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Show THE GLOBE-HEADE- R, own to Inquire as to the condition tor, I requested. "Walt until you rest electrics, studied with keenest scru- Miss Grayson, and they beat e Eloi Lacoste, the Injured chauffeur, hls face, not for what Is on the surof tiny the face which had so deceived driver of our something me. fierce; and the Commissioners issued and leave Instructions that every- face but for what is behind It Tbe motor, drawing a swift diagonal In general contour and individual orders to put the whole yellow popula- thing possible should be done for his feature the likeness to Cameron was tion on the pan If necessary o get the comfort. I alighted from the car at to the curb, came creeplngly to a hall . the door of Dr. Masseys office on before the Cameron house. As I was monstrous In Its fidelity. The same ones what Is responsible. West Fifty-sixtabout to alight. Dr. Massey laid a de1 Instreet Inherited from arrests mad? Scottish "Were any rugged power. I trust I am not that type of man taining hand on my arm. forbears, was traceable In every linea- quired. If your conclusion is corredj ment But there the similarity ended. OHara smiled. "Were afcy arrests which, when guilty of error, delights The face I gased upon lacked Illumina- made? he repeated In a tone that In- to shift the responsibility to other Clyde," he said, gravely, "what course tion. Character, so strongly Indicated dicated supreme pity for m (ignorance. shoulders. I hed small excuse to do you propose to take? Do you realIn the other, was from this totally abwhole- make for myself In confounding Mc- ize what la involved? Dont you see "Why, we took em sent In Its place was an admixture sale. Wo lowered the net aad dragged Nlsh with Cameron, yet I confess I that your conviction and mine Is owe of craft and brutality, so palpable, now It and you thing, but that to convince the publls ought to see what come up. had much less for the family physi- Is an entirely different matter? Cam so clearly, unmistakably evident old who deceived. had a so been cian, There was one fellow, skinny easily that I marvelled at my former delu- geeser Dr. Massey greeted me almost Jo- we afford to give this man up for his neither Chink nor sion. white man, but a slimy mixture of all vially, but checked himself as he ob- crimes until we have Cameron actuIt was the newspaper pustle picture thats bad in the two. Weve had him served the seriousness, the coolness ally here to prove that It Is not he who was thus Involved sixteen years over again. Having at length discov- on the griddle all night Talk about even, of my manner. ago. ered the hidden rabbit I could see the third degree! He got It good, and Our our patient Is not worse? In the recent result of developments nothing else whatever. It dominated he's made enough admissions already he Questioned, taken aback. I bad of that But I saw not the drawing. It fairly sprang at me to send him straight to the chair. "No, doctor, I answered, tempted now that thought It presented a problem ns from out the printed page. I suggested. And Murphy Imto a grim humor, "that would be less perplexing than some of There was still another feature of Hes a tough one, that lad! When possible, I fancy. Horace Hazeltine which had Just been solved. the revelation, however, which held a theyd brought him to, they figured For a second he regarded me with contrasting pathos. The letter which theyd get him to convict himself in CHAPTER XXV. carried conviction beyond all possible the same old way. But there was frowning Incomprehension. I Our patient," I repeated with a dispute was from Donald McNlahs nothin doing. He Just shut his trap, not be could sarcastic emphasis that Enemies Face to Face. aged mother. And while It tempered and not a word would he answer one As events shaped themselves the SYNOPSIS. in a measure the harshness of my way or the other. But his turnll come, misunderstood, "long ago, I fancy, limit of blackguardism. problem presented by Dr. Massey Judgment against the son. It was of all right Ive got It on him, Mr. Clyde. reached the The doctor's eyes widened, his lips found a speedy solution. Had I bees Jtobsrt Cameron, capitalist, consults traglo Import, in that It was one po- While I've been shadowin' him for the Philip Clyde, newspaper publisher, re- tent and be stood aghast compelled to grapple with It unaided piece of evidence In his undoing, past month Ive picked up a bunch of parted letters he anonymous tarding threatening I ha but dont ' baa received. The first promises a sample "But see, I am not yet sure what course I should quite the last link In the chain stuff that will come In good. To beOf the writer's power on a certain day. severing "You have quarreled with have pursued. Of my own volition 1 stammered. which his connected with that On that day the head Is mysteriously cut identity gin with, his name aint Murphy. It's Mr. Cameron? You have must have hesitated to take a step from a portrait of Cameron while the lat- of the shamefully maligned Cameron Pat Moran, and his mugs at head ter is In the room. Clyde has a theory I no, returned, No, which could not fall to throw suspiinterrupting over this letter, and Evelyn wept that the portrait was mutilated while the quarters." "Would to God I had him here cion at least among the only parhim. room was unoccupied and the head later am not sure but that my own sight His mug? removed by means of a string, unnoticed Miss Grayson was tially informed upon my absent and "Bure! in the Rogues Gallery. And to quarrel with. hr Cameron. Evelyn Grayson, Cameron s grew hazy, too, as I read the fond. niece, with whom Clyde Is In love, finds Quaintly couched phrases of endear his records there too. He's done time, right The man you have been using defenseless friend. But all choice In the head of Camerons nallad to your skill upon Is no jnore Robert the matter was denied me. half a year back In Dun- already. a true, where It had portrait been used as a ment, penned Cameron than I am. I arranged with Dr. Massey that ha old Scotch "For whatr target Clyde pledges Evelyn to secrecy. dee, by this to whether I Irritatknew be Clyde learns that a Chinese boy employed woman, to that Infamous, should hardly go unaccompanied to hls par back.1 In man "For stabbln' a the by Phllatus lfurphy, an artist living which followed. tlent'a room, and, without so much as that amused or ed to was by still her mathematical no who, her, reprobate, It Camgreat requires nearby, had borrowed a rifle from threw back his head and a hint that he was cognizant of what-haerons lodgekeeper. Clyde makes an ex- "aln bonnle bairn. ability to put two and two together. Dr. Massey cuse to call on Murphy and Is repulsed. It all came out, eventually, that transpired on the previous night, The result Is always either four or roared with boisterous laughter. He pretends to be Investigating alleged examination he whatever Hal Ha! Ha! That's the rich- make had traveled the world over In twenty-two- . In logic, the answer Is Infractions of the game laws and speaks 8o, fellow! conclua dear of of finding the bowl of an opium pipe un- the sixteen years Intervening since the Invariably either definite a deemed est to Joke, kind my Murnecessary or wrong. right der the tree where Camerons portrait coolie massacre, employing a score or phy had stabbed a man In the back; be exclaimed, as hls mirth subsided. sion. was found. The Chinese boy Is found In the meantime, having learned dead next morning. While visiting Cammore of aliases and so studiously McNlsh carried the scar of a knife "Not Robert Cameron? Why, do you eron In his dressing room a Nell Qwynne how many years I from Checkabeedy that Evelyn was la Mr. had Clyde, name he which know, the There blade. shoulder by his wound under avoiding mirror .Is mysteriously shattered. Cameron have been hls physician? No. Of the breakfast room, I Joined ber there. seriously 111 as a result of the- then been known, as to have almost were the two and two. ilrd letter appears mystenuntil, himself, I "What were the facts?" asked, course you don't. Ten years and over, Her curiosity had ripened by a night's . ... cron's sick bed. It makes forgotten It, probably, direct threats against the life of Cameron, yielding to the call of home, he had at with kindled interest "Whom did he and I know Cameron as I know my- suppression; and having dismissed the tells Cameron the envelope was some early period of the last twelve-mont- stab? When? Where? self. footman who was serving her, she at jf Clyde empty. He tells Evelyn everything and I Irritation said. me, once demanded the fulfillment of my "Then .tell to his a for brief visit returned anon a Cameron to trip. take O'Hara "The bloke's name, plans yacht The yacht picks up a fisherman found native town and his septuagenarian on earth he promise to tell her everything. Its way, "why having of moments a after thumbing swered, drifting helplessly In a boat He gives mother. "Its another case where you have the name of Johnson. Cameron disaphis note book, "was MacNlchol Doug- ever had the Initials D. M. N. tattooed Is back while from on arm? his left Clydes the pears most yacht he was that It right to say, 1 told you so, " I beIn likely, then, lass In was MacNlchoL It Buffalo, turned. A fruitless search Is mads for a exof doctors The New beof quick changes the gan, as I took a chair next to her. 1900. gave to her the address motor boat seen by the captain just Interestan were fore Cameron disappeared. Johnson Is - York hotel Fate influenced the moth In her wide blue eyes I read that becoming pression My putting together of names could lowed to go after being closely questioned. er to which had lin- she divined my meaning. smile The son ing sent Fate and the study. write, In an expert hardly be a coincidence. Evelyn takes the letters to Chinees literature, who pronounces them there six months later to get the let"Yes, I went on, "the man upstairs "Pat Moran served five years In Au- gered after the laughter now gave of Chinese origin. Clyde seeks assistance Is and not your uncle. We have bees brow to lowered a pursed his so way the and upon person carry ter, burn, the detective added. from a Chinese fellow college student who recommends him to Yup Bing, most confirmatory evldedCe of his Identity, nursing a viper. It seems, who prom"You dont know what became of lips. "A tattoo mark on hls left arm? ises to give us a deal of trouble beat the time when It would prove McNlsh I mean MacNlchol? prominent Chinaman In New York. The latter promises to seek Information of just he repeated, slowly. "Theres no such fore we are through with him. Cameron among his countrymen. Among fatal. No. Camerons letters Is found one from one There was no need for her to ques"How did it happen, I have been "Nor any facts about the cause of thing there. Addison, who speaks of seeing Cameron me. Rapidly, succinctly, I told tion ImmeIs, I "there examine is. "But didnt dethat there asked, you Insisted; In Pekin. Cameron had frequently the stabbing man her the dared to Clyde that he had never been In diately the clothes that the supposed of story I had learned from Yup arm on the at left the least, Informed "Thats easy got" OHara China. Clyde calls on Dr. Addison. Hs Cameron told hlmT found when her, too, of the scene is wore, you Sing; me. "But It aint In the record at youve been treating. learns that A d dl sorting, after I had left ber the bedchamber, la Dr. events was of In It still rlsw thoughtful. Is subsequent Massey there, though. headquarters. What IBg OBt Mn!tWfMlThlg Is some mistake, very easy to see what an Important Is that Moran had lived in Chinatown he decid- on the previous nlgl-- . "There goes to meet Yup Sing, sees Johnson, at- bearing such an examination would In Frisco, and was arrested there and ed. her the letter from McNlsh 's poor old tempts to follow him. falls Into a base'No, there Is no mistake, I as- Scotch mother. ment. sprains his ankle and becomes un- have had. But at the time, there was tried for smuggling opium,' but wan conscious. Clyde Is found byMlss Clement no one who thought of It Our chief "There, there, I soothed, as In sisured $lm. "Miss Graysons eyes for lack of evidence." a missionary among the Chinese. He Is For a moment I sipped my coffee in were better than either yours or mine. lence but with quivering lips and eyes sick several days as a result of Inhaling purpose then was to get the Injured charcoal fumes. Evelyn tells Clyde of a man to bed, and to secure a physician thoughtful silence. She saw at once that thin outlaw was overflowing, she started to read tbe peculiarly acting anesthetlo which renders to to his nurse minister and recovery. not her uncle, and you and I fancied tremblingly penned sentences a "The Murskeleton knows all guy a person temporarily unconscious. Moran, time. "I'm sorry for tbe dear old we knew better. If you are still unphy la discovered to have mysterious re- If he had been found dead, then, of right, OHara broke In.... lations with the Chinese. Miss Clement course, we should have gleaned what too, but 111 creature, In "You mean the half breed? run you up convinced, doctor, promises to get Information about Cam-of information we could from his pockets. she Interrupted me, ber eron. Blump In Crystal Consolidated, Philip, and "Yes. He which Is at the that car, my door, away." give which Cameron Is the head, Is caused by But we dally expected him to be able "What does he call himself? you shall satisfy yourself. Meanwhile face and voice alike pleading. "Let a rumor of Camerons Illness. Clyde finds Cameron on Fifth avenue In a Cased and to tell his own story, and In the anx"Hes known In Chinatown as John 111 give you some of the confirma- us send him back to her! emaciated condition and takes him home. iety and confusion of the moment the "Send him back! I repeated la He says hes a cook. Soy. and tory evidence. Cameron awakes from a long sleep ordisclosures of the amazement He pregnancy possible Once again I was busy with two and gives He and went speaks tn a strange tongue. and him to with me; ders to an Imaginary crew In Chinese that lurked In his apparel was entire- two. Unless all "Yes. We can, cant we? We don't signs failed this John OHara, at the same time, I related jargon. Then In terror cries: "I didnt kill them." Evelyn declareethe man Is ly lost sight of. Soy and Peter Johnson and the Eura- the dumfoundlng occurrences of the have to give him up to those horrid uncle. Evelyn and Clyde call on When we did make the examination, sian cook of the Sable Lorcha were a previous Chinamen, do we? Hes well enough Bot her Clement for promised Information night and find that the Chinaman who was to on the morning following the episode single entity. "And what did this McNlsh say? to go, isnt he? Why cant we call a Miss of the letter. It was to discover that give It has 'Just been murdered. him I cofto "OHara," said, the my finishing doctor inquired, when I had fin- cab, give him enough money for hls note asking Clement gives Clyds a worn McNlsh overcoat and mission the and suit by the leaves he down read It after the cup and fee, and putting ished. "Did he admit tbe masque- passage and send him, at onoe? then destroy it It tells of the abduction were of Scotch manufacture, having Theres a steamer sailing this morn"I In have the witness this key rade? Of a white man by Chinese who shipped isnt there? ing. him back to China. The man Is accused been made In Dundee, according to case. You and I together are going became was delirious. There "He In sewn-lOf the crime of the "Sable Lorcha In the current to take him with us and have him conFor Just a moment I was on the labels, early no getting a sensible word from him. which 100 Chinamen were killed. The apof man of year. yielding. Seldom has a vilthe point York New I and In front both they John Murphy Soy. pearance own Idea Is that the delirium was shipped to China lain had a more puissant advocate of the pockets were promise you the result will be Interest My contents supposed they had Into The the Chinese. feigned. throws consternation than had McNlsh In this enthusiastic, The brougham In which Clyde and Eve- not significant The letter he had ing. "Possibly. ' armed an Is held are secure up.by resolute girl, spurred to hls salvation and so to anxious lyn ridingIs seised been destroy looked The detective his perplexity. man. Clyde . "Isnt it equally possible, doctor, by Murphy andres-a was he had the are apparently, letter, only "Some one who knows them? he I asked "that he has been feigning by the pathetic appeal of that materfight ensues. Evelyn and Clyde nal yearning which breathed from evon asked. cued by the police and return home. They carried. There was a cheque-boosince the first? find Yup Bing and the Chinese consul was a waland there line of the letter before her. The a ery bank, the Chicago tells story them. am I Clyde "Unless Yup much very awaiting mistaken, "I dont unselfish "No, was his answer. of the crime of the Sable Lorcha," In let containing- a small sum of money I answered, "It Is some one who knows purity of her cause Illumined think so. He may have exaggerated and which 0T Chinamen were dellbwtely sent in her. Her beauty was transfigured bills, and a few business cards of them both better than any other per- hls to their death by toone Donald MNlsh. symptoms, when conscious, to radiant. Cameron. They de- Importing houses, which we took to son In New York. whom they declare Unless Heaven Is a by clare that MNish can be Identified gain time; but If be had been able to Answer me! she Insisted, ImpaIndicate that the possessor was still Just now engaged in tattoo mark on his arm. Clyds declares enig- think clearly he would have secured constructing The mark. no such In some or has Cameron tient at my silence. "Isnt It possible? trade, that engaged desultorily mas for the bewilderment of us that letter before last night. You may simply nurse Is called In and describes a tattoo with It the of Isn't Malay smuggling, really the very best way out of species mortals, the witness I have Is the ma" rest assured that that was the first mark on his patient's arm. Clyde goes ata difficulty? It will never do to admit and the Straits settlements as whom Murphy stabbed In the to Investigate and finds the patient states back, in opportunity be had, after regaining hide a letter. It le addressed his field, since most of the cards made tempting toMNlsh. that we have had that man here la to Donald Buffalo, eight years ago. the power of thought continuity. And mistake for Uncle Robert, you know. reference to goods of such origin. But before I could out my still, he continued, "I am not en"But there Is something you have That morning, which succeeded (he plan there were severalcarry CHAPTER XXIV. minor mat- tirely convinced that he Is not Robdeevents of exciting already night ters which claimed my attention. ert Cameron. If It Is merely a resem- forgotten, my dear child, I objected, with succrowded was another Problem tailed, Up. Another Crape Ever since reading the note which blance, as you claim, then it Is the with all the mildness I could bestow There are, I dare say, those who will cession of happenings scarcely less Miss Clement placed in my hands I most remarkable case of likeness that upon the words. "In your wish to give Joy to this poor old mother and la not hesitate to charge me with an un- sensational Moreover, that I am with you heart and soul in obedi- had been uneasy concerning her safe- I have ever encountered. seven oclock, OHara, At Even of lack perception. pardonable ty. To Judge from OHaras report there Is one thing we must not lose you bare quite overlooked tbe fact from your own telling, they will prob- ence to my Instructions came to my Chinatown had been In a ferment ofHls abductors, as has been that we are still with slgbt me out in room the rousing Loyalton, the from we realised scarcely a scinably declare, most of the night, and I feared lest demonstrated everything they have tilla of Information concerning the first that the creature you discovered of a heavy sleep; for I had not got to the blame for the disturbance be vis- done, are an byunusually clever and then had lain whereabouts of your uncle." at two in the morning, supporting him- bed until four, and brain woman ited brave the upon men. counterfeit present To lot of cunning until after no. I havent. was her prompt "Oh, self by means of a Fifth avenue area awake with teeming him In bath robe and ary and some measures of vengesnee age, ao far as the tattoo mark Is con- rejoinder, "but I dont see what that railing, was not Robert Cameron, but five. I receivedon the bedside, and sip- meted out to her. cerned, Is not so difficult as you might has to do with It, except that it makes his physical counterpart, and a not moles, sitting an hour I half For tried unsuccessand I should have to see the Imagine; a on while he, perched the more necessary to pretend ping coffee, very deoeptlve counterpart at that" to" reach her by telephone. The scar before admitting that It Is not of It all we fully clothes d chest, still believe this McNlsh Is poured that I shall not dispute the justice of the low, Mission did not antler, with my recent origin. The letter might have he. How will his story. all at forth It back look sending McNlsh abroad I now, As criticism. Intensified bJthls repeated been a forgery, or a real letter, se- hinder And then she broke off. "Sleep! he echoed, when I had anxiety I I sometimes wonder, myself, how I ordered ny motor car cured and placed In Camerons pocket "I havent had a failure, suddenly, as I bad rather expected she could have been so blind, so credulous. made my apologies. around at and taking OHara for this very purpose. And hypnotic would, knowing what a keen brain she once, with been Ive theTboys to myself. said be wink, Is something And yet there with me. made the trip to Pell street suggestion would easily explain hls de- had and how once she got a clear peras pretty a round-uon the other side, too. An able advo- all night doing see. We've got the bunch In record time, despite obstructive sire to secure and destroy It The use spective on the situation, she must see cate, I believe, might make out a fair- as you ever Mr. Clyde, and therell trucks and other vehicles which were of a foreign tongue In hls dementia again the very point she had suggestly strong case for me If I were dis- right this time, even, could be accounted for In the ed once herself, and which I had still down there in China- encountered. out clearin a posed to defend myself; which, as It be of n same way. known been inquiry since Eager In mind. such as hasnt happens, I am not, slnoe the vsrdlct town street It was natural that Dr. Massey neighbors eventually discovered Doyers (TO BE CONTINUED.) cm make no possible difference either the Chinks Miss to hls formation that exert reconcile should ingenuity encouragingly. I said, "Yes. to you or to me, and would only delay - One Way of Putting It. the tongs, he and uninjured, had these divergent points. To him It "Its another war of em the culmination of our narrative. Indeed the women admit that a cermisEven If not a as had to break. that it me, have periodically, seemed, "They Nevertheless I must tell that for wanton. and theres always a few of up a brother of the tain to of the as the .Topeka baby is homely. But take identity patient some minutes after reading the letter you know, CUE. Island now I In But snuffed which Incredible. put It diplomatically. They say was they Long Fo, simply out, boys which had so opportunely fallen Into the It looks like its father. 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