The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-21

Nonsense, sirr replied with warmth
81 hope / can restrain myself as well as
any man, even under such provocation
as have lately received. You may de-
pend on me, sir, tha." -
eve lose time,' said Marston, seating
himself by me and cutting short what /
was saying in an exceedingly brusque
manner. .Come, Charles, you should
nat be interrupted"
But he was. / interrupted him the
whole time in spite Of continual efforts
on the part of Marston to make ms keep
silence. am not the man calmly to let
pass black insinuations against tho char
acter of friend. No; I stood up for
him. I am glad to think how stood up
for him, not only metaphorically, but in
the most literal sense of the term; for I
found myself continually getting up
and Marston as often pulling me down
again into my chair.
cam to speak, or is Middleton said
Charles at last in despair. ct will do
solo, or I Will keep silence; but reilly
am unequal to q duet"
''Sir George said Marston, t'will you
have the goodness to desire Col. Middle.
ton to be silent Or to leave tho room un-
til Charles has finished his story?'
! I was justly annoyed at Maryton's
manner of speaking of me, but as had
no intention to leave the room and miss
what was going on I merely bowed in
answer to a civil request from Sir George
and took up an attitude of dignifsd ST.
| lerce I felt that had done my part in
vindicating my friend, and.after all no
one evidently was accustomed to helieve
what Charles said.
Gas I was saying" he continued, 81
suspected Carr from the first. did not
like the look of him, and I purposely
pumped Middleton about him last night
at supper"
nearly burst out at the bare idea of
Charles daring to say he had pumped
me; but, as Will be seen, he could twist
anything that was said tosuch an extent
that it was perfectly useless to contra
dict him any longer. ssid not single
word and he went on
'All Middleton told me confirmed me
in my suspicious Sir John had been
murdered the night before Middleton
sailed for England, a whisper Of the
jewels having no doubt gone abroad.
Carr came on board next day and made
friends with Middleton. Whether he
had anything to do with the murder or
not God knows! but he found out-nay,
Middleton openly told him that he had
jewels of great value in his possession,
which he carried about on his person.
Carr was the only person aware of
that fact. What follows? Carr has Mid
dleton's address in London. Middleton
goes to the house and finds that his Sis
ter has moved to the next street. That
house to which he first went is broken
into and the poor woman in it is
murdered or dies of fright that same
night. I mention this as coincidence
number one. The following evening
Middleton, having by chance left the
jewels at home, dimes and goes to the
theatre by appointment with Carr.
| Unique cab accident occurs, in which
Middleton is knocked on the head and
rendered unconscious. Coincidence num-
Der two. Miss Middleton's house is
broken into that same night on Middle
tons return to it. Coincidence number
three. When put all this together last
night, remembering that Carr, by Mid
dleton's own account, was the only per-
son aware that he had jewels Of great
value in his keeping, felt absolutely
certain (as feel stilI that he had &C
cepted the invitation and come down
from London solely for the purpose of
stealing them. 1t was pure conjecture on
my part. ind I dared say nothing be-
yond begging Ralph not to leave the
jewels in the ibrary-which, however,
| he did. went straight off to my room
when the others went to smoke, but |
did not go to bed The more I thought
it over the more certain I felt that Carr
would not let slip such an opportunity;
the more convinced that an attempt
would be made that very night. I did
not know that he was not sleeping in
the house, but knew Ralph was at the
lodge, SO could not go and consult with
him as 1 should otherwise have done. I
thought Of going to Middleton, whose
room was close to mine, but on second
thoughts gave up the idea. I am glad I
did. At last determined I would wait
till the house was quiet, and that then
would go down alone and watch in
the library in the dark. I lay down
on my bed in my clothes to
wait, and them had been up
most of the night before with Denis,
was dead beat with acting and dancing
by i'll luck I fell asleep. When woke
up I found tony horror that it was close
on 4 o'clock. I instantly slipped off my
shoes and crept out of my room and
down the stairs I could not get to the
library from the hall, as the stage blocked
the way, and had to go all the way
round by the drawing room and morning
room. As went I thought how easy it
would be for Carr to force the lock Of
the drawer, and SO it flashed across me
could 1? Oh, Ralph" said Charles, 81
went down solely to look after your
property for you, but did think of it.
hope I should not have done it, but !
suddenly remembered how hard pressed
was for money, and I did think of the
crescent and how you would hardl y1niss
it and how--but what does it matter
now? When I got to the library
found was too late. The lock of the
drawer had been forced and it was emp
ty. There was nothing for it but to go
back to my room. felt as certain that
Carr had done it as that am standing