Courier Democrat., 1903-02-05
CHAPTER x1v-tcont,nued.)

in a voice possessing very little inflec-
ton:
s'If did not come here in the inter.
est of the law, should beg your par
don for intruding thus upon you. The
preliminary survey that is always talk
en- directly murder is suspected has
been peculiarly lacking in anything
that can enlighten us We are, in fact,
as much in the dark as it is possible
to be. Plainly, man has been killed
that's all we know. 1 hope you will
bear in mind that it is your duty to an
swer me fully. and that any prevarica-
ton or concealment. however slight,
might mislead i'll a way fatal to the
search for the guilty person or per-
sons"
Again Julia bowed, this time very
coldly.
HERE'S a hard case to examine"
thought the man. looking at the beauti-
full face before him as if he would like
to read its secret.
He kne wthat he should learn here
only what she chose to have him know
OF her brothers life.
The detective who had been put upon
the case began to think he would find
it n more tangled one than he had at
first expected. He saw directly that
this woman had something to conceal.
and he wished to know everything.
He sat silent for a few minutes. not.
apparently. looking at her. but still
seeing her That told him that she
was not mourning very severely for
her brother.
Ibid your brother live here?" he
asked at last. +.
90" replied Julia.
"Since when?"
not for many years-not since he
became a man."
He was wealthy"
my father vas"
But your brother was not?"
Much of the property was lost dur
ing my fathers life. and Ralph soon
made away with the rest-that is, near
ly ell of it,"
Did your brother ever enter any
business?"
Yes
Julia was by no means expansive;
she replied. and that was nearly all
The man felt impatient enough with
her to have boxed her ears or have
shaken her we'll.
He must get at something that would
give him some correct idea of Ralph
Caryl's life. The nhe would be in po-
sition to know the young mans associ-
ates. friends and habits.
ttWhere?" he next asked.
I'm Boston"
In what kind of business?''
In commission house,
What firm?"
Really. l do not remember"
The detective looked calm. but it was
with difficulty that he restrained
movement of impatience.
However, he could find out the firm.
but this was the easiest way of doing
it, if only she chose to tell him.
do you happen to remember how
long ago it was that he entered busi-
ness?"
about three years ago, 1 should
think
Did he work in that way long?'
Only few months" /"
And since them"
when he left that firm he went to
Europe. He has been there ever since
until he returned. short time ago"
do you know why he left?"
No. I never knew much of my
brothers affairs"
apparently uOl. luQeeQ. Ollll, you
have been with him at the shore some
where of late. have you not?"
Now Julia inwardly trembled. She
did not intend, of course. that this man
should discover anything of the real
reason that had sent him to the shore.
but she was almost convinced he
would probe all her secrets; his pale
gray eyes never left her face;. but
;~I>%
in them. She began to writhe under
their gaze, though she concealed her
fear
Yes" was the guarded reply. "When
he came back from Europe. he came
home here. and asked me to spend a
few weeks at the shore with him.
And yet. from your words, gather
that you are far from intimate with
your brother-that you had very little
to do with him. Was it not rather pc.
culiar that he should invite you thus?"
perhaps it was. l only know that
he did it, and went"
'To what place."
note of it.
did he go merely for pleasure, or
had he some other object?"
OOu h0o", dppolSAIIy 4OI plS1Se
ure''
The detective had not intended there
should be hostile feeling during these
questions: but Julia had introduced
that element. He had come to the
place. expecting to be aided in his in.
quiries, rather than obstructed. 1t was
almost always the case that the
friends of murdered person wished
the guilty brought to punishment.
Evidently this woman, for some rea
son. would rather let the matter rest
Investigation. plainly would not be
pleasant to this family. He must find
out something of Caryls antecedents
or, in the darkness of the case now he
could not go to work.
But obstacles were an incentive tc
Henry Loud. They spurred him on tc
greater action. t~-r.s~.~<"e~.~-
"Then you Know of no particu!a,
thing that called him to the shore"
Julia looked full at her questioner
land lied.
ssN0" she said