Show 11 II I 1 I 1 I 1 U j where th I 1 beci secret et lay 4 7 ri fani tf iwo ari ir q tyvr orl I 1 some ears cars ago there was wa on amerl can in the french foreign legion no one know how lie he cattle to enlist tn in tint corps any nin billie thad lion bainy other lion of dIr different ferent some of went them of oc noble ind one of royal birth oil annie me to da tile the same lie he called him be beh if j jotin oft seymour but no on ono 0 slip tinged that hint to tie lie lila ilia real name and nd it forstie ii vin ia not iio lind entered alie t be legion for the same reason othere it bad A d entered it that la is he bo was mas ft a fugitive from justice at the arst tight so seymour mour entered in abe ranks of oc the llie foreign legion bo be tried so no bird to get blia elf killed that bo be was pion forea for bravery ile ho mu must a t line tiled try hard bun for ther ipie ine many others with nith n ith shadowy pitta be hind illein mile nere mere competing with mith blin lit in the lie dinto object be this rig at it way limy SP so inner wits made a captain A few n m eels cels bonore borore ilia americans to this corps ot of death suck seek era cis Stil liniel barrett bunker banker of 0 new nei yolk suspecting unit nil all was waa not right in one bile of tile of hla big bank went ono one night to lila ills counting room to linotti nto for himself barrett had bad no th ildren except nil all adopted dauab ler or ills ilia alfe hid had it ft son by a former lin hrad of abom be was very tory fond plan pidu was to bring arlos up this ihla boy ri ellett to succeed to tho the business bad that be should marry irene lite clift adopted daughter there thera was tie no difficulty in elther either part of this lili phin for NN hitter nore it ofle as a fine young I 1 fellow math v ath superior business and tac two young people m vero era in toy lovo with each other when bairett entered the bank lie he found hla his stepson there at work taking a pile of papers barrett went into ilk hn arh private ate office und and shut abut the llie door be ind lalni half an hour later the v younger 9 r antan n lie board it ada rda a sound la in bar ot I 1 r belts t omen office ns ile listened but bill it we haq not repeated whittemore n ment eat on en III with till his big work and m when hen it was on ifcher I 1 11 e to ask hla his stepfather if f b be e would mould not go home opening the if door 0 or be found barrett lying on the floor door with mith it cloven skull he wits was dent dead whittemore was hurrying to call assistance si sl v when hen it occurred to bile that lie would mould be accused of oc the murder lie he stopped flopped to consider and soon came to the ile conclusion that nothing could sa a c if him in from a coin action of having murdered murde led od his stepfather should he face the danger or flee he chose the latter course couise making bla big way across the river ho he found a steamer oo on the other bank malting for the ude tide to servo serve ten tonys later whittemore enlisted enil ted in the french foreign legion under the name of john seymour when the murder mas discovered it vas n ns found that NN hit dittemore temore w m att as miss dg there m waa as no use une to look for the burdei or except lit in him lie ile had taken wone amonoy Y lut but none belonging to tho the hank bank indeed the whole affair was a tor for what mo motive five could there bo be for him to murder the man who nas preparing him for his own place tind and whose adopted daughter he be usa kaa 0 engaged 0 to O maar home however flight was con confession etc on find and everott everett whittemore was execrated as the murderer of his film benefactor not long king after Whit temores if disappearance pe arance a letter hearing bearing a foreign post mark came for irene barrott barrett she took it to her room read and destroyed it barretts partner enoch crowell Cro u was as in charge of the bank find and irene went to him told him that she desired to prepare herself to bo be able to manage manace her own interest in ili tho the bank and desired a position thero there crowell demurred but toe the girl cari was waa and ho he consented irene worked in subordinate places but principally studying the abo principles 0 on which c h the books were kept kepl nearly I 1 ano a years yeara after her fathers death she commenced fenced to go to the bank nights for the purpose of contina if ing the work morl while doing which her father faor bud bad been murdered in a pocket in her diess made for the purpose ble bhe carried a loaded revolver ot of largo large caliber one night she went to the bank m with rh bk bL eleton keys and into what had bid been her fathers tal horB office but now occupied by cromell crow ell she entered by I 1 the door leading from the book bank there WAS 11 HOLber door leading to the rear of the bank she had bad opened crowells desk and grasped a bundle of papers when ben this rear floor door opened and there stood crowell seeing the papera before the girl be raised ou an ax and m was as about to bring it down on her head bead when ben she shot him taking ballag up a telephone transmitter she ahe uio the police who found crowell duhig d loff front from a bullet in his bis crost near the heart before his bla death he bo confessed that he bo wits involved that he be lind and killed lila ills partner in ID the badje way bo be had bad intended to ani irene to arc ills big affairs from roco being known and to got control jn in order the bettor better to conceal them tile next bost day captain seymour was wag 0 ailed before his big commanding officer and a cablegram bandal him giving him blin a summary of tile events of crew confession and death seymours or Mit temores lion was wae accepted at once and ho he returned to america tho the meeting between him ond and the girl who had bad taken up tho the work arr for fabber had begun and brought back her lover to his own kac auty con cau only bo be imagined moro more bell that novae memo ones nr be counts unto in tho the bank mcie wrong anti had really none gone there to investigate ahon bou his bla catered cut crol at tile iho risk of be boang i fig dropped dragged back bacat to lo tile scaffold he be imd hall n million irene that the alir secret of the murder douht hM lay in this deft lency MARION MAHION MAY HALL |