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IN THE SHADOW
OF SHAME
By Fitzgerald Molloy
Copyright by E. Fitzgerald Molloy.
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters
Olive Pu in barton, aftei lit cgal neparatlon from
Iter brutal husband, tmcccHsfnl autlion*H«
HIID 11 V«-H tjuk'tly \*itl» her daughter, Veronica, In
llextoii ltoad, >t. John's Wood London. Her hus
band secretly return* to London and by letter make*
further demand* for money. Her coußln Valentin
(lulbralih, a man of iudejiendeut wealth who has
been in love with her finee early Youth, call* to flay
I'm rewell before startlufron a trip to Kirypt. A fort"
night later Olive Dumbarton in found in her library
holding a dagger over the dead body of her husband.
JSlie in urrc ated aim held for trial, and detect ives are
nut on the cane (ieorge li«»*toek. the publisher, and
Valerius <;alt>ralth take an active Interest In «he In
vestlgJitlouß. and the former Is shadowed by Inspector
Mackworth Angela Mtzra., an Italian woman, H\vmrs
t<» Mr*. Dumbarton and Inspector Mackworth tlist the
murder was committed by her husband. After fallow
ing many clue* however, the Inspector flnds that
Mezzti died in u hospital several hour." > < t«»re the mur
der of Dumbarton. George ilostork is *-nn over bv a
home and upon Indng assured that b. win shortly die,
swear* before wituesses that he In the murdeit).
CHAPTER XXIII.
Quinton Quave slept little that night,
and when he did iiis mina was still oc
cupied by bis meeting with Valerius un
der various and extraordinary circum
stances, to all of which were . ttached
an impenetrable and distressing mysferv,
the clew to which the dreamer ws
forced to seek through a surprising
maze of difficulties without ever bring
able to discover.
Quinton was puzzled, disturbed and
anxious. What if Valerius had not been i
in Paris on the night of Dumbarton's
death? The conclusions to which this
idea led were traii 'bt with terrible con
sequences. In striving to control his
imagination by the exercise of his rea
son, hi.s mind became more perplexed,
and he could sleep no more, lie there
fore rose early without feeling rested or
refreshed, and on coming down to the
breakfast room found his father and
mother each with a morninp paper, in
which was forth i" sensational
fashion the confession 112 u or<*e Bos
tock, furnished with fuller detnils than
had been given in the jcurtia!* of the
previous evening.
"Let tis see, mother," Quinton said,
getting behind her chair and leaning
over her shoulder that lie might read
for himself the statements made.
Presently Mrs Quave, having finished
with the paper, handed it t" her son,
saying: "How much we ma" be deceived
in people. I could never have believed
Mr. Bostcck guilty if he had not con
fessed."
"Nor I," replied Quinton emphatically.
"Poor dear Mrs. Dumbarton should
feel intense relief," said Mrs. Quave.
"That's the strangest part," answer
ed her husband. "She is more dis
tressed than ever."
"Why?'' asked Quinton, who not hav- j
ing seen his father since the previous
afternoon, knew nothin" nt Olive Dum
barton's opinions.
'"Because she believes Bostock made
this confession to save her."
"Yes. On Bostock's confession be- ;
ing made known to her yesterday eve-!
ning she refused to believe in his guilt,
and received such a shock that she faint- I
ed, when 1 was sent for; she was al
most as bad as on the night her husband
was killed."
"There must be something in all this,"
said Quinton, thoughtfully.
"In all what?" asked his mother,
| sharply.
I"In her refusal to believe Bostock
I guilty; in her opinion that he sacrificed
himself to save her."
Dr. Quave took ln's morning paper
once more and began to read, while his
son, with one elbow on the table, bis
head resting on one hand, became ab
sorbed in thought.
The question he had been unable to
settle satisfactorily now faced him once
more. Had he really made a mistake
in identifying Valerius with the man
he had observed on the night of the
tragedy, or was his first impression, on
seeing the figure the previous evening
corect?
The consideration was startling, but
there was 110 setting it aside once it had
taken possession of his thoughts; nor
was there any longer a possibility of
routing from his mind a doubt as to
whether Valerius was in Paris on the
night of the tragic event. The young
man found himself perplexed by the
situation which faced him. A mystery
of the gravest importance might be
solved by his admission of what had
happened the previous evening, yet his
action might be the cause of bringing
disgrace and perhaps death to a rela
tive of one whom lie deeply loved.
Should he keep silent and allow the
problem to work itself out unaided by
him, or had he better speak and free
the innocent if such were in his power?
On this point he resolved to take the
advice of nis father, and as the latter
rose from the table Quinton said in a
serious tone;
"I want to speak to you."
"What is it?" the doctor inquired,
seating himself once more.
"Something that I want to consult
you about that bothers me."
"I hope that you haven't got into a
scrape, my lad?"
"No, father. It's about Mrs. Dum
barton's case,"
"Something new ?" the doctor said, his
interest suddenly aroused.
Quinton, in a few words, told him
of the meeting of the previous night
and of the doubts and suppositions
which had since beset him.
"This is serious, very serious, for
your identification of Galbraith would
place him in an uncommonly suspic
ious light," said the doctor. "That is,
supposing he was not in Paris on the
night of Dumbarton's death. But that's
a question which must no longer be left
in doubt."
"Who is to prove whether he was or
not? Mackworth, of course, you must
see him at once."
"But if it turns out thnt Galbraith is
guilty?" said Quinton with hesitation.
"Well?"
"Don't you see, father?" replied . the
young man anxiously.
"What?" asked the doctor impatient
ly. "What is there to see?"
"It is through me he will be found
out—lie who is Veronica's cousin."
"But you will prove her mother's in
\ nocence?"
"That is now practically established."
' "But at the cost of a man who may
1 be innocent. You must not hesitate,
my lad, to do your duty."
"I wish it were some one else's duty
than mine," slid Quinton.
"That it's your, i - clear enough.
Recollect, if Galbraith is innocent your
words can do him no harm, and if lie
is guilty—well, he deserves to be hanged
for it—"
"That's what I dread."
"For lie has not only taken Dum
barton's life, hut has allowed an inno
cent woman to lie under the charge,
and accepted the greatest sacrifice a man
could make from Rostock. See Mack
worth without further delay; tell him
what you told me, and let lnm net as he
thinks best. That's what you must do,
my boy."
Quinton saw that he must set a*ide
his own feelings and fears and act in
the manner his father suggested.
Therefore, half an hour later, while the
October sun was struggling to overcome
a fog that suddenly had gathered above
the great city, lie approached the in
spector's house, dispirited at the pros
pect of the interview he sought, lie
found Mackworth in his little sitting
room, the sombreuess of which was re
lieved by a fire, in front of which
Shawn food noisily barking.
| '.'Sit down -ir." the inspector said.
"You have something of importance to
t .11 me fir I am much mistaken."
"Ye>," replied Quinton, gravely,
"Something which has ju t happened."
"Then, sir." Mackworth remarked,
"let itie hear it without delay."
CHAPTER XXIV.
Throughout the night succeeding his
interview with Quinton Quave in the
Hoxton Road. Valerius was much dis
turbed his thoughts were ever dwell
ing \\ ith regret on the scene which
had passed between him and his cousin.
And though hi- wrath wib still stirred
I>v her obstinate refusal to credit.
< ieorge Hostock's guilt, yet he remained
acutely conscious of the cruelty and in
justice with which he had behaved to
her. lie therefore resolved to call in
the morning upon Olive that he might
ask her to forget his bitter words, that
he might implore her to pardon him;
that he might prove to her the error she
had made in believing Bostock's in
nocence in spite of his deathbed desposi
tions.
••The terrible eonsciouftneftM tliat lie *va§ goint; to liis death—that nothing
could nave lilm."
Therefore, soon after the breakfast,
which he had scarcely touched, he set
out for the Hoxton Road, his cab passing
that containing Quinton Quave on his
way to visit Mackworth; Valerius, all
unconscious of the younger man's mis
sion, or of the consequences to which
it was destined to lead.
On arriving at his cousin's house Val
erius pushed open the gate and entered
the garden.
Disposed as he was toward depres
sion that day, the bleak exterior of the
house filled him with a melancholy deep
er than he had felt before, and to rid
himself o? this impression he sought
to enter quickly and fiercely pulled the
bell. Its sounds, loud violent at
first and gradually subsiding, sounded as
distinctly to his ears as if the place were
deserted. After a long pause he was
about to ring a second time when the
door was opened and a servant stood be
fore him.
In answer to his question he was told
that his cousin was unable to see any
one. *
"Is Mrs. Dumbarton ill?" he inquired,
anxiously.
"Yes, sir. Dr. Quave was sent for
yesterday evening, and he says she must
not leave her room for some days or be
disturbed."
He was in no humor to visit his club
and meet his fellow men, his mind being
all unhinged and having nothing in com
mon with the idle interests that amused
them, and yet he shrank from splitude,
where he felt himself the unprotected
prey of thoughts that gnawed his heart
and bereft him of peace. He therefore
walked for hours .along roads and
avenues, through squares and streets,
always in the centre of crowds that dis -
tracted and bore him company without
personally intruding on him.
Leaving Pall Mall, he hurried throuch
St. James Park on his way to Knights
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newsboy made him suddenly pause; he
had caught the name of George Bostock
and immediately concluded the miblish
er's death was being announced. But
while Valeria, stood with ears straiaed
to catch the words which were being
shouted a friend joined him.
"This," said the latter, a military man
with a fresh face and gray hair, "loirs
is strange news about Bostock."
"I lis death?" gasped Valerius.
"I lis death—why, there would be
nothing unexpected in that."
"What then?" Galbraith asked.
"His probable recovery."
"Impossible!" exclaimed Galbraith.
"It scorns there's nothing impossible
to science nowadays—read for yourself,"
answered the military man, handing an
evening paper he had just bought to
Valerius. '
CHAPTER XXXII.
Next day before rising, Valerius had
the morning papers brought him, and
hurriedly opened them one after an
other, read in all the same account of
• leorge Bostock's progress towards re
covery. I lie comments which were ap
pended he left unheeded, only the actual
state of the patient interested hint, and
this failed to disturb the calm which had
si t in upon bun as a result of the long
hours of mental combat he had endured
the previous night.
The early afternoon was spent in
reading old letters long stored away
for something they contained in them
selves, and which he now burnt. And
r.s his eyes dwelt on them it seemed
a if old friends came back, old days
returned. Various chapters in his life
opened out before him as a book; some
almost forgotten, others remembered
well, but seen now in a new light—
a lin'it which had come too late.
And as the flames consumed each
separate sheet it was as though a year
of his existence had escaped his grasp,
had changed to ashes and turned tc
nothingness, until but a memory re
mained of the past which had seemed
so eventful, freighted as it had been
with a thousand incidents of the in
ward rather than the outward life. This
task was in itself a wrenching of the
from the present; a farewell to
what had been and might be never
more; a burying of the dead. And the
pain wliicli it brought lay deep in his
heart, but was accepted by him as part
of that which he had set himself to ac
complish.
As lie lay back in his chair before his
desk, the despair that blinds hope, fet
ters joy and crushes vitality came upon
him; but striving to rise above these
-feelings, lie set himself to his task. He
had already destroyed such traces and
mementoes of his past life as he deemed
too sacred for other eyes to look upon
when he had gone. And next he made
a will leaving pensions to his servants,
dividing his valuables among a few
friends, and bequeathing all else he
possessed to Olive Dumbarton.
It was hard that while in the enjoy
ment of vigor and vitality he should
make preparations for what was to
happen a few hours later, when men
would count him among the dead. He
was intelligent enough to know life
could not end here, and the dread of
what might come was full upon him.
Yet he did not flinch from his purpose.
With overwhelming sadness he be
gan a letter to his cousin, whom he
might never see again, and whom he
addressed now for the last time. And
while he wrote the pain and despair
within him grew until tears blinded his
eyes and fell upon the page. More than
once he laid down the pen as if unable
to continue, and then again began, eager
to finish his task, yet reluctant to say
the final word farewell to her he loved.
And this was what he wrote:
"My Dear Olive—l begin by implor
ing you to forgive me for the cruel
wrong I have done you, which now, at
this late hour, I am going to repair.
When a few days ago you said George
Rostock had not committed murder,
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"When on the night 1 dined with you
before leaving England, you told me of
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not knowing what steps such a scoun
drel might take to prosecute and de
fraud you. I ought to have remained
by you, I your only male relative, but
my desire* for pleasure was too strong
for my sense of duty, and 1 went.
While in Paris my anxiety increased,
but even then I debated with myself as
to whether 1 should return or continue
my journey. 1 decided on the latter,
and then wrote and posted to you the
letter and book which reached you that
unhappy night. No sooner, however,
than I had done so, then the heartless
ness of my conduct in leaving you un
protected became plain, and I deter
mined to return and see for myself
what course he had taken. As my stay
might be brief, I left my baggage be
hind and did not return to my house,
then in charge of a caretaker.
I"On arriving at Charing Cross, I
'stayed at the Eagle Hotel, and after a
| late dinner set out for 1 loxton Road
with the intention of surprising you.
Reaching there I caught sight of a man
walking stealthily up and down in front
of your house. My first impulse was to
accost, my second to watch him, for
which purpose T withdrew to the oppo
site side of the road. He disappeared,
but finally returned, when I saw him
open the gate. By this time T had rec
ognized him as Dumbarton, and going
over. I caught hold of his shoulder and
thing him aside. Bitter words followed;
he struck tile and I clutched him by the
throat. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain
in my left shoulder, when, in a moment
of passion I snatched the knife with
which I was stabbed from his hand, and
struck him with it in the breast.
"Startled by what I had done and
by the fear of its consequences, I
rushed him from the spot, until hearing
a servant's cries and seeing a police
man 1 paused, and summoning all my
presence of mind, coolly directed him to
the spot. T did not know what had
happened, nor did I dare return. In
the morning 1 learned all, when my
for your situation and remorse for
my act prompted me to confess, but my
cowardice overcoming this impulse, J
nersuadod myself that you could not fail
to prove your innocence, and that 1 need
not suffer for my deed I therefore re
turned to Paris. None knew I had been
in England. I had not given my name
at the hotel, and 1 assured myself I
should never be suspected.
"On reaching Paris T immediately
started for Brindisi, whence I'tele
graphed to you. The dastardly part I
played in permitting you to bear the
blame, followed; but again and again
I told myself your innocense could and
must be proved without my confession.
And t'li-ii I hoped that now being free
you might give me the love it had been
ii:y lifelong desire to obtain. So when
the woman Mezza appeared T felt con
vinced the blame might be shifted on
her husband, who I supposed had re
turned to his own country, where he
would probably never be found. And
this hope proving false, Bostock's con
fession assured me you need not suffer
nor I confess.
"Imagine then my despair on finding
you would not believe him guilty; that
you would have his confession proved,
and that you loved him. I hated him
for the noble example he had set me,
and because he had succeeded where I
had failed in winning your love. All
this drove me mad, and I said such
words to you as I would now give all
the world to have left unsaid. Then
came the news of the second operation
and his recovery, when I resolved to set
you and him free from all imputation of
guilt by my confession, and then to
evade the disgrace and punishment I
have not the courage to face.
"I krtow my life has been a waste,
and I feel it might have been other
wise, but I loved pleasure too much
and tasted happiness too little, for the
happiness I sought in my path I was
never able to gain. I see now the
fault was wholly mine, for had my love
for you been great, and strong, and
noble, it would not have failed to win
your own. I have brought trouble sor
row and disgrace upon you, and little as
I deserve your forgiveness I hope you
will not refuse it, made, as it is, in this
my last hour.
"Be merciful and pardon me, is the
last request of one who, though he has
deeply wronged you, loves you with a
deeper and better love than he has ever
felt before. I die in the belief you will
not withhold it from me. Farewell, dear
Olive, farewell. God bless you now and
forever."
lle read through the letter, which he
carefully sealed, and then, that it might
reach her without fail next morning, he
went out and dropped it into a neigh
boring letter box.
Everything was done now save the
most important of all, but from this he
did not flinch; all preparation had been
made. From a drawer in his desk he
took a bottle of chloroform, and held it
between him and the light. There was
more than sufficient there to send him
into a sleep from which in this life
there could be no awakening. He
thougth it strange he should feel so
calm and collected now, in contrast to
the disturbance he had suffered before
finally resolving to seek death.
The strong odor of the drug nearly
intoxicated him as he raised it to his
lips and then set it down once more,
lest be had left undone anything which
he might remember and wished to do
when it became too late. No, nothing
had been forgotten and with regret he
recognized that there was nothing to
delay his last moments. He took the
bottle again, lifted it slowly, and then
with a sudden effort boldly swallowed
its contents. His life had now practi
cally come to an end: the drug must
soon begin to paralyze his brain.
And now came the terrible con
sciousness that he was going to his
death, that nothing could save him,
that he could retain his fading senses
no longer.
Then he became absorbed into dark
ness, silent, yet surging as if with hid
den life—a suffocating .and appalling
darkness through which he sank down,
and down, to death.
(To be continued.)
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Our South American Double.
We Americans think we have the
greatest country on earth. Not one in
a hundred of us knows that we have a
neiglibor that is pretty nearly our twin
so far as size, -esources and name go.
We are not Ihc only United States in
the world. The United States of Brazil
is as big a? we are, with half of Alaska
thrown in. She occupies almost one half
of the whole continent of South
America.
As for resources, Brazil is unlimited
in her natural products, possessing the
largest river system and the vastest for
ests in the world, producing, moreover,
three-fourths of the world's coffee sup
ply and the greater part of its rubber.
On the other hand, Brazil's population
is little more than r6,000,000, an average
of five persons to the square mile. This
population is made up of Europeans,
aborigines and negroes.
Where these have met a triple fusion
long since set in. There is a small mi
nority of pure Portuguese descent. Por
tuguese, by the way, is the language of
the country.
Not only is immigration welcome, but
finding that her envious neighbors were
robbing her of her colonists, Brazil has
retaliated by imposing a substantial tax
upon all persons leaving the country, a
measure as effective as it is radical.
Not satisfied with her great size, Bra
zil is constantly absorbing more terri
tory. Expansion is the constant aim;
expansion toward the River Plate,
whereby Uruguay for a time lost her
independence and never regained all the
territory that should be hers; expansion
at the expense of Paraguay and Peru,
and more recently Bolivia, which has
surrendered for a price her rich terri
tory of Acre; expansion toward the
northwest and in Guiana, where a recent
award has deprived France of a large
coveted area and added it to this insati
able republic.
Brazil is- not a lowland country, quite
three-fourths of her territory having an
altitude of more than 500 feet.
Politically the country is divided into
twenty-one states, but so unequally that
three of these embrace almost all the
lowlands and are larger than the whole
I area of the remaining eighteen. These
eighteen, however, contain 96 per cent
of the population, so that the first three
states, with a territory larger than that
of China, have a population smaller than
that of Connecticut.
The fertility and resources of this lat
ter region are great, but lest the reader
may rush off to seize upon them here is j
an extract from a report made by a
former United States consul regarding
the valley of the Amazon:
"As one sails or steams up the great
river there are seen occasional patches
of green, level i/e<rctation, for all the
1 world like wondloir'H fertile meadows.
It is not difficult to imagine great herds
of cattle feeding on them until the sight
of a tapir more than knee deep in the
green ooze informs one of the real con
sistency of that tempting meadow. I
do not say that there is absolutely no
grazing land on the hanks of the Ama
zon—T do say that there is very little,
and that that little is all held by private
owners.
"In these extraordinary Forests there
are found some of the most beautiful and
valuable woods in the world, as well as
fruits, nuts, oils, balsams and gums, but
—and this but is insurmountable—they
are found as rarely as diamonds or gold
nuggets in the streams.
"There is a false impression existing
that rubber trees, ebony, rosewood and
all the rest are found in great groves
or clusters, like our pine or oak forests.
The fact is that these trees are solitary.
When two of them are only a quarter
of a mile apart (and remember that the
quarter mile is not open space, but
thickly matted, almost impenetrable,
swamp forest) they are considered close
together; if they are a mile apart they
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Fortune Knocks Once at Every Man's Door.l
The Ouray Consolidated Mining Co. owns 25 gold and copper claims
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an average depth of 1500 feet from surface, so that it can now be mined
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Bank holds stock until paid for, then mails it to you.
1000 shares cost $l5O, first payment s2!i 5000 shares cost $ 750, first payment $125
20110 shares cost .Km, flrst payment 50 10000 shari>s cost 1500, first payment 250
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. Postal Telegraph Building, New York.
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tant from each other."
And so on, though other reports are
more encouraging. The export trade
from the Amazonia is constantly in
creasing.
The two states of Rio de Janeiro and
Sac Paulo may be described as one vast
coffee estate. Coffee forms half, in
value, oi the total exports of Brazil. It
is three times the value of our tobacco
exports and five-sixths that of our iron
and steel. It surpasses the entire tea
output of China, India and Ceylon.
Rio is destined to be supplanted as the
capital of the country. The Brazilian
congress has chosen a beautiful plateau
in the central State of Goyaz as a site
for the new capital, which in time wHI
be connected by rail with all the states,
some of which at present are almost in
accessible.
"What happens when Greek meets
Greek?" asked the teacher.
"Dey ax each udder how's de pcamut
biz," answered an observant youth.
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