Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-10-26

guish, grief, ran the gam.
those classic features. The, across
hardened to some desperate @n they
She arose. uecis!On.
You whom have heard of.
said slowly, coldly to MARI, y, she
tell you that have a millioU viii
out my purposes; that I bas;tcaF carry
no peril OF the faint of crimtna1;su at
mature my fixed, just plans ",''y to
sponsible for all that has baan "a
have directed, have maid - uOns
service exacted. You stem in lne
well. Then hearken! I abando very
torture and ruin for Howard S STOW
land, butt shall kill himio u'uer'
Marvel had penciled sometbiru
card while the woman spoke VI
rected me to go for the banl.- Vi
once. AS l returned with him 80, @
entered the room Isora Giglia VIC
to- her feet caught the cold pIit. ue
of an unsheathed stilleto. The ser rasS
hand of Marvel had disarmed bar ~.
she stood with clenched fists. her oD DS'
emanating fire as she viewed Hos
| Sutherland.
Look" she Kissed at him no,,,,
to the shrouded portrait. DARE wy.
stand there and look upon nv mo,bOS
the woman you lured from the sido =,
my heartbroken father and left to A..
in wretched Mexican howell"
Il do not understand" smoke ~.
banker in a dazed, bewildered way
But, as the woman raved on as oh.
told OF the man who, claiming to bs
banker from New Orleans, had aasbod
into the society of her home town u
Mexico, to borrow money from now
friends, to sell to innocent inyeslor,
securities in a fraudulent railroad
scheme, the light suddenly broke oy.
the mind of the banker.
A man had impersonated him H..
now recalled, using his name. Such
was the fact, man now In prison in
Texas serving long term sentence
his name Archibald Dover. slowly DIV.
ing. he had heard, of CONSUMPTION.
With the magic skill of az, exyert
unraveler of mysteries, Resilius Mar.
vel soon had woven fabric of clarity
and fact from the disordered threads
of the strange case he had brought to
a focus.
After her father had died, Isora Gig.
liza, left a large fortune, had started
| out with but one motive in life-a ven.
| ~
who had lured her mother to a sOr.
rowfuI death. Now that the truth
came out the instinct of justice
| caused her to reveal the intricate
workings of her plots. She had hired
| emissaries to assist her in her plans
TO ruin the Sutherlands financially.
Nina had been her ally-Nina who,
drugging Chespa, had donued his
clothes and had stolen the notes from
! the bank. Nina who, through forged
letters, had co-operated in estranging
Mrs. Sutherland and Miss Vernon
from father and son.
Recompense she was ready to make
willing, insistent Then-to fit to
the prison where the real object Of
her vengence was, and to gloat over
his sufferings while he lay dying inch
by inch!
1t was at the Sutherland home that
the case was gone over in detail that
/ evening. There were present the
banker, his son, Chespa, Marvel and
myself. l noted dusky horror gath
er over the face of the half-breed as IL
was revealed to him that he had been
made the unsuspecting victim OF the
perfidy of the woman he had trusted
Then the emotion aroused by the
high sense of honor and fidelity IN
stilled into him when child, gave
way to a dull, sullen expression. l
turned away as read a lurking some
thing could not really analyze il MS
frowning face.
Watch that man--call him back!
ordered Resilius Marvel as Chesps
left the room and we heard him scale
the upper staircase like deer hound.
We were too late. A door Jared
above us. Then a long, curdlng
shrek rang out. The door OF the ante
room to the apartment of the newly
welded pair was ajar the case @hefS
Chespa had kept his Indian relics was
open.
He had leaped from a window anu
disappeared after one word witns tns
woman who had deceived him-goihe
back, back to the old life where tTutn
and loyalty at least were held ID
honor.
In the center of the next room Ia!
writing form-a meet victim VI
savage justice. 1t was Nina ana ngf
hands we're clasped above her oieeu
ing head, and beside her lay-a sca4V
ing knife.