The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-07

as she snatched the animal, with hair
SO white that the contrast between 1t
and her fresh face and youthful form
was nothing less than startling. We
knew nobody of that description,
neither among our friends nor among
| the servants and tradespeople. Her
dress, too, was the oldest Imaginable
yachting cap of blue, with small
| visor worn sidewise over her ear,
| short Elton jacket, and flowing out
from under il a Voluminous train OF
salmon colored satin, over white, high
! heeled shoes. This train she threw
over her arm, covering Bruno COM
pleteIy and hiding him from sight as
she rushed from the room. Her APP
pearance was so wild that Mrs EN-
mons took her for crazy person who
! had escaped from some hospital. That
is what frightened her so. An ordinary
woman coming in on her in that man
ner would not have got off so easily,
| for Mrs. Emmons is brave enough and
! quick enough to act. But this monde
script fairly scared her strength away.
In fact, she never in her life came so
near fainting."
/ You saw nothing of the woman?"
mo, the door was beyond my view
| She must have come and gone like a
| flash of lightning, as Mrs. Emmons
| said. She didn't know she was in the
room until she saw her eyes sparkling
into her own and felt Bruno being
pulled out of her lap"
But where could she have come
| from and where could she disappear to
so suddenly" said the lieutenant, star
! ing at him. ut sounds like witchcraft.
| What guess can you make, Mr.. EN-
mOns?"
Mr.. Emmons threw out his hands.
None at ALL" he said. she simply
! could not get into the house by the
| back way, through a gate and two
doors, all of which We're fastened, pass
among eight servants at least, mount
/ two flights of stairs, and appear on the
scene at the same instant of time nee
! essaTy TO accomplish her purpose. And
/ if she couldn't get in she couldn't get
| out By the front way she would be
obliged to pass me-"
| None of the servants saw herr"
/ No. That is, one of them, half
/ imbecile, came to the conclusion that
she had distinguished what looked like
/ a dark shape running down the back
| stairs to the basement; but she did
not reach this conclusion until she had
/ found out that something mysterious
was going on and that she would be
regarded as a heroine if she had seen
anything of il. l am convinced that
| her first denials were the real truth.
/ Inc rest was a NlNlU fancy.
Hmm The lieutenant, who had
made a number of notes, now put down
another one, coughed deprecatingly as
he did so. Every little straw shows
/ something of the winds direction, Mr..
/ EmmOns," he said. However, we will
come TO that later. Were the gate and
/ the doors found fastened all right after
| the theft as before it?''
Yes; all locked up tight, and the
servants running around all the time
| between them and the stairs, with
/ plenty of light on-lighter than in the
| daytime There was absolutely no
chance for even a mouse to leave the
! place unseen in that directiOn-Or en-
| ter 1t. either"
And the rOof?"
II should certainly have seen any
| body who should start up that way.
The foot of the stairs was not ten
| feet away from the room in which the
crime was done. and 1 commanded a
full view of them every instant l was
absent from my wife"
The officer looked up from his notes
quickly. Then he scratched his head.
He did not like to contradict a man
worth so much money as Mr.. Claggett
| EmmOns was. but il was certain, from
| the description already given of the
rooms and halls. that If a person in the
| telephone closet could see the two men
/ in the front room, i'm order to do so
| he would necessarily turn his back on
/ the stairway in the rear. thrill of
eXultation shot through the lieuten-
ants breast as he realized that this
| stairway must be the key to the myS-
| terry. The foot of il was only ten feet
away from the door of the room in
which Mrs. EmmOnS sat; while Mr..
| Emmons was walking to the telephone
| his back must have been turned on it;
while he was in the closet his back
must have been turned on it also if he
could see the men who sat in the front
room; and, without a particle of doubt,
the woman, who had been waiting
above, seized this opportunity to ac-
complish her purpose. She would have
plenty of time if she had acted SO
quickly as she seemed to have done. 1t
was perfectly plain. She had escaped
as she had enteTed-by way of the
roof 1t was strange that a .San with
Mr.. EmmOnS' perspicacity should
overlook so palpable a truth; but he
had done so, and it was a matter of
warm self-cOngratulatiOn TO the officer
that he should prove so much sharper
than this man of heavy affairs, and
that, too, regarding the arrangement
of his own house. But he would say
nothing about il. 1t was a case for
action RATHER imam WOEQS, ana dIJer he
had made the capture and received the
reward
At this point in the jubilant flow
of his thoughts he was struck with a
sudden chill. Reward? What was il?
hundred dollars, He had been
dreaming of thousands!
Il suppose" he ventured, tapping his
book with his pen handle careIessly,
that if any one i'm the secret-er-er-|
who knew abOut-the diamond, | mean
should find and return it, there
ward"
The little old man glanced keenly at
him. "Of course he said, nodding
Il understand that. A thousand-eh?
And infiuence-supposing the finder
needed it. Oh, of cOurse-aIl that sort
of thing"
The lieutenant breathed freer. A
thousand, 1t was not so vast a sum
as his dreams had pictured. but it
would do very we'll There were wavs
he knew of making it all his, divid-
ing only the hundred for the monkey
with whOmsOveT he might be Obliged
to call upon for assistance in his
search. He could already feel the
crisp, delightful crinkling of the bank
notes in his fingers. That woman was