South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-29


him, he told me how he and his
brothers had flooded -ths country
here with counterfeit bills long ago,
but It's Gods truth 1 never meant
TO make use of~that then. when
fell in with Gray in Melbourne
about year and a half ago, l re-
memb ered how much 1 looked like
Andy. and Gray and well, we saw
there was a good thing in IT,"
so Gray came on here ahead and
for a year paved the way by getting
in with. Mr.. Roger Drake and then
you appeared as Andrew anG few
weeks ago you oe9an % work Sc
CT city with your accomphos to ter
rorize the fam:!y while Yourself ,re-
tending 10 De Il victim as we'll"
Miles declared. You knew you
couldn't get away with that n ,cusa
tiOn Of counlersc'ting If II :7me to
a showdown. fj- he rawlings II a
ran in delirium wru11n't b. taken
seriously. but you and Gray knew
too. that il you farcet the men of
he family by anonymous threats OF
'.OtOriety = comm ridiculous pub
lie acts you c3u.d son put the
screws on the-i for money AMI IN
crease your Gema ;ds until you had
b'ed them white"
CHAPTER My
What was ne Srs' th.aR Uut you
on the righ5 ira tx. owen ,ad 30
ScOttie pulled c)hented.y on his
pipe.
think :; was Andrew himself. -
Miles responded. ut struck me as
odd in my frs; talk with Wells and
little Miss Pa ia that Hobart and
Roger should Doth hav, made pub
lie exhibitions NJ themselves. hut
Andrews ft # supposc5 sanity
,oOk place 81 e. II home. for the ben
eft Of one Of the servants alone.
When / %, made up my mind
that insanity nllve TO part IN the
&c consider was blackmail. and il
must have been for some indiscre-
ton or even crime committed in the
far past Right then the solution
was in m grasp for you bad learned
that in their youth Roger had been
! interested in chemistry. dyeing and
in photography. that Hobart was a
pen -and-ink artist and Andrew had
worked for "A time in a pulp manu-
featuring plant. The old chest OF
metal junk which we carted away
from under the floor OF the summer
house and destroyed the morning
after we wound up the case. Scottie
did not contain the remains Of a
pr!~ ting press as you surmised. but
ths, relic of a machine for making
a replica OF the silk threaded paper
the government uses for genuine
greenbacks and had been an original
invention OF the real Andrew.
TT didn't come me even then
that the truth was staring me in the
face until you brought me that
twenty-dollar bill Rip got knitted
over and I found il was counterfeit
Il was scorched at one end and
knowing that Rip must have found
/ il somewhere / concluded that il had
/ been on the dust-heap where Miss
Drake must have thrown it among
the ashes which she cleaned out OF
the drawing-room fireplace after
had seen her burning something
there at midnight.
7 recalled her words: Ashes
every one If only the first had
never been conceived this horror
would not have descended upon US.
She had known from the start what
her brothers knew until just before
her brothers know until just before
.
been wise all the time; they thought
she believed that mythical tale OF
ar inheritance and could kick my
self for accepting il without veri-
. fcation. but Wells had taken il
for granted and so did T."
It's no worse than me-" Scottie
remarked consolingly. Why didn't
I see that tattoo mar on Andre We
arm when he took off his coat there
i'm the garden Just before Miss
Hawks appeared? To be sure, my
Lack was 10 him but I was there "a
keep my eyes on him and everybody
. How did you first guess that the
Hawks woman knew Andrew for an
imposter?"
II happened 10 be in the hal
when she ran out OF the house like
n mad-woman after tete-a-tets
with Andrew and the next minute
he upset the table and scalded his
arm. Il wasn't a bad burn and Il
+ occurred 10 me that it was just ar
. excuse for a bandagei"
Miles face sobered Gray wa,
T the real brains OF the scheme. II
was he who wrote that devilishly
satirical lecture and forced poor
Roger by anonymous threats 10 de.
liver IL: ne who wrote the other
q anonymous letters. one q which he
slipped into the house 10y - aans OF 8
French window which Andrew hal
/ left open for him and left on the
/ hall table the night Of my arrival 4
] be mixed with the mail next morn.
/ !Tg. when I concluded Il was some
member OF the household. He dis.
I guised his voice for the telephone
+ threats which so agitated The fam.
/ ily. but he cannot figure cut how
Roger Drake penetrated his habit.
+ ual disguise"
3 Roger did. then?" asked the
4 other.
oh. YES il wss the shock or that
which caused his stroke.
Gray had a sort OF half-labora-