The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-07

lou Know. DOCTOR, SAID GranQfefG
rising and going toward the door. ''tha
We are both in too deep to quarrel. Yol
are excited and have taken offens
when none was intended. Tomorrow w
will be friends again."
Tomorrow you will pay me thes
notes have here, herev' screamed tn,
doctor. Every one of them, down t,
the last cent, or I'll set the hounds o
passion upon you Clear out, you poo
thing, too worthless for aught except
deed of butcheryp'
At this instant the arc lights sput
tered and went out Cronkite poised be
hind the curtain until sure that Grand.
field had gone his way and then sprang
as quick, as nOiseless as a serpent. al
the doctors throat, raising him. throt.
Ting him, bearing him to the floor
beating him almost to insensibiIity
tearing from his pocket papers and let
tiers.
There" Kissed Cronkite in admira,
bic imitation of Grandfield's tones
That's what you get for having dared
to defy James Grandfield.''
".
Early the next morning Judge Marcel
lus passed dienifledly through the
grounds and UP to the entrance of the
Nevins house.
| rs the doctor concealed as I sug-
gested, Blinns?" he asked of the old but
Ter. "Ah, very good. Then be so good.
won't you, as to request Mr.. Grandfeld
to join me in the library
| James Grandfield came into the dark
ened room, his uneasiness i'll yelled by
a bluff air.
'The earlier the better. Judge. in your
case of course" he began. 'sbut yet. I
must admit. ] am somewhat sur
prised-"
AT my call at this hour?" returned
the Judge, with cold severity. "You will
be more than surprised, you will be
dumfounded, overwhelmed
Sir
Il must tell you frankly and at once n
the judge went on, that you are ac-
cused by one whose character is so
nigh, whose veracity is so undoubted
that L must take cognizance of it, of
the murder of your kinsman and part
ner, Aaron Nevins."
The dissipated flush on Grandfeld's
face faded into d dingy gray He shiv-
cred and shrank as if from the sudden
touch of age Then he blurted forth.
loudly, incoherently:
tbs a lie, an Internal lie: Won must
be dreaming, Judgel the murderer. of
my dear old cousin, when that wretch.
Howell, lies in Jail, committed on the
charge? III not endure 1t, even from
you: Tell me at once the name of my
maiigner. Confront me with hiunl"
81 will do both" answered the nm
daunted judge. THE good citizen who
has been following out his well directed
suspicious of you at the risk of his life
Is the man you nearly killed last night.
Need l name him? Dare you face
him?"
Grandfield's absolute assurance that
he had not assaulted anyone the night
before gave him heart. Since one part
of the charge was so palpably false. IL
ought to be easy to discredit it alto
gether.
AS an honorable man, devoid of
ofense. L demand to see him, to hear
him." he declared.
Step forth then, DOCTOR" said the
Judge, "and repeat your accusation in
the presence of the accused"
Out from an alcove came DR.. Thons-
MS face swollen. his eyes blackened. his
head begirt with bloodstained bandages
"a CHASTITY sight that also might have |
been ludicrous had not malignity vi |
orated so manifestly from him.
In the course of my Investigation of |
the Nevins murder, judge" the doctor
began in hollow tones, II became con-
WINGED of crooked work against Howell. |
While the thumb mark on the cane is
HowelPs, as 1 testified |
study Of it under the most powerful |
glass shows that it was not imprinted |
directly from the thumb
Preposterous!" sneered Grandfieid: |
and even IL true. what did have TO /
do with it?"
Il sent for Grandfeid, Judge, last
night to come to my office, and 1 told /
him of my suspicious, until then vague. /
l must admit He set upon me in the /
dark; he beat me and left me for dead, |
after rif1ing my pockets
"Oho," laughed Grandfield. off his
guard from the bewildering, the exult-
ant knowledge that the proof which the /
1octor mad held over him the night be-
fore had disappeared. "Oho, imbecile
and liarT' laughed Grandfeld, then
where are the letters, the papers,
Here! cried shrfll voice, and Miss
Talbot, truly the embodiment of ven
omous spite, dashed into the room.
Here Is the letter you wrote to the
,uling my person and holding my affec-
ions up to shamel Judge, Judge, 1 am
Wild to tell everything. 1 am wild to
90 to the stake If only that villain of
irandfield shall reap his just deserts"
Here! repeated a heavier>voice, and
AbS OAOithltS Cdfne 1nlO tne room, still
n the guise of Blinn's brother. Here.
udge, are documents whereby this man
Irandheld binds himself in case of his
'artner's death to pay over large sums
rom the business" He laid a powerful
and on Grandf1eld's shoulder.
Terror lurked under Dr. Thoms' dis
olored face at the inexplicable appear
nee of the papers and letters that had ,
cen taken from him. Then it was not
irandfield who had beaten and robbed
i'm? Then he had taken a false re-
enge, had come out from his safety
lto the, searching light without cause?
n, If he might flee, might hide him
elf
Judge, Judge" he painted, you see
ow feeble 1 am. 1 have done my duty. +
uffer me now to retire to my rooms" 7
Where the walls have ears?r inter- I
lpted Cronkite. Oh, no; you must !
bide while I repeat the admissions 1
verheard you make last night" He laid t
is other powerful hand on the COVER a
lg wretch. These papers and letters. e
ldge,' the detective added, aside. con 3
-itute another instance of the surprs- \
g power Of things displaced" 1