The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-02

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her maid
tAnd who is her maid9O
Alice is her name. She is an
American, and came from California
with her..
"A confidential servantq'
A little too much so. It seemed to
me that her mistress allowed her to
in America they look upon these things
in different way
Chow long did she speak to this
Aliceq''
Cob, a few minutes. had some
thing else to think of. -
nYou did not overhear what they
Lady St. Simon said something
about Jumping a claim. : She was &C
custOmed to use slang Of the KIND. l
have no idea what she meant.o
American slang is very expressive
sometimes. And what did your wife
do when she finished speaking to her
"sh Is walked into the breakfast
"on your arms
pendent in little matters like that.
Then, after we had sat. down for ten
minutes or 80, she rose hurriedly, NUT
tered some words Of apology, and left
the room. She never came back
"But this maid, Alice, as I under
stand, deposes that she went to her
room, covered her BRIDES dress with
long ulster, put on bonnet and
went out.
NQuite SO. And she was afterwards
seen walking into Hyde Park in com
pany with Flora Millar, a woman who
is now in custody, and who had already
made disturbance at Mr.. Doran s
house that morning.
HAh, yes. I should like a few par
ticulars as to this young lady and your
relations to herr .rs#@ "f'
Lord St. Simon rs $! shrugged his s howl
have been on friendly footing for some
years. may say on very friendly
footing She used to be at the Allie
gro.' have not treated her ungen::
erously, and she has no just cause OF
complaint against me, but you know
what women are, Mr.. Holmes. Flora
was a dear little thing but exceed
ingly hot-headed, and devotedly at,
letters when she heard that I was about
to be married; and, to tell the truth,
the reason why | had the marriage
celebrated SO quietly was that [ feared
lest there might be scandal: in the
church. She came to Mr.. Doran IS door
| Just after we returned, and she en-
deavored to push her way in, utter
| ing very abusive expressions towards
my wife, and even threatening herl
but I had foreseen the possibility OF
something of the sort and I had two
police fellows there in private clothes,
who soon pushed her out again. She
| was quiet when she saw that there was
no good in making. a, row. -
"Did your wife hear all this9'.,r.
| emo, thank goodness, she did not"
- And she was seen walking with this
very woman afterwards9'
eyes. That is, what Mr.. aLestrade
! Of Scotland Yard looks as SO seri;
GUS. It is thought that Flora decoyed
my wife out. and laid some terrible
| trap for herr .'~s '>-" IVA :.
hWell, it is a possible supposition. D
| "You think 50, too?"
II did not say probable one. But
you do not yourself look upon this as
| II do not think Flora would hurt 8
i.still; jealousy il a strange trans
former Of characters. Pray what il
|.gg{ Gas ,, own theory as to what took
sss1W ell, really, came to seek thee
ry, not to PROFOUND one. have giver
YOU all the facts. Since you ask me
4 however, I may say that it has oc-
Toured to me as possible that the. ex.
element Of this affair, the conscious
social stride, had the effect Of caus.
ing some little nervous disturbance in
.Emy wife. !" e,
denly deranged9" T.,
11sWell, really, when T consider. that
she has turned her back will not
say upon me, but upon so much that
many have aspired to without success
fashion. y g. ls.s
a'Well, certainly that is also q con
4 ceivable hypothesis, said Holmes
smiling. And now, Lord St. Simon
! Fl think that / have nearly all my data
MAY i ask whether you were seated at
the breakfast table 80 that you coulo
i "We could see the sother side Of: the
road and the park. '',f as.er.
i HQuite so. Then I do not think
that [ need to detain you longer.
shall communicate with you.
"Should you be fortunate enough
4 to solve this problem said our client
rising;
"Eh9 What was that9'
st say that have solved it.
"Where, then, is my, wife9''a
.ns mThat .,5 is , aetail which shall
Lord st. Simon shook his head. ~
: am afraid that it will take wiser head!
than yours or mine, - he remarked, ant
bowling in a stately, 1d.fashioned man
ner, he departed. .
IT is very good of Lord St. Simon
to honor my head by putting it on ;
:. level with his own,o said Sherlock
Holmes, laughing. IT think that
shall have a whisky -and-soda and .
cigar after all this cross-questioning
L had formed my conclusions as to- thu
case before our client came into tn
|, room.
4 ,"My dear Holmes!''
81 have notes Of, several simila
/ cases, tho none, as I remarked before
: which were quite as prompt. Ny who'll
examination served to turn, my con
lecture into certainty. Circumstan
tial evidence is occasionally very con
vincing, as when you find trout il
. the milk, to quote Thoreau g example.
But I have heard all that you hav
:, heard -
Without, however, the knowledg
, of pre-existing cases which serves m
! so well. There was a parallel instanc
In Aberdeen some years back, and some
thing on very much the same lines a
Munich the year after the Franco-Prus
. sian war. 1t is one Of these cases
but, hello, here is Lestrade! Goo
afternoon, Lestrade! You will find a
! extra tumbler upon the sideboard, an
: there are cigars in the box.
The official detective was attired i
q pea-iacket and cravat, which CAV