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FOURTH PAGE
THE SUNNY SOUTH
MARCH 2, 1907.
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# Mr, Max of Scotland Yard ^
A Series of Detective ^Stories in Six Installments
By CHARLES OLIVER.
All Bights Reserved.
The Spison Affair
l. MAX brought two deck
chairs from their winter
quarters, and we installed
ourselves comfortably on
the sunny side of the
house.
“And how's the poor
head?” asked my host.
“As sound as yours,"
answered.
“Then you've got the
was more ground than usual for per
plexity.
“Quite out On the outskirts of Craw-
ton, in a small cottage, there lived an
old gentleman—a Mr. John Spison. He
was a retired bank cashier, who had
worked with the Hemtseads of Little-
ford in a neighboring county. He was
nearly seventy at this period, and had
been at Crawton for twenty-five years.
His wife had died soon after they came
S house. there, and since then Mr. John Spison
• •And how's the noor had lived entirely alone. A woman went
head? " asked my host. <" every to do the household work
“As sound as yours,” I I and the cooklng; otherwise there were
l’ , ' , very few visitors to the cottage. Mr.
answered. , _ . , , , . „ ...
Spison had only one child, a son, Mr.
Then jou ve got tht Edward Spison, who went out to the
best sort of head on you,” j eoionies at the time of his father’s re
lic replied, solemnly. "I’m tirement from the tbank. He had since
not a boastful man, and I I made his fortune and come home, had
quite understand that we j married into a very good family, and
can t make our own heads; they're had often urged the old gentleman to go
“ ‘Well, Mr. Max?’ he said, quietly, i after that he used it. John Radford was
when I had finished. | you rug _ and hadi to descend many degrees
“ ‘Well, Mr. Spison,’ I answered, ‘I will | of wickedness before he arrived at tha
use no threats, because I believe you are lowest degree of all.
not the sort of man with whom threats “ ‘I went to Australia. My lesson had
would pay. But I should lie glad if you ! been severe and sufficient. I set to
cictujd bring yourself to throw light on ' work to redeem the past, and, to a cer-
this blackmailing business, for such it is; tain extent, succeeded. I worked my
I’ll swear.’ j way up on a sheeprun fnom ordinary hand
“ ‘Could you ipromlse me.’ he asked to overseer; then I bought a run of my
after a minute, ‘that it shall go no fuirth- j own, added to it, and prospered. I was
er?’ | already a wealthy man as a shee.p (farmer
“ ‘My duty and the interests of justice ■ when I found copper on one of my es-
rank with me before everything.’ T an-j tates. My fortune is now very large,
swered, ‘and I will make no preliminary ! " ‘When I returned home I tried every
iprotnise. But if I find' later that I can : means to get my father to come t> me.
honorably do so, I will give you my word j But It was in vain. He cannot forget
that the secret shall rest between us.’ j my fault If he has forgiven It. and that
"And this. Captain Grensley, was the j and iny mother's death were the two
story lie told 1 me. , bitterest (phases of my punishment. In
“ ‘I was no good at all as a boy and a I my fa tiler's eyes a man who has once fni-
youith. Mr, Miax. I was an only son.
and spoilt. I could settle down to no
profession, and my father was in despair
sorted out to us, and we haven't much and live with him. This Mr. John Spi
to say in the matter. But there's no ; eon had always declined, preferring to j about me. He was an excellent man. o>
manner of sense in calling yourself a : preserve his independence, as he said; j rather limited attainments and under
fool when you’re quite at the other end : but It was thought that there was no j standing, who haq worked at a desk all
of the scale, is there now? And when ! love lost between him and Mrs. Edward j his life, and considered that commercial
you say that your head is as sound as
mine, you pay yourself a compliment.
Captain Grensley—a compliment. I'll he
hanged if you don’t!”
“You needn't tell me that,” I said. “A
man who forestalled Jiu-Jitsu, who
knows many ways of putting his ad
versary on his hack, and more of
strangling him artistically, for whom
mysteries nre no mysteries ”
“Tut! tut”’ interrupted Mr. Max, dep
recating!.' - , “you make me blush!”
“Who. will take In seven Hooligans at
a time, can use his feet as well as his
hands in a tussle, is afraid of nothing
and no one can ”
“Enough, enough. Captain Grensley,”
said Max, frowning a little. ‘If shall
begin to think you're having me on.
Spison, a lady who was. (perhaps, too j ®eal and probity were the. highest of all
favorably impressed by her own birth j virtues. My irregularity mf life -distressed
and .-oeial position
him even more than my extravagance, T
ion from commercial virtue can neve-
wash his robes clean again. My poor,
honest, straight-forward, heroic father!
“ ‘The explanation of the tragedy
should not now be difficult to you. Mr.
'Max. John Radford, In his vagabondage,
at last lights on my father. A black
mailing scheme that has long lain at
the hack of his sodden understanding
starts up again before him with new
“It had always been maintained by the! believe; for the former is quite fatal tot vivid ness. He goes to my father, re-
and
T allow
no man to
have me
—no
man."
T
assured
my
touchy
friend
had
..-poken
i n a
11 seriousness. ;
allnv
red it i m
self
tn be
restored
usua
1 equan
imity.
“B
etween
our sc
■Ives.”
lie said.
he
hiid acceptei
il my
explanati
that I
and he
when
‘ti, "I
have a weak side, though you wouldn't
think it. Perhaps I should say more
correctly that I had a weak side once
—for twenty minutes, approximately. I
was in love, as the phrase Is. for that
space of time."
Here Mr. Max actually did blush.
“If my question is not indiscreet, why
did It go no further?" T asked
gossips of Crawton that Mr. John Spi
son had retired from Hemstead's bank
under a cloud, though what was the
exact composition of this cloud the gos
sips could no more than surmise. The
j cashier was a strong arid comparatively
young man when he threw up his po
sition, and on settling at Crawton with j
his wife had cut himself off almost com- j
pletely from local society. His son had |
gone to the colonies immediately, with j
the evident intention of being no burden I
on his father. Then Mrs. Spison had i
died, and the one or two acquaintances |
that the widower had made in Crawton j
saw him to be so broken and despond- |
ent that they almost feared for his j
reason. In fact. It was generally be- I
lieved that the ex-cashier was develop- J
ing the preliminary symptoms of mental
weakness: but time as it passed brought
no aggravation if it brought no amelio,- ! indignation, for the theft was palpable
commercial success, while the latter mayj veals his knowledge of our disgrace, and
even accompany it. At last, to my fath- j demands my address. My father tells
er's relief, Mr. George TTemstcnd offered him to etc me to the cottage in the eve-
nie and T accepted' a position in the n ) n g. ( 0 arrange some compromise. Then,
IL.ittleford bank. | with a last effort of will and energy, the
‘But this was not my salvation. 1 ; comes between me and ruin for
got in with a gambling lot. and found J f) 10 second time, and puts out that last
myself one miomfng with a large debt of j remaining witness of an all but unknown
honor to meet, and nothing to meet it j cr j me bitterly repented,
with. When I tell you, Mr. Max. as I i «• ‘And 1 now. Mr. Max.’ concluded Mr.
must tell you. that I robbed my emtplojei , Edward Spison, ‘liavo - T the promise I
im m
you may wonder how it is that I
my present (position.
“ ‘Luckily for me the fraud was dis
covered at once. If this had not been so.
it might, have been the first step on a
lfa«tnl downward ladder to irretrlavable
ruin. Mr. George Hemstead, who had
asked you for?’
“I gave him the promise; for the reve
lation of the story would have done no
good in the world except, iperhaps,
heighten my reputation a little—as I
hardly think it needs. Mr. John Spison
never appeared before an earthly judge-
detected my falsification himself, sen! i ] a > died three weeks after the tragedy,
for m? and accused me. T lost my head on his tombstone Mr. Edward Spison had
great these wtards carved'—a. translation, he told
and denied. Mr. Heipsteam, in
ation of these symptoms. He lived at
his cottage silent and solitary, and his
existence at Crawton was almost entire
ly unremarked.
“Then he had suddenly come before
the world in the most startling and
tragic manner. His charwoman, on gb-
ing up to the house one day at her
usual morning hour, had been surprised
to see the doors open, for Mr. Spison
“Well, of course, it was my own d°- I d * d no ^ generally rise till later. Enter
ing that it stopped where it did, for. if
I had wished it, the girl would have had
to he Mrs. Max. I should have worked
It all right. I'm not a ladies' man, but
the business does not want much learn
ing. It seems to me that it's mostly
mechanical."
“And she, if 7 may ask?”
“She wag a living waxwork—a Salva
tion lass. Oh, it wouldn’t interest y®u.
Captain Grensley, not a little hit. A
man who has beep through Spion Kop
doesn't care to listen to sickly romances
about women an 1 that—blood and thun
der i s more in his line—war's alarms—
crash! bang!”
“By no mean 5 , Mr. Max. Just the
contrary. 1 assure you ”
Excuse me,” said Mr. Max, with a
ness that showed beyond m i scorn-
hension that lie did not mean to be
dr^wn—"excuse me. The only point of
manly Interest in the business is that
from it dates the split with my chief.
TTe was not best pleased with the way
T had worked the thing, and allowed
himself to make One or two silly re
marks that I wasn’t going to forget.
He was a regular old stick of a rou-
tinist, and he would
have all his cases [ nient
her employer's study, she had found
the old gentleman, fully dressed, sitting
at his desk, with his head between his
hands, staring down at an object at his
feet. The curtains were drawn and the
lamp was flickering out. Tile woman
pulled hack a curtain, and then, in the
broad daylight, she saw that the dark
object on the floor was the body of a
man.
"When the police came it was ascer
tained that the stranger had been killed
by a revolver bullet through his heart.
The weapon had been discharged at
close ‘quarters, for the clothes were
singed. The man was: miserably dressed
and wretchedly thin, and bore abovit
him the marks of a habitual drunkard
and loafer. 1 got down to Crawton in
time to see the body, of which I made
careful measurements and notes, and
from these I afterwards got the fellow
identified; for though we had not ar
rived then at the Berthillon method, we
had some makeshift arrangement. And
as to that same Bertillon method, by
the bye, I can assure you that a more
correct name for it would be the ‘Max
Method.’ But the French have no
memory when a memory is inconve-
was about to send for the police, when I
threw myself on my knees, confessed
everything, and begged him at least to
see my father first. This he reluctantly
agreed to do. an r j sent me out to wait in
his little private garden behind the hank.
“ 'There are moments. Mr. Max, when
the mind is so overwhelmed with some
; stupendous grief or misfortune that it is
j incapable of noting any but the most
| trifling and insignificant impressions,
j You know that a prisoner at the bar will
j count the spikes on the railing in front
! of him while his dieath sentence is being
I pronounced.
! “ ‘It was so with me as I waited. There
was a young glazier at work on the
panes of the conservatory whieli led from
Mr. Hemstead’s room into his garden. I
watched the youth idly, with no memory
of the banker and my heartbroken father
! and my own fate. The mimites passed,
no one came to summon me. The young
! glazier put on his coat and went away to
; dinner. Then I got up and walked, half
| unconsciously, to where he had been
! working, and I found that by some curi
ous acoustic accident every word that
was said in Mr. Hemstead's room was
audible here.
“ ‘And then my whole consciousness
came back to me. and the face which I
had only seen for an instant flashed out
on my memory like an image on a pho-
“77e complained, (ttptain, Grensley,
I hadn't brought it*to a finish, and
me. from the German:
“ In the sanctuary of Honor there is a
Holy of Holies—the Honor of Another.’ ”
When Mr. Max had finished Ills story
we sat silent for a few minutes.
“Well, Mr. Max.” I said at last. “I
don't see why your chief fell out with
over this business.”
that
that
a good many of my cases ended up so;
‘and for me.’ said he, 'finish is everything,
Mr. Max, and I don't care how soon you
get that imo your head.’
“ ’Oh, it's there already, don’t you
bother,’ I answered' “and I am of the
same mind as you. Finish is everything;
more particularly finish with this stupid
old shmw, of which I am sick to deatii.
(So good night to you.’ ’Good night,’ he
said, as cool as anything, ’amd don’t pull
the door after you, for it's got one of
•those new-fangled, self-closing arrange
ments < n it. and I don’t want it to go
bust the first Jump off.’ ”
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choosing. A passably eood man, but ;
nothing extraordinary. I am not a bit j
of a routinist myself; T muet have a ’
free hand, just as 1 should have given :
a free hand if T had been in the chief's ‘
place. In his place indeed! I might !
have waited a hundred years for that j
to arrive. Xo. I began to see clearly i
that 7 was not a ‘persona grata’ at j
headquarters—knew a little too much, j
I suppose—so after the Spison Affair. ;
which I finished off in my own way. !
not the chief’s, T made my bow.”
“And what was the Spison affair?” I
asked.
“A mystery,” replied Mr. Max, "that
Is insoluble for all men living at this
moment—except myself and another.
And it is for the sake of that other
that I shall use fictitious names
throughout
concerned.
“Two years ago, then, the chief sent |
me down to the little town of Craw- j
ton to get at the bottom of an affair
wdiich puzzled the local 'police consider
ably. It does not, 7 have observed, take
much to do that, but in this case there
“A revolver lay on the table close at
Mr. Spison’s hand, but the old man
tvgraphic plate under a quick-developln-, .
agent. I have never forgotten it—that ; IS THE LARGEST RANCH IN
mean, cruel fare—and. after years of |
vice and misery and drink had done their I
w - ork on it, I knew it in an instant w - hen •
I saw it in my father's study a week
ago—the face of John Radford, black-
mailer.
” 'My father came out from the bank- i
er's room a broken man. He told me— |
what. Indeed, I had already heard—that
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work, lie bought more, and some other
tracts were probably confiscated.
His election as governor followed, and
from that time tlie Terrazas family has
presided supreme over the destinies of
the state. It is to be sai<j to their credit
that although the venture has made them
could give no account at all of what ! the on i y condition on which Mr. George
had happened. 7n fact. 1 believe that | ITemstpaq refrained from prosecuting was
from that day he never spoke again, that j shou!d leave the country at or! ,,. e
and if there w’ere doubts before as to
hip mental condition there were none
now. His intellect had almost entirely
gone. Mr. Edward iSpison came over at
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throughout, but if Mr. John Spison
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it was not so. He resigned his post. I i also. They are belter paid on an aver-
beliove he must have known of the rumor i a £T than are farmhands in other sections
of the "irregularities” that were vaguely °f the republic, and a general air of
attributed to him. and lie made no effort I prosperity prevails in the little villages
to contradict these rumors. So it was ! and hamlets. Vaqueros on the big ranch.
I anyone else. He sat the whole da.
a stupor, from which it was impossible
to arouse him.
“The most plausible theory was that
the stranger had demanded money of the
old man, had perhaps threatened him.
| and that Mr. Spison had shot him in
! self-defense. Against this was the fact
The hono r of a family is j that Mr lived ipoorly, and. had
nothing in his house which would attract
a thief. His possession vtf a revolver
was a difficulty for me, and appeared to
point to his constant apprehension of
some danger. The stranger had been
seen in the village during the day and im
the neighborhood of Mr. Spison’s cottage,
and it occurred to me that he might even
have accepted a rendezvous there for
the evening.
“However, there seemed to be no cer
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mouth was closed: Mr. Edward S'pison
declared that he had no Idea who the
stranger was. But there was no hurry
in the matter. The case would have to
go before the jury, of course, but the
magistrate accepted Mr. Edward Spison's
bail, and he took his father home with
him.
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“ ‘Any news. Mr. Max?' asked Mr. Ed
ward, when he came In.
“ ‘Yes,’ I said, brusquelq. ‘I have
identified our man. Here are the details;
Bradford. John, of Llttleford, born ,
wo riled In the town as an apprentice to a
Mr. James Talke. 'glazier: disappeared 1
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“I was watching Mr. Spion closely as I
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Bradford was an old acquaintance of
Eldwa.rd Spison? I’ll tell you.
“Years ago I went to see a man guillo
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not go out of Idle curiosity, but I was
making a specialty at that time of the
visible effects of extreme fear. The fel
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marvel. He walked out of the prison as
If he were going to a wedding, elbowed
aside the priest, who was going back
ward before him, trying to hide the ma
chine from his eyes, and stood at the
fatal plank like a soldier at attention.
There was only one thing that shewed
the mortal terror he was in. The tips
of his ears were white!
“And when I read out those details to
Mr. Edward Spison the tips of his ears
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mediately reduces all congestion and! . or< ^ e ’ e< l Colonel Thomas, w i
lage of Saviersvlile, about 28 miles
southeast of Knoxville, and captured! Xafehville and Frankfor
a federal foraging train of seventeen
wagons, loaded with flour, etc. He was
making his way out in this direction,
and on Thursday had reached Cosby’s
creek, when about I p. m. he was at
tacked by a regiment of federal cav
alry. General Vance and about seven
ty-live men were captured. The federals
ox
swelling. heals all sores, ulcers and irri-; was some 20 miles distant, to Join him
tated parts. i with a portion of his command at Cos-
The moment you start to use it, you. ! T>V. but for some reason his orders were
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“I have been a terrible sufferer of
piles for fourteen (14) years and during
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not obeyed. Henry's cavalry and our
artillery passed the same place next
day and readied Xewport safely. They
learned from the citizens that General
Vance had been sent to Knoxville.’ ”
edly have captured but for the order ,
to go to east Tennessee after the Yan
kee raiders who had escaped from j
Knoxville. From this date we know
nothing of his movements until we
hear of him in the vicinity of Shep-
herdsvllle, Bullitt county, Kentucky,
and subsequently near Frankfort and
Lexington—the whole section in a state
of alarm, the militia called out, and |
tiie records and property of Frankfort
and Lexington being' hurried away to- trated, wide-awake, tadependeut aud progressive. Each iasue'7-ontai™ Tr™'
wards Cincinnati. Afterwards we learn | tTowillt. °* in ' CTe8t t0 FABMEH8 ‘ STOCKMEN, DaikymeT’po “ltrymen‘Tnd fhTTi
that he has captured Lexington, and
that the trains upon the
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[t loads .ill. 1 un The Ruhscnntion nnce of the TNT.A VIA cavuitd a/t . .
captured the steamboats, and going into
Indiana burned Paoli and sacked Or
leans, in Orange county, and threatened
Salem, in Washington county.
“On the 7th of July lie captured Cory-
don, the capital of Harrison county,
Indiana, and was marching towards
New Albany. We next hear of a fight
that he had with some fifteen hundred
Yankees, which he defeated with con
siderable loss. On the 13th he was in
Ohio, having burned a bridge over the
Miami river. On the 14th he passed
through Barlington and Springdale, ami
on to Glendale, where he tore up the
track of the Hamilton and Dayton rail
road. Thence he proceeded to Miami-
ville, destroyed the Miami railroad and
attacked a train. At last accounts he
had visited Tiketon, en route to Gal-
lipolls, on the Ohio river, which sepa-
ONE OF MORGAN’S RAIDS.
A correspondent of The Augusta
“Now. after trying but one treatment of] Chronicle, who followed on paper the
your ‘Pyramids.’ I am free to tell all j wanderings of the great Kentucky - — ,
sufferers of this dreadful disease to try j chief, gave the annexed sketch of his i rates Ohio from West Virginia. He
this medicine the Pyramid Pile Cure. It | progress; ! seems to have passed through tlfe en‘-
yours CU Geo^e e Braneig\it er ScfwIU)m - ^ C ^ e ^’ ! “ Mor »an’s present gallop through the’ tire lower tier of counties of Indiana
The' Pyramid Pile Cure is put-up 'i , west throws aI1 Previous raids, federal and Ohio, and it now looks as though
the form of “easy-to-use," specially made i and con *ederate, completely in the he was about to strike into Virginia,
suppositories. They are soothing, painless, | shade, if we estimate it by the distance Gallipolls Is near the moutli of the
’ traveled and time occupied. Of his ac- Kanawha river, and in a direct line
tual successes and achievements, we about forty miles ijrom Parkersburg,
know little. Occasionally we get an! Va. One of these days the public will
inkling of his whereabouts from one 1 be entertained with an interesting ac-
side or the other, and are thus enabled j count of this expedition.”
to trace the route of his progress. 111
is now just one month since he crossed
the Cumberland on his expedition. He
started on the 20th of June, and on the
22d threatened Carthage and Gallatin,
in Tennessee, which he would undoubt-
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