ear as if I were in excellent humour and
planning for the future.

And now, good-bye to life. People have called me eccentric, they may be
right. This last deed of mine at least, is out of the ordinary. No one
will say now that ended my life in a moment of darkened mind, in a rush
of despair. My brain is perfectly clear, my heart beats calmly, now that
I have arranged everything for my departure from this world of falsehood
and unreality. My last deed shall go to prove to the world how little
actual, apparent facts can be trusted.

The one thing real, the one thing true in all this world of falsehood
was your love and your trust. I thank you for it.

THEODOR BELLMANN,
known as
JOHN SIDERS.

Joseph Muller refuses to take any particular credit for this case. The
letter would have come in time to prevent Graumann's conviction without
his assistance, he says. The only person whose gratitude he has a right
to is Prosecuting Attorney Gustav Schmidt. He managed to have the Police
Commissioner in G---- read the letter in detail to the attorney. But
Muller himself knows that it failed of its effect, so far as that
dignitary was concerned. For nothing but open ridicule could ever
convince a man of such decided opinions that he is not the one
infallible person in the world.

But Albert Graumann had learned his lesson. And he told Muller himself
that the few days of life which might remain to him were a gift to him
from the detective. He felt that his weak heart would not have stood the
strain and the disgrace of an open trial, even if that trial ended in
acquittal. Two months later he was found dead in his bed, a calm smile
on his lips.

Before he died he had learned that it was the undaunted courage of his
timid little old aunt that had brought Muller to take charge of the case
and to free her beloved nephew from the dreaded prison. And the last
days that these two passed together were very happy.

But as aforesaid, Muller refuses to have this case included in the
list of his successes. He did not change the ultimate result, he merely
anticipated it, he says.

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