The Argosy, October 1906 — page 142: what you’re looking at

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“ It is not “enough, z = said, as I _ fondled the piece. ‘‘ Diss iss not goot money.” - “Tt looks good but I don’t know how much it is,” said the woman. “Vere you get him?”’ I asked. i we Sed rf * se - - ) ‘ (eis, ' : “Oh, we go to Canada some summers © and get such money there.” ist I shook my head. < “You musd haf.more,’”’ I said. oy ‘* Here, take this,” replied the woman, _. who was absolutely ignorant of the for- Be tune she possessed. She handed me a ae gold crown. — I sold her the entire outfit, and, with ___ the two gold-pieces in my pocket, started = to go. = Dalé watched me with eyes I did not like. I saw him warepe! to one of the * Other men. ; “T zell you dis?” I eke as I turned < around. “TI zell you dis sheap.” = T held out my revolver. Dale started toward me, his hand in : his pocket for money. — * No,’ I said as if on second thought. “YT haf gold. I geep it. I might ged robbed.” They stood and watched me as I walked away. a CHAPTER XXXVIII. I OBSERVE STRANGE THINGS. fe I WALkep till I was out of their sight Z and then went into a thick woods. What A I had seen and heard proved to me that I was on the right track. . But what _ Arack? ; I knew the gold-threaded gown, the ermine collar, the gold itself, had come 2 from the cellar of the old De Watines ; house on Frenchman’s Island. But who. = had taken it from the porch of our house, 7 and who had killed De Watines? : ee No one had visited the island while we were digging, and it was impossible that any of these squalid, ignorant, 3 brutish pecple could have known of our quest, and our success. The man who = had used the marine-glass every day for eS a week was the man who had made the discovery. He was also probably the man who committed the robbery. But how was it that so much of the treasure had stuck in the possession of Dale? THE ARGOSY. ‘The iatian now with me “was, had I learned enough to warrant me in dis-_ closing myself to the police, or was it too soon? I knew that somé of the treasure of De Watines was in the hands of these people and that they were just beginning to dare show it. But- what proof had I that they were in any way concerned in the murder? Supposing, as a base of argument, that the man with the marine-glass had been Bai Rak, and that it had been Bai Rak ~ who had committed the murder, the hy- pothesis was that he had paid Dale for taking him to the island in a boat the night after he had seen us take the. treasure from the broken chest and place it in my trunk. Dale, holding the boat, naturally knew that the murderer had done his foul SEOTE when he returned with the trunk. #2 Now, having refered ous Dale to the squalid settlement where alone he. could find a ready accomplice, I per- mitted myself to suppose Bai Rak, or whoever the murderer was, had left the tell-tale trunk with Dale, as well as the costly fabrics which would only be in his way, and, making a selection of the most valuable pieces of money, had gone on, leaving enough to pay Dale well, not only for the service rendered, but for keeping his mouth closed afterward. Still supposing that Bai Rak was the murderer, I followed with my es ‘his movements. It was an easy matter for a to es- cape from the region of the lake, as the - police were looking for a man with my trunk, up to the time of my arrest, when they ceased to look for any man at all. Where had he gone? He had not re- turned to Paris. It was not probable that he would go to London, for the ex-_ change of money: of that description | could be made only in a few places, and. conservative and cautious London would soon want to know more about it. He certainly had not tried to dispose of it in New York, for every paper in the State had been filled with descrip- tions of the treasure that: had lain sndis” covered for a century. == : Manifestly it was Acie to. pro- ceed now through the medium of the po-— lice. I knew I had a desperate char- acter to deal with in Gestee. Hake: ; a y : 2 a _ Bigs ee s s.