The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-09
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wife, Jenny, is suspected of the muir.
| der. Mark Brcndon, criminal in.
vestigator, has charge of the case.
Jenny goes to live with her uncle
J Bendigo Redmayne. Robert appears
, near Bendigo's home and sends word
to BendigO to meet him in nearby
cave. Giuseppe Doria, who works
for Bendigo, leaves his master al
the meeting place. When DORA
! calls to bring Bendigo home he finds
the cave empty and signs of ter.
rible struggle.
Jenny marrief Doria and thew &C
to live in Italy, where Jenny's uncle
Albert Redmayne, lives. Robert is
seen in Italy and Albert sends 70,
Brendon and for Peter Cams, fam
Gus American detective and dear
friend TO Albert
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
you're a detective inspector of
Scotland Yard" continued Cams
land Scotland Yard is still the high
water mark of pole organization in
the world. The Central Bureau in
New York is pretty close up, and
I've nothing but admiration for the
French and Italian, Secret Services {;
but the fact remains: The Yard is
first; and you've won, and fairly
won your place there. That's a big
thing and you didn't get it without
some work and some luck, Brendon.
But now-this Redmayne racket.
In = word, your conduct of the affair
don't square with your reputation.
Your dope never cut any ice from,
the start"
Brendon did not hide his emotion.
but kept silence while Mr.. Cams
helped himself to pinch of snuff.
"A great many of your 'cast-iron
facts were no facts Mt ALL"
What were they then?"
elaborate and deliberate fictions.
Mark"
He paused again, applied himself
to his gold box, and then proceeded.
Now see how reason bears on
the evidence of Robert Redmayne
and his trick acts since first he dis
appeared. A thing occurs and there
are only certain ways-very limited
In number-to explain it. Either
Robert Redmayne killed Michael
Pendean. or else he did not. And if
ne did, he was sane or insane at the
time. That much can't be denied and
is granted. If he was sane, he COM
mltted the murder with motive:
and pretty careful inquiry proves
that no motive existed. Then. as
Stunning him to be sane, he would
not have committed such a murder.
The alternative is that he was mad
at the time and did homicide on
Pendean while out of his mind.
but what happens to madman
after crime of this sort? Does he
get off with it and wander over
Europe as free man for a year
Granted the resources of maniacal
cunning and all the rest of it, was
it ever heard that a Innate went at
large as this man did, and laughed
Mt Scotland Yards attempt to run
him down and capture him? No,
Mark, the man responsible for these
impossible things isn't mad. And
that brings me back to my prelimi-
nary alternative.
II said just now, Either Robert
Redmayne killed Michael Pendean,
or else he did not And we may
add that either Robert Redmayne
killed Bendigo Redmayne or else he
did not. But we'll stick to the first
proposition for the moment. And the
next question you must ask yourself
is this: Did Robert Redmayne kill
Michael Pendean?' That's where
your facts as you call them, begin
to sag bit, my son. There's only
one sure and certain way of know
ing that man is dead; and that is
by seeing his body and convincing
the law, by the testimony of those
who knew the man in life, that the
corpse belongs to him and nobody
else"
They chatted for half an hour and
Mr.. Cams attained his, object, which
was to fling his companion back to
the beginning of the whole problem
that had brought them together.
"Tonight, in the train," said Pc
ter, II shall ask you to give me your
version Of the case from the mo-
ment that Mrs. Pendean invited you
to take it up"
CHAPTER XII
Peter Takes the Helm.
As the detectives travelled through
night hidden Kent and presently
boarded the packet for Boulogne.
Mark Brendon told his story with
every detail for the benefit of Mr..
Cams.
They chatted until the dawn, by
which time their train had reached
Paris, and an hour or two later they
were on their way to Italy.
Mr.. Cams had determined to
crbss the Lakes and arrive unex-
pectedly at Menaggio. He had now
turned his mind once more to the
problem before him and spoke but
little. He sat with his notebook op-
en- and made an occasional entry as
he pursued his thoughts.
He looked up presently.
"The hard thing before us is
this" he said, "to get into touch
with Robert Redmayne, or his ghost.
There are two sorts of ghost,
Mark; the real thing-in which you
don't believe and concerning which
I hold a watching brief; and the
manufactured article" 1
He broke off and changed the sub