The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-07-02
BY MISADVENTURE
r a N K B A r r e # II
CHAPTER XXI (continued-1


No; he went out ofithe room, but moi
.ut of the house, before Mr.. Keene left
aid anything occur to make him leave
me room p
.sHe seemed to have lost something he
felt repeatedly in his pockets. and looked
bout the floor"
did he continue his search after ieav-
ing the room?"
Yes; he had a candle, and looked ali
up the stairs and in the hail.
do you know what 1t was he lostF
"A piece of paper He said that there
was an important memorandum on it, and
he offered the maid half sovereign II she
found it,"
/ glanced at Mr.. Yeames, 80 did SIR
Roland, whom l touched with my toe IN
der the table. The young man was look
ing at the white paper before him, and
there was scarcely more color in his race
He looked up in quick dread at the next
question.
"Was that paper found?"
No"
Mr.. Yeames drew a long breath Of re-
ief
81 shall now ask you, Mr.. Lynn
Yeames, to give me your attention. You
10 not dispute the order OF events as
tated by Miss Dalrymple?"
Mo-
when you left Flexmore House. az
haIf-past eleven you rode over to MI
Keene|
"Yes."
"You had seen him leave the house ana
we're acutely anxious to know what MS
BUSINESS there was?
Lynn hesitated a moment, but al
nudge from Bax replied, Yes"
you had been given to understand that
the bulk of Mr. Flexmore's property
would be left in trust to you?"
YES" after another nudge.
1.-THE presence of Mr.. Keene led you 10
think that Mr.. Flexmore might have al
.ered his disposition
Nudge as before, and Yes.
ION arriving at Mr.. Keene's you were
shown into the Office, and waited there
some time alone? You saw a sheet OF
foolscap lying on the tabler
Yeames replied that he had seen noth-
ing of the kind whatever.
You are sure of thatr' asked Sir no
land.
Il will take my oath l saw nothing OF
the kind"
when you left Fle1more House the
second time, about half-past one, where
did you go?"
ITO fetch DR.. Audrey.
"Dr. Audrey was not at home, be-
lever" ;,
HE was not I waited for him hall
an hour, or thereabouts.'
! Where did you waltz"
"In his private sitting room.
"You know that the consulting room
adjoins the sitting room?'
YES"
you go there for any purposeT
mo.
after waiting quietly in the sitting
room half an hour, you returned to Fle1
more House?"
Eyes; | was anxious about Mr.. Fle1
more's condition"
with respect to the piece OF paper
you mislaid; have you any objection t'
stating what it was?"
'None; it was a leaf from my notebook
containing memoranda respecting horses
had backed for a spring meeting
Sir Roland asked If we had any CUES
lions to ask, and, on receiving reply IL
the negative, he proceeded to question
Mrs. Bates.
"You were in the service OF DIR. Aw
drey, believe, at the time OF Mr.. Fle1
more's deathT
81 were, sir"
1.-THE previous night DR.. Awdrey wa
!. absent from homer
HE WERE sir. He came in about hall
past, ten or eleven the next morning,
will not swear exact, and he asks TO
breakfast
after that he went out?"
He did; about twelve or half-past,
, will not swear"
"You had tidied up his room in tn
morning as usual?"
81 had; about seven or half-past."
"Now in tidying up his room. had 20
occasion to go into the consulting room Z
~ never ventured there, sir; though
, mRy be disbelieved."
aWhen Mr.. Yeames called, you Shove
him into the sitting room?"
81 did; him being friend, as | was lie
To believe, of DIR. Hawdrey's."
During the half-hour he was there di
YOU hear any particular soundF"
mo, sir, l did not; being at my do'
ties hupstairs."
e Nothing like the crash of fallin
: b,ttleT"
!. ''Nothink of the kind"
4 1.-THE door communicating with the cor
l sulting room was open"
/ mo; it were closed, though the Ike
i turned"
1 But the key was inT
a sft WERE"
4 There was nothing, in fact, to preyer
NJ. Yeames strolling in there from cur
!, osity-to while away the time that
was waiting for DR.. Awdreyp
"Nothink but l believe Mr.. feam'
we're too much the gentleman to go apr
ing and a-peering."
She had evidently a gratuity in vie7
. that Mrs. Bates.
> when did you first hear Of bott
l. being broken|
"When DIR. Awdrey came in; abo'
: four o'clock or half-past. He asked n
s. if l had done it, and | said | bad no
and should feel obliged II he would fir
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