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CHAFTBB IV. Gerald Paxton, the detective, was a Soung and ambitious man. He had ensred upon the profession in which we find him engaged several years previous to the occurrence of "the crime of a broker’s office," as the murder of John Oakburn was designated, and he had labored with enthusiasm and met with several successes which had attracted attention to himself to such an extent that he was regarded as a rising man. But as yet he had not attained the eminence which his ambition craved. Paxton was ever on the alert to take advantage of circumstances, and when he left the broker’s office after the investigation he believed that he had at last found a case that might open a great future for himself and enable him to win celebrity and eminence. Ho comprehended that in the case of John Oakburn’s murder all the elements of supreme interest were united—magnitude of crime, mystery, uncertainty of issue, and difficulty of solution. In short, that it was just such a case as he longed to undertake, and he was filled with enthusiasm which aroused all his energies, and made him feel the keenest anxiety and hope. He smiled as he thought how simple the police sergeant regarded the whole affair, and how readily he hod jumped to a solution of the whole matter. “Circumstances may still further Implicate Stuart Harland, but I have em- \ barked in the case with the assumption of his innocence, which I shall undertake to establish in the face of all the circumstantial evidence that may be brought against him, and I shall succeed," muttered Paxton, in a tone of conviction. His faith was flrm, his determination Indomitable, and the possibility of failure he was never Inclined to admit. He had not concluded his investigation, although it was his policy to concetti this fact from the police sergeant. After walking a block .or so in company with the officer of the police and his companions, Paxton turned down a side street, made a detour, and, doubling on his own tracks, he returned to the broker’s office. Stealthily, as though he wished to conceal his presence from the two officers who were on guard in the office, Paxton entered the passage between the office and the adjoining building and proceeded to critically inspect the ground under the window in the rear compartment of the office. The night was doubly dark in the narrow passage where the shadows are dense and black, and the detective was obliged to produce his pocket lantern, which was of the bull’s-eye type, in order to inspect the ground in a satisfactory manner. The result was a discovery. The imprints of a man’s feet wore discovered in the ground beneath the window, where the earth was soft and yielding owing to a thaw. The impressions were quite distinct, and the print of a double row of nails, which must have studded the sole of the boots or shoes which had made the tracks were quite clearly defined. Paxton also detected certain marks 01 abrasions of the paint on the side of the building under the window, which had undoubtedly been made by some one who had climbed up to it. He caught the window-sill, and with a firm grasp drew himself up to the window, which he examined, making the further discovery that there were cer- > tain moils under the edge of the shutters. "I was not in error. This window was opened from the outside and not from the inside, as our worthy police sergeant so positively affirmed. I see plainly where an Iron bar was forced under the shutter to pry off the fastening. Yes, the assassin entered from the outside through the window,” said Paxton to himself, in a satisfied tone. . He let himself down from the window again and having once more carefully inspected the track under it he procured a piece of board which chanced to be at hand, and covered them so as to preserve them from obliteration. . He understood the value of such mute evidences as those, and he never neglected any precaution which might eventuate to his advantage. U With the certitude of the truth of a positive theory which he had formed for a basis, he proceeded to erect a superstructure intended to sustain his hypothesis and convince others of its Revolving in his mind varl us conjectures and possibilities suggested by his discoveries, Paxton repaired to his own apartments.'' Before retiring, however, he made from memory a very exact diagram Os the premises where the murder had been Committed. If Stuart Harland was to be placed in peril of his life by reason of John Oakburn’s murder, he had in Gerald Paxton a defender whose services would prove invaluable—one who feared not to enter the lists against any opponent. The following morning the crime was made known to the public through the newspapers and there was much excitement on Wall street and throughout the city. The street in the immediate neighborhood of the broker’s office was thronged With an eager and excited multitude, and morbid curiosity, to view the remains of the victim of the tragedy impelled many to seek an entrance. But the policemen on guard permitted no one to enter. At nine o’clock a. m. the coroner, his clerk, a number of police officers, including the sergeant who had accused Stuart Harland, and Paxton, the detective, arrived! and entered the office. Mr. Garrison and his clerks presented themselves soon after, and they were admitted, as were also a number of gentlemen from the assemblage without, who were selected by the coroner to serve as a jury. The usual preliminaries being concluded, and the jury duly sworn, the inquest proceeded as is uagal in such cases. The surgeon made a thorough examination of the wound-which had occasioned John Oakburn’s death, and extracted the bullet, which was found to be a large lead bull of a peculiar, conical - shape, entirely unlike bullets intended for ordlaary pistols. The fatal missile was transferred from hand to hand and viewed with interest by all. Paxton, the detective, particularly examined it minutely, ana, after he had whispered to the coroner fur a moment, he was permitted io retain possession of the singular, death-dealing ball. He f .-»’' . - -. ■ • z.:■ ■.* ■ .

carefully deposited it In his pocketbook, as though he regarded its preservation as a matter of the utmost importance. “There is no possibility of suicide in this case, I presume," said the coroner, addressing the surgeon. “No, sir. Suicide may be positively excluded. The position of the fatal wound, the direction taken by the bullet, and the nature of the indentations at the margin of the orifice where the ball entered, all serve to prove that the shot was not fired by the oead man himself. The wound clearly shows to a practiced observer that the bullet came from a distance of probably in the neighborhood of twenty feet," answered the Burgeon. Paxton paced- the distance from the body of the murdered man, which lay where it had fallen, to the door leading to the hall. “It is eighteen feet from the door to the body," said the detective. “Indeed! Judging, then, from the position of the body and the relative location of the wound, I should say that he was shot by some one who stood at the door and who discharged his weapon while his victim’s back was turned. The shot entered at the base of the skull," answered the surgeon. “The impossibility of suicide may be regarded as positively established," he added. The police sergeant was now sworn, and he related what discoveries had resulted from the investigation which he had made the preceding night, in company with Paxton. He did not fail to dwell upon the circumstance of Stuart Harland’s disappearance from the house, a few moments before the discovery of the crime, according to the statement of Judith Kredge. To hear him one would have supposed that he had taken the lead in the investigation of the preceding night, and that he deserved all the credit for the discoveries then mode; Paxton said nothing, however, but a sarcastic smile played upon his lips as he listened. Mr. Garrison was next sworn, and he testified that John Oakburn was an exceedingly eccentric man, excessively frugal and economical. That he supposed In the course of the years he had been in his service, the old cashier must have accumulated a modest competency, though he was never known to speculate, and that Oakburn was always extremely reticent regarding his personal affairs. The broker further stated that the aged cashier had a hobby for collecting ancient coins and weapons, which he kept in his little safe. Also that the deceased was a precise and a very methodical man in all he did, that he kept his correspondence and papers carefully filed away in his safe with his collection of ancient coins and weapons. When Mr. Garrison’s testimony was concluded the coroner summoned Marion Oakburn and Judith Kredge, and the two women entered the office a few moments subsequently. Marlon’s face was llvldly pale, and there was an expression of mental suffering and anxiety upon her features. The coroner addressed the cashier’s daughter, stating that he deemed it necessary to examine her father's private safe and Marion assented, saying in conclusion: “I think you will find my father’s safekey on his person.” The pockets of the victim of the mysterious tragedy were accordingly searched, and the key, of which he was in quest, was found by the coroner, who forthwith opened John Oakburn’s safe. All present inspected the contents of the dead man’s private “strong-box" with considerable curiosity. It contained a Iprge, and no doubt valuable, collection of ancient coins of all nations, arranged in admirable order and numbered and labeled with an exactitude which told of the owner’s precise and methodical ways. There was also in the safe a collection of small weapons. There were pistols, poniards, stilettos, yataghans, Maylay creeses, and the like. Besides all this, y compartment contained the private papers of the deceased, letters, papers of business, bills receipted and other documents. There was no money in the safe. The coroner examined the papers and then submitted them to Marion, who also looked them over carefully. Among all the documents no certificate of stocks, no deposit receipts, or anything whatever to indicate or prove that John Oakbum possessed any money or property was discovered. Paxton was on the alert and nothing escaped, him. He made a mental memorandum of the contents of the murdered man’s safe, and, when Marion had concluded the examination of the letters and papers it contained, he came to her side and said in a low tone“I am very much interested in this case, Miss Oakburn, and I mean to sustain my opinion that Stuart Harland is innocent, which you heard me assert last night. I know you share my opinion, and if you will permit me to look over these papers and letters you will perhaps enable me to make some advantageous discovery." “You are at liberty to examine my father's papers, though I do not think you will find any "clew to the assassin here. But I trust you may prove Mr. Harland’s innocence, of which there can be no doubt," replied Marion, and she surrendered the letters and papers from the safe to the detective. The documents were spread out upon a desk in the rear office and the coroner was examining one of Mr. Garrison’s clerks in, the outer office to which Marion, who seemed deeply interested in all the proceedings, now- repaired, thus leaving Paxton alone. He subjected the murdered man’s papers to a most critical inspection. Letter after letter was examined with, interest, and in an, old file of correspondence the detective found one particular letter which seemed to fasten his attention, for he read it over twice very carefully. Then, casting a glance at the door leading to the outer office to assure himself that he was not observed, ho slipped this particular letter into his pocket. “The end entirely justifies the means in this case; I desire to .retain this letter, and yet I do not wish to call any one’s attention to it as yet," ho thought. After he had examined every letter and paper he replaced them all In the safe, and then, turned his attention to the collections of weapons for a moment. He discovered nothing further of interest, and so he entered the outer office. Meanwhile Mr. Garrison’s clerks confirmed the evidence by the broker, and Judith Kredge was examined. Her evidence differed not materially from the statement she had made the preceding night. Marlon also related how she had discovered her father. The detective heard Mr. Garrison whisper to Marion after she had given her evidence. k" A; ■ - 1 *> ' ftk

The broker said: "Are you informed regarding your father’s financial affairs? Do you know where the money he must have saved is deposited or how it is invested?” sir; my father seldom spoke of the matter. I’ supposed, though, that he had accumulated a modest fortune, for he used to say that he soon meadt to retire from business and purchase a beautiful country residence where he could raise his bwn fruit and flowers. He was vent fond of floriculture and hortlture. From remarks he let fall at different times, I was sure that all his fortune wos locked up in his little safe,” the cashier's daughter answered. “This is strange. There is no money in the safe, and yet it has not been opened, I am sure your father had saved a large sum of money, as I have said. Ho was eccentric in other matters, may he not have been so in this? I think it possible he may have secreted his money in some strange place, his sudden demise preventing Ids revealing the secret,” said Garrison. “It may be so, sir, but if my father’s money is never found I shall not want, for I recently received a legacy of three thousand dollars from a distant relative, and then, too, should it become necessary, I am willing to work for an honest livelihood." “Bravely spoken, you are a noble girl,” said Garrison warmly. Just then Levi Kredge, the office janitor and the brother of Judith,entered the office. He was an undersized, thick-set man and one leg was shorter than the other, which deformity caused him to walk with a limp. His features resembled his sister’s. He had the same beetling brows and small yellow eyes. If anything, his face was even less attractive than his sister’s. Levi Kredge was forty years of age and bis character was almost the prototype of his sister, but he was yet more cunning than Judith, and he had a cringing, servile air which was all assumed. He could fawn and smile upon a person while at the same time it was in his heart to strangle him. In short, he was one of those treacherous scoundrels who are most dangerous because they are seldom suspected until it is too late. He had beqn in Mr. Garrison’s service for a year, and he had come provided with most excellent recommendations from Messrs. Pratt <fc Weeks, his last employers, whose character was not at that time known to the broker. Kredge, as far as Mr. Garrison knew, had always discharged his duty with fidelity, and he had never had occasion to take him to task on that score. When the janitor entered, Mr. Garrison said: “This man is employed as a janitor of this building. I notified him to be present although he probably knows nothing of this sad affair; however, I thought it might be well to question him.” The coroner directed that Kredge should be sworn, and after the oath was administered he questioned him, but nothing was elicited of any interest. While Levi Kredge was being questioned the president of the bank at which the unfortunate cashier had received the money for the cheque of $78,000 entered the office, accompanied by a tall, handsome old gentleman with perfectly statuesque features, magnificent dark eyes, white hair and a beautiful flowing beard like driven snow. The old gentleman was dressed with simple elegance, indicative of good taste and breeding, but a diamond of almost priceless value sparkled in his black neck-scarf, and he carried a heavy goldheaded cane. The stately old gentleman was an entire stranger to every one present, and, although he entered at the same time as the bank president, it was clear that they were not acquainted. The banker addressed a few words to the coroner, and then the two retired to the interior office and closed the door, but a moment subsequently the latter reappeared and invited Paxton and the police sergeant to join him. The detective and the officer of police entered the rear office, and when the door had been carefully closed behind them the coroner said: “I desire that you should hear a surprising statement which Mr. Southwell has to make, but which would lose its value if it should be made public.” Paxton felt that some important disclosure relating to the crime was coming. CHAPTER V. “In order that you may understand how it came about that certain precautions were taken at our bank which may now prove of service to you, gentlemen, in the task of detecting the murderer of John Oakburn, and in recovering the stolen money, I must make a brief explanation," began the banker. “The fact fe,” he continued, “we have had occasion to doubt the honesty of one of our employes—our cashier, in fact—and, night before last, I secretly marked all the money which I anticipated he could possibly have occasion to pay out yesterday. I marked one package of one hundred thousand dollars in notes of a large denomination with a minute letter V traced in red ink in the upper left-hand corner of the back of each note. The balance of the money was marked in a different way, which it is not necessary to explain. I chanced to be present in the bank when John Oakburn presented the check for seven-ty-eight thousand dollars and I saw our cashier pay it from the package of money marked with the letter v in fed. He threw the balance remaining after he cashed the check into a compartment of the money drawer where I found it after business hours. Just twenty-two thousand dollars of the marked money remained, so I knew that the money paid to John Oakburn was all marked, as I have said, and that no one else received any of the notes thus marked.” “This is most fortunate," said the police sergeant as the banker concluded. “The most lucky of coincidences. "We are much obliged to your cashier for being the Indirect cause of this clue,” Paxton remarked. Meanwhile when Paxton and the police sergeant were called into the interior compartment of the office by the coroner the handsome old gentleman whose appearance we have noted had quite by accident gained a position close to the door between the two apartments. Without any intention of becoming an eavesdropper ho overheard enough of the bank president’s remarks to comprehend the truth, and at the same moment he saw Levi Kredge close beside him, and the expression on the janitor's face told him the fellow had also overheard the bank president. The magnificent eyes of the handsome old gentleman were fixed upon the face of Levi Kredge for an instant in a searching glance, but the fellow was not aware of the scrutiny to which he was subjected. A look of recognition appeared upon the old gentieman’s face and his eyes flashed ominously as though the sight of the janitor awakened angry thoughts in his mind, and he moved toward the outer door while Levi Kredge was yet Intently listening and did not .observe his movement. When presently the banker and the others came out of the rear office the stately old gentleman was gone. During the interview between the gentlemen in the interior office the jurors and the others present had been conversing among themselves, and no one except "the aged stranger and Levi Kredge. heard aught of w hat had passed between them there.

/ When the strange old gentleman first! (Mitered the office Marion Oakburn' seemed attracted irresistibly by hie face, I and she gazed at him like one fascinated, I until he withdrew. Beyond one swift, passing glance as he eamo in, the aged stranger had not seemed to notice her. A few moments after the departure of the magnificent old man, Levi Kredge aleo left the broker's office, and if anyone had followed him they would hav« soon him make his way swiftly to the private entrance of the office of Messrs. Pratt and Weeks, and enter unceremoniously, as though perfectly certain of his reception. Before Paxton and the Coroner came out of the office in which they had heard the banker’s statement, the detective took the latter aside and asked him to grant him the opportunity to give his version of the investigation which he had conducted the preceding night. Immediately upon his return to the main office the Coroner called Paxton as the next witness. The detective’s statement, until he came to speak of the discovery of the broken fastenings on the window shutters, did not differ in substance from the testimony given by the police sergeant. Thereafter, however, ho continued: “But, gentlemen, the fastenings of the window blinds were not broken from the inside. On the contrary they were forced by means of an iron bar inserted under the shutters from without and on the ground beneath the window are the tracks of the assassin. There are aleo marks on the side of the building which were made by his shoes when he clambered into the office through the rear window. It seems clear, therefore, that the assassin and thief eould not have been a resident of this house, and I also assume that he had no positive knowledge of the money in the. safe. I have made a careful study of this case and I have arrived at the following conclusion: When the assassin entered the office, John Oakburn was not in it. He came soon after. The assassin was in the outer office and he concealed himself beside the desk near the door. Oakburn did not discover the intruder, and opened the safe to assure himself that the large sum of money which he had placed there was secure. The assassin saw the money. The sight determined him. He meant to leap upon the old man then, but before he did so the latter locked the safe and turned away. At that moment, while his back was turned, the assassin leveled his pistol at the old man’s head and discharged the fatal shot. But no one heard the report of a pistol. I explain that point by assuming that the weapon used was an air pistol, which is discharged without a detonation. After Oakbum fell the assassin secured the safe key, committed the robbery, and then let himself out through the street door. He selected that route for his departure because he knew there was less danger in it than by going through the window. He reasoned that even if he was seen leaving the house boldly, by the front entrance, ho would not be questioned, while, on the other hand, if he chanced to be discovered getting out of the window he was lost. “I am satisfied that it is erroneous to suspect Stuart Harland, and I regard the fact of his departure on the night of the crime rather as evidence in his favor than otherwise. “Suppose any person of ordinary intelligence planned and executed the crime, he certainly would have comprehended that flight would be tantamount -to a confession of guilt, and he would not for a moment think of taking such a suicidal course. On the contrary, Ins natural proceeding would have been to conceal the stolen money, and, putting a bold face on the matter, remain here as an innocent man. “Who the assassin is, it is true, I cannot yet determine, but I shall solve the mystery, and sooner or later place my hand upon the right man.” Paxton had arisen, and t* he spoke his intense, resonant voice, clear and penetrating, thrilled his hearers, and turned the jurors’ opinion to a certain extent in Stuart Harland’s favor. If the verdict of the coroner’s jury had been rendered then, it would have been that. John Qakburn came to his death at the hands of some person or persons unknown. But it was decreed that the inquest should not terminate then. [to be continued. | Would ’Twere a Local Custom. In India it is quite common to shave a man while he is asleep, and if he happens to be lying on his back he can have his beard entirely removed without being disturbed. The native barber has a wonderfully light hand, and is an adept at shaving without causing a fraction of pain. Europeans and Americans traveling in India soon fall into the indolent habits which prevail, one of which is to be shaved in bed before rising and bathing. It is not considered reasonable to visit a barber shop, the moneyed classes being almost always shaved at home, and almost as frequently while in bed. Curious Concealment of a Will. The ingenious novelist could not invent a queerer hiding-place for a will than one reported from real life by the Maine Farmer. The will was tacked up on the partition of a woodshed, and a piece of brown paper tacked over it; and there it remained fonyears, no one but the author surmising its identity. After the testator died in clearing out the shed the brown paper was removed and the precious document found. Good Fruit Results. The large gift [of Baron Hirsch in aid of the Russian exiles has stimulated many other wealthy Hebrews both in Europe and America to deeds of generosity. The various societies for assisting the exiles are well supplied with funds, which are used with discretion and which have been serviceable to thousands of sufferers all the way from the Neva to the Hudson. Poor Fellow. A queer libel suit was Instituted against a Crawfordsville (Ind.) newspaper The article averred that the plaintiff’s horse was fed on soup, being too old to eat com. Wherefore the plaintiff claimed $2,000 damages, alleging that he suffered great men»tal anguish because of its publica-| tion. Boston’s Women. A curious phenomenon is the rapid decrease of the woman’s vote in Bos- j ton. Only three years ago 20,252 women registered, and all but about 800 of them voted. Last year only 7,925 voted, and next year it is estimated that the number will be re dueed to 0,000. Many Gypsies lot. The majority of the Scottish gypsies have spread over a vast tract ot country. Here they have gradually become lost to view as a distinctive race. In Europe, they are found in the greatest number to-day in Hungary and Wallachia, where there are 509.000.

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