The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-02-05
CHAPTER xlv-,cont,nued1

Sno bowed, ana ne went on 10 say
In a voice possessing very little infec
ton:
"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 TAX
en- directly a murder is suspected has
been peculiarly lacking in anything
that can enlighten US We are, in fact
as much In the dark as II is possible
TO be. Plainly. a man has been killed
that's all we know. hope you will
bear in nina Shat II Is your duty to an
swer me fully, and that any preyarica-
ton or concealment, however slight,
might mlslead In n way fatal to the
search for the guilty person OF per
SONS"
Again Julia bowed, this time very
coldly.
Here's a hard case to examine"
thought the man. looking at the besoti-
full face before him as II he would like
to read its secret.
He kne what he should learn here
only what che chose to have him know
OF her brothers life.
The detective who had been put upon
the case began to think he would find
II a more tangled one then he had az
first expected. He saw directly that
this woman had something to conceal,
and he wished 10 know everything.
He sat silent for few minutes, not,
apparently, looking at her, but stlll
seeing her That told him that she
was not mourning very severely for
her brother.
"Did your brother live here'" he
asked, at last.
NO" replied Julia
"Since when?"
Mot for many Tears-not since he
became a man."
"He was sealthy?"
my father wan"
"But your brother was notr"
"Much OF the property was lost dur
ing my fathers life, and Ralph soon
made Gway with the rest-that Is, near
ly ap OF It,"
'Tdd your brother ever enter any
bpsiness?"
eyes"
Julia was by no means expansive;
she replied. and that was nearly al
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.
"Where?" he next asked.
'Tn Boston"
"In what kind of businessT
ain commission house."
what firm?"
REALLY, do not remember"
The detective looked calm, but Il was
with difficulty that he restrained a
movement of Impotence.
However, he could find out the firm,
but this was the easiest way of doing
Il, IL only she chose to tell him.
do you happen to remember how
long ago 1t was that he entered bust
ness?"
about three years ago. should
think"
Ibid he work in that way long?"
"Only few months"
"And since then?"
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?"
mo. never knew much Of my
brothers. affairs"
apparently not, indeed Still, 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
there was not the slightest expression
I'm them. She began to writhe under
their gaze, though she concealed her
fean
eyes" was the guarded reply. when
he came back from Europe, he came
home here, and asked me to spend q
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, only know that
he did II, and went"
"To what placer"
Julia told Il, and the man made a
note OF II.
Ibid he go merely for pleasure, or
had he some other object?"
81 don't know; apparently for pleas.
ure."
The detective had not intended there
should be hostile eccu-- = .iag these
questions; bus 5~... mad introduced
that element. He had come to the
place. expecting to be aided in his in.
quirles, rather than INSTRUCTED. II was
almost always the case that the
friends OF a 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 Caryl's antecedents,
or, In ths darkness of the case now he
could not go TO work.
But obstacles were an incentive to
Henry Loud. They spurred him on TO
greater action.
"Then you fnow of no particular
thing that called him to the shore?"
Julia looked full at her Questioner,
and lied.
mo" she said.
"And you don't know why he went
to Boston that day."
mo: in fact did not know he had
gone until afterward III YOU have oh