The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-09
4 Story Of Love- Adventure and Weirdest Mystery

parently wild idea with you, my
Oldest friend; but as II involved q
whole household, the tenants Of
your own Dover House, was diff
dent. and preferred to risk being
misund erstood for time by the
man whose love and opinion place
first OF all things In this world--if
he should fail me and misunder.
stand me, which, thank God. he
didn't.
III he had It might have brought
matters to q head prematurely,
which is the worst generalship In
the world, and he would have heard,
10 his own discomfort what God
knows I would have given my very,
soul to keep from him."
n was q relief when Manders
poured himself out some whiskey
and squirted some soda into II.
Bear this in mind throughout.
Burge." I went on. clearing the
ground, "all ! say, and we three
believe, must be taken as referring
actively only to Professor Wolf
and old Anna Brunnolf. Where
Dorothy comes in we will discuss
later, but for the present you must
put her. as far as possible, right
apart In your judgment and con-
sideration of things. as / am abso-
iutely convinced that she is as CON-
pletely ignorant and unsuspicious
OF what is behind anything that has
occurred as you are-or Ann up
stairs.
"She Is merely the victim Of cir
cumstances and surroundings - q
dear delightful growth in the hot.
bed of this hell's brood-as inno-
cent\as an unborn baby. not even
suspicious of evil"
"Thank God" said Burgess with
emphasis. 'Now I can listen and
hear anything you have to tell me. {"
And then, without further prelim-
inaries, I plunged into the heart OF
things, repeating almost word for
word all that had told Sir Thomas
Brayton. unfolding the tale logical
ly in sequence. and marshalling the
facts In proof OF my theory.
When first mentioned the word
werewolf ! saw utter incredulity
written upon Burgess candid face,
and felt that I had been right and
that here was my oldest friend
more prepared to regard me as q
lunatic at large than anyone else to
whom ! had so far preached the
theory.
What he had ever heard Of such
phantas'nagoria he had probably
forgotten years before, and SO far
as was aware they were certainly
never mentioned as serious topics
in the Times, the Field or the Spec
tatoy. At the same time, I knew
that could count upon him for q
most faithful and uninterrupted
hearing, and It put me on my met
tie.
was more precise, II possible.
in detail, and more definite than
had been even at Scotland Yard,
keeping my eyes on his dear, hon.
est, stelid face, even repeating my.
self in places, where felt, II I did
not actually see, scepticism; but In
the main his face, a. in the ordi-
nary way, was mask, and his jaw
obtruded truculently.
Once he gave O short, harsh little
laugh. and then, instead Of feeling
The lesst offended, I realized how
deeply he was moved.
And so I plodded through my
thankless task incisively, and with
no meretricious comment or plead
ing for conviction. to It's ungracious
end.
Then dear old Manders, q cham.
pion right-hand man I would recon-
mend confidently to anybody, took
mp the tale. y
Nov, clymping." he broke In, In
his wonderfully convincing manner.
which has decided the verdict OF
many q dozen good men and true
IN the courts, "it Is up to me to