The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-09

Paul nodded. Very glad,'' he an
swered, that is. if you have done
anything about Mrs Krll?"
Well" drawled the detective. smil-
ing. Il have been investigating that
murder case"
Lady Rachel Sandars?" said Bee
cot eagerly. rs it really murder?"
Il think so, though some folks think
1t suicide. Curious you should have
stumbled across that young lord"
went on Hura musingly, land more
curious still that he should have been
in the room with Mrs. KriIl without
recollecting the name There was
a great fuss made about it at the
time"
'Oh, I can understand Lord George"
said Beecot promptly. THE murder, IL
it is one, took place before he was
born, and, as there seems to have been
some scandal in the matter, the family
hushed it up. This young fellow proba-
bly, gathered scraps of information
from old servants, but from what he
said to me in the cab think he knows
very little"
Quite enough to put me on the track
of Lemuel Krill's reason for leaving
Christchurch'
as that the reason?"
Eyes. Twenty-one years ago he left
Christchurch, at the very time Lady
Rachel was murdered in his public
house. Then he disappeared for a
time and turned up a year later in
Gwynne street, with a young wife
whom he had married in the mean
time"
"Sylvia's motherY'
Exactly And Miss Norman was
born a year later. She's nearly twenty
one, isn't she?'
Eyes. She will be twenty-one in three
MONTHS
Hurd nodded gravely. 1.-THE time cor
responds" said he. "As the crime was
committed twenty-three years back
and Lord George is only twenty. can
understand how he knows so little
about it. But didn't he connect Mrs.
Krill with the man who died in
Gwynne street?'
! mo. She explained that The name
of Krlll appeared only a few times in
! the papers and was principally set
forth, with the portrait, in the hand
bills. l shouldn't think Lord George
was the kind Of young man to bother
about handbills."
"All the same, he might have heard
talk at his club. Every one isn't SC
stupid"
mo- but, at all events, he did not
seem to connect Mrs. Krill with the
dead man, and, even with regard to the
death of his aunt, he fancied she might
not be the same woman"
What an ass he must ber' said
Hurd contemptuously
81 don't think he has much brain,
confessed Paul, struggling his shout
ders, "but he asked me If l thc>lgh1
Mrs. Krill was the same as the land
lady of the Red Pig, and 1 denied thai
she was. l don't like telling lies, but
in this case hope the departure from
truth will be pardoned."
"You did very right" said the detec
tive. 1.-The fewer people know abou
these matters the better, especially ;
chatterbox like this young fool"
do you know him?'
eyes, under the name of the Coun
de la Tour. But I know of him in an
other way, which I'll reveal later
Hay is still fleeing him?"
"He is. But Lord George seems t
be growing suspicious of Hay" ant
Paul related the conversation he ha,
with the young man.
Hurd grunted. I'm sorry" he said
81 want to catch Hay redhanded, an,
If Lord George grows too clever l ma.
not be able to do 500
"Well,' said Paul, rather impatient
ly, never mind about that fellow JUS
now. but tell me what you have dis
covered"
"Oh. lot of interesting things
When 1 got your letter of course 1 q
once connected the opal serpent wit
Aaron Norman and his change of nam
with the murder. IIknew that Nor
man came to Gwynne street over twer
ty years ago-that came out in the ev
dence connected with his death There
fore. putting two and two together,
searched in the newspapers of tina
period and found what l wanted"
"a report Of the case?"
Precisely And after that / hunte
up the records at Scotland Yard 70
further details that were not mad
public. So 1 got the whole story It
gether, and 1 am pretty certain tina
Aaron Norman, or, as he then wa:
Lemuel Krill, murdered Lady RachC
for the sake of that precious brooch"
"Ah," said Paul, drawing breatl
"now I understand why he fainte
when he saw it again. No wonde
considering it was connected in hi
mind with the death of Lady Rachel
Quite so. And no wonder the ma
kept looking over his shoulder in I'll
expectation of being tapped on th
shoulder by a policeman. l don't VOL
!, der also that he locked up the hous
l and kept his one eye on the groun