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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1902)
PATTERING feet . ATHLETIC CONTEST FOR PARLOR FROLIC HOW TO AVOID BALDNESS CRATER OF LA SOUFRIERE, ST. VINCENT WAS HAND OF PROVIDENCE. Keeping tue rm Out they patter gut gomehow th* A, do» o the pa: for the years that have away, that pattered at break of “I brought him to the Inspector. A woman confronted me like a pythoness “’You liar and blackguard. Richard Morrison! That man never circulated forged notes! He is my husband—an honorable gentleman! If notes were passed. I passed them!’ "Good heavens! The author of th’s self-accusation was my sister Rose! ‘‘‘Oh. Richard.' wailed a woman at my feet, ‘don’t hurt him—don't kill me! I.et Hugh come with me! We were to be married the day after to-morrow !' "I staggered back. This was Ethel— my Ethel! Tbe man 1 had caught was Hugh Maitland. He was to have been ber busband. 1 HY did 1 force?" W retire from This view of tbe erater of Mouut Soufrière. St. Vincent Island, w as made frotn a photograph takeu with a panorumlc catuera. two week* before the The speaker was a well knit, cleau shaven man, whose face, without being handsome, revealed the posses sion by Its owner of Intelligence and a sensitive nature. Ills eyes were frank ly observant, and his demeanor was one of alertness and vigor. "Yes." proceeded ex-Detectlve Morri son. "1 suppose it will ever be a bit of mystery to my late colleagues of the Criminal Investigation Department that I who bad confessedly done much excellent work should have renounced my career when my prospects were most promising. “What! Going to re- ,ign?” exclaimed the Commissioner. •You who largely assisted to secure the arrest of the authors of the De Malliu- conrt paste-jewel frauds, who discov ered the Hampstead poisoners, and who successfully traced the interna tional banknote forgers to their den?’ "It certainly did seem strange, and 1 dared not explain. Are you listening? Well, what mystified Scotland Yard shall be made clear to you. • re always scrubbing themselves In hot water aud auoiutiug themselves with oil afterward, but the habit does not extend to their clothes They will take an elaborate bath, and tbeu put on clot lost that never saw the wash tub. Our home was a typical one of the upper class, a great oue story buug alow, seventy live feet lung, built of brick, covered with the Inevitable white corrugated Iron, aud with a ve randa twenty feet deep. It was seven CYCLONE CELLARS. SARAH S SHOES. PLOTS AGAINST LOUIS PHILIPPE. bloom, Whispering These are room. of Stratford, Bacon, Car- Salem town: the heart of b, in a little low ro te an.I golden .tore, mad clamor, the ca “•Yes. Morrison,’ said my chief, ‘these are the cutest and cleverest frauds we have had to deal with for some time. The notes are so accurate- ly executed as to deceive eveu tlie smartest of bank clerks. Of course a thorough expert, if he wen- to examine them closely, would detect a variation In the water ma?k and in the typo graphical peculiarities of a genuine note; but that variation la soslightthat even he might be deceived. By the way. not a few of these notes have been in circulation at your native place, N’orthlngton. However you have got charge of the case.’ "My heart leaped at the thought of Nortbington. My sister Rose bad been suddenly married to a gentleman whom I had never seen, but whose name did not Impress me. It was Hubert Feath erstone Maitland. I had not been able to attend the wedding because I was in Paris inquiring Into the De Malllncourt frauds. Bose was wildly enthusiastic • bout her busband; she rhapsodised over bl* goodness, generosity, affection for ber, «nd bls unvarying devotion. How had she met him? He was stay- DOMESTICS IN AFRICA was listening of my bous- name of "Ha very