Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-06-27
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CHAPTER I-Tranois Lsdsam defends
Oliver Hilditch, powerful business man,
In q murder case and succeeds In get
ting him of, only to be told by young.
prepossessing woman, who says that
she Ia Oliver Hilditch's wife. that Hill
ditch 10 an ch-criminal and that Led
sam has turned loose . dangerous man
to resume his preytng upon society.
CHAPTER II-Ledsam, dining with
his best friend. Andrew Wilmore, meets
Hilditch and his wife and is invited to
dine with them A4 their homA
CHAPTER III-At dinner with the
Hilditches, Oliver shows Ledsam how
he killed his victim and says his own
death the same way would make his
wife supremely happy. Returning
home. Ledsam receives q phone call
from Margaret, saying oliver has been
murdered.
CHAPTER Iv-Ledsam gets the cor
oner to set divers death down a.
suicide. Later ON he admits to Will
more that he has developed q keen In
terest in Margaret He meets her ia
ther. Sir Timothy Brast the evil shep-
herd. who tells him q crime will be
committed before they leave the cafe.
CHAPTER v-Ths crime 10 COM
mittsd and shopland, . Scotland Yard
detective. asks Lsdsam TO interview the
girl In the ease.
CHAPTER yI-Daisy tells Lsdsam
nothing much, except that her COM
panion had led . pretty fast life and
was trying to break away from his old
evil companions.
CHAPTER vII-By chance Francis
sion to call, which she refuses. He
tells her he will ask her fathers per-
mission and Margaret begs him to have
nothing to do with Sir Timothy. al
though she admits hs - everything
that 10 kind to her.
CHAPTER v1I-yust - Sir Timothy
ond affair. another mAa suicides. ad-
mitting his guilt
CHAPTER Ix-Brast displays an un-
usual humane side to his character
and mystihss Ledsam By It.
CHAPTER x-Fransis 10 invited to
dine with Brast at his cottage. Return
ing to his office he finds an unfinished
scrawl from the brother of Wilmore.
asking aid, but ending abruptly. Will
moro then tells him his younger brother
has been missing for days and they
fear harm has befallsn him. Search for
him proves unavalltn0.
CHAPTER N-Under the influence
of a lovely moon and the quiet Of the
river Francis kisses Margaret, and the
latter does not resent 1t, although ask
ing Francis to escort her back to the
house. They nnd Sir Timothy had taken
Lady Cynthia to see the Walled House.
The next morning Francis escorts Lady
Cynthia to London and finds Margaret
had left before them. Francis admits
that he wishes to marry Margaret
CHAPTER XII-Shopland tells Fran
els that he con find nothing definite
about young Wilmore's whereabouts.
Francis runs into Margaret and she
yields and becomes engaged to him.
SnopIand stepped out Of the taxicab
and, raising his hat, walked quietly
away. Francis directed the man to
drive to Charges street. AS they
drove off, he was conscious of fold
ed piece of paper in the corner where
his late companion had been seated
He picked it up, opened 1t, realized
that 1t was letter from a firm of
lawyers, addressed to Shopland and
deliberately read 1t through. 1t was
dated from a small town not far from
Hatch End:
Dear Sir:
Mr.. John Phillips of this firm, who Is
coroner for the district, has desired me
to answer the enquiry contained in
your official letter of the 18th. The
number Of inquests held upon bodies
recovered from the Thames in the
neighborhood to which you allude, dur
ing the present year. has been seven.
Four of these have been identified.
Concerning the remaining three moth
Ing has ever been heard. Such partic-
ulars as are on our file will be available
to any accredited representative Of the
police at any time.
Faithfully yours,
PHILLIPS & SON.
The taxicab came to sudden stop.
Francis glanced up. Very breathless,
Shopland put his head In at the win
dow.
II dropped a letter." he gasped.
Francis folded it up and handed 1t
to him.
what about these three unidenti-
fed people, ShoplandT he asked,
looking at him intently.
The man frowned angrily. There
was a note Of defiance in his tone as
he slowed the letter away in his pock-
etbook.
'There were two men and one wom-
an" he replied, "all three Of the up
per classes. The bodies were recov-
cred from Wilson's lock, some three
hundred yards from the Walled
House."
do they form part of your case?
Francis persisted.
Shopland stepped back.
"Mr. Ledsam," he said, IT told you,
some little time ago, that so far as
this particular case was concerned l
had no condolences to share with you.
am sorry that you saw that letter.