Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-10-02
BY MISADVENTURE
F. r A x b A r r e T T
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CHAPTER xx1.-(continued.)

No; he went out OF the room, but not
out of the house, before Mr.. Keene left
did anything occur to make him leave
the rcom2"
HE seemed to have lost something. He
felt repeatedly in his pockets and looked
about the floor"
ibid he continue his search after leav.
ing the room?"
YES; he had candle and looked all
up the stairs and in the hall"
do you know what it was he lostp
"a piece of paper. He said that there
was an important memorandum on it, and
he offered the maid half sovereign If she
found it."
/ glanced at Mr.. Yeames, so did Sir
Roland, whom touched with my toe un-
der the table. The young man was look
ing at the white paper before him, and
there was scarcely more color in his face.
He looked up in quick dread at the next
question.
"Was that paper found?'
mo"
Mr.. Yeames drew long breath of re-
lief.
81 shall now ask you, Mr.. Lynn
Yeames, to give me your attention. You
stated by Miss Dalrymple"
mo"
when you left Flexmore House, at
Aalf-past eleven you rode over to Mr..
Geenew
Eyes"
"You had seen him leave the house, and
were acutely anxious to know what his
business there WASP"
Lynn hesitated a moment, hut at a
nudge from Bax replied, Yes"
"You had been given to understand that
the bulk of Mr.. F'lexmore's property
would be left in trust to you"
YES" after another nudge.
THE presence of Mr.. Keene led you to
think that Mr.. Flexmore might have al
tered 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 table?"
Yeames replied that he had seen moth
Eng of the kind whatever.
''You are sure of that2" asked Sir Ro-
land.
II will take my oath saw nothing of
the kind"
''When you left Flexmore House the
second time, about half-past one, where
did you gO?"
ITO fetch DIR. Audrey"
"Dr. Awdrey was not at home. be-
HeveY'
"He was not. waited for him half
an hour, or thereabouts.'
"Where did you waltz"
STn hia nrivaf0 aiffing rom ~
"You know that the consulting room
AdjOins the sitting rOOmf"
EYES"
'1''d you go there for any purpOssT"
"No.
after waiting quietly in the sitting
room half an hour, you returned to Flex-
more HOuseT"
EYES; l was anxious about Mr.. Flex-
more's condition"
with respect to the piece Of paper
you mislaid; have you any objection to
SEATING what 1t WASP"
''None 1t was a leaf from my notebook,
containing memoranda respecting horses
had backed for a spring meeting"
Sir Roland asked if we had any Ques-
tons to ask, and, on receiving a reply in
the negative, he proceeded to question
Mrs. Bates.
''YOu were In the service of DIR. Aw-
drey, 1 believe, at the time Of Mr.. Flex-
mOre's deathf
IL were, sir"
1.-THE previous night DIR. Awdrey was
absent from homer
HE were, sir. BE came in about half
past ten or eleven the next morning, 1
will not swear exact, and he asks for
breakfast
after that he went out?"
"He did; about twelve or half-past,
will not swear"
"You had tidied up his room In the
morning as usual?"
1T had; about seven or half-past."
snow In tidying up his room, had you
occasion to 80 into the consulting room r
II never ventured there, sir: though l
may be disbelieved."
when Mr.. Yeames called, you showed
aim into the sitting room"
81 did: him being q friend. a. was led
- believe, Of DR.. Hawdrey's."
During the half-hour he was there did
you hear any particular soundr"
mo, sir, did not; being at my doc
ties hupstairs."
Nothing like the crash Of . falling
hottle"
"Nothink Of the kind"
The door communicating with the con-
Sulting room was openH"
mo; 1t were closed, though the key
turned"
"But the key was INF"
n were"
[Aere was nothing, in fact, to prevent
M. Yeames strolllng in there from curl
osity-to while away the time that h
was waiting for DR.. Awdrey2
''Nothink; but believe Mr.. Yeames
were too much the gentleman to 90 a-pry
ing and a-peering"
She had evidently a gratuity in view
that Mrs. Bates.
When did you first hear Of bottl,
being broken~
when DIR. Audrey came in; abou
four o'clock or half-past. He asked m,
If had done it, and l said 1 had not
and should feel obliged If he would fine
some one else, as 1 did not like sucl
things to be laid to me-"
''Did he make any other remark abou
the consulting room was anything miss