Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-17
XI.-THE ADVENTURE OF THE
MISSING THREE-QUARTER.-
Continued

Its this way, Mr.. Holmes. AS
have said, l am the skipper of the Rug
ger team of Cambridge varsity, and
Godfrey Staunton is my best To-
morrow we play Oxford. Yesterday
we all came up, and we settled at Bent
ley's private hotel. At ten o'clock
went around and saw that all the fell
lows had gon TO roost, for | believe in
strict training and plenty ofsleep tokeep
a team fit. 1 had a word or two with God
frey before he turned in. He seemed to
me to be pale and bothered. l asked him
what was the matter. He said he was
all right-just a touch of headache.
l bade him good night and left him,
Half an hour later, the porter tells me
that rough looking man with a beard
called with a note for Godfrey. He had
not gone to bed, and the note was taken
to his room. Godfrey read 1T, and fell
back in a chair as If he had been pole
aXed The porter was so scared that
he was going to fetch me, but God
frey stopped him, had a drink of water,
and pulled himself together. Then he
went downstairs, said a few
words TO the man who was wait
ing in the hall, and the two of them
went off together. The last the porter
saw of them, they were almost run
ming down the street in the direction
of the Strand. This morning Godfrey's
room was empty, his bed had eve
been slept in, and his things were all
just as 1 had seen them the night be-
fore. He had gone off at a moments
notice with this stranger, and no word
has come from him since. l o be-
lieVe he will ever come back. He was
a sportsman, was Godfrey, down to his
marrow, and he wouldn't have stopped
his training and let in his skipper if
it were not for some cause that was
too strong for him. No: | feel as if he
were gone for good, n we should
never see him again."
Sherlock Holmes listened with the
deepest attention to this singular mar
rative.
What did you do?" he asked.
81 wired to Cambridge &c learn if
anything had been heard of him there.
/ have had an answer. No one has
sesn him."
Gould he have Sot back to Cam
bridge?"
Yes, there is a late train-quarter
past eleven"
But so far as you can ascertain, he
did not take it?"
mo, he has not beer SEEN"
What did you do neXt?"
81 wired to Lord Mount-James."
why to Lord Mount-James."
IOulISy Is an BIpltdll, tllu LDTu
Mount-James is his nearest relative
his uncle. l believe"
Indeed. This throws new light upon
the matter. Lord Mount-Jaues is one
of the richest men in England"
$50 i've heard Godfrey say"
And your friend was closely re-
lated?"
Yes, he was his heir. and the old
boy is nearly eighty-cram full of Gout,
too. They say he could chalk his bill
lard cue with his knuckles. He never
allowed Godfrey a shilling in his life,
for he is an absolute miseT. but it viii
all come to him right enough"
Have you heard from Lord Mount
James,"
No"
What motive could your friend have
In going to Lord Mount-JameS?'
well, something was worrying him
the night before. and if it was to DO
with money it is possible that he would
make for his nearest relative who had
SO much of it, though from all / have
heard he would not a V much chance
Of getting ii. Godfrey was not fond
of the old man. He would not so
If he could help it,"
well, we can soon determine that.
If your friend waS r0ing to his Teia-