The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-08-02
BY ANNA
KAT HARINE
GREEN
CHAPTER VIII.
Copyright 1910.
BY Anna katharine RohIfs

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two moved toward the house.
"And be sure you place me
where | can see without being seen.
] have no wish to attract attention to
myself or to be identified with the p0-
)ice pnti the necessity is forced upon
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e.-,111sn we won't go in together" de-
cided Hexford. Find your own place;
you won't have any difficulty. A
crowd isn't expected. Miss Cumber-
lands condition forbids IT,"
Sweetwater nodded and slid in at
the side door, He found himself at
once in a narrow hall, from the end
of which opened a large room. A few
people were to be seen in this latter
place, and his first instinct was to
join them; but, finding that a few min
utes yet remained before the hour set
for the services. he decided to i'm
prove them by a rapid glance about
this hall, which. for certain reasons
hardly as yet formulated in his own
mind. had a peculiar interest for him.
The most important object within
view, according to his present judg-
ment. was the staircase which con-
nected il with the floor above. but IL
you had asked his reason for this con-
clusion he would not have told you,
as Ranelagh might have done. that 1t
was because 1t was the most direct and
convenient approach to Carmel Cum
berland's room. His notice led him
next to rack upon which hung sew
eral coats and a gentleman's hat.
He inspected the former and noted
that one was finished with a high col
lar, but he passed the latter by-it was
not q derby. The table stood next
the rack. and on its top lay nothing
more interesting than a clothesbrush
and one or two other insignificant OBJ
jects; but, with his memory for de
tails, he had recalled the keys which
one of the maids 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 latters simple cloth covered top of
the greatest Importance in his eyes.
He 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 room before him, he crossed
to the small group clustered in its
farther doorway. There were several
empty chairs in sight. but he passed
around them all To a dark and incon-
spicuous corner from which without
effort he could take in every room on
thas tioor-from the large parlor in
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 a small
cluster of white flowers in her hand
Miss Cumberland's Sunday school
class, he conjectured. and conjectured
He also perceived that some
of these children loved her. His eyes
dwelt lingeringly on these before pass
ing to that heaped up mound of flow
ers under which lay a murdered body
and bruised heart. He could not see
the face, but the spectacle was sufi-
GENTLY awe compelling without that
Would it have seemed yet more so had
he known at whose request the huge
buncL of lilies had been placed over
that silent heart?
The sister sick. the brother inyisi-
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 direction. among them Ia
dok-the servants of the house, no
and sat down side by side in the
chairs Sweetwater had so carefully
passed by There were five persons
In all-two men and three women.
Only two interested him-Zadok. with
whom he had already made "A super
fetal acquaintance and had had one
bout, and smart. bright eyed girl
with resolute mouth softened by an
lnsistent dimple. who struck him as
possessing excellent sense and some
natural cleverness. girl to know
and a girl TO talk TO was his instan-
LaneOus judgment.
During the services Sweetwater
'ound himself watching. with anx-
Gus curiosity. the attitude and abb
iorbed expression of a good looking
'oung man whom he was far from
TO be the secre& representa-
i've Of the present suspect. whom no
ody could forget. yet whom nobody
yished 10 remember at this hallowed
our.
Had this attitude and this absorp-
on been directed toward the casket
yer which the clergyman's words
,se and fell with ever increasing i'm
he might have noted the
an, but would scarcely have been
Id by him. But this interest. sim
re and strong as IL undoubtedly was.
inferred not so much In the services.
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