Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-26
THE SECRET OF LONESOME COVE
az SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

"Yeh.e
And later when / showed you the
footprints at the scene of the strug-
gle you saw that they were not Mr.
sedgwick's?"
"Yeh,"
you examined the cliff for foot
prints. Do you think any one pushed
or pursued the victim over the
brink"
Mo-
"Whose were the footprints that
you found. JIM" demanded Alexan-
der Blair
The halfbreed pointed in silence to
Preston Jax.
"Of course. His and-and the 9TH
er's. But there were the marks of a
third person, weren't there?"
mo"
There must have been" insisted
Mr. blair. Are you positive?"
"Yeh.."
Then did the other man, the man
whom Jax heard cry out, walk with
out leaving any tracer
There was no other man" said
Chester Kent. Don't you understand,
Mr.. Blair" he added with significant
emphasis '.the source of that cry
in the night heard by Jax and Simon
Groot?"
A flash of enlightenment swept
Blairs face. '.Ah-h-h,s he said in a
long-drawn breath. Then; II was
wrong. I beg Mr. Sedgwick's par
dom"
Sedgwick bowed. Marjorie Blair's
hand went out, and her fingers closed
softly on. the tense hand OF her
father-in-law.
No third person had any part
whatsoever in the drama which Jax
has recounfed to u.s." pursued Kent
In the morning the body was dis
covered. Sheriff Schlager was sent
for. He found in the pocket some
thing that betrayed the connection OF
the body with Hedgerow House
A bit of writing paper, with the
heading still legible.. said the sheriff
with this he accosted Gansett Jim
who after a night-long search had
come out on the cliff. Jim, assuming
shat the sheriff knew all, told him
Of the identity of the body The
sheriff saw q chance for money in it
If / do you an injustice, schlager
you'll correct me-"
go right ahead Don't mind me
I'll take my medicine"
Very well. Schlager adopted the
ready-made theory which Mr.. Jax
had prepared for him, so to speak
that the body was washed ashore;
and arranged with the connivance
Of Doctor Breed, the medical
officer to bury it as an unknown
For this perversion of their duty. Mr..
Blair rewarded them handsomely. As
l understand it, he dreaded any pub
licity attaching itself to Hedgerow
House and his family
God knows | had suffered enough
of that "smurmured Blair.
Let us hope it is now ended. To
avoid this, Mr.. Blair was willing even
tc let the supposed murderer, whom
he believed to be Sedgwick, go un-
scathed of justice. BY chance, how
ever. l saw the body on the beach
The most important discovery of all
! missed at that time very stupidity
the more so in that had a clue, in
the character of the assault upon
Sedgwick-bpt | could not overlook
the fact that The corpse had not beer
washed ashore. Moreover, the mat
ter of the manacles stimulated my
interest. Not until the inquest, how
ever, did / realize the really startling
and unique feature of the case. There
is where you and Doctor Breed made
your fatal error, Mr.. Sheriff.
That's right. You saw the face
when we lifted the lid. I s'pose.
mo. You were too quick in replac-
ing it."
Then how did you get on to tbs
thing?"
From seeing the face after this
body was returned to the :. couri
ROOM"
Hold on bit" interrupted Law.
yer Blair. II remember there was Q
fuss about the corpse not being pub
licly shown for identification Sons
of us insisted, The sheriff gave in
The coffin. lid wasn't quarter off wher
Breed gave yell and clapped it OF
again. and they took the body bacl
to his house and shut themselves IL
with it for half an hour before the,
took it to the hall again. Naturally
being suspicious, / looked at it prett,
close; but I didn't see anything
queers'.
Possibly you didn't notice cut OF
the. cheek?" suggested Kent.
Yes. bennett spoke of it and tht
sheriff shut him up! But what of it
1t might have been done in any one O.
a dozen ways"
but it wasn't there when the bod,
lay on the beach.
I'm the rolling and tossing of tn,
/ journey there might easily be minol
scarifications," said Sedgwick.
True. But, Frank. what did you
suppose that sudden shift on tn
part of the officers of the Law
meant?"
Perhaps that the body was no
in fit condition to be Viewed
I'm that case what could they hav
done to make it more fit?"
Nothing, suppose. | didt con