The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-30

at Witherby End, cunningly col lecting the sort of information that any burglar gathers before cracking crib?"
 If Chink Dorson's intentions were any but the worst possible, why didn't he drive straight up to his old friends front door, and, being shown into his presence, extend the glad right hand of friendship, and gather him in bro therly love to his broad and pla- pitating bosom?
 No. Adding together the sound deductions that William had made and my own deductions based on Chink Dorson's present conduct, I felt pretty confident, nay cer- tain, that he was at Witherby End neither for his own health nor that of Spider Schlitz, but for his own enrichment and the pun ishment of one of the two men who had double-crossed and rob- bed him.
 How utterly splendid what a wonderful and beautiful example of poetic justice it would be-if I these two wolves destroyed each other, leaving me free to deal with the remaining pair!
 For the weak spot in my scheme the weak link in my chain of yengeance-and the one that kept me anxiously awake at night--was l the danger that I might be ar rested and tried as the slayer Of the first or second of my victims, before had time to deal with the third and fourth.
 After that, it would not matter.
 Nothing would matter.
 But I scarcely dared to contem- plate the horror of failure and my
 being hanged before my work was f finished or at best, sentenced to
 lifelong imprisonment in Eng
 land, as I had been in America. I had to bear in mind that my life-sentence still awaited me in
 America, and that I might easily
 receive one in England if. escap-
 ed hanging. a l So what a grim and lovely jest
 if I could a little hclp Chink Dor
 son to kill Spider Schlitz, and ther
 greatly help the English law tt
 kill Chink Dorson for the. mur- der!
 Both would, be punished with
 cut endangering my freedom tt pursue the other two. ,i Both would, in measure, b' punished by. and through, me. |, And they would wholly and en , tirely be punished on account o me-through their killing of m
 daughter and their stealing of m diamond, the bone of their conten tion and the cause of their mu tual destruction.
 . Could I recommend decent ac 5 commodation to my newly arrive : acquaintance?
 f He would only need it for fe' : days He just wanted to have
 look at Witherby End and it's en V yironment. He was thinking ( settling dwn in the country an p having bit of sport; and tn : place had been recommended e him.
 I could. What was wrong wit $ this inn? I had found it vel I. comfortable ...
 Could one get in without N if of fuss, at night, if one happene "a to be out bit late? And M f Chink Dorson winked heavily, le one gay dog to another. t Why, certainly. l myse IF often went night fishing, and g
 one had to do was to walk in as back door. Very confiding peopl .- these country folk. Honest al
 simple. Crime absolutely upheal
 of hereabouts ...
 l. To cut a long story short, SC shadowed Chink Dorson With Q skill and tenacity born of n ,s burning lust for vengeance.
 watched him from afar, by da r. and from nearby at night; ana s. the end, at long last, as sat to the dark shadow of a great ceo
 of Lebanon. I saw Chink Dorsc le, whom I had followed-and, by E. shcrt cut over the park wall, Tor nv stalled-creep quietly from ti
 to tree, up the moon-lit drive tn nd led to Squire Webb's big house b. whether Chink Dorson, With ' e. burglarious skill that had ma ne him eminent and famous, hims ng opened the door by which he c he tered the house. or whether 1t h nd been left open for him by a SCI as ant whom he had suborneo Ter whom he had planted there, he not know.
 nd what do know. is that. in ed state of exulant exaltation, l I as lowed him and, guided by [ of sound of voices. came straight
 the door of the room which pro ,n. ed to be MT. Webb's library