The Argosy, October 1906 — page 189: what you’re looking at

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a * CAUGHT. that the girl would have a talk with Sutton and protest her innocence; ; that break his" silence about how’ he got the thing. — messenger-boy_ and learn from him that it was I who hired him and I would be in great danger. a “IT went to see the messenger-boy, de- termined to scare him into keeping his mouth shut. - To my ‘horror, I found that the youngster had left the service and I could get no trace of him. = “To avert the danger that threat- ened me, I determined to get the girl out of town before she could have a talk with Tom Sutton. I dare not go to her myself; but I sent Picaut, bid- ding him tell her that he was a friend of Sutton’s and that to save the peek Saunders, clerk she must run away. _ = That plan worked. _Then_ T remem- ‘bered with horror that the "newspaper ‘photographer might still have. the nega- tives of those pictures in his possession, -and while they. existed my. secret was not safe. Soe would a sent _ Picant 40. “the Mirror office to get the films and all _ would have been well, but Picaut had . he police were — on his track and he was forced to run I therefore had to go to the Mirror place myself, _and that. proved to left town suddenly. away. be my undoing, as you know. ——_- _ That lawyer fellow Packard was al- Ss on 7 track. a he didn’ t find THE he did it. she would deny that she sent that wal- — let and that he would believe her and brokenly, Then the police would find the once mere. generous to bear ill will for the trouble she said softly, “ ee It is” Sete: how -Thus-I was. caught. Ss “My unfortunate ‘son,’ said the: priest oe unf ortunate son! = The out he guessed. ‘Tl am _Tepentant now, “father, ” re- cod the man. “I am not sorry. ‘to die, though. It. seems that even without Dupree’s help the French authorities have discovered that I was in New York. ‘Probably I should have been caught and sent back to Devil’s Island, even if I had not murdered Dupree. I would rather die than go back.” : While the wretched man was making this confession at Sing Sing | another scene was being enacted at the home of Marjorie Morgan-in New TS Marjorie hada visitor, ~ John erstwhile poctbeeper” of the late Mr. Paul Dupree. “ Miss Morgan,” the bookkeeper was saying, “‘[I have come to try my luck I know that- you are too I have caused you. You have obtained much unenviable notoriety in connection with. that horrible affair. Your name is on every tongue. Why not change that name and take mine?” For _reply the girl raised her left hand,-on the third finger of which a Ting flashed merrily. “Jl am going to change my name,’ but I am not going to take the name of Saunders.” _A VISITOR. I SOMETIMES smoke a pipe with him When twilight shades begin ; If IT had done the opposite, The Man I Might Have Been. He never with misfortune met ; - Men hail him with acclaim ; He shows me‘all the gold he makes, ~The glory and the fame. - ) “But is he any ‘happier _ When all is counted in? - Just one man knows, and he won’t tell— The Man I “Might Have Been. M ges Ee Wilson. comicbooks.co