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ASHEVILLE, N. 0., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 21, 1909.
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cent-muninmls are under the most eoniplete eonti'd and disport theniselviw in the water uh thouith the lime up. nl in their ulilutii-n- wan thi happlri li.-m- ih.n lues. 'I'li. y an- Hd'innl deiKaled in t It wrvlee or the temple and must i. t l.e iinnpelled to do
any work other than In connection with the piescrihed sacred functions.
The Altcnburl Case
By GEORGE DYRE ELDRIDGE
, PPfJTlIGHT, 1909, BY GEOKGE DYRE ELDRIDGK.
CONTlNfED.
"Generalteatlons hnve their place,
Fry, and are all right In their way."
answered Trnftord, taking from hi
clonet a traveling 1ok and ui Klnnlng
to. pack It. "but their plaice Isn't when
you're dealing with an Individual, and
Weclully with an Individual Incident
In the Hfe of that Individual, and -In
the life of that.lndlvidual. The man
David had heen drun only two weeks
before. HU regular oulhreaks occur
once a month, at ChriHtiww. and at
one rnther prolonged Jumple of Fourth
of July, Dominion day and mldsum
mer' day."
"Rather an Irregular orbit, I should
nay," cneered Kry, who at times de
tected flawi In the general radiance of
hln chief, and held It for the goyd of
Trafford'a soul that they ahnuld be
pointed out.
"Hut the point In, It doesn't any
where touch thla particular date, lie's
been about here for twelve year and
thla ia only the aecond time thin Irreg
ularity has occurred.".
"I should think the remarkable
thing was that It hadn't come oftem r
Buggented Fry.
"That only adds to the weight of Its
occurring at all, and especially of Its
occurring on this particular date,
alu Trafford, sticking to hi point.
"Did anything remarkable happen
the flint time, excepting, of course
the very remarkable thing of a Ca
nuck getting drunk when he hadn't
ought to? .
"jno, replica -rranoixi, giving me
question an amount of time that Pry
began to fear was rather addressed to
the tone in which it was asked than to
Its substance. "Twaa about a week
after he'd been on a fine, regular
drunk. He was working In the fields,
ttrangor came along and offered
him mim brandy, just smuggled
through from Canada. That caught
him and disarranged his orbit most
confoundedly.',"
Sturt'i Sodi ui Jaalper Conpm for
i1 Imr nl HJaey troubles. Relieves
lAtM tljte. All Drif lists $1.00.
Your theory," began Fry, but Traf
ford Interrupted him.
'I know. One swallow doesn't make
a summer, and n simile observation
Isn't eutllclent to determine an orbit.
but h.-re's the fact. n the afternoon
before Altenliuru was killed a man
ante through the woods, went into
the Altenbitrg bam by the tear do..i.
talked with Pnvld, who was at work
thcrp, and he and Dnvld had a drink
together out of a bottle, which lite
stranger produced. Two boys, younir
Malbon end Jack Reed, saw the drink
ing through a crack ' In the barn
boarding. They rnn away when the
mnn started to leave and don't know
hich way ho wont."
What sorter looking man wax he'.'"
Their descriptions correspond to
the extent of his wearing trousers,
though not to the color of the article.
Ibyotid that he hn1 whiskers and he
hadn't; he was very tall and he w is
short; h'' was dressed In gray and lie
was dressed in black, and he weighed
all the way from one-llfty to double
tint."
"It's (iieer," said Fry, Interested In
spile of himself, "that people should
be born wiili eyes when, as a rule,
they're of so little use to 'em.
Having eves they see not," said
Trafford. who had llnlxhed packing,
ami now threw an overcoat over the
chair on which hu b id placed his bug.
stood his umbrella beside them, and
came audi seated himself nt the table,
in. uri. In little things and the utter
ab"nce of haste In nil his movements
i . . i..,....,,u l,Vv urn
hud never ceasea i ""i""- .
familiar as he was with these charac
terlstlcs. He waited under a sense of
absence of Impatience, for Trafford s
next remark.
Two-thlrds, .crha nine-tenths, or
the things we spend out time trying
to ferret out and piece together liss
under the eves of people who. If th-y
only hnd the power to ser. could save
us an Inllnlte amount -of time und
trouble,. fh y
see," suggested Fry.
Trafford nodded assent t the
amendment '
."There's nothing one must be morn
enreful about than coincidences,
Trafford went on. "Tliev have a fas
cination of their own that often leads
to our exaggeration their Importance.
.Still, one can scarcely avoid asking.
Could a stranger Know that n drink
would send I i s nl to the village that
night?"
"Why need It have been a strang
er?" "Oh. the boys would have been
lllck enough to recognize him other
wise, one of the two must have
known him. There's no man In Ibis
town' who wouldn't be known to on,
of nny two boys of the town that you
could bring together. I'd trust 'em
qulcker'n any two men."
"lie went to town with the Inten
tion of getting drunk." said Fry.
thoughtfully, "That much I had out
of him."
"Yes, with that one drink aboard I
take It that the drunk w;is sure. tut
would a stranger know that'.'"
"Ktill. I'm with you that it was a
stranger. You can trust those kids to
have known and told If It wasn't.
drink taken In that way wwild at
tract a Mnccboro youngster only a
little less than u murder oil the high
way or a n open robbery. As to tolling
or It, they'd be less frightened and
iimiii delighted." '
"I'm clearly of the opinion that It
was a stranger," said Trafturd.
That settles It then." said Fry.
sharply. "I'robably, though, I'm right,
but I'm leaving It for you to llnd out."
Fry breathed easier. The lecture
and rigging had been far less than he
hnd expected and had ended In an ex
pression of Confidence.
"Olven a G.nuek," he hazarded,
feeling be Id to theorize under the con
dition u rTalrs had assumed, "and u
Htinnger to the individual nuvd not,
necessarily, be ignorant of that breed
of cattle. He'd b- ufa In calculating
In ninety-nine rases In a hundred that
a drink would set him going." "
Well, that's for you to find out."
repeated Trafford, "and you'll be a
good deal more llk.'ly to get at reliable
results If you stop generalizing and get
at the Individual, and eepeclutly If
you lay aside your prejudice, founded
on rac. religion or something, nnd go
at the affair on the solid ground of
fact."
After a pause to let this "soak in,"
as Fry said to himself, Trafford came
buck to his purposed absence.
"I'nHgolng to be away three or four
days." he said. , "That'll give you time
to look up this matter. Aside from
that 1 sou now that you'll hnve to do
la Just to keep an eye on the Alten
burg hotiue, not let Calden or Grlmble
shaw out of your sight, and If any
thing turns up give It attention. - Hy
the way. you needn't bother any a boat
i
that whll
an.' time I . ,t;
It WOUld b.l.
pla usihle for I 'n
to liotller Vtill ii.
that It seen. ,
merit In him
"Hy the u r. .
ment after. i;l i
other had laid I
lug that he r. i
dent IIS closed
illnn mention. .!
"Yes, met In'
him. in the w
wnv to the vi ll.ii
"There, seem
in the village
mere about 11 .
ing."
"Yes, thc'l.
Just as well hi.
.phone as n")
"of course,
hall inuslngh.
down to facts th
II. log. If he'1 nee, I. I
put my hand on Inn ."
. heen so casv .Hnl
lo say "I didn't .nr
ut lilm until I I, in nn ,
io Trafford iilum-' m
' to say It .
Mild TralT.ii.l. :
nig at a paper tie
fore him, ami "lieu
rded the former in. i
I see that the fan.i
1 1 1 Imblesha w "
i. or thought he in. I
" when lie was .m i he
e and his .hunk '
lo he iiille n fe. liiu
I Crlmhlcjli iw I us
ilTalr than lo
! II-
lylnc no Ii.- i .mi, i
dlwonnei te,l 111. I, I
ui else."
continued Ti.iffni il
"when wc' nn"
only thing wc'ic got
as to what !rimlileshuw found at tile
houne, or what went on there, for the
matter of an lu-ur or more, is Orlei
bleshaw's own tory. Km- nnvthlng
anybody who's turned up yet knows,
he may have .l oio the ransacking of
the trunk and turned the room upside
down.
"Are you I'oigettlng l'lill llnrber'.'"
asked Fry, nbo found something to
weigh seriously in this new line adopt
ed by Trafford. and was not averse to
get time to welqh it.
"The public can hardly be expected
to take Harder seriously. It's far
morely ty weigh the fact that (Irlm
hleshnw got rid of Barber before ho
really had a chance to see anything,
and that all his mysterious visitors
hud vanished before help got to him."
"Oh," ejaculated Fry. Trafford was
elenrly casting about for a measure of
thrt public's attitude, not attempting
his own opinions.
"Naturally." Trafford went on, "It's
told with theni that he seemed sn
familiar with the house. It's calcu
lated to arouse suspicion that he'd I
heen saying that down to Hlckford's
nid the port oltlce."
"How can you expect It to be other
wise?" Perhaps Qrlnibleshaw ha,
grounds for complaint, but not for
surprise, certainly. ' As to the disab
ling of the phone, people are sure to
see that he could have telephoned for
the police after he got his work done
nnd then have disabled tho Instrument.
'Twns he, according to Miilbon. who
called attention to Ita condition."'
"Oh. 'twas he all right," said Fry,
eagerly. "Malbon told me so at tho
time." '.'
"A. shrewd way t of securing wit
nesses that he was there a a physl-
i I. Ill's l.est Y, l, ..II
h things are apt to
on cvtmmatlon. 'is
illesli,ii iti could
he didn't."
. le.nh In take the
il to the indict
e j V e , I one m stei i-
M'dim; lo his story.
i n,. . I i r 1 1 ; u ,Iin .
(Ii, w hule. as sin
l.e a l rill, eliiins
-nr.. I,, start the
luiv. tel.. phone II
"Vh sail Krv
.'ii- ill. I add his
men!, "h,. had n
,.ii" ui 'S'.at'e. aee
yeeoml one made llis the less I'e
lll.irk.'lblo." !
" Y s." said Tialior.l. "but still. I'm
bound lo li..,. a trill.- i;lnmsy."
This distinct Ion.. ,i hoHtllltv toward
i Jriuil.l. -n;ii on the part id a man
who pii-te.i linns, ir, soinew hat OSfell
t : 1 1 . . 1 1 i al tunes ms I'ry thouglil.
.ill he the I 'ollgh i 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 I l.l 1 1 1 . began lo
ilopli- his c'llliauioli lllosl slrollglv
I. I.eu.in to slit- Ins in.licnation a-i
w . 'I He 1,1 m.i I,. i get Dial it as
h. u.. I TraO.,rd. ho liit called al-
t. i: ion te the weakness of IllllliMe-
sliaw s slim, and lh.it Traffonl li.nl
let', ived his Sllggi st lolls ei,,ly, 41.1t to
say sneeriiiMlv.
It struck him. also, thai Trafford
was weakening. It had been a strong
point with the detective in the past,
as Fry well knew, lo light off a con
clusion ns lie approached It, to array
against it every fact and argument
til it he end. I marshal nnd not to yield
11111,1 the last of his resource was
'broken down. Now, with a hundred
opposing facts and possibilities nil
shaken, lie rushed to accept a theory
us full of holes as a milk skimmer.
YVIth that Frv himself begun to
marshal the facts that made against
the presumption of (rlmhlcshnw's
gull.. attC he was well-nigh r founded
to Hnd how clearly untenable the the
ory became under this process. That
Trafford should have adopted It struck
him as almost Incredible, unless It wan
that he bad knowledge that he was
not revealing. It was possible, of
course, that,ho knew that the guilty
man was beyond reach, or, and here
seemed a glimmer if light. It had
decn made worth his while to let the
guilty escape, while he was not will
ing to seem to fall In the tusk set him.
Trafford took his satchel and um
brella and they walked to the station.
From the platform of the train, with a
half doxen people wKhln earshot,
Trafford called to Fry:
"Don't lose sight or drlmblcshaw."
XVII.
I Am Guilty.
The office bell rang and Grimble.
shew stepped In from his sitting room,
turning up the low-burning light as
he did sn. A woman, having, as the
first Impression she gave, marks of
age and somewhat shabbily dressed
drive."
want
'It Is
lie. ds
she admonished
your beaviesl
he turn, d up his
million to pull In.,
ed him:
a sl. igh. hut w.'ll
h.is wailing f.,r him she raised he
lea'.y .i and IrimldeshS w roeog
ni'-.e.l Mis. Cahl. n.
"Iioctor," h,. nld. speaking so all
iiiptlv a- lo seem to overlook hi
greeting, ' nj husband lias got to liav.
medical alteiidanee. Are yon hr.n.
enough lo g.i to him w ilh mi '."'
"Why not " h,. replied,
enough for me to know that hi
in ser lees "
"It's unite a
liiin "You'll
eo.it "
When, lion ever,
collar ami made a
cap low, she warn
"Not Ml a
have lo wall, a little distance. The
m.y think vou'i. Iiing to . sea p. re
cognition." 1 li I - l.l . I iriiiil.h sh.l u caught sighl
of the nevei --abs.-nl watelui. who lol
bond al a distance as lln walked
slowly, with steps limed to iter aged
appearance. Into the meanest part of
th- village. She. turned Into Frances
court, al the end of which, overlook
ing the Innviird, stood n huge wooden
house an iltlielr families, the must or
them foreign. r. The man who fol
lowed appeared to connect (irimble
shaw's companion with this house,
and thereby to satisfy hlmselr that the
call on ti I th as a physician was genu
ine. At least, after pausing for a mo
ment nt the entrance to the court, he
turned and passed into the Inn.
The woman led the way through the
open doorway of what seemed to
Orimbleshuw u hive of children
Holding her outer wrap to her face
she passed rapidly up two flights of
stairs with seemingly accurate knowl
edge of the premises, teaching the
third Moor, the corridor of which was
empty of the throng that besieged
them below, she turned Into a sidi
hull, which ended In n steep flight
of narrow stairs. Down these she almost-ran,
thereby regaining, tho
ground Door.
'Now you better turn up that collar
and pull down that cap," she demon
Islud him.
At the end of a nurrow yard they
found a tumbledown shed, In which,
stood an open sleight of light make
for rapid work, to which was har
nessed a horse of rather ordinary up
pcarance. drlmblcshaw noted a gen
erous supply of robes.
"Open ths door." she directed, "and
don't mind to shut It."
(TO DK tXJ.VTtNCED.) ,
According to political gosalp In At
lanta, Hoke Hmlth, recently governor
of Ueorgla, may decide to enter the
raca for congress from the Fifth
Qeorgla district.
'hilulcly of Aviation.
London. I lobe,
(ine ol' the very few genuine "varle
lies" in stamps Is announced, it
would be more correct to say it la a
rare postmark. Hare it will lie if In
lercstid parties did not take advan
tage uf tlie occurrence and have ad
dressed to themselves thousands of
envelopes bearing the murk. It seems
thai during the now historic aviation
we.k at liliclms u temporary post
efiii e was set up on the aviation
ground, and all letters there posted
hearing the ordinary French stumps
Her.' post marked "Itctheliy-Avlatlon,"
besides the various serviie marks.
The marking stamp was hexagonal,
instead of round. These stamps will,
no doubt, ,c curiosities. Time will
till whether they will be sought after
like the unnecessary lirunei provision
als. which in the aggregate must hnvo
leielied Just as high a sum as tho
year's revenue of the swamp In which
they were Issued.
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