Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-05-16
CHAPTER III.

and a very expensive one, as Lord Cal
istOn found to his cost. But then, the
presiding deity, by name Lena Sarschine,
was very beautiful, and insisted upon
having her dwelling fitted up in a cor
responding manner, so CallistOn gave
way and spent a small fortune on this
bijou residence.
DOWker knew q good many Of these
little worldly wise Ewes, the existence of
whom was not supposed to be known to
the polite world, so he felt quite at ease
when, upon ringing the bell, he was adj
mitted to the garden by q solemn-lOOklng
man servant. He was we'll acquainted
with Collisions life, both public and
private-neither side being very reput-
able-bUt then, with such advantages of
wrong doing as the world now offers, tits
hard to be virtuOus.
CallistOn had come into the title
while IN his childhood, and, the estate
having been we'll looked after during his
minority, he found plenty of money to
spend when he came of age; and he GER
tainly did spend it. HOrse-racing and
yachting were his two principal pleas
ures, but curiOusly enough his name was
never mixed up with any Weu-knOWn
woman, and few of his friends knew, eX-
cept by hearsaY, of the divinity who
dWelt in Cleopatra Villa. Call1stOn had
fallen in love with her down in the cOun-
try some years before. Occasionally she
went to the theater, and sometimes drove
in the park, but at such rare intery ais
that few people knew who she was. Cal
listOn was very jealous of her and seldom
asked his friends to supper, but she was
reported by the few who had been thus
honored to be a very beautiful woman
| with charming manners. The general
/ opinion was that he would end up by
! marrying her, when his ENHANCEMENT
| with Lady BalscOmbe became kownn, and
/ hencefOrward he was seen more by that
! lady's side than in the neighbOrhOOd of
| st. Johns Wood.
DOWker, from some mysterious source
! only known to himself, was cOgnizant of
all this, and had now come down to dis
| cover what connection the establishment
! of St. Johns Wood had with the murder
| in Jermyn street.
He knew that CalIiston had gone off
| with Lady BalscOmbe, so said he had a
! message from him and would like to see
! Miss Sarschine. The servant showed
! him into a magnihcently furnished draw
ing room, where he waited the appear
| ance of the lady, intending when she en-
! tered to ask her ali particulars about her
maid Lydia Fenny, with a view to dis
| covering the perpetratOr Of the crime.
| Being OF an inqulrlng turn OF mind
! DOWker rose from his seat when the door
| was closed, and, folding his hands behind
his back, strolled about the room, his
lank, gray-elad figure seeming sadly out
of place.
1t was not a very large apartment, but
luXuriOusIY furnished, the walls being
hung with pale green silk draped IN
graceful folds and caught up here and
there with thick silver cords. The car
pet, also of pale-green, was embroidered
with bundles of white flowers, and the
| window curtains were OF soft, white lib
erty silk. There were two windows on
one side in deep recesses filed with
brilliantly tinted flowers, white blossoms
| predominating, and at the end Of the
room we're folding doors opening into 6
conservatory filed with ferns, in the mid
die of which a small fountain splasheC
unsteady into a wide marble basin
There we're low velvet covered lOunginE
chairs all about, tables crowded witt
bric-a-brac and photographs In OZydiZeC
| silver frames, while here and there OF
the carpet were skins of bears and tigers
Contrary to the usual custom in drawing.
rooms, there was only one mirror, {
small oval glass over the mantel- piece
framed in pale-green plush. In the cor
/ ners were high palms and other tropica
vegetation, with white marble statues
peering from out of their green leaves
and in one corner a handsome grand
piano, on the top of which lay lot Of
sheet-muslc. The room was illuminate
by two or three tall brass lamps will
bright green shades smOthered in creamy
lace, and just over the piano were a mum
Der of quaintlooking weapons arranged
/ in a fantastic fashion. Highland broad
swords, Indian daggers and MayIa,
krisses we're all grouped round a small
silver shield handsomely embossed, an,
, though at first they seemed sOmewha
out of place against the rich silk hang
ings, yet when the eyes became aecus
4 toned to them the effect was not IN
pleasant.
. They we're arranged in a fantastic pat
tern, each side being the same, but her
s Dowker noticed with much curiosity tina
one side was incomplete, a Maylay kris
having been removed. He looked at tn
other side and there we're certainly tw
1 arranged crossways, but on the othe
there was only one. DOwker was startle
. by this discovery, as it seemed to pcin
to the fact that the crime had been com
. united by the missing kriss. He kne7
o the Maylays were q savage nation, an