The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-20
The Adventure Of the
Abbey Grange

will bring . curse upon the lapd--God will not le
up, ber cheeks flushed and her eyes blazing from un
der the terrible mark upon he, brow a 4e% dew s se
head down on TO the cushion, and the wild ange
died away into passionate sobbing' AZ last she con
tinued: :, w.,
pcrhaps that in this house all The servants sleep II
bedroom bed s above Ny maid, Theresa, sleeps above my
room. Thore is no else and sound could alarm
those who are in the farther wing This must have
been we'll known to the robbers or they would not
"sir Eustaee retired about half past ten. The
servants had already gone to their quarters Only my
the top of sSe house until needed her services
sat until after eleven iu this ROOM absorbed in a
before / went upstairs It was my custom to dc
this myself, for as haye explained Sir Eustaee was
not always to be trusted. I went into the kitchen
the drawing room and Snally, the dining room. A,
curtains suddenly felt the wind blow upon my face
and realized that it vas open ] flung the curtain Ta
shoudered, elderly man, who had just stopped into
the room. The window is long French one, which
bedroom % G' candle TIT it in my Band and by its light be
hind the first man two others, who were in the
S S' s os IN d caught me S FIRST b tho
and then by the throat opened my mouth to scream
the eye, and felled to the ground. must have
been unconscious for few minutes, for when came
which stands at the head Of the dining table.
handkerchief round my mouth prevented me from
uttering sound. 1t was at this instant that my
IDENTIFY heard some suspicious sounds, and he came
prepared for such scene as be found: He was
blackthorn cudgel in his hand He rushed at the
burglars, but another-it elderly man, stopped
bw as 0s e pa pase H. e w
and never moved again. / tainted more but
utes during which I insensible When ! opened
my eyes found that thew had collected the silver
wine which stood there Each Of them had glass
in his hand I have already told you, have I not,
young, hairless lads they might have been father
with his two They talked together in whispers
e H hep nei closing the
T EindGw after them: II was quite 2 quarter of an
Ss msd to 'i my WssH ad co.
other servants alarmed, and for the
oa sS At ss m h non
and trust that it will not be necessary for to go
ovsF Rs.ss Rsassoa. SEy %2 ,ss. Hon.
Bra ssaaIeastalls patience and time, said HoiHss Be.
At tie saeqa maid dke to
~ 81 saw VT the men before ever the; came into the
gate yoadsI but thought nothing Fl it It tho time
amS and 5@ 5a on ss 5s' hosF osT
and her very dress spotted with him but she she never never
and Lady Brsekenstall of Abbey Grange hasn I
learned new ways; You've questioned her long
her own own reo Just wth her old Theresa, to get the
her arm round her mistress and led her from tbs
room:
'Nnrsed her as baby and came with her 10 Eng.
land when they first left Australia eighteen months
mad ma you don Z pick up nowadays. This way, MT
pressye face and knew that With the @Hsesry eI AZ
the charm Of the case bad departed. There still
glth tbemi AZ sbstru,e and learned specialist who
would experience something Of the snnoyapce 1t %Sss
! read IN my friends eyes. Yet the scene in the
ing interest. ' - 'e'@i' MS wan
Sak ce.ng osken paneling and fine array Of deer IS
beads and ancient weapons around the walls At the
window Of which We had beard Three sma,.r french ENC
aoT' on the night hand side filled the apartment With
fireplace With massive overhangine oal maoss oesp
piece Beside the fireplace heavy oaken chair
through the open woodwork was woven s4u er,.on ou
foTd was secured at each side 10 the crospece
slipped oa her but the knots With whcs Gaa had been peer
secured still remained. These details onv strn oesu
NN",'V. itet"atds, IoT our thoughts
absorbed by the terrible object which Law unon ~
tiger skin hearthrug 10 front OF tbe FIRE 1P'" '"e
II was the body Of tall well.msSs NAV ,hou,
forty years Of sge. He Law upon bis back hi, face
uptuned. with his white teeth gripninq tbyonSL ri,
short; black beard. His two cienched hands 80 -.
Iassd above his head. and heavy blackthoTp sticL
!ay across them, His dark, handsome, souilin. Zen
lures were eonvulsed into spasm of vind;ctive ba
tired, which had get his dead face in terribIv s,r5
sh expression He had evidently been in bis bed when
The alarm lad broken out for Sc woro a fopni.h en
broidsred nightshrt and his bare feet projected f
bus trousers His head uas horribly injured and the
whole room bore witness 10 the savage feror;tr ~
the blow which had struck him down Bs.iSn b;,n
isv the heavy poker, bent into curve bv tbe ro,n.
SOU. Holmes examined both IL ard the inde,cribabls
wreck which IL bad wrought No's
He must be powerful mau. this elder Randall 8"
be remarked
Yes, y said Hopkins 81 have record Of ID.
follow, add be Is a rough customer
You should have difficulty in getting him -