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the Chicago Tribune Syndicate).
IN TWO PAKTS— PART TWO
' THE STORY SO FAR
Johnny is still unconvlnved of Jacques'
possession of mind reading powers.
However, his stories are popular with his
newspaper in New York and he is order
ed to remain in Paris. He is in Jacques'
office when M. Pervier calls to present a
new case. The case has to do with the
Tineos a wealthy Spanish family. Their
daughter was married to a German noble
man, Baron Von Helmholz, but is sep
arated from him and living with her
parents at San Sebastian. She has be
come infatuated with Alexis, a Russian
nobleman, who now is violinist at the
Biarritez hotel. The Tineos (daughter
and mother) had gone to Biarritz for
afternoon tea, but a rainstorm forced
them to remain overnight. During the
night, the daughter. Pilar, and the family
jewels disappear from the hotel room.
What is more, the Baron, his companin,
Alexis and the Tineo chauffeur have al
so vanished. The baron is apprehended
at a hotel in Switzerland.
And, now the story—
The baron, on being examined, admitted
having written the letter, which he claimed
had to do with a private business affair
between himself and the senor. Moneys
that he had turned over to Senor Tineo to
invest for him and which he claimed had
turned out successfully, but being unable
or unwilling to produce any documentary
evidence of this transaction, he was held in
default of bail. He denied all knowledge
of his wife, or of the jewels or car, or An
tonio or Alexis. He stated that he had gone
to San Sebastian for an interview with
Senor Tineo and to discover if it was in
deed true that he hod suffered from a men
tal lapse. On learning this to be the case,
and in the hope o* the senor's recovery, he
had motored over to Biarritz with some
Spaniards he had known when paying his
attentions to Pila. From Biarritz he bad
gone by train to Nice, intending to try his
luck at the tables at Monte Carlo, which he
preferred to those of San Sebastian. The
police had easily followed his trail, which
he had made no attempt to cover.
It was now required of Jacques to
examine the mind of the baron in an ef
fort to discover the nature of his trans
action with Senor Tineo, and if he had
actually no knowledge of these disappear
ances.
I must say it struck me that here was
the facer for which I had waited. There
seemed no way out of it at all. Yet as
a mystery I did not think it very baffling
Before becoming a jounalist I had tried
my hand with indifferent success at fic
tion, and I remembered the criticism of
a friend of mine, a practising physician
whom 1 had victimized into reading an
ambitious detective story.
He said : "The trouble with young
writers Is like that of young doctors.
They are always looking for the most
baffling state of affairs instead of first
considering what would be most apt to
occur. The police have learned, like the
old practitioner, the advantage in the
long run of first throughly considering
what might be expected to happen in
the usual order of things."
So now it seemed to me that Pilar,
infatuated with Alexis, had, in the drop
ping of the hunderd franc tip, picked up
a note that he had made this opportunity
to get to her without an intermediary.
This would be to plan an elopement, and
lovers, being proverbially opportunists
and likewise impatient, she had seized the
occasion of their being kept the night in
the hotel by the weather. She had col
lected her dot in the shape of her mother's
Jewels and the pair had flown. Antonio
had yielded to a bribe. This might have
been the more easily accomplished on
Pilar's telling him, perhaps, that the
Prussian husband whom she detested
was on the field and empowered some
way to coerce her parents into enforcing
his claims on her.
This might, in fact, have been the case.
There were a good many ways in which
a man unlawfully profiteering by the
mothering of Spanish-German submarines
might have got in very wrong. Some
scandal in high Spanish officialdom that
exposed.
baron might have been willing enough
lease his wife to her parents at so
much a year, but when the rental was
held up by Tineo's fogged state of mind
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the baron might have decided the best
be could do would be to wait, in the hope
that this might clear rather than kill
the goose that bad been laying golden
eggs.
In such a case I could not see Just how
the baron was going to get out of the
scrape, though the chances were that the
if convinced that Pilar had run off with
Alexis and that Von Helmbolz had noth
ing to do with that part of it. That she
already believed such to be the case was
indicated by the fact that she had so
far declined to report the loss of her
jewels to the companies by which they
were insured.
So now is was up to Jacques either
actually to read the barons mind or to
fake some good excuse for not being able
to do so. It was manifestly impossible,
if he were the fraud that I suspected, for
him to deduce the truth from Pervier's
rather scanty statement of facts. But
there was always the alternative that
Jacques might risk a lucky guess, state
that the baron had in this case told the
truth, and they would have to produce
one or all of the other three concerned
for his examination. And it was fairly
evident that if able to do this, then the
need of Jacques' services would not be
requisitioned.
As Jacques insisted always that if I
were to witness his demonstration I must
be put upon my honor for his sake and
for his credit not to try to learn any
more about the case than he knew him
self, 1 did not ask Pervier for any fur
ther details.
Von Helmbolz was being held at Nice,
and it was requested of Jacques to go
there immediately. With his usual com
placence he agreed to do this, and we
went with Pervier that same night by a
wagon lit, on the rapide Cote d'Azur.
I lay awake for some time in the com
partment de luxe reserved for Jacques
and myself, pondering less on the case
than what Jacques was apt to do about
it. It struck me also as extraordinary that
three persons, each of such remarkable
physical traits as those of Pilar, Alexis,
and Antonio, should have escaped immed
iate detection. Here were a Spanish beau
ty at whom every man would look for as
long as she was in sight, a blonde liones
pue Russian whon every woman would
serve in like fashion, and a grim faced
grizzled toreador whose previous vocation
was stamped on him, from cast iron jaw
to bulging calves, far more legibly than
the branding of any steer and at whom
both men and women would stare as
long as he was in sight.
But the spider web of continental pol
police system had not been so much as set
in faint vibration anywhere. I could see
how it might happen in the United States,
with the swarming mixture of diverse
nationals and thronging lines of com
mutation. But I failed to see how it
could happen in Europe, on the continent,
with its jealousies and system of close
individual scrutiny. The answer to this
query should have been evident right
there, but it got past me.
We arrived at Nice, and as I have pre
viously described In detail Jacques' tech
nique of examination, it is enough to say
that he was duly confronted with the
arrogant, intolerant type of junker that I
had been led to expect, but who in the
present instant bowed stiffly from the
hips, then seated himself as requested.
The Baron von Helmbolz looked any
thing but the sailor, or for that matter
the sort of vicious animal that Pilar's
sudden antipathy would seem to depict
him. He was a dark German, actually
Spanish himself in physical traits, pale
but clear of skin, smooth shaven except
for a small black wiry mustache, waxed
at the tips to look like blackthorn briars,
and an inflexible poise. His age might
have been thrity-eight or forty, but his
slenderness and freshness of tint gave
him something of the perennial youth
of a romantic hero of the movies.
Jacques, with his usual murmur of a
pology, took the sleek head between his
hands. The baron's dark, mocking eyes
looked ironically into bis. Jacques gazed
into them for an instant, then leaned
back and laughed. He rose.
"And why," he asked of the astonished
officials, "do you think this man is the
Baron von Helmholz?"
There was an instant of dismayed sil
ence. Than as the idea that they had
caught a stool pigeon flashed across
their minds, an excited sputter of half
hearted protestation broke loose. The man
answered to a dot the description of Von
Helmholz. He had his papers, his jewelry,
sleeve links with the arms and mono
gram, all the earmarks of identity with
which it is possible to be plastered.
"Somebody speak to him in German. '
Jacques said dryly, "I doubt if he can
even talk it."
A police, polyglot interpreter, perhaps,
of a commissariat as cosmopolitan in its
cases as one might find in any part of the
globe, addressed the suspect. He merely
laughed. As for the others present, I
never saw such a group of men so over
whelmed with mortification. But our
friennd Pervier kept his mechancial mind
on the ball.
"At least, monsieur," he said in his dry
voice, "what the mind of this Impostor
tell you ?"
"Not much," Jacques answered, "be
yond the fact that he laid this false trail
as a friendly act that was generously
rewarded by Von Helmholz so that the
baron could get safely into Germany with
his wife, whom he now holds there for
ransom and with, I should say, perfect
legal right.
There was a moment of stupefaction.
Then Pervier demanded:
"But Alexis and Antonio?"
"They are there, too. It was a bargain.
The mind of this friend and ally of the
baron tells me he persuaded his wife to
go with him and offered her Alexis as
an inducement. The baron had long ago
consoled himself for the deprivation of
his wife, but he found it difficult to sub
stitute the remittances enjoyed from her
father.
"After all, a woman is only a woman,
while a mark Is no longer a mark. Pesos
are better. The baron could not remon
strate with his father-in-law, because the
mind of the old gentleman was not work
ing. One can scarcely blackmail a man
who no longer remembers what he has to
fear, and the baron could not hope to ac
complish any thing with the senora be
cause she never had known anything a
bout the affair. Or if she did she would
have told the baron to go to the devil.
A woman of that sou-splitting nature
who spends carefully or at times mag
nificently, but always for full value re
ceived, would see her husband go to Bil
boa prison rather than suffer the con
tinued anguish of suoh extortions, the
cutting away piecemeal of her flesh and
blood—and to a man whom she detested,
whose revelation of a vicious nature had
not only ruined her daughter's life but
loaded her mother with a burden of care.
"The mind of this man transfered in a
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flash to mine what it takes me longer to
interpret verbally. That you may better
understand, messieurs. I would say that
nY r ® an thoughts has this double
quality, that one part of it receives in
stantaneously the whole picture of a hap
pening in any tense— past, present, or
future— and then the other part of the
mind examines this impression more
slowly and interprets it.
"Heretofore you have seen me hold
lightly the head of the accused and con
tinue to look into his eyes as I translated
to you his thought. In the present case
a single glance has been enough, and
now I may appear to you as if recon
structing the affair as a result of my
discovery that this man is an impostor.
As a matter of fact, he knows all about
the case. The brief contact of our mental
ities was like the exposure of one photo
graphic film against a negative already
developed. The impression is all there in
detail, as much of it as was presented to
the mind of this man, and it is now in
my mind.
"But I will say frankly that I am ex
amining its details as I go along. Just as
if you were in another room and I was
telling you in detail what I thought to be
the story depicted in an illustrative
painting by Jerome.
"But the simile is not good because this
man is laughing at lis. To him the whole
thing is a farce, in the nature of an es
capade for which he is richly compensat
ed. A general resemblance to the baron
may have suggested the idea or elaborat
ed it after it had already occured to the
baron that the mental faculties of Senor
Tiueo might get worse instead of letter,
that there was no hope of his doing any
business with the senora on the same
basis, but that in her case maternal love
might prove as strong an inducement as
fear of exposure in the case of her hus
band.
"The baron laid the situation before
this man, a friend of sorts aud interested.
The baron explained to him that since
there had been no divorce, no annulment,
once he got his wife across the German
frontier he could hold her there with
every legal right. But the actual enleve
ment, the abduction of her against her
will, would be difficult and dangerous.
She could scarely be kidnaped, but she
might be lured away if the lure were
sufficiently attractive. So he dangled
Alexis as the willing bait.
"The baron mauaged to persuade them
both that he desired not Pilar but Pilar's
dot. And Pilar, utterly weary of her
mother's close espionage and guardian
ship and infatuated with the Russian,
found herself willing to take the chance.
As for Alexis, that impoverished and ex
iler noble had nothing to lose. And that
is about all, messieurs, that this man
knows about the business beyoud the
details of their flight to Belfort, where
they left the car and preceeded in anoth
er. He does know the details of the affair
nor wbat became of the senora's jewels.
The whole thing is to him a tremen
dous and profitable joke. He does not be
lieve himself to be in any damger of pun
ishment beyond a fine for being in
France under false impersonation and in
possession of the passport of another.
For, as Mr. Pei vier tells us, he has not
presented this passport for vise since It
was in his possession, not having gone
in and out of Germany himself. He has
merely changed clothes and personal ef
fect» with the baron, this to give the
baron time to entrench himself in his own
country.
"And that, messieurs,
eluded, "is all 1 am able to obtain from
the mind of this Spaniard."
He rose, glanced about with his whim
sical smile, then said briefly. "With your
kind permission, I'll take my leave."
There came then the question that I
had anticipated. An officer, who looked
very much disgrunted, asked: "His name,
monsieur?
"O—that ! One does not need to be a
mind reader to know his name. I think he
will tell you himself if you will ask him.
But if he desires to carry on the farce,
then M. Pervier can tell you his name, or
even my friend here, M. Clark, who was
present when M. Pervier described the
affair to me."
I thought instantly of the man Pervier
mentioned as having been at table with
»»
Jacques con
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But it was unnecessary for any of us
mention it. The Spaniard bad been
listening with an expression in which
wonder, admiration and amusement, blend
or alternated. He said now in excell
French, and with the air of one who,
feeling that the game is up, might as well
present no more obstacles that might en
tail unnecessary discomfort to himself.
have read of the extraordinary powers
Monsieur Hu-gez, gentlemen, and I
owe him an apology for having thought
him a fraud. But I must now admit my
self a convert. I am Capt. Rodriguez
Guardo, of course, late of the royal Span
ish navy. Barvon von Helmholz is an old
friend, and I was glad to serve him in
this amusing adventure. Besides, we had
a common ground of grievance. I had my
own little score to settle. One of the Sen
orlta Tineos had jilted me Just before
our betrothal, and her sister had disap
pointed and humiliated my friend, Von
Helmbolz, before he was able to claim
her as his bride. He has got over that
sure,
grande passion and will, I am
stick to his bargain with her and any
which her mother may propose to him."
I ventured to ask If I might pose a
question and was accorded permission
do so. "Why was not the marriage
immediately annulled when his bride re
fused to remain wth Von Hemholz?"
Captain Guardo smiled, "Discretion ad
vises me not to presume to say, mon
sieur, but from what I have already
stated I should say that the plausible
reason ought not to tax the imagination
man much in need of money might be
persuaded to forego the delight of his
bride's arms whilst yet desiring to retain
hold upon her prospecting inheritance
So a compromise may have been affected
Supposing a shipping merchant to have
amassed a large fortune by the ravltail
ement of such a submarine as the one
known to you Yankee subchacers and
mine sweepers as Penmarch Pete? That
would scarely have been manged without
the—to quote from you again—friendly—
neutrality of some high Spanish offleals.
Chic, to carry off one's wife and her lov
er and her once bull fighting chauffeur
and duenna, and lock 'em all up together
—heln? But as this astonishing gentle
men points out, I have been guilty of no
offense beyond that of masquerading as
the baron. I have not even used his pass
port, and I know nothing whatever about
the Jewels. To assist you In this matter,
in the hope that you may deal more len
iently with me, 1 am willing to give yon a
tuyau —a tip."
"And what is that, Capt.?
presiding officer.
^h, bien. I know the estimable Senora
Tineo very well, and that so good a busi
ness woman must certainly have insured
her Jewels against theft. But I have not
read In the papers of her having pre
sented any claim."
That Is so," Pervier muttered. "But
she would scarely do so if she suspect
ed their having been stolen by her daugh
ter."
asked the
the
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No," said Gnardo, cheerfully, "nor If
she suspected their having been stolen by
herself."
"But why should she do that?" Per
vier demanded for he was as I have
said, an observer, not a reasoner. 1 think
the answer to this question was obvious
enough to all the rest of ns.
"Well," said GaardOtH
vious to mamma that if the beautiful
Pilar bad been abducted by her husband
and got safely Into Cfermany, It would
be a hard job to get her back again.
The German law gives a man absolute
auhtority over thé person and property
of his wife. But a charge of jewel rob
bery would be another matter, theft being
now extraditable In all nations. So I
wonld hazard the guess that the old lady
tucked away her jewels in order to make
them the point d'appul—the fundamental
charge either against the baron, If she
»nspec«d the troth, or against the Rus
sian perhaps. This also wonld lead ardor
to tint chase. Nobody greatly blames a
beautiful woman for bolting with her
lover. But if they bolt oft with a million
Pesos' worth of jewels it is another pair
of sleeves."
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it would be ob
•>
Jacq.es laughed and threw out his
hands vlth a Gallis gesture. "My compli
ments," he said to Guardo. "Although
outside my province, I may say that the
same idea occurred to me. The senora has
not accused her daughter of the theft
while claiming the jewels to have been
stolen. So the fact of her having put in
claim for insurance indemnity is most
signficant. To have done so would, as
she must well know, have made her liable
a crimminal charge bad she done what
the Capt. Guardo suggests."
And that, so far as concerned Jacques,
was all. And I must admit it was quite
enough.
The sequel of the affair proved both
Jacques and Capt. Guardo to be entirely
correct. Under such a strict examination
the French police alone are able to
give whilst remaining always rigidly po
lite, the senora broke down and confessed.
She entered subsequently into commercial
dealings with Von Helmbolz by which he
divorced, then restored the lovely and im
petuous Pilar, who immediately married
her titled troubadour, retaining in their
service the ex-bull fighter.
The health of Senor Tlneo went from
bad to worse, and when he died some
months later the blackmail that may have
been hanging over him like the sword of
Damacles suspended by a golden thread
rather than one of the black fillaments
from the bead of Pilar, evidently died
with him.
But here again for the third time I
found myself still undecided as to wheth
Jacques was indeed clairvoyant or
even a more astute reasoner than I had
yet given him credit for being.
On our way to the Rlverva, when I be
lieved, and for that matter still believe,
myself to have been in possession of as
many of the facts as he was, I had been
unable to discover a clew the size of a
brad on which I could hang any theory
all. I was convinced that at last he
would have to sidestep or stall or make
perfectly blank guess.
But now working backword from the
answer, just as in the Vibart and Do Gas
tello cases, I saw what might have been
fastened upon by a mind far more acute
than my own. There was what I have
noted previously about the utter disap
pearance of three such remarkable per
sons as Pilar, Alexis, and Antonio. I had
considered the possibility of their having
fled by the sea. but this would have been
difficult and sure to leave some trace,
and it did not match up' with the find
ing of the car at Belfort.
It was now plain enough that, having
gone voluntarily to the edge of Alsace,
they could have slipped across this strip
territory redeemed to France, when the
baron would have found means for their
entry into Germany. And. once in Ger
many, they were as if drooped into an
oubliette Franco-Prussian relations were
not so cordial that the French police
could hope for much cooperation with
their German confreres, either in that or
anl ohter similar case. We have had a
sample of that in our own country in
the Instance of a draft evader. I do not
know by what means the baron persuad
ed the lovers to put their trust in him
and to convince them that he would real
ly play the game. But he manged the first
and actually carried out the latter, so
far as I know. The chances are that he
saw too much trouble and danger in an
attempt at highhandedness or that be
didn't have the means at his disposition
for locking up Alexis and Antonio and
possessing himself of his maiden wife.
No doubt the tea was cold.
Coming then to Jacques' detection of
Guardo's, f alse impersonation, that was
not so difficult. Jacques was o portrait
painter, trained to the study of national
types, and also something of a linguist.
His ear was acute, like all bis other
special senses. He had instantly failed
to detect the least Teutonic trait in
Guardo, either of physiogouomy or ac
cent. The Hapsburg strain to be found
in some Spaniards, and also the Teu
tonic lineaments acquired from the Span
ish occupation of Holland under the Duke
of Alva, might be expected to fool the
police, but Jacques w r as observing the
man from the opposite angle, not tbink
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no other
Ing of Spanish blood in the Teuton but
Teuton blood in a Sapiard, and of this
he could find no trace. Perhaps also the
mimicked Prpsslan bow from the hips
was too supple, and the glow of humor
iu the man's eyes more Sancho Panaa
than Fliegende Blatter.
Also I discovered that he had made a
slip. He had said that he doubted if
Guardo spoke German, and it transpired
that he did Indeed speak fluent German.
I taxed Jacques with this point when his
answer was of a sort I might have ex
pected and which augmented, if possible,
my tremendous respect for his nlmble
ness of wit, or rather perhaps nimbleness
is not the word. At any rate, his treat
ment of my query went to reinforce his
claim of mental vision rather than to
impair it.
"Why of course, Johnny " he answered
with his mocking smile. "He speaks Ger
man but he thinks in Spanish. Just
you speak good enough French but from
lack of constant practice still think in
English. And I was reading bis mind,
not his lips."
"But you don't think in Spanish," I
objected.
"No," he answered quickly, "but I read
Spanish and I was reading his mind. Its
thought was Spanish as much as the
phrases of a Spanish book."
Now what is one to do with a man like
that? I gave it up for the present, but de
cided to stick aronud for one more case
and if that left me still at sea to give it
up' and go back home admitting defeat,
ceding Jacques the victor's palms by de
fault.
And it was lucky 1 did so. Lucky for
Jacques, as this case still to be described
was a distinct departure from the others
and one on which this mind reader, pseu
door genuine came within a hair's
breadth of furnishing a murder mystery
for some other clairvoyant or master of
deduction.
(Copyright 11)25: By the Chicago
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