6 THE LITTLE MARTYR. Let mo kiss your tears away. Kittle one'; Let me press you to my breast. Little one; Ah, the memory of to-day, Little one. Like a ghost will wreck my rest. Little one! I have punished you for naught; I was cruel ere 1 thought, And 1 suffer, y. I ought, Little one! X may win your smiles again. Little one; 1 may hear you shout at play. Little one; Still your love 1 may retain, Little one. But I've been unkind to-day. Little one! And silas! You'll not forget! Gifts and kindness and regret Shall not clear away the debt, Little one! Way the Lord be good to you. Little one; May He lead you by the hand, Little one; May fair vistas meet your view, Little one, In a many pleasant land, Little one. And in all your trials here. May you never wring a tear From a blameless heart, my dear Little one! —S. E. Klser, ip Chicago Times-Her ald. 1 THE STURGIS WAGER % place of safety. Once there, 1 shall lie free trum pursuit; but I shall be an exile, (mil 1 shall carry with me to the grave the burden of my sin. "The most bitter pang in my remorse is caused by the thought of the great wrong I have done you, dear wife. You will now be forced to face the world not only un protected by tho one whose duty and whose desire it was to smooth the way for you; but, what is worse, oppressed by the bur den of his sin "What little money I have left in the sav ings bank 1 have transferred to your name You may use it all with a clear conscience: for every dollar of it was honestly mine. I swear T have'never had a single cent of the money 1 have stolen. It has all been drawn by Henry Seymour, and used 1 know not how. "As soon as I am settled In the place to which I am going I shall try, as far as Ilea in my power, to redeem my past by a life of honest labor; and 1 hope to be able to con tribute to your support in the near future. "Oh! my wife! my darling wife! Would that tile past could be blotted out, and that I could once more place my hand in yours, an honest man. Though you may find It hard to forgive me now, perhaps in time you may be able to think gently of him who through all his crime aud degradation has remained "Your devoted husband. "JOHN W. ARBOGAST. "My safety depends upon your keeping the contents of this letter secret for at least three days. After that time, please send to Mr. lluniap, president of the Knick erbocker bank, the inclosed papers, which will reveal to him the full extent of my de falcations. "1 do not hesitate to betray Chatham and Seymour; they did not scruple to ruin me. 1 have sent for Chatham, and 1 shall give him warning of my intended flight, if he sees fit, he can take such steps as he may choose to escape liis own richly deserved punishment." While St urgis was reading Arbogast's letter, Dunlap. restlessly pacing the loom, had observed liim furtively. "Well?" lie now inquired, stopping before 1 lie reporter, "what do you think of that?" "Poor woman!" exclaimed Sturgis, feelingly: "it is terrible to think of the suffering brought upon her by her husband's guilt. 1 ought to be hard ened to a situation like this; for it is the inevitable sequel of almost every crime that is ever committed. But I am moved every time by the pathetic expiation of the innocent for the guilty." "Yes. yes; T know," said Dunlap, in differently; "that it not what I meant. Did you note tlie amount which this scoundrel confesses he and his accom plices have stolen from the bank?" "Yes; it is a large sum." "Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars! Why. man, if that is true, it is enough to cripple the bank—No, no; I don't mean that, of course; the bank is rich and could stand the loss of four times that amount. But a quar ter of a million is a round stun, for all of that. It does not see it i possible 1 hat. in spite of all our care, they can have succeeded in making away with so much money. Hut they did. There can be no doubt about that;'for in tlie pa pers which Arbogast inclosed for me in his letter to his wife he explains just how the thing was done, it is simple enough when you know the trick; bin it took fiendish cunning to devise it. I never would have thought that ras cally bookkeeper intelligent enough lo concoct such a scheme." "If the scheme is a work of genius," said Sturgis, "you may rest assured that 'X'—who may very well he Henry Seymour—was the author of it." "Well, at any rate," observed Dunlap, "there is one thing that must be "done at once: and that is to find both Chat ham and Seymour. It is not possible that in two years these men have spent a quarter of a million dollars between them." "It is at all events possible that they may not have done so." replied Sturgis "for my investigations show that both Arbognst and Chfttliam ha\e been men of regular arid exemplary habits in their private lives. They do not ap pear to have been living much, if at all. beyond their means. There does not seem to have been, in the case of either man. any room for a double ex istence, which might otherwise have explained the situation. Neither was a spendthrift or a gambler, and neith er was dissipated." "Then you have not the faintest idea of the present whereabouts of Chatham or of his mysterious accomplice?" "Let me tell you exactly what 1 have done lip to the present time; and then you will be able to judge for yourself. And I, too, shall see more clearly where we stand; for the necessity of putting one's thoughts into words is an aid to clear thinking." CITAPTEIt XI IT. THE LOST TRAIL So saying. Sturgis settled himself in his chair and began his narrative. "After leaving you this morning, my first step was to gain admission to the Tombs—" "To the Tombs?" interrupted Dun lap. "Ves; the cabman has been remanded t o the Tombs to await t rial for complic ity in the murder of the unknown man whose body was found in his cab." "Arbogast's?" "Yes. Arbogast's. But of course the police do not know that." "Were you allowed to see the cab man ?" "Yes. As reporter of the Tempest. I was able to obtain an interview with him. When first arrested, the man. whose name, by the way. is Keilly. was incapable of making a connected state ment; the lawyer assigned to defend him laughed in his face when he heard his story, and advised him to leave the romancing to a trained lawyer as his only chance of escaping the elect ric chair. Xaturally, under the circum stances, the poor fellow hesitated 1o unbosom himself to a stranger. J'ait I finally managed lo gain his confidence by showing him that I believed his story, and that I was trying to find the men whose scapegoat he now is. Ji seems that yesterday afternoon, al about three o'clock, lie was stationed at the cab-stand in front of -Madison square, where he was accosted b\ a man, answering Chatham's description, who engaged liiin to dr e him to the Fulton street ferry. On reaching the ferry, the man ordered Keilly to pro ceed to a low grogshop oil South street. Here he entered, returning in a few minutes to invite the cabman to take a drink with him. The men seated themselves at a table upon which a bottle and two filled glasses were al ready placed. Chatham handed one of these glasses to Keilly. who drank it and probably many more. At any events, he remembers nothing further until he was rudely shaken by Chat ham, wlio led him out into the street. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1900. TTere the cold rir revived him. and he remembers noticing several things to which he did not pay much attention at the time, but which seem significant now as he recalls them: "Firstly—lt was now quite dark. "Secondly—The cab, which had been facing south when he entered the bar room. was now facing north. "Thirdly Chatham persistently car ried his left hand in tlie bosom of his coat; he was very pale and seemed weak and ill. "lie with difficulty climbed upon the box beside I lei Ily and ordered him to drive uptown. Presently the cabman became drowsy again. The next thing lie remembers is coming to himself after the overturning of the cab by the cable car. That the man was drugged thene can be no doubt. It is probable that while he sat apparently drunk in the barroom, Chatham took the cab to the Knickerbocker bank, ex pecting to smuggle Arbogast into it without Reilly's knowledge a deep move, since it would'effectually cover up the trail, if they wanted to make away with the bookkeeper, us they evidently did. Seymour may have met him at the bank by appointment; but I am more inclined to believe that he was there unknown to Chatham, and possibly for the purpose of spying upon the latter, to see if his instruc tions were curried out. He lent his ac complice a hand in the nick of lime; and then, like a prudent general, lie re tired to a safe position, thence to di rect further operations. What. 1 can not yet understand is, why ('liatliam should have taken the enormous risk lie did in conveying Arbogast's body from the bank, since Seymour's inten tion was plainly to make away with the bookkeeper in any event. I can explain this only on the supposition that Seymour thought he could 1 con ceal the body in some way and prevent it from falling into the hands of the police. On the part of any ordinary criminal this would have been rank folly; but the resources of such a man as Seymour are such that I do not feel disposed to criticise his generalship in this particular without first under standing his ultimate object. From what I have seen of his work tints far, 1 have derived a profound admiration for the man's genius and cunning dev iltry. Fortunately fate was against him this time. Its instrument was the cable car which overturned the cab, thus delivering Arbogast's body into the hands of the police and furnishing the key without which, it is quite like ly, Seymour might have remained for ever undiscovered." "You think, then, you will succeed in unearthing this villain?" asked Dun lap. eagerly. "While there's life, there's hope," said St urgis, with grim determination: "but 1 must confess that the outlook at present is not exactly brilliant. How ever. let me finish my report. During the excitement that followed the over turning of the cab, Chatham managed to escape, as you know, and he has finis far succeeded in avoiding arrest, al though the police have kept a sharp lookout for him. Every steamship that sails, every train that leaves New- York. is watched, but thus far without result. For my part, 1 am convinced that Chatham has not yet attempted to leave the city:" "Isn't it probable, on the contrary, that he tied from New York immediate ly after running away from the over turned cab?" asked'Dunlap. "1 do not think so," replied Sturgis; "with his wounded hand he is a marked man; he would be easily recognized in a strange city. His safest hiding-place is here in New York, where lie doubt less has friends ready to conceal him. Be that as it may, he remains for the present under cover and the scent is lost. The police are groping in the dark just now. and —"and) so am I." The banker looked sorely disap pointed. "And so that is all y m have been able to discover? Not a trace of the money? it does not seem possible that a quarter of a million dollars can disappear so completely without leav - ing the slightest trace." "If we can ever find Seymour," re plied Sturgis. "112 make no doubt we shall be able to locate the lion's share of the money. "Yes," he added, thoughtfully, "that is all I have been able to dis cover up to the present time; or. at least, all that seems to be of any im mediate importance. Of course, I called on both Mr. Murray and Mr. Scott; but. beyond the fact that Chat ham. like Arbogast, was a model em ploye, all I got from them was the address of Chatham's boarding-house; there 1 was informed that the ac countant had moved on New Year's eve without leaving his new address. There is one other link in the chain of evidence which I have investigated; but I cannot tell yet whether it will lead to anything or not. be immaterial; but who knows? Pos sibly it may prove to be the key to the entire problem." ".Snd what is this promising link?" asked Dunlap, eagerly. "There is not much to tell on this score." answered Sturgis. "You will recall that according to the evidence which we have thus far collected, Chatham was attached by Arbogast while he was in the act of using the telephone." "Yes; I remember how minutely you reconstructed that scene." "Well," continued the reporter. "I saw tit once tlr.it the telephone might possibly prove to be an important wit ness for the prosecution, if I could only discover the name of the person with whom Chatham was talking when he was shot. I therefore called at the central office to make inquiries. As I was able to specify almost the exact minute at which this call was sent, it was an easy matter to find the young woman who had answered it: but the chances were that she would not remember the number called for. She did. however, for It had been fixed in her memory by some unusual circumstances. It seems that after giving Chatham the connection he wanted, the operator rang him up. While she' was listening for a reply, she heard a sharp report, follower by a scream; then a sound of con fused voices, and presently another sharp report. After that came com plete silence, and she was unable to obtain any reply to her repeated calls." "You have here corroborative evi dence of the scene between Chatham and Arbogast." said Dunlap. "Yes; but, I did not need that. What I wished to know was the nam» of the person with whom Chatham wanted to converse." "Did you discover it?" "The number of the telephone lie pave is that of the Manhattan Chein ical company." "And what is the Manhattan Chem ical company?" "That is the question T asked peo ple connected with the commercial agencies. They replied that, they knew very little concerning this firm; because, although it has been in ex istence for a couple of years, it ap parently never asks anyone for cred it, preferring to pay cash for all the goods delivered to it. I called at the office of the Manhattan Chemical company to investigate on my ovn account. The office and store occupy the basement of an old ramshackle building, whose upper stories are rented out as business offices. The laboratory and manufacturing depart ment are downstairs in the cellar. The store contains only a few chairs and a long counter behind which rise shelves containing rows of bottles with brilliantly colored labels. A few painted signs upon the walls vaunt the merits of Dr. Henderson's Cough Cure and Dr. Henderson':: Liver Spe cific. I did not expect to find anyone in on New Year's day. I was, there fore, surprised to see a solitary clerk sitting with his feet upon a desk and apparently absorbed in the reading of a newspaper —a pale young man of the washed-out blond type, with wa tery green-blue eyes and a scant mus tache which fails to conceal a weak mouth. He rose to greet nie with an air of surprise which does not speak well for the briskness of trade in the establishment. Indeed, if we are to judge by the aspect of things in the office of the Manhattan Chemical com pany, business in patent medicines does not appear to be flourishing just at present. By the way, did you ever hear of Dr. Henderson's remedies?" "Xo; I cannot say that I have," an swered Dunlap. "That is the curious part ofiit,l' 1 said Sturgis. "I have been unable to discover any advertisement published by this firm; and it is only by profuse advertising that such a concern can live." "Yes. of course." exclaimed Dunlap, somewhat impatiently; "but what lias all this to do with Chatham?" "I don't know," replied Sturgis; "possibly nothing; perhaps a great deal." [To Be Continued.] CHINESE TREATY CITIES. I'rl v I Tlmt Are Accorded to the ForvlK'ner In the Thirty- ICiulit Town*. Ever since the treaty of 1543 opened Canton, Amoy, Fuehow, Xingpo and Shanghai to foreign trade, we have called these and other towns since in cluded with them treaty ports. The Germans, says the New York Sun. called them "Freiliandelliafen," or free trade ports, but have now dropped that des ignation and use the words "Freilian delplat/.e," or free trade places. The reason for the change is that for a longtime all the towns opened to trade were on the coast or on the rivers reached by steamers from the sea. But to-day among the 38 treaty cities some are in the far interior like Mongtze, or Somea, and if situated on waterways, can be reached only by the smallest junks. It is no longer accurate to des ignate all the treaty cities in China as ports. Under the many treaties made with China a foreigner equipped with passports is free to travel anywhere and missionaries may live in any town. The treaty cities, however, give for eigners! special privileges. In these towns alone the alien may establish his home, buy and sell property, follow any calling or trade and travel in the suburbs without a passport; under the terms of the treaty of peace between China and Japan he may erect factories and engage iro industrial production. The .18 treaty cities are, in fact, so many centers of growing foreign influence. Scattered through the IS provinces they are the most potent agencies to-day for the. dissemination of western ideas. Railroads are not more needed in China than the addition to the num ber of treaty cities throughout the em pire. Didn't Wnnt Congratulation*. 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