Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
c,,r.o,., 1889, d, gr;s ;s.sao Il Essss; EssssI 90

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"a /, bs said, throwing the news
I'm o.per aside, II y didn't. =, tslI sS%i s;so :
" par nv latest. You're q. @ @tan,.ht
~ you ~ ustick it into your paper, 'onis"'
~ 70 ,~st S AZ well be known.
imT. mTT 1' said Sparso, ,,. =, h,s
uW..sbury Ws, took his cigar OUT VI n''
By b, and a1n1dmogres gsTid identified" he said las'
a,,rso sat up, sharply.
,Idsnthisssdd y IIddssnhssd. my son. Beyond doubt. !,
psrgo,. ,.,rhed
i,He's an old lagIan enmvr' nartrnnor
IL his time partly at Daftmo0it. N2oit
Sayeu S. n course, is where he met & Msi.
a;s" .ss ar Marbury. Dye see! O'eai &c
~ un,tids now, Spargo: -, a.u IN
opsp before him. His eyes were
ne uv, az map Of London that nung on
lrn onnnsits On wall; his ears heard the
tne St;ps Cp;pf n the printing machines far
n!oopR Rut what he really saw was the
elow. tbs two iris; what he really
Eaces, =, c,.s ri tbs voices Of two girls
MTn,,r eaiI m ss noontide-as noontide, re-
.S s' Rathbury with great cheerful
rsss. s.,r,o came back to the earth OF
,l,ip and brutal fact. ,,,,, =,
1Wbat's clear as noontide ne
he'd sharply. a. .o,. .L,,r,
k,,tve--eyerything," answered Hath ,
vS'' u,1 Don't you see. Maitland ano
9u,, n,,yors Ills real name is Ainsworth'
,%b .Ss bye) meet at Dartmoor, probably
rstbsr. certainly, just before Ayl-
release. Aylmore goes abroad,
W. n.tss money. in time comes back. starts
m career. gets into Parliament, be-
Pew bS man. In time, Maitland,
W. w after his time, has also gone
u h.o,d also comes back. The two meet:
W.tlsnd probably tries to blackmail
i.Imors % or threatens to let folk know
". tSs Furnishing Mr.. Anymore, NJ. p,
nav an IN er.convict. Result---Aylmore
In,,s him to the Temple and quiets him.
pcob the whole things clear as noon
M. as say. As--noontide J"
q Snsrco drummed his fingers again.
How" he asked quietly: How
t,me Aylmore to be identified?"
INV work." said Rathbury proudly.
.NTv work, my son. You see, ]. thought
, IN And especially after we'd found
out that Marbury was Maitland"
"You mean after I'd found out" re-
marked spargo.
Rathbury waved his cigar.
"Well, we'll, it's all the same" he
|xsid. "You help me, and / help you,
M Well, as ! say, I thought a con
siderable lot. / thought-now, where
Eid Maitland, or Marbury, know or NEE,
Aylmore twenty or twenty-five years
aro! Not In London. because we knew
Maitland never was in London-at any
tss, before his trial, and we haven
he least proof that he was in Londor
atg. And why won't Anymore tell
Clearly because it must have been II
home undesirable place. And then, all o
sudden, 1t flashed on me in a momen
et-what do you writing fellows cal
hose moments, Spargo?" Nv. -v.-
Inspiration. should think" sait
Spargo. Direct inspiration.
That's it. In moment of direc
inplration, it flashed on newly
twenty years ago, Maitland was il
pitmoor-they must have met there
And 50 We got some old warders who,
ben there at that time to come to town
nd We gave 'em opportunities to Sc,
AJnore and to study him.
"Ot course, he's twenty years older
md he's grown a beard; but they be
in to recall him. and then one MAJ
ftnembered that II he was the man the,
hcusht he'd certain birthmark. An,
-he has!'
Does Aylmore know that he's beel
dentihedT asked Spargo.
Rsthbury pitched his cigar into tn
fireplace and laughed.
Know!" he said scornfully
Know? He's admitted it. What wa
,ne use Of standing out against proc
IKE that He admitted It tonight Il
my presence. Oh, he knows all right =
And what did he say?"
hathoury laughed contemptuously.
say! Oh, not much. Pretty mucl
weat he said about this affair--tha
waen he was convicted the time befor
ne was an innocent man. He's certain
good hand at playing the limo
,,aand Of what was he convicted?"
oh' of course, we know all about 1
Lnow; As soon as we found out VIII,
~ really was we had all the particular
SSrned up. Aylmore, or Ainswortl
,s.epnen Ainsworth his name really is
sas man who ran a sort of what the,
eaiI mutual benefit society in a towr
snt away up in the north-Cloud
aampton--some thirty. years ago. H
VA wss nominally secretary. but It wa
Sv sSHg ibs DIS own affair; 1t was patronizet
tSsr Sss I. purely artisan population-an,
%,y !. stuck a lot Of their brass, as the,
iInsh smash, and there was nothing. M
4. A,nsworth, nSN or Aylmore-pleaded tina
u,n was robbed and duped by anothe
Aa' OUT the court didn't believe him