The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-17
eno turned on the detective like a

wild animal at bay, bending her head
aside rs if half crouching between fear
and desperation, her large dark eyes
looking larger by contrast with the
blanched face in which not vestige of
color was left.
"Tbis is serious matter, Mr. Gift
ford" said Inspector Borderham.
"What grounds have your"
:, "Ask her TO tell you where is the bit
of lace that is torn from that place.
You'll see the pattern of the lace is
very marked one and the tear very SIM
gular in form. "
well, what do you say?" asked Mr..
Borderham, turning TO the woman.
"You need not answer unless you like,
and if YOU do answer what you say may
be used against you. Mind that. y
There was a pause, during which the
woman breathed twice through her
widespread nostrils Then, with an as
SUMPTION of indifference but i'll "a voice
that showed her nervousness, she said,
with shrug of the shoulders:
'How can / tell how tear every lit.
tie bit of lace that l wear?'
"Well, when did you wear that dress
LAST" asked Mr.. Clifford.
"How can / remember? Do you think
have but one?"
what dress did you wear the night
Pierre Turrian was killed."
IL don't remember. How can I?''
"You liel' cried Mr. Clifford sternly.
"You wore that dress, and you went TO
meet Pierre Turrian i'll it. You had it
on when you stabbed him to the heart,
and it was when you delivered that
blow that he clutched at your dress
and tore from it the piece of lace that
fits exactly into that tear. | have II
here, and myself took it from the dead
mans fingers. -
The woman reeled back before this
Indictment, and, cropping with her hands
behind her for the wall, leaned against
it for support, all the bravado and dar-
ing gone out of her manner.
1t is all lie, u lieW she gasped
through her livid lips, which would
hardly frame the words.
See inspector, said Nj. Clifford,
showing how exactly the piece Of lace
fitted into the torn lace of the dress.
81 don't seem to understand, said
Slr Jaffray, like one in complete be-
wilderment when did you find all
this out? Why, this morning thought
you had thrown up the case. +"
The scent was getting keener than
ever then, and | wanted little help.
That was al, " answered Mr.. Clifford.
With smile. II had suspicious yester-
Gay or the day before. The thing looked
all SO bright and clear against. her lady
snip there that / began to suspect it,
ana wanted to know badly who it
was that was sending those anonymous
-e''ers' All, you may well start, French
Woman!' He turned to her. "You set
up the suspicion yourself when you did
that "
Inc woman tried to shrug her shout
uers III reply, but she failed.
saw, as any one might have seen, 2"
'nd he glanced hurriedly at the inspect
Vi mat whoever sent those letters had
"srong interest i'll getting Lady Wal
Vo'e INTO this trouble, and the fact that
.ue writer knew so much about where
Tue dagger and the bracelet were, or,
4e'ner, where they were not, on the
nleht OF the murder made me quite
Ieauy 10 think that she knew a little
lnore' Again, another fact struck me
40 peculiar. Why should Lady Walcote
larry away one bracelet only out of all
ner ]ewelry? II she had wanted it for
s value, she'd have taken the lot, and
"e ouds were dead against her wearing
guy such conspicuous piece of jewelry
an ornament when she was flying
~ mom nome and didn't want to be traced.
t Ina' set up the notion that these things
. Eau Deen dropped just for effect, and
s na' whoever had dropped them had
tone IL with the object of planting this
BUSINESS on Lady Walcote.
m, inere was another little thing:
-nae bracelet was broken in two, sug-
ISSUING that If the thing were genuine
mere had been regular rough and
suinoie struggle between the murdered
dN ana the woman who had done the
aeeu' out there was no evidence what
r; ,ei On the spot Of any struggle, bar
s 'he bit of torn lace, while the two
pa,e Oh the bracelet were found at such
u's'ance from each other that only a
.os' unusual sort of a struggle could
th,u . caused that. This helped me tc
"s, therefore, that whoever had nut