The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-01-01
THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY-PART 13


suspect that a new trap was being
set by the snarers. The maid re-
turned to the sewing room, while
Florence coddled her companion and
made much OF her.
Jones was suspicious, but dig in
his mind as he would he could lind
no earthly reason for this suspicion
save that this attribute was now in
stinctiye, that it was always near the
top. If Susan was i'll she must be
given good care; there was no getting
around this fact. Later, he t~elephoned
several prominent physicians. The
strange doctor was recommended as
a good ordinary practitioner and in
good standing; and so Jones dismissed
his suspicious as having no hook to
hang them on.
His hair would have tingled at the
roots, however, had he known that
this same physician was n Of the
two who had signed the document
which had accredited Florence with
insanity and had all but succeeded
in making a superstition a fact. Nor
was Jones aware Of the fact that the
telephone wire had been tapped re-
Gently. So when he finally concluded
to permit Florence to accompany Su-
san to Atlantic City he telephoned to
the detective agency to send up a
trusty man, who was Swallowed from
the moment he entered the HargreaYe
home till he started for the railway
station. He became lost in the shut
tle and was not heard from till weeks
later, il Havana. The Black Hundred
found a good profit in the shanghai
ing business.
Susan began to pick up, as they say,
the day after the arrival at Atlantic
City, due, doubtless, to the cessation
Of the poison she had been taking
unawares. The two young women be-
gan to enjoy life for the first time
since they had left Miss Farlow's.
They were up with the sun every day
and went to bed tired but happy. No
n bothered them. If some stray re.
porter encountered their signatures on
the hotel register, he saw nothing to
excite his Teportorial senses. All this.
Of course, was due to Norton's policy
of keeping the affair out of the pa
pers.
Following Jones orders, they made
friends with none. Those about the
hOtel-especially the young men
when they made any advances were
politely %snubbed. Every night Flor
ence would write to her good butler
to report what had taken place dur.
ing the day, and he was left to judge
for himself if there was anything to
arouse his suspicious. He, of course
believed the two were coyertly guard
ed by the detective he had sent after
them.
When Braine called up Olga be
found his doctor there.
well. what's the news?' he asked
81 had better run down and inquire
how the young lady is progressing,
said the doctor, who vas really a irs.
rate surgeon and who had performed
a number of skilled operations upoI
various members OF the Black Hun
bred anent their encounters with thu
police. I've got Miss Florence wher,
you want her. It's up to you now
"She ought to be separated from he-
companion. We have left them alon,
for a whole week, so Jones will no.
worry particularly. A mighty curious
thing has turned up. Before Har
greave's disappearance not a dozer
persons could recollect what JoneI
looked like. He was rarely ever il
sight. What do you suppose tina.
signihes?"
Don't ask me-, shrugged the MAJ
of medicine. II shouldn't worry owe.
Jones'"
But we can't stir the old fool
We can't get him out of that house
I've tried to get that maid to put
little something in his coffee, but sh,
stands of at that. She says that shl
did as she agreed in regard TO Fior
ence, but her agreement ended there