New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-05-23

20 GEAR he atmosphere, as IL were. IL
ran something like this:
March 10, Thursday. = Holiday found
murdered daughter drives to Wash
ington square
March Il. Friday. = Coroner's inquest:
Miss Holiday released; mysterious
note received.
March Is, Sunday-Holladay buried.
March Is, Tuesday.-Will opened and pro
bated.
March Is, Friday.-Miss Holiday returns
from drive, bringing new maid with
her and discharges old one.
March q, Saturday. Gives orders to
open summer house.
April 1, Tuesday.-Asks for 100000
April 2, Wednesday.-Gets it.
April g. Thursday.-Leaves home, osten-
sibly for Beiair, in company with new
maid.
April IA. Monday.-Butler reports her dis
appearance; Royce taken i'll; I begin
my search.
There I stopped. The last entry
brought me up to date. There was
nothing more to add. But it seemed
impossible that all the developments
Of this mystery should have taken only
a month. For years. as it seemed to
me, had thought of nothing else.
L
carefully. There was only one opening
that I could see where it was possible
to begin work with the hope of accom-
plishing anything That was in the
very first entry. Miss Holiday had
driven to Washington square; she had,
I felt certain, visited her sister; must
discover the lodging of this woman.
T oh oil
Holiday there In any event. I should
have new point to work from.
The police had been over the ground,
I knew. They had exhausted every re
source in the effort to locate Mr.. Hol-
laday's mysterious visitor and had
found not a trace of her. But that fact
did not discourage me, for l hoped to
start my search with information
| which the police had not possessed.
| Brooks, the coachman, should be able
| to tell me-
Recalled suddenly to remembrance
| of him. looked at my watch and saw
| that it was past his hour. I was pleas
| ed to find him awaiting me when /
| opened the Office door three minutes
|
ask him.
| when your mistress left the car
rage the day you drove her to Wash
ington square did you notice which
! street she took after she left the
/ square?"
Yes. sir; she went on down West
| Broadway"
tsOp which cidoSs,
9TH left hand side. sir; tn east side. y
i "She must have crossed the street to
get to that side
yes, sir: she did. I noticed per-
Hc'lar, for I thought it funny she
shouldn't We let me drive her on down
tn street to wherever she was goin'
It's dirty place along there. sir
Yes, I know When you drove her
out on the 2Sth-the day she brought
back the maid-where did she go?'
/ l'eTo Washington square again. si1"
.And left you waiting for her?''
Eyes, sir; just tn same
'tAnd went down the same street"
Eyes, sir; crossed to tn east side
just tn same as II time before
How long was she gone:
over an hour. sir: an hour an q
half, I should say.
Did you notice anything unusual in
her appearance when she came back?"
mo. sir: she was Wearin' heavy
veil She had tn other woman with
her, an she just said Homer in a kind
O. hoarse voice as I helped them into
tn carriage
That was all that he could tell me
and yet I felt that it would help ms
. greatly. In the first place. it narrowed
my investigations to the district lyins
to the east OF West Broadway. and
knew that the French quarter extended
onir a block or Two n that direction
And, again, it gave mea point to insist
on in my inauiries-I knew the dat.
upon which the mysterious woman hat
left her lodging, or. at least, knew
that it must be one of two dates tn,
i lodging had been vacated, then, eithe
on the 2Sth of March or the Sd of April
AS a last resource I had the photo
/ graph I was ready to begin my seard
and dismissed Brooks, warning him I
say nothing to any one about the mys
terry.
AS I passed out the door to the pave
ment I happened to glance across til,
, way, and there In the crowd Of bro