New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1922, Page 10

- Qriumphs M.Jonquelle B A By NEW BfiITA[N DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ¥, 1922, OF by MerviLLe DavissoN PoOsST © 1092 NEA Serv AR | Seated in the guiet s Parly' sludy, AL JONQUELLE, greatest detectives, reads from his father's diary the tale of a crime that took place years ago in far-oft Virginia, | The diary teils how the son of PEYTON MARSHALL stole his futher's will becauge belioved | his father at his death had on strangely influenced by the Eng- lishman, MR, GOSIFORD, and that under this influence had left Gosford all. his $50, 1 of keeping his promise and leaving his son §30,000 “Hhe writer of the diary counts how Mhis father and the lawyer, MR. 1.EWIS, were suspicious of Gos- | ford, The son admits he took the will and surrenders it to the ex-| eoutors who are. gathered in the! plantation library with Gosford uml‘ the old doctor, GALKIL ’ of of I'rench he Go on With the Story. | * wThis man,” he said, indicating Gosford, “has no right to take all my father had. He persnaded my | father and was trusted by him. But| 1 did not trust him. = My father saw ! this plan in a light that I did not see | {it, but I did not oppose him. If he| wished to use his fortune to help our countgy in the thing which he thought ihe foresaw, 1 was willing for him to do it. “But,” he cried, ‘“somebody de- {ceived me, and I will not believe that it ‘'was my father., | He told me all about this thing. I had not the health to fight for our country, when the time came, he said, and as he had no other son, our fortune must go to that purpose in our stead. But my “father was just. He said that a por-| tion would be set aside for me, and the remainder turned over to Mr. Gosford. But this will gives all to Mr. Gosford and leaves me nothing!” Then he came forward and put the ‘paper in my father’s hand. There ! /was silence except for the sharp wvoice of Mr. Gosford. “1 think there will be a \proceding here!” My father handed the paper to Tewis, who unfolded it and read it wmloud. It directed the estate of Pey- “fon Muasshalgto be sold, the sum of fifty thousind=dollars paid to Anthony | Gosford and the remainder to the son. ‘4But ‘there will B& no reinainder,” _eried young Marshall. My father's testate is worth precisely that sum. . He valued it very carefully, item by Litem, and that is exactly the amount it came to.” . “Nevertheless,” said Tewis, “the “will reads that way. It is in legal /form, written in Marshall's hand, and “signed with his signature, and sealed. ‘Wil you ecxamine it, - gentlemen? “Phere can be no question of the writ- ing or the signature.” My, father toak the paper and read it slowly, and old Gaeki.nosed it over “my father's arm, his eyes searching we structure of each word, while Mr. " Gosford sat back comfortably in his ir like one elevated to a victory. g, tis in Marshall's hand and sig- " nature,” said my father, and old ‘Gaeki nodded, wrinkling his face under his shaggy eyebrows, He went ,away still wagging his grizzled head, /wrote a memorandum on an envelope from his pocket, and sat down in his chair. "~ My father turned now to young Maprshall. “My boy,” he said, “why do you gay that someone has deceived you (b _“Because, sir,” replied the lad, “my father was to leave me twenty thou- i sand dollars. That was his plan. IThirty thousand = dollars . should be met aside for Mr. Gosford, andghe re- mainder turned over to me.” “That would be thirty thousand i’dollm to Mr. Gosford, instead of ,» sald my father. fl'!",Yu. sir,” r};plied the boy; “that is .way my father said he would write his will. But it was not writ- ten that way. It is Afifty thousand dollars to Mr. Gosford, and the re- mainder to me. It it vere thirty thousand dollars to Mr. Gosford, as my father said his will would be, that jwould have left me twenty thousand }dollars from the estate; but giving Mr. Gosford fifty thousand dollars leaves me nothing.” v “And so you adventured on a little eny,” smeered the Englishman. u&r;heyboy stood very straight and te. "h“’ledo not understand this thing,” he sald, “but I do not believe that my father would deceive me. He never Piles Can't Be Cured from the Outside External treatments seldom Piles. Nor The tion. The flabby. The bowel walls are parts almost dead. | To quickly and safely rid yourself of plles you must free the circula- tion—send a fresh current through the stagnant pools. Internal treat- | criminal . cure do surgical operations. cause is inside—bad circula- blood is stagnant, the veins weak, the| ice. Inc did decefve me In his lite. T may linve been a disappointment to him, | bt my father was a geatleman,” His volee t up strong and clear, “And Lov to helleve that he would tell me one thing and do an- o could not fuil to be impressed or to believe that the boy spoke the truth “We are sorry,” sald the will is valid and we behind it." My father “bhut gO Lewls, cannot walked about the room, his face in refleetion Gosford sat at his ease, transeribing a note on his| portfoiio, Old Gaeki had gone back | to his chair and to his little case of ‘MY FATHER HANDED THE PA- PER TO LEWIS, WHO UNFOLDED AND READ IT ALOUD. bottles; he got them up on his knees, as though he would be diverted by fingering the tools of his profession. Lewis was in plain distress, for he held the law and its disposition to be inviolable;. the boy stood with a fine defiance, ennobled by the trust in his father's honor, One could not take his stratagem for a criminal act; he was only a child, for all his twenty years of life. And yet Lewis saw the elements of crime, and he knew that Gosford was writing down the evi- dence. CHAPTER IIT. It was my father who silence. “Gosford,” he sald, “what scheme were you and Marshall about?"” “You may wonder, sir,” replied the Englishman, continuing to write his notes; I shall not tell you.” “But I will tell you,” said the boy. “My father thought that the states in this republic could not hold together, very much longer. He believed that the country would divide, and the South set up a separate government. He hoped this might come about without a'war. = He was in horror of a war. He had traveled; he had seen nations and read their history, and he knew what they were talking when they urged war.” ' He paused and looked at Gosford. “My father was convinced that the South would finally set up an indepen- dent government, but he hoped a war might not follow. He believed that if: this new government were immediate- ly recognized by Great Britain, the North would accept the inevitatble and there would be no bloodshed. My broke the ASFIKIN Say “Bayer” and Insist! 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He fol-| lowed my father home and hung about him, and so finally got his will. | My father was careful; he wrote| nothing; there is no eyidence of this | plan, but my father told me, and it is true.” My father stoped by the table and lifted his great shoulders. “And so,” he said, +"Peyton Mar- shall imagined a plan like that, and left its execution to a Mr. Gosford!” The Englishman put down his pen and addressed my father. “I would advise you, sir, to require a little proof for your conclusions. This is a very pretty story, but it is| prefaced by an admission of no evi- aence, and it comes as a special plead- ing for a criminal act. Now, sir, if I chose, if the bequest required it, I| could give a further explanation, with more substance; of moneys borrowed by the decedent in his travels and to be returned to me, But the will, sir, stands for itself, as Mr. Lewis will as- sure you.” s My father seemed brought up in a cul-de-sac. His face was tense and disturbed. He stood by the table; and now, as by accident, he put out his hand and took up the Japanese crystal supported by the necks of three bronze storks. He appeared unconscious of the act, for he was in deep reflection. Then, as though the weight in his hand drew his attention, he glanced at the thing. Something la CANISTER 45 CENT San:’ HALF POUN | victory, regarded my father | supe | father, | dreamer Marshall, wormed 2 oot o about it struck him, for his manner changed, He sprehd the will out on the table and began to move the erys. tul over It, his face close to the glass Presently his hand stopped, and he stood stooped over, staring into the Orlental erystal, like those practicers of black art who predict events from what they pretend to see in these spheres of glass, Mr, Gosford, sitting at his ease, in with & olifous, ironical smile, he sald, “are you, by chance, a fortune-teller?" \ mistortune-teller,” repl his face still held above coystul, 1 see here a misfortune to Mr, Anthony Gosford, 1 prediet, from what 1 see, that he will release this bequest of moneys to IPeyton Marshall's son," “8ir," said the Knglishman, now provoked into a temper, “do you en- joy this foolery 2" “You are not interested in crystal- | gazing, Mr, Gosford,”” replied my father in a teanquil volee, “Well, 1 find it most diverting, Permit me to piece out your fortune, Mr, Gosford! By chance you fell in with this into his confidence, pretended a relation to great men in England; followed and persuaded him until, in ill-health, you got this will, You saw it written two years ago, hen Marshall fell ill, you hurried here, learned from the dying man that the will remained and where it was. You made spre by pretend- ing to write letters in this room, bringing your portfolio with ink and pen and a pad of paper. Then, at Marshall's death, you inquired of lewis for legal measures to discover the dead man's will, And when you find the room ransacked, ‘you run after the law.” My father paused, “That is your past, Mr. Now let me tell your future, 1 see you in joy at the recovered will. T see you pleased at your foresight in getting a direct bequest, and at the care you urged on Marshall to leave no evidence of his plan, lest the au thorities discover it. Yor I see, Mr, Gosford, that it was your intention all along to keep this sum of money for your own use and pleasure. But alas, Mr. Gosford, it was not to be! I see you writing this release; and Mr. Gosford,"—my father's voice went up full and strong—"I see you writing it in terror—sweat on your face!” j “The devil take your nonsense!" cried the Englishman. My father stood up with a twisted, ironical smile. “If you doubt my skill, Mr. Gos- ford, as a fortune—or rather misfor- eune-teller, 1 will ask- Mr. Lewis and Hermah Gaeki to tell me what they see.” The two men crossed the room and stooped over the ' paper, while my father held the crystal. The manner and the bearing of the men changed. They grew on the instant tense and fired with interest. “I see it!” said the old doctor, with a queer, foreign expletive. “And I,” criew lewis, ‘“see some- thing more than Pendleton's vision. I see the penitentiary in the distance.” The Englishman sprang up with an oath and leaned across the table. Then he saw the thing. My father’s hand held the crystal above the figures of the bequest writ- ten in the body of the will, The my | the | Gosford. | focused lenr of giass magnified to a great diameter ,and under the vast enlargement a thing that would escape the eye stood out, ‘The top curl of o figure 8 had been erased, and the bar of a & added, One could see the hroken fibers of the paper on the out- line of th ourl, and the bar of the five lay across the top of the three and the top of the 0 behind it lke a black lath tacked across two up« rights, The figure 3 had. been changd to 5 so cunningly as to decelve the eye, but not to deceive the vast magnifica- tion of .the erystal, The thing stood out big and crude lke a carpenter's pateh, Gosford's face hecame expression- less like wood, his body rigld; then he stood up and faced the three men across the table, “Quite so!" he sald in his vacuous Fnglish volee, “Marshall wrote a 3 by inadvertence and changed it He borrowed my penknife to erase the figure,"” My father and Lewls gaped like men who see a penned-in beast slip out through an unimagined passage. There was silence, Then suddenly, in the strained stillness of the room, old Doctor Gaekl laughed, Gosford lifted his long pink face, with its cropped beard bringing out the ugly mouth, “Why do you laugh, my good man?" he sald. o “1 laugh,” replied Gaeki, “because a figure 5 can have so many colors.” And now my father and Lewis were {no less astonished than Mr, Gosford. “Colors!" they said, for the changed figure in the will was black. “Why, yes," replied the old man, “it is very pretty."” He reached across the drew over Mr. Gosford's dum beside the will, “You are progressive, sir'* he went |on; “you write in iron-nutgall ink, Jjust made, commercially, in this year of 'fifty-six by Mr, Stephéns, ‘But we | write here as Marshall wrote in 'fifty- our, with logwood."” He turned and fumbled in his little o of bottles. “I carry a bit of acid for my peo- It has other uses.” his table and memoran- | l'es i‘ | ple's indigestions. He whipped ot the stopper of [ Marshall's signature. “See!” he cried. blue, Mr. Gosford, red!" With an oath the trapped struck at Gaeki's hand. The fell and cracked on the table. hydrochloric acid spread out over Marshall's will. And. under the chemical reagent the figure in the be- quest of fifty thousand dollars ot The supreme test of a pair of Glasses is not in the price, but in the satisfaction they give. A. PINKUS sight Specialist ST. PHONE 570 and Marshall's man vial The Touraine means lea as well as coffee- good tea, too W. S. QUINBY CO.-BOSTON. CHITAGO. vial and dabbed Gosford's notes and i “Your writing is weld,” replied the o'd man, And he began to gather up tiie bits of hiy broken bottle from the table, enanged beautifully; the bar of the 6 turned blue, and the remainder of it a deep purple-red like the body of the will, “Gaekl,"” cried my have trapped the rogue nd I have 108t & measure o father, “you| (Another triumph of M, Jonauells, “The Triangular Hypothesis," will Les od | gin in our next lssue.) Subject Tonight “How to Make a Million Dollars Honestly”’ 6TH DAY OF THIS Interesting Series SN (P FREE LECTURES RSN § GNP APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY el Ry T Harriet Luella McCollum AT BRI Trinity M. E. Church Afternoon 5 Evening. 2:30 8:15 WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? Prizes of $5, $3 and $2 for the cleverest dialogue. Man “....... “ Postman Answers must be in the Herald office by Friday noon. 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