Show ALLEN GRAY OR on E r the mystery 01 0 M curleys turleys Tur i urley leys I 1 s point f BY JOHN R MUSICK author of 4 helen La lakeman kernan f 11 walter Brown ried and anat Y other sto ies it gives us no little pleas pleasure to announce another story from the oen pen of this gifted and popular west western em author also that we have made arrangements range ments to secure its publication in these columns allen alien gray is one of mr musicks Mu strongest stories and in strength of plot wealth of incident V and interesting character drawing has rarely been equaled we confidently fi believe that this story will prove one of the best serials we have yet printed A splendid western story b by y a popular western author watch for the OPENING CHAPTERS which will appear shortly V ika W hlll loave OOT SIA TEDI L I 1 I 1 WHAT 13 IT BERTHA T r 11 TER TOE THE EDITOR EDI TOll AINT lel 11 L 1 I 1 BAST ANT TO YOU FOB every body should read it don t ji ss a singla chaar cha pr s Sut s wyite the woman lifted linck buck tie the sheet yes yea look at him 1 she cried thebert the act tile noblest blest mun anan wha whoever ever lived and sec gee what you and such as you have llev 0 baroug brought b him to 10 you have conic come like t lie rest ot 0 your gang bringing me ine offers or of money but i I 1 to 11 them an all I 1 tal you on your dollar dollan 5 arc ats 1 ned tl with blood and I 1 will have none ol of them even it if I 1 blayde to 0 go o to tho the parish to bury hin him look I 1 are arc you satisfied with I 1 yes it ilai the body of william chat ter toi shohe guilty soul harry thought with a shudder might even now be cowering before the accusing spirit ot of his murdered friend tile then as ho he looked once more into the v hito taca face a and nd the thought hashed flashed across Us idi mind vengeance is mine saith the lord I 1 will 11 he turned away with a sigh of commiseration nay malam madam 11 lie ho said do not mi misjudge we tile I 1 am not one of your I 1 lius u binds boon companions I 1 knew him somo some time ago but anve not seen him tor for many months mont lis will you not let me play tho the pait part odthe of the maritan Ili and relieve i 3 our our present necessities sho she looked searchingly at him for a moment 11 no she alio said 11 1 I see you aro are not one of u vl 7 then cn I 1 maybell may help you youl I 1 not nolin in charity chi rily base ns as williams friends would tell you voil that I 1 am I 1 could not bear the thought that lie lichas was laid to rest by other fiands lunds thanin than mine 11 0 wonderful love ot of woman even this had fourd found a dieul t to lovo love him L nn and believe in him perhaps I 1 cirild purchase some little trinkets that belonged to him harry said blushing at the policy ot of his suggestion 11 would you the woman asked eagerly now novi theres lis his watch and f hain 1 I meant to sell them and the secondhand second hand dealers give so little for such things thin As she spoke she toola from a drawer a massive gold watch to which was attached tho the very chain harry had so long been seeking I 1 must write to the tha governor for so some 12 lc more thoughts though tas ho he too look the precious bauble in his hia hand they are arc worth two hundred dollars the woman said 11 but I 1 shall be thankful if you will give we me a hundred and fitly fifty tor for thorn them no harry said iti iannot snot a dimete time tc take advantage of your necessity here bore is the an amount aunt in fl full 11 t the prize wis wa his hia ue he hastened back te tc t the he two live young youit men and to plat plaits t S intense satisfaction d dismissed him and left him tree free to prosecute that glorious career in fit the far west he so gush gushingly ingy assured them would crown his efforts for reformation 1 im deuced glad the little cad is gone sold gordon grey for there have been scores or of quite the nicest girls passing and it was not tile giddy height of pleasure to think they believed wo we two were chums 11 oh the conceit of the cobblers lers dog harry laughed but his thoughts wore ivere with barclays nir Bar clays widow and children wondering how best lie he could befriend them CArTI lq HAS IN AX ITRA rito years have passed and nd ati aro are onee once more nt at the orchard farm it is in glorious midsummer and the sun which is blazing in new york till the rocking reeking streets aro are like fire furnaces is tempering the light breeza which tullius duclos the bosom of 0 the lordly st clair with a pleasant warmth that brings the glow of health to the palest check whenever captain winthrop is ed in mind ia ho is wout wont to retire to the seclusion of the pilothouse pilot house in his bis front garden whore where under the inspiration of a mighty meerschaum lie reflects on the various turns of late fate below and generally emerges with a more placid countenance on this occasion ins ills good natured face bears a more than ordinary distressed expression pres slon and he lias has sought the additional solace of the presence of his wife alfo who is 13 ever ready to share his troubles 1113 Is it about harry carryl I 1 martha winthrop Trin asks with it a concerned look in her pleasant face aye ma inn it is the old trouble 1 I am sure auro daniel we ought to be thankful for such a good son so upright so steady in business why it if hold hed only said aid the word he might have gone to congress d yes lie is a good lad the captain si sighed hod 11 but theres a something come between him and me that tells me that he is not my boy harry that used to be well you know what it is yes his mind is hankering day and night nigh after tafter that girl it was a bl hour for us when you invited her to stay slay at orchard farm 11 maybe it was Mart lift assented but you should not bear malice against t her for foi the lord knows her troubles havo have beef many two brothers lost in the war father and mother both dead and only sho she and walter left of what was once a happy ha 1 py lat family nily 11 11 they brought their sorrows on their own heads the old captain said primly grimly 11 and to think of that poor girl being now alone in iii sew new york seeking her bread among strangers oh daniel think it if it was iras our nei in such a position site gasn wasn t a had bad sort after all tho th Ca captain said reflectively putting a cloud of smoke which eddied and curled iu in tho th air martha sighed do you think harry hears bears from hor her as often as he used to dot do she asked presently hears from herl yes sho she writes to s 1 1 11 I 1 1 is 18 KOT 0 T THAT AMR ALI AIL TOL YOUR R avs X FAULT daniell HAX iri liim him oftener than is good for him that is why ho he always rid rides es into town and gets the letters himself ali ah martha my mr boy had h sd no secrets from his old dad once but said tile old captain ruefully eyo eye ing hig liis his wife tire cs as though half ashamed of tile tho concession he wits was about to make in appear ing in at all concerned anant tile fortunes of th tile 0 Frobish ains 1 I want you to tell TOO me just why that girl is obliged to live alone in new york you and harry sometimes put your heads together find and I 1 suppose he has taken you into liis his confidence but tie he never eve r says bays any thing to me now about his affairs 9 Is not that alter after all your own 0 wa fault daniell do you ever encourage him to wk talk to layou you about kate kalcl I 1 if tier her name is ia mon men ti olleA you sm 09 05 glum lon As aro I 1 however you 49 4 W sh show ONY swo la no ko you dont you young hound 9 fc for the fellow WAS on the point of making a clash for liberty but flodin finding himself in barrys viselike vise like grip collapsed and whiningly professed his hi willingness to go wherever his bis captor desired to tako take lihn him so linking arms with tho the compliant mr platt plait winthrop quietly conducted him to I 1 his bis chamber in the hotel I 1 now sir he be said when lie had bad locked the door and put tho the key in his lii pocket i will you yon toll tell me what became of tho the watch chain chaia you stole stele from lieutenant sic me kenzie 1 I did not mean to take it lor for 11 platt whined indeed I 1 I 1 only meant to borrow it tor for awhile and put it back where II 11 I 1 found it before he missed IV it 11 where is i it bowl I 1 to do not know sir that is to say I 1 think I 1 gave it to 10 a man named jackson 11 you lying scoundrel harry thundered you have destroyed it the night you murdered frank barclay oh lord I 1 never murdered frank T IJ r MR MB PLAIT I 1 WANT YOU TOU why im that tender 1 I intentionally hurt a ly fly do I 1 look like a murder murderers erl harry was tain fain to confess that be did not burder murder was hardly the role of such a crikt ing cowardly contemptible specimen ot of degraded humanity I 1 tile man who committed the atrocious er crime line wore that watch chain and since you will ill not say what you have donewirth do atthe odium must rest on you I 1 give you ono one lal laist cliance cli inco to make a clean breast speak or iu in ten minutes you shall be in a prison cell now sir air 1 I dare not tell the whole gang would be down on me it would be as much as my life is worth your life Is not worth vh if youage you arc Ei lelit hut but it if you prefer to go belore before a jur W V 11 anol I 1 will confess all but my tes testimony bo be kept barkl surely there is ia no necessity to drag a poor innocent follow into trouble besides im going to reform and join a church and be a model young man 11 if hi fiva fire minutes you have cave not given me m UM the whole history of 0 that watch chain said clarry ominously glancing i at a clock on the manaol picco oft you go gil to jail beads ot of perspiration stood on platts flatts brow he wits was evidently weighing m it his hi mind whether it would be safer to risk a court of justice or the vengeance of the disreputable crew into whose hands ho be had bad fallen but a movement on harrys part pan as the clock struck goaded him film to dare future danger if he could only got out of his present scrape astop stop I 1 will ivill toll tell you all AIL ho he cried me moistening stoning his bis parched lips and looking so utterly utterly frightened that harry to ahorn cowardice was a crime could scarce refrain from kicking him I 1 lost money gambling with it some follows fellows I 1 owed them more than I 1 could pay and gave one of them 1 watch and chum chain as security which I 1 meant mc uit to I 1 as soon as luck turned A likely story indeed it if that hint was all why did you make such a fuss about explaining pla ining matters ah sir you do not know the why if dill bill chatterton alterton Cli 11 chatterton Chat turton ah now I 1 see it rill nil you tire arc telling the truth at last out with the whole story man mail and do not be such a coward I 1 will see you sate safe from him 11 oli oil Chatter chatterton tou call cant t hurt me he be dw died last night lie was shot in fit a gambling house on twelfth street and when I 1 wout wont to his lodgings this morning they told me lie ho was dead 11 harrys face tell fell 1 I 1 dont believe this part of tho the story lie ho said grimly however wo we will soon test its truth for you shall show me BIG tho the W way ay to his lodgings ll 11 what 11 yes but you need not allow yourself then touching the boll lie he summoned a boy whom he be dispatched in search for gordon grey who was stopping iu in the hotel 11 now grey said harry when that young gentleman who had bad grown so stout with rood good living and pleasant quarters that you would never have recognized himas hiim as the emaciated figure of a few weeks past now grey I 1 want you to do me a service this hs young gentleman is about to conduct duct mo toa to a house in the city where I 1 wish to make a call and as ho he is to wait outside till I 1 return and might perhaps get impatient and run away in my absence I 1 shall take it as a favor if i you will accompany I 1 him and it if lie ho makes we tho slightest to abscond 11 oh 1 3 cs ca ill take taho caro care of him for you old follow come along sir mr your name and please to remember that hurt yourself vours olt it if you try to wrench asunder the siamese twin like bonds of affection which will link us two together for the next hour or so was the lighthearted light hearted reply as the trio set out the two younger won mon arm in arm with harry at a discreet dis croot distance in ia the rear vice held high revel in washington in those days when tho the city was crowded w with ith men with pockets full of back pay aad gamblers and cut the spoil had gathered gat bored there front from every great city iu the union so that there was scarcely a block in certain quarters which could riot not boast its hell bell of a more or less disreputable character but worse even than thoice thc open sinks of iniquity were the do dens in private vate houses which abdun abounded dod on oil all sides number fourteen first hat flat upstairs platt cried to harry as they approached a modest house in an apparently respectable row rely of tenements harry went upstairs and rang tho the ben bell A slovenly young woman appeared who would have been handsome but for the signs of dissipation and boccut weeping manifest in her pale face to her dresa clung a sweet little gairl perhaps two years old hiding in tho the folds of her mothers gown and peeping at 01 t harry with big frightened blue eyes am I 1 ep caking to mrs chattel ton I 1 winthrop said gently for the won lonians womans ians tears fears and babas melted his savage need mood 11 come in sho she said and close tto ch ioor there is no need to let all tho the neighborhood learn lcara the nature of your visit some astonished at his hi reception I 1 turry stopped inside the alio little chamber yes yea young platt had told tho the truth on oil a bed with a white sheet over it it liy lay and I 1 win kaow tw DD LU tw PV I 1 1 I deah y I 1 am wrong in a supposing that tho the PK privacy of a homo home ro reclaim maindi to us any longer oh harry exclaimed is it possible po that you have been by the commotion in your house or are arc you indifferent to your daughters peril I 1 my daughters peril uia the mother cried springing to her feet 11 ali ah wo we heard noises but thought they came front from th Lb estreet IV here is my daughters daught ert quick sur ir speak I 1 saved Et rl othor other saved I 1 cried katchel kate Kat chez her self as she sha glided by harry tind and flung herself in mrs Frobish ams armi arm 11 what in it the name of heaven does docs this melodramatic nonsense mearil the father cried flu luhcs luh bed cd with anger 11 where li ig lo 10 croiel 1 I where is walter Is there nono none with iab a gral pi ain a of son sense soto lo 10 tell me what has haa happe nedi but alre already adyn a curious crowd of citizens citizen and soldiers attracted by the crushed figure of the dead roan man on oil the sidewalk was wa inundating the house and it required the exercise of considerable tact and authority on harrys part fart before the body was removed in an ambulance and tho the eager sightseers acra driven d aren away 0 so o that when whon he ha re returned kate had explained the situation of affairs to tier her parents who greeted him more cordially I 1 aust say sir sir mr said ald in kind though pompous that you bayo behaved in a monstrously handsome mannor and that wo we shall always remember you in our prayers with wilh gratitude though we iva may never meet again his bis wife said grasping harrys hands though we may never meet again tho the daughters voice echoed in fit a tone so utterly distressful that harrys spirits sank below zero there writ was no plen pica tor for further delay daloy there was no necessity no now nov v to unmask tho the treacherous frenchman sm ro muttering to himself the words do dc laor inori ful ral nil nai li bunum he be bade the 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