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THE OMAHA DAILY DAY, FE BRUARY 8, 1903 COPYISGITT. wos. CHAPTER XXIX The Police Are at Fault, Ambler Jevons read the letter, Banded it to me without comment It was written upon the note paper 1 Xnew so well, stamped with the neat address “Nenetord” in black, but it bore no date. What 1 read was as follows “Sir: 1 fall to comprehend the meaning of your words when you followed me into the train at. Huntingdon last night. I am 1n no fear of any catastrophe; therefore, I ean only take your offer of assistance as an attempt to obtain money from me. If you presume to address me again I shall have no other course than to acquaint the police. Yours truly, | “MARY COURTENAY." “Ah!" 1 exclalmed. “Then he warned her and she misunderstood his intention.” “Without a doubt,” sald Ambler, taking the letter from my hand. “This was writ- en probably only a few days before mer then “WHEN T GIVE UP YOU SHALL feath. That man,” and he glanced at the jrostrate body, ““was the only one who could #ive us the clue to unravel the mystery.” But the dead man's lips had closed and bis wecret was held forever. Only those letters remained to connect him with the river tragedy, or rather to show that he had communicated with the unfortunste Mrs. Courtenay. In company we walked to Leman Street police station, one of the chief centers of the metropolitan police in the East Bnd, and there, in an upper office, Ambler had a | long consultation with the sergeant of the eriminal investigation department on duty. 1 describéd tho appearance of the body, and stated my suspicions of polsoning, all of which the detective carefully noted be- | fore going forth to make his own examina- | tion. My address was taken so that I might | “mortem, and then shortly | I drove back westward through the city with Ambler at my side He spoke littie and when in Oxford street, just at the cormer of Newman street, he | descended, wished me a hurried goodnight and disappeared in the darkness, He was often given to strange vagarles of erratic movement. It was as though some thought had suddenly occurred to him, and he acted at once upon it That night I scarcely closed my eves. My brain was awhirl with thoughts of all the curlous events of the past few months, the inexplicable presence of old Mr. Courtenay and thd subsequent death of Mary and tho | only man who, according to Ambler, knew the secret. Ethelwynn's strange words worried me. What could she mean? What did she know? Surely hers could not be a gulity consclence. Yet, in her words and actions 1 had detected that cowardice which a Deavy conscience always engenders. One by one I dissected and analyzed the Seven Secrets, but not in one single Instance could I obtain a gleam of truth. While at the hospital next day served with a notice to assist at the post- mortem of the unfortunate Lane, whos body was lying in the Shadwell mortuary and that same afternoon I met by appoint- ment Dr. Tatham of the London hospit who, as is well known, s an expert toxi- cglogist "Po describe in technical detail the ex- amination we made would not interest the general reader of this strange narrative. The average man or woman knows nothing of cares less for the duodenum or the pylo rus; therefore it is not my iutention to go fnto long and wearying detail. Suffice it to say that we preserved certain portions of the body for subsequent examir together were engaged the whole evening in the laboratory of the hospital. Tatham was. well skilled in the minutise of the teats. The exagt determination of the cause of death in cases of polsoning always de nde partly on (he symptoms o euth and par fouad after death. Regarding the former neither of us knew anything; hence our dificultios were greatly focreased. The object of the lyst is to obtain the substances which he has to examinie chemically in as pure a condition 8s possible, so that there may be no doubt sbout the results of his testing, also, of course, to separate mctive sub- ! ances from those that are inert, all being | mixed together in the siomach and all- | mentary canal. Again, [n dealing with sueh | uids as the blood, or the tlssues of the body, thelr natural constitucots must be #0t rid ot before the fore(gn and polsonous | body can be reached. There is this difi- oulty further to contend with—that some of was on, and S !a similar catastrophe |t the | The Englieh law is ridiculous wherg cor- wy T CMQURE the most unstable composition and are readily al- tered by chemical reagents; to this group belong many vogetable and most animal poisons. These, therefore, must be treated | differently from the more stable inorganic compounds. With an inorganic poison we | may destroy all organic materials mixed | with it, trusting to find the poison still | recognizable after this process; not so withy an organic substance; that must be --pA’ arated by other than destructive means. Through the whole evening we tested for the various groups of poisons—corrosives, simple irritants, specific irritants and neu- fotics. It was a long and scientific search. Bome of the tests with which I was not acquainted I watched with the keenest in- torest, for of all the medical men in Lon- don Tatham was the most up-to-date in such analysis. At length, after much work with aclds, fitration and distillation, we determined | that & neurotic had been employed, and STEP INTO MY SHOES, BOYD, AND IT WILL BE A.GOOD THING FOR YOU." that It action on the vasomotor system of | the nerves was very similar, if not identi- cal, with nitrate of amyl. Further than that, even Tatham, exper! in such matters, could not proceed. Hours of hard work resulted in that conclusion, and with It we were compelled to be satisfied, In due course the inquest was held at Shadwell, and, with Ambler, I attended es witness. The reporters, of course, ex- | pected a sensation; but, on the contrary, our evidence went to show that, as the | poisonous substance was found in the | “quartern” bottle on deceased's table, | deatk wae in all probability due to sulcide. Some members of the jury took an oppo- | eite view. Thon the letters we bad found oncealed were produced by the police, and, of course, created a certain amount'of in- terest. But to the readers of mewspapers the polsoning of a costermongor at Shad- | well is of little interest as compared with | in the quarter of London vaguely known as the West End. | The letters were suspicious, and both cor- | oner and’ jury accepted them as evidence ihat Lape was engaged upon an elaborate, plece of blackmatl | “Who Is this Mary Courtenay, who writes | to him from Neneford?" Inquired the coro- ner of the inspector. | “Well, sir,” the latter responded, “ths writer herselt 15 dead. She was found | drowned a few days ago near her home un- | der suspiclous circumstances.” 1 ffhen the reporters commenced to awake | fact that something was underlylng the inquiry “Ah!" remarked the coroner, one of the | most acute officials of his cl “Then in face of this her letter scems to be more | than curious. For aught we know the tragedy at Neneford may have been willful | murder, and we have now the suicide of the assassin.” “That, sir the inspector “The lated Ambler, hoard. “The extraordinary is the police theory,” replied police theory be hanged!" ejacu- almost loud enough to be police know nothing of the case, and will never learn anything. 1t the jury are content to accept such an explanation, and brand poor Lane as a murderer, they must be allowed to do 80.” I knew Jevons held coroner’s juries in | {he most supreme comtempt; sometimes rather asonably so, 1 thought Well," the coromer sald, “this is cer- talnly remarkable evidence,” and he turned the dead woman's letter over in his hand ‘It is quite plaln that the deceased ap- proached ' the lady cetensibly to give her warning of some danger, but really fto blackmail her. For what reason does not present appear. He may bave feared her threat 1o give information to the poll ce his crime and subsequent suleid ‘Listen!” exclaimed Jevons in my ear “They are actually trying the dead man fer a crime be could not pessibly have committed. They've got hold of the wrong | end of the stick s usual. Why don't they give a verdiet of suleide and have dong with 1t. Wo can't afford to waste & whole day explainiug theories to a set of unedu- | cated gentlemen of the Whitechapel road oner's jurles are concerned.” | The coroner heard his whispering and | looked toward us severely. 'We have not had sufficient time to in- vestigate the whole of the facts connected with Mrs. Courtenay's mysterious death,” the inspector went on. “You will probably recollect, sir, a mystery down at Kew some litle timo ago. It was fully reported iu | i polsonous of substances are of | | that Mr. Jevons was out of town, | cognizant | wite aloog the river bank came back to me, | seen results, but I knew not thelr cause. | tering from a slight touch of sciatica at |and peevish. He was somewhat eccentric the papers, and created considerable sens: An old gentleman was murdered un- der remarkable circumatances. Well, sir, the gentleman in question was Mrs. Courte- nay’s husband.” The coroner sat back In his chalr and stared at the officer who had spoken, while in the court a great sensation was caused. Mention of the Kew mystery brought its details vividly back to the minds of every- one. Yes. After all, the death of that poor costermonger, Lanky Lane, was of greater public interest than the representatives ot the press anticipated ““Are you quite certain of this?" oner querled. “Yes, sir. T am here by direction of the chief inspector at Scotland Yard to give evidence. 1 was engaged upon the case at Kew, and have also made inquiries into the mystery at Neneford. “Then you have suspicion that the de- ceased was—well, a person of bad cha acter?” “We have.” “Fools,”” growled Ambler. “Lane was one of their informers, and often obtained pay- ment from Scotland Yard for information regarding the doings of a certaln gang of thieves. And yet they actually declare him to be a bad character. Preposterous “Do you apply for an adjournment of the Inquiry?" No, sir. We anticipate that the verdict will be sulcide—the only one possible in face of the evidence.” And then, as though the jury were com- pelled to act upon the inspector's sugges- tion, they returned a simple verdict “That the eor- the deceased committed suibide by polson- ing while of unsound mind.” CHAPTER XXX Sir Bernard's Decision. For fully a week I saw nothing of Am- bler. Sir Bernard was unwell and remained down at Hove; therefore I was compelled to attend to his practice. There were sev- eral serfous cases, the patients being peo ple of note; thus T was kept very busy. My friend's silence was puzzling. |1 wrote him, but revelvéd no respénse. A wirn his office in the city elicited the fant to to | mctively taken up. Nevertheless, I was dls- satisfiod that he should leave me 5o entirely in the dark as to his intentions and dls- coveries, Ethelwynn came to town for the day and 1 spent several She was strangely nervous and all the old spontaneous gafety seemed to have left her. She had read in the papers of the curious connection between the death of the man Lene and fhat of her unfortunate sister, and our conversation was mainly upon the river mystery. Sometimes she seemed il at ease with me, as though she feared some discovery. Perhaps, however, it was merely my fancy. € I loved her. She was all the world to me! and yet fn ner oyes I seemed to read some hidden secret which she was endeav- oring with all the power at her command to conceal. In such circumstances thero was bound to arise between us a certaln reserve that we.had not before known. Her conversation was carried on in a mechan- ical manner, as tnner thoughts; and when, together In Hond street, we drove to the Nenetord, hensions. Yes. That interview convinced me more than over that she was in some manner of the truth. The secret exist- eneq, of old Mr. Courtenay, the man whom I myself had pronounced dead, was the crowning point of the strange affair; and yet I felt by some inward intuition that this fact was not unknown to her. All the remarkable events of that moon- 11t night when I had followed husband and my mind was full of dark appre- and 1 saw vividly the old man's face, hag- gard and drawn, just as it had been in life. of events than those which formed the ven Secrets. They were beyond explana tion—all of them. I koew nothing. 1 had Nitrate of amyl was not a drug which a costermonger would select with a view to committing suicide. Indeed, I darcsay few of my readers, unless they are doctore or chemists, have ever before heard of it Therefore my own conclusion, fully en- dorsed by the erratic Ambler, was that the poor fellow had been secretly polsoned. Nearly a fortnight passed, and I heard nothing of Ambler. He was still “‘out of town.” Day by day passed, but nothing of note transpired. Sir Bernard was still suf- home, and on visiting him obe Supday I found bim confined to his bed, grumbling in his miserly habits and his hatred of so- clety, beyona doubt; and the absurdities which his enemies attributed to him were Probably | he was still pursuing the inquiry he had £0 | jegoribing the work I had been doing for | hours shopping with her. | though distracted by her | after having tea | | | steady plodder Is past | only station, and T saw her off on her return to | | thought of his scler | techntcalities Surely there could be no stranger current | Irregularities Onn-o.luthdinlAv—gfi..lu of Cardui is bave tried for irregularil mnm o3 paid e atteston o .:'onn%m mg‘u‘-‘ general health. T\eflw L hmm &uhllmfium- dn bave ddm and when & mdmm I decided #o try it and bottle. T\ halped me at onoe and I felt greatly the ch: for the Almvmmmd edtbepd-w-h-ndh four mont pr-'Myvvll regular and with This is over & year ago 9 80 quickly and go effectively it is the favorite med)- and T have not mfl-vd Becanse Wine of Cardoi cures women so sim) cine of women today. 'flusmedimnobth‘lm ng physi fld'!lfly and Wine of Cardui works ‘without o ans examis n iy o a““"‘f""fi_ nemd o'}"‘*'l.':‘ \ nl a cure the humilisting pob- ne of Cardui strikes at the root of female trouble. It the menstrual flow, funcion regule o bty an 8 o beulh ot &(;fim—smrdm. gt by suppression poisons am Card regulating the flow the generattve organs. 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Eastbound, the trains leave the Union Passenger Station, Omaha, promptly as follows: The Limited, Eastern Expres Atlantic Express, 8.05 p. m. 5.45 p. m. 7.45 a.m. At Chicago these trains arrive at the Unxou Passenger Station, Canal and Adams streets—in the heart of the city. Excellent connections for the East and South, TICKETS, 1504 Farnam St. F. A. NASH. General Western Agent. thusiasm. Indeed, according to his views, the faculty possessed almost infallible qual- fties. In confidence he had more than once | admitted to me that certain) of his col- lcagues practicing in Harley strept were amazing donkeys; but he would never have | allowed anyone else to say so, From the moment a man acquired that diploma which gave him the right over life and death, that man became In his eyes an august person- age for the world at large. It was a crime, he thought, for a patient not to submit to his decision, and certainly it must-be ad- mitted that his success in the treatment of | nervous disorders had been most remark- able. “You were at that lecture by Deboutin of Paris the other day!" he exclaithed to me | suddenly, while I was seated at his bedside him in London. “Wh you were golng there? went unexpectedly—with a friend.” “With whom?" Ambler Jevon “Oh, that detective fellow!" laughed the old physician. “Well,” he added, “it was all very interesting, wasn't it?" “Very—especially your own demonstra- tions. T had no idea that you were in' cor- respondence with Deboutin.” He laughed; then with a knowing look sald: . “Ah, my dear fellow, nowadays it doesn't do to tell anyone of your own rescarches. The only way is to spring it upon the pro- fesslon as a great :riumph; just as Koch did his cure. for tuberculosis. One create an impression nowadays, if only | with a quack remedy The day of the | 1t's all hustle, even didn’t you tell me must in medicine." “Well, you certai pression,” 1 said ments were a revela They were talking o yesterday They you see, 4id make an im- ling. “‘Your experl on to the profess them at the hospital | on me an old fogey been keeping pace A man to suc “H'm. eh? But, with the times, Bo thought I've {of the heart had been about cured. 4 boom with some- what. For years I've secret, and some day | her results of my re- | wilt upon the | inderclap, staggering nowadays must mak thing, it matters no been cxperimenting 1 will show them fur searchos—and they protession like a beliet.” & The old man chuc come th led to himselt as he | fic triumph and how | ve forth to the world | spected g time cannot he eald Boyd. These constant | me unfit to go to | ient on that pack of | to consult me when- | adache or an erring | very soon I ought sufclent hard work | was & ‘locum’ down in rly worn out.” You mustn't retire rofession would lose | t men.’ | nents,” he snapped, s pillow. “I'm sick tter to retire while I outlive it. When I | give up you will step into my shoes, Boyd, | and it will be & good thing for you Such a suggestion was quite unexpected I had pever dreamed that he contemplated Randing over his practice to me. Certainly it would be a good thing for me If he did It would give me @ chance such as few men | one day he would g a truth hitherte unsu We chatted for a } which reader, until sudden “I'm getting old attacks I have rendcr town and sit in jude silly women who rus ever they have a he husband. I think th to retire. I've done all the years since 1 Oxfordshire. I'm ne “Oh, mo,” 1 sald yet. It you did the one of its most brilll “Enough of complir turning wearily on and tired of it all. have fame than mostly upon | interest the not altogether unfounded. But he had at | all events the rare quality of profeasing for. | bis profession & respect nearly akin to es~ j ever had. True, I' was well known to his | patients and had worked hard in his inter- esta, but that be intended to hand the prac- | rived, drank a brandy and soda with & re- | tyrned the handle. | aiscovered | me that tice over to me I had never contemplated. Hence I thanked him most heartily. Yes, Sir Bernard had been my benefactor always, “All the 'women know you,” he went on in his snappish way. “You are the only man to take my place. They would tome to you, but not to a new man. All I can hope is that they won't bore you with their domestic troubles—as they have done me,” and he smiled “Oh," T sald. “More than once I, too, have been compelled to listen to the do- mestlc secrets of certaln bouseholds. It really is astonishing what a womean will tell her doctor, even though he may be young.'" The old man laughed again | “Ah!" he sighed. “You don't know | women as I know them, Boyd. Youv'e got your cxperience to gain. Then you'll hold them in abhorrence—just as I do. They call me a woman-hater,” he grunted, “Per- heps I am—for I've had cause to hold the feminine mind and the feminine passion equally in contempt.” “Well,” I laughed, “there’s not a man in London who {s more qualified to speak from personal experience than yourself. So I antjcipate a pretty rough time when I've | had yeers of it, as you have.” “And yet you want to marry!" he said, | looking me straight in the face. “'Of course, you love Ethelwynn Mivart. Every man a your age loves. It is a malady that occurs | in the teens and declines in the thirties. | I should have thought that your affection | It is Piles Stricture wr. oo 0. RUPTUTE It you have any aflment in the above list you should seek rellef. 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The doctor's wife must always be a long-suffering person.” I smiled; apd then our conversation | turned upon his proposed retirement, which | was to take place in six months' time. I returned to London by the last traim, | and on entering my room found a telegram | trom Ambler making an appointment to call the following evening. The message was dated from Eastbourne, and was the first I | bad recelved from him for some days. Noxt morning I sat in Sir Bernard's con- sulting room as usual, receiving patients, and the afternoon I spent on the usual hos- pital round. About § o'clock Ambler ar- | OVER DA Ofce Hours—8 a. m, 10 8 p. m. Sun days, 10 &, m, to 12.30 p. m, employment of glirls and women between | the hours of 9 p. . and 7 a. m. The Amos J. Cummings Memorial com- | mitiee of the International Typographical | union 1s summoned to meet at Washington to begin the effort of erecting a monument to that late champlon of trade unionism. The 8,000 employes of the Pullmun Car | company at Pullman, Ill.. who are thor- oughly organized, are preparing to request shorter hours and no Sunday work. The corporation is aware of the complete or- ganization. The Canadian Ni in bed on the previous night, had returned | to town suddenly, but was engaged Ambler waited in the hall, while T passed | along to the door of the consulting room with the intention of asking permission to | enter, as I always did when Sir Bernard | was engaged with a patient On approaching the door, however, I was | startled by hearing a woman's voice raised [in angry, reproachtul words, followed im- | | mediately by the sound of a scuffie and then a stified cry. Without further hesitation I | ra_Falls Power com- pany expects to have 60,000 horse power avallable by August, and so great has been the demand for power that they will be | an_extension of the wheel pit, which will add 60,000 horse power more. During the ten months ended October, 1902, the value of electrical instruments ex orted was 3, , a8 compared witk 1,822,084 in 190, ‘That is & very healthy showing. Of electrical mackinery i» the, same period, 88 agalnst §2,081,520, Addressing the Consumers' league in New York, Bishop Potler denounced the modern passion for bargains. “You cannot buy anything off a bargain counter,” he sald, ‘without being able, if your mental eye be | sharg, to find the stain of blood upon it." ishop urged his hearers to “ask im- portant questions about conditions in every #hop and to insist on answers to their ques tions. In this way they could help do away with sweat shop and other abuses. Mr. Barnes, the engineers’ dele came from England to America Mosely's industrial commission, having & Fived home, gives uhi summary of {he con: clusions he came 10 in the course of the | inquiry into American “push:” Machinery Mare used than at home. Banitation; Not g0 good. Hours of work: Longer. Work: Not 8o es: Higher. Cost of liv. g Higher -uu'*rna s unioniem: Not 6 ing: Higl strong. Providi nd uses the best machinery he t ritain has nothing DS aar Hom America 54 ls qulte shie 5 hold its own. [ flective alr, and then suggested that we might dine together at'the Cavour, & fa- vorite haunt of bis. At table 1 endeavored to induce him to explain his movements and what he had i s,.yly,:‘,','mmH:.':':.“:le d_‘f\:’:‘)‘:"fi“’.:? New York buys sausage casing in Ar- menia. eret, and untll facts were clear sald noth- | The American sewing machine is popular ing. It was a peculiarity of his to remaln in Mesopotamia. . Aaats £ most intimate friends | The English people are the greatest con- dumb even 10 bis most lntimate friends | I8 KOFUA RIS, S%S ol SoRoirRing aay ing' " g s The United States now uses more l’l'l He was a man of moods, with an active mind and a still tongye—two qualities es silk for manufacturing than France. sential to the successful unraveling of mys- The door was locked. (To be Continued.) LABOR AND INDUSTRY. there was exported $3,656,7, standing. 0 r- otal took a cab back to my rooms. On passing | The tobacco trust is contesting the consti- sulting room, and that I might require them | North Carolina fs strongly recommending | ering u bill to raise the age of boys per- Ford, on opening It, surprised me by an- Of the 47000 miners of Great Britain, | by s Rhode Island factories employ 91, sons, 6,41 of whom are children. along Harley street it suddenly occurred to 1 cl 0/ ol . 1o the morning I had left a small | jULoRAlity of the child labor lew of Louts- | t o o 1 ! ks 1 Theretore, 1 stopped the cab, dismissed | | mitted to work in the coal mines from Mt 16, and in the breakers from 12 to W ouncing that his master, whom I had left s the 847,00 are members of the union in good | Having finished dinner we lit cigars and increase of 4,966 case of intruments In Sir Bernard's con-| State Labor Commissioner Varney of "The legisiature of Pennsylvania is consid- it, and knocked at Sir Bernard's door. There is also a provision which forbl