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THE HIGH rOINT, KNTF.RFRTST. TUKSDAY, DKCEMnKn ?, 10 ( , . m m--9--mm "' iw r of .Melville Davisson Post Q 9. JQ21 NEA Service, lnc 4 THE FOUTUXK TEIAEU. Rcgta Here Today. Seated in the quiet of his Paris study M. ' Jonquello, greatest o( French detectives, reads from h s father's diary a tale of crime and its detection in long-ago Virginia. The story was that of the will of Marshall, which had strangely dis appeared. The writer of the diary recounts how his father and the law yer Lewis, were suspiciqus of Mr. Gosford, the Englishman who had exerted such a strange influence ow the deceased Marshall. Gosford, claiming that money was left to him in t'he stolen will, charged Marshall's son with the theft. Go on With the Story. CHAPTER II. "And now, sir," continued the Englishman, turning to my father, ""we will inquire into the theft of this testament." "wilt yon kindly ask young Marshall to come In here?" The man would have refused, witl some rejoinder, but my father wa looking at h m, apd he could not fin, tho courage to' res st my father", will. He got up and went out, am presently returned followed by th lad and Goekl. The old countr; doctor sat down by the door, hi: leather case of bottles by the chair his cloak still fastened under hi: chin. Gosfoid went back to th. table and sat down with his writing materials to ktep notes. The bo. stood. My father looked a long time a, the lad. His face was grave, bu when he spoke, his vo ce was gentle "My hoy," he said, "I have had i good deal of experience in the ex animation of the devil's work." H paused and indicated the violate ronm. "It Is often excellently done His disciples are extremely clever One's ingenuity 's often taxed ti trace out the evil design in it, and But my father did not appear to notice Mr. Gosford. Ho seemed per-)t0 stamp it as a false piece set into piexea ana in some concern. t tne natural sequence of events." "Lewis," he said, "what Is your definition of a crime?" "It Is a violation of the law," re. plied the lawyer. "I do not accept your definition," said my fattier. "It is, rather, I think, a violation of justice a vio lation of something behind the law that makes an act a crime, I think." lie went on, "that God must take a broader view than Mr. Blackstone fend Lord'Coke. 1 have seen a mur der in the law that was in fact, only k nd of awful accident, and I have teen your catalogue of crimes gone febout by feeble men with no intent except an adjustment of their rights. Their crimes. Lewis, were merely errors of their Impractical judg ment." Then he seemed to remember that the Englishman was present. 'And now, Mr. Gosford," he said', Industrial Electric Co. New and Re built , Motors, Supplies, Re wtadlajr, and Repairing. ' National Machine nnd Electric - Building " Phone 452. tf Hf RE YOU SHOP 0? A GOOD SQUARE MEAL! "I Declare, I Don't Know What To Have for dinner tonight" is the burden of the housewife's cry. We will answer that question promptly. Call us up by 'phone and you can depend upon getting the choicest and just the weight of what you want and you'll get it when you want it. Hutchens The Grocer. Phone 341. "We Grow Our Flowers." Each day wc send over l'Vcsh from our Green houses an assortment of the season's flowers. Our store is in charge of an ex perienced florist, who is eager at all times to give your orders prompt and careful attention when you want to say it with Flowers. Van Lindley Co. - , FLORISTS Day or Night Phone 8149. Jfrrnbera .. FlorNta Telegraph De , , llrfry Association. ;.;. He paused again, and his bif shoulders blotted out the window. "Every natural event," he con tinued, "is int niately connected witl Innumerable events that precede an follow. It has so many serratet points of contact with other event that the human mind is not able tc fit a false event so that no trace ol the Joinder will appear. Tho mos Skilled workmen in the devil's shoi are only able to give their false p ec, a blurred jo'nder." He stopped and turned to the row of mahogany drawers beside him. "'Now, my boy," he said, "can you tell me why the one who ransackec this room, in opening and tumbling the contents of all the drawers abou did not open the two at the boton of the row where I stand?" "Because there was nothing li them of value, sir," replied tho lad , "What is In them?" said mj father. "Only old letters sir, wr't'ten t my father, when I was in Paris ! nothing else." i "And who would know that?" sail my father. , The boy went suddenly white. "Precisely!" said my father. "Yoi ! alone knew it, and when you under , took to give this library the appear ance of a pillage room, you uncon pp'misly endowed vo.ur :mag'mr robber with the thing you know yourself. Why search for loot 1. drawers that container only old let tera? So your imaginary robber rea soned, knowing what you knew. Bu a rea 1 robber, having no sucl knowledge, would havo ransacke them lest he miss tho th ngi o value that he searched for." Ho paused, his eyes on the lad, hi volie d-:ep and gentle. "Whpre Is the will?" he sa d. The white n the bay's fac changed to scarlet. He- looked r moment about h m In a sort of ter ror; then be lifted his head and put back his Shoulders. , He crp4sed th f"m to a bookcase, took down i volume, opened it and brought out a sheet of toldpd foolscap, fie Htoo. up and faced my father and tho mei about the room. "This man," he md, indlratint Gosford, "has no right to take al my father had. He persuaded m father and was trustej by him. But i did not trust him. .viy father saw this plan in a light that I d d not se it. Imt I did not oppose hi. If h ished to use his fortune to hell nr country in r!io thing wh -h hi thought he foresaw, I was willing for h m to do it 'But, ' he cried, "somebody de ceived uie and I will not heliovu tha: t wa my rat'lier. He told me all horn this thing. I had not thi health to light for our country, when i iiu' ruuie, he suL-l. and as he had no oJ.her son, our fortune must Ki to that purpose. In our stead. But my father was Just. Ho said that i portion would he net aside for me. .and the remainder turned over to I Vlr "'' i Hu! Huh w II gives al, to Mr. Gosford and leaves me noth I iug!" ! Then he came forward and pu' the paper in my father's hand. Then- was s lenee except for the sharp voice of Mr. Gosford. "I think there will be a criminal proceeding here!" My fat her handed the paper U Lewis, who unfolded it and read h aloud. It directed the estate of 1'ey. u n Maifhall to be sold, the sum ol fifty thousand dollars paid to An thony Gosford and the remainder tc the son. "But there will be no remainder,' cried young Marshall. "My father's 'state is worth prec sely that sum. He vaiuej it very carefully. Item by item, a::d that is exactly the amount it came to." "Nevertheless," said Lewis,, "the will reads that way. It is In legal rorm. written in Marxian's huu,. and signed with his signature, and sealed. Will you examine It, gentle men.' Theie can be no question of i fue writing or the signature." My tamer tooK the paper and read it slowly, and old Gaeki nosed it over my rather s arm, his eyes searching the structuro of each i word, while Mr. Gosford sat back , comfortably iu his chair like one ele- vati d to a victory. j "It is in Marshall's hanj and Big- nature, sain in) tamer, ana oia Gaekl nodded, wrinkling his face under his shaggy eyebrows. He went away Rtill wagging his.griizled head, wrote a memorandum on an envelope from big pocket, and sat i down In In chair. ! My father turned now to young Marshall. "My boy," be said, "why do you i say that someone has deceive your I " Because, sir," replied the - lad ,"iuy father was to leave me twenty thousand dollars. That was bis plan Thirty thousand dollars should be let asid tor Mr. Gosford, and the remainder turned over to me." , "That would be thirty thousand lollars to Mr. QostorJ, Instead of if tv," said my father. "Yes, sir,", replied tho boy; "that s the way my father said be would vrlte his w II. But it was not .writ ten that way. It Is fifty , thousand dollars to Mr. Gosford, and the re mainder to me. If It were thirty thousand dollars to Mr. Gosford, as my father said his will would be, that would have left me twenty thousand dollars from the estate; but giving MrGosford fifty thou, sand dollars leaves me nothing.' 1 "And so you adventured on a little larceny," sneered the Englishman, The boy stood very straight and white.. "I do not understand this thing," he said, "but I do not believe thit ny father would deceive me. Ho lever did deceive me in his life. I nay have been a disappointment to ilm. but my father was a gontle nan." His Tolce went up strong nd clear. "And I refuse to believe lat he would tell me ono thing and "o another!" One could not fallto be impressed, r to believe that the boy spoke the ruth. "We are sorry," sa d Lewis, "but he will is valid and we cannot So ehind It." My father walked about the room, is face in reflection. Gosford sat at s case, transcribing a note on his ortfolio. Old Gaeki had gone baok i his chair an,j to h's little case of ottles; he got them up on his nees. as though he would' be dl erted by fingering the tools of hi? rofession. Lewlg was in plain dis ress, for he held the law and its d' osition to be inv'olable; the boy ;tood with a fine defiance, ennobled y the trust in hts father's honor. )ne could not take his stratagem it a criminal act; he was only a hild, for all hlg twenty years of life. Vnd yet Lewis saw the elements of rime, and he knew that Gosford wag vritfig down the evidence. Lots on the Greensboro road rrn nhatcinff In value faster than An any other part ot Hlfth Point. Bqy lots , there Friday. December 8th. at l p. m. jiorney uroxners. ArhCTillo, N. C. : , j M usic by our. own stllstar Brass Band, at the auction sale ot the FLve Points lots on the Greens, loro road Friday, December 8th. it 1 p. in., and at the J. El wood Coi Ids on East Green street,, gaturday, December 9th, at1 1 p. m. 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