The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-09-15
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III By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN, I:
Of Mystery Of Agatha "Lost Lane" Etc
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met me point blank with look which
had good deal of inquiry In it,
IL am not usually Interrupted here"
he cinphaslzcd-"eXccpt by the boys"
be added more mildly. They some
times approach too closely. but ! am
used to the imps and scarcely notice
them. ALI. there are some of my old
friends now! Well, 1t Is time they
knew that change has taken place in
my fortunes. Hi. there! Hands up and
catch this and this and this he shout
ed. But keep quiet about it. or next
year YOU will get pennies again
And. finging quarters right and left,
he smiled in such II pompous, self salts
fed way at the hurrah and scramble
which ensucd. that IL was well worth
my journey there Just to see this eXli-
bition of combined vanity and good
humOr.
"NOw gO"' he NOciferatcd: and the
urchns. black and white. flew away,
finging up their heels in delight and
shouting: Bully for you, Uncle David.
Wen come again next year, not for
twenty-fives, but iftics.'
Il will make 1t dollars If only
live so long" he muttered. And deign.
ing now to remember the question ]
had put to him. lie grandly remarked;
II am going straight into town. Can
do anything for you"
Nothing. | thought you might like
TO know what awaits you there. The
city is greatly stirred up. The coro-
ner's jury in the Joffrey-Moore case has
just brought i'm Il verdict to the effect
that suicide has not been proved.
Naturally, this is equivalent to one of
murder"
"Ah" he calculated, slightly taken
aback for one SO invariably impassivc.
And 10 whom is the guilt of this
crime ascribcd?" he presently vcntured.
There was mention of no name, but
the opprobrIum naturally falls on Miss
Tuttle."
Miss T'uttle? Ah"'
"Since Mr.. Jeffrey is proved to have
been too far away ut the time to have
fired that shot, while She
II am following YOU
"Was in the very house--at the door
Of the library in fact-aEd heard the
pistol discharged. if she did not dis.
charge it herself which some believe.
notably the district attorney. You
should have been there, Mr.. Moore"
He looked surprised at this sugges-
lion.
IL never am anywhere but here on
/. the 23d of May" he declared.
Miss futile needed some adviser
"Ah. probably"
"You would have been good one"
"And welcome one ehT'
hardly thought he would have been
a welcome one. but did not admit the
fact. Nevertheless he seized on the
advantage he evidently thought lie had
gained and added, mildly enough. or,
rather, without any display of feeling:
Miss Tuttle likes me even less than
Veronica did. | do not think she would
have accepted, certainly she would not
have desired, my presence in her
counsels. But of one thing | wish hei
to be assured. her and the world in
general. Any money she may need al
tllis-at this unhappy crisis in her life.
she will find amply supplied. She has
no claims oil me, but that makes little
difference where the family honor IL
concerned. Her mothers husband was
t1y brother-th girl shall have all sha
needs. will write her so.''
He was moving toward his carriage.
Zine turnout hc interrogatively re.
marked.
assented with all the surprise-witli
all the wonder evcn-whch his sub
lime egotism seemed TO invite.
1T is the best that Bowncy could
raise IN The time allotted him. When
really finger the money, we shall see,
We shall see"
His foot was on the carriage step.
He looked up ut the west. The sun
was almost down, but not quite. Have
you any special business with mey" he
asked, lingering with what | thought
a surprising display of consciousness
till the last ray of the sunlight had
disappeared.
glanced up at the coachman sitting
on his box as rigid as any stone.
you may speak," said he; Caesar
neither hears nor sees anything but his
horses when he drives me-"
Tie black did not wink. He was as
completely at home on the box and AS
quiet and composed In his service as
If he had driven this man for years.
"He understands his duty" finished
the master, but with no outward ap-
pearance of pride. What have you to
say TO me;'
/ hesltated no longer.
"Miss Tuttle Is supposed to have
secretly entered the Moore house on
the night you summoned us. she even
says she did. | know that you have
sworn to having seen no one go into
that house, but Notwithstanding this,
haven't you some means at your dis
posal for proving TO the police and to
the world at large that she never fired
that fatal shot? Public opinion is SO
cruel She will be ruined. whether in
nocent or guilty. unless ii can be very
plainly shown that she did not enter
the library prior to going there with
the police"
And how can you suppose me to be
in a position TO prove thar? Say that
l had sat in my front window all that
evening and watched with uninterrupt-
ed assiduity the door through which
so many are said to have passed be-
tween sunset and midnight-sometbing
which did not do, as | have plainly
stated on oath--hoW could Won have ex.