Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-09-03

turned his eyes quickly from it,
"Tell the driver of that hansom." he called to the servant "tha* I
take him by the hour"
"For the last three days." began young MI. Chudleigh, cas- YOU
have probably read In the daily papers, the Marquis of Edam has been
at the point of death, and his physicians have never left his house.
Every hour he seemed to grow weaker; but although his bodily
strength is apparently leaving him forever, his mind has remained
clear and active. Late yesterday evening word was received at our
office that he wished my father to come at once to Chetney House and
to bring with him certain papers. What these papers were is not essen
tal; l mention them only to explain how it was that last night L hap
pened to be at Lord Edam's bedside. I accompanied nv father to Chef
ny House, but at the time we reached there Lord Edam a sleeping,
and his physicians refused to have him awakened. Ny father urged
that he should be allowed to receive Lord Edam's instructions concern
ing the documents, but the physicians would not disturb him, and we
all gathered in the library to wait until he should awake of his own
accord. 1t was about one o'clock in the morning, while we we're still
there, that Inspector Lyle and the officers from Scotland Yard came to
arrest Lord Arthur on the charge of numbering his brother. You can
imagine our dismay and distress. Like every one else, I had learned
from the afternoon papers that Lord Chetney was not dead, but that
he had returned to England, and on arriving at Chetney House [ had
been told that Lord Arthur had gone to the Bath Hotel to look for his
brother and to inform him that if he wished to see their father alive he
must come to him at once. Although it was now past one o'clock,
Arthur had not returned, None of us knew where Madame Itchy
lived, 50 we could not 60 to recover Lord Chetney's body. We spent
most miserable night, fastening to the window whenever a cab came
INTO the square, in the hope that It was Arthur returning, and endeav-
oring to explain away the facts that pointed to him as the murderer. I
am a friend of Arthur's, I was with him at Harrow and at Oxford, and
1 refused to believe for an instant that he was capable of such a crime;
but a a lawyer I could not help but see that the circumstantial evil
dence was strongly against him.
"Toward early morning Lord Edam awoke, and in 50 much better
a state OF health that he refused to make the changes in the papers
which he had intended, declaring that he was no nearer death than
ourselves. Under other circumstances, this happy change in him would
have relieved us greatly, but mono of us could think of anything save
the death OF his elder son and of the charge which hung over Arthur.
GAS long as Inspector Lyle remained in the house my father
decided that ], as one of the legal advisers of the family, should also
remain there. But there was little for either of us to do. Arthur did
not return, and nothing occurred until late this morning, when Lyle
received word that the Russian servant had been arrested. He at once
drove to Scotland Yard to question him. He came back to us in an
hour, and informed me that the servant had refused to tell anything OF
what IA haprnnad pipht hof~o n, &c l;,,a1f - r. Az Dw~.~.
Itchy: tie would not oven give them the address of her house.
"He is in abject terror Lyle said. I assured him that he was not
suspected of the crime, but he would tell me nothing
there we're no other Developments until two o'clock this after
noon, when word was brought to us that Arthur had been found, and
that he was lying in the accident ward of St. Georges Hospital Lyle
and | drove there together, and found him propped up in bed with his
head bound in a bandage. He had been brought to the hospital tho
night before by the driver of a hanson that had run over him in the
fog. The cabhorse had kicked him o the head, and he had been car
RED In unconscious. There was nothing on him to tell who he was, and
it was not until he came to his senses this afternoon that the hospital
authorities had been able to send word to his people. Lyle at once
informed him that he was under arrest, and with what he was charged,
and though the inspector warned him to say nothing which might be
used against HIM, L, as his solicitor, instructed him to speak freely and
to tell us all he knew Of the occurrences of last night. 1t was evident
to any one that the fact of his brothers death was of much greater
concern to him, than that he was accused of his murder.
"'That,' Arthur said CONTEMPORARY, that is damned nonsense. 1t
is monstrous and cruel. We parted better friends than we have been in
years l will tell you all that happened-not to clear myself, but to
help you to find out the truth His story is as follows: Yesterday
afternoon, owing to his constant attendance on his father, he did not
look at the evening papers, and it was not until after dinner, when the
butler brought him one and told him of it's contents, that he learned
that his brother was alive and at the Bath Hotel. He drove there at
once, but was told that about eight o'clock his brother had gone out,
but without giving any cAw to his destination. As Chetney had not at
once come to see his father, Arthur decided that he was still angry
with him, and his mind, turning naturally to the cause of their quarrel
determined him to look for Chetney at the home of the Princess Zichv::
"Her house had been pointed out to him, and though he had never
visited it, he had passed it many times and knew its exact location. He
accordingly drove in that direction, as far as the fog would permit the
hanson to go, and walked the rest Of the way, reaching the house about
ina o1oooE 1o rnr oJ wa, ,J~;++al -Ll- -, I'M
man took his card into the drawingroom, and at once his brother ran
out and welcomed him. He was followed by the Princess Itchy, who
also received Arthur most cordially.
You brothers will have much to talk about she said. I am
going to the dlninprO0m When N hava Hn;cboJ lot mr. l-,-,