The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

! W ell l had the gOVerness in TO ex-
! plain matters to the duchess. The
| mink met me with fat denial of the
/ truth Of Lupin's story. l sent over foT
young Sterling and confronted him
! with the Frenchman in the presence of
the duchess. Martin and l had to fling
| ourselves on him to prevent his flying
at the tutors throat. And then her
grace tops it all by believing the pre-
clous pair of lOvebirds. refuses to
prosecute, and orders me to begin all
| over again. And now" Shone added.
after an impressive pause. this morn
ing Dupin is found hanging in the old
WeH' and willy-nilly you have to come
into the business A clearer case of
murder for the double motive of re-
venge and of putting out of the way
an inconvenient witness never came
my way"
1t is not for police officer to ex-
press opinions, but if I had spoken my
mind / should have been bound to adj
nit that on the face of it things looked
pretty black against the wears SON
| for the murder, as apart from the rob-
berry. For, knowing the boy as I did.
| thought IL possible that he might
have been betrayed into a violent deed
of revenge for a false accusation
against his sweetheart and himself in
respect Of a mean theft. of which they
knew themselves innocent
We'll" said ], lit is my duty to see
the body first. and the place where it
was found. Then, just as a matter of
off1c1al form, shall have to verify the
evidence which you have collected
Muttering something about internal
red tape" Shone swung himself Of the
table and, followed by his portly
henchman and myself, led the way to
the stable where the remains of the
tutor had been temporarily housed.
The doctor. who had come out on a
motor car, had already finished his ex-
animation and met us on the threshold.
His first statement was important He
had viewed the body at half-past 10;
life had been extinct for over eight and
less than ten hours, proving that death
must have taken place between mid
night and in the morning
No need to dwell on the next grew
some five minutes We were all glad
TO reach the sunlit stable yard again
ShOne, in his eagerness to lead the
way to the well, stalked ahead, with
Martin painting at his heels, DR.. Rem
tout and 1 bringing up the rear. This
arrangement enabled me to put whis-
pered question 10 my old friend, the
doctor, and TO receive his whispered
reply.
The immediate cause of death was
straDgulation-not q broken neck"
Did he ask you that?" l nurmured
under my breath. with a jerk of nv
thumb to the hurrying figure ahead.
The doctor cooked his eye at me
sideways, shaking his head and max
ing a wry face. Not he ne replied in
the same undertone. TOO big for such
mere detail, l expect"
We soon came to the orchard. in the
far corner of which. amid a tangle of
nettles and crimbling brick work,
stood a windlass over the old we'll The
place was all trsmpled by the search
ers, who had rushed to the scene when
one of their party had raised the
alarm that the rope had run out from
the drum and that something heavy
was at the end. On the ground Just
as It had been cast aside. lay the moose
that had been cut from the dead man S
neck the moment the body had been
hauled up. The rope having been sew
cred with knife, the knot was intact
was examining it with interest when
Shone uttered shrill little cry:
Here comes your prisoner, superin-