The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-09-29

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"See, inspector. said Mr.. Clifford.
showing how exactly the piece Of lace
fitted into the torn lace Of the dress.
81 don't seem to understand" said
Sir JafYray, like one in complete be-
wilderment. "When did you find all
this outG Why, this morning thought
You had thrown up the case"
1.-THE scent was getting keener than
ever then, and wanted little help.
That was ALL" answered Mr.. Clifford.
with q emile. ~ had suspicious yester-
day or the day before. The thing looked
all so bright and clear against her lady
ship there that I began to suspect it,
and I wanted to know badly who it
was that was sending those anonymous
letters. All, you may well start. French
womanl" He turned to her. "You set
up the suspicion yourself when you did
that"
The woman tried to shrug her shout
ders in reply, but she failed.
II saw, as any one might have SEEM"
and he glanced hurriedly at the inspect
OF, "that whoever sent those letters had
a strong interest in getting Lady Wal.
cote into this trouble, and the fact that
the writer knew go much about where
the dagger and the bracelet were, or,
rather, where they were not, on the
night Of the murder made me quite
ready to think that she knew little
more. Again, another fact struck me
as peculiar. Why should Lady Walcote
carry away one bracelet only out of all
her jswelry? If she had wanted it for
its value, she'd have taken the lot, and
the odds were dead against her wearing
any such conspicuous piece Of jewslry
as an ornament when she was flying
from home and didn I want to be traced.
That set up the notion that these things
had been dropped just for effect, and
that whoever had dropped them had
done 1t with the object Of planting this
business on Lady Walcote.
"There was another little thing:
That bracelet was broken III two, sug-
costing that if the thing were genuine
there had been regular rough and
tumble struggle between the murdered
man and the woman who had done the
deed, but there was no evidence what
ever on the spot Of any struggle. bar
ring the bit of torn lace, while the two
parts of the bracelet were found at such
a distance from each other that only
most unusual sort Of struggle could
have caused that. This helped me to
think, therefore, that whoever had put
that bracelet there had first broken 1t
in two.
"But 1t was one thing to see that the
trail was too broad and another to find
the right track. l made up my mind
that if Lady Walcote had gone out in
tending to kill that Frenchman she
wouldn't have been 80 determined to
prove that she had been there as to use
a dagger which every one knew by
sight and to leave on the ground a
bracelet which all the countryside could
identify, a piece Of lace with enough
character in 1t to hang half q shopful Of
women and, as if that wasn't enough,
handkerchief with her name carefully
written in Haunting letters in the cor
ner.
"a handkerchief interrupted the
inspector.
"Yes, a handkerchief. You hadn't
heard Of that, but we knew Of it. Sir
Jaffray found it. Well, ! saw that the
whole thing had been planned and over
done. The proofs were too many, young
woman, and too plain. Well, then, the
question was, Who had done itp Obvi-
ously it was woman-60 things proved
that-and equally obvious it was some