STUPIDITY of the BLOODHOUND by FREDERICK TILDEN
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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<niint eyes, were narrowing. Sui Idenly t I ' his visit' r. "The letters you wrote were intercepted?!' lie "Do • led. Gi suggested at last. "No, \u25a0 ;\u25a0'.;..! I . \u25a0 ! \u25a0 ".No." exclaimed drayson flatly. "Those letters \u25a0 ' were sent direct to the brokers by .1 dozen different Vetth< ting i Mi; • V. < \u25a0 methods; and everyone of them had been delivered \u25a0It down to this, Mr. lra> \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, <if course, 1 I . '•' I . \u25a0 ...nothing to secrecy. • > 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 <l>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 :- <C IAT ; i of Eliza h; £c and nee tx nhi urd fro:: he sudd, nly heard the voice of ilose rid nee at ten, It mti A have been n the olden him, and soon the 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.