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IA\L. COKr«io«1, igas py fl.p PUTNAM’S SOU*. CHAPTER XI. MB. E.MINF.B RECEIVES SEVERAL LETTERS. Ou tho luorniiig of the 80 of January the mail which rencheO Mr. Baruep ccatainod several letters of interest to those who follow Ihia history. The first which he opened was very brief. It read: If Mr Panics will c«U «t his earliest con- venien i ho will greatly obligo Emilt Eempen. He read thia twice, end then took up another, which was as follows: J. Pami*, Esq.: Ekar tilK—I tako the liberty of recalllni; to your mind the conversation which I bad with you last month. I regret very much Hint I should have hinted that there was any possi bility that my friend Mr. Mitehel might lie Implicated in the Pullman car robbery. As von know. Miss Emily Remsen was robbed at the festival, night before last, of a ruby pin worth f’JO.UOO. It is very evident to my mind that Mr. Mitehel'a hand Is in this. I know that ho pretends to be sick at a hotel in Phila delphia. but may not that be a humbug? It would have beam easy enough for him to slip orer, don one of the Forty Thieves' dominos, lake the gum ami get back to Philadelphia the same night. This would be a safe theft, for him to commit, especially as ho may have the assistance of Miss Remsen. Now, us all is fair in a Is-t, I w-ant yon to undertake to prove for ino that Mr. Mitehel committed this theft. I want to win that wager from him and don’t mind spending money. Even if I should ad vance you the whole ll.OOhi should save my own. provided yen convict him within a year. bcsid!-B,Uto sathfisction to in" would 1)0 worth the money. It takes u sharp msn to get ahead of Mr. Mitehel. I inrlnsv check for (200 as a aort of retainer, and you may draw on me for more, up to 11.000, if yon should need it. By the way, while writing to yon I may as well confess that I was wrong in my suspicion of Mr. Thnuret. 1 am sure that he does not cheat at cards. I have watched him frequent ly since then, and ho certainly plays a square game. 1 have no reason for liking the man, and, ns a fact, dislike him most heartily. Nevertheless justice compels me tn retract the Imputation which I put upon him. Another thing—the partner with whom he played that night I told you was unknown to me. I have since made his acquaintance, and, though he is poor, lie is n gentleman and shove suspicion. His name is Adrian Fisher. Hoping you will help mo to win my wager, yours truly, AftlHL'K ItANUOl.Pn. "So,” thought Mr. Barnes, “oven Mr. Randolph sees through the trans- pai'cut scheme of being Kick in Philadel phia and stealing his sweetheart’s jew elry in New York. It is one thing to see tho trick, however, and quite an other to prove it. Ho thinks that Thauret and Fisher are both virtuous. Well, I am afraid be is mistaken there.’’ He took up another letter. It read: rnii.AnEt.pniA, Jim. 2. Deah Mr. Barnes—Pardon my familiarity, hut I think wo are getting pretty well ac quainted with one another. 1 have just rend the New York newspapers and f.m startled to see that Miss Remsen was deliberately nibbed of that valuable ruby pin which I recently gave her. You will remember that I showed you the gem the very day that 1 took it to he act. I am very much disturbed about thia af fair, esiM-cially ns 1 am unable, through sick ness, to return to New Yolk, and my physi cian warns me that it w‘ill ho several days be fore I can leave my room. Will you do mu a great favor? Forget that I ever disparaged thi* detective force of which you are undoubt edly a hrillont member and take this caso In hand. I will giro you ll.OUO if you will recover the Jewel, which is cniy a small reward, con- thVriug its value. 1 send you n check for 13.0, which you may use for expenses, und, if more ho m-,sled, let me know-. I wish you could run over to Philadelphia to see me. A con versation with you would is 1 n great satisfac tion to mo. Will you oblige, yours very truly, Robkht Lekov Mit< iiei.v Mr. Barnes read this no less than three times, and then said alrmd, though there whs no one to hear him, “Well!” That was nil, but the touo was rich in Kuggestiveness. What ho tlr light, but did not put into words, was: "That man has the coolest audacity i ever met. Here ho actually offers mo $1,000 to re cover that ruby, when ho knows that L was right by his side at the time of the theft. Is he so egotistic that bo dares to guy me? Is he so sure that he cannot be convicted? I know that he was not in Philadelphia anyway, as my man found Ids room empty. His alibi is broken, at all events, clever as he thinks bim- ►elf. Will I go to Philadelphia to see him? Well, I should think sol A con versation with him will be as satisfac tory to me as it possibly cun be to him. But first I must obey the call from Miss Remsen. There may be mnch to learn there.” It was nearly an hour before Mr. Barnes' duties in connection with other cases made him at liberty. Ho went straight to Miss Remsen's and was shown into her presence. “Yon sent for me. Miss Remsen,” he began. "Yes, Mr. Barnes,” she replied. “Will you be seated?” Tho detective ac cepted her invitation, and she contin ued: "To come to tho point at once, I wish to see yon about my lost ruby. It was a present from Mr. Mitehel to me, and besides being very costly I attach a sentimental value to it. I want yisi to undertake to recover it, und I will give you $1,000 if yon succeed.” Mr. Barnes hud never had so many thousand dollar oli'crs made to him in so short a time before. He smiled slightly and said: ’’Your offer comes too late, MissRem- seu. I have a letter from Mr. Mitehel himself, making a similar offer. It would scarcely bo proper for me to ac cept two rewards for one service. ” ‘■Then yon refuse to help me?” "On tho contrary, I will use my ut most endeavors to detect the thief and tecovor your property for you. But I need no money from you.” “You ara very conscientious, Mr. Barnes, and I admire it. I hoijor a man who places his duty above money.” “I thunk yon for your courteous re mark. Now, if I am to help you, yon must begin by assisting me.” "Iwill dowhutever lean,certainly.’’ “Then, tell me, have you no suspicion ns to who might have taken your jew el?" Tho girl hesitated, and tho detect ive watched lies face keenly. As she did not reply at once he asked another question: “Did yon feel tho person tako the pin from your hnir?” “Yes, I did; but I did not realiae what was occurring till ho had it.” "Whydid yea not make any resistance or cry ont?” Again she hesitated, but in a moment she said firmly: "I know that yon have a right to ask them if yon insist upon it. "But first, tell me, would it be right for me to call a name to yon as one that I may have sus pected when I had bnt the flimsiest ex cuse for my suspicion? Might I not thus do more harm than good by attract ing your attention to a false scent?” I “That is certainly a possibility, Miss Remsen, bnt it is one which I am in clined to risk. I mean that I prefer to trust to my experience than to have yon omit to tell mo yonr suspicions.” | "Very well; only promise me that J yon will not jump to conclusions and thus perhaps annoy the person whom I shall name. ” “I agree to that. I will take no action without sufficient reason other than that furnished by yourself.” "Very well Yon asked if I suspected any one, and again why I did not resist the thief. If yon will remember, my head was bowed. At first I could not understand bow something seemed to move my pin. I fancied that it had be come entangled in the saltan’s robe. Then the clock began to chime, and in a moment it flashed across my mind that perhaps Mr. Mitehel was taking my pin in order to win his wager. Therefore I said nothing. This makes my action clear to yon?” “Perfectly. Then I ara to understand that Mr. Mitehel did not tell yon in ad vance that he would do this?” “No, he did not, and that is why I have scut for yon.” “I don’t understand you.” “Why, all the time that I thought be had the pin I was not worried. I even went so far as to act indignation at the festival. That was partly for yonr edifi cation and mystification. I wanted to help Mr. Mitchel’s plan. But when it occurred to me yesterday that Mr. Mitehel, if ho had meant to tak»the pin, wonld have told me in advance, I saw at once that my first idea was secondly, your spy aid take tier piace, the ri3ult of wh.cb was that Miss Bem- sen could cot le-engage her old maid and bos had mnch trouble to get another as good.” “I did not foresee when I trado that promise that such an emerguncy would arise as did later. ” “Very true. Bnt I did, and I warned you that you would gain nothing by making the promise, since you would only find my own story verified by your visit!” “Well, I am very sorry and will say that it phall not occur again.” "But, Mr. Barnoe, it has occurred again.” “How so?” “Why, she cannot leave her home at any time without being dogged by your spies." Mr. Barnes hit his lip in chagrin to find bow well this man was acquainted with his plans, bnt he replied nnhesitat ingly: “This time you are wrong. I prom ised you not to annoy Miss Bemseu in connection with the particular case of "Delighted to ice i/ou, Mr. Barnet.’' which we were then speaking. My men have shadowed her in connection with another affair.” “What other affair?” "Abduction.” “Abduction? Aboard! Who on earth has Miss Remsen abducted?” “The girl Rose Mitehel ” “And who, pray, is the girl Rose Mitehel—the daughter of the murdered woman?” "Perhaps. That is what I intend to discover. She passed, however, as your daughter.” . “Ah! Now can yon prove that she is not?” "No.” “Very good. Then, so far as your in formation goes, Rose Mitehel who pass ed as my daughter, was removed from a certain boose to a certain other house wrong and that my ruby is really gone. | to you unknown. ” He paused a moment, trarv, you went over to Jxevr rori, at- tem-cd the festival and took tue ruby pin from Mias Bnnean’s hair. ” “Mr. Barnes, yon are laboring under a delusion. I tell you I have been in this room since Deo. 1>0. "One of my men followed yon to thi» place. On the night of the 1st be tered at this hotel, being assigned to the room next to this. He picked the lock of the communicating doer and came in here, thus discovering your absence." “Very clever idea, I am sure. The fellow deserves credit Bat did he tell you which oommunicating door he came through?’’ Mr. Barnes looked around and was amazed to find that the only door in the room opened on the ball. The story told by his man was thus an impossibility. A thought came to him quickly, and be said: “You have changed to another room since then. Yon were at that time in No. 284.” “And this is nnmber 842, a floor high er np. Bnt yon are wrong. I have not changed my room. I will explain bow yonr man has made this mistake. I knew when I came here that tout spy had probably followed me. I whs tired of espionage. This is what I did. 1 reg istered and was given No. 284. I was shown to the room and at once sent for the clerk. When became np, I asked for another room and desired him not to make any change on the register, as 1 had an inqnisitive friend who would not hesitate to walk ri^ht npif he knew what room I was in. I explained that I wished to avoid him. My request was granted. I suppose your man asked for a room near that of his "friend, Mr. Mitehel. ’’ The clerk at once thought him to be the man whom I wished to avoid and gave him a room next to 284, which of ccurse satisfied him, and I am sure pleased me as well. ” , Mr. Barnes was supremely disgusted, especially as during the interview he bad become thoroughly satisfied that Mr. Mitehel was really sick and troubled with a bad cough. He returned to New York puzzled. [TO BE CONTINUED.) WILL. J, 6MB, M. D.,!l DARLINGTON, 8. C. Office over Boyd's Drug btore.; Office Hours: 11 • m to 1 p m; 4.80 p m to 7 p Mart SI ly. -AND- undertaken, and satisfaction guaranteed '3 and Undertakers’ hand at low nnces. T. C. Jeffords, Janl'90—lyr. supplies always on Jr. The ; Equitable Ufa Assurance ; ; ; Society in the Department of ; ! the Carolines, wishes to se» ; ; cure a few Special Resident ; ; ; Agents. Those who are fitted ; ; ; for thia work will find this ; ; ARm Opportunity:: ! It is xvrt, however, and those | | who succeed best in it possess character, mature judgment, tact, perseverance, and the respect of their community. Think this matter over care fully There’s an unusual opening for somebody. If h fits yon, it will pay you. Fur ther information on request. W. J. Roddey, wit—gar, Rock HM, & C plantation ol Darlington, I eoBtnnlug on lew, an' rth by, or less, and I north by J. W. east by J. W. PaSroU’al I >o wl i ug’s Und. on tbs • fries Creek, and on tbs ' merly belonging to Mis. intis ] —to satisfy th'« a now in my G P. 8CA1 Apr. 10—at. EDISTO PHOSPHATE CO., o££ A.xiXriDsarorT. s. o. ANALYSES 1895-06. LAW CARDS. J. J.WARD, Attorney at Law, DARLINGTON. S. C. Will Praetiee In the Ceurts of the Then 1 wrote to you. ” “Then you feel snre that he would have told you in advance. ” "Positive. ” “May he not have feared to aak yoa to implicate yonrself in robbery and possible scandal? Yon know he was liable to arrest, and it might be a con siderable time before he conld have proved that his theft was only a joke. He may have wished to spare yon no toriety. ” "Ho knows me better than that” She said this with a smile. “How better?” asked the detective. "I mean that he knows there is noth ing that I would not risk for him, since I have consented to give him myself. I am one of those women, Mr. Barnes, who are not easily deterred from aiding the man of her choice. ” "Do yon mean that yon wonld be willing to share unenviable notoriety with him and that he knew this?” “I do, and therefore feel confident that be would have asked my assistance if it had been bis intention to take my pin. 1’ “Jnst as he did on another occasion?" The detective had been leading bar np to this for the last few moments, and now watched to see tho effect. She did not change countenance, bnt simpl.’ said: “What occasion?" "The morning when he locked yonr maid in this room while yon went down town and took a little girl from one honso to another?" ‘ "o what other?” This was a hard • li? fur the detective, and as he did not reply she smiled aggravatiugly us she continued: “Mr. Barnes, yon have no proof of yonr assertion. Yon suspect that I did what you say, bnt yon do not know it As I told yon jnst now, it is possible for a bare suspicion to lead one astray." “Perhaps, bnt I do not think that I am far wrong in this instance. ” “We will not disenss it. Let ns re turn to the ruby. Yon told Mr. Van Rawlston, so he tells me, that yon knew in advance that this crime was about to occur. Did yon know the person who wonld take the pin?” “To bo perfectly frank with yon. Miss Remsen, I expected that Mr. Mitcb- el would take it I think now that he did take it. Do yon wish me to continue the investigation? It ma? lead to your friend's losing his wager, whereas yon have the right to notify the police that yonr gem has been returned to yon. That would make our work ou the case use less and assure him of winning his bet. ” Mi. Barnes’ object bore was ingenious. He thought that if the girl accepted his suggestion he wonld thus be assured that she still suspected Mr. Mitehel Thus he would reach her true opinion of tho caso. Her answer was: "1 cannot do that. It wonld certainly bo to give np my hope of recovering the stone. I am snre that Mr. Mitehel has not taken it. If I am wrong and he has done so withont trusting me, why then ho has made n mistake und must suffer by it. I am sure, however, it will prove otherwise. So do the best you can, if yon please." “You may rely upon it that my best energies shall be devoted to this work. I wish yon good morning.” About 0 o’clock that same afternoon Mr. Barnes sent his card np to Mr. Mitehel at the Lafayette in Philadel phia. A few minutes later he was shown into that gentleman’s room and found him in lied. “Delighted to see yon, Mr. Barnes. Yon are very kind to come and see me. For doing so I am almost willing to for give you for the wtong which yon have done ma” “Wrong? What wrong?” “Do you remember the day yon came to see me at the Fifth Avenue about the button which you hud found? Yon asked me to show you the seventh of my own set. I agreed on condition that , you shonld not annoy the lady.” "Well?” “You broke your promise, that Is all” “In what way?” "In tho first place yon bribed her maid ^ „ to tell her a lie and leave her so that ms these nnestions. and I will reply to 1 on* of yonr tpiejl eoul<| take her placet ns though to enjoy Mr. Barnes’ discom fitnre, then oontinned: “She was taken, so you suspect, but cannot prove, by Miss Remsen. Now, then, if Miss Rem-, sen,.my affianced wife, takw e girl who is my own child from one house to an-; other, where Is the abduction so long aa| I make no complaint?” “Let ns drop this nonsense, Mr. Mltcbel Yon know v; . v.ell that that child was removed for a purpose, else she wonld not be hidden away. If Miss Remsen had a hand in this, she was aiding yon to baffle detective investiga tion, and that was on illegal act. There fore we have the right to watch her in order to discover what we can. ” “Very well, then, we will grant yon that privilege. Much good may it do you. But as to the removal of the child, that was done because your spy Lucette had discovered where she was, and I did not choose to have her annoyed. ’’ “What makes yon so certain that this Lucette was my spy, as yon term it?” “Well, I don’t mind telling yon that, though perhaps I am showing my hand a little. Let ns go to the beginning. In the first place yon knew abont my bet, and I knew that you knew that much. From that starting point what more nat ural than for me to suppose that yon wonld begin by having me shadowed. To be sure of this I made a few trips ou the elevated road, a structure peculiarly applicable for such a test, with the result of course that I soon became pretty well acquainted with yonr assistant When ever I had nothing else to do, I wonld amnse myself getting away from him. Yon gave me occupation for several hoars, I assn re yon. Bnt to come to Ln- cette. I guessed that the next step in yonr game would be to supply spy No. 2, who wonld take np the trail wherever spy No. 1 would lose it I began to look for this second man. See, I admit that I did not ooant upon a woman. Yon beat me there, or almost did. I don't suppose you told tbe girl to let me see her face, eh?” Mr. Barnes made no reply, though to himself he said, “Just as I told the fool" Mr. Mitehel went on: “At last one day, jnst as I was getting on a train, a smart looking young woman came out of the waiting room and followed me aboard. Purely from habit I walked through tbe train to the first coach. I ride in that because it is the coolest in summer and the least drafty in winter. Now there were several cross seats empty in the coaches through which I passed, and as tbe yonng woman behind me did not take one, bat followed me through the train, I became suspicions. When she sat down opposite me, of coarse I studied her face. I hardly ever forget a face after I have made a men tal note of it The rest is simple. Bhe was sharp enough not to get off thetrein when I did, and I dismissed her from my mind. Thus I suppose she was en abled to follow me to the Irving place house. But, of course, I recognised her at once when I saw her at Miss Hem- sen’s. ” “Did I understand yon to say that this Rose Mitehel is your daughter?” "I don't know what you understood, but I did not say sa I spoke of her jnst as yon did, ‘Rose Mitehel, who passed as my daughter. ’ ” “Well, then, is she your daughter?” “I decline to answer.” “Why do yon do so?” “I ranst decline to reply to that alsa” “Do you not see, Mr. Mitehel, you are simply making your actions more and more suspicious?” “My dear Mr. Barnes, I do not cars a straw how ranch suspicion I arouse so long os I am not confronted by any proof. Whenever yon think you have any proof against me, come to me and I will endeavor to refute it." “Very well. You have asked me to discover who stole Miss Remsen's ruby. I have already done sa ” “Mr. Barnes, you'are a genius. Who is jt?" “Yourself.” - “Bosh I Can't yon do better than that? Why, I have been sick abed hero for over three days.'’ “Mr. Mitehel yon are caught this time. 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