one
night while walking together up Clark street about 11:30 o'clock,
and at Huron street the doctor requested Long to accompany him as
far as Division street on a car, as he did not know what might
happen to him. Passing Dillon's book store Frank Scanlan was met,
and he went on home with the doctor.

A CHAPTER OF INFAMY.

Dr. Cronin's friends were dumbfounded when they opened their morning
papers and found themselves confronted by these dispatches. His
opponents, on the other hand, were in high glee, and quoted the news as
vindicating their own acuteness of perception. But the Toronto end of
the conspiracy had scarcely got into active operation. The initial
dispatch of Friday was intended simply as a feeler. Long returned to
the charge on Saturday with a second circumstantial story that
completely eclipsed his first effort. It was as follows:

After Cronin and his party--a man and woman--left Toronto yesterday
on the Grand Trunk train moving west, your correspondent
telegraphed a friend at Hamilton a description of the trio and
requested that he should keep a sharp look-out for them; also that
he should wire regarding all their movements and follow them, no
matter where they went. In case they separated he was to put men on
the track of the woman and strange man and to follow Cronin. This
afternoon at 4:10 o'clock a message arrived stating that Cronin had
left Hamilton alone, and was on the train scheduled to arrive at
Toronto about 5:30 this evening.

Dr. Cronin was not on that train.

Shortly after 7 o'clock a telephone message announced that the
Doctor was in this city at the Rossin House, King street, West.

The correspondent sought out the fugitive and greatly surprised him
when he answered his knock at the door.

"Well, Doctor, back again?" was the greeting, to which the Doctor
answered: "Well, ----," calling the correspondent by name, "it is
really too bad that you should dog me round in this shape. What is
your object in doing it? I have committed no crime and cannot see
why you should thrust my name before the public as you did this
morning in the _Empire_ (a Toronto paper). You lied when you stated
that Jim Lynch accompanied me. I don't even know the man."

"Well, Cronin, you must certainly know that the people generally,
and your Chicago friends particula