Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-04-27
CHAPTER TX.
The Ghost of a Name.

"Mr. Mallet's point is well taken"
he went on. "a man does not go to
a house, climb in a window, shoot
down another man, arrange to make
it appear that the man shot has at
tempted his own life, go to another
room and strangle another man with
out motive. And, because not even
the most trivial action is ever per-
formed except from cause, we shall
find motive back of this act"
"And you expect to give US the
fellows name and his motive" said
Bryce. "If you can do that, we'll do
the rest"
He grinned.
81 expect to give you the man." said
Semi Dual, provided you wish him
when we are through with our work" :"
He spoke quietly, even lightly, and
yet l felt myself tremble. For the
second time that day l felt the ter
rible double entendre which might
lurk in his words. Truly, he had not
spoken idly when he said that the
sword was going to fall.
He turned to the desk and took up
the will and opened its folds.
"This," said he, sis the last will and
testiment of Anthony Conrad, regular
ly signed and witnessed. l shall read
it to you"
at is my desire that my nephew
Gustav shall receive from my estate
the sum of five thousand dollars, and
that my beloved nephew George shall
have all of the balance of my proper
ty, personal and real, which shall re-
main after this former bequest of
five thousand dollars is paid. 1t is
my further desire that my nephew
shall retain in his employ all of my
former servants, and give to them
such sums as he may deem fitting
as rembrances from their old mas
ter. This is my last will and testa-
ment, given in my sane mind, and re-
vokes and takes the place of any
thing heretofore written or in any
way purporting to be my will"
He laid down the parchment and
took up the red notebook which l had
obtained from Porter.
"In this" he resumed, 1--WE have a
sample Of the writing of Gustav Con-
rad Ii is his personal memorandum
book. But The writing of the body
Of this will is different from the sig
nature of Anthony Conrad, or Of the
signatures Of the witnesses, who were
james Porter and Annie Porter, Con-
RAIDS valet and his wife And-the
writing in the will is identical with the
writing in the notebook. We already
know that Gustav Conrad acted as
the secretary of his uncle, and we
may safely accept the fact that Gus
tav's hand penned the main part of
this will"
"But wait minute, Dual" Bryce
cut in. "Porter said this morning
that Gus was the favorite of his un-
Gle, and that last evening they had q
run-in over Gus's girl, and the old
man threatened to cut Gus off if he
didn't shake the skirt. How in time
would that jar Gus if he already knew
he was only coming in for five thou of
the old boys money? Why, good
heavens! that was why we thought!
he'd sure croaked the old man.
81 am aware of that, inspector" OBJ
served Dual. However, l am speak
ing of facts, and you are dealing with
theories, as you will admit"
"But-" Bryce was still inclined
to protest.
81 will add that up to last night
Gustav also believe himself to be his
uncle's chief heir and that he spoke of
the quarrel to Miss Burton" Dual pro-
ceeded.
"And yet he wrote that will ?"
Bryce blundered on to finish.
$50 the evidence shows, inspector
Also, if you will recall, when you
went to get the will this morning,
you found the drawer of the desk in