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FOURTH PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH MARCH 2, 1907. i # 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.’ ” CXext week: “Blackvalley Farm,” melodrama in miniature.) Piles Cured in <3 to 14 Days. PAZO OIXTMKXV is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Portruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. run into moulds, so to speak, of his own 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 THE WORLD. Continued from Second Page. 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 once, and remained with Ills father throughout, but if Mr. John Spison knew his son at all, which is uncertain, he took no more notice of him than of that my culpability w - as never suspected, j who number thousands, 'receive half as There, as far as he was concerned, the | the richest family in Mexico today, the matter was ended. But for my father subjects of the state have fared well 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 tainty to be arrived at. Mr. John Spison’s 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. “I returned to London, where I occu pied myself In Identifying the stranger. Grow Mushrooms For Big and Quick Profits Small Capital ta Start A Safa •ualnaaa I am the largest grower in America. Ten yean* ex perience enables me to give practical instruction in tbo business worth many dol lars to you. No matter what your occupation is or where you are located, here is an opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of this paying business. 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'glazier: disappeared 1 in the year ——; heard of again In Liondon, S.E.; numerous conviction for drunken ness, mendicancy, etc.’ “I was watching Mr. Spion closely as I read, for I_have the trick of doing two or more things at the same time. And how do you think I knew that John Bradford was an old acquaintance of Eldwa.rd Spison? I’ll tell you. “Years ago I went to see a man guillo tined! in. France. I can promise you I did not go out of Idle curiosity, but I was making a specialty at that time of the visible effects of extreme fear. The fel low they 'shortened' that day was 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. 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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. 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