Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-30

~ rets y0u tine truth, ne 0I0n give any
name d al when he came 10 the hotel,
md w didn't ask any, Bliington, !. i.f
ingtcn myself oncs. trainer q Newmar-
ket Well, he's : very pleasant young man.
niCeNpoken, and that: but don't fancy
he's quite right In his head somehow.
With instructive cleverness. Gilbert Gil
aerslesve snatched Ct the opening Vt once.
head sympatlleti.aIiy; you've found that
ont already. have YOU? Well. he's subject
to deltsi1ns bit--iMcre harmless delus-
ions; but he's not At all DANGEROUS Excit-
able, very, when anything odd turns up;
he'll be calling himself Waring and giving
hinlself In charge or thi. murds'r, i dare
say when he comes to hear OF IT, Hut as
good hearted q fellow rs ever lived. though;
only trifte obstinate. Ifyou've any diff
| Guilty with him at any time, just send for
me. I've known him rom . boy He'll
do anything tell him"
Gilbert Gi,dersleeve ''a saw wv som m
thing definite must he done. and he trusted
to buster and well -knuwn name u carry
him through with r., Aud. indeed. lie had
said enough. From that moment forth the
Landlords suspicious were never even so
uIuCu nS HTOusen w Tile innocent, young
man with the preoecuped manner. who
knew Mr.. Gilder-leeve. The grca; q. C.'s
word was guarantee ciougl,----.or anyone
nut himself; and tn. great Q, T.. himself
knew 1t Why a cna,ce word from his
| lips was enough III protect Guy Warm;
from suspicion Who would ever believe,
then, anything 80 prtposteronslv inlproba-
murderer?
Not the police, you may be sure; nor the
Plymouth landlord.
He went out into The town, with his m nd
now filled full ol Il curious scheme. x pan
Of camnai !, doomed mp visibly he ore him.
Warm. was s,i l,a,.ftd therefore WariDe
must somehow have given cause or suspsc-
ion. Well, Warning was friend ct Montn-
que Nevitt's, and had evidently been at
Manbury, either with him or without him,
| immediately before -h'nl--the nntol-
tunate accident But as soon rs Waring
came to learn Of the discovery eftlie body,
which he would be sure to do from the
papers that evening at latest. he would see
ct once the full strength OF whatever sus-
picions might tell against him. Now Gil
bert 9ildersleeves experience os criminal
cases had abnndantiy shown him that q
suspected person. even when innocent. al
ways has one fixed desire in his head-to
gain time, anyhow. So Wuring would
naturally wish to gain time, at whatever
cost. There were evidently circumstances
connecting Waring with the crime; there
were none ut all, known to the outer
world. connecting the eminent lawyer.
Therefore the eminent lawyer argued to
himself as coolly, almost as ifii had been
somebody elses case, not his own, he was
conducting therefore, if an immediate
means OF escape Is provided for WAITING,
Waring will undoubtedly TALL blind.oid in-
to 4.
Not that he meant to let Guy pay the
n IL
He was no hardened villain. He had still
q conscience. I the worst came to the
worst, he said 10 imself he would tell all
openly. rather then let an innocent man
suffer. But. like everything else. in sc-
cordance with his own inference from his
observation '.ui,, q Others, he. too wanted !.
he could ael gain time ans by XXI kindly
helping Guy to escape for the present,
why, he would gladly do so. An innocent
man may be suspected for the moment,
Gilbert Gildersleeve thought to himself,
with lawyers blind confidence; but I'M
der our English law he need never, at
least. fear that the suspicion will be per-
manent. For lawyers repeat their own in
credible commonplaces about the absolute
perfection OF English law so often that at
| last. by sort OF retributive Nemesis, they
really almost come to believe them.
Filled with these ideas, then, which rose
naturally up in his mind without taking
the trouble, as it were. definitely to prove
them. Gilbert Gildersleeve hurried on
through the crowded streets Of Plymouth
town till he reached the Office of the Lon
don and South African Steamship Com
pany. There he entered with an air Of de-
once by the steamer Cctewayo, due
to call at Plymouth. outward bound, that
evening. He had looked up particulars Of
sailing in the papers in the hoael. and
asked now, as II Tor himself, tor large and
roOmy berth, with all his usual self posses
sion and bOldness Of manner. The clerk
gazed at him cariessly; that big and burly
man with the great awkward hands raised
NO picture In his brain of the supposed
murderer of McGregor in the wood at Mann
bury, as that murderer had been described
to him by the police that morning, from Q
verbal portrait after the landlord of the
Talbot Arms. This colossal, red- aced.
loud-spoken person, who required q large
and rOOmy berth, was certainly not the
rather slim young man, little above the
medium height, with dark moustache
and gentle, musical voice, whom the inn
keeper had seen in an excited mood on the
hunt for McGregor along the slopes Of
Dartmoor.
what manner" the clerk asked, briskIy,
after Gilbert Gilaersleeve had selected his
state-rOom from the plan. with some show
o. lutefeSb ~ 10 ltS De9n& We'll '8nl0SmpS
and not too near the noise Of the engines.
Ellington" the barristcr answered,
without aiin,nier Of hesitation. arthur
Standish Ellington, II you want the full
name. Thirly-two will suit me very we'll,
Think, and I IL pay for il now. Go aboard
when she's sighted, suppose; nine oclock,
OF Whereabouts"
The clerk made out the ticket In the
name he was told. Yes, nine o'clock,
he said, curtly .All luggage to be
on board the tender by eight. sharp.
very late, MI. Ellington. Lucky we've
8 room thAt1l suit you. I'm sure.
Il isn't often We have berths left amid
ships like this on the day of sailing"
Gilbert Giidersleeve pretended TO look
uncnncerned once more. NO. suppose
not. !" he answered. in . carel. s. voice.
People generally know their minds
rather longer beforehand. But I'd tele-
gram from the Cape this morning that
calls me over Immediately"
He folded up his ticket and pnt II in his
pocket. Then he pulled out roll Of notes
and paid the amount I'm full. The clerk
gave him change promptly. Nobody could
ever have SUSPECTED ~ solid man as the
great @. G. Of any more serious crime or
nlisdenleanor than drinking the second
service on Sunday evening There was 4