The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-05-13

But tho politician had not the
Temperament, TO wait for the tele.
phone 10 talk 10 him: he talked re-
peRtedly into the telephone. set a
round dozen Of myrmldons by the
ears. and at last was rightly served
by being sent off To Hammcramith
TO identify the dead body OF de
faultins clerk. just recovered from
the Thames.
I'm not coming with you" Dollar
had said. even when the description
seemed 10 tally. "EdenborouEh
wouidn', drown hlmself-~and this is
my place"
II was being ten years older
who opened his own front door
again al daybreak. His face was as
gray as the wintry dawn, the whole
man bowed and broken. Topham
vinson stood aghast on tho step.
1t isn't all over. Ia ~"
Tho doctor nodded with com.
pressed lips
When and whersr"
i don't know Come in. They're
getting up downstairs: th0e1l be
some tea In a minute" -
For heavens sake tell me wha,
you've heard"
Haven't told YOU They rang
up Just after you went. lie bought
prussic acid yesterday"
Dollar had dropped into his elab-
crate old chair: the bent head be.
tween his hands dropped over its
own reflection in the monastic writ.
ingtnble
who rang upf- asked the man
on HIS legs
Some OF your people"
WAS that all they had TO tell
YOU"
THAT was all: We shan't have
long TO walt for the rest"
where did he buy it7''
AT his own ehcmist's-'to put a
poor old dog out OF its misery" His
very words. vluson, so they tell mel
| shall hear them all my life"
"And Il has taken all night 10
learn this. has Il, from the chem
lists where the poor devil dealt"
Dollar understood this outburst OF
truculent emotion.
THAT was my fault" said he. Il
told them TO confine their attention
TO entries made I'm the poison books
after o'clock yesterday afternoon
Edenborough had signed his name
and got the stuff earlier In the day. ="
Before you had told him any
thing?'
He had his own suspicious. you
must remember. | had confirmed
them-and her first words left no
moro 10 be said. that he could bear
to hear, II only he had waited
another minutel II only I had
dragged him back TO face Il OUT"
groaned Dollar. in bottomless pit
OF selfrcproach II call myself a
crime doctor. yet let my patient
creep into space with bottle OF
prussic acid. and commit the one
crime I had to prevent"
why prusslc acid. 1 wonder?"
The idle question was not asked
for Information, but IL happened to
be one that Dollar could answer.
and II brought him to his book
shelves with n certain alacrity.
Il know" he said. tho | never
thought Of 4 till this minutel |
was trying 10 write him a prescrip.
ton on Sunday night, when the
poor chap suddenly remarked that
Shelley was right, and | found
him dipping into these Letters. and
had the luck TO spot the very bit
he'd struck. II was thls"-and he
read ont the passage beginning
You, OF course. enter into So
ciety at Leghorn; should you meet
with any scientific person. capable
OF preparing the prussic acid, or
essential oil OF bitter almonds.
should regard 1t as a great kind
ness II you could procure mo
small quantity"--down 20 1T would
be comfort 10 me to hold In my
hands that golden key TO the cham.
Der OF perpetual peace"
Topham Wilson's only comment
was to pick up the book. which had
fallen To the floor with the con.
cluding words. Dollar was sway.
Ing whore he stood. glanclng IN
horror toward the door: Mt that
moment II opened, and Mrs. Bar.
ton entered with the tea tray.
Mrs. Barton" said the doctor.
In n voice that failed him as II had