The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-10

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been given proper care. AS ht
turned away after giving the
horse a goodnight pat, he glimps
ed what was nothing more thar
a shadow gliding through a real
door. In a second the officer was
IN pursuit. He plunged through
the door and out into the dark
10 meet up forcibly with a raj
ence. There Kerr stood for ter
long minutes, his ear keenly at
tuned for some sound that would
betray the direction the phantom
figure had token. He did not
know why, but he felt intuitively
that his present experience had
something to do with his original
mission. While he stood there, as
motionless as a statue, the sound
of a creaking door reached him,
and as he peered through the
darkness a light flared in the
rear OF the restaurant. 1t was ex-
tlilS ulSueu q
Kerr's course was plain now,
and he lost no time in reaching
the hotel where he found Con-
stable ~Jefferies, Bellew and Free,
man. The quartette stealthily ap-
preached the restaurant building,
the Inspector taking the rear en-
trance. They waited, but not for
long, for suddenly there pierced
the stiffness of the night a scream
terrible as to strike terror to
the hearts of even those harden
en- veterans of the force.
1t was the work of a moment
for Kerr, augmented by the sturdy
shoulder of Constable Bellew, who
had rushed to his comrades side,
to burst the door from it's hinges
and jump inside. In a room adj
the Pickering rays of a
lamp cast its dancing shadows
upon a row of lovely wax figures
against the wall. Each was
he reproduction, so perfectly
moulded as to startle the spectat-
ors, of a handsome woman in
various postures. On a table in
center of the room leaned
form of the restaurateur, in
through the obvious presence
death. The vial from which
lie had taken the poison lay
where he had dashed it in the
Igony that had evoked that
cream.
An unsealed letter, written
With a cultured hand, lay under
he outstretched arm of the dis
ormed mass of humanity.
Boyden's murder was no longer
mystery. The letter gave the
7%riter's name as Amos Bachell,
nd the date and place of birth.
t described the humiliation the
ian experienced as a result of
is deformities. Bachell had stud
ed art in the educational cent
RS of the continent, and his rep
tation was becoming worldwide
hen he fell in love with a mod
l. She scorned his protestations
t affection and the sculptor be-
anne a monomaniac.
Upon the V of the girls mar
to a young army officer in
'ondon, Bachell disappeared, new
r to be heard of in his old
aunts. I
1t was Bachell who, as John t
'randon, appeared in Gacon Fer
y months later. He lived alone.
nd his sullen demeanor toward ;
who attempted to make his
cquaintance, served to afford the {
me needed for perfecting like j
esses of the woman he adored, [
ut whose living presence was {
enied him. The statues afforded t
d@ranged ma an outlet for {
le consuming devotion he held /
n the original. {
On seeing The policeman in his
uniform in the territory '
ear Gacon Ferry, the sculptor, /
is memory racing back over the a
ears to the day of his deepest c
appointment, reasoned in his a
enzied brain that here was an a
her coming to steal from him a
fondest possession-his stat S
IS. He was miles from his COW |
t when he espied the officer, S
1t he spurred his horse back to i
aeon Ferry, secured a revolver, f
set out to meet his supposed S
lemy. He lay in wait and the e
ensued. g