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J S OH OTHE 11 I CR SIDE SIBE r n E J l THE T STORY II t 11 I I u. u Il 11 II uno iG Ii rn C. i t u II I v 5 wine S- S Sd a d G Giles li at ul the club I but ll is hi a a. t decent de- de docent 1 cent orta f 1 ii l' l lIt b tho follow Well Y t c 1 J don't dont Bartlett there thore Is aonie- aonie tiling thinK 1 que him Yes h hr hn I Is bit u and amid ous but 1 suppose It iris itis hi his way n Surely a man has haa a right to bo be exclusive e I If he I choo chooses I t dont Hk like him lI lie He lies has a cunning restless eye Cc and an au air all of or mysterious expectancy that makes mo roe dislike anil almI suspect Ui him Ho Tie Is 18 not won even and und hiss has never 01 lakon a drink with us and null seems He to ie be expecting something tl to t 1 Did you over oven notice I lio hov he be 8 stunts ta wit when en nn all any ono one enters the thu room Looks Look up quizzically as though h waiting for some one Makes no difference hat he lie I is doing whether It is a ut nt bridge or a game of billiards ho Iio s t s every face faeo with a searching hunted ex ex- Nonsense Banks the time the t fallow Is all right Just queer lived JI oi out West a Q long IonS time Gino and has acquired d' d that thal imaginary air of or mystery through years of or sheep hor herding and solitary II living vi a g. g I Hollo hello WIlkIns eve Jus b been n dl dis discussing dis- dis cu cussing Giles GIbes and peculiarities L Lets Let's ls l's I havo u a drink und and your opinion fhe They for the rang white coated pause page I I who ho silently removed remo the enmity empty Scotch an and soda Hoda glasses Ia lasses s and anti a as us quIetly re re- re 1 1 placed place them with fresh on onen l lever Never ever met snot him him until last night began lIer be- be 1 r gan n Wilkins I 1 should say a n bit hit stand oCt offish sh hut but a nice nie sort for Cor all that Ho gave e me imie a cr n an and a mighty good one nc too me to meet him at al the club lI this Ulis afternoon for a game Silmo of LI cards a th said he lie never nO saw liaw him so 60 enthusiastic a an as he ho was at meeting me Queer hut but not offensive Is the time thea a way I 1 Judged the fellow teIJo All tubs this talk about mystery i is bosh He Is of oC ti L peculiar disposition dis dis- position has had his bits ups upa and downs in ill life Ufa Ita a It love lo affair or ci two I J dare lIme sn say IH Itt beginning to fuel feel eel the hand of or time Nothing mysterious about that Is there thare But nut speaking o of mysteries went on un do llo you ou remember that Lockwood Lockwood Lockwood Lock- Lock wood murder some 20 W years ago That was before my time lime answered r ll Bartlett Bartlott thuu h I remember of or It II later latem Tell fell us us about It urged I Banks Th This lit man han Lockwood began begani WIlk- WIlk I ln hits belonged to m my club chib Ho lie WRel was WR a a avery el very you youn young UK fellow feJo ami anil dry r much in love with hi his he bountiful young oun wife On On I the tho night of the thc murder er I was laid up I I with a n sprained Lockwood d spent time the early arl evening c at the club climb drinking and cribbage 3 as J usual und and seemingly n I in the tIme st bt-st of ot spirits lIe He teft be he chin ostensibly for home earlier carIer than usual tUlu hut but nothing was thought of 1 It at the Iw hmo timO The next day his hi IO eh wife wICe wn was found Cound dead deall In lied bed her bier hl head d almost t severed lJ from Crom hOI hem b idy Ix Lock Lock- ck- ck wood had hall disappeared Al At Uk cor coroners coroner's ner Inquest it Il was proven pro b by tho f servants servants' I t testimony that thal he he- had hull arrived hor earlier than was his lila custom and Juul hail i groni direct to his hin wife's rooms 1 tic lie mu must t have hn loft len some time later after he lie heI I I ml itil committed hi hl horrible tle d lon Gentlemen h he lie b t n deliberately let m me mat explain the oth other side Thin ilmi m man ll lockwood hId did murder lm his Ius wife and au the th findings of or the Jury were correct but tte e jury jur did not Qt hInd that he lie had Juu killed her he bc auKO he lie had hall discovered rca sho she WiltS was to him null and that his best lIest friend hor her traducer Richard Lockwood Lock Lock- 1 I woo wood wall Tva was han handsome and rich riel when he and won pretty 1 Monroe He Ife met her hOl in the mountain mountain- where he lie hn had g IO for tur or his his- vacation alter after IC ir TIer f i i postmaster of the little mountain vii vii- j I lage and und sun udo ai cin l tI tl t. t I 11 delivery ell 1 window tom for l. l him In spite of so- so financial and parental differences t he married her bier ot a 0 cloud darkened l th their lr j k tk of happiness s until that awful I night lie wa was In excellent spirits and utter Her l n a hand at cribbage e and md a drink or ci two tort loft thu tho club for tor home That Thai nan UHS the lie last his imis friends ever aw saw oti ot of i l Mm Arriving Arriving- home hom unexpectedly h ht he 1 found n a man call him Smith for th the 1 present he said In his wife's s 's cham cham- her lur Ho Ito was wal unarmed and Smith wa too to quick for Cor him him He lie dashed through I. I I the time open window onto the fire escape and jumped to the street below helow sprain In ing his ankle I Deadly silence the room and l he limO Jl s too Interested to te I notice whose face tace was ashen ashon j 1 0 und 1 who seemed limp Ump and dazed Hate Hale and revenge rew grew stronger wilh the these stories Yh Why not make I him pay for his pl pleasure She had hall paid I Ihl hl he he had bach paid ph Why shouldn't the oth other othi r pay ay Through the lon long long- lonely years ars In lh the solitary hills hill his heart cried louder and louder r for tor toren vengeance lIe He fought to tc tUlle the tIme h murderous desire but It grow with the years of At tt last l he could resist It no longer longer 1 lie Ill did not flOt want to sneak upon the destroy destroy- or 01 of hi his life Ute and him dOVin IT 11 Hf wanted to play with him butt as IUS he lie bad been t a with sheep heep tn fn ho clu carrio tJ to New ew York Hate Hato ar and ami l grew crew r w stronger r nt at sight of tho the nih se Heflin neS and ammI faco H lie found hat Smith had poised another ot of of New I I Yorks York's fashionable clubs cluba and ra I t tl lly living in a retirement a victim of or IC his hits former mode moio of oC life lire Through his friend he lie was vas made a a. m of that particular r clu club A A- h Ilca heavy eavy blackbeard and the hand of or limero lime Veru ro his only disguises It Was vas not hard t this hus part he lie pla played played- cd- cd Ho lie had tasted tasted- d 8 of oC the cup CUll of bitterness and had l listened to thi tin s o of a br broken kell h heart eart for vengeance through years or of h his is sleepless nights and amid lonely days ns n's club Jub fellows thought him queer t d' d ahal suspected him yet ct he ftc never ever T I ml faltered t eted Su Success rewarded him n I Ho IIo met Smith last Insl night gave him a I cigar and und a good one too an and andI ad ar d I arranged arrango l to meet him hint hero today for fora fo foa r a hand nd tit at nt- nt Wilkins lULl hall struggled I d to his feet teet II I pale arid and trembling Instantly a pistol shot hot rang ranS' out anU amid sank e back In Ills 1119 haIr dead dead Handing his still warn warm weapon t tone to toon toone o one on- onor of or his dazed n ast astonished l listeners listener os s and coo cooly sowing settling himself lie In another r chair ho lie said I Geu Gentlemen that was waN the thc other side sid e of oC the stor story told U by LockWood himself v No send for or the |