Evening star., 1909-09-03
After moments pause Trafrord said:

After a moments pause Trafford said:
Now if YOU feel better after that let
Us get back TO what we We're talking
about You have advised Harold Calden
to leave the jurisdiction of the United
States?"
My advice to patient is privileged.
decline to answer.
DO you assume that privilege extends
to covering crime?"
What ] do or do not assume does not
enter into the matter. / decline to state
what advice ! gave my patient or even
whether ! gave him any at all
I'm that last you're wrong sad Traf-
ford a court would compel yoa to an
swer that question-even coroner
might
When one attempts I'll NEE, the is
sue
NO. doctor that's not quite fair. There
is certainly no reason to refuse me an an
sWer where the court would compel it,.
That's non sequitur.''
IF YOU haven't found out by this time
that I've no more wish to convict an in
nocent man than to let guilty one es-
cape you're not as keen as i give You
credit Tor being. II you have. YOU and
your friends adopting a course that
Is Incompatible with both innocence and
Intelligence
IN my opinion. Mr.. Trafford. replied
Grimblesi.aw. taking him as seriously as
his las: words had been tuned 1.-The
whole tendency of your work thus far
has been TO fasten the crime OH an en-
tirely innocent man. Ii you regard that
as something to induce others to confide
in you. | no more agree with YOU there
than in other matters.
I'm not aware, doctor that you have
any very complete knowledge of my work
or Its tendency, but | will say frankly
that if ] have any Thought that YOU or
your friends are involved in this murder.
it is due whoilA to your efforts TO thwart
me since b.gak, the investigation. Mind,
| say if / have amy such thought. | GER
tainiE had right 10 expect, at least,
your friends entire cooperation
II came 10 Grimbieslaw as q fash OF
hight that taere was JUSTICE in T,afford s
complaint. He lad had right to ex-
Dect co-operation. and certainly he had
not had it. IIe had rot had it because
both Horace and his father believed as
the fact the worst that TrafTord could
have uncovered. And he himself? lie
had believed it as we'll. ana lad acted
with them in the purpose TO thwart the
detective. In so far his complaint was
justified. Now THAT he was satisfied OF
the mistake under which they had acted
what was his duty? TO do nothing that
BY any chance should bring hunt to
Judith. lie, at least. did not hesitate
there; to that his answer returned as the
! needle TO the pole, If lie had got to
make mistake. and very possibly he
had it must be TIE one that. at all llaZ-
ards. would protect her and hers,
Trafford let him founder through his
selfquestioniugs without throwing him
so much as a shred to help him. He felt
that he could have caught ut almost any
thing If only Trafford had offered IT. In
stead. he conscious that the de-
tectivc Was silently studying him, which
was probably the real thing that he had
come there for on that particular morn
ing for. matter of fac. Grimble-
shaw did no, feel for a moment that
Trafford needed him to tell what had
occurred at the camp. to what point Cal
den was bound Why he himself aided
III getting him out of the states. In fact,
Gr1Iihleshaw was lapsing into Il study OF
the situation that was a practical ac-
know wledgment that. present absent,
lraHord equally weighed large in every
thing lie undertook these days when sud
denly the detective took up again the line
/ of duestionings:
As physician. judging from the con-
dition OF the wound and the blood how
long before you found him had Altenburg
been struck
Il should say close on 20 two honrs, :
replied Grimbleshaw. more promptly than
ne quite felt ne ought. The question was
one he had considered minutely. since
rearing Calden's story and he had fixed
so dennltely the answer that it was rather
IKE repeating il to himself than giving
II to another.
Well. lets see. David saw him about
half after six. That's his story. at least
and J. We verified it as far as possible by
the time Antoine left Malbon's and the
time the two reached the village. On the
whole ] think We're safe in accepting ii
that David was with him not earlier than
six-twenty. and not later than stx-forty,
range of twenty minutes. He was un-
/ hurt then at thai hour
You are satisfied then that he was un-