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The voice then asked: "Can you tell me where Clarke's Brooklyn relatives can be found?"

"I cannot I know nothing whatever of Mr Clarke's family"

"I must find them Clarke has committed suicide, and it is necessary to notify his friends and--"

Morton's brain blurred with the force of this blow, "You don't o We ive us any information--"

"Who are you?"

"I'm a representative of The Recorder Can I see you for a fewfor the theatre," hurriedly answered Morton, his voice as casual as he could make it; "and I fear it is impossible"

"It is very important, Dr Serviss, for Pratt has told me that you know the Lamberts and all about their relationship to Clarke If you--"

"It is quite i up the receiver For a fewfrom point to point of this new co consequences of this tragic and terrible deed he bitterly exclaimed: "You've reached us now, Anthony Clarke! You have involved the wo sensation Your na your whole life You could not have hit upon a rew each moment more satanic "My name will be involved quite as prorief and remorse, will hatehis death But, most important of all, ill be the effect of this news on Viola's ht ran to her as he had just left her radiant with hope and new-found happiness, and it seeh the dead ain final dominion over her His shadow hovered in the air above her head ready to envelop her

"If I can only keep this frothened I must keep it frohastly story" He chilled with a fuller sense of the suicide's power to torture her "She ht She will be called before the coroner, her h the street--" He groaned with the shaination bodied forth "Pratt's hand will also be felt He will have his own tale, his own method of evasion, and will not hesitate to dishonor her"