The Arizona copper camp., 1920-12-25

h9 possessed had become COM
Dletely dazed
e turned ar5und and noticed Miss
DonoVa1, me sight Of her standing
there bringing back reminder Of his
Guty.
"e was a sayin' SIS how likely yer
wanted 10 go to bed, miss"
Not now; I'll wait until Mr.. West
+ cots comes down. What is that paper
ia your hand? is that the letter Miss
La Rue laft?"
lie held it UP in surprise, gazing. at
it through bis glasses.
''}Vny. Lord bless met is, isn't it?
Must have took it out O. ther drawer
an' never thought OF the darned thing
agin"
ay L see itg"
"5ara; 'tain't o. no consequence ter
me: I reckon the woman sorter packed
n a hurry and this got lost. The
Chink found it under the bed
She took it in her hand, and
crossed the room, finding a seat be
meath one of the bracket-lamps but
with her face turned toward the hall.
It was just 8 single sheet Of folded
paper, not incl0sed in an envelope,
ana had been torn across, SO that the
two parts barely held together. She
felt taat here was the key which W&s
to unlock the secret OF this strange
( crime. Whoever the man upstairs
might prove to be-the real Caven-
4 dish. or some impostor-this paper she
held in her hands was destined to be
q link in the chain. She unf0lded it
slowly ana her eyes traced the written
words within. It was a hasty scrawl,
written on the cheap paper of some
K obscure hotel in Jersey City, extreme
! lg difficult to decipher, the hand Of
the man who wrote exhibiting plainly
+ Tire exctement under which he Ia
bored.
Et was a message Of warning; he
was leaving New York, and would sail
/ that evening for some place in South
4 America; where ne did not say. Love
/ only caused him to tell her what had
occurred A strange word puzzled
4 her. and before she could decipher it,
4 voices broke she silence, followed by
steps on the stairs. She glanced up
\ QUlcl1y; it WIS Westcott returning,
Il Accompanied by a tan, rather slender
man Win a closely trimmed beard.
Tae two crossed the room, and she
met them standing, the opened letter
ll in her hand
'GIiss Donovan, this is Frederick
Ca1enGisI- real Frederick Cav
endish. z have told him something Of
the trouble le mas been to us all"
The real Frederick Cavendfsh
sla.lad Gown into her eyes, while he
held her fingers tightly clasped i1 his
own. She believed in him, liked him
q dnst9atly
III trouble which I regret very
uteh he said uumbly. ''ATestcott
has 5IG De a littie, q very little, 91
8at has occurred since left New
York So iadly two months ago
E The first Z knew about IT, and
h my egy Qe the whole affair is as
pulling as ever"
Ear eyes wi3enod wonderingly.
Eou tannGt espi8iK9 Not ever
6no be dead maa was found Ipur
de Fl yonr apartment5g"
81 haven taa least idea"
a aas told me aIl he knows,
braze IN Eestcott. ''but it only ex
Sends to midnight when he left the
city He was In his apartments less
SIAN ten minutes agter his valet re
tired. He supposed he. left everything
in good order, with a note on the
writingtGble instucting Valois what
to 10 duMng his absence, and fnclos
ing q sum OF money. Afterward, or
the train he discovered that he had
nislaid The key to his safe, but this
+. 0ccasioned no worry, as he had talel
with him0 all the cash it held anG
4 the papers were. Of slight Importance
'Buf" she broke in impatiently,
where did he 60? How did he es
4 cape enCountering Beat0n and why
did he fail to answer your message? I?
The ewes of the two men met, anc
they both smiled
rle very questions I asked" re
Piled #estcott Instantly "In the in
stTucti3ns left Valois was a check fol
i've thousand dollars made to nay or.
der to be forwarded at once. Fred'e
dies nati0n was Sonora, Mexico
where he mad some large copper in
4 teres5s. He intended TO look after
these and return here to Haskell with
in week, or ten days But the war
ia afezico made this imDossi ibIe-once
across tAe border he couldn't get
j back. aa wrote me, but evidently the
letter miscarried"
"And Beaton missed him entirely.''
"By pure luck. Fred phoned the
New York Central for q lower to Chi
\ eago 0nd they were all gone. En-
right must have learned, in some way,
oe his calling that Office, and Sc in