The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-27
Chapter A
FROM ROGER

II
= frankie had just received a let
ter. It bore the stamp of one Of the
less-known South American repnb-
lies.
After reading it through, she
passed 1t to Bobby.
1t ran as follows:
Dear frankie:
Really. I congratulate you! You
and your Naval friend have shat
tered the plans of a lifetime. I had
everything so nicely arranged.
Would you really like to hear
all about it? My lady friend has
given me away so thoroughly
(spite. I'm afraid-women are in
variably spitefulD that my most
damaging admissions won't do me
any further harm. Besides. am
starting life again. Roger Bassing-
ton-ffrench is dead.
/ fancy I've always been what
they call wrong 'un." Even at Ok
ford | had a little lapse.
fell in with MORA and her lot
fairly soon. She was the real thing.
She was an accomplished criminal
by the time she was fifteen. When
/ met her things were getting a bit
too hot for her.
She and | liked each other. We
decided to make a match of 1t, but
we'd a few plans to carry through
first.
To begin with. she married Mich
olson. BY doing so she removed her
self to another world, and the police
lost sight of her. Nicholson was just
coming over to England to start a
place for nerve patients.
She was still working in with her
gang in the dope business. Without
knowing it, Nicholson was very use
full to her.
had always had two ambitions.
! wanted to be the owner Of Nero
way. and wanted to command an
immense amount of money. / had
to have money.
MORA made several trips across
to Canada to "see her people" Mich
olson adored her and believed any
thing she told him. Most men did.
Owing to the complications of the
drug business she travelled under
various names. She was travelling
as Mrs. Templeton when she met
Savage. She knew al about Savage
and his enormous wealth. and she
went all out for him. He was at
tracted. but he wasn't attracted
enough to lose his common sense.
However. we concocted a plan.
You know pretty we'll the story Of
that. The man you know as Cayman
acted the part of the unfeeIing hus-
band. Savage was induced to come
down and stay at Tudor Cottage
more than once. The third time he
came our plans were laid. | needn't
go into all that-you know it. The
whole thing went with a bang.
MORA cleared the money and went
off-ostensibly abroad-in reality
back to Staverley and the Grange.
In the meantime was perfecting
my own plans. Henry and young
Tommy had to be got out of the
way. had bad luck over Tommy.
A couple of perfectly good acct
dents went wrong. wasn't going to
fool about with accidents in Hen.
RVS case. introduced him to NOR
phia. He soon became an addict.
Our plan was that he should go to
the Grange for treatment and
should there either commit sui
eide" or get hold of an overdose of
morphia.
a ND then that fool Carstairs be-
1 \ gan to be active. 1t seems that
Savage had written him a line on
board ship mentioning Mrs. Tenn
pleton and even enclosing a snap
shot of her. Carstairs went on a
shooting trip soon afterwards.
When he came back from the wilds
and heard the news Of Savage's
death and will. he was frankly In.
credulous. He was certain that Saw
age wasn't worried about his health
and didn't believe he had any spe-
cial fear OF cancer. Savage was a
hard-headed bushes; man. and Car.
stairs didn't believe e would leave
a vast sum of money to her and the
rest to charity.
Carstairs came over here deter
mined to look into the business. He
began to poke about.
And straightaway we had a piece
OF bad luck. Some friends brought
him down to lunch. and he saw a
picture of MORA on the piano-and
recognized it as the woman of the
snapshot that Savage had sent him.
He went down to Chipping Somer.
ton and started to poke about there.
went down to Chipping Somer-
ton after him. He failed to trace the
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