The Calumet news., 1912-02-20

totuiN uuuetulul OF ATL1uFb cOn-
mands 20 mount the box and drive
home. Finally some one else stepped
from the crowd and mercifully took
the reins. | caught one more glimpse
OF her face with Arthur's bent tender
ly over Il; then the sleigh slipped away.
An officer shook Zadok by the arm.
and he got up and began to move aside.
Then had mind TO face my own fate.
and. looking up, l met Sweetwater's
eye.
1t was quietly apologize.
IL only wished 10 congratulate you"
said he. ION the conclusion of case
IN which | know you are highly In
terested." Lifting his hat, he nodded
affably and was gone before l could
recover from my stupor.
IL was for Clinton 10 show his in
dignation. was past all feeling.
Farce as an afterpiece never appealed
TO me.
Would I have considered II farce II
could have heard the words which
this detective was at that moment
whispering iuto the district attorneys
ears:
DO you want to know who throttled
Adelaide Cumberland? Ii was not her
brother: IL was not her lover: 1t was
her Old aud trusted coachman."
Give me your reasons. They must
be excellent ones. Sweetwater, or you
would not risk making a second mis-
take in case of this magnitude and
publicity"
"Mr. Fox. they are excellent But
moment Miss Carmel Cumberland over
threw the very foundations OF our case
by her remarkable testimony felt that
my work was only half done. 1t was a
strain on credulity to believe Arthur
guilty OF a 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 net beheld by your man
Clarke was criminal act and that
Ranelagh Is the man really responsi.
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 Cumberland stable or of drop
ping his engagement ring In the sug-
gestlve place where it was found.
Where. then. should ] look for the un-
known. the unsuspected third party?
Among the ten other persons who drop
ped something into that casket.
"Most of these were children. but
made the acquaintance of every one.
j spent most OF my Sunday that way;
then. finding no clouded eye among
them. | began a study of the Cumber-
land servants. naturally starting with
Zadok. For two hours | sat at his
stable fire. talking and turning him
inside out, rs 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 ac-
quilted the next day. But could see
that this prospect could never still the
worm working at mis- heart and resolv-
ed to understand why. l left him os-
tensibly alone. but In reality shadowed
him. The consequence was that In
the evening dusk he led me 10 the
cemetery. where he took up his watch
at Miss Cumberland's grave. as II IL
were Mecca and he n passionate
devotee could hear his groans as
he hung TO the fence and spoke softly
TO the dead. and. though | was too
far away 10 catch single word.
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 | allowed my fancy 20
run away with me put in an evening
OF inquiry. If this man had an abso-
lutte nlibi what was the use Of vast
ing effort upon him? But could not
find that he bad. Mr.. Fox. He went
with the rest OF the servants 10 the
ball. which. you know. was held I'm
Tibbitt's bail. on Ford street, and he
was seen there later. dancing and
making merry In way not usual to
him. But there was n 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-where
was the rest of itg Sought for almost
Immediately after the tragedy. It had
not been found at the Cumberland
place or on the golf links. IL had been
looked for carefully when the first
thaw came: but. though glass was pick
ed up. 1t was not the same glass. The
task had become hopeless ana ere long
was abandoned.
But with this idea OF Zadok being
the means OF its transfer from the
Whispering Pines to the house on the
bill felt the desire TO look once more,
and while court was In session this
morning ! started a fresh search-this
time not on the golf links. Tibbitts
hall communicates more quickly with
the Whispering Pines by the clubhouse