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

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TO those who can use them
There is a chance that / shall not be
quite unaided. Henry has promised not TO
come again until / bid him. but he is 10
send a detective here from Roston-one
whom he knows In fact. the man is a
cousin of his. or else there would be small
hone OF our securing him, even II We're 10
offer him a large price.
The man has been remarkably success
full in several cases, but his health is not
good: the work is a severe strain upon his
nerves. and he is not driven 10 IL by any
lack of money. The physicians have for
hidden him to undertake any new case for
a wear at least but Henry Is confident
that We may rely upon him for this.
| will now lay this aside and go TO bod.
Tomorrow is Wednesday; my father VIII
have been dead seven weeks Tomorrow
morning ] commence the work. in which.
If il be in human power. aided by higher
wisdom. shall succeed.
CHAPTER Iy.-THE BON OF CLUES
(The pages which follow are from Miss
Fairbanks journal. begun after the con-
clusion OF the notes already given to the
reader.)
Wednesday night have resolved to
record carefully each day the progress ]
make in my examination OF the house.
began today at the bottom-that is. with
the room least likely to contain any clue.
the parlor. ! took chalk line and yard
stick and divided the floor into square
yards, and every one of these squares [
examined on my hands and knees.
found in this way literally nothing on the
carpet but dust, lint. two common white
pins and three inches of blue sewing silk.
At last / got the dustpan and brush and
yard by yard swept the floor. / took the
sweepinss in a white pasteboard box out
into the yard in the strong sunlight and
examined them. There was nothing but
WOODEN thread--evidently a travelling from
some dress material. The blue silk and
the brown thread are the only possible
clues which I have found today, and they
are hardly possible. Rufus wife can prob
ably account for them. / have written TO
her about them.
Nobody has come to the house all day.
I went down to the store this afternoon
to get some necessary provisions and peo-
pie stopped talking when ! came in. The
clerk took my money as if Il were poison.
Thursday night.-Today I have searched
the sitting room, out of which my
fathers bedroom opens, I found two
bloody foot prints on the carpet, which TO
one has noticed before-perhaps because
the carpet itself is red and white. ] used
a microscope which i had in my school
work. The footprints. which are close
TO the bedroom door pointing out into the
sitting room, are both from the right foot;
one is brighter than the other, but both
are faint. The foot was evidently either
bare or clad only in a stocking-the prints
are so widely spread. They are wider than
my fathers shoes. / tried one in the
brightest print.
I found nothing else new in the sitting
room. The blood stains on the doors
which have been already noted are still
there. They have not been washed away.
first by order of the sheriff and next by
mine. These stains are of two kinds; one
looks as If made by bloody garment
brushing against it: the other, / should
say, was made in the first place by the
grasp of a bloody hand, and then brushed
over with cloth. There are none of these
marks upon the door leading into the front
entry and into the china closet. The china
closet is really pantry, although I use it
only for my best dishes and preserves.
Friday night.-Today l searched the
closet. One of the shelves, which is
about as high as my shoulders, was
blood stained. 1t looked TO me as IL the
murderer might have caught hold of it to
steady himself. Did he turn faint after
his dreadful deed? Some tumblers of jelly
were ranged on that shelf and they had
not been disturbed. There was only that
bloody clutch on the edge.
l found on this closet floor, under the
shelves, as if it had been rolled there by