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It is indeed a pleasure t o write an in

t r o du c t i o n for a collection o f tales by
H i s stories
M r H D U mb s t a e t t e r
are Black Cat stories and b y such
designation is meant much The eld
of the Black Cat is unique and a
Black Cat
story is a story apart
from all other sh o rt stories Whi le M r
U mb s t a e t t e r may n o t have originated
such a typ e of story he made such a
type possible and made many a writer
p o ssible I know he made me possible
H e saved my literary life if he did n o t
save my literal life And I thi nk he
w a s gui lty o f this sec o nd crime too
F o r months without t h e smallest
particle o f experience I had been a t
tempting t o write somethi ng market
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able E verything I possessed w a s in

pawn and I did n o t hav e enough to eat
I was sick mentally and physically
fr o m lack of n o urishment I had once
read in a Sunday supplement that the
minimum rate paid by the magazines
was ten dollars per thousand w o rds
But during all the months devoted to
storming the magazine eld I had r e
Still I
c e i v e d back only manuscripts
b elieved implicitly what I had read in
the Sunday supplement
As I say I was at the en d of my
tether beaten out starved ready t o g o
back to c o al s h oveling o r a h e a d t o sui
cide Being very sick in mind and
body the chan ce was in favor of my
An d then one morn
s elf destruction
ing I received a sh ort thin letter from
a magazine T his magazine had a na
t io n al reputation It had been founded
by Bret H arte It sold for twenty v e
cents a copy It h eld a four thousand
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T o the M a n o n
w ord s tory of mine

T rail
I was modest As I t o re the
envel o pe acr o ss the end I expected t o
n d a check f o r no more than forty do l
lars In stead I was c o ldly informed
by
the
Assistant
Sub
scissors
I
i
m
a
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g
ine ) that my story w a s
avail able
and that on publicati o n I w o uld be paid
f o r it the s um o f v e dollars
The end was in sight The Sunday
supplement had lied I was n i sh e d
n i sh e d as only a very y o ung very sick
and very hungry young man co ul d be

I planned I was too miserable t o plan

anyth ing save that I wo ul d never write
again And then th at same day th at
very afternoon the mail brought a
s hort thin letter fr o m M r U m b st a e t t e r

of th e Black Cat
H e told me that
the f our thousand word story su b
m it t e d t o hi m was m o re l engthy than
s trengthy but that if I would give per
missi o n t o cu t it in half, h e would im
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media tely send m e a ch eck f o r forty

do ll ars
Give permission ! I t wa s equivalent
t o twenty dollars per thousand or
double th e minimum rate Give per
mission ! I told M r U mb st a et t e r h e
coul d cut it down two halves if he d
o nly send the m oney along
H e did by
return mail An d that is just precisely
h o w and why I stayed by the writing
gam e Literally and literarily I was
saved b y the Black C a t short story
T o many a writer w i t h a national
reputation the Black Cat h a s been
the stepping stone
The marvelous
unthinkable thing M r U mb s t a e t t er
did w a s t o judge a story on its merits
and to pa y for i t on i ts mer its Al so
and o nly a hungry writer can a ppr e
ciate it h e paid imm ediately on accept
ance
O f the stories in th is vo l ume let th em
spe ak fo r themselves Th ey are true
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Black C a t
stories Personally I
care far more f o r men than for the best
stories ever hatched Wherefore this
introduction h as been devoted t o M r
U mb s t a e t t er the M a n
.

J AC K L O N DO N

GL E

LLE

AL I F ORNIA

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T lacked three minutes of v e by

the big clock in the tower when the
east b ound C hicag o express rum
bled into the stati o n at Buff alo Th e
train had not yet come to a standstill
when a hatless man jumped fro m the
platform of the rear sleeping car and
ran across the tracks into the dep o t
restaurant A few minutes later he
reappeared carrying a cup of co ff ee in
o n e hand and a small paper b ag in t h e
other
With these h e hurriedly made his
way back t o the car through a strag
gl ing procession of drowsy tourists
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D o l la r

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wh o

were taking advantage o f the

train s v e minutes stop to breathe
the crisp morn in g air The last of
these had already resumed his seat
when the man without a hat again a p
r
e
e
a
d
at
the
lunch
counter
returned
p
the borrowed dishes and orde r ed e o f
fee for himself H e h ad just picked up
the cup and was raising it to his lips
when the conductor s
All aboard
rang thr o ugh the station
Leaving the c o if e e untouched h e
thrust a v e dollar bill at the attend
ant grabbed his change and started
in pursuit of the m oving train H e had
almo s t reached it when an unlucky
stumble s e n t t h e coins in his hand roll
ing in all directions along the oor
uic
kl
y
recovering
himself
and
paying
!
he redoubled h i s
n o h eed t o his loss
efforts and though losing ground at
every step kept up the hopeless chase
There h e
t o th e end of th e station

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ot

D o l la r

st o pped panting for breath The slip

had proved fatal H e had mi s sed the
train !
As he s t ood staring wil dl y through
the clouds of dust that ro se from the
track a young woman , evidently
deeply agitated suddenly appeared in
the doorway O f the vanishing car
U pon seeing him she made frantic a t
tempts t o leap from t h e platform wh en
she w a s seized by a man and pul led
back into the car Wh en the door had
clo sed upon the two the bareheaded
man in the s tation faced abo ut and
p hilosophi cally muttered :

It s fate !
Th en after pausing a few moments
as if to c o llect his thoughts he slowly
retraced h is steps to the scene of his
mishap and began calmly search ing for
hi s lost change Circling closely ab out
h i s eyes scanning the oor he su c
c e e d e d i n recovering r st one and then
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an o ther of the mi ssing c oins until

nally after repeated r o unds he lacked
onl y one dollar of the whole amount
At this point he paused clinked the
recovered coins in his hand looked
at his watch and then started on a
As this failed t o reveal
nal round
the missing piece he gave up the
search transferred the c o ntents of his
hands to his trousers pocket and
started in th e direction of the telegraph
o fce
H e had proceeded perhaps twenty
paces when it occurred to him to turn
about and cast o n e more look along th e
oor As he did so his eye fell upon a
shining ob ject lodged in an opening
between th e rail and planked o o r a
few feet fr o m where he s tood H e
stooped t o examine it and seeing that
it was th e missing coin reached for it
but found the opening t o o narrow to
admit h is ngers H e tried t o recover
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D o l la r

chan ge it for another sh e said if he

wished Po li tely declin in g the o er
and apol ogizing for having troubled
her h e said that as the coin he held in
his hand was separating a loving wife
from h er husband he wished very
much t o n d some trace of i t s former
owner T he girl l ooked up tho ught f o r
a moment then pulling o u t th e cash
drawer and e x amin i ng its contents
said sh e might h ave received it from
the conductor o f the Lake Shore ex
press which h ad l eft for C leveland at
She n o w recalled that when sh e
came on duty at mi dn i gh t there was
silver do llar among t h e c hange
no
in the cash dr awer and th at the
only on e she remembered receiving
from S l eeping Car Conductor
w as
Parkins
The man thanked her and hastened
t o the telegraph o fce w h ere h e sent
this message :
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D o l la r

ot

onductor E ast Bound Chicag o E x

press U tica N Y
Please ask lady in section seven o f
sleeping car Catawba t o await her hus
band a t Delavan H ouse Albany

A J H obart
C

Af ter requesting the

operator t o
k indly rush the despatch he proceeded
to the ticke t O fce pr o cured a seat in
the
fast mail for Cleveland and
with his hand clutchi ng the c o in in his
pocket and his eyes xed upon the oor
meditatively paced up and d o wn the
platform waiting for the train t o ar
rive
As h e di d s o he was disconcerted t o

n d himself the obj ect of wide spread

curi o sity ; even the newsboys with the
morning papers favored him with an
inquiring stare as th ey passed W o n
dering what was amiss he suddenly put
hi s h and t o hi s h ead wh ich furnished
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D o l la r

ot

an instant e x planation H e was hat

less
Looking at the big clock he saw that
it lacked ten minutes o f train time and
hastily crossing over t o the farther
track he disappeared through the west
end of the station
Among the passengers wh o boarded
the
fast mail for C leveland when
it thundered into the station ten min
utes later was the bareheaded gentle
man of a few minutes ago n o w wearing
a stylish derby O nc e in the train h e
settled himself in his seat with a sigh
of relief and satisfaction Not until
then did the really remarkable ch arac
ter of th e situation dawn upon him
O n the very day which he had hailed as
one of th e h appiest o f h i s life he was
traveling at the rate of about sixty
miles an hour away fr o m the girl h e
loved devote dl y and t o whom he h ad
b een married just seventeen hours
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D o l la r

A queer opening of his honeymoon !

In his anxiety to get a cup of coff ee
f or h i s wife he had lost his hat then
l ost his ch ange and lastly lost the
train
Wh y did he not follow h i s b ride at
once ? What mysteri o us spell had come
upon thi s seventeen hour bride groom
tha t h e should y from her as swiftly
as the fast express could carry him ?
H i s hand held the s olution of th e pro b
lem
s imple yet unexplainable
a
silver dollar ! It held the secret h e
must unravel before he could return t o
h er
it was not then that he loved
her l ess but that this bit of precious
metal h ad suddenly developed an
occul t power that had turned their
paths f o r the present in opposite di r e c
tions
At th e rst stopping pl ace h e sent
anoth er message whi ch read as f o l
l ows :
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e

Mrs

ot

D o l la r

A J H obart Delavan H o use

Albany N Y
Can n o t possibly rea ch Al bany b e
fore t o morrow morni ng

Ansel
.

With his b rain

l led

with excited
th o ughts the y o ung man entered the

sleeping car o f ce at Cleveland four

h o urs later and as k ed for Conductor
Parkins H e was told that this o ffi cial
would not b e o n duty befo re night
though possib ly he might b e at hi s
h ome o n St Clair Street
T o the address given him the in d e f a t
i g ab l e young man repaired at once and
found t h e genial gentleman for whom
h e sough t breakfasting with his family
H e kindly gave audience at once t o his
visitor
This coin wh ich you gave the

cashier of the restaur ant in B u al o

said the latter revealing it in the palm
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of hi s hand ;
can you te ll me fr o m
wh o m you received it ?
Parkins remembered receiving cash
from but two passengers the n i ght b e
fore one a t raveling man wh o g o t o ff
in C leveland and the other a woman
wh o se destination was E rie The stran
ger mi ght ascertain their names by con
s u l t in g the car diagram at the ticket
o f ce
Y o u seem interested In the

c o in he added smi ling

I am f o r a good rea s o n laughed

the young man in reply
It is s ep

a r a t in g a man from his wife

An d
with these enigmatical words he made
hi s adi eu with thanks hastened to the
ticket o fce and an hour later was
scouring t h e city for one R ich ard
Spears
The register of the Stillman H ouse
contained the freshl y written name of
R ichard Spears Providence R
b ut that gentleman when found in hi s
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D o l la r

room sh o wing samples o f hardware to

a prospective buyer regretted that h e
could not throw any light on the par
t i cu l ar dollar h is visitor held up t o his
gaze and rememb ered distinctly that
he h ad given th e conductor a t w o dol lar
bill in payment f o r his b erth H e came
from a section he said where peopl e
t o o k n o stock in si l ver dollars
I t was th ree o clock in t h e afternoon
when a man got O E the train at E rie and
inquired of the cabmen and depot mas
ter regarding a lady wh o had arrived
on the early train from B u al o An
hour later he was driving along a coun
try road some miles south of the town
inquiring for th e Wickliffe farm
As he nally drove up t o th e h ouse
which was h is destination h e was c on
scious o f a strange excitement This
h e realized was probably his onl y r e
maining ch ance to trace the coin by
wh ose mysterious power he h ad b een
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D o lla r

After listening t o his story M r s

Wickliffe said that her memory was s o
treacherous that she really couldn t say
for certain whether or n o t she gave the
conductor the shin i ng dollar but th at if
she did sh e must h ave rec eived it from
h er s o n in Germantown Pa from a
visit t o whose h o use she had j u s t r e
turned and who before her departure
had exchanged some money f o r her
She added that as she t o ok n o interest
in coin collecting a dollar was simply
a dollar t o her and that she thought a
w o man was very f o olish t o take up
with a fad which might ruin her hap
,

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H er

unknown caller thought s o t o o

admired her taste in millinery took the
address o f h er s on and clutching the
fatal coin more rmly than e ver drove
back to E rie wh ere h e b o arded the N e w
Y o rk night express
T o the young man wh o still clutched
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D o lla r

the silver doll ar sleep was impossible

A multitude of e x citing fancies crossed
hi s brain
The developments he hoped
to b ring about t h e curious solution of
the problem its e ff ect upon his futur e
and the future of o n e so dear t o hi m
all t hi s murdered sleep for him as e f
f e ct u all y as di d th e crime on Lady M a c
beth s so ul
I t drove hi m into the

smoking car where h e sank into a

seat and planned and conj ectured b e
tween puffs of H avana smoke until
the train reached Albany
So com
l
l
absorbed
had
he
b
ecome
in
the
e
e
t
y
p
solution o f this knotty prob le m in which
his accident o f the morn i ng had in
volved hi m and so convinced was he
that the information must be for the
time kept a secret that he actually b e
gan to dr ead what was clearly inevi
table
the explanation h e must
s hort l y make to h is wife
H i s inclin ati o n was to tell her al l
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D o lla r

duty t o others forbade this After

pondering over the matter he decided
t o explain that he had a happy surprise
in store for her one that had an impor
tant bearing on their future and whi ch
unfortunately necessitated a change
in their plans for a honeymoon in E u
r ope
This on reaching the Delavan H ouse
he expressed to a very pretty and very
anxious little woman wh o was await
ing h im together with a good many
other things not necessary to this story
And instead of the steamer for E urope
the reunited pair took a tram for Phil a
delphia E arly the next day the young
man presented himself at the ofce of
Dr James Wic kliffe at Germantown
wh o smilingl y admitted h aving given
the shining doll ar t o his mother t w o
days b e fore H e h ad received th e coin
from a patient a l etter carrier named
Joh n Lennon and rememb ered it b e
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D o l la r

cause of the following strange story

related t o him by Lennon himself
A f e w days before the carrier was
engaged in delivering mail from do o r
to door along Vine Street Phil adelphia
when a zigzag trip across the street and
back again b rought him t o the narrow
stairway of a di ngy brick h ouse in front
of which hung an enormous brass key

b earing the word Locksmith

H ere
he paused to draw a l ittle parcel from
h i s bun dl e As he did so h e heard some
thi ng fall with a metallic clink upon the
st o ne pavement H e looked and saw
th at it was a silver dollar which rolled
toward the gutter and came t o a stop
cl o se by the curb H astening t o pick it
up he instantly dropped it with a cry
o f pain
,

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ho t !

The l etter carrier stood nursing h i s

h and and thinking f o r t w o o r three min
utes Sil ver dollars do n o t commonl y
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D o lla r

drop o u t of the sky But that this o n e

shoul d thus fall like a mete o rit e in a
con di tion t o o heated for han dl ing was
cert ain ly m ore than surprising
it was
astoun di ng ! The man l ooked up at the
dingy brick h ouse and e x amined it a t
t en t iv el y noting that the ground floor
was occupied as a green grocery and
that al l of the windows were shut save
one in the third story
Th en he k ic k ed the mysterious coin
into a puddle sh ed it out again with
his ngers and put it into his trousers
H
t
oc
k
et
was
about
investigate
e
o
p
furth er when some smal l b oys called
h is attention to the fact that it was th e
rst day of April whereupon he pr o
H e gave no furthe r
c e e d e d on hi s way
thought to the matter until that night
when he found that his thumb and fore
nger h ad b een so badl y b urned as t o
require tre atment
Th e ne x t morning he called upon th e
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D o l la r

d o ct o r wh o dressed the painful hand

and received the mysterious coin in pay
ment for h i s services
That night b ehi nd locked doors in one
of the o fc er s rooms of th e U nited
States M int in C hestnut Street two
men were engaged in a long whispered
c o nference The wife of one of the men
a s she sat in her roo min the Continental
H otel anxio u s ly waiting for her hus
band was b eginning to wonder wh eth er
after all marriage was a failure !
T w o days later in speaking of the
seizure o f o ver forty thousand bogus
silver dollars and the clever capture of
three of the most dangerous counter
f e it er s th at ever attacked the currency
of the U nited States the D ai ly N e ws
said
Th e most remarkable part of the
whole s t ory is that one of the coins
fre sh from the machine of one of the
counterfeiters fell o u t of a third story
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D o l la r

window near which he was working

was picked up while almost red hot by
a letter carrier and passed as genuine
through various hands until it reached
Buffalo where b y the merest accident
it came Into th e possessi o n o f M r Anse l
H obart o f the Secret Service
T hat
gentleman noticed an imperfection at
one point o f its rim and succeeded in
tracing the c o in t o the h eadquarters Of
the gang on Vine Street In this city
where under the cloak of a l ocksmith
shop and green grocery business si x
h undred o f the spuri o us coins were
turned out dai l y S o admirabl y were
these counterfeits executed as t o defy
scrutiny save by e x perts of th e Govern
ment Th e coins were not cast in molds
after th e ordinary fashion but were
struc k with a die and plated so thickl y
with sil ver as t o with stand tests b y
acids Th e defect wh ich l ed to th e dis
co v er y was found on l y in th e one coin

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HE

ferry boat
R appah an

nock
had an experience in
the winter of 187 3 th at will
never be forgotten b y any of her pas
-

sen g er s

During one of her regular trips b e

tween New Y ork and Brooklyn th is
boat suddenl y quitted her respectable
though somewhat monotonous career
and became a common tramp without
port or destination
T he day awo k e in fog such as th e
o l dest inhab itant had never seen T he
E ast R iver was bl oc k ed with ice and
soon b ecame a shrieking bedlam of
groping and bewildered craft whose
pil ots could scarcely s e e their h ands
b e fore th eir faces
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At half past nine the R appah an

n o ck left Brooklyn well laden with
passengers and started on her custom
ary trip alm ost di rectly across t h e
river
a very short and usually ea s y
v o yage
Before even reaching the
middle o f the stream however the ice
and fog had thrown her completely o u t
Back and f o rth up and
o f her c o urse
down stream the pil o t vainly groped
amid the shrieking whistles ringing of
f o g b ells and l oud crash of ice b ou l
ders until in th e confu s ed clangor h e
had entirely lost his b earings
When after long and perilous bat
tling with ice j ams and many hair
breadth escapes from c o lli s ions he s u d
d en l y sighted th e lan di ng place on the
New Y ork side he found it occupied by
a sis t er b oat which had been driven
th ere to avoid destruction H e b acked
out only t o b e lost again and for th ree
h ours this b oat now b ec o me a mere
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tramp wandered ai ml essly up and

down th e E ast R iver with its load o f
excited pas s engers whose emotions
ranged anywhere b etween the rage and
i mpatience of the belated Wall Street
spec ul ator t o wh om the delay mi ght
mean a l o ss of fty thousand dollars
t o the hysteria of a nervous little
w o man who had left her baby alone at
home and who b egged th e other help
l ess passengers for the love of H eaven
to h el p h er set h er feet once more on
land
Between th ese two extremes o f im
patience and excitement was a small
proportion of passengers wh o r e
mained calm even endeavoring t o
while away the time by exchanging
pleasantries and making wagers a s t o
the time of their deli verance Am o ng
these was a group o f men in the cabin
who after having read and r e read the
morning papers were casting ab out for
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some other method of killing tim s

O ne suggested a game of cards

Cards ! laughed one of his co m

panions in misery
Who d carry
cards o n a f erry boat ? Wh o out
side o f a l unatic asylum wo ul d
start on a ten mi nutes voyage pr o
vi d e d with games t o pass away t h e
tim e ?
H ere is a euch re dec k wh ich is at

your service

Th e s peak er evidently a globe trot

ter drew from under the b ench a trav
eling bag s o much worn and emb el
l i sh e d by tags labels and hi erog lyph ics
th at it resembled some old veteran
just returned from the wars and still
covered with surgeons plasters F rom
this he produced a pack of cards and
tendered it t o th e man who h ad su g
gested a game
Certainly if y o u will j oin us ; b ut
wh at s h al l we d o for a tabl e ?
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turn the trump when one of the party

exclaimed :
Th ere can t be a better time or
place than this for telling a thrilling
experience

Y es
said another ;
d o give us
some oth er kind of bumping than we
are having h ere Let s have the story

b efore we begin the game

The stranger leaned back passed hi s
cigar case and having lighted one
himself b egan :
It is an unwritten law among th e
wild Bedouin s east of the R e d Sea that
if an in del traveler is attended on his
j o urney b y one of t h e f a i t h ful he is safe
from th e attacks of M ohammedan rob
b ers As l ong as the F rank as all
fo reigners are called is under the pr o
t e c t i o n o f the Star and Crescent th e
rascal s hand is stayed and as they
meet the villain who would otherwise
show n o quarter salutes with the grave
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uavity of a cour tier But let that

same traveler become separated from
the Arab guard that he has bribed to
give him safe conduct thr ough his o wn
ban di t infested country and he b e
comes legitimate prey
H e will be
plundered and perhaps killed or
w o r s e if the r o bber thinks that cruelty
wil l ext o rt any secrets of hidden spoil
t o rtured or held for rans o m with each
day s delay l o sing a few ngers which
are forwarded to the captive s friends
t o signify t hat the rascals mean busi
ness
The party in whic h this American
was traveling had been entering Syria
from the south and were progressed
some twelve days fr o m the sacred base
of old Sinai At a place called Bir e s
Sheba o n th e regular caravan route t o
and fro m M ecca from the north they
heard o f some interesting archeological
treasures just un earthed some t wo

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days j ourney to the east and having

made the detour the party snugly en
camped by the side of a be autiful
stream under the shadow of the T u b a l
chain of mountains
The treasures were vastly e x a g
gerated as is the custom with every
thing O riental and they so o n deter
mined t o turn back to the caravan
route and bump o n up int o S yria
b umping b eing the familiar term for
camel riding and a very expressive
word at that But on t h e afterno o n o f

the rst resting day some one sug

gested a j aunt t o a famous old well
where it was said were some very an
cient t umuli But knowing the Bed
o u in s t o b e conscientious liars and sic k
of this unrewarded chase f o r ph antom
treasures th e American beg ged t o b e
l eft b eh ind in ch arge o f t w o tents
which were pitched side b y side o n th e
bank of the stream
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T he U n tu r n ed

Thi s w a s at last agreed upon the

whole party e x cept himself going O ff
trip leaving their
o n their three days
comrade stretched at ful l length o n a
rug h i s n a r g ht lt or water pipe lighted
for company
This O riental atmosphere gentle
men is a powerful drug D o what y o u
will t o ght against it its subtle charm
h olds you captive
The man suc
c u mb e d to its inuences and went fast
asleep
Out of this sweet trance like r e
pose he suddenly b o unded into the hor
rible consciousness o f a torturing pain
in one o f his hands as though some
wil d beast was crunching the bones
But as he writhed to hi s knees t o grap
ple with t h e f o e h e saw instead th ree
swarthy evi l faced Bedouins bending
over hi m with gh oulish glee O ne h ad
just cut O H with a hideous dirk knife
th e rst th ree ngers of hi s left hand
,

'

'

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Tr u mp

In an instant it ashed upon him that

these were to be sent t o his friends with
a demand for ransom H e was correct
in this supposition for no sooner had
the blee di ng hand been rudely b an
d a g e d than two of his captors set out
upon this mission leaving him in care
of the third who was heavily armed
N 0 one knew b etter than the pris
oner h o w impossible such a ransom
would b e
H i s fellow travelers had
brought as little money int o Syria as
wo uld meet their actual neces s ities
while there H e therefore began t o
cast desperately ab o ut in his mind for
a loophole of escape before the fell o ws
should return with these u n s at i s fa c
t o ry tidings which would result no
doubt in further mutilation s
As his gaze swept the tent for
something suggesting a plan for d el iv
e r an c e
he saw it h ad b een gu tted o f

everyt hing e x cept t w o artic l es

h is
.

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Tr u m p

light silk coat which hung upon the

partition between the t w o tents and
the tourist s shaving mirror which it
c o ncealed The c o at had been over
looked because it was as grimy as the
tent wall itsel f
In moments like this one grasps at
straws As it i s said a dr o wning per
s o n reviews his past experiences per
f ec t ly in a brief moment s o t o thi s man ,
fac ing desperate o dds came a desper
ate suggestion
H e called loudly o n a supposed pro
tector in the adj oining tent t o come t o
the window and prove t o his captor
that he was under protection of a M o s
lem As he spoke he slo wly drew the
coat from before th e mirror in front of
which the shei k was standin g
N o words can e xpress the unutter
able consternation pictu red upon that
blazin g face livi d with fright and won
der as for the rst time it s aw its o wn
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T he U n tu r n e d

awful reection n o t knowing it was its

o wn
O ne instant he stood stock still
fascinated
horri ed
overwhelmed ;
then collapsed j ust as th at lady di d
b ut a moment a go and th e American
quickly possessed himself of his cap
tor s arms and was master o f t h e situ
ation

And n o w gentlemen
concluded
th e s t ory teller
we will have our
ame
g
As h e spo k e h e again reach ed f o r
ward to turn th e t w p There was a
quickly drawn breath of horror from
those wh o observed hi m f o r the rst
three ngers of h i s l eft hand were
missing
Before h e could turn the card a s av
age lurch of the boat accompanied b y
the creaking of timbers announced th e
arrival of th e R appah an n o ck at h er
N ew Y ork s l ip
and th e trump was
never turn ed
,

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Th ing

before midnight on the ninth

day of Decemb er in the year 1881
M alcolm Joyce of New H aven
made the acquaintance of the real
thi ng Prior to that time he had b een
a sceptic At the t ime of his startling
experience he was in San F rancisco
visiting friends whose home was
charmingly situated near the summit
of Nob H ill that conspicuous eminence
on C alifornia Street once the scene of
sand lot rio ts and famous f o r its
palaces of mil lionaires
Joyce having spent the evening with
his h ost at a theatre party and an hour
at whist had glanced over a packet o f
L o ndon papers smoked a cigar and
turned o ff the light preparatory t o g o
US T

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ea

T h in g

ing to bed H e stepped t o the large bay

window of h i s chamber t o enj oy for
a m o ment the impressive panorama
spread below h im in the sombre s i
lence
T here b efore him just across the
bay whose fantastically scattered
lights of red and green serve as gui di ng
stars to t h e mariner passing through
the G o lde n Gate lay O akland the
b eautiful city of sunny ho mes T o his
l eft loomed up with awe inspiring
grandeur through the di m shadows the
palatial residences of the imm ediate
vicinity each dark and silent in its
solitary maj esty To th e right in the
very shadow o f this manifestation o f
O ccidental mi ll ions and but a b lock
distant lay acres of dismal roofs shel
tering never ending scenes o f O riental
contrast
Chinato wn
wi th its fty
th ousand souls its underground opium
j oints and gambling h el l s its templ es
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T h in g

of wealth and piety and dens of vice

and penury
As Joyce t ur ned from the contempla
tion of the strange contrast presented
b y the scene the silence of which w as
b ro k en only by the ceaseless buzz of
the invisible cables in the street below
he was startled b y th e signa l gongs of
two cable cars which passed each other
directly in front o f the house Almost
unconsciously he returned t o his p o si
tion at the wind o w and paused t o watch
the one disappear o ver the summit
while the other as speedily descended
the long steep hill so steep that its
pavement never trodden by h orses
h oofs is grass grown in the crevices
H e stood but a moment and th en rea l
izing th e l ateness o f the hour turned
abruptl y t o g o to b ed As h e did s o
hi s eyes swept once more th e hill top
just b eyond
H orror !
Wa s he asleep ? Did h e
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ea

l T h in g

dream ? No F rom the tower half way

down the hill came the rst str o ke of
midni ght assuring him that he was
awake With an icy shudder chained
t o the spot he continued t o gaze at a
ghastly spectacle clearly outlined upon
the gloomy back ground by the light of
the street lamp a bloc k ab o ve
H e saw it moving
a human sk el e
ton with uplifted arm and owing
shroud all ghastly white all t o o real
to be mistaken from the gleaming skull
t o the uttering robe
H e saw it ap
r o a ch i n g nearer and nearer
gliding
p
swiftly and noi s e l es sly through the air
ab o ve the middl e of the street H e
tried t o move but could not
his eyes
refused t o l eave th e hid e ous sigh t H e
closer and closer It
s a w it coming
woul d pass b e l ow him n o t a hundred
feet away
Determined th at will and courage
should conquer doubt and fear sum
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ea

T h in g

moning all his strength of nerve h e

pressed closer to the window s o close
that hi s face fairly touched the glass
and he s a w a human skeleton soaring
th rough the air
N o w M alcolm Joyce was not easi ly
frightened N 0 one had ever accused
h im of cowardice and they who knew
him readily believed his statement that
he enj oyed solitude Y e t as he stood
there in the darkness his eyes xed
up o n the vanishing gure he felt some
h o w that he should welcome company
particul arly the c o mpany o f another
n o t easily f rightened
S O stro ng was
thi s impression of the occasi o nal di s a d
vantage o f s o litude that with o ut delay
he reli ghted the gas and stepped befo re
the mi r ror The deathly pallor and
agitati o n th at confr o nted h im was b e
wildering
As he tried t o calm himself and
change the current o f his thoughts he
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ea

T h ing

recalled the
sp o ok test
o f an ol d
hun ter whom he had met in New So uth
Wales
This test consisted in asking onese lf
thre e questions :
Are you awake are
you sob er are y o u sane .2
By the tim e
these queries are propounded and an
the ghost o n trial wi ll h ave
s wer e d
proved itself an illusion
Without hesitation Joyce answered
th e rst t w o questions
he was n u
questi o nably awake and sober But

was he In his right m m d ? H e picked

up a paper and read for a moment but
failed t o grasp a single idea ! H e
turned the pa ge H e could read b ut
h e coul d not understand ! H e jumped
up dazed frightened trembling per
spiring Wa s his min d giving way
under the strain it had undergone ?
O nce more he l o oked at the rst page
of the paper befo re him It wa s Lon
H e was sane !
d o n Punch
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ea

T h in g

again it still mi ght have been a ghost

A sensation akin t o doubt stole over
him
But whether or not hi s eyes had
afte r all played him a trick h e was
n o w ready t o g o to bed
H e drew down t h e shade of the win
do w t o hi s l eft and had grasped the
cord of th e o n e directly befo re him
when his arm fel l t o his side as if par
a ly z e d
With a l oud whirr the sud
d en l y re l eased s h ade rushed upward
and th ere not thi rt y yards in front of
and b elow hi m he b eheld the shocking
spectre gliding u p hil l
H e stood in rigid horror h eld b y the
grim monstrosity
Inclining slightly forward as it
soare d past with bony arm upstretched
to h eaven its bleached death s head
b are and shi ning the snowy drapery
enshr ouding its skeleton form in a si
lent u t t er it presented t o Joyce s
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ea

T h in g

view the most horribly revolting and

yet fascinating spectacle he had ever
beheld and one that he never forgot
In th e face of t his furth er proof all his
doubts vanished and he felt absolutely
certai n that he h ad seen what is here
described
But even b efore t h e frightful obj ect
had nally passed from hi s view he
experienced one of those sudden r e v u l
sions of feelin g by which fear becomes
courage and anxiety is followed by
mental calm and thus reconciled t o a
new belief he went t o bed
When he awoke on the following
morning he decided t o s ay nothi ng to
any one o f his s trange experience until
he had taken counsel with an intimate
bachelor friend a lawyer H e felt r e
l i ev e d therefore t o n d the breakfast
chat c o nned to topics e n t ir elv fo reign
t o the spirit world
E vidently n one
o f the family had been di sturbed by
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T h ing

ghostly visions As he looked across

the tab le into the eyes of a bewitching
girl he a lmost shuddered at the eeting
thought that the gruesome nocturnal
sight h e h ad seen mi ght have been a
warning
an omen of some dread ca
l ami t y th at might dash forever th e
hope he entertained with regard to her
It was to see her again
to b e at her
side and if possible to w o o her for his
own
th at he was in San F rancisco
T w o years previous they had rst
met on the opposite C oast of the c o n
t i n en t
While ranging in the M aine
woods Joyce had climbed M ount R o yce
and Speckle M ountain and visited th e
tourmaline mines and on one of h is
woodland tramps had come across a
college student with one foot in e x t r i
c a b l y cau ght in a bear trap
F or tu
n a t el y
a legging buckle and a stout
b ranch of undergrowth caugh t at th e
same t im e had prevented th e terribl e
.

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ea

l T h in g

teeth of the trap from crushing the

bone and the young fellow a brother
of Joyce s future idol was promptly
released nearly exhausted from th e
shoc k of hi s adventure and the fatigue
of hi s fruitless struggles to escape
Th e gratitude of the rescued youth
and his parents resulted in an invita
tion to Joyce t o visit the family which
he accepted with much alacrity after
having seen th e pretty daughter of th e
house
T en o clock found M alcolm Joyce at
the o ffi ce of his friend the lawyer H e
had expected Lucien Nelson t o b e s c ep
tical and ful l of good natured pleas
a n t r y and was therefore prepared for
the reception accorded h is unusual tal e
H e paid n o attention to hi s friend s in
t im at i on th at h e had seen th e ghost
wh ile under spiritual inuence r e
e
e
c
f
a
proposition
a
writ
of
ej
ect
t
d
o
r
j
m ent t o b e served upon it and nall y
,

1
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ea

T h in g

aro used Nelson s interest and secured

the promise of his c o operation in
an armed attempt to b e made that
night t o investigate the ghastly mys

t er y

Accordingly twelve hours later the

t w o young men each with a revolver
were snugly ensconced in a dark cor
ner of the b ay window o f Jo yce s cham
F o r t w o hours M al
h er on N ob H ill
colm was obliged t o endure all the
thinly veiled ridicule biting sarcasm
and ironical humor that a friend alone
dare utter s o that when he at length
turned up the light for a moment to
make sure of the t im e he was glad t o
n d that a few moments more would
bring the hour of mi dnight
the tra
d it i on al time f o r ghostly visitations
Th e sudden appearance of the cable
cars that passed each other on the hill
at twe l ve served as a signal for another
outb reak of raill ery o n the part of N el
,

2
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ea

T h ing

but Joyce in n o mood for f u rther

banter kept his eyes upon the progress
o f the car s s earching the steep incline
for the unearthly o bj ect which he
hoped yet dreaded to behol d Th e
downward car had not yet passed the
cross walk three bl o cks below when
with a feeling of awe which he coul d
n o t have described min led with a sort
g
of lively sati s facti o n he saw again th e
animated skelet o n ash bef o re his eyes
E merging apparently from the very
earth in the rear and a little to the left
o f the departing car
it r o se until its
full length s tood suspended in the air
Then after a slight wavering pause
it came glid ing up the hi ll
H i s experience of the previous nigh t
thus con rmed he was able t o contro l
his voice and nerves as he said cooll y
t o his companion while dreading what
the reply might b e :
Nelson here s a friend of yours
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ea

T hi n g

coming up street ; better step o u t and

speak to hi m
T o his immense re l ief the trembling
voice of his friend exclaimed at his
ear :
Great God ! A gh ost for sur e !
Nels o n s horri ed tone and pe r c ept i
bl e shudder left no doubt of his state
of mind and it was with much satis
faction that Joyce seized th e o ppo r t u
n i t y t o turn several of t h e l awyer s
gibes against hi m
Ignoring these sarc asms N elson ex
claimed again emphatically
Th at was a ghost as sure as I live
and I sh oul d lik e to s e e more of
him
H e l l very likely b e b ack in ten o r

fteen minutes same as last night

W ell then let s tackle hi m on h is

way down
They sh ook h ands and neith er spok e
again until they had reach ed the side
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ea

l T h ing

coast i s clear and quiet g o for it he

commanded
Y o u b et !
was the answer
and
don t forget t o b e quick on th e trig

ger
At that instant a sh arp tapping on
a window apparently a block above
them met their ears and at the same
time th ey saw the downward car
mounting the hillside
As it ap
h
r
a
the
noise
increased
a
loud
e
t
o
o
c
d
p
rattle and then sudde n l y stopped The
car had n o sooner passed and the hill
b ecome bare than the ghost appeared
at the s umm it gliding swiftly in mi d
air as on t h e previous occasions
There h e comes ! the watchers ex
claimed toget h er in excited whispers
wh ispered N els o n
R emember n o w
the moment h e gets c l ose enough
we ll rush o u t and wh en I say Shoot !
pump
l
ead
into
t
h
at
snowy
s
k
ull
o
u
y
while I la dl e some pellets b etween hi s
,

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5

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ea

T h in g

ribs Let him have it s ix times in s u c

ces s i on And don t forget i t s g o t t o
be all accidental
we were frenzied

with fear and shot in se lf defence

Don t forget that for we may have t o

swear to it
By this t ime the skeleton was ying
t o ward the block in which th ey were
concealed
N o w then rush for the middle o f
the street !
They rushed experiencing an awf ul
moment but when s till within some
feet of the apparition a dar k gure
armed with a long club darted su d
d en ly from a doorway o n the opposite
s ide of the street
and in another mo
ment the spectre lay prostrate on th e
gro und Befo re the gh o st hunters fully
realized what had happened th ey
stood breathless b ehind the newcomer
as he unconscious of their presence
stooped over his fallen quarry
.

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ea

T h in g

What are you doing here ?

sternly
demanded Nelson grasping the ghost
de s troyer by the arm Starting at th e
touch the latter sprang f o rward in a
frantic attempt to escape but nding
himself h o pelessly detained he stood
staring wildly at his capt o rs
Speak
Wh at are you doing here ? repeated
the lawyer

H im n o t my glost
was the mee k
reply in the tremb ling tones of a frig ht
ened C hi naman
O h very we ll
Pick him up and

come with us ; you are our prisoner

Without further words the terri ed
C hinaman carry ing his prize w as
p l aced b etween his captors and
march ed quickly t o K earney Street
near b y where behind locked doors
th e two friends proceeded to investi
gate an a a ir that h ad e x cited and
agitated them a s noth ing had ever done
b efore
,

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ea

T h ing

Prostrate upon the oor at and

motionl ess their previ o usly formidable
f o e was n o longer impre s sive
T rue
the skull and skeleton arm chalked t o
a ghastly whiteness were still suggest
ive of h orror but when the drapery was
lifted the anatomy disclosed was of
such ludicrous simplicity and har ml ess
ness that the astoni shment of the in
i
i
n
u
o
r
o
m
br
ught
a
fai
t
s
ile
even
s
t
s
t
o
q
the pale yellow face of the frightened
heathen
Briey described the plan and speci
ca t i o n s of the ghost were as follows :
A human skul l was securely attached t o
one end of a piece of inch gas pipe
twe lve feet long Th e other end of the
pipe was attened out t o permit its
passing readily through the grip sl ot
o f the cable road
and was provided
with a pair of self acting spring nip
pers ingeniously constru cted of nickel

and S o aix e d as to act in th e capacity

,

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T h ing

of a grip F ront and rear guards held

the structure upright Just below the
skull the pipe passed through a strip
of board t w o feet long by three inches
wide which served as s ho ul ders O ver
this the white shr oud which fell to
within t w o feet of the ground was
loosely draped while t o one end of the
strip th e skeleton arm was fastened
L o wer down at right angles with the
rst was a second board with rounded
ends which served to give the drapery
a natural spread as w
ell as to prevent
a fracture of the skull when the gure
was suddenly felled by its operators as
the t wo friends had seen it

John
said Joyce after the ex
ami nation h ad been made
l o ok at
these t w o revolvers and then tell
us what you ve got to say for your

self

repeated th e
H im not my glost
Chinaman sullenly
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ea

T h in g

Whose i s it then ?

H i m Wu n Lung glost
Wh o is Wu n Lung and where does
,

be

live ?

H im

no liv e e
him dead
O h ! So this is his ghost Why did
you knock it down ?
h
e
e
Wu n Lung s ay
c
a
t
c
o
g
glost
H ere !
interrupted Nelson
you

just said Wun Lung was dead

Joyce waved his hand with s o me im
patience
What s your name ?
he
continued
M y name Sing L o
me ve ll y goo d
cook
me
H old o n L O
N e l son I l l m a tch
you penn ies to s e e which of us is t o give
Sing Lo a dollar t o tell us th e wh ol e

story about the ghost

I ll g o you grumbled th e l awyer

but it isn t good law

H er e you are Sing Lo

H ere s
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ea

T h ing

n o w tell us everything
your dollar

and we ll let y o u g o
Y o u givee me b ack Wu n Lung
glost ?

Yes
ahead
o
g
T his assurance with the sight of
th e broad coin and the disappear
ance of the pistols worked wonders
with the hitherto quaking and evasive
laundr yman and in his best E nglish
and most straightforward manner
circumlocutory as it wa s
he related
th e particulars of an interesting
tale
It appeared that Wu n Lun g
wh ose
mortal remains the ingenious contri
vance captured had b ee n meant t o sim
ul at e
h ad b een the proprietor of a
lau ndry on Dupont Street a pro tab l e
spot th e site of which appealed t o
M ichael O B r i en a local politician as
very desirable for th e l ocation of a s a
l oon b ut hi s offer t o purch ase was de
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and nail

ea

T h in g

T he appea l t o the fears

of

and the identity of the S pec

tre were emphasized b y the solitary
bleached hand of the apparition the
departed Wu n having had but a sin
gle arm during the l atter years of his
life
Why did your friend mak e this
contrivance of nicke l ? a s ked Nelson
with the instinctive inquisitiveness of
his legal training
Sing L o grinned as h e re plied :
Wu n Lun g s ay Put um nickel in
slot I li sh man see um glost
With an ad di tional dollar designated

by Nelson as witness fees and with

his late employer s ghost under h i s
arm th e C hi naman was released and
dri fted out into th e darkness of China
town
H alf an h our l ater Joyce was o n his
way to th e h ome of his frie nds H e
paused a moment at Dupont Street and
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ea

T h in g

there near the corner read the follow

ing S ign :
,

Some few months afterwards on r e

turni ng from his honeymoon which
wa s passed among the grand scenery
of Washington and O regon h e found
himself again near the corner of Du
pont Street with his b ride With a
start of remembrance and recognition
he looked up Th e imposing black and
old
of
the
liquor
sign
h
ad
disappeared
g
and in its place in gold and red a
smaller board bore the signi cant in
scription :
,

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ea

Th in g

the night of h i s memorable a dv en

ture M r M ichael O B r i en had taken
the bony semblance of his Celestial vic
t I m for Th e R eal
on

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TH E

C U C K OO

CALL E D

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

H E

announ cement that London

music hall au di ences are losing
their heads and hearts over

The Girl with the Guitar

causes
M r Seym o ur Gaston t o smile as he
l o o ks d o wn upon the world from hi s
o fces on the nineteenth oor of a N ew
M r Gaston is an
Y ork s k y scraper
ingenious much traveled young bach
H e
e l o r with a hi story and a fortune
recently in vented a folding r e escape
whi ch als o has a history and in which
anoth er for tune is said t o await h im
Th e Girl with the Guitar
is
An d
of the t w o Zill er t h al e r sisters
on e
whose permanent address is unknown
and wh o receive t w o hun dred gui neas
a nigh t for presenting th eir T yrolean
'

69

Wh e n

the

u c zo o

a lle

second sight s ance T o such an extent

d o these mysterious maidens from the
mountains hypnotize the public that
they appear nightly at four dier en t
music halls At the A lh ambra they
open the performance at eight o clock
after which they are rushed by their
mana g er in an automobile to the stage
door of the second music hall where
they appear at eight forty v e and s o
on win di ng up at the Aquarium at a
few minutes before ten with a thousand
dollars in th eir po ckets for the eve
n in g s work
When th e curtain rises upon their
ten minute act it discloses a typical
T yrolean scene
dim mountains in t h e
background a somb re pine forest a
toylik e gabled cottage in the distance
Th e ligh ts are l o w and the stage is
empty Th e orchestra b egins alm o st
inaudibly a simple melody in th e minor
key Presently a rich voice th at raises
-

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

a narrow platform proj ecting into the

centre of the hall where after being
blindfolded she seats herself with her
bac k to the stage an d the real per
f o r m a n c e b egins t o the muted music of
the orchestra and the s a d fant astic
chords of the guitar The second sight
s ance pro gresses in the time hon o red
way except that n o word is spoken
save b y the blindfolded sister wh o a c
names and describes in a
c u r a t e ly
clear musical voice each article as it
is b orrowed from the audience and h eld
up in silence before the footlights by
the manager some thirty feet b ehin d
her back
A gold watch with a pic
ture of a l ady on its face
a pair o f
pearl opera glasses
a half crown
piece with a hole in it
and s o on th e
b lindfo l ded girl describ es the exhi b its
a s though th ey were held o u t b efor e her
naked eyes She never falters never
mi ss es and th e puzzled l ook that comes
,

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a ll e d

every face shows h o w completely she

has mastered her art But it is the
s trange
brilliant beauty and the fan
The Girl with the Gui
t a s t i c music o f

tar
who see mi ngly unconscious of
her surroundings gazes idly across the
sta g e that h o ld the breathless atten
ti o n of the audience M usic like hers
h a s never before been heard from any
instrument It is abs o lutely unique ;
a new scale and n e w system of har
mon ie s seem to have b een di scovered by
thi s sombre eyed girl It i s her weird
haunting melo di es that tr o uble the
mind with strange thoughts and the
impression of mystical occult powers
at w o rk produced by the perfo rmance
i s really traceable t o thi s mu s ic and t h e
my s teri o us pers o nality o f the girl
which pervades and d o minate s it all
All this v ividly recalls t o M r Ga s t o n
a ten minute dram a o f life in wh ich h e
once pl ayed a p art and which illus
to

7 3

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

trates h o w a man can regain his lost

peace of mind by being suddenl y
brought t o th e b rink o f eternity
F our years ago while he was man
agin g the affairs o f a large American
enterprise in London a cablegram a n
n o u n c e d to h im one day that his busi
ness partner in th e U nited States had
robbed him o f all h e possessed Brood
ing over his ruined b usiness to which
he h ad given ten years of his life and
sacri ced his h e al t h h i s peace o f mi nd
ed and he traveled aimlessly over the
Continent in search o f anyt hin g th at
might bring him sleep and help him t o
b ury the past T he doctors sent him
t o Baden Baden but he soon found
that th e conventional watering place
where one reads sn er i n g in almost
every face proved an irritant to h is
insomnia Th e more h e came in contact
with h umanity the more h e fe l t drawn
t o ward Nature S O h e started on a tour
.

7 4

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

of the Black F orest At T r i eb er g th e

picturesque little vi llage which stands
on the edge of a great waterfall high
up in the dark pine clothed mountains
he found pleasure for a f ew days in
visitin g the quaint cottages scattered
thr o ugh the surrounding wilderness
wh ere the cuck o o clocks music boxes
and wo o d carvings are made that al
way s attract foreigners The moun
t a in e er s carry these clocks and carv
ings o n the back fo r mil es down the
windi ng perilous pathways t o a public
exhibiti o n hall at T r i e b er g in which is
kept a full line of samples for the c o n
v e n i e n c e of purchasers
But the novelty of th ese scenes soon
w o re o ff and o n the third day after his
Gaston craving excitement
a rrival
br ibed the cu s t o dian of thi s exh ibition
h all t o set o all th e clocks and in st r u
m e nts at intervals of o n e second T h e
chorus of a thousand cuck oos rein
.

7 5

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a ll e d

forced by the patriotic rendering of

Die W acht am R hein the William

Tell O verture and Die Lorelei by
scores of o rchestrion s and music boxes
delighted him but pr o ved demoralizing
t o a party of M erican tourists b ent on
doing E urope in ten days M istaking
their excited b randishing of alpen
stocks umbrellas and Baedekers f o r
demonstrations of approval the keeper
kept up the performance un til the in
exorabl e schedule dragged the pros
purchasers
a
ay
T
hey
had
i
w
t
e
c
v
e
p
S pent the ten minutes al l otted t o the
Black F orest
In his wanderin gs and search for a d
venture G aston came o n e day upon
what seemed like an unused trail that
led higher up the mountain from an
almost impenetrable jumble of rocks
and pines near the waterfall

The Witches Path exclaimed his

landlord when questioned
and wh o
,

6
7

Wh e n

th e

c ko o C a l l e d

ever f o llows it never returns

It
mi ght have an outlet in another valley
bey o nd he added but shaking hi s
head there were s t range stories about
the Witches Path and while he could
n o t verify them he knew that n o one
of his guests wh o had essayed t o ex
l
r
o
it
had
ever
come
back
e
p
Sick o f chattering men and women
harrowed day and night by his troubles
Gaston rej oiced in the pr o spect of an
adventure of any kind and while h e
smiled at the suggestion o f danger l u rk
ing in the recesses of the W itches
Path he s ecretly hoped there mi ght b e
Life was n o t a j oyful possession t o Sey
mour Gaston in those days and he
cared little whether h e lived or died
S o early the following morning with
a well provisioned knapsac k on his
back and an alpen s tock in his h and h e
s e t out upon the Witches Path
After
ten hours of climbing crawl ing s lidi ng
.

7 7

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

and S lipping over almost impassable

r o cks and through impossible thi ckets
the trail led into a stretch of forest s o
dense as t o completely shut out the
fading daylight and the wanderer was
glad t o accept as a bed the thick end
less carpet o f pine needles that lay
stretched out before h im Th e fo ll ow
ing morning he res um ed his j ourney
and at noon discovered h igh o n the
mountain side what appeare d like a
gray toy house hidden among the r o cks
and pines After another h o ur of tire
some climb ing h e stood before a cottage
built upon th e very e d g e of an immense
cleft
F rom far b elow ech oed th e
h oarse b oomi ng of a mountain stream
H i s k nock was answered b y a s h ort
white bearded mountaineer with pier
cing gray eyes wh o upon learning that
h is vi sitor spo k e German received him
h ospitabl y with th e remark th at it was
se l dom indeed that visitors came h is
,

8
7

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

w o rld of his own where strange birds

sang In a dusky scented twilight H e
played reckle s sly lost steadily and
was repeatedly compelled t o res o rt
to the Bank of E ngland n o tes in his
wallet
Y o u are in bad luck to ni ght Shall
we stop 2 Y o u must b e tired after y o ur

l o ng t ramp at last suggested the h o st

Then counting the money s lowly and
with evident pleasure he handed t o
Gast o n all the latter had l o st It was
promptly pushed b a k pr o te s tingly
whereupon K o lln e r exclaimed Never !
The pleasure is mine ; the m o ney is
yours It is my custom t o play f o r
stakes t o lend interest t o the game but
the l aw of h ospitality forbids my keep

ing what I win

S o Gaston returned
the money t o his wallet and bade his
generous host and hostess good night
K o lln er led hi m to a large l o w studded
room on th e upper oor in whi ch every
,

80

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

article o f furni tur e was elab orately

hand carved

The masterpiece of my craft ex

cla imed K o ll n er as he pointed with
pride t o a mammoth cuckoo cl o ck ful ly
four feet wide and reaching nearly t o
the ceiling
But our proudest pos

session
he continued as he led his
guest t hrough a tall F rench window

upon a small veranda

is thi s point
ing to a view that caused Gaston t o
gasp for breath Th e balcony di rectly
overhung the mighty gorge and from
the gulf of blackness far below rose the
sound of the tumul tuous stream while
an uncertain moon threw fantastic
shadows over the towering peaks

ab ove M ost wonderful of all

c on
tinn ed K olln er
is the echo
Th e
Ghost of the Gorge as it is called

Y o u sh all hear it at dawn

With that
h e wound up and set the b ig cl o ck add
ing
Wh en the cuckoo call s rise and
.

81

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

come to thi s balcony M y niece shall

play from the rocks below and y o u will
hear the spirit answer Good n ight !
AS on many other weary nights sleep
refused t o come t o Gaston H e lay f o r
hours listening t o the gurgle of the
water and hearing in it echoes O f th e
wild music of the guitar
Towards
morning a f everish slumber came fr o m
whi ch he was aroused by the shrill
of the mech anical
C uc k oo ! Cuc k oo !
bird
Clad in his paj amas h e drowsily
groped his way in the dusk towards th e
balcony H e h ad almost reached it
wh en he overturned the chair which
h ad served t o keep the window half
open during th e night In its outward
fal l it carried down th e balcony with
a crash and Gaston horror stricken
b arely kept h is balance by grasping th e
window casing F rom the dark chasm
rose th e weird strains o f th e guitar
.

82

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a ll e d

he turned and s a w Gaston hi s face

became a mask of absolute fright and
bewilderment F o r a moment onl y he
recoiled then ung himself upon hi s
guest with the fury of a b east E ach
instantly realized that the struggle
would b e t o the death F renzied by the
miscarrying of his diabolical plot the
mountaineer struggled madly blindly
f o r a grip that sho ul d enable him t o
hurl his adversary over the mighty
precipice F oiled again and again by
th e agility of Gaston and forced to the
defensive he turned towards the open
door to escape As he did so Gast o n
rushed upon him pin ned his arms to his
sides and pushed him inch by inch t o
the open window and
C a Spar K oll
ner reach ed the end o f the Witches
Path ! T en minutes later Gaston found
the niece quietly preparing b r eakfast
She looked surprised but when he t o ld
h e r that h er uncle and n o t he had an
as

84

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a ll e d

the Lorelei s call S he asked

with nai ve inn ocence what he meant
I t was only after h e h ad threatened t o
h and her over t o the police at T r i eb er g
tha t sh e made this confession :
She h ad been b rought up b y her
uncl e wh o h ad invented the fol di ng
b alcony and wh o al ways engaged his
guests in a game of cards H e in v ar i
ably won because he had taugh t h er as
a child t o signal by means o f notes and
chords on the guitar the cards h eld by
his opponent H e thus l earned if his
guests were supplied with mone y and
t o gain their fu ll con dence returned
all they h ad lost H e was enabled t o
s e t the man trap from hi s room b elow
Although th e gorge held the remains of
thirty victims it was his b oast that h e
had never killed a man that each h ad
o f hi s o wn free will wa lk ed into et e r
nity
Gaston h ad h eard enough H e did

s w er e d

85

Wh e n

the

c ko o C a l l e d

stop for breakfast H e left Trie

berg the followin g evenin g an d thoughts
of his business troubles n o l o nger ocen
pied his mind When he returned t o
America he set t o work t o retrieve h i s
lost fortun e and the folding r e escape
he tells his friends was suggested b y
something he saw abroad
Gaston d o es not claim the gift of s e c
o n d S i ght but he knows he says that
in the perfo rmance of the Zill e r t h al er s
the weird s trains produced by
The
Girl with the Guitar describe t o h er
blindfolded sister the articles borrowed
o f the audience
n ot

86

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M illio n

S the traveler turning his b ack

t o th e setting s u n descends into
Para di se Valley there spreads
before him a brilliant checker board of
orchard and vineyard Beyond this an
extens ive and picturesque group of red
b uildings gl eams still ruddi er and upon
one corner of the roof of the principal
structure a small house of glass glistens
like a huge j ewel in the sunset glow
Approaching nearer the bui l di ngs a r e
seen t o b e surrounded by parks and
gardens where men and women are
amusing themselves with go l f and b ase
b all croquet and tennis under th e
watch ful eyes of discreet attendants
H ere is th e home o f many a human
wreck c ast upon th e sh ores o f mental
,

39

O n e C ha n c e in

M il l i o n

oblivi o n in the strenuous struggle o f

life
the m an who during the g o ld
fever o f 49 found fortune t o lose all
else he wh o sacri ced everything and
gained nothing and hundreds of o thers
men and women wh o have prove d u n
equal t o the strain on nerve and brain
imposed by the stress of an un k indly
F ate
Wal king apart from th ese groups
may be seen a white haired man of
melancholy mien who pauses occasi o n
ally and makes a pecul iar motion with
his hands as if in the act o f cutting
with an imagi nary pocket knife This
man is th e sole occupant of the glass
house on th e roof which is always bril
l i an t l y l igh ted bl azing all n igh t with
electric lamps At intervals o f a few
month s h e is visite d b y t w o l adies wh o
seem extremel y so licitous for hi s wel
fare and twi ce a year a noted al ienist
from Pari s com es t o s t udy th is interest
,

O n e C ha n c e in

M il li o n

me u p
b y men ordered b y socie t y
la di es for their functions and con
sum ed by shop girl s b y the t on
Th e enorm ous prots from th eir
sales were n o t di vided among sh are
h olde r s b ut a ll went t o one man W a1
ter H T o r r et o n t h e inventor and man
u f a c t u r er wh o , starting in a sma ll way !
h ad constantly increased hi s business
and incidenta lly th e fame o f the Lake
ci t y wh ere h e lived There h e bought
the h andsomest estate on Park Avenue
and b uilt e x tensive conservatories giv
ing much personal attention to a
unique species of lily wh ich h ad never
b efore b een seen called b y h im th e
multi bloom
AS t h e fame o f T or r et o n s c o n f e c
t i o n er y spread oth er manufacturers
put imitations o n the market but with
success
Th ough their candy
ou t
l oo k ed much th e same it whol ly lacked
th e peculiar qual ities of th e genuine
-

2
9

O n e C ha n c e in

M il l i o n

Joy Dr o ps in which analysis had failed

t o reveal anything more than sugar a
little frui t avoring and the merest
trace of some qui t e unknown but very
volatile essence which appeared to be
l ocated in the red central stripe
T o r r e t o n receive d large o ffers f o r the
use of hi s secret form ul a but these he
promptly declined and went o n e n
l a r g in g hi s b usiness
Then his com
i
e
t
o
r
s
began
a
sys
ematic
endeavor
t
t
p
t o stea l what th ey coul d not buy
In
fo rmation was lodged with the internal
revenue o fcers that the candy c o n
t ain e d alcohol but thi s w a s disproved
by the governm ent analysis wh ich
h owever utterly fail ed t o Sh ow th e
nature of the characteristic ingredient
T o r r e t o n often fo und spy glasses and
cameras l evel l ed upon h is lab oratory
windows from b uil din gs across th e
w ay
R epeated attempts were made t o
b ribe his workmen b ut th ey on l y
,

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O n e C ha n c e in

M il l i o n

served to bring out the fact that n o o n e

knew the secret but T o r r et o n himself
T hen complaint was b rought against
him for violating the r e regulations
and among the inspectors wh o came
when an investigation was ordered he
recognized a chemist from Chi cago
But even this spy after gaining access
t o the citadel and peering and snif ng
about the pre mi ses could n d n o cl ue
but a strange aroma which h e could
n o t identify
Some e xpress packages
which arrived at the factory were
traced back to Amsterdam where
after a tedious search it w a s foun d
that th ey had been originally shipped
across th e ocean by T o r r e t o n himself
merely as a blind When it seemed as
if persecution and inquisiti o n could g o
n o further the inventor one evening on
leaving the factory discovered a small
b alloon anchored over his lab oratory
skyligh t !
.

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M il l i o n

get a look at the new light There it

wa s sure enough and as the darkness
gath ered it displayed a b eautiful green
pear with a red streak in the centre
a gleami ng reproduction o f the famous
candy I t was pronounced a great a d
but one scarcely n e ce s
v er t i s e m e n t
sary in a locality where the confection
itse lf was alrea dy in the mouth o f
everyb ody H owever the reward o f
f er e d w a s tempting and n o t only did
ever y policeman and reman imm e di
ately b ecome a rii gh t watchman f o r the
T o r r e t o n works b ut every man and
b oy a s we ll wh o could invent any pre
text f o r b eing o u t
But while thus in o n e sense s u b
e
e
o
c
l
oser
espionage
t
h
an
ever
c
t
d
t
j
T o r r et o n s factory was n o l onger
troubled b y th e spies of his rival s and
his business increased even b eyond his
e x pectations Stil l he lab ored regu l arly
as ever and l ived with h is wif e and
.

6
9

O n e C h a n c e in

M illio n

ece j ust a s qui etly his onl y e x t r a v a

gan ce being frequent additi o ns t o his
greenh ouses
The li ght in the cupola burned stead
y and the tempting reward seemed
destined to remain unclaimed until one
eve ni ng more than t wo years after th e
completion o f the buil din g wh en a
newsb oy lingering late in the endeavor
to dispose of an overstock o f e x tr y s
suddenly saw a blurred hal o surround
ing the green and red beacon It trem
b led grew pale and
ni

T h e lig h t wen t

ou t!

Dropping hi s

papers th e boy too k

the shortest route t o Park Avenue but
soon found he was not al o ne in th e race
as h e
f o r the T o r r e t o n residence
passed men and boys and even women
all sil ently S triving for the promised
reward A watchful and active r e
man was the r st t o arrive in the pres
ence of M r s T o r r e t o n t o claim it and
,

97

ne

C ha n c e

in

M il li o n

she with h er niece wh o acted a s c o n

d e n t i a l secretary t o her uncle at the
factory were already in a carriage
swinging out of the grounds wh en th e
great body of panting messengers ar
rived
During th e anxious drive t o Sumach
Park the girl explained that rather
earlier th an usual h er uncle told her
he was going to the city and wo ul d not
return t o the works Wh en sh e started
f o r home she had noticed that the door
to a small inner l ab o ratory vault in
which M r T o r r e t o n kept his most im
p o rtant chemicals and papers w a s
open She h ad c l osed and l o ck ed it
What connection this incident might
have with the extinguishing of the
light she could n o t imagine yet sh e fe l t
that something was wrong as any a t
tempt to enter the b ui l di ng b y night
w o uld put out the beacon a n d give an
alarm
,

8
9

O n e C ha n c e in

M il li o n

and without speaking he stumbled

blindly toward the light and then fell
unconscious
Before closing the vault again the
niece looked wonderingly in Bur ned
matches and paper ashes attracted her
attention They lay o n the oor b e
neath the e l ectric light bracket O n a
shelf lay a note hastily s cr a wl e d o n a
J o y Drop wrapper :
,

Lock ed in
Secret
s u o c a t in g
shall die with me H ave b u rned the

formula Wife has enough sh e shall

not be persecuted a s I have been

Good bye
.

Beneath this was written :

A thought h as come t o me that
may save my life : I s h a ll t r y t o g iv e
t h e a la r m by cu t t i n g t h e el ec t r i c wi r es
an d

t
u
t
t
n
o
u
p
g

t he

cu po la

li g h t

H e had indeed given th e alarm in

time t o save his life b ut h is mind b e
,

10 0

O n e C ha n c e in

M il lio n

came a complete blank The T orre

ton J o y Drops di sappeared from the
market and the light in the cupo la o f
the deserted works h a s never b een r e
lighted F inally even the family resi
dence w a s given t o the city fo r a h o s
pital b ut it was not until afte r th e
extensive greenhouses had b ee n di s
mantled and their treasures scattered
tha t it w a s suggested that th e y mi ght
have h eld the secret o f th e famous
sweetmeat That secret with its pos s i
b il iti e s lies hopelessly buried in t h e
darkened brain o f Walter T o r r e t o n
And it is darkness alone that dis
t u r b s h im n o w
It wa s observed from
the be g inning of the attempts t o treat
his remarkabl e case th at h e di splayed
th e utm ost repugnance t o darkness
and grew nervous uneasy and wil d as
twi ligh t came o n H e is h appy onl y
in a gl are o f ligh t and it was upon th e
advi c e o f an eminent Pari sian S pe c ial
.

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O n e C ha n c e in

M i l l io n

that he w a s nally removed t o the

beautifu l California valley where he
lives day and night in a o od o f ra di
ance H i s mind slipped a c o g the spe
c i al i s t says which may slip back again
just as a train that has j umped the
track may jump back
b ut it i s
chance in a million
ist

10 2

D o o d le : D is c o v e r y

O H N JE FF E R S O N

D OODLE d e
rived a large amount o f pleasur e
from the knowledge that he was
considered a crank In Doodle s opin
ion cranks were persons who knowing
the right way re fu s ed to have thin gs
done in any other John Je er s on de
man d e d full value for his o wn money
and pers isted in giving the same in re
turn for th e money O f others Busi
ness b ac k steps fo o l fakery and lame
excuses were foreign t o h is meth ods
s o when he opened his restaurant s u c
ce ss wa s assured Doodle s was th e
mos t u p t o date caf in the entire eat
ing z o ne The fo od service and a p
o
m
i
n
t
e
n
s
f
t
O
were
the
b
est
and
from
p
the openin g day the future prosperity
of Doo dle wa s someth ing th at a f t h

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rate prophet c o uld foretell without run

ning the risk of a headache
But Doodle s Caf w a s in the direct
line of a tr o ub le cyclone In the wash
rooms connected with the establish
ment the pro prietor supplied the nest
toilet s o ap that money could buy but
unfortunately for the peace of mi nd of
John Jefferson he was called upon t o
supply much more than legiti mate
demands requi red
E xpensive soap
proved a tempting bait t o unprincipled
patrons and Doodle soon discovered
th at something like forty dollars
worth o f s o ap was required t o meet
the daily demands of his six hundred
patrons
Legitimate h an d washing
could n o t possibly be resp o nsible f o r
this enormous o utlay s o D o odle set his
brain the tas k o f devi s ing a plan by
which the thieves could b e detecte d
As all th e world knows various in
n
i
e
o
u
sc
h
emes
h
ave
b
een
tried
wit
h
s
g
.

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The c afe owner was in rapture over

his invention I t s ability t o do all
that he claimed for it w a s beyond ques
tion H e had it patented tted t o
the was h s tands and then awaited
results
The Detector was a s impl e contri
vance It consisted o f a small kodak
like arrangement concealed behind the
mirror that h ung above each wash
bowl the eye of the camera b eing hid
den among the electric li ght xtures
Th e picture tak ing device was c o n
n e c t e d with t h e soap tray in such a
manner that a pers on lifting the soap
re l ieved th e pressure upon a b utton in
th e b ottom o f the tray and was by this
means immediately photographed by
th e unseen instrument Wh en th e soap
w a s rep l aced a sel f deve l oping lm was
moved up in readiness t o snap th e next
person wh o lifte d the tabl et b ut if
it was n o t replaced th e ph otograph ic
.

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apparatus stopped working and the

picture o f the soap thief was there
fore the last on the lm
D oodle gave orders t o hi s sta ff t o
i mm e di ately repo rt t o hi m wh en th ey
found a cake of soap mi ssing from i t s
tray and on the rst day h e waited
anxiously John Je e r s o n had philan
t hr o pi c ideas and he considered the ex
o
su
r
i
e
of
a
soap
t
h
ef
an
act
for
the
p
bene t of th e community H e h ad n o t
l ong to wait
Dinner h ad scarcely
begun wh en a ca k e o f soap was r e
ported missing and the proprietor im
mediate l y s t epped to the washroom and
too k th e lm from its place of conceal
ment Th e l ast snapshot wa s th at o f
a well dressed mi ddle aged man and
D oodl e with th e l ong l m in hi s h and
walked down th e b ig dini ng room in
search of th e ori ginal At th e very last
tab l e he found his man and l eaning
over addressed h im
,

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Pardon me
he said quietly
touching an overcoat that hu ng near

the customer i s this your overcoat ?

The diner nodded

Then
continued John Je er s o n
will you kindly take o u t o f the pocket
the cake of soap you took from the
wash stand a f ew moments ago ?
The accused man grew red in th e face
and indignant but D oodle w a s per
sistent

Very well
h e sai d wh en th e cus
t o mer refused t o comply with the re
quest
I will tak e it o u t myself
It

bel o ngs to me
H e inserted his hand in th e pocket
o f the overcoat and drew forth the
missing soap wrapped in o n e of th e
s mall hand towels a l so b e l onging to th e
establishm ent

As I th ought commented Doodle

A wet piece of soap calls f o r a dry
wrapper and I sn er doub l y N ow
,

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D is c o v e r y

had recovered several cakes thi rteen

hun dr ed and eleven times from the
same numb er of soap thi eves wh o were
ignorant of the fact th at their th eft had
been recorded by the un seen in s t r u
ment And in no single instance h ad
the Dete ctor made a mistake
But Doodle found that the dete ction
o f soap thieves was a costly business
T h e thirteen hun dr ed and eleven cus
t o mer s detected in the act of purloin
ing the cak es o f soap did not return
and each day made matters worse The
D etector s ave rage decreased as th e
patrons fell away but each day it
scored i t s v i c t ims
H e
And Doodle was determined
had made up his mind that he woul d
n o t allow a man wh o paid seventy ve
cents for a dinner to carry o forty
cents worth of soap and the moment
th e machine registered a thief John
Je er s o n l ost n o t im e in making th e
,

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accusation and recovering the stolen

property
O n th e twenty fth day after th e
install ation of the invention D oo dl e
had but ten customers t o di nne r and
b efore the mea l was over Jo hn J e ffer
and
s o n Doodle retired t o hi s O fce
th rowing hi mse lf into a ch air spent
some t wo h ours in considering th e s it
nation H e then arose and acted with
sudden energy H e di ctated a l engthy
tel egram and a fter seeing th at it wa s
imm ediately dispatched h e dr afted a
circul ar and h ad it typewri tten Th en
with a satis ed e x pression upon his
face h e s at down and awaited events
An d he h ad n o t long t o wait T wo
h ours af ter th e di spatch o f th e wire a
fat man walk ed into the dini ng rooms
and asked for th e proprietor John
Je ff erson inc lined hi s h ead an d mo
t ion e d the stranger t o a seat
I am the president of th e In t e rna
.

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Toilet Soap Trust

said the
newcomer eagerly
and I came in r e
S pouse t o your peculiar telegram
It
is a trie vague and w e want more in
formation regardin g the matter you
mentioned
John Je er s o n Doodle stood up and
without speaking led the way t o the
washroom With a grim smile upon
his face he explained the mechanism o f
the Soap Thief Detector to the presi
dent o f the Internati onal T oilet Soap
Trust and the fat man breathed h e av
1ly
T here i s noth ing vague about

this sneered Doodle

What I wired
you is th e truth Nine out of e v er y t en
peop l e who steal soap from h ote l s and
restaurants never buy toilet soap
Th erefore th e more thi eving the more
soap y ou will sell u s and it stands t o
reason th at y o u do not wish th e Thief

D etector t o come into general use

t i o n al

'

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D is c o v e r y

triin g s u m o f v e dollars a head wi ll

yield me over a mil li o n

The other stood silent for a moment
regarding the face o f John Je ff erson
with his keen gray e yes
I couldn t d o it on my o wn r es pon
he said at l ast
s ib i li t y
Get busy o n th e long di stance

phone
suggested Doodle
Call a
special meeting o f directors and ex
plain matters and I ll await the deci
sion If your people don t b uy I ll
promise you that the Great Soap Thief
Detector will b e k nown from M indanao

t o B a fn s Bay inside three month s

Th ree h ours afterwards th e fat man
returned and picking up a pen h e
wrote a check in favor o f Doodle fo r
t wo h undred and fty th ousand dollars
wh ich h e e x ch anged f o r a deed convey
in g a ll righ ts in the D etector H e then
stepped into th e washroom tore the
picture m ach ine from its hi ding place
.

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di s connected

the wires leadi ng to the

soap tray and ripped the lm into a
thousand pieces

I ve seen enough of that thi ng

he
growled angrily
Cleanlin ess i s
next t o Godliness and the man wh o
stops another man from stealing soap
is running pretty near the sin line I

take it
Th en with a n al snort of di sgust
he went o u t into the street and the
d o ors of Do o dle s F am o us Dining
ro oms were cl o sed Doodle th e Crank
was happy and
rich
,

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east wind had failed t o put

in an appearance that evening
and the thermometer regis
t e r e d ninety v e un der the stately elms
of the B o ston C o mmon
The family h a d gone away f o r the
summer and Buttons and the butler
were o u t f o r an airing Both were s o
well fed and s o little exercised that they
needed something t o st ir the i r blo o d
Butt o ns was a sl eek fat pug with a
knowin g eye and oily manner Th ey
called him Buttons because the harne s s
he w e r e about his f o requarters w as
s tudded with shi ni ng ornaments
H i s companion was li k ewise s l ee k
and fat and the amount of lofty dignity
h e stored under h is b ob tailed jacket
H E

I ZI

1( 0 0 t c h i e

and broadcloth trousers told everybody

that he was the butler H e carried a
wicked little cane with a loaded head
and seemed to own the greater part o f
the earth
As the t w o strolled prou dl y through
the Beacon Street M all fate favored
Buttons and the butler There was a

cat on the Comm on a pet cat without

an escort This cat belonged to one o f
the wealthy families wh o at the tail end
of winter b oard up their city re s idences
and g o to the country to spend the sum
mer and save their taxes The owners
of this particular cat had speeded mis
s i o n a r i e s t o the four corners of the
globe t o evangelize the heathen but
their pet puss th ey had turned into the
streets of the modern Athens t o seek
its o wn salvati o n With n o home o r
visible means of support but with true
feline fortitude the dumb creature n o w
haunted the doorstep of th e deserted
.

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The qui et man said noth in g but g o t

up helped the frightened cat to escape
t o a safe hiding place and then r e
sumed his seat
T hat ni ght puss went t o b ed without
a supper while her owner presided at
t h e o n e hun dred an d eleventh seaside
anniversary of the Society f o r the Pre
o f Cruelty to Animals
and
v en t i o n
punctuated the courses of a sh din
ner with rare vintages of missionary
port
Th e next evening the same heat hung
h eavily over the Beacon Street M all
and Buttons and the butler were again
taking an airing and l ooking f o r fun
As Buttons neared the scene of his
former encounter h e pricked up his
ears and sn i e d the air for th e scent
of game Presently his anxious eye
was attracted b y something hi s pug
nose h ad failed t o detect O n a b ench
near b y s at th e quiet gentl eman wh ose
,

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acquaintance Buttons a n d the butler

had made o n the previous eveni ng
The same yellow haired little girl was
seated near hi m intently watchi ng the
rings of cigar smoke he pu e d hi gh
into the evening air Between the t w o
a huge inated paper bag was surging
t o and fr o
It w a s this paper bag that
had caught the eye of Buttons It in
Drawing h imse l f all up
t er e s t e d him
in a heap he proceeded with cautious
measured step t o satisfy hi s curiosity
As h e slowly approached the cu rious
obj ect hi s l o w fretful growls seemed
t o rouse it t o renewed gymnastics
This frightened Buttons and caused
him to t u rn tail and ee H i s curiosity
had h owever got the better of hi m
and returning t o wh at he deeme d a
s afe distance
h e b egan barking fur i
.

o u sl y

Cat Buttons where s the cat ?

came from the b utler wh o was lei
,

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surely bringing up the rear u n co n

scious of B uttons s n d
With renewed courage the pug
rushed towards the paper bag H e had
almost reached it when the qu iet gen
t l em an gave the bag an opening twist
and a s a furry head with a pair of ery
eyes shot out he exclaim ed
H i hi K o o t ch i e !
The earnestness with which K o o t ch i e
h i hied b ecame instantly apparent
by the piteous howls that rose from out
of the murderous clawing snarling
mass of ying fur and silver ornaments
An d t h e speed with whi ch Buttons s
companion hastened t o the res cue with
his loaded cane proved th at even a
Boston b utler can get a move on B e
fore he co ul d interfere however the
quiet gentleman took a h and in the
game

Stand back
h e demanded in
tones th at showed h e woul d b roo k n o
,

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And the policeman win k ed with

ghoulish satisfaction when the father
spoke up
K o o t ch i e is a nine j ointed
cyclone She s a yo u ng California wild
cat a friend in Tiger Valley sent me
I m fond of pets you know and as sh e
felt a bit homesick this e vening I
brought her out here for
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er

E y e s, Yo u r H

o n or

the death sentence is awaited As he

stood silent and irresolute f o r a m o
ment the color rising to hi s plain
youthful face hi s ngers nerv o usly
fumbling with a pencil the spectators
were conscious of a feeling of di s ap
pointment
With almost boyish embarrassment
his eye sought that of the presiding
j udge ; next he scann ed the faces of the
j ury and then tur ning to the witness
in a voice at o n ce gentle sarcastic and
magnetic he b egan :
M r Slade I w il l trouble y ou t o
loo k once more very careful ly at th e
prisoner Perhaps sh e will rise that
you may see her better Y o u have tes
t i e d that shortly b efore eight o n th e
night of the murder y o u s a w this
woman enter the apartment house of
which you are the j anitor and in which
th e b ody o f Ch arl otte Am es was found
N o w I woul d l i k e to h ave you te ll th e
.

13 2

E y es , Yo u r H

er

o n or

j ury just what it was in the appearance

of the woman y o u s ay you then s a w
that enables you t o swear t o day that
sh e and the prisoner are one and the
same person
Th e witness fearin g a trap h esi
t at e d and nervously eyed the lawyer

I would li ke you to te ll us
calml y
continued the questioner
whether
o
u
took
such
particu
l
ar
notice
h
er
o
f
y
h eight her face h er complexion h e r
hair her nose and h er teeth durin g th e
few moments that you say y o u s a w her
in the di ml y lighted hallway four
month s ag o as t o enable you t o swear
t o day that y o u cannot b e mistaken
Was it h er size h er apparent age per
haps o r th e color of her hair or
what ?

It was h er l ook s
answered th e
witness squi rming in h is seat
It s
the same woman
Y e s h er loo k s ; but I must trouble
.

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E y es, Yo u r H

onor

answer my question so that the

j ury may have the whole truth before
they are asked t o send any one t o the
gallows R emember M r Slade you
are under oath N o w tell us wh at was
it ?

We o b j ect came from th e prose

c u ti n g attorney as he sprang t o hi s feet
We obj ect your honor t o this at

tempt to intimidate th e witness

Before the court could pass upon th e
obj ection th e witness t urning from hi s
questioner to the court exclaimed half
de ant l y :
It was h er eye s your h onor !

Th at is all came from th e l awyer

f o r th e defence as he resumed his seat ;
and th e spectators rela x ed into a c on
dition of restlessness th at clearly
showed th eir furth er disappointment
E ach o f th e succee di ng witnesses de
cl ar e d wit h out h esitation th at th e pris
oner was th e woman th ey h ad seen near
o
u
y

to

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on or

in perfect order There had been n o

r o bbery and the instrument used w as
f o und in her breast where it had been
driven to the heart It was a gold o r
n am e n t such a s a woman wears in her
h air
W e shall not attempt t o defend the
character o f the dead woman but we
shall ask that justice be done
It is true that many a woman in
this town had good reason t o wish th e
murdered woman il l It is true that
there are men in th e co mmun i ty wh o
might have b een driven b y despe rate
hate desperate l ove or desperate j e al
o n sy t o d o th e deed but fo rt unately
b e fore cruel suspicion made any blun
der of that sort th e police d i scovered
the criminal Al most simultaneous l y
with the rumors of th e mur der came th e
reports o f a mysterious woman found
leaving th e city Within twelve h ours
thi s woman wh o n o w stands at th e b ar
.

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o n or

had b ee n identi ed b y n o less than four

people wh o s aw her in the vicinity of
the scene of the crime either b efore or
after it was commi tted
She refused t o
N o one knew her
give any account of herself She ap
pe e red to be in a state of great nervous
excitement Th e government will show
that sh e entered th e house sho rt ly b e
fore the murder was committed ; that
she left it a few minutes after the d ee d
was done ; that on the very day o f th e
murder she had high words with th e
dead woman and that the instrum ent
with whi ch the d ee d was done was such
an o n e as the prisoner was known t o

possess Gentlemen of the j ury h e

concluded dramatically
F ate plays
n o tricks of that so r t
F ate fashions
n o such chain of circumstantial evi
dence as that wh ich establishes th e
guil t of t his woman and upon which w e

as k her conviction
,

37

E y es, Yo u r H

er

o n or

T hese were his words and now that

,

the j anitor had testi ed that he sa w t h e

prisoner enter the buildin g a patrol
man had declared that he saw her leav
ing it within fteen minutes before the
crime was di scovered and the dead
woman s coachman had sworn t o hav
ing overheard the prisoner using threat

after
e n i n g language t o his mistress
this and other circ um stantial evidence
h ad gone b efore the jury and remained
unshaken by cross examination the
prosecution announced that the case
for the g o vernme nt was in
In spite of the disappointment with
which the spectators regarded Lawyer
M cWh o r t er a nervous dread of the
man posse ssed th e minds of the O ppos
ing counsel as he rose slowly and d elib
e r a t el y clasped h is h ands b ehind h im
H e was s o calm H i s methods were s o
unfathomable th at th ey b egan t o feel
a vague conviction that he mastered
,

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er

o nor

t ime in beginn in g hi s closing speech

We commend the j udgment of the

disting ui sh ed counse l for the defen ce

he began
whi ch deterred him from
attacking the overwhelmin g proofs we
have submitted of the prisoner s guil t
We commend th e k een judgment which
prompts hi m t o rely upon th e famed
magic of his own voice rath er th an t o
seek h ope for h is client in th e u n cer
tain words of unreliabl e witnesses
The defence t o o clever t o attack such
proof as we h ave presented will n o w
rely upon si lvery tongued oratory and
superb rh etorical appeal s t o secure
from th ese twe l ve men a verdict o f a c

qui ttal But may it p l ease the court

h e concl uded
ou r
learned brother
mistak es the intell igence of th ese gen
t l em en o f the jury if h e supposes for
that fervent appeal s t o
o n e moment
their sympath ies can make th em forget
th eir duty t o th emse l ves to civil ized
no

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o n or

society and t o woman k ind

S o well
satis ed however h ad the spectators
become of th e prisoner s gui lt and s o
completely di d all interest n o w center
in M cWh o r t er s anticipated speech
tha t th e remarks of the prosecuting a t
torney were li stened t o with in different
attention
No w surely th e b rilli ant advocate
woul d demonstrate his abil ity even
though he could n o t save his client

T h e woman
h e began ami d o p
wh o was arrested o n
pressive silence
the second day of N ovember last
stands charged with murder As n o
testimony h a s b een o er e d t o Sh ow that
s h e committed murder the defence will
not wast e your t im e or insul t your c o m
m on sense by unnecessary argument
Y o u h ave been told with great cl ear
ness b y th e witnesses for the pr o s ecu
tion th at the prisoner was seen t o enter
and leave a certain h ouse at certain
.

14 1

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E y e s , Yo u r H

o nor

hours ; also that on a certa in day she

had high words with a certain wbman
But gentlemen of the jury under the
l aws o f your State that doesn t consti
tute murder A woman may pay a
visit to an apartment house at eigh t
O clock at night sh e may have high
words with another woman in the pub
lic high way she may even wear a gold

ornament in her hair she may d o all

t his without becoming a murderess
Th e evidence adduced is purely circum
s t a n t i al
N O proof whatever h as b een
o e r e d t h at t h e accused woman k illed
Charl otte Am es In the ab sence o f
such testimony it is your duty to your
se l ves t o civilized society and t o w o m

an kin d
t o acquit the prisoner
Be
fore th e l ast word was spo k en h e s at
down
Th e entire c ourt room was again
tak en b y surprise Whil e th e b rief
speech h ad th e ring o f cl everness it
.

14 2

E y es , Yo u r H

er

on or

s o ught the face of the prisoner wh o

like her counsel s a t entirely unmove d
As the clerk rose the silence became
deathlike
Prisone r lo o k upon th e
jury Jury loo k upon the prisoner
H ave you agr e ed upon a ver di ct ?

W e have
Is the prisoner at the bar gui lty or
n o t guilty of the crim e charged against
h er ?

Guilty
With di fculty the demonstrations o f
approval that broke o u t in every part
of the room were checked by th e court
o f cers
M oved by that inevitab le heart stop

ping vision o f hanged by the neck

every spectator turned to the hand
some woman in the d e ck
The calm ness with which she r e
c ei ve d the stares of a thousand eyes
was mar velous N o one expected that
sh e wo ul d now break h er mysterious
,

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onor

ilence When therefore sh e rose and

turned her eyes towards the co u rt the
spectators s at fairly spellb o und with
surp ri se

M ay it please your h onor

sh e
began in a r m clear voice ; then lift
ing o n e slender whi te hand she po inted
t o the d o o r at the back of the witness
stand
E very eye followed her gesture
A
tall female gure heavily veiled ac
companied b y one o f the associate
counsel of the defence st o od in the
doorway Th e next moment sh e raised
her veil advanced rapidly and t o ok
her place beside the prisoner
The scene that followed resembled a
street riot rather than the solemn pr o
c e e di n g s o f a c o u rt room
M e n wild
with excitement m o unted th eir chairs
w o men rose in their sea ts pushing
j ostling and crowding each other in
th eir frantic e ff orts t o get a better vi ew
s

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onor

of the highly sensational proceedings

The confusi o n was indescribable the
noise deafening N o t until M cWh o r t er
was seen t o spring to his feet did the
c o urt o fc er s vigorous rapping and
loud cries for order produce any e e ct
Instantly all was silence R igid sus
pense held the spectators b reathless
With th e light they had missed in his
eye and the r e they had longed for in
his voice the young lawyer spo k e a d
dressing the judge :

M ay it please the court

n i ce cus
toms must bow to desperate needs
Wh en a man is called upon t o face in
defence of a woman s life such odds as
I found in this case when h e sees jus
ti ce outwitted by the devil s trick
circumstantial evidence
he must r e
sort to the devil s weapon
cunning
Such evidence as h as been h ere given
h as h anged many a man and I b elieve
th at wh en a man of any h eart any soul
.

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on or

to circumvent justice
We merely
wished to save this court this c omm u
n it y
from the everlasting shame of
hanging a woman whose guilt has n o t
been prove d We wished to show t o
yo ur honor and to these gentlemen of
the j ury that it is monstrous to accept
a s conclusive such evide nce as has been
given in this case M ay it please your
honor thi s jury has just pronounced a
verdict o f guilty against my own
wife I move that h ere and n o w thi s

verdict b e set aside

The reques t was granted and al
though M cWh o r t er w a s char ged with
unprofessional conduct and threatened
with disbarment
his client was
promptly acquitted on th e n ew trial
which th e court ordered
.

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O F T O O DL E U M S

SAKE

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M ary

T om

T o o d l e u ms

Personally I ve nothin g again st

sh e

af rmed decisively
No
H e s just
o n e coul d help likin g Tom
th e most lovab le fellow imaginable s o
generous and ki nd hearted toward

e very one
er
Oh yes !
nodde d th e
Um
b roth er
Th ere s n o question ab out

T om s generosity
H e was thinking of th e l ast occasion
when h e chanced up o n T om downtown
With great cordia lity Tom invited hi m
It was a capital lunch , t o o
t o lunch

noth ing wanting onl y some h ow T o m

foun d it was unfortunate l y necessary
t o b orrow v e dollars t o pay for it
H e h ad forgotten t o drop in at his
b ankers By Golly ! Th at was a joke
at which h e laugh ed in th e
o n T om
u t most good nature
H i s wife was
quite righ t wh en sh e spo k e of his
kin dl y disposition toward every o n e
.

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T o o d l e u ms

The waiter s smi l e bore witness t o it

when helping t o adjust Tom s overcoat
Loring went out with hi s overcoat c o l
lar bracing his ears So much f or th e
waiter s di scernment

But y o u s e e Bert
e x plained
M r s R odney
T om s o nl y drawb ack
is that he has never been given a chance
to pro ve what he is really worth H e s

wonderfully bright
As brigh t as a n e w v e do ll ar gold

piece
sub c o nsciously acquiesced the
bro ther H e was still thin king of th e
lunch

And amb it io n s f o r b igger things

added M r s R odney
I don t doubt it
nodded h er
b rother It occ ur red t o him that T o m
was capabl e of o r d e r in g a mi gh ty n e

Th en Bert , why d o n t y o u get him

,

good

positi o n in y o ur insurance

c e ?
I

S3

of

F or

What !

the

S a ke

T o o d l e u ms

he cried
Pardon me
M ary I di dn t qui te

H ush !
sh e laid a nger on her
lips
D on t b e so noisy Bert Y ou ll

wake T o o dle u ms Y es she went o n

in an undertone
a good position in
y o ur insurance o i c e O ne in which
T om could shine and T o o dle u m s feel
pr o ud o f his Dada Y o u know h ow
attached you are to T o o dl eu ms
th e
precious !

h er
Y e s b ut you se e M ary
broth er b egan to protest
the sh ining
positions in our o fce are pretty well
all occupied I don t glitter much yet
and I ve been years climbing up from

the bottom
But T om is s o b rill iant
such

a n e tal k er declared M r s R odn e y

enth usiastically
If h e were once
given th e ch ance h e would jump
right up t o th e t op E veryb ody l ik es
.

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T o o d l e u ms

Then y o u may kiss T o o dl e u ms

sh e added by way of great reward
She rose and moved softly toward a
lace ru fed and beribboned shrine
And be careful Bert
en
sh e
j oined
you don t stumble over some
thing and wake the sweetest Y o u are
s o c l umsy in comparison with T om
Loring faithfully kept the promise t o
h is sister H e rst spoke with Tom
pointing out the excellent chances f o r
a good talk er in the insurance business
and the agreeab le natur e of outside
work F o r the right man it migh t lead
to the condence of millionaires and
the friendship o f U nited States Sena
tors T om was quite enthusiastic

Ju st th e thing he cried slapping

Loring on th e sh oulder
T h e very
position I ve b een looking for Don t
worry about th e b eginning at th e bot
tom o f th e l adder idea I ll climb up

hand over st Y o u watch me

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T o o d l e u ms

So Loring introduced hi s brother in

l a w t o the chief o f the proper depart
ment and with him Tom talk ed with
much enthusiasm of purpose H e was
nally told t o report the next morning
when full instructions woul d be given
H e was in such high feather on the way
home th at he b ought a si lver rattle f or

T o o dl e u ms o n credit
H i s conference with the chief of his
department the next morning was s at
i s fa c t o r y in all respects
H e appeared
t o grasp qui ckly the details of the vari
ous insurance policies and spoke con
d en t ly of what he intended t o do with
the list o f prominent citizens h e was
instructed to call up o n
Mr
Van d er mo r g an
Sure ! I ll
touch h im for a one hundred thousand
dollar p o licy right away If I clean
him up before l unch I guess th at would
b e d o ing something

I guess it wo ul d agreed th e ch ief

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,
.

S7

F o r t h e S a ke

T o o d l e u ms

wh o

knew h o w for many month s th ey

had shed unsuccessfully fo r M r Van
.

d e r m o r g an

S o T om gath ered up his papers and

strode b riskly out of t h e o fce He
.

t o ok the elevator with the air of a man

who talk ed in nothin g less than s i x g
ures Th en h e went out and walk ed
Wh en h e came back
around the bl oc k
to the maj estic portals o f the Long Life
Buil di ng he paused t o reect An idea
seemed to occur t o h im T h at it was
a corking idea th e pleased e xpression
on his face in di cated H e again took
the elevator and was sh ot up to th e

oor o n which his b roth er in l aw s o f

c e was located
h e greeted l oo king
H e l lo Bert !
in at th e door
H el l o T o m ! H ow s b usiness ? H o w
are you getting al ong ?
Just going out t o t a ckl e
F ine !
.

Van d er mo r gan

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T o o d l e u ms

But y o u know I haven t g o t a

wife pro t ested Loring
Wel l that doesn t alter t h e case
T h e s e near and dear to y o u will d o as

well
went on Tom sympathetically
Those attached to you by the strong

est ties
By th e strongest tie s ? questione d
Loring
Sure ! Th ere are M ary and little
T o o dl eu m s
As y o u are going t o b e
T o o dl e u m s godfather d o it for th e sake
of T o o dl e u m s I ll just ll o u t an ap
plication in his favor O f course we d
hate for anything unfortunate t o hap
pen t o you b ut every man sh oul d make
a suitable provision for th ose wh o are
dear to him Th e chief said t h at ph rase

usually catch es o n

Well I l l b e h anged !
ej a cul ated
Loring

I sincerely h ope n o t
f ervently
added T o m a s he prepared t o l l o u t
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T o o d l e u ms

an application blan k
Shall we make
it twenty or thirty thousand dollars ?
he asked l ooking up calml y
M ake it v e and then g o an d ch ase

Van d er m o r g an
retorted Loring fear
f ul th at worse might happen
All righ t F ive thousand doll ars in
favor of T o o dl e u m s See y o u l ater

Bert and with a smi l e T om strolled

ou t o f Loring s o fce t o deposit t h e
signed application with th e proper
clerk Suddenly h e stopped dr ew a
pad and penci l from h i s pock et and
b egan guring

n ot a
By Jove
h e excl aimed
bad b eginning ! M y comm ission o n
th at policy is just forty o n e dollars and
I landed it in l ess than an h our Th at s
three hun dred and twenty eigh t d o l
l ars a day one th ousand nine h undred
and sixty eight doll ars a week and
H i s cal cul ations were interrupted b y
Dick Willman wh o graspe d h is h and
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F or

th e

S a ke

T o o d l e u ms

H ow re y o u getting
and inquired :
on T o m and wh ere are you bound f o r ?
Bert tells me you ve tak en up life in

surance
Congratul ate me o l d f e llow This
very morning I dr o pped into a b erth
that pays me a h un dr ed th ousand a
year I m th rough for t o day and am
o ff f o r h ome t o tell my wife
S o long
and T om was gone
H e h ad not yet reach e d th e e l evator
wh en h e tur ned call ed b ack t o his
friend and going up t o h im his face
still wreath ed in smil es con ded :
Dick in my hurry t o get d own t o
business this morning I came away
with out even car fare Loan me a v e
Ah th an k you An d come h ave a b ird
and a b ottl e with me at th e cl ub to
morrow
Bye b ye
and once more
T om was o n his way t o carry th e news
t o M ary
I knew it and always tol d peopl e
,

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LL

65

C AN O N

e ll s

C a no n

Late in the spring of 1 889 Louis Gil

bert left his h ome in K entucky fo r a
visit t o hi s uncle s min e in th e North
west H e h ad lung trouble and the
doctor h ad ordered an outdoor life
While his h ealth improved he became
infected with another ailment perh aps
th e only one t o b e caught at that alti

tude th e go l d fever M iners were his

only associates th e tal k was all of
lodes leads and drifts and th e only
communication with th e outside worl d
was b y th e train of pack mu l es th at
carried th e heavy or e sacks d own th e
winding trail S o it was n o t surp ri s in g
that his walk s too k th e ch a ra c t er of
p rospecting tours and carried h im f ar
ther and farth er from camp Late in
O ctob er wh en h is v isit was n e ar lv

over h e started with th ree days foo d

for a l ast trip in t o new t er r i t o r v
F rom a conical mountain t o p abo u t ten
m il es west of th e mine h e h ad l ook ed
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a no n

over a lower range o f summits t o a

great expanse of wild and broken coun
try that he had never explored
The weather wa s like summ er when
h e started but thirty si x hours later
o n t h e eve n ing of the second day
a
erce snowstorm set in
By mi dnigh t
th e rst blizzard o f the season w a s
raging t hrough the mo u ntains O n the
t hird day th e storm still howled furi
o u s l y but searc hi ng parties were sent
out with a faint hope of n ding the
young prospector b efore the trails b e
came entirely impassable In the dim
twiligh t of the afternoon they returned
one b y one alm ost worn out convinced
that th e b ody of the mi s s ing man would
not b e found till the warm winds o f
spring sh oul d mel t away the drifts
Y et as a h umane precauti o n l igh ts
were kept b urning al l night in cabin
windows and guided b y o n e of them
Louis Gilb ert staggered into camp and
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1 69

ll s C

a no n

fell like a dead man before the me s s

r o o m d o or H e was t aken from the
snow wrapped in blankets and laid be
fore a blazing r e When he sh o wed
signs of life he was given hot drinks
and put t o bed H i s pr o spector s b elt
dro pped t o the o or like lead and when
o pened w a s f o und t o be stuffed with
nuggets of virgin gold
In the fever that fo llowed Gilbert
talked deliriously of his l o ng struggle
throu gh the blinding drifts hungry
cold and aching for the sleep which
w o uld mean death yet forcing himself
onward with the b lizzard at his back
as his only guide The amazing rich
ness of his n d h ad given him the
strength th at saved h i s life
F inally he O pened his eye s with the
o l d lo o k and told in detail the s t o ry o f
his w o nd erful discovery O n the e a st
side o f a stream in a can on s o terribly
wild and b ro k en th at it was almost
.

17 0

ll

a no n

F inally ,

after a tedi o us delay he s e t

o u t with a small party of miners all
eager t o have a hand in l ocating the
rich prospect
H ell s Canon !
excl aimed th e fore
man as skirting Cone T o p M ountain
Gilbert pointed o u t the way O ne of
the men a M exican declined t o g o any
farth er with the party and the fore
man explained t o the wondering Gil
bert :
The M exicans give H ell s Canon a
wide b erth They say that one of th em
fo und a big treasure there and then
l ost it and h is life in some uncanny
way T hey foun d h is b ones though
Knew em by hi s divi
n ext summer
ni ng rod that h e clung t o even In

death
O n th e second day Gilbert and his
companions found the stream wh ich
fo ugh t its way among the upturned
rock s cavernous gorges and fal l en l ogs
,

ll

a ti o n

At the sight o f it Gilbert eagerly led

the search al ong th e east bank and
every spot was carefully searched But
the bowlder the t w o dead trees
every other ch aracteristic landmark on
Gilbert s chart
could n o t b e fo un d
All sear ch was vain The map was
n ot
that of the locality they were
in
as Gilbert h imse lf was ob liged t o
admit
During th at summer Gilb ert l ed ou t
fo u r other searching part ies but never
o
t
any
nearer
the
lost
lead
T
hen
h
e
g
a g ain went South for the winter
When h e next returned it was with a
ushed ch ee k that contrasted horribly
with hi s pal e pin ched look and s tead
ily failing strength In spite of al l di s
app o intments he was still h o peful and
t o hum or him h is uncle s miners O cca
s i o n al ly made excursions into the maze
of peaks and gulches
O n e morn in g late in th e season Gil
,
.

7 3

ll

a no n

bert

asked for one more chance t o solve

the mystery of H ell s C afio n H e had
had a dream he said enthusiasti c ally
that this time he would be successful
The miners did n o t pu t much faith in
dreams but for his uncle s sake and
because it was recalled that thi s was
the second anniversary of t h e great dis
c o v er y
th ey made up a party and
started o u t in the usual di rection Al
though they moved slowly th e young
man s feebleness increased until it b e
came necessary t o carry him on a litter
made of b o ughs T his delayed them
even m o re and it was late on the thi rd
day before they reached the s tream
At the sight o f the dashing water Gil
bert s strength appeared to rally and
s itting up
h e directed them t o cross
t o the west b an k
At this strange o r
der the b earers exchanged signi cant
lances
and
cal
l
ed
t
h
e
re
s
t
of
t
h
e
arty
p
g
Th ey all be lieved th at with a brief r e

17

hi m

ll

C a ti o n

vividly in that prophetic

death dream
his last on earth
Th e Lost Lead ! he cried in a tri
u mph an t tone
and then adding in a

weak voice
Bury me here boys h e
sank b ac k
dead
S pr in g fr e s h e t s h ad c h an g ed t h e t o r
to

so

r en t s

co u r s e ,

an d

th e

ban k h a d

e as t

be co me t h e w es t !

Th ey b ur ied Louis Gilbert with th e

treasur e h e h ad never p ossessed , and
wh il e t h e rich mi ne became known in

Th e Lost Lead ,
nancial circles a s
yet O ld mi ners themselves speak of

only as The Grave o f Go l d

.

17

M Y ST E R Y O F T H E

M ILLI O N S

7 7

TH I R T Y

T h e M ys t e r y

th e

T h ir ty

M i l li o n s

world famous New Y ork rail road mag

nate th at her sailing was heralded by
such a b l owing of trumpets n or b e
cause sh e also had upon her lists the
names o f the august British ambassa
dor to the U nited States returnin g
home o n a brief furlough th e noted
F rench tragedian fresh from his Amer
ican triumph s and a score of other
illustr ious personage s whose names
were h ouseh o l d words in a dozen coun
tries
The presence of all th ese notab l es
was merely incidental What made
this trip of th e O kla h o ma an event of
international interest was th e fact th at
at thi s th e apparent c lima x of th e
great go l d e xporting movement from
th e U nited States now continued un til
it h ad almost dr ained th e national
treasury of its precious ye ll ow h oard
and h ad precipitated a commercial
crisis such as never b e f ore h ad b een
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T h e M ys t e r y

the

T h ir ty

M i lli o n s

experienced the O kla h o ma was tak ing

t o the shores o f insatiate John Bull the
largest lump amount of gold ever
shi pped upon a single vesse l within the
memory of man
No t even in the memorable gold
exp o rting year o f 1893 had any such
s u m as t his b een sent a b road at one
time
It was not the usual paltry h alf mil
li o n or milli o n dollars that she was car
r y in g away in her great strong room
of steel and teak wood but thirty mil
lion dollars worth o f shining eagles
and glinting b ars hastily called across
the ocean because of the adverse b al
ance of trade and the temporary mi s
trust of American securities by th e
ckle E uropeans
Th e mere insurance premi um o n thi s
va s t su m was in itself a comfortab l e
fo rtune Business men wondered why
such a l arge amount was intru sted t o
,

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T h e M ys t e r y

th e

T h ir ty

M i l li o n s

steamer Suppose sh e sho ul d col

l ide in the fog and sink as o n e great
ship had done only a few weeks before
what would become o f the insurance
companies then ?
Suppose some daring Napoleon o f
crime should hatch a star tling c on
s pir a c y t o seize the steamer int imidate
the crew and passengers and possess
himself of th e huge treasure ?
It
would b e a stake well worth long

risks th ought some of the police o f

c i a l s as t h ey rea d the headlines in the
evening pape r s
The O kla h o ma was a fast sail er H er
v e hundred feet of length and h er
twelve thousand tons of di splacement
were made light work of by the great
clanking
triple expansion
engines
when their combined fo rce o f fteen
thousand horse power was b rought t o
U nder
b ear upon h er twin screws
ordin ary conditions she ought t o h ave
on e

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T h e M ys t e r y

th e

T h ir ty

M i lli o n s

state of mi nd f o r the mi d Atl antic

storm would naturally account for a
multitude of lost hours ; but when the
ninth lapped over onto the tenth and
the tenth onto the eleventh and twelfth
with no tidings of the tardy steamer
sur prise grew into anxiety and anxiety
into an international sensation
O f course all sorts of plausible the
o r i e s were advanced b y the steamship
agents the newspapers and other o r a
cles including that of the inevitable
broken shaft ; and these mi ght have
sufced for a day or two longer h ad it
not been for another and much more
startling theory that suddenly came t o
the surface and threw t w o continents
into a fever of trepidation and sus
pense
It was th e following announcement
in a leading N ew Y ork morning paper
that roused excitement to fever heat :
A new and most astounding phase
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T h e M ys t e r y

the

T h i r ty

M i l li o n s

has come over the case of th e my s t e r i

o u s l y mi s sing O kla h o ma
It has j u st
been given out fr o m police h e a dqu ar
ters that Gentleman Jim L an g w o o d
the noted crack s man and fo rger whose
ten years sentence at Sing Sing ex
i
r
e
f
w
only
a
weeks
ago
was
in
the
d
e
p
city several days previous t o the sail
ing o f the O kla h o ma and went with
her as a passenger under an assumed
name E ven at that very t ime the cen
tral o f ce detectives were looking f o r:
hi m as a tip had b een sent around that
he was up t o some new deviltry O ne
of those clever pe o ple whom nothing
ever escapes had seen h im g o aboard
almost at the last min ute and gave an
accurate description of his personal a p
r
n
a
e
e
c
which
was
evidently
but
a
p
slightly di sguised
L an gw o o d is pro b abl y th e onl y
criminal in th e country wh o would ever
conceive and try t o execute such a s t u
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T h e M ys t e r y

T h i r ty M i l l i o n :

th e

ndertaking and it is some

thing more than a s u spicion on the part
of the New Y ork police that he has
smuggled on b o ar d a couple of dozen
well armed desperadoe s who could e a s
ily hol d the entire crew and passengers
in check and m ak e them d o their bid
ding fo r a tim e at least T h e idea is
s o replete with thrilling possibilities
that the entire community stands

aghast a t it
I t is t o b e noted that the public al
way s stands aghast in such a case
as this ; but it is more to the point just
now t o s ay that the article went on
through a column or more to describe
in minute detail the circumstances a t
tendant upon the departure o f Gen
even to the numb er and
t l e m a n J im
shape of the bundl es he had in his arms
T h e fam o us robber was very bo y ish in
appearance and one of the last pers ons
in the worl d whom a chance acquaint

n
o
e
u
d
s
p

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t h e T h ir y

M i llio n s

butchered in cold blood by a lot of

Y ank ee cut thr oats ?
T h e tho u ght was t o o horrible fo r a
moment s endur ance and forthwith the
cablegrams beg a n to ash thick and
fast betwee n the foreign o f ce and the
British legation at Washington
T h e res u lt was that withi n a f e w
h o u rs after the appearance o f the para
gra ph one o f the fa s test and most pow
e r f u l of her maj est y s cru i s ers qu ic kly
followed by a s e c o n d an d a third h a
s t il y steamed from P ortsmouth R oads
the three spreading o u t north west
and south li k e a gre at marine fan
as t he y hurried t o the rescue o f the
O kla h o ma and the British ambas s a
dor
M eanwh il e a t the Boston Br o o kl y n
and L eague Island navy y ards three or
fo u r of U n cl e Sam s white war dogs
were getting up steam for a simil a r
errand an d a small eet o f ocean going
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T h i r ty M i ll i o n s

the

ste amers speciall y c h a r t er e d b y N e w

Y o rk Boston and Chicago newspapers
t o go in se a rch of the absent leviath a n
were alre a dy threading the ir way
thr o u gh the Narrows
Not for y ears h a d there b een such
world wide interest in an ocean e x pe
dition
T h e newsp a pers comm anded
a n un h eard o f sale for everybody wa s
on the tipt o e of expect a tion concern
ing the fate o f the mis sing ste a mer her
six hu ndred passe ngers and her thi rty
millions of gold
While the public was thu s feverishl y
a waiting the news
cert a in disc o veries
were being made b y the New Y ork po
lice which only went t o conrm their
previo u s suspicions F o ur or v e other
hardened gra duates from state prison
were found to b e absent from their
accustomed h aun t s in th e E ast Side
sl u ms a lth o u gh known t o have been in
the c ity just before th e O kla h o ma
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T h e ! My st e r y

the

T h i r ty M i l l i o n s

s a iled as was Gentleman J im him

self
T hese di scoveri es had their natural
e e c t upon the p u b li c mm d
and the
friends of those on board the steamer
began to desp a ir of he a ring that even
h u man life had been respected by the
pira tical band
As to t h e British foreign o fce this
cumul ative evidence threw it into a
perfect frenz y and it w a s only b y a
mir a cle that a d eclaration of w a r
a g a inst the U nited States w a s a verted
T hree day s p a ssed by after the de
parture o f the big searching eets dur
ing whi ch time a l l incoming steamers
reporte d that they had n o t f ound a
single trace o f the O kla h o ma either in
the northern o r so u thern ro u te Ve s
sels from the M editerranean the West
Indi es South America a l l made th e
same o mino u s report
T h e tension w a s terrib l e T h ousands
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T h e M ys t e r y

t h e T h ir y

M i ll i o n s

half starved c rew and passengers are

on the verge o f insanity T h e o ffi cers
tell a most astounding story of the
steamer s e x citing and almost fatal
adventures O n the third night o u t
the O kla h o ma sudde nl y came under
some mysterio u s b u t irresistible in u
ence b y which she was carried rapidly
out of h er course t owards the so u th
E ve ry e o r t was made by the o fcers
t o brin g the shi p back to h er course
but th e big liner seemed drifting help
lessly a t the mercy of some powerfu l
current Th e compasses were usel ess
and the wh eel no longer exercise d the
sli ghtes t c ontrol over th e steamer s
moveme nt s
Naturally th e anx i ety o f th e o f
cers was in n o way dimi nish ed wh en o n
th e m orning o f th e ne x t d ay which was
then th e f ourth d ay ou t anoth er ves

l
se
a long l o w sett ing craft of sh ining
st eel
wa s di sc overe d o th e O kla
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T h e M y st e r y
h o ma

the

T h ir ty M i lli o n s

starboard b o w, about a mil e

ahead but moving in the same dir e c
tion By c arefu l observations it wa s
di scovered that the cour se o f th e two
steamers was identical Both were ap
r
n
a
e
l
n
u
der
the
same
mysterious
t
i
n
y
p
u e n c e
Instead o f sighting a rescuer
the O kla h o ma had so it seeme d onl y
discovered another vi ctim o f th e irre
s i s t ib l e current !
Ti me an d again the O kla h o ma a t
tempted to signal the compani on ship
b u t the latter made n o reply
Close
o bservati on revealed that sh e was built
on the whaleback princ iple with noth
ing above deck s save ventilators an d
signal mast
but fail e d t o di s c over
a n y sign of h um an beings
B y a fternoon th e ir cont inued fail
ure t o bring th e liner back to h er course
h ad s o wrough t upon the minds of her
o fcers th at th e ir anx i et y i nfecte d t h e
spir its of th e passengers wh o were
s

93

T h e M y st e r y

the

T h ir ty M i l li o n s

n ow

aroused t o the real danger that

menaced them
When the fth day dawned with
the O kla h o ma hundreds o f miles out o f
the regul ar trans a tlantic course the
gravity o f the situation co ul d n o longer
be concealed Distress signals were
k ept y ing and all possible steam was
put on with the idea of overhauling the
companion ship a n d giving o r r e c e iv
ing ai d T o the a m a zement o f both
o f cers and passengers however in
spite of every e o r t the O kla h o ma
failed to g a in a single inch o n the other
vessel Before the y had time t o a t
tempt an explanation of this remark
able fact amazement g a ve way t o con
s t er n at i o n
F o r j u st a moment a thi rd
vesse l ha d appeared on the hori zon like
a messenger o f h o p e ; b u t n o sooner
h ad sh e been s i ghted th an with the
swiftness of li ghtning th e my sterious
c ompan i on craft t urne d h al f aroun d
.

1 94

T h e M y st e r y

t h e T h ir y

M i lli o n s

With this revelation a new h orror

u nve il ed itself
E qu ipped as the y were
only with the s u pplies f o r a short trip
across the Atlantic the overwro u ght
minds o f many saw st a rvation loom
ing up before them T h a t night n o t
a soul sought his berth From time
t o t ime cons u l tations were he l d b e
tween th e chief ofcers and many
colored rock ets spit and blazed their
signals o f distre s s incessantly a c ross
th e sky
At l ength soon after dawn o f the
si x th day orders were given t o bank
res and hoist sail in the hope that the
O kla h o ma as a sailing vessel mi ght free
h ersel f from the awful inuence that
ch ained h er
But the effort was vain Wind and
sail proved as u s el ess as wheel and
compass against the fatal power of that
my steri ous craft whi ch drew th e O kla
h o ma after h er as irres i st ibly as th ough
.

1 96

T h e M y st e r y

t h e T h ir y

M i l li o n s

the two vessels were uni ted by an n u

seen hawser
Th e steamer had now become a
scene of indescrib able horror M eal

time bedtime all the customary r ou

tine was disorganiz ed ; and daily
prayer meetings were conducted
am o ng the more emotional o f th e pa s
.

s en g er s
!

Finally seven d ay s after

,

sh e

h ad

left N e w Y ork the o fcers of the big

liner un i ted in one last desperate e o r t
to o ffset the magneti c inuence of the
myste ri ous pirate
Th e res were
revived in th e engine room the steam
pressure in all the b o ilers was r un up
to the blowing o point ; then su d
d en l y th e reversing mechanism wa s
applied and a sh u dder ran through the
great oating city as th e twi n screws
began t o back water
F or a few m in utes there ensue d a
titanic tug of war such as the b eh ol d ers
,

97

T h e M y st e r y

the

T h ir ty M i l li o n s

had never before witnessed T h e water

astern was lashed into a lather o f foam
and for a brief moment the trium ph of
steam over magnetism seemed assured
O nly for a moment however for
the cheer that h ad ascended from th e
anxious scores on the deck of the O kla
h o ma when sh e slowly began to back
had scarcely died away when with a
m igh ty c rash a vital section of the over
taxed engines gave way followed by a
h oarse yell of consternat i on from the
excited engineers and stok ers
and
b oth screws were helpless and still
With th is f ailure hope was well
nigh extingui shed ; and the O kla h o ma
with her precio u s freight and her six
h undred and forty three h u man souls
abandoned all active e o r t t o escape
W ith not a sail of an y kin d in sight
s h e passively rolle d and pl unged south
war d for seven d ays after h er strange
and t erribl e pilot from wh ich t o add
.

'

1 98

T h e M y st e r y

the

T h ir ty M i l li o n s

F or a moment their f ate hung

in

the
balance ; then from thr ee hun dr ed
throats rang out a h oarse cry o f j o y
as the mysteri ous craft swerved turned
s h arpl y and shot away over th e surf ace
of the Atlanti c due north
T h e big
T h e spell was bro k en
liner with her s ix hundred human so u ls
and thi rty mi lli ons in go l d was freed
from the power that had for s o l ong
held h er capti ve But cripple d as sh e
was b y the a c ci dent t o her ma ch inery
sh e was unab l e t o procee d una i de d and
wa s tak en in t o w by the British
steamer th e M idlo t h i an an d a d ay
later Wa s b rough t safely into port at
F ayal
T h e U n i o n P r es s s t eamer i s t h e
Th e
rst t o brin g th e thrilling news
rst o fcer o f the O kla h o ma and th e
saloon passengers including S ir Gam
b re l R ouf e the British ambassa d or a c
compani e d your correspon d ent t o L is
,

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T h e M y st e r y

th e

T h i r ty M ill io n s

A relief steamer i s urgently

neede d , as the O kla h o ma s e n gin e s are
both disabled and sh e will not be able
to proceed f o r several wee k s
Th e pas senger th ough t t o be Gen
t l eman J i m L an gwo o d proves t o be
the Duk e of M e dfo r d shir e n o w on his
wed di ng tri p w ith h is young mill ion

aire Ameri can bri de

H ardly h a d th e excitement c aused by
thi s start li ng int elli gence s ubsided
wh en it was once more aroused by a
despatch fr o m Provi dence R I an
n o u n c in
f
r
t
h
e
c
a
pt
u
re
in
the
act
o
o
b
g
h in g a j ewel ry store o f
Gentl eman
J im
L an gw o o d and a gang of four
other ol dtimers and by the foll owing
even more important cablegram from
th e R uss i an repre sentative o f th e U n
b on

i o n P r es s :

St P e t ersburg April 2 Th e i den

tit y of the my sterio u s craft b y which
the O kla h o ma was drawn from her
-

20 1

T h e M ys t e r y

T h ir ty M ill i o n s

the

co u rse h a s b een established b eyond a

doubt
Th e vessel is a Hypnotic
Cru iser recently completed by a R u s
sian inventor named S l o b o d en ski and
possessed of an electric apparatus by
which an y vessel can be brought com
l
l
e
nder
its
control
e
u
t
y
p
Whether the Hy pnotic Cruiser s
bedevilment o f the O kla h o ma was
merely a t r ial of power or whether
plunder was inten d ed can only b e sur
mi s e d But naval l awyers say that thi s
marvel ous new i nvent i on will r ev ol u
t i o n i z e naval warf are an d necessi tate
the passage of stringent l aws to cover
a crime f or Whi ch at pre s ent n o p enalty

exi sts
.

20 2

As l e ep

at

one

o u n a in

oc curre d nearly fourt een year s

ago yet I never enter a sl eeping
c ar without being con fronte d by
that innocent fa c e It clin gs to me all
the m
ore because I h ave alway s l ook ed
upon partings and leave takings as
mile posts of sorrow in the j ourneys o f
lif e I disl ik e good by s I h at e f are
wells
I h a d just returne d from Australi a
and was about t o start on my j ourney
across th e continent In c ompany wi th
t w o o l d friends wh o h ad crosse d th e
f erry from San Franc i sco t o O akl an d
t o s e e me o ff I sat chat t ing in my
sl eeper wh en t w o S i s t ers o f M er c y
h urri e dl y entered th e c ar
J ust wh at it was in t h e appearan c e
,

20

 s le ep

at

one

M o u n ta in

of the newcomer s that arrested the

attent i on o f th e e a rlier arrivals
wheth er i t wa s th eir humble yet ch a r
a ct e r i s t i c attire s o suggestive o f ch a r
i t y th e wh ole world over the apparent
anxiety betrayed b y th eir manner o r
th e fa ct th at a sleeping chi l d claspe d
t en d erly in th e arms of one w
a s thei r

sol e compani on wheth er it was an y or

t cause d a sud d en
a l l o f these thi ngs th a
reign o f respect ful silence in th e car I
am unabl e to say Certain it i s h o w
ever th at the ir coming wa s not unno
tice d ; neither was th e circums t an c e
th at th e onl y v i sible b a ggage o f th e tri o
cons i sted o f a small square bun dl e
neatly d one up in a gray sh awl
U pon being sh own t o seats in th e
secti on directly opposite the one oc on
pie d b y my self and friends th ey a t
once entere d into earnest conversation
with th e sleeping car conductor At
th e r st f ew whi spere d wor d s t h e
,

20 6

As l e ep

at

one

oun a n

them the man spo k e a f ew words of

reassuran c e and encouragement whi ch
were c ut s h ort by the s hrill whi s tl e o f
the locomotive announcing the train s
departure Th e sisters arose instantl y
hastily e x pressed their earnest thank s
t o the condu c tor and then s ink ing
upon their knees before the child
which had been aroused from its sl um
bers an d sat innocently gaz ing ab out
r st one an d th en th e other cl aspe d th e
infant in f ond embra c e an d ami d sob s
and ki sses showered upon the l it tl e
b ein g the most fervent blessings and
tender farewells T hen coveri ng th eir
tearful faces with the i r h ands th e y
arose still weeping as th ough the ir
h earts woul d break and hu rriedly le ft
the car which was al rea d y moving
slowly o u t of the station
N o sooner had they gone th an all
eyes were directed towar d s th e dimin
utive stranger who h a d caused th e
,

20 8

As l e ep

at

one

oun a n

scene j ust witnessed T o o young t o

realize wh at was going on he s at m o
t i o n l e s s a s though spellbound by fear
or astoni shment at h is strange sur
roundin gs In an instant the chil d b e
came an obj ect of intense curiosity
M ore than that its extre me youth an d
utter h elplessness aroused o n th e part
of its fellow travelers feelin gs o f gen
sympathy a n d pity
f ee lings
n ine
Which the heroic silence maintained by
th e li ttle innocent in spite o f the n o w
swi ftly moving train only serve d t o in
tens ify
Neith er memory nor imaginati on c a n
s u ggest to me a more touch ing pictu re
th a n th e one presente d b y th at plainly
clad h andful of hum an l one li ness as it
s a t th ere in mee k silence its t in y h and
t imi dly resting on t h e little b un dle by
its s id e whil e its eyes remaine d in
t en t l y x e d on th e d oor wh i ch a f ew
m o ments be fore h a d cl ose d upon i t s
.

20

As l e e p

at

one

oun a n

late compani o ns
Whose chi l d w a s
this ? Who wa s t o care for it ? Wh a t
was t o become of it ? Was one of the
nuns a relative ? Wa s the yo u nger
perhaps it s sist er ? O r was either
neither ? T hese and similar questions
co u ld b e easily read on the c ou n t e
nances of the wonderi ng passengers
Some minu tes el a psed b efore the con
du ctor again made his a ppearance
when h e was at once besieged with
questions concerning the mysterious
stranger An d a s if d etermin ed that
not a word sho u ld escape the i r ears
each of the twelve or fteen o c cu
pants o f the c a r crowded a bout him
a s he sea t ed hi msel f beside the lonely
child
T h e story th ey h ear d was brie f an d
p a theti c T h e little b o y was as much
of a stranger t o the conductor as h e
was t o th e passengers His m o th er w a s
dea d H i s h ome was in one o f the
.

2 10

As l e ep

at

one

oun a n

tant parent craving fo r h i s presence

had begged the sister t o enlist in hi s
behalf the sympathi es and care of some
ki nd hear ted E ast bo u nd passenger or
railway employee T heir repeated e f
forts in the former direction having
failed they had at last applied t o the
conductor
In re l ating the chil d s sad history
the sisters had the conductor contin
u e d so feelingly solicited hi s k indly o f
c e s an d p a id such glowing trib u te t o
the almost angelic di spo sit o n and ex
c e pt i on al b ravery o f the infant that
however disinclined he had b een t o
assume the responsibility a persistent
refu s a l of their u nus u a l requ est seemed
almost i nh u m an H e had therefore u n
the strange ch a rge and
d er t ak en
trusted h e said that the p a ssengers
wo u ld in nowise be inconvenienced
thereb y Fr o m that moment on every
one wh o h a d l ess th an half an h our
,

'

2 12

As l e e p

at

one

oun a n

before witnessed the scene of sorrow

f ul p a rting whi ch h a d s o t o u chingly
t o ld h o w completely the little fellow
h a d w a lk ed into the hearts of his bene
factors
from th a t time on every one
felt a personal resp o nsibility f o r the
comfort a n d safety o f the boy Intro
d u c e d u nder circ u mstan c es th at ren
dered him a h ero at the outset at the
end of the rst day he had already b e
c o me the pet of the p a ssengers and the
o bj ect of their kindliest a ttentions
While the claim that this child was
remarkable for beau ty an d cleverness
might lend sentiment and r o m ance t o
my simple narrative the fact is that he
w a s neith er h ands o me n o r b r i ght
In
appe a rance h e w a s simply a plain
pl u mp red check ed a x en haire d baby
boy with apparently little t o b e pro u d
of save his evi dent good h eal th and a
pai r o f large blue eyes th at seemed
frankness itself His a ccomplishments
,

2 13

As l e e p

at

one

oun a n

were f ew indeed H e w a s still as the

sisters had said l earning to walk His
v o cabulary included b u t t h ree o r f o u r
imperfectly sp o k en words and he was
c o nspicu ously de cient in th a t parr o t
li k e precocio u sness so comm on and fr e
q u ently s o highl y prized in little chil
dren But what o u r y ou thfu l c o mpan
i o n l ack ed in attractive o u twardness
was more th an made u p by the true in
w a r dn e s s o f one accomplishment he did
possess T hat was silence T his vir
t u e he practised to a degree that soon
won for him the admir a tion and a ffe c
ti o n o f all T h o u gh exhibiting n o sign
o f embarrassment at t h e friendl y a d
vances of the p a ssengers and wh ile
n o t u nmoved b y
their tender atten
ti o ns he maint ained through th at l ong
j o u rney a h um ble air of mu te content
ment that lost its balance on b ut th ree
o cc a sions
His qu i et ways were a th eme of c on
,

2 14

As l e ep

at

one

oun a n

our companionshi p An d this su g ge s

tion le d t o one of many amusing inci
dents By wh a t name should the boy
b e known ? Af ter the question had
been eagerly answered a dozen times
in a s many di er en t ways , wit h a p
n
l
a
little
hop
of
a
unani
m
ous
r
e
e
t
y
p
cho i ce
f or every one felt tha t hi s or
h er preference was pec u liarly appro
r
a
i
a
q
et
old
man
whose
a
t
e
u
i
p
p
of
r
n
was
strongly
suggestive
e
a
a
c
e
p
the pioneer days o ffered a happy solu
tion of the difculty
H e proposed
that in vi ew of the h u mble circu m
stances o f the child the privilege of
naming him f or the trip b e sold at auc
tion among the p a ssengers o f our car
a dding by way o f explanat i on t h at the
give th e lit
su m th us real ize d m i gh t

tle fellow a start in life

T h e a verage overland touri s t i s never
slow t o a d op t any e x pe di en t t o r e
lieve th e t e dium o f th e j ourney ; and
.

2 16

As l e ep

at

one

o un a n

here was as one chap expressed it

A
chance for an auction o n wheels and

one for charity s sak e a t that

So
the proposition wa s n o sooner s tated
than acted upon Th e auctioneer fo u nd
him self unanimously elected and pla
c in g himself in the c enter o f the car
h eard the b iddi ng prompted by every
generous M pu l s e th at enth us i asm and
sympathy can give rise rap i dly in sums
o f one
two and thr ee dollars u ntil
th irty v e was called T h ere i t h alted
b u t o nly for a moment
T h e s ituati o n
had b ecome exciting T h e auctioneer
himself n o w too k a hand in th e c ompe
tition ; and a round o f applause greeted
his bid made in th e name of his native

State
It
O hio b i ds f ty dolla rs
was regarded as a matter of co u rse th a t
thi s sum wo ul d se c ure the coveted pri v
ilege Bu t no ! Some one remark s th at
y e t another co u nt y remains t o b e heard
from T h e vo i ce o f th e weath er worn
,

2 17

As l e ep

pioneer

at

one

oun a n

the s u ggester of the scheme

h a s n o t yet been heard in the bid
ding H e h as been a sil ent l o c k er o n
biding h is time Now i t has come As
he rises slowly in his seat he i s intently
watched b y every e y e for someh ow th e
impression prevails that he hails from

the coast
and that consequently
there can b e nothing small in anything
he does In this n o one is disappointed
T h e heart and purse of the gray haired
veteran are in the cause Besides h is
pride is up f o r the State h e w o r
ships almost i dolizes As h is cle a r
v o ice r m g s out with :
Californi a sees

he
O hio s fty and g o es ft y b etter
is greeted by a storm of cheers that he
will remember as l ong as h e lives An d
wh en the auctioneer announces : Cali
f o r n i a pa y s o n e h undred doll ars and
sec u res the privilege o f naming th e
th e an
b o y ; wh at name sh all i t b e ?
swer comes back qu ick as a ash :
,

2 18

As l e e p

at

one

oun a n

the health of the boy who a s he aptly

e x pressed it
had been rock ed in the
cradle of misfortun e but had at last

s tru c k the color

E qually happy w a s
h is reply to a party of j olly cowb oys
whom curiosity had led t o soli cit a

peep at the silent ki d while t he train

was delayed a t one of the eating s t a
tions along the roa d T heir request
having b een grante d one of their num
b er felt s o highly elated upon receiving
a handshak e from Grit that h e insisted
u pon pre s en t ing h im w i th hi s h uge c o w
b o y spurs as a k eepsak e proclaiming as
he di d s o
with a trie more en t h u si
that in paying
a sm than reverence
a hundred t o nomi nate the cute little
carved hi s o wn
ki d
ol d Ca li fornia

name upon th e R ock o f Ages

Bless his l ittl e heart repli ed the

gri zzl ed mi ner
I d gi ve ten tho u sand
more to o wn h im n ow th at h e has w o n

h is spur s
,

2 20

As l e ep

at

one

oun a n

Among th e recollections

my per
sonal experiences with Grit the second
night of the j ourney stands o u t with
especial cle a rness At th a t time we
were p a ss ing through th e famo u s sn ow
sh e d section on the eastern slope o f the
Sie r ra Nevada our trai n runnin g at a
high rate o f speed in order t o mak e up
lost time It w a s h ere that th e b ravery
o f our little h ero was put to a crue l
test Some t ime a fter mi dn i ght I was
a wak ened by a child s franti c screams
th a t rose loud above the train s thun
dering noise And tho u gh up t o thi s
time there h ad n o t been a s ingle tearful
o u tbreak o n the part of the youn g T r o
n
a
there
coul
d
b
e
no
m
i
sta
ki
ng
the
j
source o f the piercing shr i ek s that n o w
met m y ears I l ost n o time in h asten
ing to hi s assistance for I knew th a t
by way o f experiment h e had been
quartered in a section en tirely by
himself th e previous nigh t having b een
of

22 1

As l e ep

at

one

oun a n

sleepless one t o both the conductor

and his ch a rge Fu rthermore it w a s
evident fro m his agonizing cries that I
w a s t he rst to hear him
F inding the
c a r in tot a l dark ness the lights on both
end s having gone out I me t with some
del a y in feeling my way t o the terri ed
child calling to him as I went ; and at
the rst t o u ch of my h and the trem
bling feverish little form drew close to
me its chu bby arms closed wildly about
my neck while loud hysterical s o bs
told more pl a inly than words can ex
press the ag o ny that the child h a d e n
dure d O nl y o n e who is f amili ar with
sl eepin g car travel over mount a ino u s
country wh o h as f ound himself s u d
d en l y arouse d by the terr i c roaring
and sway ing o f a swiftl y ru nn ing train
and wh o unconscious for th e inst a nt o f
his surroundings h as f elt h is esh
creep an d h i s heart stand s till as he
imagined himself engul fed b y a mi ghty
a

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at

one

oun a n

mine he imparted the cause of his per

sistent wak efu lness by a gently u tte red
repeating the word with
d wi n k !
more emphasis after a moment s pau se
H appily ample provisions had been
made to meet h i s wants in thi s dir e c
tion and pr o c u ring from th e porter s
baby s bak ery as the well provided
lu nch b a s k et we h ad presented h im at
Sacramento had come t o b e known I
helped h im t o a glass of milk after
drinking which he fell quickly t o sleep
After th at night s experience Gri t
singled me out as h is particular fri en d ;
and as a consequence he was nightly
permi tted t o share my section with me
In these closer relations I fo u nd h im
the gentlest most loving and b est b e
haved child I ever met It seemed as
though he knew and felt that h e stood
sadly alone in the world and th at the
less trouble he gave t o others the b et
ter h e woul d ge t on His s pi ri t of c on
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at

one

o un a n

t e n t men t

and fac u lty o f self entertain

ment were phenomenal While cards
books conversation and sleep served
as a means o f passing away t ime among
the other passengers h e woul d for
ho u rs at a t ime remain in sole posse s
si o n of a favori te corner seat silently
mu s ing over some simple Indian toy
Again an illustrated t ime table or rail
w ay map wo ul d a bs o rb his entire a tten
tion until he had apparently mastered
every detail of the intri cate d o cument
T o watch t h e little toddl ing gure after
these prolonged peri o d s of self amuse
ment a s cl a d in a l ong loose gray
gown it qui e t lv made i t s way a long th e
car o n a tour of m spe c t i o n proved an
a ppeal ing stu dy
Fin di ng his a rri val a t
my seat unn otice d at times
by reason
o f m y absorpti o n in a b ook or game o f

h e wo ul d anno u nce hi s pres

c a rds
ence b y a se ri es o f ste a dy pulls at my
coat and m ak e known his want s b y a
-

22

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at

one

oun a n

sweetly mu mbled Mu m m u m
Re
a
e
e
t
d
falls
incurred
during
these
ex
p
c u r s i o n s never caused him t o f a lter in
his p u rpose n o r did these at an y time
res ul t in any other than goo d natu red
demonstrations
O n but o n e o cc asion aside from th a t
already allu ded t o w a s he moved t o
tears
an unlucky incident that h ap
pene d wh ile o u r party was taking
breakfast a t Chey enne sadly upsetting
the remark able tranquillity o f h is mind
We had scarcely seate d ourselves at the
table with the b o y a s usu a l perch ed in
a b a by ch a ir in the midst of the p a rty
when espy ing an orange that a little
girl next t o him h ad placed b eside h er
pl a te Grit innocently unmindful of its
ownership proceeded t o h elp him self t o
the inviting fruit N o sooner had he
graspe d it th an a sharp slap from his
fair neighb o r s h and sent it rolling
T h e chil d started
al ong th e oor
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at

one

oun a n

m s r g n i c an c e prevented a man from

even drawing his gun in defence of the

most helpless and innocent little crea

t u re on earth
Something in th e ol d man s manner
as he uttered these word s le ft little
doubt in the minds of th e passengers
now retur ning from th e hurrie dl y n
i sh e d meal that h ad Grit s tormentor
been unfortunate enough t o b el ong t o
the sterner s e x the novel e x peri ence o f
serving on a c oroner s jury in th e cow
b o y country woul d doubtless h ave b een
a o r d e d us
T h is tens i on o f f eeling
was h appily relieved however by th e
appearance of the offen d er i n person
wh o accompanied by her moth er t ear
fully presente d not onl y h er h umble
apology b ut th at bone o f contention
the trop i cal produ ct itsel f which sh e
ins i sted sh oul d b e a cc ep t e d as a peace
o ff ering
As th e j ourney progre ss e d ea ch d ay
.

2 28

As l e ep

at

one

o un a n

bro u ght to o ur party frequent remind

ers of their c onstantly increasing a t
t a ch m e n t n o t o n l y fo r the little her o
but for ea c h other An d i t b ecame more
and more apparent n o w that the R ock
ies had already b een left behind and
o u r thoughts turned t o the inevitable
breaking up of the happy band that
Grit s presence ha d been th e u n c o n
scious means of forming among his
companions a strong bond o f friend
ship and good fellowshi p
th a t
on e
c o u ld not b e severed with out s incere
m u tu al regrets
Th e morning o f th e l ast d a y found us
still speeding over th e seemingly end
less cattle plains wh ere the frequent
spectacle of im mense grazing herds
guarde d b y picturesque b ands o f frol
ickin g c owboys added novel ty and ih
t er e st t o the monotony of the scene
It was i n the early part of the after
noon o f that day whil e Grit was en
,

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at

one

oun a n

j oying hi s customary mid day nap and

the nal game s o f whist and euchre s o
c o mpletely enlisted our interes t as t o
render unnoticed the locomotive s shrill
notes o f warning t o trespassing cattle
that a sudden terri c crash fo llowed by
violent j oltin g and swaying of the car
breaking of win dows and pitching
about o f passengers and baggage
caused a scene of consternation an d
suffering
M ingled with s h outs o f
Collision !
from men and the s c reams o f panic
st r ick en women came the engineer s
piercing signal for
Do wn brak es !
and b efore the c ar h a d fairly regained
i t s balance upon th e rails an d th e o c cu
pants had time to e x tri c ate th emselves
o r realize wh at h a d happene d th e train
h ad come to a standstill
M ore frightened than h urt peopl e in
s t an t l y b egan bolting frant i cally for th e
d oors questioning and sh outing t o o n e
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at

one

oun a n

which he h a d j u st borne him lay Grit

half unconscious pale limp and breath
ing with painful difcul ty T h e sudden
shock which had almost overt u rned the
car had ru dely thrown him from his be d
t o the oor
T here between t w o un
occupied seats o n the opp o site si d e of
th e car we ha d fo und him convul sively
gasping for breath one little h a nd still
grasping tightly th e Indian d oll baby
th a t for days h ad been hi s ch eri shed
compani on T hough an examin a ti on of
his body reveal e d n o mark s o f v i ol ence
h e wa s evi d entl y in great pa in Appl y
i n g such restor a t ives as were at h and
we gra du a lly revive d consciousness
E very attempt h owever t o l ift h im or
change hi s reclin ing pos ition v i sibl y
increased his s u er in g
Word Soon came back th at no phy s i
c i an c o ul d b e foun d t h at t h e acci d ent
was cau s ed b y th e train coming into
c o lli s i on with a b an d o f stray c at tl e
,

232

As l e ep

at

one

o un a n

far as c o uld be h a stily ascertained

o n e man h a d been fatally inj u red while
ma ny persons had s u stained seriou s
brui ses a n d strains From the tra in
c o ndu ct o r it was fur ther learned that
neither the loc o m o tive nor an y of
th e cars had been sufciently dam
a ged
to prevent our proceeding t o
O maha
still some v e o r si x h ours
distant
After a brief stop fo r the purpose of
a careful examination o f all parts of the
train we were ag a in un der w a y ; the
engineer having orders in vie wo f the
inj u red passengers t o mak e the run in
the fastest time possible
Th e remainder o f the j o u r ney was
even t o the most fo rtun a te associated
with sadness B u t wh a tever the s u er
ing on that ill fated train m emory c ar
ries me back to but one sorrowful scene
the bedside abo u t which lin g ered the
fri ends o f th e little stranger whom we
S

2 33

As l e ep

at

one

oun a n

had learned t o love s o well In the

presenc e of hi s suffering ou r own lesse r
inj u ries wer e forgotten and all e o r t s
were bent upon sec u ring for the little
s u e r e r every c o mfort possible under
the adverse circ u mstances
With a
view to lessening the painful e e ct of
the constant j arring and shak ing mo
tion a swinging b ed was speedil y im
r
o
i
e
in
the
middle
o
f
the
car
and
s
d
v
p
here surro u nded b y his sorrowing c om
panions lay Grit enduring in s il ence
the pains that his pale sadly troub l ed
face s o k eenly expressed
L ate l n the evening the train reached
its destination withou t fu rther mishap
It had not y e t c o me to a standstill in
the station when accompani ed by the
sleeping car cond u ctor the father of
Gri t entered the car E arly in th e day
it had b een resol ved by the passengers
th at three o f th eir numb er sho u ld meet
the f ather upon h i s arrival f or th e pur
.

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at

one

M ou n ta in

needs rest and qui et and

you and I
had perhaps better g o for a doctor
wh ile o u r fri ends here convey the boy
t o the hotel where we shall j oin them

shortl y
An d as the u neasy parent
b ends over the littl e be d an d wi th in
quirin g l ook see k s from the calm blu e
eyes some tok en o f recogni tion o r sign
th e voice more urgent
as
o f h ope
though suddenly stirred by memories o f
an eventful past
again break s in :
L et us l ose n o time i n making the
child more comfortab l e
A few moments later Gri t s fri en d s
stood aro u nd his b e d at the neighbor
in g hotel listening t o the ver d ict o f th e
hastily
su
oned
by
t
h
e
big
mm
r
n
h
r
c
a
s
p y
hearted pioneer Internal injury o f an
extent un known bu t wh ose n a ture
woul d probably develop b efo re morn
in g w a s the verdi ct given after a care
ful e x ami nation Al l evi ating measures
h owever were suggeste d whi ch th e d is
,

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at

one

oun a n

tracted father hastened to pu t into ef

feet It was during o n e o f hi s absences
from the room that the big hearted
pioneer drawing the doctor to one side
appe a led to him in faltering tones t o
save the child at an y sacri ce o r any

cost
B u t th e appeal th o u gh touchi ng was
unnecess a ry
Hi gher considerat i ons
than those of person a l gain prompted
the kind doctor t o exercise h is utmost
s kill After h is rst visit not an h our
passe d b u t wh a t his f ootsteps brought
to the watch ers reass ur i ng proof of his
deep interest in the case An d n all y
i
i
elding
apparently
t
h
e
soot
h
ng
o
t
y
remedies Grit fell into s lu mber th at
brought encouragement t o his frien d s
none of whom coul d b e i n du c e d h ow
ever to forsak e his bedsi d e
During the vigils of the n i gh t t h e
father was repeate dl y moved t o speak
of the sorrows of his life ; of th e su d
.

237

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at

one

oun a n

den fatal ill ness of h i s loving youn g

wife ; and of her ardent assurance tha t
her last thoughts were solely of hims elf

and baby , co u pled with the fervent

wish that the two might
some da y
n d a home in California where in
their nal rest all three might once

again b e side b y side

T owards morning the boy grew s u d
d en ly restive and violent coughing
spells brought back the co nditi o n of
semi unconsciousness o f t h e previous
day T h e doctor evi dently expecting
a cri si s n o w remained constantly at hi s
side
T h e change came at l ast
J ust after dawn a beam o f li gh t
brok e softly over the little face a n d
new hope came t o the an xio u s watch
ers But mistak ing the silent messen
ger s approach f o r the h erald o f return
in g h eal th the y ha d h oped in vain
T h e peace ful smi l e lingere d but a m e
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and of th e c harmin g Kilm e y of th e O rch ard h as establish ed
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M O N T GOM ERY
A N NE O F GR EE N G AB LE S
Ill ustrated b y M A and W A J C l aus 12 mo
A nne of G reen G abl es is b eyond question t h e most popul ar
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and th e great publ ic h ave l ost th eir hearts to th e c h arming An e
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wide popul arity for a brief space and si k in to oblivion w ith many
anoth er b est sell er b ut its literary merit is such th at it is
b ound to h ave a permanent p l ac e in literature and continue to
increase in pop ul arity with each succeeding season
I n Anne of Green Gabl es you will nd th e dearestand most
moving and deligh tf l c hil d since th e immortal Ali ce
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Il lu trated b y G eorge Gibb s 12 mo
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imaginativ e and c h arming littl e b oy Paul I rvin g w h ose quaint
sayings wi l l recall to t h e reader th e deligh tf l Anne on h er rst
appearance at G reen G abl es
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