The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-05

shortened, and announced that the
house would be closed on the morrow.
He requested that reticence be main
tanned regarding the days occurrence
until the guilty person should be appre-
hended- Suspicion had been directed
toward a mendicant whd&had entered
the kitchen for food, but very little was
known as yet.
One minute later, in Hautover's
chamber, he shook his head at DR.. Ger
rish's look of inquiry.
No he said, there is not a person
among the guests now in the house who
gould by any possibility be fitted into
the circumstances. Though the women
We're, without exception, In one stage or
another of hysteria, and might easily
do some foolish thing in a moment of
excitement, not one Of them was capa-
bic of the sustained cunning and meth
od of this crime, to say nothing of the
motive of it. We must look among
the servants. Hautover, how do you
feel? Could you answer a few ques-
tions?"
Yes, think So" answered the sick
man, wearily. He was lying on a
couch. It's terribly narrowing" he
said. in a feeble voice. "and I beg"
"Well. then, L need only ask you 10
order all the female servants to assem-
Die III the han at once
VERY we'll" He touched a button
and gave his instructions.
In twenty minutes DR.. GeTrish saw
FurnivaH reckoning him from the
doorway. He excused himself to his
patient and went into the hail. Furni-
Wallis face was alight with triumph
I've seen them ALL" he whispered
eagerly. land think I'm on the track.
1 am going after somebody. and. If
nothing breaks. I'll give you the great
est surprise of your life inside of ten
minutes. Now, want you to fix it so
that you and Hautover can hear all
that is said in the boys room, without
being seen. Get him up. give him a
stimulant-he can stand it-and have
him there in ten minutes"
With that he left Gerrish, who stood
with a look of fervent profanity in his
face, staring after him, and almost run
down the maple walk, along which he
had searched once before on that even
ing.
At the end of the walk the iron trellis
work of a gate in the wall barred his
way, but he had already found that it
was unlocked, and presently he was
ringing at the door of a well kept cot
tage across the road.
'T wish to see Miss Prentiss," he
said to the maid who answered his
summons.
II can't come in; am a doctor from
the Hautover place. Please ask her to
step to the door. l have only word to
say to her"
81 am Miss Prentiss," said a tinid
voice, and a woman took the maids
place as she stepped hack.
Good evening, Miss Prentiss. I am
DIR. Furllivall. I have just come from
e IL
wouldn't sit up with the child tonight.
They're in such state there, and it's
matter of trust"
why, most gladly, DOCTOR" sounded
a new voice from the hall.
I'VE will both go. Please come in
and wait a moment. and well go right
back with you. Poor, dear little Tads"
The doctor stepped forward and took
the hand that was offered him by this
second speaker.
You are Miss Helen, I'm sure" he
said. 'They told me Of your dove for
the little boy. His loss must be a great
blow TO you. Yet, as for him, if we are
to believe in the rewards of the pure
spirit hereafter"
"Ah, am so glad you look at it that
way"
She gave his hand an additional
pressure, looking up at him brightly
through tears. She was a woman in
the thirties, with light eyes and hair
turning gray, with a placid, genteer ex-
preston offs the face, which showed
strength Of character. but as a latent
rather than active quality. Mildness
and sweetness predominated there.
though she was plainly the ruler OF the
household The sister, whose features
resenYbled hers Sd strongly that their
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mistaken. seemed some years older, but
was very evidently the silent partner
She only stood back ard meekly smiled
at their visitor.
The ladies, moving quickly and me-
thodically, were soon ready, and the
three ser off together, the doctor walk
ing between them. It was dark under
the naples. and by comparing the walk
to the dim aisle of a church he turned
the conversation easily upon the sub
ject OF religion. After some talk he
said:
II trust that the clergyman who off,
ciates at the burial services VIII dwell
more upon the joys of Immortality than
upon the sorrow the dead leaves behind
with the living"
Miss Helen bent her head IN the d.
rection of her sister.
why, Hannah, he thinks Just as we
do. doesn't hep"
Yes" she answered in her thin, col
orless voice, adding, a little more
strongly, q should think everybody
would"
tOf course. it's very hard to lose our
friends" continued Helen, 'sbut then it
must come to that sooner or later with
all Of us. and It's better to escape the
worlds iniquities and have it all over
while one is young
She paused and peered up at the doc
tor inquiringly. They had come into
the glare of the electric lights now. and
he smiled down at her. The smile
might have meant anything, but she
took It for assent, and was continuing
earnestly when he cautioned her that
they were approaching the house and
had better finish the conversation in
side
Now" said the doctor. as they en-
tered the room where the body, still
covered with a sheet. lay in the shade
cast by a screen before the electric
globes, I'VE can continue our interest
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