The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-11

careless foot. button. evidently from
mans clothing. 1t was an ordinary black
enamelled metal trousers button; II had
evidently been torn off and clumsily sewn
on again, for a quantity OF stout white
thread is still clinging to it. This button
must have belonged either to a single man
or to one with an idle wife.
If one black button has been sewn on
with white thread another is likely 10 be-
may be wrong, but / regard this button
as clue.
The pantry was thoroughly swept-
cleaned indeed. BY Rufus wife the day
before she left. Neither my father nor
Rufus could have dropped IL there and
they never had occasion TO go TO the closet
The murderer dropped the button.
I have "A white pasteboard box which /
have marked Clues" In it / have put the
button.
This afternoon Phoebe Dole came in.
She is very kind. She has recut the dyed
silk. and she fitted IL 10 me. Her great
shears. clicking fin my ears. made me ner-
vous. I did not feel like stopping to think
about clothes. hope did not appear un-
grateful, for she is the only soul beside
Henry who has treated me as before this
happened.
Phoebe asked me what found to busy
myself about, and replied: az am search
ing for my fathers murderer" She asked
If thought should find a clue, and re-
ton then. but I did not speak of IT, She
said Maria was not very well.
/ saw her eyejng the stains on the doors
and l said had not washed them off. FOR
thought they might yet serve a purpose
IN detecting the murderer. She looked at
those on the entry door-the brightest ones
and said she did not see how they could
help. for there were no plain finger marks
there. and she should think they would
make me nervous.
I'm beyond being nervous" said T.
Saturday.--Today have found some
thing which I cannot understand I have
been at work in the room where my father
came 70 his dreadful end or course
some Of the most startling evidences have
been removed. The bed is clean and tho
carpet washed, but the worst horror OF IL
al clings 20 that room. The spirit Of muir
der seems 20 haunt II. II seemed 20 me at
first that could not enter that room, but
in il made a strange discovery.
My father. while he carried little money
about his person, was In the habit %
keeping considerable sums in the house.
there Is no bank within ten miles How
ever. he was wary: he had a hiding ufaca
which he had revealed to no one but N.Y.
self He had a small stand in his room,
near the head OF his bed. Under this
stand. or rather under the TOP of IL he
had tackled large leather wallet In this
no kept all his spare money. remember
how his eyes twtnkled when he showed IL
20 me.
The average mind thinks things have
either got 10 be in or on" said nv father
They don't consider there's WAYS Of get
ting around grayitation and calculation. -
In searching my fathers room called
20 mind that saying Of his. and his pecu-
liar system Of concealing and then made
my discovery. / have argued that in a
search Of this kind / ought not ONLY 10
search for hidden traces OF the criminal.
pat Tor everything which had been for
any reason concealed. Something which
my father himself has hidden, something