The daily Alaskan., 1921-08-25
~l nave no reason at all"

"Surc. ir you can get me there with oGt killing me"
 ' made the necessary arrangements, and Agnes set out on hrr return, in uu ambulance.
 The servant who opened the door as We drove up was Jed.
 ] could not help showing by a start and by the expression on my fuce that ! was astouiShed by his reappearauce. This pleased him. When he acted he Wsra to produce effects. dc looked iu- uu.riagIy ut the ambulance and then Iu0u.rrgIy at me. By thnt time l was able to accept him as a usual part of the household.
 "Ger someone to help you with strescher. Jgd." ! said. "t mrs. d ma.d, has been aurt Then tcG Mrs. A,arich I should like 10 see her ir ,he office as soon as l, is convenient"
 "Yrs. sir" said Jed.
 Mrs. A,Gr.ra came immediately, and I told her rhr girl Agnes was to he treated u.un every consideration and that 1T ir were possible to have the other maids regard her kindly so aS not To make her feel 0h.oIuy jt would b, only Christian.
 Mrs. A.tr..h wns a very s,auch cnurcnwom.u and ! coull see in the tightening or her lips that such soft treatment of a woman caught in crime dld not satisfy her ideas of morality.
 She went out dissatisfied. but I know she would i1 her best Jed came iu, still iu his >urrr>e~yjcc0be mood.
 "Wou.d you like some coffee. sIr?' he asked ] was tired gud did want sttmu1our
 "yes. Jad wouId-t1ank you." I said as heartily as l could. determined 70 hrraE down h.s triumph of !mDer- turnaHHffv ny c1mwaun.n"c hnual.nE Of him. Uo brought the tray
 "S.t down." ! said "Nour schemes have como ta bad end in this house. Tt win Go you no gond and lr may de- >rr.y .ho family. Things are beyond your c.nrru. or my control. The span farI has fna manuscript he was after. Your ..arr is gone. It Is transferred to him."
 "Sa yau arc familiar with thLs af- fair"
 "T am ro-. only know what hos har....f s.uae I came here. do not want .o know amy mnro"
 "Tnr uu wI~. There IS nothing hn' wN....n.-- and 1a.-nr in knowing. Tr is -.- aa-rs -n mo .aar uravala has lr-. S.rnav.- H9~y They released mo .r..~ -.av rn.-r.H rnu. the w0uns"r.0r hal n.ar found mH that The lawyer and uaraHa had tr"
 Tad then sat down a.I fold what had happened to him. ] was very angry remembering Isnnal BIS she came hurnu- in that night with hrr sleeve rrrn from hrr waist. I wondered that | could hear the man cF'wiv, hu' h' had extraordinary power being moved hv extraordinary emotions.
 "In tna first place." ha said. "mav I say that have hnrn prnnos,crous? You think ! am a 'ma"r. Sometimes I ann. almost Ir ts easy enough Co h" a cabbage f you are one. It IS some times hard tn Srrm ono t' y"u 0rr not I've been a GonI-hu, I've heHn hunting for something tnat | have not been ahra -1 find. want happiness and im- 0o~fnnrr. My cror1sm asks for it, hut my common sense Is going to have its way. That's prnIimirary.'
 Then ho told his experiences. He had become violent with IsoheI Ho wanted it understood that he had been 6e,nsrato but respectful He had no f4.a of taking hold of her or of tear rDr her sleeve. she had hnou maEDth- cont. Snc had given him a moral shock. He felt like a worm. He had honn attacked suddenly ny the men who had oyornowcre5 him. They had come upon him from tne brush. He raa recognized DravHda ut once. He might have overcome thc Spaniard, but rha desperate little lawyer in a frenzy of activity, had been Just bold and strong enough to interfere so that Jed roF hren made helpless. Another man had come hreathlessIy to help. Jed had been bound and gagged. He had boon hustled into the screen of woods and beyond them to a whiting auto mobile.
 His captors. in the automobile. had headed for the city and entered it after midnight They had taken their pris- o7c~ to a tenement on lhe East side. For several days tho lawyer and Dro- va6a had tried t0 eNtort the secret from Jed by threats. They had tried 10 buy 1t by promise of an equitable division of profits. The lawyer had been quite frantic part of the time. Jed said. bounding about in an ecstasy of rage. At other times he had been friendly and persuasive.
 Dravada had been savage and want a9 +1 try torture, but thc attorney, en- rnrrd as he frequently became in his failure and disappointment would not permit this and had got trustworthy rascal of his acquaintance. named Sim, with two other men, to keep a con start ruqr7 over Jed with a view not