Widnes Examiner. — 1905-05-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

EDWARD LAMPBT." firms in the city. He seem ts to have been a Jordison laid the letter down, and stared young man of considerable intelligence ana into the fire. It warmed his face with a red more than average education, for by the end glow, yet the tinge of colour did not soften the of the year I find that he had been promoted bard cold misery in his eyes. His son was PI the responsible position of head cashier. It dead ; little Diclde, whom he only rem enialso seems that he had formed a somewhat uh- bered as an innocent child, was dead—a thief desirable friendship with young Arthur I murdered by 'his accomplice. Sterious. The latter was the eldest son of the "it is well," he murmured to himself, "it is principal partner in the firm, but he had, well that he is dead." little or no aptitude for business, and his , Yet that day he wired to Brigge and Warname was mixed up with more than one disre- lock, and before evening the message had been putable scandal in Valparaiso. From all T- flashed across the broad Atlantic to Edward could gather he- appears to have been a young Lampet. The cable wag thort but expressed man of athletic build and pursuits, but of a all that was uppermost hi the man's mind. peculiarly wild and vicious character. I " Sterious must be found. Spare no expense." strongly suspect that this somewhat undesir- And all that night Jordison dreamed of a able friendship sprang from interested sources tall, broad ihouldered yhung fellow with fair cal both sides. , Behag saw a possible rise in ehair and. grey eyes—a bronzed young fellow his position from his intimacy with the son versed in seacraft ; and, in one of the dreams of a meniber of the firm, and Sterious, as I I the stalwart frame hung limp from a rope, should guess ftom what subseqbently trans.; with strapped arms and a broken neck.. pired, had even more sordid reasons foe friendship with the cashier of his father's office. I may do either or both of them an injustice, but, except on one point, their tastes appear to have been very dissimilar, and it' is at any rate curiOus that a steady, hard working young fellow like Behag should ' have chummed up with a man whose character was not even, up to the somewhat lax standard of South American cities. They had, however, one pursuit in common,. and it may possibly liave been this which linked them tegether. , They were both fond of the sea. Arthur Sterious owned, two yachts, one the Pajarito;' a small five4onner, and the other the ' Pajaro,' a fifty-tor:tier. Behag had been a sailor by prcifession, and was probably glad to be a paseenger on the bigger boat, or else potter about in the smaller one for his own eniiisement. At any rate he seems to have spent much of his spare time on the water. " Then one Sunday morning Behag and Sterious went out in the Pajarito,' and since that day no one has ever set eyes on them again. "It was a fine warm day with a slight southerly breeze. Both were experienced sailors, and it is extremely tmlikely that they could have come to grief in fair weather. But for all that the ' Pajarito ' was never picked up. A week afterwards her dinghey came ashore twenty miles north of Valparaiso, bottom upwards. , '.The general opinion at .the time was, tnati tor some reason or other the yacht had foundered, and that the two men had put off in the (Hughey and met with an accident in the open sea.