Show A reasonable murder fit LIN 1 I 1 ibis the tile twin inen who nt at the outset of chist possible case were in ili the station nt tho ottllie end of UL iu lwft hid h id been counter I 1 reg ill it hirth hut but beti betheen een the ng nc rc of if anti alje bad aroun aico to il pe arnote till 1 amount wl will 1 I tell ili liina they ilc iati nue agit t in a iri tr singular tri inner Jn pr II 11 ins it ln till nud aud ili mia 1118 fut flit in ili tit tint it of ze I 1 I 1 flit tl coll tin t blont had tc irly oldster cited 10 1 I boll both mil lind grosu to t n akl A bisely c so if tho th a 0 sa a same h 4 had TOI tot W ont t ono one conejo foo foa X faba diw aut a t oi off T at t tho the A anal I 1 czinu d 19 bad had won laa la hiot race for 1616 W based 0 in o poverty pov eo 04 PIA 4 and surgeon surge eurg on con two noka ter hir lake and return sq to the I 1 oung man inside of theil window did say and land re return ia tho ticket seller naked asked with a look and a n tono tone a of tho them man who was apparently buying a beat seat ho he could never alt sit in jasper nan was 0 about hia lite false show allow of 0 illness and cry cry retaliatory too lie reached through tho the window gripped tho a oung man and hauled him halt half wa out dont hurt him joseph interpose in cd ed ia waro now that a aro are not in ili a precarious of be herlth A man with sidelong c e ce es and edge wise attitudes watched tuo the with very conspicuous shyness iio lie wits a krivdo detects 0 and to bo be afraid people would not know it lie liked to be a cpr when ho lie al as not spa echi ing for py ho lie allied for tsure so tile iladene had been gone a week he lie knew who they were how rich was tile one and how poor was tho tile other and that tho tile reft son wh wha ono one limped was that tho the left foot was nn an artificial member the twins camped on iho tile shore of bascom pond find fished and hunted with wit tile help of reuben brown nn tin adirondack Adiron daLk guide boullen showed allowed them how to hook tile trout and bill let the deer and ho lie was their proxy in most of the sports that proved at all nil dangerous oun to the tile dumb creatures although jasper ans a quick tempered man oe as wo ue have already been the reader will bo be surprised to learn that it was not vot ho he who killed tho the man anauo 0 an and unctuous joseph but it was joseph who killed jasper the murder was for far from an act it was a choll calculated accle vet nent looking to A transfer of for tune from the man of sordid tilo tile pursuits to the man of professional leisure joseph would be tile heir to jasper in ili case of the wifeless roans mans death and there were was no will in existence so when tho the brothers capsis ed their ta ca noc noe whilo while fishing and it was not likely that the I lan ian an one would bink hink and tho the fat one float joseph did not dc to pond on such natural results iio lie clung to tho the overturned oer turned boat and pushed lii ili brother off a most deliberate and diabolical fratricide had been committed then he removed tho the artif artificial leml foot from his icelin and pocketed it care carefully full stripped off all of the tile clothes and placed them where ho he could acco or them and hid lit the body under water by means of a rope and stone bueben Ku eben a slid add dd joseph haden to the guide upon V to the tent and see here how bow tho the murderer kept his conscience clear of an any lie amy mv brother jasper his hu been drowned and in I 1 escaped with ma ID life reuben went to search for the bod of the bead haden leaving the live haden all cring V with a chill for his ills clothes wee we e wet and anti be ide a man na naturally y feels a creepy sen sensation sa t I 1 on at af ter he his ims mar murdered dered a brother tor for the tire first time the guide tilde rowed hither and thither peering down into the tile pond lint did not find jasper he ile returned lied to the tent after an hour or two and saw a thing that astonished him joseph haden rat en clofed from mak n ek to heels in a big bar bag C of rubber steam was eR escaping caping a little at tile and 0 e exposed face looked parboiled tho roan man was taking a bath by br shutting himself in with a lam lamp P n after ft or t in inner o binnion out of the tile woods but reuben know it 1 I nm arn diug precautions against a t ikin kikng ft cold slid joseph im a physician iou ou know kno find I 1 ain in fully aware of alij the dnn dinar 11 r of following r tile chill ve lud hid linol heard of folks boiling n ith ral ae and find no was wits now impressed 11 krucli Kruc lj with tho tile thought flit thit thi man na 4 boiling 0 with 0 grief for his ids drowned brother if so he be w ac is bound to he be welt well done for bo be sat ole then hour after until nightfall night n fill with drip dripping pinc u from his held he ld down the outside of the bag ij of the tile nc of wt r to afo 11 aryh gh enough to extinguish the I 1 imp the file did burn itself out after a awhile while aw rind then tile simmering in til tumbled mIlled we ikla from froin the seat tal tala rul rebber lr lie 11 chisper cd ed it drw nip ot opt ott t str nii mid ud nip me with mill ain n r rlyn golej jn calr niril thit n eglit 1 in ili bl h lu on oil tit alic bed left of if goligh until MW hit bitta bitt lots 1 I 1 IN iliof ilic nf ne the or fir at 1 mii before lire of abit 11 h 1 I lif iti I 1 I 1 ma coutv h aj mir tile 1 I tik tile 4 fi p it ln 1 4 tho N guide was tonis bod by tio the amount of boll lug ilig walking and anti rubbing this if ilg ular man endured wo we aughter go and give notice of cot bour our tr Iro thors others death dont lit hluben once suggested go and mako make one more hunt for his body it and u t I 1 I 1 t N ou on don dont t abd tbd it wo no will quit tho the calp camp tomorrow to morrow morning rubon did lad find it and anti good reason why joseph had loosened tt it from tho the ropo rope and stone an hour before and then fled from it as a it floated ho lie looked long enough however to sec see it lind bloated to much more than its former bulk good lordi lordt the guide cried breathlessly as ho he ran back into the camp I 1 a found him ilia ills clothes was gone how could that have been and anti he lie was as sto ky a as a aou ou was two weeks ago ho ile locked at joseph JO seph and id saw in on oil instant the change that had hall been wrought in him the fut foot man had hall reduced himself to a thin one by vio lent lout sweating rind exercise right bo be foro forto tho the staring acs of tho tile guide but it was not until now that the tile doltish witness realized the extent of tho the alteration M grac loust he lie exclaimed drawing back for a critical survey youre tho the 1 enago nago of him like ho he was when wo we comi here and and anti his body is just as big now as a mine was then the other suggested urbanely s just an dr haden and it looks to ion ou ns as though I 1 had been drowned and anti he stood here before 3 ou on alive sto s to ledge by the pe arances js lo 10 wall only what 4 only thero there was v as his foot I 1 mean there ills foot ah all aes 3 es ile had ono one foot fool so tho the falso false foot had become detached T gono gone along with the clothes I 1 1 guess but what I 1 cant guess doctor is how thorn them clothes got oarn him you think I 1 resemble my brother as he was when we came into the woods to together do you ruben lin lie remarked As like cz two peas was the ro re ply 1 I nc no cr or seen such a lesem blance all caused by the treatment I 1 gat gait myself ruben I 1 was two to suit butt my notion and so I 1 reduced my in self aou ou see ruben passed bis his hand dazed across his ills own brows ho ile was not used to hard thinking gnat thing tho the turkish bath joseph continued ain in five minutes it would miko ninke you unconscious of the head ache 3 ou now have come sit down here try it oh ob aou ou need nt undress ill apply it to y your our head a tho the guhe guile did lid not consent to tho the proposed treatment but ho he permitted in it and so ho he is dead his ills demise was cry singular it if lie has come to his ills senses yet ho he must re ro view the tile event with keen interest ar not so much from a personal concern as from a man who had been drowned 0 on n dry land will it hurt mo me ruben asked as the rubber bag was being puckered tightly M around his neck after a minute or two 3 ou wont feel it the operator went on by this time the upper end of the sack salk was fitted to the tile neck so tightly as to choke we will N ary the use rise of this I 1 to suit your case he said 0 dont gasp your breath will not bother aon ou after just n u little nor old it joseph slit the baar nag at the botto 1 turned it up ill avci ru rubens beas head and gripped it tightly smother roe me the tile ectro pa punted d ill 11 gho ou borne bome air and th the assassin a kept his word by relaxing his ills hold sufficiently to make an aperture now sit down quietly on tho the ground ruben its got to bo too done and tile quicker its 0 ocr or with tho tile sooner 3 aull bo be comfortable s slid iid joseph it was at this point in the expert ment thai that ruben became greath amazed arn azeil in recalling it to memory 1 I if sus ills present condition of mind per mits him to le lie retrospective retrospect le lie will n coil act tint the hoi city of the how homicide icide as wondrous he ile eat bat down town on oil tho the ground obediently 0 er his lie id but ter mg ing a dinall open place tile reer reversed sed ba bag ar was bun bunched clied in ili ono biond b ili joceph jo cali who r ith the ollir other look took up a it of unter and nd poured it into tho the ope opening niner M so Un liens head nas vias as comple completely submersed as s though ho he had been at ahe lc hot bot oin of tile pond rora ciniman or two there inas AS a ure it dp ile il it of commotion tn motion if it hubn n b h lit il nt tried in ili the ali wilce of mr air to broil breil ho lie tho the water his ili I 1 dolent I 1 mi 1111 bt lit 0 awaited him film 0 0 k tt ole A 4 but bo he had no with fuel such unexpected circumstances and hb his futile things and contortions seemed to bo actuated by a con fined n 3 ci belief hint th bo he might L a ecim wa M out of tho tile difficulty joseph twisted twitted the bag with nil all hie his n light thus forcing fo rc ing the water down atiland ilubina head astop stop kickle kicking p ho he cried do aou ou bear moll ruben him but coul dut ay any eo so and whether in obed leno or not note his ills resistance censed ceased and bo he oon soon iny lay drowned on llo the eun sun dried earth arth a iio 1113 died 4 1 ro r O much after tho the manner of a fiall that lind been pulled out of tho the water with his captor holding bottling him while ho he floundered that tho the suggestion of some now and awful form 0 of adirondack port flashed into tho sla 3 I 1 a ices cre mind but it was not blithesome or jo coso to too 10 alono alone in tho the woods altu aldith two men moll whom bott havo bave murdered and joseph haden moreover moreo or woe was filled with personal regret for thu sauri flea of fe faelling which his ills enter prise demanded besides be b know that a roost most inconvenient and anti painful ordeal still awaited lun lim iio lie bad had put himself hline olf into n reps omd reaca alonco of his ills deceased brother ho he had caused tho the body to assume the Ino iGne of his ills owa as last laste seen oen by rel ua es and anti friends be he bad had silenced the only witness or of anny nil of the tile process ho lie wa was ready to go out into civilization cli nith ith tile now indisputable lio lie that tho the tuo men lind been drown cd ed in lit tho tile lako kc t that ono important act net remained to bo be done tone it if joseph linden fladen woe wall to bo be jasper haden tile dead man must havo have two feet and tho the suvyier ier only ono one joseph was not a man to enter upon an important undertaking without calculating it to bo be a it climax nor to stop in III hit ids endower en buforo moro lie bad had dono his ills utmost to reach tho the success ile was a surgeon an I 1 well aware of tho tile bother and unpleasantness of rif amputating his own foot fool dut but ue he felt that tho the two other persons concerned had bad suir cred cd considerable sid erable annoyance and ho he would not let lot himself refuse to do to his ills duty by tho the affair so ho lie his ills left foot at tho the ankle and it was an excellent bicle of 3 well worthy ot 2 full report to bis ills medical society it if bo he ha I 1 not fit f fi it lt an obligation of pro fess loual secrecy so crecy joseph allowed himself week for the wound lo 10 get along in tile process of coaling coating with a skill fill add uncommonly solicitous surgeon in attendance the case hod had no mishaps or complications when all was ready he lie went to tho the nearest settlement introduced himself as jasper haden reported the death of joseph aid the guide and arranged for their burial bu ri al there was no arousal of suspicion in the minds of tile rustics who had to do with tile inquest funeral and internment relatives and acquaintances of the iladene came but there was no caiso caise for incredulity 4 eliere was a well rounded and two footed dead haden for the surgeon had his severed member to his brothers in a manner which being uninvestigated was not discovered there was A slim and single footed it live a haden for he lie wore tho the arti artificial fical foot who could suspect it was almost a month later when tho the false jasper haden arrived at tho the station at the outer end of the adirondack rail road ahl I 1 sec see abat I 1 guessed wrong that root need a return ticket said suit tho the young man behind the ticket window how illow uncertain lifo life your brother looked so robust and healthy and I 1 am alive although no better for ma a sad trip thanks to greif and and is lit limped anav on oil his ills still stilt sons atlie left leg then he be looked across thy the room and saw the a imo inic detective win who had lounged there at the time of the jour start the built man blanch cd pd and trembled tremble you here herc he lie faltered boil olives 3 e im heau hot e sir air ind nd the spa glanced burths furtively ly nt at tho the lime foot ft instants instantly y abe criminal fell felt hint that lie ho I 1 hid ind been watched chioti limit his ills L an awful fill deeda deeds h m alif lentil hound oc of the law but that wn w ta nn tin utter titter in litake the detective had no ou suspicion lefoll R while 11 am or cr so far as nav an I 1 w I 1 sit me P lose it fla den know JO alph ria drowned d in the adirondack jasper aladen is liin it ing and fat telling 1 with judici cub blown cbs on oil commands sometime lie 1 goes ti to the lite demetar ce metar luki and icille ma own ni iia au ne on f the tile ate anh shuh lie ili er act 11 tj 0 oica er ills lor 11 herK gra o 0 c rut k he serene nd wol cen coca x 1 tami and there a in he cant c aiu ot 1 licup dreading V t meet jascot and M u kuben bo be and anti bye |