The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-20
The Second Customer and the
Amber Beads BY FERGUS HUME.
BY FERGUS HUME.


privacy, you shall have It. This way
He showed her into a large and rath-
er badly furnished room. Evidently
Mr.. Fred Jevons had not been rich until
he inherited the fortune of Mrs. AIRY
ford.
81 suppose you will be moving to the
Bedford Gardens house sOon2" said Ha-
gar. sitting composedly in a larg arm
chair.
as that what you came to speak to
me about?" retorted Jevons. rudely.
Not exactly. Perhaps. rs you are
impatient, we had better get 10 bust
ness"
Business! What business can I have
10 do with yOu2'
Why" said Hagar, quietly, and look
ing directly at him, the business 90
those amber beads which yoU-pawned-'
Il. stammered Jevons, drawing back
with a pale face.
Also said HagaT. solemnly. "the
business which concerns the commits
sion OF a crime"
"A-a-a crime!" gasped the wretcheJ
cres ture.
'Yes-the most terrible OF all crimes
murder"
Observation-Disclosures do you-yoI
mean?"
Hagar rose from he- chair. ami.
drawn to her full height stretched out
man. What I mean YOU know well
enough" she said. sternly. IT mean
that you murdered Mrs. Arryfordl''
It's a liel' cried JevOns, sinking into
chair for his legs refused to support
him longer.
1t is not lett is the truth; I have
evidence"
Evidence" He started up with dry
and trembling lips
Yes Through her influence over
Mrs ArryfOTd. your aunt induced her
TO make You her heir. You are fond
Of money; you are I'm debt and YOU
could not wait until the old lady died
in the course Of nature. On the night
OF the murder YOU were in the house
NO no! 1 swear"
You need not; you were seen leav-
ing the house To throw suspicion on
Rosa you disguised yourself as a ne
gTess, and came TO pawn the amber
bead necklace at my shop. I recognized
that the supposed black woman was
minus the little finger of the right
hand. You, Mr. Jevons. are mutilated
in the same way. Again. I paid you
with a f1ve-poUnd note. OF that note 7
took the number It has been traced
by the number and you are the man
who paid it away. / saw
Jevons jumped up. still white and
shaking. It's a lie a lie," he said
A
I did not pawn the beads 7 did
You did both those things-" said
Hagar brushing past him. Il have two
witnesses who can prove what I say is
true. Rosa Mr.. HorvaI,'
She flung the outside door wide open
while Jevons again sank into the arm
chair with an expression Of horror ON
his white face. Rosa. HoTyal-' ne
mUtteTed. II am lOst,'
Rosa and the detective entered quick
" in response to Hagar's call. and with
her looked down on the shrinking ifs
ure of the accused man.
These are my witnesses" said Ha-
gar slowly. Rosa"
Il saw dat man in de house when my
missy died" said the negT5ss. "I hear
nose in de night: I come down. and I
see Nassa JevOns run away from Dc
room of my missy. and AIissus Lyle let
him out by de side door. He kill me-
poo missy-yes. 7 tink dat"
You hear" said HaSar TO the ter
rified man Now, Mr. HOrVdL'
7 traced the fiVe-pCund note You
gave me by its number" said the de-
/ tective. Yes. he paid r away at his
club; 7 can bring a waiter 10 prove it
You hear" said Hag3T again; and
I know by the evidence of your lost I'm
ger that you are the man. disguised as
| a negress. who paWned the necklace
Z
Mrs ArTyfOTd. after yDU murdered her
The dead woman. as Rosa tell US, wore
that necklace night and DAY. Only
with her death could it have been re-
moved. You murdered her; you stole
the necklace of amber beads"
JevOns Ieaped up NO, 40, no" he
cried loudly, striking his hands together
in despair 4 am Innocent"
That" said HOrval. slipping the
handouts on his wrists. you shall
prove before a judge and jury"
When JevOns. still protesting his in
nOCenCe, was removed to prison. Hag4r
and the negTeSS returned to CgTbys
Crescent It can easily De guessed how
she had traced the crime home to Je-
vons. She had noticed that the negress
who pdwned the beads had no little
finger. On being brought face to face
with Rosa, she had seen that the WO-
man had not lost the finger and when
Jevons had removed his gloves she had
seen in his right hand the evidence
that he was one with the mysterious
black woman Of the pawnshOp. Still,
she was not certain: and it was only
when Rosa had depCsed to the presence
OF the man at midnight in the Bedford
gardens house, and when HOrval had
traced the five-pOund note OF which she
had taken the mum Der, that she was
/ certain that Jevons was the murderer.
Hence the accusation. nCnCe the arrest
But now the fact OF his guilt was clear
Iy. established. To obtain the wealth
of Mrs. Arryford the wretChed man had
committed a crime; to hide that crime
and throw the blame 90 Rosa he had
pawned the amber beads; and now the
amber beads were about to hang him
In the moment OF his triumph, when
preparing to enjoy the fruits Of his
crime, Nemesis had struck Him down.
The news of the arrest, he story Of
the amber beads. was in all the papers
next day; and next day, also. Miss Lyle
J came to see HagaT. Pale and stern.
/ she swept into the shop and looked at
/ Hagar with a bitter smile.
Girl" she said harshly, you have
/ been. our evil genius
II have been the means OF denOunc-
| ing your accOmplice, you mean re-
/ turned Hagar, composedly.
My accomplice-no, my SOM"
Your SOM" Hagar recoiled with q
startled expression. Your son. Miss