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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1907)
i Where th? Secret Lay ■ 3r,n""'n'"lP',’H"'U|"iiirm?rii|l'|i||lsi'|iS* (Original ) Some years ago there was an Ameri ca n In the I’rcucli foreign legion No one knew how he came to enlist in that corps any more than how many other men of different nationalities, some of them of noble ami one of royal birth, came to do the Mine. He called blm- •elf John Seymour, but no one sup- posed that to be bls real nume, and It was not. lie had entered the legion for the same reason others had entered It; that la, he win a fugitive from Jus tice. At the drat flght Seymour entered. In the ranks of the foreign legion, lie tried ao hard to get himself killed that he was promoted for bravery. He must have tried very hard, for there were many othera with shadowy (lasts be hind them who were competing with him In the aame object. lie thia as it may, Seymour wus made a cap tn In. A few weeks before tbe American’s admission to tills corps of death seek ers Samuel Barrett, banker of New York, suspecting that ull was not right In one of the departments of Ills bank, went one ulglit to bln counting room to Investigate for himself. Barrett bad no children except an adopted daugh ter. His wife had a son by a former husband of whom lie wan very fond. Barrett's plan was to bring up this boy. Everett Whittemore, to succeed to the business and that he should marry Irene, til«' adopted daughter. There was no difficulty In either part of this plan, for Whittemore was u tine young fellow with superior business talents, and the two young people were In love with each other. When Barrett entered the bank he found Ills stepson there at work. Tak ing n pile of papers, Barrett went Into his private office ami shut the door be hind him. Half an hour later the younger man heard a sound In Bar rett's office. He listened, but It was not repented. Whittemore went on with his work and when It was fin ished concluded to ask his stepfather If he would not go home. Opening the j door, be found Barrett lying on the floor with a cloven skull. He was dead. Whittemore was hurrying to call as sistance when It occurred to him that he would lie accused of tbe murder. He stopped to consider and soon came to tbe conclusion that nothing could save him from a conviction of having murdered his stepfather. Should he face the danger or tlee? He chose the latter course. Making his way across tlie Hudson river, he found a steamer' on the other bunk waiting for the tide to serve. Ten days Inter Whittemore enlisted In the l ieutj foreign legion under the mime of John Seymour. When the murder was discovered It was found that Whittemore was miss ing. There was no use to look for the murderer exiavpt In him. lie had taken money, but none belonging to the bank. Indeed, the whole affair was a mystery, for what motive could there be for him to murder the im*a who wus preparing him for his own place und whose adopted daughter he was engaged to marry? However, flight was confession, und Everett Whitte more was execrated us the murderer of bls benefactor. Not long ufter Whittemore’s disap pearance a letter bearing a foreign post mark came for Irene Barrett. She took It to her room, read mid destroyed It. Barrett’s partner, Enoch Crowell, was in charge of the bank, und Irene weut to pirn, told him that she desired to prepare herself to be able to man age her own Interest In tbe bank and desired a position there. Crowell de murred, but tbe girl was persistent, and be cousented. Irene worked In subordinate places, but principally studying the principles on which tbe books were kept. Nearly two years after her father’s death she commenced surreptitiously to go the bank nights for tbe purpose of continu ing the work while doing which her futlier bad been murdered. In a pock et In her dress made for the purpose she carried a loaded revolver of large caliber. One night she went to the bank with skeleton keys and Into wbut had been her father’s office, but now occupied by Crowell. She entered by the door leudlng from the bank There was uuother door leudlng to the rear of tbe bunk. She had opened Crowell's desk and grasped a bundle of pupers when this rear door opened, and there stood Crowell. Seeing the papers be fore tbe girl, he raised an ax and was about to bring It down oil her head whim she shot him. Taking up a telephone transmitter she summoned the police, who found Crowell dying from a bullet in his chest, near the heart. Before his death he confessed that he was Involved, that lie bad killed his partner in the same way he had intended to kill Irene to prevent his affairs from lieing known and to get control in order the , better to conceal them. The next day Captain Seymour was J called before his commanding officer j und a cablegram handed him, giving• him a summary of the events of Crow-, ell’s conf -ssion and death. Seymour's or Whittemore’s resigna-. lion was accepted at once, und he re turned to America. The meeting be-1 tween him and tbe girl who had taken | up -the work her father had begun and j brought back her lover to his' own . Identity can only be imagined. Whitte more had suspected that some one’s nc I counts tn the bank were wrong amt hud really gone there to Investigate when his stepfather entered. At tbe risk of being dragged back to the scaf fold he had written Irene that ths secret of the murder doubtless lay in this deficiency. ;.«IHION MAY 1IAJLL. TIDAL FLUX AND REFLUX. Com plicated Moirment» of the Hll- I uwm of the Ocean«. Those who see tbe rise and fall ot tbe tides in our Atluntic hurbors sei dom think of the wonderful course of the ocean waves which cause th> tidal flux and reflux. Buch billows not only cross the sea. but flow from ocean to ocean, und in this way complicate«! movements are set going. Thus, for instance, once In ever; twelve hours the moon raises u tid< billow in tlio southern Indian ocean When this oillow passes the Cape ol Good Hope at noon Its successor Is ul ready tsirn, and by tbe time tbe flrst billow bus reached tbe Azores Islands at midnight the second Is rounding th« cape, and a third has come Into ex Istence In the southern ocean. By 4 o’olock in the morning following Its passage of the cape tbe tide billon reaches the English channel, and then the shullow waters delay It so mucl that It does not arrive at tbe strait ot Dover until 10 a. m. Here the nar rowing channel causes tbe tide to rlst very high und almost puts an end t< •he wave. In the meantime another branch of the billow runs around tbe westen side of the British islands, round: the north point of Scotland and tnovet slowly down the eastern coast of Eng land until It finally flows up th< Thames and laps the wharfs of I.on don.—Philadelphia Record. Don’t Forget To Vote for The Palisades. This uplift of volcanic matter, rest Ing on baked sandstone and inclining westward at a gentle slope, presents it Its riverward aspect tbe columnar ot palisaded appearance that so impress ed the early voyagers—a gray wall beetling from duo to 500 feet above the tide, shagged with trees ut the sum mil, half buried behind a scrap ot talus, that Is also verdurous. At Ny ack it bends into the amphitheater where that pretty town has nestled surges riverward again to form Point no-I’oint and, still ascending behind Haverstraw, reaches In High Tor a lift of 820 feet. 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