South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-06
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was not % be. I see you writing
this release. and Mr.. Gosford -
my fathers voice went up full and
strong-"I see you writing it la
terror-e1Tcat on your face"
~The Devil take your nonsense"
cried the Englishman.
Ny father stood up with tw,st-
cd. .ronicaI smile.
IL you doubt my skill. Alr. Cos
ford, as a fortune or rather a mis-
fortuue-teller. I viii ask Mr. Lewis
and Herman Caeki 10 tell me what
they see"
The two men crossed the room
and stopped over the paper. while
my father held the crystal. The
manner and the bearing OF the men
changed. They grew on the instant
tense and fred with interest.
Il see IT, said the old doctor.
with queer. foreign expletivc.
And l." cried Lewis, "see some
thing more than Pendleton's vision.
1 see the penitentiary In the dis
lance"
The Englishman sprans up with
an oath and leaned across the table.
Then he saw the thing.
Ny fathers hand held the crystal
above the figures of the bequest
written in the body OF the will. The
focused lens Of glass magn!fied TO "A
great diameter, and under the vast
enlargement a thing that would
escape the eye stood out. The top
curl OF a figure had been erased,
and the bar Of a added. one could
see the broken fiberS Of the paper
on the outline OF the curl. and the
bar Of the five lay across the top of
the three and the top OF the o be-
hind IL like a black lath tackled
across two uprights.
The figure had been changed to
3 so cunningly as to deceive the
eye, but not TO deceive the vast
magnification OF the crystal. The
thing stood out big and crude like a
carpenters patch.
Gosford's face became expression
less like wood, his body rigid; then
he stood up and faced the three
men across the table.
quite So" he said i'm his vacuous
English voice. Marshall wrote a
3 by inadvertence and changed it.
He borrowed my penknife TO erase
the figure"
Ny father and Lewis gaped like
men who see a penned-in beast slip
out through an unimag!ned passage.
There was silence. Then suddenly.
in the strained stiffness Of the room,
Old Doctor Gaeki laughed. Gosford
lifted his long pink face, with Its
cropped beard bringing out the ugly
mouth
why do you laugh. my good
man?" he said.
/ II laugh" replied Gaeki. because
a figure can have SC many cGlors."
And now my father and Lewis
were no less astonished than Mr..
Gosford.
"Colorsl" they said. for the
changed figure in the will was black.
why. yes" replied the old man.
I lit is very pretty"
He reached across the table and
dun beside the will.
on are progressive, SIT ne
went on; you write in iron-nutgalI
ink, just mad, commercially, IN
this year Of 'fety-slx by Mr.. Ste
phens. But we write here as Mar
shall wrote in 'fifty-four, with log
wood"
/ He turned and fumbled in his 1T
/ tie case OF bottles.
IT carry a bit OF acid for my peo-
pies indigestions. It has otter
uses He whipped out the stopper
of his vial and dabbed Cosfords
notes and MarShalrs signature
See" he cried your writing
is blue. Mr. GosforG. and MarshaTs
red"
With an oatl the trapped man
struck at Gaeki's hand The vial
fell and cracked on the table The
hydrochlorIc acid spread out over
MarShalls viii. And under the
chemical reagent the figure IN the
bequest OF fifty thousand dollars
changed beautifully: the bar Of the
turned blue. and the remainder or