10 SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE 9. 1907 ' patiently. Paint cobw. by lines began to appear on roughly pn >v< 1 to i last i the emineni the domelike l>n>v.. .f tiie scientist, and slowly the that ;t would have lien unjust, and « s \u25a0\u25a0 >n," Mr X.. of ten o'clock, when begins - by five minutes 'Change 'Think business." The last one left me at ten minutes of 1: iand M g ten and i lid Iwi • Dear me! iv.ir me!" The Thinking Machine deduced rose and paced the length of the room thrice. them to 1< "Mr X.. "You don't give me credit for the extraordinary t fhat tha t 1 1 ::.-.• / Ihave taken, particularly in this last " \u25a0 him Itrccuutions'\u0084 deal," tirayson continued."; "Ileft posi- Well, tively undone insure absolute "Thi n Miss Winl : d ' gressivi Ami Miss Winthrop I know is innocent <>f any con- ing M finally, i lively; . nection with the affair. The private detectives sus- ... expn » pected her at first; as you do, and she was watched 1.. t. !i\u25a0. \u25a0 : < \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0 ii and mit oi my .:li« «\u25a0« tor weeks. When she was i '.. I "Wl ' le eves, \u25a0 not under my she was under the eyes of nun me cl ,appeal' nst to whom 1 ii.nl promised an extravagant sum of it !. ne i lan r n, a nessed the ii • ' s - money if they found the leak. She didn't know it "11 l clique, \u25a0 ! - then, and doesn't know it now. I am heartily i \u25a0 kof it, hi : Ib> R.,!; M itthi ashamed of it all, because the investigation proved . \u25a0 1 . credit i absolute loyalty to me. On last da y she t me." His li] : her this ' • • "Tl . \u25a0 \u25a0 \vas directly under my eyes for two hours; and she "Wh \u25a0 : den. He didn't make oik- movement that 1 didn't note, be- "B< eeveryl ees me hi \u25a0.\u25a0•\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0." was the cause the tiling meant millions to me. That proved reply. Cirayson : ted. l>eyohd all question that it was no fault of hers. The Thinking Ma, hii t t Iressed '• \u25a0 \u25a0 What could ido?" an en-,. p, folded i '\u25a0 tof paper, The Thinking Mai June didn't say. He paused at • ! it. At length he 1 'Inn :i window, and lor minute after minute stood motion- \u25a0 I M \\ . less there, with eyes narrowed down to mere t->. \. "I was ... t of discharging M;-^ Win- "Lei there, 1 ft throp,*' the financier went "on; "but her innocence Ai nul itei STUPIDITY OF THE BLOODHOUND By FREDERICK TILDEN

:- hound appeared, pan vith Tl days. They knew then all about the wonderful flying nified — froth from his mouth, and lookinj ' rendition, powers "i the I>l Ihound and they are truly cious dog to< and \u25a0 • as a can look. The sheriff >k the" aw hil iMi-ition in Ihe wonderful, o far as they go, though they do not ran. He thought that k- it, Whai v. II Iappen il alwaj the murderer of | the) go after. The Romans tracked bill must be near; l>ut 5....n he realized i w :th the fugitiv< i..; before the Christian era. In the thing worse had — < To Im ure, Ihe colored postei are even ol happened, Mose.was Edward I. of England men were hunted A lew miles farther on, when he could r i the foot! with It is said to,,k is, • dt>>! . that Bruit: brought up a the deputy t«> a tree, where he r. 'I ere it in red ink, "Great Double I le bloodhound, and a great affection grew between \u25a0 night ttins; 'J I Com pan .." i•'\u25a0 dog and until noon next day, with J and until il the fcro- and master, until John oi Lome steppi below, looking contented and surprisi : bloodhounds, with crimson hanging tongues won the brute's heart, and put him on the trail of new and gleaming ey< coming found friend didn't come down and \u25a0- . up I ehind the ins former love. Bruce escaped by wading in a deputy was stiff fleeinj; :. ure, Town [all I\u25a0 with cold. 1 stream, .i favorite method of de i ; A hts Well, what would have happened the blood- I Southern lawyer. Cyrus B. Wats. if ithe Scotch hero Wallace the same kind ofston reputation by reciting this doggerel hound had caught up with Eliza? From those is told. Hounds were used on to .ill bloodhound, the Scottish border digged who claim to know "about the " the up to the days of the Si uai I\u25a0 There nas a law I t\ir-M.n LJngte a pit « \u25a0 unes lie digged er o,!!!. kh. Xot hin^ That i . those who or were it for llothauser; "stopped hindered" hounds Bin he himself mt.> it. i have been content to rub their cold n»i es thereby accomplices of the was fell ;i hand, man who When by . i-.'.i: ; lur walk round hi i n v cli pursued. treed Brown's <•'..! Towser. md go to sleep .it hei feet ;1 n happy Bui lei there be no i i take aboul tl The blom.l- What the D. „• Smcllc-J diiiidhound i n i a fen m: m . nimal at all. ; hound h.i an instinctive dis] to hunt ;i that, bun..! Sometimes the dainty paniel get : angry and nips stranger. The ordinar) dog story runs a barn having been master; hunts in a certain community, suspicion was directe I its even good \u25a0 the collie has bad temjiers; Some g. ..<] folks suppose that all thai . ne. THE bul the bloodhound, pi< t tired and ;ung as the very i toward a man named llolhauser l>y his envi to capture a fugitive is to give the bi a Towser, a >! Old Nick ofall dom< lii animals, i always the same glove or a shoe, Ihound tars.m Langle. Lingle seni for b whereupon it will run away rejoic- belonging Brown, and set h on 1 nature. l .i \u0084 I .. :\u25a0 ii,m apple. ing and di cover its to a man mimed quarry upon the twelfth i10,.,- a fresh trail thai tame oui from behind the ned "I •>» "nice building, or Some False Ideas in the subway Ihhers barn. circled round until he :e to suppose that the dog ,1. tinguishes !>•\u25a0•,, Towser »~nill-: lias always n a crim- Lingle's own back yard fenced where he >: ,ed and bloodhound km regarded, by mal and an honest man, and hunts by X who have not had the pleasure of close preference. the former J showed every sign that thai was his tl inatioa acquaintance, a be;i I It required live men to pull him aw. Va the as of m\ tii power.;, always for \u25a0\u25a0.\u25a0 down the doomed malefactor, and tearing The Story of Old next trial he broke away and chased rabbit Mom two hours. acquitted. him to pieces with berserker rage when caught. chances are that, back in llolhauser was prompt!, A bloodhound which did anything those halcyon and the jury went into screams of laughter over tn* of the kind THEK.Miian days, w u-n Tiberius Gracchus ability. wouldn't be admitted to half decent bloodhound other landed proprietor, .. r some story as narrated by Watson, a mimicoi >otne was out with the hounds The question of the trustworthiness of bloou; society. A writer in an English magazine once running down a poor slave, there may Ol hold, have occurred hounds was at * in icase confe id that bad men needn'l be much just such a difficulty as thai in > stake early this year woman, afraid ..t the dog, so far as its appetite for hi North Carolina, once, Buncombe Count a more serious nature. An intelligent when Old Muse, a famous eyed handsome, against two gore was concerned; but added that it was a shame canine sleuth, went wrong. clear and was pitted the way some writers came straight out bloodhounds which had trailed her. in a dramatic and admit- A murder had been committed far out the murder case, Daveuparti ted it, .i km^ querulously, "How arc we going to mountain,, near in and caused her arrest. Dr. Asheville Jim Hawkbillhad been a physician Vinita, Territory, : ten criminals if we tell them the truth about stabbed to after i»i Indian was death a desperate fight. The through the was untyingsl^nt* I100 Ihounds?" neighbors of the dead man gathered head and killed. He at the scene team of horses at time, it is *»* But pshaw! the under world gentry know \u0084n notified the officer, and sent f<>r the and believedwoman, a or a bloodhounds foe he had just been to call on the about it. There isn't whim trick in the good Dobson, with his doe Mose, was the first to accused old dog's heart that bad men arrive Mrs. Mary E. Brooks. Two bloodhounds: toot the the have noi learned. Mose took the scent from the very first. He trail, For in tance, up in Wilkes County, North round for few circled and ran directly to the house where M**- Carolina, a minutes, and then, tugging at the Brooks lived. home; but they •me of a gang of convicts from the Mate peniten- leash, went >>tT South as us There was no one at at fast Ins master could took up the trail again, to a house where tiary, work upon the turnpike, escaped. Two follow. "The man's gone toward South Carolina" and went hound . Joel and Hannah, which were kept said I>• the woman was visiting. Mrs Brooks was arrested in J. >c >bson. on this evidence, and, denials, held.- nearby kennels for jusi this purpo .\u25a0. were put on the pursuing party was a in spite of her " the In deputy sheriff, new What makes this more interesting '> lat trail. The dogs disappeared far in advance of at the business and anxious to make name case the se, and were not found a for the same pair of hounds were used in the Spavinavr po again till the next himself. The prowess of Mose put him a hills, day, when the officei discovered that they off, little in in try-'ng to capture the Wycliffe gang ol < had the shade* but he started determined to keep off, OX I up with the convict, made friends with him, just out desperados. '1he dogs were either taken of -^ht. but as iu-.il the dog as possible. >o refused to It was and formeda sort ofalliance, defensive and offensive, as to be in at the capture. take the trail of the Wycliffes with the fugitive. In the fight saul by the owner that the desperados had sprinkled which followed Joel As the sheriff journeyed on. beating his way red dogs' pur- was killed, while Hannah and t!v» convict escaped. through the underbrush, he heard pepper on their trail to prevent the ll thick the cry of suit. sutti- When the runaways reached E\.»oxvi e, Tennessee, Mose now and then in the distance In the \et their testimony was considered ol the convict sold the amiable Hannah for fiftydollars, of the night, when course -lent value to hold a woman, against whom there he had become lost in the v. was no evidence, for trial.