Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-29
CapvrtOht. 1919, bp Alfred A. Kropf, Ino.
COPYRIGHT, 1919, bv Public Ledger co.
The Explanation

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sc A RE they dead?' Captain Wallace
Aasked.
''This ones alive" answered Wilks,
rho was on his knees STOPPING over the
two motionless forms. He put his hand
over Bert Wentworth's heart and felt
it beating still, and then he turned to
the other. ''This one is dead, I think"
he said. "Is it a MANI"
The question was not surprising, for
the dark skin, the bestial features, the
unnatural length Of limb compared with
the small, squat trunk, and the extreme
hairiness of the whole body made up a
total that in the uncertain and varying
light of the lanterns seemed indeed more
animal than human, and to suggest that
If the creature were really man then
he belonged to some new type or per-
haps was rather reversion to the fore
runners of the human race Of thou
sand generations back.
"Beg pardon, sir" said one of the
police, coming up, there's this, sir"
"This" was a great flashing necklace
Of shining diamonds that dangled from
the mans outstretched hand, and Keith
cried excitedly:
"The jewels. the lost jewels. You
have found them at last?'
They're all about said the man
"they came down with them from the
roof: they're mixed up everywhere with
the bricks and the states"
'"Then that's what they were doing
up there" cried Keith; "the Jeweir!
must have been hidden on the rool
when it was taken from where l. pu'
II in the rainwater tank. Bert Went
worth realized that his game was lost
and so he came here tonight to ge
the iewelry. He must have climbed
ont through the skylight on to the root
and there he met this creature Oh hi
come with the same idea anu 'he!
started fighting go. ,oo,
as though that were it. Carry then
into the house. 1 hope the docto
won't be long
Tn very few minutes the doctor ap
,oorod Rert Wentworth he pronounc
cd alive indeed, but not likely to sur
,,;va many hours. His companloh' III
,,n,,nown creature of the WOODS wa
uina.dv dead when the doctor looked
H., and indeed the injuries he hao re
na;rod we're so terrible it was won
Sor he had not been killed on the spo'
"What is he? Where does .sg ne iv Iar
from ~ the doctor, asked: u"
novcr seen any one like MN he
moro like one of the anthropoi1 Iva aps aps
than an ordinary human beng "ne'
does he como from 49,, orswere
uoe1 .sErom tree top last, ahswele
c,,toin Wallace, "and that Is "ooO
all we know >, .,;d tho doctor
-, Wy tbe abnormal development
.,'o ,oon areat toe and indeed OF all u
,r,,so1es of the foot. lie must n"'
,oas ob,a TO climb like cat.
oeeI ..tIa could :" agreed Keith. 1--WE sa
liz n m the side of this house JUL
bv the aid of a gutter pipe alilioss sra
. though he were walking on the lev, itir
He must have been in the hapit vi uo,i IL
| thot and of getting admittance by u
sLri;eht Who could have guessed Ip'
5 ''Tan all the doors and windows WEI
e,stoned so securely some one WI
1 aa;nnbing I'M the side of the house al
E onor the roof and in and out by u
e skylirht Just as he liked
| frbe doctor went next to see Eslh
D and renorted that she had passed IN
e = sound sleep from which, he sald' 81
> uos on no account to be awakened.
4 ,nan,oJ to be very we'll satisfied wi
0 ho,. condition and appeared to have son
0 hone that this new shock she hau su
= fered might have the effect OF restorl'
i, her lost memory.
: Keith. who was utterly exhauste
e GOT the doctor to attend to some OF e
!. Numerous cuts and scratches he had el
O dured. aud then 'ay down on cou
Il in the drawing room and dropped aisle
q aIp,ost at once. When he awoke
was late the next day. and CAPITA
o wallace and Inspector Wilks were sea
= ed together by the window, smoki
contentedly, with the air of men W
.s had satisfactorily completed good J
of work.
= "Ah, you are awake, Mr.. Norton
:, said Captain Wallace, seeing him loo
. ing at them. "How do you feel?'
'e ia bit stiff" answered Keith. /" Ha
:; I been asleep long? What time is
- How is Miss Esme|'
n ''The doctor thinks she is getting
very we'll indeed" answered the ca
: tain with a slight smile. "Her mel
ory has come back; the doctor said
10 boped it would. He says she must
;r kept very quiet for the present, but
10 let me have a little chat with her Il
i, morning, and l had talk with Nj
'A Wentworth, too. Bert Wentworth W
not live many hours, but he has ma
70 a full confession, and l think l IN
say that everything is quite clear no
1t seems Bert Wentworth has been
the bottom of the whole thing
"I was sure of that" said Keit
!. "and that creature of his, that W
man or whatever he was?"
er Bert Wentworth brought him W
ce him from South Africa" answered
I captain. ''It is a curious story, bu
see no reason to doubt it. Wentwo
rs saws his name was Joe-he had no otl