The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-07-22

and. looking up. met Sweetwater's
eye.
1t was quietly apoiogetic.
II only wished 10 congratulate you"
said he, ION the conclusion of q case
in which | know you are highly in
terested" Lifting his hat he nodded
affably and was gone before could
recover from my stupor.
1t was for Clinton to show his in
dignation- was past all feeling
Farce as an afterpiece never appealed
10 me.
Would | have considered 1t farce If
l could have heard the words which
this detective was at that moment
whispering into the district attorneys
ears:
do you want to know who throttled
brother; it was not her lover; 1t was
her old and trusted coachman."
"Give me your reasons. They must
be excellent ones. Sweetwater, OF you
would not risk making a second mis-
take in a case of this magnitude and
publicity"
"Mr. Fox, they are excellent But
you shall Judge Of them. From the
moment Miss Carmel Cumberland over
threw the very foundations of our case
by her remarkable testimony l felt that
my work was only half done. 1t was a
strain on credulity to believe Arthur
guilty Of crime SO prefaced. and the
alternative, which Mr.. MOffat believed
in, which you were beginning to believe
in and perhaps are allowing yourself
to believe in even now. never appealed
to me-
81 allude to the very natural suspi-
cion that the act beheld by your man
Clarke was q criminal act and that
Ranelagh Is the man really RESPONSE
BILE for Miss Cumberland's death. Some
instinct held me back from this con-
clusion as well as the incontrovertible
fact that he could have had no hand
in carrying that piece OF broken bottle
into the Cum berland stable or Of drop
ping his engagement ring in the sug-
gestive place where 1t was found.
Where, then. should look for the un-
known. the unsupported third party7
Among the ten other persons who drop
ped something into that casket
Most of these were children. but l
made the acquaintance of every one
spent most of my Sunday that way;
then. finding no clouded eye among
them. | began study of the Cumber-
land servants. naturally starting with
Zadok. For two hours l sat at his
stable fire. talking and turning him
inside out, as only we detectives know
how. found him actually over
whelmed with grief-not the grief Of
sane man. but Of one In whom the
very springs of life are poisoned by
some dreadful remorse.
"He did not know he revealed this.
He expressed himself as full of hope
that his young master would be &C.
quilted the next day. But could see
that this prospect could never still the
worm working at his heart and resolv-
ed to understand why. left him o.
tensibly alone. but in reality Swallowed
him. The consequence was that In
the evening dusk he led me to the
cemetery. where he took up his watch
at Miss Cumberland's grave, as If 1t
were a Mecca and he a passionate
devotee could hear his groans as
| he hung to the fence and spoke softly
to the dead. and, though | was too
| far away to catch a single word. I
| felt confident that had at last struck
| the right track and should soon see
my way more clearly than at any
| time since this battling case opened.
"Rut before l allowed my fancy to
| of inquiry. If this man had an absO.
| lutte alibi what was the use Of vast.
ing effort upon him? But could not
| find that be had, Mr.. Fox. He went
with the rest Of the servants to the
| ball. which, you know, was held in
| Tibbitt's hall. on Ford street. and he
| was seen there later. dancing and
making merry In a way not usual to
| him. But there was q space of time
| dangerously tallying with that Of the
| tragic scene at the clubhouse when
he was not seen by any one there.
THAT piece of broken bottle-whers
was the rest of it? Sought for almos
Immediately after the tragedy, it ha6
not been found at the Cumberland
| place or on the golf links. It had beer
looked for carefully when the frs
thaw came; but, though glass was pick
| ed up, 1t was not the same glass. The
task had become hopeless and ere lons
| was abandoned.
But with this idea of Zadok being
| the means Of it's transfer from tn,
Whispering Pines to the house on thu
| hill felt the desire to look once more
and while court was in session th1.
morning l started fresh search-thi!
| time not on the golf links. Ifbb1tt':
hall communicates more quickly witt
the Whispering Pines by the dubious.
road than by the market one So dt
rected my attention to the ground IL
front and on the farther side of thu
driveways And l found the neck o.
| that bottle!
Now. who would do this but Zadok
who saw in 1t. he has said, recep
tace for some varnish which he had
| and Zadok- how had he carried 1t i
not In some pocket Of his greatcoat
But glass edges make quick work witt
pockets. and If this piece Of bottle hat
gone from the Whispering Pines t
| Tibbitt's hall and from there to thu
hill there should be some token of 1T
| work in Zadok's overcoat pocket
/ This led me to look for those to
/ kens. and as had by this time insinu