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'liiiii ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
DOUBLOONS
A THRILLING NOVEL OF MYSTERY,
TRAGEDY AND A STOLEN FORTUNE
By EDEN PHILLPOTTS AND ARNOLD BENNETT
(Copyright, 1906, by Eden Fblllpotts nud Arnold Dennett)
Synopsis of Previous Chapters. have crept past your office door un
Philip Master*, a gentleman In distress. Is seen by you?*'
‘Moving a night watchman on Klngsway, “I think not."
Itondon, when he sees a figure crawl out of "Where are the Stairs’**
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18 BOUND TO COURT
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. S.—M. V.
Davis, of Graysvllle, Ga., has been
bound to the crlmnal court. It was
charged that, although Davis has a
wife and six children, he ran away with
Miss Grace Norman, of Graysvllle, and
that she died In this city.
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Cooeamptlvee not ae-
■ operated by me»-
lexfen, a retired tee ceptelu, Is found In the
trench. The house Is called the Comer
House end It kept by Adrien Illlgay. who
furnishes lodging to distressed geutlefolk
only at 12 cents a night. I’hlllp meets nn
old frleniL Hlr Anthony Pldrlnc, from whom
he wins £250. which relieves his necessities.
CHAPTER V—(CONTINUED).
Glralda.
The coroner finished writing, and re
sumed hts stare at the portrait of the
Prince of Wales.
Mr. Adrian Hllgay, who followed the
doctor, was the first of the witnesses
who wept. The respectability of the
Corner House had been shaken to Its
very basis by the murder. The coro
ner eyed him sharply.
“Your lodging house Is a philan
thropic undertaking, Mr. Hllgay?" he
asked, after the preliminary questions,
"My boarding house"—
"You need not trouble to correct my
phraseology." interrupted the coroner,
“I said lodging house."
Mr. Hllgay flushed. "It pays Its
way."
"What do you charge?”
"Sixpence or a shilling a night.'
“And that pays? Rent? Interest
on capital? Managerial expenses? De
terioration?”
"There Is no rent. -I am the man
ager. I accept no salary’. I make a
present of my capital to the concern.
I haven't had time yet to think of de
terioration.”
"When you say It pays Its way, then
you mean that It pays for cleaning and
service and that the meals are not
served at an actual loss?”
“Yes."
“You are new to philanthropy?”
“We must all begin,” said Mr. Hll
gay.
“Just so,” said the coroner. “You
think you are alleviating the poverty
of London by your venture?”
"Certainly."
"Ah! What Is your age, Mr. Hll
gay?"
"I do not see”—
“How old are you, sir?”
"Twenty-six."
“You have Identified the body of the
deceased ?"
“Yes; It Is the body of Captain Pol-
lexfen, who took a room In my houso
about ten days ago.
“The exact datef”
"The tenth October, I am nearly
sure."
"What was his 'Christian name?”
"I do not know.”
"Of what ship was the captain?”
"I do not know.”
"He had retired from service?”
"I believe so.”
“What were his habits?”
"For a week past he had been unwell
and stayed in his room, except occa
sionally for meals."
"Did he strike you as being poor
reduced circumstances?"
“I Imagined him to be like most of
my boarders—hard put to It, but re
spectable."
“He did not talk much?”
"He didn’t talk at all.”
"Never chatted with you?”
"Never, except about the weather.
He would usually mention the precise
direction of the wind."
"At meals did he Join In the con
versation?”
“Very little.”
"And he had no friends, no ac
quaintances 7‘
"There was a negro named Coco, who
came to see htm sometimes.”
In his room?"
Yes."
Do you know If he had Just come
from a voyage?"
"I do not."
"When did you last see htm?"
“On Tuesday evening about 3
o’clock." It was at this point Mr.
Hllgay wept.
"Where?”
"He came Into the house and went
up stairs, HIs room was on the first
floor.”
"You said he had not been out for a
week.”
"That was the first day he had been
out. He had been out twice. Once in
the afternoon about five, and again In
the evening, after our dinner.”
"How do you know that?”
"I saw him come In each time.”
"Where were you?"
"In my office to the 'left of the hall.
The door of my office Is of glass, and
from my desk I can see every ono who
comes In or goes out."
"How long did he remain the second
time?"
"About half an hour.”
“You saw him leave? 1
"Yes. I went Into my office after
dinner, about seven, and I was either
In my ofllee or the hall continuously till
i o'clock the next morning—Wednes-
day." •
"Did you receive any new lodgers
that day?"
No. The house was full."
And your old lodgers behaved as
usual?”
Absolutely."
How many went out after Captain
Pollexfen came In at 8 o'clock?”
None.”
Now, mind what you are saying, Mr.
Hllgay. You told us that no one
could leave your house without your
knowledge, and that you saw no one
leave It after the captain came In. Here
he Is In the house, presumably In his
room, at 8 o'clock at night, and yet
early the next morning hit body It
found in the Bewer trench. How do
you account for that?”
I can not account for It.”
Either he was murdered In your
''""Impossible, sir! protested Mr. HU
gay.
Nothing Is Impossible, sir,” said the
coroner. “Either he was murdered In
your house and his body carried out. or
he left your house alive and was mur
dered outside. You think no one could
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and are In line with the hall.”
"There are no other stalra In the
house?"
"There are the back stairs," said Mr.
Hllgay. “Used exclusively by the
household staff.” *
"Ah! There are the back atalre.
What la the household staff?"
"Five boya and two female cooks.”
"Where do the back atalrs lead to?"
"To the back of the house. The
kitchen. There Is a back yard."
Here the policeman, with an ntr of
apology to the coroner, lighted the gas,
after having struck two matches.
“Yes." Mr. Hllgay answered, blinking
In the new glare. "It gives on Little
GlrdleFa AUey. It la bolted at night."
"What time?"
"After dinner—about 7 o'clock."
"Bolted on the Inside?"
"Yes.”
So that anyone could open It from
the Inside?"
"Yes."
"Could a person go down the back
stairs and get out without going
through the kitchen?"
"Yes."
"What time are the lights turned out
In the back house?"
'About 11 o'clock.”
“Little Glrdler’a Alley runs Into
Strange street at right angles, and
your house Is at the corner?"
"Yes.”
"Where was the captain’s room situ
ated ?”
"The window looks on the alley."
"Who occupied the room next to It?"
"A widow lady named Upottery."
"She Is here?"
"She Is III tn bed."
"And on the other side?"
"The other aide Is an outer wall of
the house."
"Then the door of the room Is nearer
the head of the back stairs than to the
front stairs?"
Mr. Hllgay meditated. ‘‘Yes. Nearer
to the back stairs."
"You agree now that It would after
all have been possible for the captain
to have gone, or to have been carried,
out of your house without your knowl
edge at any time of the evening?"
"Y—es," said Mr. Hllgay. "Only the
back stalra are not used by my board
ers.”
"Doubtless,” snapped the coroner.
"Still as he didn't probably Jump out
of the window"
He must have walked down the
back stalra after the staff had retired."
"But why should he do that?”
"I cannot guess. There could be no
reason. He wns a man of Irreproach
able respectability."
"Then It appears most probable that
he was carried out?"
“I cannot admit the
foul play having occurrt
"How many lodgers
"About sixty."
"You satisfy yourself that all are re
spectable r*
"I use my Judgment."
The coroner put his lips together.
"Any questionsV he abruptly turned to
the Jury.
The foreman of the Jury, who was a
retired chemist, would have given a
guinea to have been able to think of a
few shrewd questions to put to Mr. Hll-
E iy. But he could evolve nothing, and
r. Hllgay stepped down, wondering
why a philanthropist should receive
the treatment of a suspected criminal.
The coroner resumed the contempla
tion of the chromograph, and then an
old negro, dressed In ample shining
broadcloth, with a red necktie, was
maneuvred by a policeman Into the
witness box. He was clearly in a
high state of nervous excitement, and
the tears were already starting from
his eyes.
"What Is your name, my man?” be
gan the coroner.
“My name, Judge? Maasa Coco,
sah."
But your real name?".
My name Massa Coco ebber since I
was cook at da Ice House." He spoke
In a thin, whining, high-pitched voice—
the voice of his race.
"The Ice House?"
"Yes, sah. In Broad street. Bridge
town, Judge."
“Bridgetown—Devonshire ?"
"No, sah. Blm, sah.
“Blm?"
"Barbados, sah. You see, sah. Ice
House, big restaurant, sah. I was de
head cook, sah. And de odder niggers
dey call me Massa Coco because I wo*
so respectable. Judge. Captain Pollex-
our
Imlt the possibility of
r occurred In my house.”
lodgers have yon?"
fen tuck me away from dere, sah.'
"You knew Captain Pollexfen?”
"Oh, yes, sah. I was one of his bes'
friends, sah. We was Intimate, aah."
“And he took you away from the Ice
House?"
"Yes, sah. He took Massa Coco to'
be cook on his ship—da Cobra, aah."
"What line?"
"No line, sah. Just a dam tramp,
sah."
"Do not awear, my man.
‘Tse so sorry I spoke dlsrespec'ful,
sah. But she was Just a dam tramp,
aah.”
"Was that long ago?"
"Long ago, Judge? I ahould say It
was long ago. It was 10 years ago."
“And you stayed with the captain?”
"Yes, ash. I stood by dat 'bomlnnble
ship sixteen years, Judge. Because I
like de captain.”
"And then you left the ship?"
'•De ship left us, Judge. She sank in
Carlisle Bay, Judge."
"Who were her owners?"
"Oh, me good sah, don’t you ask me
who her owners were, because I don't
know, sah.” . , .
'And what did you do after that?”
I Jus' stopped In Bridgetown, aah,
and sold mangoes, sah."
And the captain?”
He left Blm, sah. In a royal mall
boat, sah.” ....
"That was five years ago. When did
you meet him again?"
The sing-song voice fell a little as
the negro answered, "I had to leave
Barbadoes, Judge. ’Count of difficulty
with colored prisoners. I shipped cook
on anudder boat, aah, and come to
Southampton, Judge. And there I sees
the captain, sah, on de quay at -South
ampton."
When was that?"
In September. And l run aft him
like de debbll. Judge. He glad to
see me. He bring me to London, sah.
He says he going back to Blm, soon,
and he take me, because he want me to
help him.”
•What with?"
■A secret, Judge! Must I tell you.
Judger
"Certainly.
“Treasure, sah! Hidden treasure!
Sunk treasure! He tell me and ha
tell nobody else. Judge."
The court smiled.
"So the captain was going to Bar
badoes again to seek for treasure, eh?
Did he tell you what he had been do
ing during the four years T’
'He been captain of anudder dam
4ramp, sah—beg pardon, Judge."
“What was the name of the ship?”
"I don't know, sah. But he been to
Russian ports, sah."
"And how soon were you to go to
Barbadoes?"
“Soon, aah! Oh! Soon! But do
captain couldn't settle wlv his owners,
sah. I not understand. Then he was
III, sah."
“When did you last see him?"
"Tuesday, Judge. Tuesday afternoon.
Two o'clock, sah."
"He was better then?"
“Oh, yes, snh. Plenty better. Judge!
Plenty better. He quite 'cheerful."
“What did he tell you when you last
saw him?”
“He said we start soon, sah. He said
he take berths next week, sail."
"Do you know If the captain had any
friends?"
"He had Maasa Coco, sah.”
“Yes, but others?”
"No, sah."
“No relatives?"
The negro paused.
"Yes, sah. He hab relatives.”
"Well?”
.‘‘He hab a brudder, ash. Free weeks
ago I go wlv him to see his brudder,
sah. At de Obelisk hotel, Waterloo
road, aah, London, sah. I told all dat
to the gem'men yesterday. You see,
Judge. I was Just coming to see de cap
tain Wednesday morning—I lodge In
8even Dials, aah—and I sees his
corpse, snh. I cry, then policeman
asks me questions. Most rude ’perti
nent policeman, sah.”
“Yes, but about the brother. You say
the captain saw his brother at the
Obelisk hotel. What passed between
them?”
"Don't ask me, Judge. I don’t know.
But I heard the captain speak berry
sharp to his brother."
"Have you seen the brother since
"No, sah."
"Any other relatives?"
“Yes. sah. Lady, sah. The captain'
daughter, sah. But captain tell me he
not speak to his daughter for long time.
Because she gone on stage. Huaay,
sah! It make de captain very angry. I
walking down Klngsway wlv him ono
day, and he show me her portrait very
big on de walls."
“Ah! What was her name?"
"On de portrait, sah?"
"Yes."
"Glralda, sah.”
At the Introduction of this famous
name a rustling, uneasy movement
passed like a wave across the court;
and everybody except the coroner, the
policeman and Mr. Varcoe, whom Philip
now noticed for the first time, seemed
to be suddenly excited and expectant,
An hour ago there had been only one
reporter, a youth, at the reporter's ta
ble. There were now three. A silence
ensued, and the gas sang tn the silence,
"Can you throw any light on the
death of the captain ?” demanded the
coroner, In a low tone.
No, no. Judge! No, I can't frow
any light,” whined the negro.
The coroner glanced at the Jury.
"About this treasure?" the foreman
Inquired. ,
"Don’t ask met Don’t ask Coco!
the negro droned. "Captain never told
me nulfln. 1
But the foreman had at length
thought of a masterly query.
"What were you doing on the night
of Tuesday?"
"You are not bound to answer that
question unless you like,” said the
coroner quickly.
“Oh! I answer It, Judge,” Coco ob
served, wiping his eyes anew. "I wns
Just asleepln', ns I sleep ebhery night,
I give my 'ddresa to de young police
man, sah."
Mr. Varcoe stepped on tip-toe to the
coroner’s desk and whispered In his
ear.
"The Inquiry Is adjourned until 10:30
tomorrow, said the coroner, consulting
his watch.
And In an Instant he was packing
his brown bag.
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CHAPTER VI,
The Verdict,
Philip's feelings, to his own surprise,
were profoundly stirred by the drama
of the Inqueat. The vision of the sail-
pFs corpse remained with him: he
could not get rid of It. And then the
sudden disclosure of the name
Glralda! And the hounds of Justice,
at fault yet, and yapping with eager,
puuled Indecision: but sure ultimately
tn find the scent and tn single out the
murderer from six millions 'of his fel
low men and.mark him for doom! It
was Impossible that the murderer
should escape! He existed at that mo
ment! Somewhere, probably In Lon
don, he lived and breathed, ate and
tried to sleep.
Philip had half promised to dine with
Sir Anthony, but yielding to an Instinct
for solitude, he ate economically In
Euston Road, and hours elapsed after
ward before he could persuade himself
to go to his quarters at the Corner
House. The Illness of Mrs. Upottery
had prevented her from vacntlng her
room, and on the previous night Philip
had slept at Sir Anthony's flat under
the elaborate ministrations of Oxwlch.
But now the cubicle of the dead cap.
tain was empty, precisely that and no
other, the police had finished with It;
Mr. Hllgay had offered It, with a cer
tain air of apology to Philip. And
Philip, after an Instant's Irrational
hesitation, had accepted It. i
As he passed Into the Corner House
he saw Mr. Hllgay at his post In the
office. They nodded to each other. Mr.
Hilgay's thoughts were too deep for
words that evening—and Philip went
upstairs. The cubicle, with its electric
light, Its narrow green bed. Its com
blned washstand and dressing table. Its
armchair. Its row of books. Its polished
bare floor and Its three reproductions,
costing threepence each, of master
pieces from the National gallery, had
the mildest appearance in the world.
It seemed to be leagues away from any
tragedy. He looked around. The di
mensions of the (dace were so restrict
ed that, owing to the situation of the
toilet stand, he could not shut the door
without almost getting behind It. He
examined everything with a sharp af
frighted curiosity, and then he shut the
door, pressing himself against thp bed
In order to do so. Chance directed hi*
gaxe to the corner behind the door,
and he observed that the boy cleaners
had demonstrated that they were hu
man and boyish by omitting that cor
ner from their scheme of things. In
the day time that corner would be In
the shadow, and It was only due to the
position of the electric light that he
could not now see the pile of dust. He
bent down and plcksd up a smalt am
ber-colored object; It was a tooth of
a tortoise-shell comb. He attached no
Importance to this discovery until It
occurred to him that the comb to which
that 3-Inch tooth belonged could not
have been a man’s comb; It must have
formed pari of the structure of a wo
man's coiffure.
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light went out, the hour being mid
night.
He got Into bed, and did not sleep
till 6 In the morning, a distressing phe
nomenon conceivably due to the violent
pattern of Sir Anthony's pajama*, a
choice temple of which he was wear
ing, aa his own little bag of necessaries
had disappeared elnce the disappear
ance of the navvy from the Comer
House by Jlu Jltsu.
He overslept himself, and had to In
terrupt his regime of economy by tak
Ing a cab to the coroner's court; and
even then he was late. The court was
S acked; an extra table had been
rought In for the reporters.
The ganger in charge of the sewer-
trench was being examined.
"How long would It take to dig out
the earth, put the corpse In, and re
store the earth?” the coroner was ask
Ing. • /
'That depends!” grumbled the ganger
'On what?"
'It depend* whether him as wss
digging It knowed one end of the
spade from the other?"
"Should you *ay that the person who
burled the corpse knew one end of the
spade from the other.?"
"Ay! A*- well as I do myself.
"The work was well done, by an ex
pert?'
"Yes. 1
"Then how long should you say It
took?"
Piece work It 'ud take about three-
quarters of a hour or hardly. Day
wage It might ha' taken a couple o
hours." __
The coroner checked a smile." That
will do, my man."
“Ye*, that's all very well," the gang
er muttered. "But what about my ex
pense*? What about my expense*?
And he was led away repealing In a
disgusted diminuendo murmur: “What
about my expense?"
The next witnesses were the watch
men, Charlie, whose place Philip had
taken, and who elated that he had been
summoned to hi* wife's bedslda by, a
boy. aged about twelve; and two much
more prosperous Individuals, the land
lord of the obellsque hotel, In Water
loo road, and Mr. Oacar Talke, the
lessee and manager of the Metropoll
tan theater and Pleasure house.
The landlord stated that the man
whom Coco asserted to be 'the de
ceased's brother had quitted the hotel
at 5 o'clock on Monday, the 12th Oc
tober, saying that he should be beck
In five minutes, and had left a new
empty portmanteau and an unpaid bill
of twenty-two shillings and three pence
behind him; he had never returned.
Mr. Oscar Talke stated that on the
afternoon of the 14th October he had
received a telegram from Miss Glralda
saying that- she could not ploy that
night. Her part had since been taken
by an understudy, as Miss Glralda had
made nn further sign of life. Her flat
In Shaftesbury avenue was shut up,
and her servants had been dismissed.
He had no knowledge of Miss Glralda’*
parentage. Mr. Talke resembled the
ganger In this, that he teemed to have
a grievance against the .entire court-
he spoke aa though some one had mur
dered Captain Pollexfen In order to
spite Mr. Oscar Talke.
Then, after a minion of Mr. Varcoe
hod described to the coroner how he
had searched the cubicle of the dead
man and found nothing In the shape of
a clue, nothing even to Indicate the
slightest struggle; Philip heard the
coroner's officer discreetly enunciat
ing: "Philip Master,” and he stepped
Into the box and was sworn.
The coroner examined him with a
swift and Impartial glance.
"What have you got to tell us?^
asked the coroner shortly.
Philip related, nervously at first, his
encounter with the watchman, and how,
after hi* sleep, he had seen a mil-
terlous form' emerging from the sewer
trench.
What time was that?"
“About I In the morning."
“Did the figure seem to you to dla
appear Into the Corner House or up
Little Glrdler’s alley?"
“I ran not be sure, but my Impres
sion Is up the alley.”
■Anything else?"
'I found a bit of stone with a finger
mark on It—which I-now think must
have been In blood—In the trench, and
I put It Ifi my bag. But the bag has
been mislaid.’
“Mislaid?"
"Yea."
"Anything else?"
And Philip produced the fragment
of tortoise shell' which he had discov
ered behind the door of the cubicle.
by the Jury, and made a sensation. The
reporters rejoiced In excellent copy and
foresaw a cause celebre of the first
order.
"Now, Mr. Master*, you Bay that
you were practically penniless on Tues
day night, and that you accepted the
Otter of the watchman on that account.
You no longer have tho nlr of being
penniless. In fact, I should say quite
the reverse.”
Philip, who wore, Indeed, a new frock
coal made by a good artist, not to
mention a dark necktie chosen by Ox
wlch, quailed Involuntarily at the cor
oner's tone. HIs absolute Innocence
notwithstanding, he had a tremor as
the light of Justice came heating down
Into the privacies of hts career. Ho
Informed the coroner that a friend
had furnished blm with money.
'AhI” remarked the coroner, and re
sumed hie staro at the Prince of Wales'
portrait. Philip comprehended that the
coroner, while reserving hlB opinion,
had done with him.
"That Is all, sir,” tho coroner’s of
ficer whispered to tho coroner.
Excuse me,” said a firm, rich, con
tralto voice. "I wish to ho heard."
And a middle-aged, rather stout,
rathtr tall woman stood up and pushed
forward to the front of the court.
"Who are you, madam?” the coroner
blandly Inquired.
"I am Mra. Upottery,” was the reply.
"I wns III In bed yesterday, and I ought
to bo 111 In bed today, but seeing my
name dragged Into the papers this
morning, I got up, weak as I was, and
I have come here to clear my charac-
ter."
"If you can assist this Inquiry,” said ,
the coroner, "I shall be glad to hear,
you, but I am not aware that your j
character has -been assailed."
Not assailed!" protested the wo
man. “Then"—
Calm yoursolt my good lady,” the
coroner soothed her. "And take the
oath.”
She took the oath aa Carolina Upot
tery, widow.
"Now,” eald the coroner.
(Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian.)
REDUCED RATES TO
MACON
Via
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY.
Account of Democratic 8tate Conven
tion September 4th, The Central of
Georgia Railway will, on September
SJ and 3d, and for trains scheduled
to arrive Mncon before noon Sep
tember 4th, sell tickets from all
points at rat* of one fare, plus 25
cents, for round trip; final limit, re
turning, September 8th.
W. H. FOGG. D. P. A.
Atlanta, Ga.
It waa examined by the coroner and in south Georgia and Florida. •••
THE WAY TO FLORIDA.
When traveling to any point In south
Georgia or Florida, be sure to see that
your ticket reads via the Georgia
Houthern and Florida Railway from
Macon, Ga. This popular line operates
five trains dally from Macon to Tift,m;
four trains dally from Mncon to Val
dosta; two trains daily from Macon to
Jacksonville, and two trains dally from
Macon to Palatka. All night train-
carry sleeping cars, and day trains
carry parlor cars and nice coaches.
The Georgia Southern nnd Florida
Railway operate* more trains to points
In south Georgia and Florida than any
other line running out of Macon. The
K rlor car service between Macon and
eksonvllle Is unsurpassed. Only 50
cents Is charged for a seat In the parlor
car between these points. Local sleep
ers running between Macon and Jack
sonville on midnight trains are ready
for occupancy at S:30 p. m. Buffet
lunches are served In the car to
through passengers. Interchangeable
mileage Is accepted between all points
on the Georgia Southern and Florida
nallway.
With Its modern equipment, splendid
track*, fast and convenient schedules,
the Georgia Southern nnd Florida Rail
way offers the t