Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-12
THE PARADISE MYSTERY
g CHARTS THE STORY
BY J. S. Fletcher
Copyright. 1850. ov Alfred A. Knop,. 1uo.

asks Jo' igfsr Is found dead nt the
.sn",t NV, NJ saiW Wrythd,s stair. Warner,
.ov. .ovoy,,naSon, Gays he sdD the man
9 T'"1Th Ths theory Is that the mar
XII ,,SiiDped and tell; This ts oolocted TO, as
Vgrrer insisted thdt ne ndd sesn Q
mon nol,ed to the witneSs stand and
p,,ce' hearing his name, becomes t,t-
B,gScII,, attenfIre. But the duke kneW
,n,bino. Pdnstord has Mary purchase
so,"srs for the dead mans funeral.
SMost mysterious mMg' @ th,Si EoSi,,t poesor
eDo,Systering D,yting Bryce. the day after tho
eeoOunrsi ""Whdt, now. should make
Tpoctor RdnSJord cause Gorers TO be
hid on the grdve Of a total sfrnh1erF
@pm afraid I don't knoto tDhdt you're
,alIirG about, Mrs. Folltot." dnstocred
o' pr"ce %Hds Doctor Ransford been
i1yip1 foDerS on a 1rdref f--I didn't
rnow OF IT, Ny engagement totth Doc.
tor Pd,tsford Terminated too days ago
so FUe seen nothing OF him."
AND HERE 1T CONTINUES
uN6Y SON, Mr.. Sackville Bonham,'
M said Mrs. Folliot, tells me that
Yesterday Miss Bewery came into Gar
dsles' and spent sovereign-actually a
yoyerelgn!--on a wreath, which she told
sackyille she was about to carry, al
her guardians desire, to this strange
mans grave. Sackville, who is a warm.
hearted boy, was touched--he. too
bought flowers and accompanied Miss
Bewery. Most extraordinary a perfect
stranger Dear me-why, nobody knows
who the man was
Except his = bank-manager," re.
marked Bryce, who says he's holding
mn Of bic
That" admitted Mrs. Folliot grave.
~, rs certainly consideration. But
then, who knows ?-the money may have
been stolen. Now. really. did you ever
hear of quite respectable man who
hadn't even visiting card or a letter
where all the people that are wanted
run away to! I have actually beer
tempted to wonder. Doctor Bryce, II
Doctor Ransford knew this man--in
years gone by? He might have, you
know, he might have--.certainly! And
that Of course, would explain the
flowers"
There Is a great deal in the matter
that requires explanation, Mrs. Folliot.
said Bryce. He was wondering II II
would be wise to instill some minute
drop Of poison into the lady's mind
there to increase In potency and IN due
have been mIstaken--I certainly thought
Doctor Ransford seemed unusually agi-
tated by this affair--it appeared to up
set him greatly"
80 / have heard-from others who
we're at the inquest" responded Mrs
Folliot In my opinion our coroner-a
worthy man otherwise--is not sufficient
" particular. I said to Mr.. Folliot this
morning, on reading the newspaper.
mat in my view that inquest should
have been adjourned for further par
uculars. Now I know of one particu.
lar that was never mentioned at the In
"oh?" said Bryce. "And-what?
Mrs Deramore, who lives. as you
know, next to Doctor Ransford," replied
Mrs, Folliot, told me this morning that
on the morning Of the accident, happen
ing TO look out Of one Of her upper win.
dows. she saw a man who. from tnt
description given In the newspapers
was. Mrs. Deramore feels assured the
mysterious stranger, crossing the close
toward the Cathedral in, Mrs. Deramort
Is positive. a dead straight line from
Doctor Ransford's garden-as If he hae
BEEN there
,sould have been asked Of Doctor Rams
icrd--had he ever seen that man be-
tors7"
,'Ah, but you see, Mrs. Folliot. the
coroner didn't know what Mrs. Dera-
more saw, so he couldn't ask such
question. nor could any one else re-
marked Bryce. who was wondering how
long Mrs. Deramore remained at heI
upper window and II she saw him fo,-
low Braden. But there are circum-
stances, no doubt. which ought to be
inquired into. And it's certainly very
curious that Doctor Ransford should
send a wreath to the grave of-a
stranger"
He went away convinced that Mrs
Folliot's inquistiveness had been arous-
Idle: Mrs. Folliot, left to herself, had
the gift Of creating an atmosphere, and
II she once got 1t into her head tina,
there was some mysterious connection
between Doctor Ransford and the deao
man, she would never rest until she had
spread her suspicious. But as for Bryce
himself, he wanted more than suspicious
he wanted facts, particulars, data.
And once more he began to so over the
sum Of evidence which had accrued.
The question of the scrap of paper
found In Braden's purse, and of the
exact whereabouts of Richard Jenkins's
grave In Paradise, he left for the time
oehg What was now interesting him
eniefly was the advertisement in the
Times to which the bank manager from
london had drawn attention. He had
made haste to buy copy of the Times
ana 10 cut out the advertisement. There
y was-old friend Marco was wanted
py presumably old friend) Sticker and
,SnoeVer Sttcker might be he could GER
AMY be found under care of ]. Braden
n n mad never been In doubt a moment, IN
tsryces mind. that Sticker was ]. Braden
"in'sen; Who, now. was Marco? Who
a ,t million to one on it but Ransford,
"nGse Christian name was Mark,
=, ne reckoned UP his chances of getting
nt,h tne truth of the affair anew that
inaL iWnsu. AS things were, 1t seemed un-
woui, vMeN mat any relations OF Braden
poulI now turn up. The WINCHESTER
Paradise case, as the reporters had
ttbyNy named it, had figured largely in
II '' newspapers, London and provincial :;
,uuId scarcely have had more pub
araS Lye' no one, save this bank man.
been an nad come forward. II there had
msnoy any one 10 come forward the bank
pro~ass prser evidence would surely have
waS wo,eu an incentive TO speed-for there
Rrasa RRss sum OF 10000 awaiting John
ths cba next-of-kns In Bryce's opinion
ON GInance ~ of putting in q claim To- flo
-wboonot not ieft waiting forty-eight hours
mai saw such chance would
phone "'1,aht use OF telegraph or tele-
profess,rn nut no message from anybody
man had 0 itiatlonship with the dead
police, '"r reached the WINCHESTER
Account eprerythlng had been taken into
moment tppryce saw no better clue for the
CamnarrIt man that suggested by Ambros,
pany. h9ol,narthorpe. Ambrose Cam
shrewd dIJMworm Shayrm though he was, was a
Of ideas ''Srp erb Fellow. said Bryce-a man
his suggestiom ere was certainly much In
10 buH that a man wasn.r iil,eiv
signIsSS, an old book about a I,tt,a i'Nery ,n
had soma town like Barthorpe unless ] he
Campanw'O interest in it-Barthorpe II
ably thsy theory We're true, ws, mr. nrohi II
Thererorrina OF John Bradens origin
leading I" Inf information about Braden
Or connectiNn, iNn,oWiedee of his association
,SS1nd ,iSO1nd at Bar,SorroR Tt,n Ransford might be
they eoI'd pT'es had already reported s thnt nar
but that ii eeI5 nothing about any Broden r'
here nor IN u nbryce's opinion, was neitba. I.