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

girl had evidently been to warn Kent
ish of the discovery at the boarding
house, and / hardly knew how to re-
gard her action. 1t cut the ground
from under me in tackling Kentish with
all the advantage of surprise, while on
the other hand, it indirectly refuted
Shone's theory that Miss Lorimer pre-
theory was REPUTABLE in part, it might
fall to pieces altogether.
l entered the bank, and on running
my eye along the range Of busy clerks
behind the counter had little difficulty
in picking out the man who had re-
ceived Ida Larimer's hastily conveyed
news. A young fellow. who evidently
occupied the position of an assistant
cashier, was staring with unseeing eyes
at a customer who had just presented
a check. Deadly pale, he passed his
handkerchief once or twice across his
brows, and only when the customer
sharply demanded attention did he me-
chemically take the check. I waited till
the customer had finished his business,
and then quietly slipped into his place
at the counter.
''Mr. Kentish, believer" said I.
He nodded, a faint tinge of color COM
ing into his pallid cheeks at sight of
my uniform. 81 expected you, but
hardly so soOn," he said. IF you want
to take me into custody, 1 should be
obliged If you would not do it here at
the counter before all my colleagues.
1 will come out to you"
Not so fast" said. 'It is lucky for
you that 1 saw Miss Lorimer, and am
therefore aware how you obtained news
of what has happened at your lodgings.
Otherwise what you have just said
would bear an ugly construction. At
present l am only here to ask ques-
lions, and my first shall be. Why are
you in such a hurry to suggest your
own guilt by taking 1t for granted that
l want to arrest you2"
Because that beast Radford Shone
has got his knife into me for chatting
him at the dinner table, and Ida-Miss
Lorimer, that Essays that he has been
getting at you about me-" was the re-
ply. 1t was a good sign that it was
spoken in a tone betokening more of
anger and less of fear.
you can make your mind easy that
you won't be arrested on mere gossip"
l assured him. "At the same time am
bound to pursue inquiries when infor-
nation is rendered. Is it true that
there was bad blood between you and
Mr. Chunder Dass"
The young man hung his head, then
raised 1t QUICKLY ana looked me square
Iy in the face. you can't exactly call
it bad blood" he said, but in the
smoking room the other night I told
him that he was a dirty little niger
and ought to be kicked
HIN, hardly a threat, but dangerous
language TO have used as it turns out,
Mr. Kentish," 1 said, with difficulty re-
pressing a smile, for now that we had
Joined issue his demeanor was scarcely
that Of a midnight assassin.
lone doesn't like to have ones best
girl pilfered by a chap like that he
rejoined. But, there" he added. Ida
was very nice to me just now, and ex-
planned that if / get into trouble 1t was
all her fault She had taken up. Dass,
it seems. to worry me a bit, after
slight difference of opinion, but it's
all right between US now
"You heard nothing in the course of
last night to call for remark % I asked.
mot /. slept as usual without wax
ing" was the reply.