The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

lightly-made fringe will come asunder;
for the kind of cord of floss silk is gener-
ally made upon a single thread, which
will break with the slightest strain.
By some means the shawl in question
had accidentally become entangled-or
perhaps been strained by the sudden up
lifting of the arm of the wearer. In any
case the little innocent-looking fragment
had become stained, and been dropped at
the bedside of the murdered man.
The grave suspicious of Ethelwynn
which had held on the previous night
when she endeavored to justify her sisters
NEGLECT crowded again upon me, and Sir
Bernards hint at the secret of her past
thrust the iron deeply into my heart
My eyes were fixed upon the little OBJ
iect in my palm-the silent but damning
evidence-and my mind became filled by
bitterest regrets. I saw how cleverly 1
had been duped, and recognized that this
woman, whom / had thought an angel,
was only q cunning assassin.
No, reader; I was not prejudicing her.!
The thought had already occurred to me
| that she might have entered the room
wearing that shawl perhaps to wish the
invalid goodnight. She had, however,
in answer to my question, declared that
she had retired to bed without seeing him
for Nurse Kate had told her that he was
sleeping. She had therefore not disturbed
him. - -
Then yet another thought had occurred
to me. She might have worn the shawl
when she entered after the raising of the
| alarm. In order to clear up that point
had questioned the servants, one by one,
| and all had told me the same story, namely
that Miss Ethelwynn had not entered the
room at all. She had only come to the
door. and glanced in, then turned away
in horror and shut herself in her own
room AS far as anyone knew, she had
| not summoned sufficient courage to go In
and look upon the dead mans face. She
declared herself Mortified and dared not
| to enter the death chamber
In the light of my discovery all these
| facts as related to me made the truth only
too apparent She had entered there un-
known to anyone, and that her presence
had been with a fell purpose I could nj
longer doubt.
II l gave the clue into Amber Jevons
hands he would, knew, quickly follow it
4 gathering up the threads of the tangled
skein one by one until he could openl,
charge her with the crime. stood undo
clded how to act. Should ] leave m!
!, friend to make his own Investigations in
dependently and unbiased, or should
frankly tell him Of my own startling dis
covery?
i carefully went through the whole o
| the circumstances, weighing point afte
point, and decided at lat to still retail
the knowledge had gained. The poin
which unbalanced my intention was tn
t. curious admission of Short regarding tn
) possession of the knife. So I resolved t
say nothing to my friend until after tn
; inquest.
AS may be imagined the London pa.
Y pers that afternoon were full Of the mys
) terry. Nothing like a first-class sensation
! sub editors will tell you. There is al
3 art in a11itera tive headlines and Startlin,
"crossheads.' The inevitable interview
with a member of the family, who j
generally anonymous. be it said. is. sur
to be eagerly devoured by the public. TIL
world may sneer at sensational journal
ism, but after all it loves to have it
i curiosity excited over the tragic denoue
s ment of some domestic secret. As 500
t as the first information reached the Cen
: trail News and Press association, there
y fore, reporters crowded upon u.s. Repre-
i sentatives not only Of the Mertopolita
81 Press but those of the local newspapers