The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29

attention to the bolt, my first impress
| sion was confirmed. Once in fifty times
perhaps, the attempt to pull the brass
bar into the socket by means of the
slender thread of silk passed between
the door and the door post might have
succeeded, but the necessary failures
would have been far from noiseless in
the dead of night, and would have TAX
en- up so much time that 1t would have
needed a murderer of iron nerves tc
persist.
1 came to the conclusion that Rad
ford ShOne nigh have fallen into the
trap that always yawns for superficial
amateur cleYerness, and fitted his dis
covery of the siIken strand on to his
preconceived notions of Miss Ida's love
affairs. 1t was quite possible that a
cunning criminal might have tied the
silk round the bolt with the very pur-
pose of inducing the vitw that Shone
had taken. To have accepted his the
Dry also begged the question that the
deceased had gone to bed leaving his
room door unbolted.
This being so. 1 went back to the
only other means of entrance-the
window looking out over the street.
Measuring distances with my eye, |
saw that it would be just possible for
an active man to swing himself from
the roof of the portico over the front
door to within gripping distance of the
sill of the window. Shone's argument
as to the risk of observation run by
any one attempting the window was a
potent one, but it was a quiet thor
oughfare, and at any rate the thing
could be done.
Having established this, 1 saw Mrs.
Lorimer again and endeavored to learn
w u I Of ha
and connections. OF these she could tell
me little except that he was of a stu
dious disposition and that she believed
that he had spent his whole days in his
chambers in the Temple. Here a bit
of good luck was in store for me. On
asking for his address in the Temple !
found that the chambers were in the
same building in Pump court as those
of Mr.. Noal Straddon, the well-knowD
Old Bailey barrister, with whom 1 had
long standing acquaintance. l deter
mined at once to go and see if Mr..
Staddon knew anything OF the Hindoo
student, and to take the opportunity OF
looking in on Mr.. Kentish at the Lon
don & Suburban bank.
Leaving the house in charge of a SER
geant and several cOnstables, I took n
cab and drove eastward, instructing the
eabman to stop first at the cSnk. II
would give Mr.. Radford Shone too great
a pull over me to neglect the hint he
aid furnished as TO the Jealousy exist
ing between Kentish and Chunder Dass
since If it turned out to be the kew ia
the mystery / should never hear the
last of it. And as the investigation
had TO be made it would be better ia
make it before Mr.. Kentish. presumine
his innocence, had heard of his rivals
death.
But as my cab drew to the curb ONT
side the bank I received a pastv lar
Another cab, which had been waiting
opposite the great swing doors. was
moving few PAGES on to make room
for mine, when a stylishly attired
young lady dashed out of the hank
and jumped into it. She must have
given her orders to the driver through
the flap, for the cab promptly wheeled
round and went off at speed, disclosing
to me the face of its occupant. II was
Ida LoTimer, who caua. I my eve and
flung me back look 81 defiance. The