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CHAPTER Vtl—(Continued.) Ho returned to the depot whence he had come, and the very next train carried him back to New York city. , He thought of the exchange of overcoats which ho had made with his traveling acquaintance, and muttered: “By Jupiter! I left the keys and the wax impressions in' my coat pocket. I hope they will not be the means of getting the young fellow with whom I exchanged coats Into trouble." When Stuart Harland alighted from the railway train the officers who were on the watch when the stranger whom we have followed, leaped upon the platform, were still at their post. Harland had not taken five steps, when a heavy hand fell upon his shoulder, and as the light of the policeman's lantern was reflected full In his face, the officer said, In a stern voice, as he grasped the young man's arm: “You are my prisoner! I arrest you on the charge of being a fugitive from justice!” These two police officers were watching for Stuart Harland, for to them Police Sergeant Smith had wired they ung man’s description, and when they stopped the man who had taken Harland’s overcoat, they were on the alert for the latter. Sutart Harland’s surprise was unbounded, and he was indignant, as well. ‘What is the meaning of this outrage? there Is certainly some mistake!* he exclaimed. In a few words the police officers acquainted him with the fact of John Oakbum's murder, of which Sergeant Smith’s dispatch had informed them. One of the officers added - “My instructions are simply to arrest you and return you to New York City at once." “I suppose I must submit, but if you will only permit me to visit the house of a friend for a few moments, I shall be under obligations to you," said Stuart. "Impossible; the return train will leave in ten minutes,” replied the officer. Stuart groaned. “I have had my journey for naught,” he muttered. Then he thought of Marion Oakbum and the singular circumstance that she was in the broker's office at midnight. He recalled her frightened manner, and his mind was troubled. The reflection as to how the public might construe his sudden night departure made him nervous and apprehensive. He was not skilled in the art of hiding his emotions, and. they betrayed what was passing in his mind. The officers who accompanied him watched him closely, and they said betaken themselves: ' This.bußiness troubles him. He looks as though ho were guilty.* Stuart never thought of examining the stranger’s overcoat, which had came into his possession as we have seen. His surprise and consternation were, therefore, quite genuine when the skeleton keys and wax impressions were taken from his pocket when he was brought before the coroner. In a few words after this discovery, while the (kroner motioned to the man who had last entered the broker’s office to be silent, Stuart explained how the exchange of overcoats came about, as we have related it. i But Stewart’s story was greeted with a murmur of incredulity, and it was clear that It was not generally credited. Harland observed this, and he turned to the young clerk who had been one of his co-laborers in the broker’s office, and said: “I am sure no one of you would wish to impugn my veracity, and I ask you to say if you recognize this coat as mine. If you do not see that it was never mode for me—that it is at least three sizes too large.” i The broker’s clerks replied affirmatively, and expressed their conviction that Stuart’s word was not to be doubted. This was certainly a confirmation of Harland's statement. The Coroner now addressed the man who had last entered. That individual was Mr. Pratt, of the flrm of Pratt & Weeks, who had ruined Jason Garrison. Pratt was a portly, gross-looking man, with a black goatee, which owed its color to dye, as did also his scanty hair. He was bald, but this evidence of age was partially concealed by a skillful arrangement of the remnants of his colored locks. His features were heavy and sensual, but he had a smooth, insinuating manner, and always dressed in the height of fashion. But he wore too much jewelry, and his garments were inclined to be loud. “You wish to offer some evidence, sir?" » said the coroner. “Yes, sir; as I Informed the officer at the door, who thereupon immediately proclaimed the fact, much to my surprise.” Pratt was sworn and he said: "Having received the information at my office that young Harland was under arrest, charged with the murder of John Oakbum, I deemed it my duty to appear here to give certain testimony, which it seems to. me will establish the fact, that he was actuated by a powerful motive when he committal the crime. The murder, no doubt, was but an unforeseen incident of the robbery of the safe." He paused; and at this juncture the stately old gentleman who had left the office after hearing the banker’s communication about the marked money, re-entered, but he was unobserved, for Pratt was now the central figure of the assemblage.——-— "The fact is, gentlemen, Stuart Harland has been Indulging in speculations far beyond his means, and, as he deceived us regarding his financial status, he has become our debtee to the sum of ten thousand dollars. We were led to suppose he could control that amount of tbo fortune which it is understood he will inherit. We hold Mr. Harland’s note for the amount of his indebtedness, which is now several days Overdue. Here is the note, sir,” continued Pratt, as ho placed the paper in the coroner’s hands. “The day preceding the murder, that is, the day before yesterday, we sent him a note, informing him that unless he settled With us, we would apply to his wealthy aunt, whoso heir ho Is said to be. He replied that if we did so he was ruined; that his aunt was particularly opposed to stock speculating, and that she had often warned him against it, saying that her money should never be risked in that way. In fact, Harland stated that he feared his aunt would disinherit blip If she found Mm out.

partner is a hard man and he was Inexorable. Mr. Harland had mortally offended him In someway, and ho vowed ho would have his money or he would make the exposure Harland dreaded. "Harland declared that he had no way to pay the money, but ho obtained my partner's promise not to move in the matter until to-day. Now, it seems to me almost certain that his motive for the murder and the robbery was to obtain 1 the money to pay us, and thus save him- ' self from the loss of his aunt’s fortune, which might have resulted from an ex- ' posuro.” Thus Pratt concluded. Harland had listened in silence, but ' his eyes flashed, and his rage was be--1 trayed in his face. "You are a liar and a scoundrel, Dan Pratt!" ho exclaimed. “You are conspiring to ruin me. You hold my note 1 for a thousand dollars. If it purports to 1 be for more, It has been tampered with. 1 Moreover, the note I can meet to that amount, as I have the money on deposit In bank and meant to send you a cheque 1 to-day." "Poor young man. Ho Is plunging 1 Into the depths of falsehood and decep- > tion,” said Pratt, in a mournful tone. 1 "We have found out his motive. The case is clear now,” muttered the police J sergeant. CHAPTER VIII. The faces of the audience, who had ’ listened to Pratt’s evidence, betrayed • the impression he had made. Stuart was regarded in such a manner 1 that he was sure Pratt was believed by > the majority. True, none of the stolen money had ' been found in Stuart Harland’s posses- ; Sion, but this could not be regarded as an evidence of his innocence, since he ’ had ample time to secrete the proceeds of the robbery. Thus reflected the jurors. There was little further evidence to 1 hear, and presently the Coroner submitted the matter to the jury, who thereupon rendered a verdict without ' leaving their seats, that “John Oakbum " came to his death at the hands of some person, whose positive identity was uni known, but that the evidence was such ! as to fasten a strong suspicion upon > Stuart Harland." -Thereupon, the Coroner directed that I Stuart be held a prisoner to await fur- , ther developments. Stuart retained his composure admir- ’ ably, as he. listened to the verdict of the coroner’s jury, and heard the order i which condemned him to detention in > prison. The officers were about to conduct the I unfortunate young man from the office, when Jason Garrison came forward and t grasped his hand in a warm greeting, i “You will tell Edna that lam falsely accused," said Stuart. ! "Yes, yes. She will never doubt you,” ; answered the broker. Harland was moving to the door, bei tween the two officers, when Marion ' Oakbum gained his side, and said to him in a tone of the most positive conviction: i “ Take with you the assurance that you will be saved.” I Stuart was conducted to Ludlow street 1 jail forthwith, and his mind was in a condition of doubt and trouble most harassing. So many circumstances of a surprising nature had crowded them1 selves into his life within the last few ' hours, that he was dazed and confused. In the midst of the confusion in his mind, he saw constantly, however, like a portrait which had been stamped indelibly upon the camera of memory, the horror-stricken face of Marion Oakburn ’ as he had seen her when she left the office in which her father had been murdered. Her face haunted him like a ghost that would not be laid, and as he reflected he thought: “When she came out of the office her father must have been dead. Before I saw her steal out of that apartment the murder had been done., “Where was she when the awful crime was consummated?” There was a horrible doubt in Stuart Harland’s mind then. “But, no, no; such a thing is so entirely inconsistent with Marion’s character that the monstrous thought that she may be implicated in the murder of her own father cannot find a lodgment in my mind. And yet what was she doing in the office at that hour, and why was she in such a state of terror when she leftlt?" These unanswerable questions naturally suggested themselves to Stuart’s mind. Then he recollected how he had been awakened by the loud noise, which he could not account for, and he thought now that it must have been the detonation of the pistol shot that had killed John Oakburn that he had heard. He did not know that Paxton advanced the theory that the assassin's weapon was an air-pistol. But he had caught enough of the police sergeant’s mutterings to learn that the time of the murder had been fixed at twenty minutes of one, and so he knew that John Oakburn must have been dead when Mhrion left ' the office. Despite all his suspicions and conjectures, Harland had not mentioned the incident of his having seen Marion leaving the office, for he had always enter--1 tained the most exalted opinions of her character, and he had reasoned: “There is mystery Inexplicable in Marion Oakburn’ b conduct, but I can1 not believe her guilty. There is some explanation which will yet be made that will clear up all this dark affair, and I shall not regret my silence.” The ignoble thought that he might direct suspicion from himself by revealing his knowledge of Marion’s secret visit to the office never entered his mind. “Who can be the guilty one?" Stuart asked himself, and although there was no clue to guide his suspicions, by some mental process which he could scarcely have explained himself, his thoughts reverted to Levi Kredge, the janitor. Perhaps the vague suspicions of this man, which entered his mind unbidden, were prompted by an opinion which he had recently formed that Levi Kredge was a spy and a sneak. Stuart had twice caught the fellow with his ear at the key-hole of Jason Garrison’s private office when confidential transactions were taking place there. The second time Stuart’s anger gained the ascendency, and he kicked Kredge out of the office. The young man had not forgotten that Kredge had flashed upon him a look of ferocious hate as he slunk away without resenting the assault.. The fellow had not uttered a word, but Stuart had read murder in the fierce burning light of his byes, and from that moment he knew that the seemingly inoffensive and servile cripple was a dan* gerous man.. The thought now occurred to Stuart that it might have been the fellow’s purpose in listening it key-holes and In spying about the office to obtain knowledge Which would q(|ysblc him to commit a rob-

So deeply Impressed did Stuart be-! come with the idea that Kredge was concerned in the murder that he deter- | mined to mention the matter to Mr. Gar- i rison, to whom he hod never mentioned 1 Kredge's eavesdropping, simply because ho despised anything like tale-bearing, j As for himself, Stuart was sustained by the consciousness of Innocence. Meanwhile, when Daniel Pratt was making his statement before the coro- j nor’s jury, the elegant old gentleman who had entered the office just behind . him seemed strangely excited. His: hands were clinched, his lips com-' pressed themselves into a rigid line, and his beautiful, luminous dark eyes blazed ' with a dangerous light. Despite this evidence of his more than ! passing Interest in the proceedings be- I fore the coroner's jury, he was, as we | have stated, an entire stranger to all ■ present. Did he hold some secret knowledge of the actors in this life-drama which caused his emotion? When he hastily left the office after he overheard the banker inform the coroner regarding the mark on the money which had been stolen from Jason Garrison's safe, he hurried directly to the office of Messrs. Pratt and Weeks. The office of this firm of brokers was arranged something after the manner of a bank, and at the moment when the stately old gentleman entered it Mr. Weeks, Pratt’s partner, was behind the screen-mounted counter engaged in counting a package of money. Producing a one-hundred-dollar note from his pocketbook, the old gentleman whom we have followed strode forward, and presenting the note ata little wicket in the screen, he asked: “Will you please accommodate me with change?" “In one moment, sir,” replied Weeks, and he continued counting the money, while the old gentleman remained standing beside the open-work screen. From this position he obtained an excellent view of the money with which Weeks was engaged, and he made a discovery. He plainly saw that each note in the package of money which Weeks was counting was marked distinctly with a “V” in the upper left-hand comer of the back of the same. It seems that the stranger must have acted upon previously acquired knowledge when he hurried straight to the office of Pratt ft Weeks, the moment he acquired the knowledge that the stolen money was all privately marked. “It is the money John Oakbum*S murderer stole from Jason Garrison’s safe,” said the aged stranger mentally, and he thought: “Now, If he only gives me the marked money in change, I shall have the evidence that the stolen money has found its way into the possession of these vultures. Are these birds of prey the assassin’s accomplices?” In a moment or so Weeks had counted the marked money, and then he picked up the one hundred dollar note which the stranger had placed upon the counter. “How will you have it?" he asked. “In two fifties, please,” replied the other, who had seen notes of that denomination in the package of marked money. The stranger repressed the excitement he felt at this moment of suspense, as Weeks turned to the package of marked money. That he meant to give him two notes from that package in exchange for the one hundred dollar note was plain, for he began to run over the notes in search of the denominations required. In a moment he found them. With the two marked fifty dollar notes in his hand, he was coming to the wicket to hand them to the stranger, when the door of the private department of the office, which was behind the counter, was dashed open and Pratt rushed in. Springing to his partner’s side, he seized his arm, and hissed in a whisper some communication which he did not hear. Weeks uttered an oath and dropped the two marked fifty dollar notes back among the balance of the marked money. Then he unlocked the toney drawer, and, taking out two other unmarked notes, he spitefully threw them at the aged stranger. The latter secured them and turned to the door. Glancing back over his shoulder, he saw Pratt and Weeks hastily gathering up the marked money. “Pratt was just in time to foil my plan to obtain some of the marked money. They know the secret now. That scoundrel Kredge must have brought them the information,” muttered the stranger. There was a telegraphic “stock indicator” near the door, and the aged gentleman paused to consult the “tape.” He read “C. A. 400; 225 s. 60.” "Ah! Four hundred shares of the Chicago and Alton Railroad stock at two hundred and twenty-five dollars to be delivered at the seller’s option, at any time within sixty days,” muttered the old gentleman; and the readiness with which he translated the legend on the “indicator take” told that he was no novice in the stock market. Leaving the establishment of Messrs. Pratt ft Weeks, he returned to the office, where the inquest was still in progress. As he passed along the 1 side of the building occupied by the firm of Pratt ft Weeks he saw Levi Kredge emerge from the private entrance to the office. He possessed the positive certitude that the janitor had brought the scheming brokers the news that the stolen money was marked. “This affair is growing more and more mysterious. Kredge must have known that the stolen money was In the possession of Pratt and Weeks. He is their spy, that is clear," he thought. When he arrived at Garrison’s office, again, he did not immediately enter the building, and while he stood before it, he saw Pratt approach and gain entrance to the office. He then entered himself, as stated. » At the conclusion of the inquest, the mysterious old gentleman, who was secretly interesting himself in the case of John Oakburn’s murder, walked to Broadway and took the omnibus to the Astor House, -for at this date Jacob Astor had not made his successful innovation, and there were no horse cars on the great business thoroughfare of the great city. Some weeks previous to the occurrence of the incidents thus far recorded, the old gentleman had arrived at the hotel, and registered the name, “Richard Stanmore.” Mr. Stanmore seamed to be a stranger in the city, but to have a great deal of business with Wall street business men. Particularly intimate were his commercial relations with the firm of Messrs. Marks ft Buck, accommodation loan brokers, who had established themselves on Wall street a year previous. Also with Judson, Kirk ft Son, another Wall street firm largely interested in various mining and railway speouiatiqps, There was another firm, not on Wall street, with whom Mr. Stanmore was evidently 6n the best of business terms. The firm in question was that of Benjamin ft Go., a Jewish money-lending house which negotiated large loans, and to them In secret many a Wall street operator had been glad to corhe lorarianolal aid when the market took a long ran "the wrong way." Almost every evening a representative of each of the firms mentioned was olos-

I eted with Mr. Stanmore In his apartments in the hotel. | Surprising as It may seem, however, j in view of the fact we have mentioned, i Mr. Stanmore was entirely unknown personally on Wall street, and he never visited the offices of the business firms we have mentioned. | All of this smacked of mystery, and there was much more in the doings of Mr. Stanmore that seemed to bo inexplicable. • Very much to Mr. Garrison’s surprise, the day following the night of the murder and robbery drew to a close, and no one from Pratt ft Weeks called upon him to demand the money he owed them. In view of the fact that Mr. Pratt had ! Insisted that the $78,000 must positively be paid that morning at an early hour, ] If the debtor wished to avoid unpleasant i consequences, Mr. Garrison thought It was remarkable that ho had not heard from him. Pratt had hurried away from the broker’s office without exchanging a word with Mr. Garrison. Edna had been Informed by her father of Stuart’s Imprisonment, and the devoted girl received the evil news bravely, for she was sustained by the belief that Innocence would triumph. Jason Garrison was in a state of intense nervous excitement and alarm. He shut himself up in his library, and at every unusual sound he started apprehensively, as though he was in momentary expectation of the occurrence of some terrible calamity. At nightfall, as he was looking over the evening paper, he suddenly leaped to his feet, and exclaimed, excitedly: "Can this be true! Can this be true!” (to bi CONTINUED. I ABOUT CASH CUSTOMERS. One Grocery man Says He Prefers Those Who Trade on Credit. It seems strange, but it Is true, nevertheless, that customers who pay cash for their purchases are not considered very desirable by butchers or grocers, and especially those who do not send children, or messengers after the goods, but go themselves and have the articles selected and weighed or measured under their personal supervision. A grocery men whom I questioned on the subject endeavored to deny that such was the fact, says a writer in the New York Telegram, but when I mentioned several instances to show that it was true, he said: “Well, we don’t like them because they are too particular. They want the biggest and best of everything, and they - beat down our prices as long as they can. Os course it is pleasant to get the ready money, but it comes in such small amounts that the full benefit of it is not appreciated. Besides you are never sure of a cash customer. They are not in your debt and can quit you when they feel they have a grievance. You are sure of the customers who run an account with you, though occasionally they fail to pay. But we have away of protecting ourselves against loss,” said the groceryman with a sly smile. “No wonder the butchers and grocers prefer customers who run a book to those who pay' cash,” said a board-ing-house keeper of my acquaintance; “a cent or two more on a pound for everything is charged to the book customer, who is usually careless ih' noting the increase, but this difference alone makes a handsome profit for the grocer. In addition to this the poorest quality of goods is foisted on the customer who runs an account, as the privilege of running a book is supposed to be a favor for which the customer cannot be too grateful. Where the latter is inclined to be careless it often happens that certain items find their way on the book, so .that when the account is footed up ‘at the end of the week or month the total is found to be much larger than was anticipated. It is not at all strange, to one who knows, why the grocers and butchers are willing is to take chances with bool<: cus “ tomers. ” HOW RICH MINES ARE FOUND. Sometimes It Is Done by Skill and Then - Again by Luck. Few people in this part of tho country have any idea of the difficulty of finding a mine. A man who follows it for a living must thoroughly understand the nature of the district in which he is. Different sorts of mines are found in different ways, says a writer in the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. If you are in a placer district, of course, you have nothing to do except to walk along a stream, with a pan in your hand, and test the soil by washing till you come to pay dirt. But if you know nothing about it you will waste a great deal of time testing dirt that an experienced prospector would know at a glance tained no gold. In a true fissure or contact Jfiistrict the experienced prospector will walk along the bottom of the/gulches looking for “floats,” althmigh he expects to find the mine far up the mountain side. The float is vein matter which - breaks off with the settling of the mountain- and rolls down its sides. The prospector who is acquainted with the district knows it at once, and, when he finds it, climbs the mountain till he ascertains where it came from. A tenderfoot would never know what it was. But sometimes a tenderfoot strikes it richer than anybody. The Silent Friend mine at Pitkin, Col., which showed a nine-foot vein of solid galena at the grass- roots, was found by two Swedish railroad hands who didn't know what the mineral was. and gave away three-fourths of their interest before they discovered its value. Experienced prospectors had been over the ground thousands .of t imes, but there were no external evidences of the lead. The Swedes found it by rolling a bowlder down the mountain. The mineral cropped out from the place where the bowlder had Im. The great carbonate fields of Leadville were found by a man who was thought insane for sinking a shaft where there were no external vvi dences of mineral. He found the carbonate In a “blanket vein.” lying level as a sheet of water, a great distance below, the ground. A regular prospector would never have sunk a shaft, there But where one tenderfoot strikes it that way a hundred thousand get broke and go home disgusted. The maj or of Boston has advised the council to enact an ordinance forfeiting the license of any theater which permits lottery advertisements to appear upon tus progranT. The next step should be to expel from the council any aiderman who buys a lottery ticket

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