The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-05-19
BY Randall
Parrish
Author Of
The Strange Case
Of cavendish-
Copyrieht, " Ranaal ParrfsA
Copyrisht, " Raaaan Parriss

Russian BY birth, but spoke English
without an accent, and ! felt no doubt
but what q sufficient amount OF money
would engage his interest In any des-
perate cause. The desire to get him"
added zest to my interest in the. affair.
II he was actually: at the head OF these
fellows, these plotters against the neu-
trality Of the United States, the catch
would be worth while. 81
Az soon as possible next morning l
sought out Burke, the manager Of the
hotel, with whom 1 had a speaking nc
quaintance,, and, without confiding the
extent Of my discovery, questioned him
relative to the mysterious box,aand the
guests who left it behind. Two men,
he said, both well dressed, but with
nothing particularly to distinguish
them, had registered together late in
the afternoon Of Friday, September q,
and on request had been assigned to
one room with twin beds and a bath.
The larger man, who had inscribed him
self is "P. s. Horner, Detroit" alone
had a bag; his companion, known to
the hotel al "Gustave Alva, Toledo,
Ohio,' being without baggage. The
bill was paid the next morning by
Homer, and the two departed together.
1t al an hour later when the cham
bermaid on that floor reported finding
the box in the room vacated. After
holding it for a day or two in expec-
tation that it might. be called for, no
such inquiries being made, the hotel
endeavored to trace the men, but to
no avail. The fellows had either false
ly registered, or were entirely unknown
where they claimed residence. The
first was the most probable condition.
After thirty days, and having exhaust
ed all reasonable efforts to find the
rightful owner, the hotel felt legally
justified in selling the trinket. That
was all Burke knew Of the matter, and
his interest In it was not keen.
l am inclined to think now that
went at the problem without much
system, and that any success achieved
was through pure accident. During
the forenoon I dropped in upon Glenn
ent Breckenridge, cashier of the Do
ver's National bank. We had been
classmates at college, and I generally
called OF him when in the city. This
time / led the conversation to Kulb
Krantz & Co., on the pretense that ]
had received mail from them relative
to some recommended Investment
Clement knew Krantz well and favor
ably, and my probing elected the In
formation that the man was Austrian
by birth, but a naturalized citizen
rather deeply interested in politica
matters. If his sympathies We're at al
revolutionary he had carefully re
Trained from any such open expires
sion. The Arm had made a specialt,
Of handling South American business
and had intimate financial connection
in both Rio and Buenos Aires. TIL,
company ranked high In financia
circles.
.'The present war must have cos
them arather heavy loss" I hazarded
However, this Is nothing to me. B!
the way, Clement, do you chance Il
know OF a Cans street in this town.
Scans? That is a new one on me
Try the city directory-there on tn,
edge Of the desk" ?.
The name was not to be found, mo-
any other approaching it in sound o.
spelling, and | finally drifted out ont
the street, really nc wiser than whel
I first entered. ! made one more effort
however, telephoning to a detectiv'
sergeant whom l knew well, as to th,
present whereabouts of Ivan Waldron
The last heard Of Waldron, he was II
West Virginia, speaking to strikinl
miners; that was less than a weel
ago; he had not been see in the cit.
since. IL