The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-06
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| marx BrcndOn, criminal investigator
] Jenny goes to live with her uncle
/ BendiEo Redmayne. Brendon meets
Robert in the woods near Bcndigo's
home but fails to capture him. Giu-
seppe Doria works for Bendigo
When Doria and Jenny find Robert
they arrange a meeting at Bendigo's
home but Robert fails to keep the
| appointment.
Robert sends word to Bendigo tc
meet him alone in nearby cave
Doria takes Bcndigo to the appoint
cd place and leaves him with Robert
When Doria returns for his master
both men have disappeared. Albert
Redmaync comes from Italy to try
to solve the mystery.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Mr., Albert Rcdmayne slept we'll
but the morning found him very de-
pressed. He was frightened and
awcstricken. He detested "Crow's
Nest and the melancholy murmur
q the sea. He showed the keencst
desire to return home at the earliest
opportunity and was exceedingly
nervous after dark.
ooh, that Peter Cams were hcrc!"
he exclaimed again and again, as a
| comment to every incident unfolded
by Brendon or Jenny; and then.
when she asked him if it might be
possible to summon Peter Cams,
Mr.. Redmaync explained that he
was an American beyond their reach
at present.
"Mr. Cams" he said, "is my best
friend in the world-save and ex-
certing one man only. Hc-my first
and most precious intimate-dwells
at Bellagio, on the opposite side of
Lake Como from myself. Signor
Virgilio Poggi is bibliophile of
European eminencc and the most
brilliant of mcn-a great genius and
my dearest associate for twenty-five
years. But Peter Cams also is a
very astounding persona detective
officer by profession.
II myself lack that intimate
knowledge of character which is
his native gift. Books l know bet
ter than men, and it was my pecu-
liar acquaintance with books that
brought Cams and me together in
New York. There l served him we'll
: IN an amazing police case and aided
nm to prove a crime, the discovery
OF which turned upon certain pa
per manufactured for the Medici.
, But greater thing than this GRIM
lnal incident sprang. from it; and
that is my friendship with the won
dcrful Peter"
He expatiated upon Mr.. Peter
Cams until his listeners wearied of
the subject. Then Giuseppe Doria
interviewed with personal problem.
=. He desired to be dismissed and was
anxious to learn from Brendon if
the law permitted him to leave the
neighborhood.
He found himself detained, how
ever, for some days, until an official
examination of the strange problem
was completed. The investigation
achieved nothing and threw no ray
of light, either upon the apparent
murder of Bendigo Redmayne, or
the disappearance of his brother.
! Mr.. Albert Rcdmayne stayed nc
longer in Devonshirc than his duty
indicated, for he could prove of no
service to the police. On the night
previous to his departure he went
through his brothers scanty library
and found nothing in it of any in
! terest to collector. The ancient
and well-thumbed copy of "Moby
Dick" he took for sentiment, and he
also directed Jenny to pack for him
Bendigo's "Log"-a diary in eight
or ten volumes.
He Departed assured that his
! family was the victim of some evil,
concealed alike from himself and
/ everybody else; but he promised
Jenny that he would presently write
to America and lay every incident
of the case, so far as it was known
and reported, before his friend
Cams.
Before he returned to the borders
OF Como and his little villa beneath
the mountains, the old scholar took
affectionate leave of Jenny and
made her promise to follow him as
soon as she was able to do so.
Robert Redmayne had vanished
! off the face of the earth and his
/ brother with him. There remained
OF the family only Albert and his
Mecca fact she impaired, not
without melancholy, to Mark Bren-
don, when the day came that he
must take his leave of her and re-
turn to other and more profitable
fields of work.
For a period of several months
the detective was not to hear more
!, OF those who had played their small
parts in the unsolved mystery. He
was busy enough and in some meas
, IRE rehabilitated furnished repu-
tation by one brilliant achievement
in his finest manner.
On day in late March, Brendon
received little, shaped
box through the post from abroad,
and opening it, stared at wedge of
wedding cake. With the gift came a
line-one only: "Kind and grateful
membranes from Giuseppe and
Jenny Doria."
She sent no direction that might
enable him to acknowledge her gift;
but there was a postal stamp upon
the covering and Brendon noted that
the box came from ltalv-from Ven.