The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-05-19

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two moved toward the house
'.And be sure You place me
where can see without being seen
4 have;no wish to attract attention to
myself or 20 be identified with the po-
lice until the necessity is forced upon
me"
.sThen we won't 90 In together" de
cided Hexford. .tEind your own place
you won't have amy difficulty A
crowd isn't expected. Miss Cumber-
ldnd's condition forbids it"
Sweetwnter nodded and slid in at
the side door. He found himself at
once In a narrow hall, from the end
of which opened n large room. A few
people were to be seen in this latter
place. and his first instinct was to
join them: but. finding that few min
utes yet remained before the hour set
for the services. he decided to inn
prove them by a rapid glance about
this hall, which. for certain reasons
hardly rs yet Formulated in his own
mind. had peculiar interest for him.
Tho most important object within
view. according to his present Judg-
ment. was the staircase which con-
uected it with the floor above, but IL
you had asked his reason for this con-
clusion he would not have told you.
us Ranelagh might have done, that it
was because twas the most direct and
convenient approach to Carmel Cum
beriand's. room. His notice led him
next to rack upon which hung sew
eraI coats andsa- gentIeman's hat
lIae inspected the formeE and noted
that one was finished with "a high coll
lar, but he passed the latter by-ft was
not a derby. The table stood next
the rack, and on its top lay nothing
moro interesting than a clothesbrush
and one or two other insignificant OBJ
jects; but, with his memory for de-
taiis,. IA Ilsd the keys which
one OF the-naids had picked, up some
where about this house and laid on a
hall table. If>this were the hall and
this the table, then was every inch OF
the latter's simple cloth covered top of
the greatest importance in his eyes.
ne had no further time for even
these cursory Investigations. Hexford's
step could be heard on the veranda,
and Sweetwater was anxious to locate
himself before the officer came in. En-
tering the Popm before him, he crossed
to the sniat group clustered in its
farther doorway. There were several
empty chairs in sight, but he passed
around them all to dark and incon-
spicuous corner from which without
effort he could take in every room on
that door-from the large parlor in
which the casket stood to the remotest
region Of the servants hall.
The clergyman had not yet descend
ed. and Sweetwater had time to OBJ
serve the row of little girls sitting in
front of the bearers, each with small
cluster OF white flowers in her hand
Miss Cumberland's Sunday school
class, he conjcctured. and conjectured
rightly. He also perceived that some
of these children loved her. His eyes
dwelt Hngeringly on these before pass
ing to that heaped up mound Of flow
ers under which lay murdered body
and n bruised heart. BE could not see
the face, but the spectacle was suhi
GENTLY awe compelling without that.
Would IT have seemed yet more SO had
he known at whose request the huge
bunch OF lilies had been pInced over
that silent heart?
The sister sick, the brother invisi-
BILE, there was little more to hold his
attention in this quarter, SO he let It
roam across the heads OF the people
about him to the distant hall commu-
with the kitchen.
Several persons were approaching |
from this otfectlon, among them Zus |
dok-the servants OF the house, no
doubt. for they came in all together
and sat down side by side in the |
chairs Sweetwater had SO carefully |
passed by. There were i've persons
In all-two men and three women.
Only two interested htm-Zadok, with
whom he had already made super
iciaI acquaintance and had had one
bout, and n smart. bright eyed girl
with a resolute mouth softened by an
nslstent dimple, who struck him as
excellent sense and some
natural cleverness. A girl to know
ind n girl to talk to was his instnn-
aneous judgment.
During the services Sweetwater
'ound himself watching, with anx-
GUS curiosity. the attitude and abb
;orbed expression of a good looking
-ouny man whom he was far from
to be the secret representa-
i've of the present suspect, whom mo-
,ody could forget. yet whom nobody
Wished TO remember at this hallowed
lour.
Hnd this attitude and this nbsorp-
ion been directed toward the casket
ver which the clergyman's words
ose md fell with ever increasing Inn
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