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

before he went to Central Africa, and that, moreover. while at Cain
on his way south, he adlearned certain facts concerning her life there
during the previous season, which made it impossible for him to ever
wish to see her again. Their separation was final and complete.
"Hshe deceived me cruelty he said; 4 cannot tell you how cruelty
During the two years when [ was trying to obtain my fathers consent!
to our marriage she was in love with a Russian diplomat. During an
that time he was secretly visiting her here in London, and her trip to
Cairo was only an excuse to meet him there
"'Yet you are here with her tonight Arthur protested, tonly a
few hours after your return
"That is easily explained Chetney answered. AS I finished din
ner tonight at the hotel, I received a note from her from this address.
In 1t she said she had but just learned of my arrival, and begged me to
come to her at once. She wrote that she was in great and present
trouble, dying of an incurable illness, and without friends or money.
She begged me, for the sake of old times, to come to her assistance.
During the last two years in the jungle all my former feeling for Itchy
has utterly passed away, but no one could have dismissed the appeal
she made in that letter. So I came here, and found her. g Won have
seen her, quite as beautiful as she ever was, in very good health, and,
from the look of the house, in no need of money. >a...sz~
i asked her what she meant by writing me that she was dying il"
a garnet, and she laughed, and said she had done so because she was
afraid, unless 1 thought she needed help, I would not try to see her.
That was where we were when you arrived. And now, Chetnev added.
l will say good-by to her, and you had better return home. No, you
can trust me, shall follow you at once. She has no influence over M
now, but l believe, in spite of the way she has used me, that she is,
after her queer fashion, still fond Of me- and when she learns that this
good-by is final there may be a scene, and it is not fair to her that you
should be here. So, go home at once, and tell the governor that I am
following YOU in ten minutes ..r",4 ~ r. .enTa ~ T% $500
THAT said Arthur, is the way we parted. I never left him on
more friendly terms. [ was happy to see him alive again, 1 was happy
to think he had returned in time to make up his quarrel with my
father, and I was happy that at last he was shut of that woman. 1 was
never better pleased with him in my life He turned to Inspector
Lyle, who was sitting at the foot of the bed taking notes of all he
told us. ,. ~M"r 2~7" %~ x.aaa~~ sa5n ~M~e -
"FWhy in the name of common sense he cried, Should I have
chosen that moment of all others to send my brother back to the
graveE For a moment the Inspector did not answer him. | do not
know II any OF you gentlemen are acquainted with Inspector Lyle, but
II you Ire not, L cal assure you that he is a very remarkable man. Our
firm often applies to him for aid, and he has never failed us; my father
has the greatest possible respect for him. Where he has the advantage
over the ordinary police official is in the fact that he possesses inagina-
ton. lie magmes himself to be the criminal, imagines how he would
act under the same circumstances, and he imagines to such purpose
that he generally finds the mar he wants. I have often told Lyle that
it he had not been a detective he would have made a great success as a
poet, or a playwright.
when Arthur turned on him Lyle hesitated for a moment, and
then told him exactly what was the case against him.
Ever since your brother was reported as having died in Africa he
said, your Iordship has been collecting money on post obis. Lord
Chetneys arrival last night turned them into waste paper. You were
suddenly IN debt for thousands Of pounds-for much more than you
could ever possibly pay. No one knew that you and your brother had
met at Madame Zichy's. But you knew that your father was not ex-
pected to ouhive the night, and that if your brother were dead also,
you would be saved from complete ruin, and that you would become
the Marquis of Edam.'
"'Oh, that is how you have worked it out, is iy Arthur cried.
sAnd for me to become Lord Edam was it necessary that the woman
should die, tooY
"'They will say Lyle answered, that she vas a witness to the
murder-that she would have told
"'Then why did I not kill the servant as wellY Arthur said.
"He was asleep, and saw nothing
"'And you believe that Arthur demanded.
cit is not a question of what 1 believe Lyle said gravely. Tt isa
question for your peers ~e~~%a~4==4azaa
""The man is insolentv Arthur cried. The thing is monstrousi
HorribeN
Before we could stop him he sprang out of his cot and began pull
ing on his clothes. When the nurses tried to hold him down, he fought
with them. -~+%ua&H.s#. er~s1 .-1zzz~r z~#~.A sz:@rT
Do YOU think you can keep me here he shouted, when they are
plotting to lang me? [ am going with you to that house 2 he cried at
Lyle. when you find those bodies 1 shall be beside you. It is my
right. He is my brother. He has been murdered, and I can tell you
who murdered him. That woman murdered him. She first ruined his
life, and now she has killed him. For the last five years she has been
ting to make herself his wife, and last night, when he told her he
discovered the truth about the Russian, and that she would never
: hln AGAIN, she flew into a passion and stabbed him, and then, in
terror OF tue galows, killed herself. She murdered him, I tell you,
and | pro..n you that we will find the knife she used near her-per-
haps, hand. What will you say to thatY