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p me, in the midst of a lun.i
I morning, there entered an oflict
hoy with the onrd of Mr. Luciu;
* Werner of the United States
weather bureau. At the bottom of the
card the word “Over” was written and
upon the‘bark this sentence: “For rea
sons which I shall explain I think that
our interview should be strictly pri
vate.”
Now, why In the world should the
weather man desire a private inter
view? There can be no “graft” in lib
otliee surely. He can furnish no specia
brand of weather to those who will
fatten his pocket, and, except in ids
official capacity as the author of tic
local predictions In the morning paper,
Mr. Werner seemed extremely remote
from my affairs.
Mr. Werner proved to be a robust
and florid young man, yet of a studi
ous aspect withal and very courteous
In his demeanor.
“You are high up here,” said he, with
a gesture toward my window, which
overlooked all the neighboring house
tops, “but I am higher. From the tow
er of the Exchange building, where my
office is, 1 can look into these rooms,
and I have recently, seen something
here which seems to me very strange.”
“Well.” said I, “what was it?”
“For two nights,” he replied, “I have
seen a man at work at this desk. \ou
have no shades, eh? That is odd."
“They were not up when I took the
offices.” said I, “and as these are north
windows I never bothered about the
matter.”
I spoke hurriedly and euded with a
sign for him to proceed.
“My attention was first attracted by
a peculiar light,” said he. “It was in
this room, and I happened to be look
ing in this direction. There was a flare,
probably the lighting of a match, and
then a sort of glow that made me sus
pect tire. I therefore took some pow
erful nightglasses, and through them I
saw that a shaded lamp was burning
on that desk. Presently a man appear
ed. He sat where you sit now, and for
a long time he examined documents,
oue after another, hastily. If the room
had been lighted in the ordinary way
I might have got a fair impression of
the man and a better idea of what lie
was doing, but because of this dark
lantern that he used I saw him only
as a vague shadow.”
There was a brief pause."
“Mr. Werner,” said I, “this is Im
portant, and I cannot help wishing
that you had told me sooner.”
“I have a nervous dread of Intru
sion,” he said, coloring. “Doubtless I
should have told you after the first
night.”
“Will it be possible for me to watch
in your tower tonight?” said I.
“Certainly,” he responded. “Yon
have missed nothing?”
“Not yet, but perhaps you noticed the
great number of letter files in the outer
room. There are documents in them
which might better be in the safe per
haps. At any rate, I don’t care to have
a stranger investigating them at mid
night.”
This "was an evasion. I had a very
different idea as to the intruder’s er
rand in my office, but I hesitated to
take Mr. Werner into my confidence,
lie. however, seemed perfectly satisfied
and presently took his leave.
Now, this is the way the case looked
to me: I was in litigation with the Las
sell Construction company over a mat
ter involving a very large sum of mon
ey. My contention rested upon a con
tract with that company, and in the pa
pers tiled in court upon my side of the
suit copies of this contract were includ
ed, but the original had disappeared.
Without this document our case was
hopeless, and we had already been
driven to adopt veiled tactics of delay
in the hope that it might be found. To
the best of rny knowledge and beiiof
tlie contract—a very brief Instrument
on a single sheet of paper—had been
lost In the office of my lawyers,* but
there was a bare possibility that I had
dropped It in the street. I had taken
It out of my safe on a certain day
and, after collecting some other papers
relating to the case, had started for my
lawyers. Arriving there, I had begun
to discuss the matter with a member
of t!ie firm when we discovered the
absence of the contract yet I was ujj-
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HIGHER.’*
cTer the Impression Tout 'T~ r had "EacTTt
in my hand while sitting there with
him. He, too, believed that he had
seen It.
The mos.’. carerui search proved fu
tile. and we were forced to the conclu
sion that a clerk in his employ who
had entered the room during our con
ference had taken the document for
the purpose of selling it to the enemy.
This man was shadowed with no re
suit, and if he really sold it both he
and the purchaser were too shrewd for
us. The Lassell people continued some
negotiations for a settlement, but my
lawyer was of the opinion that this
was a “blind” and that they would
force us into court eventually, knowing
that we must lose.
But the story told by Lucius Wer
ner put a different face on the matter.
1 discussed it fully with my secretary,
who is a very shrewd fellow, and he
agreed with me that the man .seen by
Mr. Werner was hunting for that con
tract in my office.
If the Lassell people did not already
hold it, they must be very anxious to
get it. and as they had proved them
selves utterly unscrupulous in tlicii
transactions with me I was quite will
ing to believe that they would employ
criminal methods to win their case.
Alston, my secretary, suggested that
there might have been a small leak in
my lawyers’ office sufficient to give the
Lassells the tip that the contract was
not there. They might then have
jumped to the conclusion that it was
worth while to engage in a bit of bur
glary at my own headquarters. My
safe was one that my father bought
many years ago, retained by me I
know not why. Certainly I cherished
no illusions as to its security. Beyond
doubt a modern expert could open it
easily and without a trace of violence
I never kept money in it except the
small sums needed for daily cash dis
bursements.
That night I watched with Werner in
his tower, and all conditions were fa
vorable for observation, but no Ugh*
appeared in my windows. One of tw
conclusions was possible—the Lassell
emissary bad already found the con
tract or he had given it up. The chanci
that he had skipped a night seeme
hardly worth considering in view o
all the circumstances that urged haste
I did not believe that he hud give:
up the search. He had spent only a>
hour each night in my rooms, and tin
time seemed to me insufficient excep
upon the supposition that he had found
what he was after. The time corn*
sponded with eertain possibilities for
entering the building by a basement
door communicating with Die engi
neer’s department. I discovered that
a man could get in that way a little
before 12 and escape a little after 1
without much risk of observation. I
had a man on watch there that night,
but without result. No suspicious per
son attempted to enter.
There were, however, other ways In
which the tiling might have been done,
as Werner pointed out to me. A man
might have concealed himself in the
building and remained till morning,
and this seemed the simpler way.
Upon the whole, I was driven toward
the conclusion that the contract had
been found, and my lawyer agreed
with me In a conference which we held
in my office late in the afternoon of tiie
day following my vigil in the weather
bureau’s tower. It was nearly 7 o’clock
when this interview ended, and when I
came out of rny private office I was
surprised to find Werner waiting for
me in the larger room.
He expressed a desire to discuss the
case with me. ..and half an
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hour or more, but he offered only the
advice that I should watch once more
in ids tower. 1 noticed, however, that
he scrutinized my room great care,
examining the desk, and especially the
window, with a cool precision proper
to the man of scientific training, but
what be gained Ijy these observations
1 was far from guessing.
We dined together, and I watched
with him again, but my vigil was un
rewarded. Finally, near dawn, I lay
down to sleep upon a couch and
dreamed bad dreams till I awoke to
find Werner standing beside me with
his hand upon my breast.
He provided me with a breakfast of
eggs and coffee, which he prepared
himself upon a queer little electric
contrivance, chiefly his own invention,
and then lie asked to go with me to my
office. We were there ahead of the
boy whose duty it is to open the rooms,
and the youth was vastly surprised to
find me in my sanctum when he ar
rived. Alston, who - is an early bird,
was also amazed in his own peculiar
and cold fashion.
I made him acquainted with Werner,
whom lie had not previously met. and
he extended his hand. Werner looked
at the hand as if it had been an object
of scientific interest, but he did not
t ike it. Instead be slowly wagged bis
head with the negative sign.
“No, sir,” said he. “I do not care to
take the hand of the man who robs bis
benefactor.”
The use of this word apprised me
that Werner had asked some questions
about John A Ist mi, whom indeed I
had befriended in a somewhat unusual
manner, though the fact was not gen
erally known. Tills inference flitted
through my brain in the midst of the
confusion and surprise caused by Wer
ner's startling accusation. Meanwhile
Alston was regarding Werner with
some small signs of resentment, but
without alarm or any indication of
guilt.
“Those are hard words, Mr. Werner,”
said I. “They must be instantly with
drawn or justified.”
“Tell me,” replied Werner calmly,
“do you know any honest business that
would bring this man here by night
with a dark lantern?”
“mere’s no doubt about his business
If he was here,” said l. “That’s the
point.”
“Last evening when I was here with
you I made some* observations,” said
Werner, “Will you step up on that
table and examine the casing of the
window?”
1 glanced toward Alston and caught
just the faintest wavering gleam in his
eye. which led me to comply with Wer
ner’s request. I found what my friend,
the weather man, had previously seen
—some fresh marks upon the upper
part of the casing, strongly suggesting
that some covering had been tacked up
to cover the window.
•“This rug,” said Werner, “would an
swer very nicely. Ah, here are the
marks In the corners.”
“All this is very Interesting,” inter
posed Alston, “but I fail to see how it
connects me with this matter.”
“Who else knew that I had seen that
light in these windows?” demanded
Werner.
Alston smiled coldly, and indeed the
evidence seemed weak, for it might
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HE MADE A SUDDEN PASS AT WERNER.
well have occurred in the mind of any
burglarious visitor that he would bet
ter screen the window. His shaded
lamp would indeed prevent a light from
showing through the glass over the
transom of the door to any watchman
who might pass by night along the
hall, but the glory must shine toward
the window if in the other direction.
“I trust you have better evidence
than this,” said I.
“Very much better,” answered Wer
uer. “Mr. Alston, I will take your hand
now.’”
“No, I thank you,” said Alston, with
a sneer.
“All. you begin to see the trap in
which you are taken.” rejoined Wer
ner. “You are shrewd, sir, but you are
caught just the same. You cannot take
my mark from your hand.”
He turned to me.
“I had observed already,” said he,
“this match holder on your desk. I be
lieved that with a match from it our
burglar lighted his lamp each time that
I saw him. Yesterday afternoon 1 pre
pared some matches of the same ap
pearance as these, but burning more
slowly, so that our friend would have
to hold them longer in his fingers. The
wood 1 soaked in a caustic solution, not
enough to burn the flesh. I wager that
you felt no pain. Mr. Alston, but your
forefinger and thumb are now discolor
ed with that substance that I employed
for the purpose, and short of skinning
them, my dear sir, no way to
get it off. Oblige us by showing your
right hand.””
Alston’s face, which is very pale at
nil times, became white as paper, but
with rage, not fear. He made a sud
den pass at Werner, who cleverly
caught his wrist and held it firmly
despite the other’s efforts. I stepped
forward and took hold of Alston’s
hand. Dull brown stains upon the
thumb and finger revealed beyond pos
sibility of doubt the action of Wer
ner's magic.
“We were here last.” said Werner.
“We came here first this morning. If
this man did not get these stains here
duringt!ie ni&ht, let him tell where he
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This was a question without an an
swer.' When a man’s fingers are stain
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tim. a mighty good lie is necessary to
explain the circumstance. Alston sur
rendered. He admitted that he had
seen the Lassell contract among some
letters taken from an old tut* box on
the afternoon of its disa] pea ranee.
When the loss became known to him
lie guessed that l had accidentally put
away the contract with tlie letters, but
lie had not been able to find out what
file box I bad been using. He dared
not ask me lest tlie question should
convey a suggestion to my own mind,
and so, after debating the question
with himself for some time, lie bad
decided to search all the file boxes, a
most laborious task and one that he
dared not openly undertake.
lie declared that lie had intended to
give me tlie contract when he should
find it and depend upon my gratitude
for Ills reward, but investigation prov
ed that be -vas in negotiation with tiie
Lassells. 'I lie contract was found in
the !i!e box, and 1 Avon my case, for
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itude to Lucius Werner, wbo refuses
to be rewarded, but if ever he or any
person whom he enres for is in need of
help I will go a ion- way to render it.
Undoubtedly Alston would soon have
found the contract and have sold it to
the enemy for a good round sum. No
legal punishment was attempted, but
Alston wrecked his career by this
treachery and has gone steadily down
hill ever since.
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