The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1905-09-29 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

OOO. Pounds, mind—not dollars. And there will be more to come. If Blake has recovered COIISCiOnSIIPSS, you'll be able to cheek your way into the hospital if any man can." Saxon nodded and winked. Whatever others might think, he had every confidence in his own ability.  "You are going to be handsomely paid for all this," Stott went on. "Meanwhile I fancy that I shall find the air of the Bowery beneficial for a day or two. If you could arrange for me to stay here and have my meals with you—" " Consider it done," Saxon cried. "I've an Inner room behind this, where I sleep, and yox can have a shakedown on the floor. I'll arrange all about meals and the rest. Thirty dollars a week, all in, will be pretty reasonable I guess." Between his teeth Stott said he thought Saxon was erring on the side of hospitality. The ra,CA was taking advantage, as Stott would have taken advantage of the other had the positions been reversed.  " And now you go and do my errand," be said. Saxon strolled away jauntily, well pleased with his day's work. Stott sat there moodily smoking one cigarette after another, wondering where it was all going to end. What a time Saxon weal Perhaps something had happened to him. Or perhaps Blake was dead.  . . XOll came at length with a big cigar in his mouth, and evidence upon him that be had been liberally slaking his thirst on the way. "Well?" Stott asked impatiently. " Well?" "It depends upon how you interpret the word," Saxon said. "On the whole I was not quite so successful as I had anticipated." " Do you mean that you did not see Blake?" "Oh, I saw him right enough. lie had rallied wonderfully, but was still in a Weil k state. I was passed in by the doctor as his brother, come posthaste from the sick bed of a distracted wife. Blake knew me directly and he guessed that had COMP from you. The doctor said I was not to excite him, but he did all that part of the busiMPM for himself." " And you told him of my offer?'  " Yes, I s. 1(1 you would give hint £l,OOO down and more to follow if he kept his mouth shut and also kept certain papers to himself. But the man wouldn't listen to reason." "Ile declined an offer like that P" Stott groaned. " Ile said it would be all the same if you offered a million," Saxon explained. "Ito affirmed that he would not trust you so far as he could see you: and that I was to say that Mrs. Sinclair WilS a lady who could be trusted, and that she had already made the same offer." "Go hack and say that £2,000 in cash will be deposited to-morrow." "Go slow, Walker. What's the good? I was particularly to tell you that the papers you are so keen about were placed in Mrs. Sinclair's pO-session this morning. I've got to go across the street to see a man who's in trouble. Liae to me 3 the evenin:f papers,"  Saxon tos,e,l an early edition of the " Sun ' c ross the table and strolled out. Stott took up the sheet mechanically, too stunned to realise his position yet. His brain was clear enough, but he felt so sle:-py. Ile turned languidly to the I to news. There was a double headline and Hack type:— WHERE IS MALCOLM wrorr ?  What did it mean? Surely those words were r canine and no trick of the imagination. Stott had not been drinking enough for that yet. Ito ntuA read the headlines. Mere they were. " A theatrical plot. A play in a play. The suicide who did not commit suicide. Startling story told hr the cable front England. Malcolm Stott's dioholieal scheme. Dr. Burl inson and the chloibform. The ii diarabber cork and the other doctor named Ruby. The jar:, bring in a verdict of wilful murder againrt Malcolm Stott—who cannot bc found. Was seen in New York yesterday. There is Malcolm Stott?" The paper slipped to the floor and Stott prw.. .. MN( tU light a cigarette with a steady bard. He cursed the American cable heartily. But for that he might have been safe. Now he was likely to b 9 picked up at any moment. \flint was he to do? Whet e could he go? Was the game really up. or was there a chance yeti' it is brain was moving very quickly now. lie rose and put on his hat, and strode from the house. At any time or place he might be arrested. There was just one more card to play. " I'll do it," he muttered. "111 go and see T rev  To be continued.  4'