The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-07
THE STORY so FAR

Johnny is still ~uncOnvinved Of Jacques
possession Of mind reading powers.
However, his stories are popular with his
newspaper in New York and he is order
ed to remain in Paris. He is in Jacques
office when NJ. Pervier calls to present a
new case. The case has to do with the
TineOs q wealthy Spanish family. Their
aughte was married to & German noble
man, Baron Won HelmhOlz, but is sep
arated from him and living with her
parents at a Sebastian. She has be-
come infatuated with Alexis, a Russian
nObleman, who now is ViOlinist at the
Btarritez hotel. The TineOs daughter
and mOther) had gone to Biarritz for
afternoon tea, but a rainStOrm forced
them to remain overnight. During the
night, the daughter, Pillar, and the family
jewels disappear from the hotel room.
What is more, the Baron, his cOmpanin,
Alexis and the TineO chauffeur have al
so vanished. The baron is apprehended
at a hotel in Switzerland.
And, now the story
The baron, on being examined, admitted
having written the letter, which he claimed
had to do with a private business affair
between himself and the senior. Moneys
that he had turned over to Senior TineO to
invest for him and which he claimed had
turned out successfully, but being unable
or unwilling to produce any documentary
evidence Of this transaction, he was held in
default Of bail. He denied all knowledge
VI liz WIFE, OE VI the jewels or car OF an
tonic or Alexis. He stated that he had gone
to San Sebastian for an interview with
Senior TineO and to discover if it was in
deed true that he had suffered from a men
tai lapse. On learning this to be the case,
and in the hope Of the senOr's recovery, he
had mOtOred over to Biarritz with some
Spaniards he had known when laying his
attentions to Pila. From Biarritz he had
gone by train to Nice, intending to try his
luck at the tables at Monte Carlo, which he
preferred to those of San Sebastian. The
police had easily followed his trail, which
he had made no attempt to cover.
1t was now required of Jacques to
examine the min Of the baron in an ef-
fort to discover the nature of his trans
action with Senior TineO, and if he had
actually no knowledge Of these disappear
ances.
must say it struck me that here was
the facer for which / had waited. There
seemed no way out Of it at all. Yet as
a mystery l did not think it very battling
Before becoming a Journalist l had tried
my hand with Indifferent success at fic-
ton, and l remembered the criticism OF
a friend Of mine, a practising physician
whom 1 had victimized into reading ar
ambitious detective story.
He said: THE trouble with young
writer's is like that Of young doctors
They are always looking for the most
battling state of affairs instead of first
considering what would be most apt tt
occur. The police have learned, like the
old practitioner, the advantage in the
long run of first thoroughly considering
what might be expected to happen il
the usual order Of things
So now it seemed to me that Pillar
infatuated with Alexis, had, in the drop.
ping of the hunderd franc tip, picked VI
a note that he had made this opportunity
to get to her without an intermediary
This would be to plan an elOpement, anC
lovers, being prOverbially OppOrtunisti
and likewise impatient, she had seized tn,
occasion Of their being kept the night il
the hotel by the weather.. She had col
lected her dot in the shape of her mOther'i
jewels and the pair had flown. AntOni,
had yielded to a bride. This might hav,
been the more easily accomplished OF
Pillars telling him, Perhaps, that tn,
Prussian husband whom she detesteC
was on the field and empowered som
way to cOerce her parents into enforcing
his claims on her.
This might, in fact, have been the case
There were a good many ways in whicl
a man unlawfully prOfiteering by thu
mOthering of Spanish-German submarine
might have got in very wrong. Som
scandal in high Spanish OfficialdOm tina
would ruin TineO to have exposed. TIL
baron might have been willing enough
to lease his wife to her parents at s.
much a year, but when the rental wa
held up by TineO's logged state of minI