Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-04

DO not asitate yourself, Miss DcRo.
settle. Leave all to me. The right men
shall yet stand on the gallows trap"
Mem exclaimed Jennie Campbell.
Without noticing her exclamation the
detective rcmarkcd: with YOU permits
sion. Miss DeROsette, I would like to visit
tho attic at the top OF the house. I neg
lccted to do so on the night OF the MUIR
der"
The attic? Why, you--"
II merely wish to see whether there is
any evidence that it was tenanted prior
To the murder"
"Oh, l am sure it was not. I have the
key in my room. visited the attic on
the eighteenth and rummaged two trunks
searching for old letters. But come, Jcn-
ME. will get the key on the floor above"
Five minutes later Miss Hattie unlocked
the attic door and the party entered.
The rays Of the sun strcamed in through
the low windows, lighting up the place
sufficiently for the detectives purpose.
If you recognize the slightest change in
the location of any article in this attic,
Miss DeRosctte, from the position Il. occu.
pied when you were last here, please note
it,"
II merely examined the contents of
these two trunks, MIR. Seilars.'
We'll, please do 80 again." said the de-
tcctive a she raised the trunk lids.
ut would be impossible to note any
change in the contents of the trunks, Air.
Sellars. AS you SEQ, there is little else but
letters. papers, and odds aud ends cAst in
in Il miscellaneous tumble, and everything
else seems as it was. 1t almost seems az
though there was a tobacco smell peryad-
I'M. the garnet. Tint was not here be
fore"
There certainly is now" said Jennie.
Some one must have lscn smoking ci-
CARS here. and quite recently
The windows are all ~clostsl;' observed
The detective. ut may have been sprne
days ago. You notice no changes ON the
top of the contents of the trunks, Miss
DeItosettcT'
None, Mr.. Scllars. Stay! That leath-
or II I left last. 1 rcmelnhcr. and my last
act was to cast in Il bundle of letters tied
with ii yellow ribbon. 1t should lie on
top. Why, l sec nothing of it!'
Careful. Miss DeEosctte. CAREFUL
YES. butt"
Miss Hattie had half of the contents re-
moved from the trunk.
Here is the PACKAGE she suddenly
exclaimed. why, it is buried in this cor.
nrr. and l am certain I left it on top Of all
else. Tho trunk has been empticd and
ritled. There is no doubt of It,"
rs the package tied as you left ity'
why. no. l left it tied in a bow knot. X
"Indced.!"
"Oh. MIR. Scllars, the letters are not all
here"
Arc you surey'
Certainly, l am! This is a package o,
letters that my father received from Her
man Cravcn's mother after her elopement
with Stephen Craven. I read enough to
ascertain TINT some of them were very
sad. The outside one here I left in the on,
velopc. with the directions gu the outside
and in view. 1t is no longer here"
let us empty the trunk entirely sait
the detective.
They did 40, but found naugllt in it saw,
letters and old papers.
Now this other one" said Sellars.
The contents was soon removed, bu1
nothing of a startling nature wa revealed
Replace these articles. Hannah sait
Scllars, while we make the rounds Of TIL,
attic"
/, Every nook and corner was examined
but nothing unusual was discovered.
"If cigars have been smoked here" oh
served the detective, az the party uearet
the stairway again, neither the stuhs no,
matches have been left behind. Has Her
man ever visited the attic to your knowi
edge, Miss DcRosette!'
''He has not. There is but one key, au.
it has never been in his possession. I,
fact, there is nothing in the attic Of inter
est to him, unless indeed, it be his moth
cr's letters, and he knows not of them"
1 His father. | believe. hos been deat
some years? Where did he der
$ when Herman came to my father, Blu
: little more than two years ago, be state,
A that his father fell a victim to yellow feve
i'll New Orleans THE year previous"
Yes; well, let US descend, and I reoues
you all to maintain silence in regard t
t orr visit to the attic"
$ II wish might visit Robert in jail, an,
II assure him of my continued faith in hi
r. integrity" said Hattie, as the party De
seconded the stairs.
"You must content yourself In vritin
him. Miss DeRosette. On no acooun
Il would l have you visit the Jail. Mis-
Campbell can bear your missives.'
"Oh. l have already horne several" sal,
IL Miss Jennie, and n great comfort the
$ were to my poor brother"
4 II shall visit him this evening" obsery
cd the detective: but I would not hav
him appear too hopeful. And now good
by. You may not see me again for som
y days: but remember, you have my pledg
that no harm shall come to the one 70
d both love-"
v An hour later. seated in the private OF
fee of the recorder, Sellars was intentl
going over the last Will and testament q
the deceased banker, word by word.
AT seven O'Clock in the evening he ell
tered the Office of Jailer Filyaw and VI
d conducted by that individual to the deb,
ors' room. where an anxious prisoner, VIII
had been informed by his loving sister 9
his contemplated visit, awaited him.
s CHAPTER XVI.
1t On the morning OF the sixth at S:3
O'Clock Sellars entered the door of til
e postofice, and five minutes later was clio
d eted with the postmaster.
n. "Not a thing, Sellarsi Not a thin
&c That is, aside from the usual routine ban
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