims ago. l said
 That's just it." said the doctor, re. moving his pince-nez and rubbing them Mackenzie seems to suspect. some connection between Leithcourt's sudden disappearance and that mys. terious affair. It seems very evident that the telegram was a warning to Leithcourt of the man Chater's inten. tion of calling, and that the last-named was shown in just at the moment when the fugitive was on the point of leaving"
 Knowing all that l did, I was not sur. prised. Leithcourt had undoubtedly taken him unawares, but knights Of in. dustry never betray each other.
 My next visit was to Mackenzie, for whom l had to wait nearly an hour as he was absent in another quarter of the town.
 An, Nr. Greggi" he cried gladly, as inc came in to find me seated in a chair patiently reading the newspaper You are the very person l wish to see. Have you. heard of this strange affair at | Bannoch?'
 "I have" was my answer. Has the man in the hospital made any state. meut yet?'
 None. He refuses point blank" an. l swered the detective But my own i idea is that the affair has a very close connection with the two mysteries of the wood"
 The first mystery-that of the man l proves to be a double mystery" said
 How? Explain it."
 Well. the waiter Olinto Santini is alive and well in London"
 What" he gasped starting up. l "Then he is not the person you identi. fled him to be-"
 No But he was masquerading as sanUnI-made up to resemDIe nm, mean even to the mole upon his face
 But you identified him pOsitively?'
 When a person is dead it is very easy to mistake countenances. Death alters the Countenance so very much 70
 That's true he said rehectiyely. But if the man we've buried is not the Italian, then the mystery is con siderably increased. Why was the real mans wife here?'
 And where has her body been con cealed? That's the question
 Again a mystery We have made a thorough search for four days, without discovering any trace of it. Quite con . iidentially I'm wondering if this man Chatter knows anything It is curious to say the least, that the Leithcourts | should have fled SO hurriedly on this mans appearance But have you ac tually seen Olinto Santini?" Yes, and have spoken with him"
 'I sent up to London asking that in
 Quiries should be made at the res D taurant in Bayswater, but up to the present l have received no report. | "I have chatted with Olinto. His ! wife has mysteriously disappeared | but he is in ignorance that she ii
 dead"
 2 There is widespread conspiracy l, here, depend upon it. Mir. Gregg. Il
 will be an interesting case when w'
 get to the bottom of 1t all. 1 only wisl \ this fellow Chatter would tell us tho D reason he called upon Leithcourt." ." g What does he say?" Merely that he has no wish t' [ prosecute, and that he has no state 2 ment to make"
 Cant you compel him to say some 'l thing?' l asked.
 c NO. l can't That's the inferna ( difficulty of it. If he don't choose t' gl speak then we must still remain il q ignorance although l feel conhden C that he knows something of th' ' strange affair up in the wood. l And although ] was silent, l shareI d the Scotch detectives belief. ? The afternoon was chill and wet a e l climbed the hin to Greenlaw. e The sudden disappearance of th