The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-16

the library a bowed figure sat with
his head in his hands
Il can do noting. He has been dead
! some minutes" said the physician, ris-
ing. The girl gave a wild shrek and
fell imply to the floor.
Miss Drexlau mus be carried to
her ROOM" he commano,1. She has
only tainted, but she must be guarded
against the shock of awakening"
III carry her." said a firm, resonant
voice. The bowed figure emerged from
the darkness of the library; a cleanly
built, tall young man in evening dress
who picked up the girl as gently and
easily as if she were a child, called to
sobbing maid and. followed by the
doctor. he bore his burden out and up
the broad stairway. We stood respect
fully aside and let the little process
sion pass.
Then Clancy made a great show of
energy.
Knife wound. He couldn't have
lived many minutes. No weapon visi-
bic. Here. butler. where is the phone 2?
Getting the coroner's office on the
wire he asked for deputy at once
on1 then proceeded to extract what in
formation he could from the fright
ened butler. the only member of the
household who seemed to have retained
Il SelnDldnce OF cOmpOSure.
YOU manner" he demanded, when we
had retired to the library away from
the grim, PROSTATE figure In The draw
ing room
Thomas FOgarty, sir"
Now. Fogarty, tell us what YOU
know of this business"
We'll. that's not much, si-: but a..
about midnight l let in Miss Tatha-
rine and Mr.. Harcamp"
Full name?"
Mr.. Ranleigh Harcamp. They went
into the drawing room, and presently
l)r. DreXlau came out of the library
You go to bed. Fogarty,' says Mr..
Drexlau to me. 1 stopped 4 bit in the
hall to wind the clock. and then went
to my room. which is at the top OF
the house. back. l didn't go to bed
right away. having a good book 10
read. Quite bit afterwards L thought
| heard the front door, and | Won
dered if it was Mr.. Harcamp leaving
But / might have been mistaken, as
IL 6 long ways TO my room.
Ihen along after another spell
hears noise like somebody falling
ruShes right down. and there was
Mr.. Drexlau laying right where he is
now, and Mr.. Harcamp bending over
him.
Get doctor, quick says Mr.
Harcamp, and don't wake Miss Drex-
lau. Mr.. Drexlau has been stabbed
AS quick as l could get my senses
back | went to the telephone. Then
| thought il looked more like a case
for the police than the DOCTOR and
seeing l couldn't do nothing for Mr.
Drexlau. L called up the station. Mr.
Harcamp gave me particular fits when
l told him what I'd done.
The doctor came first and Mr. Drex-
lau was still alive. He reused up once
and spoke to me while I was holding
his head. Then Miss Katharine found
out something was wrong and came
down. Then you came"
You say Mr.. Drexlau spoke. What
did he say?" eagerly queried the in
spector"
He just says the Blue Bokhara,
that was all"
But what on earth is the Blue
Bokhara?'"
IT'S rug, sir. Mr.. Drexlau was a
regular crank on Oriental rugs. That's
Feraghan you're standing on. That
big one in the drawing room is a Ker-
manshah: that long ones a Tabriz.
and the little ones around the walls
are Persian silks. There's a lot more
don't know the names of. l thought
Mr.. DreXlau was Eighty talking about
the Blue Bokhara' till l looked about
and saw it was gone. 1 guess one of
the maids must have taken il out TO
dust and forgot to put it back
well, never mind all that. You're
probably right. It's not robbery. any
way. or they'd have taken more than
just a rug. Now look here. Fogarty,
who's this man Harcamp?"
why. he's the one that carried Miss
Katharine out. He's one of her friends
and lives somewhere up on the ave-
nue.. Lots of money, l hear"
And he and Mr.. Drexlau were not
on very good terms. l guess?"
"Well. inspector, l don't like to
say anything to make trouble, but
just as left the hall after winding the
clock I thought Mr.. Drexlau and Mr..