The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-18

Just read is rather alarmed" said. "uc
spoSs or her past. but said nothing re :
sardinG her future. Perhaps hc will tell
me IN confidence what he thought well
to hide from her
Mungela shook her head sadly. "Ha-
ridas cannot tell her future I" she re-
piled, Everything is finishcd-It is all
done" .''
M In spite of my disbelief in the whole
BUSINESS, ] feit unacconntably disturbed
by this remark However, / returned 10
Mrs. Colthurst laughing
-, nave found out nothing" I said
lightly. Evidently there is a limit 10
tho magician's powers: he cannot fore .
tell your future"
you mean he will not" she rcsopndcd
somoeriH Il wish ] could make him
Her face looked 1aggard and worn.
soon aitcrward she badc her hostess good
night. shook hands with me and left the
! room 1 had 1ust risen on the follow
li,s mornlng. when TO my surprise my
servant ushcred in Charles Holdsworth.
! HalitaN, he cried eXcitcdly, Alma
| Colthurst is dead, murdered She was
found IN her drawing room early this
morning, stabbed to tho heart The po-
lice suspect Lidderdalc.''
Good heavens" l exclaimed, there
capable OF such crime
Wei, the servants story is as fol-
lows said HoldswortH "Alma returned
found a card from Lidderdale lying on
the hand table, with line in pencil that
4 Inc would call TO her about midnight
S she told the servant that he was TO
Ing room TO walt for him, He arrived
and was shown upstairs. About 1890
l.idderdalc 10 left the house.. AT Alma s
request her maid had already gone to
| bed. When Liddcrdale went away, the
butler cNtiuguished the lights in the rest
OF The house but did not return TO the
/ be disturbed, and as rule put out the
| lights there herself. On entering the
| room early this morning he found his
mistress stretched on tho floor, quite
dead, y doctor was summoned. and de-
| clared that she was stabbed through the
heart. and had been dead for many
hours"
How terrible" cried "Holdsworth
! almost begin to believe in chiromancy.
Haridas would not tell her future last
night. and said she had none. Yet L
| cannot believe Lidderdale guilty
But think OF the circuustantial evil
| dence. He Will, OF course. be arrested
on suspicion. Let US go To the Metro
! pole. and find out what has happened
on our arrival at the hotel the man
agcr Informed US that no gcAeman OF
that name was staying there. The po-
lice have already been inquiring for
him. he said. pointedly.
But here Is his visiting card" ex-
postulated Holdsworth. He left It al
my house yesterday, with the name OF
your hotel scribbled in the corner"
Probably the name OF the hotel was
used as blind remarked the manager.
This did not satisfy me. knew that
would recognize Lidderdale IL 1 should
remained behind in the entrance hail,
watching the guests as they passed in
and out. But no one in the least de-
gree resembling the man l sought put
went away. The case looked black
against the missing man. The writing
in the corner OF the visiting card left
| AT Holdsworths house was easily ident-
M al
which | possessed; a similar card had
been found at Mrs. Colthursts, with
writing also In Lidderdale's hand on
the night of the e1st a man answering
TO his description had called on Mrs.
Colthurst. and in the morning she was
found stabbed TO the heart.
week passed. and still the police
had obtained no trace OF the supposed
murderer. But returning home one even
ing. was almost stunned when my
servant informed me that Lidderdale was
waiting TO see me in my laboratory l
rushed TO the room. and Harry Lidder-
dale, looking much the same as when
! last saw him, came forward to meet me.
How are you, Halfax?" he said.
cheeriiy. Il have not been two hours
in New York. and naturally you arc the
first person ] wanted TO see. Why. what
is The ma,ter?" he queried, observing the
Mortified expression on my face.
You have not been here two hours
/ repeated. impossible. Don't you
know what has happened: l am amazed
O. c'ei'S SpNa N'u VIII ipr-
give me, must speak plainly-I tancied
you were hiding from The police"
II hiding from the police"' he ex-
claimed. why. what do YOU mean, Hail.
fax Is this joke"
Not at all / replied confusedly.
But why did YOU leave New York as
you did, and cut us all, and then come
| back"
'Onc question AT a time. old man. The
fact is ] was almost mad at that time.
When Nina Ramsay refused me. on the
| II
| resolved 10 leave th. country. cut all my
! connections. and make for South Africa.