The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-08
THF DIXIE DECIDES MYSTERY STORY BY HEAD0N Hill

water, in which he washed his hands be-
fore going to bed, in the waste pail.
Wefix him, then to having slept for some
hours, and to having got up early and
left the house in the small hours before
anyone. was about
TT looks as if he were playing lone
hand IA at some game Of his own,' said
But the general would have no vague
conjectures. Having settled within APP
proximate limits the time when Beau
MANOR quilted his room, he desired to
learn how he had left the house. He
himself had been sitting up from two,
at which hour he relieved Forsyth, till
five O'Clock, and he would stake his
during the period Of his vigilance. The
duke must have left the house between
five and six, at which latter hour the
servants began to be moving.
This view was strengthened by in
curry from the butler, who reported
that on going his rounds to open ul the
house he had discovered one Of the win
he had himself seen to the fastenings
the night before. He had not thought
anything of it,, supposing that one Of
the gentlemen had gone out for an early
stroll.
The general led Forsyth aside.
"Whateyer has happened to Beau
MANOR, he has courted his own fate
byr going outside unattended" he said.
1T almost looks as if he had been
IN which case Azimoolah has probably
been done to death while endeavoring
to protect him. Come and help me
search the park once more, and then
II we find nothing we must call in the
Making detour by the stable yard,
SO as to avoid meeting and being ques-
for the leafy recesses of the broad belt
OF woodland that fringed the. park. AL
!oting, one section to Forsyth and tax
ing the other himself, the general re-
peated the process of the morning, peer
ing into the bushes, turning over heaps
Of leaves and probing the bracken with
his stick, but all to no purpose. No
bleman or Of dark-skinned Asiatic, met
their stralning eyes.
eve must give it up said the gen.
eral at last. "Now that we are down
here we had better go out thru the
wicket-gate into the village and tell
the constable to send for his superiors
We have reached the limit, and poor
|Beaumanoir s secrets can belong to him
no longer, fear.'
Forsyth assented that it would be nc
longer advisable. even if it were pos
sible. to keep the dukes affairs out OF
the hands of the police, and the two
made their way toward the private gate
IN the park wall thru which Beauma
nolr had gone to church on his first
memorable N, Sunday at Prior's Tarrant
They were approaching the gate, not
by the path, but skiIting the wall thru
the underground. when lissome body
appeared suddenly at the top of thu
wall, poised there for a moment. ant
then dropped almost at their feet. Il
was Azimoolah Khan, dusty and out
OF breath, but very far from being {
dead man.
Glow is this, thou son of sheitanq'
exclaimed the general, affecting stern
ness to hide his pleasure. CIT was mo-
your wont in the jungle days to deser
your post in times of danger. In you,
4 absence some evil thing has befallel
him whom we are pledged to guard"
Nay, Sahib,, but hear me. It is no
thy servant who has deserted his post
but his post which has deserted him, }
proof. tsThe great lord duke raj
away-Oh, so far and so fast-and TIL,
servant ran after in his tracks to Sc,
that no harm befell him. -
mans' the general blurted out in grea
, excitement. Surely you haven It com
} back to tell me that you have los
him7''
The duke is in the fire carriage, Sa
I hib; and thy servant having no suff
} Gent money or orders from the Sahit
+ was not able to follow further than tn
station, - Azimoolah replied.
Pressed to be more explicit, this wa
!, the story he had to impart. He. ha'
: Watchfai eye For the house, when be
/ tween five and six he had seen the duk
] come from one Of the ground-foor win
r dows and make at great speed for tn
l coppices. Keeping himself concealed
/. Azimoolah had quickly perceived tina
/ 1.-The park by the wicket gate, and, cor
7 sidering it his duty not to lose sigh