The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-05

q" 1 must see that paper, MusgrdVe,'
said l. which this butler of yours
thought it worth his while to consult,
even at the risk of the loss of his
place
ut is rather an absurd business.
this ritual of ours he answered. But
il has at least The saving grace of an
uquity TO excuse 1t. l have a copy of
the questions and answers here if you
care TO run your eye over them
He handed me the very paper /
have here, Watson, and this is the
strange catechism TO which each Mus
grave had to submit when he came to
mans estate. l will read YOU the
questions and answers as they stand
-" Whose was it,?
His who is gone
WHO shall have it?'
He who will come
Where was the SUM-
lover the oak
s. Where was the shadow
Under the elm
- How was it steDDed?'
% North by ten and by ten, east by
five and by five, south by two and by
/. two, west by one and by one, and 50
under.
What shall we give for it,
All that is ours
Why should we give ito
q For the sake of the trust.
THE original has no date. but it is
in the spelling of the middle of the
seventeenth century remarked Mus
grave. I am afraid, however. that it
can be Of little help TO you i'm solving
this mystery
At least said I. lit gives US an
other mystery. and one which is even
MT he
be that the solution of the one may
prove to be the solution of the other.
You VIII excuse me. Musgrave. if / say
that your butler appears to me TO have
/. been a very clever man. and to have
had clearer insight than ten genera
tious % his masters
~ hardly follow YOU said Mus
grave. The naDer seems to me 10 be
of no practical Importance
But to me it seems immensely
practical and I fancy that Brunton
took the same view. He had probably
seen it before that night on which you
caught him
Tt is very possible. We took no
pains 10 hide it
He simply wished, I should i'm
/ agine, TO refresh his memory upon that
/ last occasion. He had, as / under
u
he was comparing with the manuscript
and which he thrust into his pocket
when you appeared.
That is true But what could he
have to do with this old family custom
of ours, and what does this rigamaTOle
mean2'
I don't think that we should have
much difficulty in determining that.
/ said |: with your permission We Will
take the first train down To Sussex,
and go a little more deeply into the
! matter upon the spot
THAT same afternoon saw US both
at Hurlstone Possibly you have seen
! pictures and read descriptions of the
/ famous old building, so I viii confine
my account of il to saying that it is
built in the shape of an l., the long
/ arm being the more modern portion,
and the shorter the ancient nucleus,
| from which the other has developed.
| Over the low. heaVily-lintelied door, IN
the center of this old part is chiselied
/ the date, 1907. but experts are agreed
: that the beams and stone work are
i really much older than this. The
| enormously thick walls and tiny win
doWs of this part had in the last cen
tury driven the family into building
the new wing. and the old one was used
now as storehouse and a cellar when
il was used at all. A splendid park
with fine old timber. surrounds the
house and the lake. TO which my client
had referred. lay close to the avenue
about 200 yards from the building.
II was already firmly convinced
| Watson, that there were not three sep