Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-06-07

met In way which would nave made
It awkward without speech
you play strong cue" ! remark
ed.
He smiled In purely mechanical
way. And you. senor?" He paused.
"Wpuld you give me the pleasnre?"
Small pleasure. fear" return
ed. my fate would be similar to Day.
toms and Miss wingarde's." How
ever, I arose and picked up the Eng.
lishman's cue.
Laredo's face became interroga-
tory In expression. "You know
them?' he questioned quickly.
shook my head and picked up a
cube OF chalk. "Only from hearing
you mention their names"
Delightful people," He racked
up the balls. "Mees Wingarde is the
daughter of Professor Matthias Win
garde, an English archeologist. The
Hon. Spencer Dayton is the secon'
son of British title. Your break.
senior"
"Glace" ! bent and drove into
the massed balls, getting one on the
rebound.
Pleasure" said Laredo. Myself
Senior Rodriguez Laredo. of Mexico.
senior. Atlas ! got my second ball
-"be generous. senior"
81 think I'd better take what can
at the start. after watching you play"
/ retorted, and dropped the two ball
into corner.
His teeth flashed.
Take fortune by the iorelock?
IT'S motta of mine also. Senior
Glace. No time like the present. Pre-
cisely, the three is yours. But you
will not be SO fortunate with the
four"
l wasn't. Laredo lifted his cue.
l watched him. Save for faint
accent at times, he spoke perfect Eng
lish, and he had a splendid poise. Be-
You'd doubt, he was man OF the
world. / wondered as to his mission
in life.
And, no doubt, If you had fol-
lowed the course of my somewhat er-
ratio honeymoon, which succeeded my
marriag, to Connie Baird, would won
der how Dual and myself and my
wife CHANGED to be at the Grand
Canon Hotel.
1t came about in q very natural way.
yet, perhaps. had better explain
briefly, none the less, for some may
not know my friend Semi Dual, that
strange latter-day metaphysician OF
whom have written from time to
time.
I first met him when a reporter on
the Record, long before myself took
to detection as profession. In fact.
II was Duaps association which put
me into the latter game.
In my earlier accounts OF our
friendship have told of his wonder
full exploits In bringing wrongdoers
to justice and freeing the innocent
from suspicion, and have described
his use of the higher universal laws.
the so-called occult powers, in bring
ing this about.
The man was an ardent student of
astrology, telepathy. chirography, psy-
chometry. and the higher psychology
OF life on a purely scientific plane.
think he knew more Of such sub
jects than any man / have ever met.
1t was his canny ability to unveil the
truth from a mass of misleading SEEM
ing which first made them dub him
the occult detector" in the city where
we both lived.
Wherever he went he seemed al
ways to be drawn into tangles Of hui
man affairs, which his wonderfully
sympathetic nature made him seek TO
unravel. He was the most altruis-
tically sympathetic soul / have ever
known.
And 1t was this readiness to help
which had left Connie waiting at the
Goldfield home Of Colonel MACEDONIA
hue Sheldon, while Sheldon and Semi
and went on to San Francisco to
save the life and welfare of two
women before we were done.
Our original destination. when we
became Duals guests for a honey
moon trip Immediately after our we'd
ding, had been the home of his mining
partner, John Curzon, in Goldfield,
and 1t was here we returned after the
San Francisco matter was ended.
Dual spent several days looking over
the properties he and Curzon owned,
and then quite without warning, sug-
gested a stop at the Grand Canon on
our way back home.
We were sitting on the veranda Of
Curzon's home when he brought up
the matter.
"Mrs. Glace," he said to Connie.
with faint smile on his firm lips and
lighting his gray eyes: "this has been
a sadly irregular honeymoon for lit
tie new bride. fear. As your host,
should like to atone In a measure for
taking Gordon away from you. as cir
cumstances compelled me to do. How
would you like to return by way of
the Canon of the Colorado? II is one
OF the Great Builders masterpieces.
you know"
Conufo,s svo. haOau to sbina In an