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

mon or garden jealousy. Kentish and
the dead man were both sweet upon Ida
| Lorimer, the landlady's daughter, and
! the fair Ida favored the darby"
And ShOne proceeded to describe how
the young Indian barrister had been re-
Gently taking Miss Lorimer out a good
deal to theaters and concerts, to the
unconcealed annoyance of Mr.. Kentish.
who, according to the gossip Of the old
er bOarders, had been the girls unde-
clared lover till Chunder Dass appeared
on the scene.
"A case of magnetic attraction for
the heaviest metal, 1 imagine" sneered
Shone coarsely. 1.-The blackamoor was
| uncOmmOnly we'll supplied with cash,
and was able to give her a better time
than Kentish, who is only clerk in a
bank"
I had thought all along that for a
professional mystery monger Shone was
using that strident, high-pitched voice
of his rather freely, and l was not al
together surprised when the door was
flung open to admit a girl in a first
class rage.
THAT odious creature has been tell
ing you liesr' she burst forth at me.
And, turning her pretty, flushed face on
Shone, she literally poured out the
walls of his wrath on him. He was an
infamous spy. whose business in life
it was to make mischief. 1t was a bad
day for her mothers house when he
had set foot in it; Jack Kentish had no
more killed Chunder Dass than she
had herself; il was a wicked calumny
to say that she had preferred the
Indian because of his wealth; she had
not preferred him at all, and more to
the same effect.
Mr.. Samuel Martin looked horror
struck at this irreverence to his chief,
but Mr.. Radford Shone himself stood
the onslaught easily and sneeringly. To
Miss Ida herself he made no direct re-
ply, but tc me he remarked with an
ugly grin:
"I suppose that a live bank clerk is
better than a dead Baboo, from the
feminine point of view"
These determinations were not con-
ducive to clearing up the mystery, and
it behooved me to nip them in the bud.
did so by informing Miss Lorimer
soothingly that there was nothing
against Mr.. Kentish at present and
by telling Shone that his discovery of
the silk on the bolt had certainly fur
nished important matter for inquiry
By this means / managed to separate
the conflicting parties, the angry girl
retiring to the lower regions and Shone
putting on his hat preparatory to going
out, he was careful to say, on business
connected with some stones that were
missing from the Duchess of Beauliu's
tiara.
''Kentish is employed at the Fleet
street branch of the London AMI Sub
urban bank" said Shone as, followed
by Martin, he made for the stairs "He
left the house before Dass' room was
broken open, so you'll be able to take
him by surprise If you look sharp. You
have, in the little precis I have given
you. quite sufficient TO arrest him on
The gesture with which alone I an
swered him might have meant assent
or mere civility, for 1 was not prepared
TO arrest Mr.. Kentish or any one else
without further investigation. To this
end 1 returned to the death chamber,
which / had left IN charge of the con-
stable and where DIR. Winthrop was
now making a m0Te prolonged exam
ins4isn Of thb bodT. First turning my