New Britain herald., 1922-07-29

\SoHtiHucu From OuF Last lssue)
 Marks, take Gray into the draw ing room." Miles ordered.-"Farrell roll up the right sleeve of the man who calls himself Andrew Drake and take of the bandage."
 gasping cry came from Jerusha but Miss Hawks moaned:
 That was what deceived me 50 thoroughly when he was putting on his coat out in the garden the first day called"'
 The pseudo-Andrew set his teeth but he made no show of resistance when the bandage was removed and on the still inhamed surface of his arm appeared the blurred, inter- twined letters "H' and "O."
 You thought they were your own initials. did you not, Miss Hawks?" Miles asked gently Forgive me for reopening an old wound, but that touch of sentiment for a time blinded you to certain inconsistencies which the Drake family themselves had failed to note?" -
 She nodded dumbly in an oblivious effort to control her emotion and the detective went on:
 Tn reality the initials are his own, as far as the police records of Aus tralia show. His name is Hugh Os- borne, and he, too, Is badly watned but not for the same crimes as his present accomplice. Will you tell Mir. Wells and your old friends here when the first doubt of his identity entered your mind?"
 T called here yesterday, but as l grew reminiscent and he betrayed an Utter ignorance of the incidents mentioned, wild suspicion came into my mind spoke of my initials on his arm and though he sworc that he had had them tattoed there in re- membrance Of me l was still uncon- unced. I felt that I must be going mad and yet had to make sure. laid a deliberate trap for him and he fell into it,"
 Miss Hawks rose. NOW may l go? I came as I promised. but T. l can endure no more, JerAsha for give me but surely t is better that you know the truth
 "The truth Is always best Ora" Miss Drake rcse and stern, Spartan gravity had robbed her set features of all other emotion. Tonight shall see the end of more than one living lie!"
 John Wells escorted the trembling woman to her waiting car and scarcely had the attorney reappeared when the imposter broke out with an oath.
 "You're right it will, Miss Jerusha Drake. Lord. what a six months I've put in, in this pious, hypocritical household Why, you're all worse crooks than me. every one of you, and I've got the goods on you! We could have fixed this little matter up friendly all round if you'd been sensible, but as 1t is I've my own story to tell, and by G-d, I'll tell it."
 Miles did not look at scottie, but seated himself with a laugh.
 '"Going to try to stick to that far fetched backmailing scheme you and that precious partner of yours matched when you found that Andrew Drake had left relatives here with money and a social position to lose e?' he asked easily. Farrell, you can Joln Marks and his man till call you. Mir. Wells, listen to this for the widest cock-and- bull yarn that two cheap crooks ever conceived! Mir Hush oshorne. here, is wanted in Victoria for blackmail and forgery now. Tie won't be extradited until he has been tried and served his terms here TOT fraud, attempted blackmail, attempted abduction of Miss Patricia and several other little items growing out or tnis case if MT. Hobart Drake wishes to nrefer the charges. How the prlVa1e naners and letters of the real Andrew Drake came into the possession or Hugh Osborne is question which the next official cable will answer
 "Oh, you needn't wait for that Osborne remarked sullenly Ancy and I were friends. He was taken down with the fever and nursed him till the end, but before he died he left me everything It was all fixed up legal and proper by his own wish and I can prove 1t. thousA 'here was little enough to leave. for the sheep ranch was wretched allure and he'd been too proud to write the truth home Before he died, too, when the delirium was on him, he told me how he and his brothers had flooded the country here with counter felt bills long ago, put IL s Iou 'iu'n never meant to make use Of that then. When fell in with Gray i'll Melbourne about year and a halt ago, remembered how much l looked like Andy. and Gray and l-- well. we saw there was good thing in it.
 "so Gray came on here ahead ana for a year paved the way by gettlng in with MT. Roger Drake and then you anneared as Andrew and few weeks ago you began to work secretly with your accomplice to terrorize the family while yourself pretending to be . victim as we'll" Miles declared. you knew you couldn't get away with that accusation of couhterlei'.ns ,f if came to a showdown, for tne r.vine. of a man in delirium wouldnt he taken seriously, but you and Gray knew too, that if you forced the men nt the family by anonymous threats ot tN