The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-10-28
! THE Man SHE LOVED
49, $3.50
By EFFE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS.


He can't be gone far, for, according
to Mr.. Lawler, the landlord OF the
Groombridge Arms, he was tramp,
my lord, with no money or nothink."
"But by this time. remember, in
| all probability he has what would be
to him "a perfect treasure" said DR..
| Waters, sharply: "the dead man has
been robbed, of that there is no
doubt, and his murderer has gone OF
Every true, sir" replied the in-
| spector, civilly, ~yon're quite right;
with the money and the watch"
but all the same, SIR / don't count
ON that doing him much good. BY
this time every person in the county
has his description by heart, and
there is great feeling agin him, sir;
he would find it ard to get help from
anywhere, now"
"Yes, yes; Of course now he
would Waters was always in
clined to be testy when he was both
ered-"but he may not be in the
county at all, Reynolds; in fact. I
should not be surprised If he wasn't
out of England by this time" (.
The inspector looked a trifie dis
concerted. There was no pleasing
DIR. Waters. he said to himself.
| zone moment" Gervais followed
the fussy little man into the hall.
;;'I suppose you can have formed no
idea what weapon was used?"
Il can only conjecture that it must
have been large claspknife," DR..
Waters answered. thoughtfully: s"the
| wounds are narrow and deep as If
struck by knife or a dagger. 1
! have concluded it was the first, as
f-om the description have gathered
of the man, he would hardly be likely
to have dagger about with him.
Unless it were premeditated
thing" y
Exactly; but as to that of course
1 we can say nothing. suppose you
found evidences of a struggle in the
| plantations. Lord Derriman?"
Eyes, for few yards the bushes
were beaten down, and the earth and
bracken disturbed, as though the
dead man had been dragged along
and then dropped: we could find no
sign of knife or any weapon, though
had men searching there all day
yesterday, and they are at it STILL
II Geryais watched the doctor drive
away, stood for moment in silence,
and then went back to the library.
/ He had several things yet to say 20
the inspector and his men. No one
could tell how this business worried
the earl; it was so horrible to him to
think that life had been taken so
hear to his house: that while all with
in had been probably laughing and
4 enjoying themselves, the poor crea-
Eure had lain bleeding to death so
close to them, yet so far away. 1t
was not the disagreeable duties
forced upon him as lord of the manor
and as magistrate from which Ger
Wais shrank; he recognized that this
was expected from him, but it panied
| him to think what shadow this
murder had suddenly cast over his
peaceful existence and happy con-
| tentment. He had vowed to himself,
when Dorothy became his wife, that
| he would ever make her life beauti-
Full, perpetual sunshine; and now
she was plunged into all the horrors
iof most CHASTITY murder committed
in the very precincts of her home!
ut was Of her he thought first, and
her white face the previous night at
dinner had made him beside himself
Ilwith uneasiness and pain.
The police did not remain long at
the Manor House, but they were dis
tributed about the grounds in case
any scent should he found and their
services be needed.
Groves. the gardener, was person
of much Importance in the kitchen
by reason of having been the discov-
,erer of the body; he was never tired
of detailing the whole story over and
over again to his eager audience, and
most of the men servants, it must be
confessed, were inclined to envy him
his unique position. AS is often the
case with ignorant minds, the domes-
tics were thrilled and not altogether
displeased at the dreadful thing that
had happened in their quiet, smooth
lives; and they could not quite under
stand why all the grand folk should
Lave hurried away so quickly, nor
why Miss Leslie and my lady should
be so very much upset by it.
MY lady. she moan and moan and
seem so i'll; she ave the white
cheek" Virginie said, Struggling her
shoulders and putting away at a Gig
arctic which she had stolen from
'Gervais' dressing-room. "And for
Mademoiselle Enid, she so tranquille,
she. what you say, she vii not utter
Mordr
Miss Ends got such a good
cart" was Maria's vigorous reply;
look 'ow kind she is if there's any
of us ILL.,
"Ay. that she be. to be sure"
agreed stout kitchen girl. virginie
took no notice of these remarks, but