The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-07-11

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well, he escorted us to the Danish
legation where we were dining"
"At what time was that?"
Flight o'clock dinner"
But he was not dining at the Danish
legation? 2"
Nc. He came and fetched us again
soon after IL"
That's right, but between whiles?'
Yes. Between 10 and soon after LIP"
we'll SUPPOSE don't know-yes,
OF course. I do! What a stupid ass I
am. Luke told me himself that he was
going to see his uncle at the Some
thing club in Shaftesbury avenue"
THE Veteran's?"
Yes, that's 1.-THE Veterans Luke
wanted to persuade Radclyffe to go
abroad for the benefit of his health
Algeciras-that vas it,
quite so,'' reJoined Sir Thomas dry
~" and Luke de M%ountford went to
the Veterans club in Shaftesbury ave-
nue., and he asked to see Lord Rad
ciyffe, who was a more or less regular
habitue at that hour. On. being told
that Lord Radcliffe was not there that
was In the smoking room, Luke elected
to- go in and presumably to have a
talk with his cousin"
." didn't know that" said Colonel
Harris.
"No, but we did. Let me tell you
what followed. The hall porter of the
club showed Luke into the smoking
room. and less than five minutes later
he heard loud and angry words pro-
ceeding from that room. That a quar-
rel was going on between the two oou-
Sins was Of course obvious. One or
two members of the club remarked
on h noise, and n gentleman act
uauy opened the smoking door
to see what was going on. He seems
to have heard the words 'blackguard'
and 'peggay' pleasingly intermingled
and flying from n young man to
the other. This witness knew Philip
de Mountford very well by sight, but
Der thai Luke denies neither the in
terview nor the quarrel The former
lasted close IN an hour, and Lord Rad
clyffe's journey to Algeciras was the
original topic of discussion. AT about
8 o'clock Luke emerged from the smok-
He was then very pale and almost tot
tered as he walked. Men do get at
times intoxicated with rage, you know,
Will"
~ know that, and I can well i,nag-
Inc what happened at that interview.
Radclyffe had become such a %confound-
ed fool that he would not move or do
anything withou this Philips permits
sion; and Luke was determined to get
him down to Algeciras at once. AS
Philip was at the club, he thought that
he would tackle him then and there"
quite SO. He did tackle him. And
equally Of course h two men quar-
relied"
But hang 1t all, ones not going to
murder every man with whom one
~Quarrels."
stop a moment, Will. AS you say,
one does not murder every man with
whom one quarrels. But you must adj
init that this is altogether an excep-
tional case. There was more than a
tnere quarrel between these two men.
There was deadly enmity-justified en-
nifty, I'll own, on Luke's side. We have
already come across-it was not very
difficult-two or three of tho servants
who were In Lord Radclyffe's house be-
fore Luke and his brother and sister
were finally turned out of it. They
all have tales to tell Of the terrible
rows which used to go On in the house
between the cousins. You, Will, must
know how Luke hated this Philip de
Mountford?"
Again Colonel Harris was silent.
What was the use of denying such an
obvious truth?
"You wanted" continued the other
man quietly, ito hear the truth, Will,
and you've got it. For Loutsa's sake,
for all our sakes, in fact, I made up
my mind to tell you all-or most-that
is officially known to me at this mo-
ment. You must get Louisa out OF
town at once-take her abroad if you
can, and keep English newspapers
away from her"
"She won't come" said Colonel Har-
ris firmly.
ooh. yes she will, il you put it the
right way"
Which saying on the part of the
acute chief Of our criminal investiga-
ton department was but a further
proof-if indeed such proofs were still
needed nowadays-of how little clever
men know Of commonplace m
THE case will be extremely unpleas-
ant" resumed Sir Thomas, who was
quite unconscious of the Ignorance
which he had just displayed. "It will
be hateful for you. and quite impos-
sible for Louisa"
other, that Luke is guilty, which
neither I nor Louisa viii admit for a
moment"
That" rejoined Sir Thomas, sis as
you please"
He put down his cigar, crossed IN
leg over the other, leaned back in his
chair, and folded his tapering hands
together, putting finger to finger, with
the gesture Of m who is dealing with
a youthful mind, and has much to ex.
plain.
Look here, WILL" he resumed, 81
nave three men standing IN my outer
office at h present moment. Two OF
them have come bac after having
questioned the past servant of the
Grosvenor square household. There
was the butler, Parker, and an elderly
housekeeper, both Of whom are in serv-
| ice in the west end. The tried
to screen Luke and to make light OF
the many quarrels which broke out be
tween the cousins o all possible oc'
casions, but she broke down under o u
fellows sharp questions. She had tt
admit that the arrogance Of the one
mar often drove the other to unguard'
ed language, and that she had on more
than one occasion heard the men serv.
ants Of the house say that they would
not be astonished If murder en-
sued one day. Well. we havt
these two witnesses, and can easily
get hold of the two or three footmel
who expressed those particular views
So much for the past six months
Now for last night. The third mai
who is out there waiting for me to Sc
him is Frederick Power, hall porter a
the Veterans club. The story which
he told to our Mr.. Travers is so i'm
portant in its minutest detail, that
nave decided fo urlaStion him mVSel