Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-20

this call vas made I learned the ma
ture Of their W suspicious. They be-
heyed that Adelaide In some moment
Of provision had managed to reach the
telephone and send eut this message.
1t was in d condition of mingled
dread and expectation that I opened
the paper which was brought me the
next morning. Arthur, the good-for-
nothing brother, had returned from
hts Wild earouse and had taken affairs
In charge with something like spirit
and a decent show of repentance for
his own shortcomings and the mad
taste for liquor which had led him
away from home that night. Carmel
was still III and likely to be SO for
many days to come. Her case was
diagnosed as one of brain fever and of
q most dangerous type. Doctors and
nurses were busy at her bedside, and
little hope was held out Of her being
able to tell soon, If ever, what she
knew Of her sisters departure from
the house on that fatal evening. That
her testimony on this point would be
invaluable was self evident, for proofs
were plenty Of her having haunted her
sisters rooms all the evening In a CON
dition of more or less delirfum. She
was alone in the house, and this may
have added to her anxieties, all Of the
servants having gone to the police
mems bali. It was on their return In
the early morning hours that she had
been discovered lying Ill and injured
before her sisters fireplace.
One fact was mentioned which set
me thinking. The keys Of the club
house had been found lying on a. table
In the side han Of the Cumberland
m~ansion-the keys which l have al
ready mentioned as missing from my
pocket-an alarming discovery which
might have acted as a clew TO the sus-
picious / feared If their presence there
had not>been explained by the wait
ress who had cleared the table after
dinner. Coming upon these keys lying
on the floor beside one Of the chairs,
she had carried them out into the hall
and laid them where they would be
more readily seen. she had not rec
ognized the keys, but had taken it for
granted that they belonged to MI.
Ranelagh, who had dined at the house
that night.
They were my keys, and / have al
ready related how I came to drop them
on the floor. Had they but stayed
therei Adelaide, or was 1t Carmel,
might not have seen them and been
led by some strange If not tragic pur-
pose, incompreheusible TO Us now n
possibly never to find full explanation,
to enter the secret and forsaken spot
where 1 later found them. the n
dead. the other fleeing In frenzy, but
not In such a thoughtless frenzy as to
forget these keys or to fail to lock the
clubhouse door behind her. That she
on her return home should have had
sufficient presence of mind to toss these
keys down in the same place from
which she or her sister had taken
them argued well for her clear head
edness up to that moment. The fever
must have come on later.
The next paragraph detailed a fact
startling enough to rouse my deepest
interest. Zadok Brown. the Cumber-
lands coa:hman, declared that Ar
thurs cuttS. and what he called the
gray mare had been out that night
They were both in place when he re-
turned to the stable toward early
morning, but the signs were unmistak-
able that both had been out In b
snow since he left the stable at about
8. He had locked the stable door
at that time, but the key always hung
in the kitchen where any one could
get it. This was on account or Ar
thur, who, If he wanted to go out
late, sometimes harnessed a horse
himself. Zadok Judged that he had
done so this mig {, though how the
horse happened to be back and IN her
stall and no Mr.. Arthur in the house
1t would take wiser heads than his to
explain.
(To be e~ontinued.)