The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-07-25

Lets hope so, sir" rejoined Luke
dryly.
HAS Uncle Ryder told you anything
fresh, father? Anything that we FONT
yet know"
Colonel Harris did not reply and
Louisa knew that there was something
that Uncle Ryder a said, something
awful, which had caused her father
to wear the troubled look which had
terrified her the moment he came in.
Something awful-which would affect
Luke.
Wont you tell us, father" she said,
what Uncle Ryder told you? Luke
ought to know"
"Oh, rejoined Luke, there's no hurry
I'm sure. Colonel Harris will tell me
the park this morning. I suppose we
can't go to the Temple garden show
very WELL"
mot very well, 1 think she replied,
but III come for a walk after lunch
with pleasure. Father must tell us now
what Uncle Ryder said"
Then as Cdfonel Harris still seemed
to hesitate, she became more insistent,
and her voice more firm.
Father, dear" she said, 81 must
know as well as Luke"
The old man took a turn up and down
the room, with hands behind his back.
He would not look either at Louisa or
at Luke, for 1t would be easier to tell
them everything without meeting their
eyes. And he had to tell them every
thing. To her as well as to him. 1t
was no longer any use trying to avoid
the subject, pretending that it was
trivial, unworthy Of discussion.
Facts had to be faced at last, k
the dervishes at Omdurman, and a plan
of campaign decided on in the event Of
~momentary defeat.
Ryder he began quite abruptly at
10Cf chad tho Io11 rNrfnr Dp tha{ nm
founded club up to his room while 1
was there, and questioned him before
me-"
He could" suggested Luke, "only
repeat the story which we all know
already. 1 never denied seeing Philip
at the club or quarreling with him for
a matter of that. Hang 1t all, 1 have
often quarreled with him before"
Yes" rejoined the colonel, they've
ferrested out the old servants of your
uncle's household and heard innumer-
able stories Of quarrels."
Exaggerated, l expect. But what of
it?"
And thai hal porter didn't mince
matters, either, damn him."
Philip" remarked, Luke dryly
shouted pretty loudly. I did not
THE porter said that when you left
the club you had murder in your eye.'"
Possibly"
you had overheard Philips last re-
mark to the porter?"
"Yes-something about Fostering
beggars. I was ready to make him
swallow his words, but I 1oathe a scene
before people like those who frequent
the Veterans club"
II wish to goodness you had gone
for him then and there"
"Why?"
"This accursed business would not
have occurred"
ooh, yes it would-sooner or later
What makes you say that?"
philip must have had an enemy"
"Who murdered him last night, you
think?"
evidently laid in wait for him and mur-
dered him last night. 1t is bound to
come out at the inquest"
About this enemy?" quertad Colonel
Harris vaguely.
why, yes,' rejoined Luke a little i'm
patiently, surely the police nave made
other Investigations. They are not just
fastening on me and on no one else"
Gould you," asked Louisa, help the
police in that, Luke?"
NO." he replied, IT know absolutely
nothing about Philip or about his past
did Lord Radclyffe?"
81 don't know"
He has been questioned, has he not?'
HE is too Ill to see any one. Doctor
NeW1ngtOn declares thai ne must nOt
attempt to see any one. His condition
is critical. Moreover, he is only partly
conscious
But
There's Philips lawyer, Davies"
Luke; ''the police ought to be in com
munication with him. 1t is positively
ridiculous the way they seem to do
nothing in the way Of proper investiga-
ton, but only make up their minds that
I have killed my cousin. Why! they
don't even seem to trouble about the
weapon with which the murder was
| committed"
1.-THE weapon"
The ejaculation, spoken hardly above
a whisper, had come from Colonel Har-
ris. Once more the old man felt-as he
had done in his brotherinlaw's office
that every drop of blood in him had re-
ceded back to his heart, and that he
would choke If he attempted to utter
another word.