Show 0 MYSTERIES h saw rot 14 so WC all the vanished editor B OIIN 0 of a family remarkable for lr its leaming hlf hir father beloi being prof eMor of languages lo 10 a cumi r of cellem and ll 11 big mother to luthor of more than ordinary note it wai will oot not that samuel stillman Still roan conant should choose lit erasure as kilo Is life work and od hit that he should softly fier after bis big return from have been appointed pointed editor of ot weekly As the years passed Cb connitt Con nott rants fa 0 lure appeared to grow more and tore mere bright hurried to 10 a who was will congenial in D tie the extreme W with ith a it ion who was a rapidly sp pro preaching achIng d and nd the position of editor of ore of he INS leading periodicals in lie ile country cou coun nory DO no cloud teemed seemed to threaten the business or ilij 10 0 o far it 11 the rr dot but suddenly with lie swiftness of the proverbial bolt from th the blue came come 4 trance strange occurrence occur rene 0 h bave at 0 failed to explain on the eventus of thursday jan nary ll 11 1 IM 1683 mr conant visited tile author dob club in new with a cumber number of persons present and appeared to bo be in the best he of health and nd to ser eral crall of them h he mentioned abe be fert fact that he intended to spend the hi week ead end in albany N V Y with a ai editor whom h b desired to see end and 1 me I coing going to take his too oa with ba m 71 tie following morn lati friday be he arose ni tie usual told hit bit ton on to be ready to leave cave late that hat Aftem afternoon oon n and n d went down to his office where h he e su pearlist ended the dinall makeup of next heue then with a cheery flood night see you monday afternoon 4 1 conant stepped out of tile th front door of the office OMCO find and van libed I 1 As the hours weed end and no word wai was received rec elved from rora him at t tome lire jim conant began to be alarmed armed sl particularly tince since hn hus band had always been careful to advise irla ber her of oi any alteration allf rallon of his bl plans but even the police pollee were unable to ditlow sol thIng until the following follow ln wednesday when a man enterer a at coney island anti o 0 borrowed 5 on a watch which boing conant itier later identified as belonging to hia his father and also railed called attention lou to the fact that the description ot of the hann ann who ho had PR pawned wiled the jewelry willed very closely with that of the be missing editor himself the for the loan was signed with ilia dime 17 P st Sc evens vens a circumstance 1 which wa ana 8 ell considered nil dered of extreme importance since T T P were the tho ini ot 10 eon son nd and stevem stevens was ire tire oo 00 maiden came the only however was that he the roan man why wh had pawned the be watch had spent the previous night vian the bearb at coney cones island and had made friends with a storekeeper nearby wb had invited bin him to supper on the tile following even evening Int after the meal was wits over the roan man bad had chatted for about an boor hour and then with the statement that be was samuel stillman conant editor of far pees per wetly weekly and that he bad to catch tte seven train tor for brooklyn he had bad vanished again lato into the night this of course changed the entire working plan of the police pollee who up to his this time had been proceeding along the theory that conant had been murdered not rat even with the clews at band they were unable to find I 1 trace of the editor about a week eeoc later one of con ants friends a man arbo ri known him for years and vo who is certain of bis his reported that he bid seen seca the oe editor coning coming out of a hotel in pulton fulton street brooklyn in and that when he had attempted to detain him bia the other had broken away with the cart ex clama lion I 1 dont you tee see rm in a hurry t besides the whole thin thins Is business bustnes al I 1 private detective detectives were immediately turned tamed loose on 00 this new clew but they like the police succeeded in nothing save that a man m all vi who ho bad nos answered w ered to cons 1 tai description had spent the previous a dicht light or of two at I 1 h bd ft 0 in too loog 09 island bland city leavins there ay iy an hour before the detec ivas arrived that was the last hit ras ever beard of conant troah thou b wild reports that he had kieen aerl lc 1 maed continued to come in from various parts of a the country for cvar afterwards er samuel stillman tenant vant however had bad disappeared om mm plemely and entirely and bis his arcq occupied pled a prominent place la to the book of the missing alongside that of dorothy arnold charley loss dorsey foultz and others whose are still a vats defy A by the tb |