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

He is gone. No one has seen him.
He is not in his room. Oh, YES, he is
gone, he is gone" She Cell back
against the wall with shrek after
| Shrek OF laughter. while l. Mortified at
this sudden hysterical attack, rushed
to the bell to summon help. The girl
was taken to her room, still screaming
and sobbing, while / made inquiries
about BruntOn. There was no doubt
about it that he had disappeared. Ills
bed had not been slept in, be mad been
seen by no one since he had retired 20
his room the night before. AMI yet it,
was difficult to see how ne could have
left the house, as both windows and
doors we're found to be fastened in the
morning. His clothes. his watch. and
even his money were in his room. but
! the black suit which he usually wore
Was missing. His slippers. too were
gone. but his boots were left behind.
Where, then. could butler BrunIOn
have gone in the night, and what could
have become of him now?
OF course we searched the house
from cellar to garnet. but there was no
trace of him. II is, as l have said,
. labyrinth of an old house. especially
the original wing, which is now praC-
| tically uninhabited: but We ransacked
every room and cellar without discoV-
ering the least sign of the Missing man.
1t was incredible TO me that he could
have gone away leaving all his prop
| erty behind him, and yet where could
he be? / called in the local police, but
without success. Rain had falIen on
the night before. and we examined the
lawn and the paths all round tho house
but in vain. Matters were IN this state
when a new development quite drew
our attention away from the original
mystery.
=" For two days Rachel Howells had
| been so i'll, sometimes delirious, SOME
| times hysterical, that a nurse had been
employed TO sit up with her at night. On
I the third night after BrunJCns disap-
pearance, the nurse, finding her patient
sleeping nicely, had dropped into "a nap
in the armchair, when she aWoke IN
the early morning to find the bed
! empty, the window open, and no signs
of the invalid. | was Instantly aroused,
| and, with two foOtmen, started OF at
once in search of the missing girl. IT
was not difficult TO tell the direction
which she had taken, for starting
/ from under her window. we could fol-
I low her fOOtmarks easily across the
lawn to the edge of the mere, where
! they vanished close TO the gravel path
/ which leads out of the grounds The
I lake there is eight feet deap. and YOU
can imagine our feelings when we saw
that the trail of the Door demented
| girl came to an end at she edge of il.
of course we had the drags at
once, and set TO work to recover the
| remains. but no trace of the body
could We find. On the other hand we
brought 10 the surface an OBJECT Of a
most unexpected kind. 1t was a linen
/ bag which contained within il a mass
of old, rusted and dull-colored pieces
I of pebble or glass. This strlnge find
, was all We could get from the mere.
and, although we made every rossible
/ search and inquiry yesterday. we know
nothing of the fate either ofRachei
/ Howells or of Richard Brmt1n. The
country police are at their wits end.
/ and l have come up to you as a last
! resource
You can imagine, Watson, With
/ what eagerness l listened to this eX-
! traordinary sequence of events. and en-
/ deavored 10 piece them together, and
| TO devise some common thread upon
| which they might all hang. The butler
/ was gone The maid was gone. The
maid had loved the butler, but ndd
afterwards had cause 10 nate BIN,
She was of Welsh blood. fiery and pas
sionate. She had been terribly ca
cited Immediately after his disappear
ance. She had flung into the lake b
bag containing some curious contents.
These were all factors WHOM had 10 he
taken into consideration and yet none
OF them got quite to the heart Of the
matter. What was the starting point
of this chain OF events? There lay tae
end of the tangled line.