Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-22

II NGLEDEN made gesture of de-
And how on earth are we
IL going TO find that out?" he ex-
claimed. Not a single clue so
far-at least, that's worth anything"
What are we here for?" demanded
johnson. Anyway, what did you
fetch me here for? Wait Bit Seems
to me that the first thing to do is to
find out all that we can about Col.
Engleden's doings while he was here"
How are you going to find out what
people he saw" asked Engleden. He
probably saw lots of people"
Very good" agreed Johnson i'm
perturbably MY theory is that he
escaped from Southmoor when he was
governor. OF course. he did! Other
wise, why did he send off that tele-
gram to the present governor"
I'm pretty well versed in all he did"
said Engleden. Il made full inquiry
into that before you came. He arrived
here on Sunday evening and put up
at this hotel. He kept himself to him
self-Christmas the landlord didn't
see him in conversation with anybody.
The only person knew of with whom
he had any conversation worth men,
tioning after coming to he town was
Sadler, the jeweler, to whom he took
his watch for some slight repair, and
with whom, Sadler evidently being an
antiquary, he had some talk about the
antiquities of Barowsburgh. AS to
where he went, that's pretty well ascer-
tanned. He was seen about the Castle,
and in the neighborhood of two or
three other old places, such as the
church and the Friar's Tower. and so
on. However, he certainly did go into
one public place in which he would
see several local notabilities-I heard
of that only this afternoon, and haven't
had a chance to mention it to YOU be-
fore, Johnson. find that on Monday
morning, presumably by mere chance,
and as, I imagine, he was on his way
TO the Castle, he dropped in at the
town hall, where the magistrates court
was sitting"
Johnson manifested renewed interest
"Good!' he exclaimed. That's the
sort of spot where he would see people
Excellent!-now I wonder what he
SAVE"
What he'd see. johnson, would. of
course, be the local magistrates, two or
three of them, at any rate, few local
solicitors, some police officials, and the
compliments and defendants concerned,
together with the idlers and the inquisi-
tive in the public part of the court.
Whether he recognized anybody
Llere--
which he no doubt did!-in my
opinion"
We'll, if he did, why didn't he make
a note in his diary? You see, he GER
tainly referred to the diary"
YeS-to refresh his memory But
probably he was in the habit of writing
up his diary late at night I think he
did recognize somebody, and I think
he would have made an entry to that
effect if he'd come back to this
hotel from that moonlight walk And
once more the question is-who was the
man. or who were the men he recog-
nized?"
rs it likely it would be-men? Pos
slbly-a man! But-men?"
There were two men escaped. They
may have been pals who'd stick TO-
gether. That's a detail though What
want to get at is-what man is there
in this neighborhood who is likely to
have been one of the two men who got
away from Southmoor II years ago? For,
sure as my names what it is, the only
meaning Of Col. Engleden's telegram to
the governor of Southmoor, taken in
conjunction with the entry in his diary
against which he'd put a mark, is that
he did recognize, or believed he'd recog-
nlZed, some man or men here, as one
or both OF these escaped prisoners and
wanted one of his old warders to come
and strengthen him in his belief-ir
other words, to make positive identi-
f1cation. Our question is-who,s the
man? Or-the men?"