Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1913-12-19
CHAPTER iv.-continued.

CHAPTER iv.-Continued.
What kind of looking person
was the man who took you outside
last night" inquired Of George
with my eyes still on this furtive
watcher
"A fellow to make you laugh. A
perfect character. Laura; hideously
homely but agreeable enough. took
quite fancy to him. Why?"
Il am looking at him now"
very likely. He's deep in this af
fair. Just an everyday detective, but
ambitious, suppose. and quite alive
to the importance of being thor.
ough."
HE is watching those people. No,
he isn't. How quickly he disap-
pearedt"
yes. he's mercurial In all his
movements. Laura, we must get out
OF this. There happens to be some.
thing else In the world for me to do
than to sit around and follow up muir
der clues"
But we began to doubt II others
agreed with him, when on passing
out we were stopped in the lobby by
this same detective, who had some
thing to say to George, and drew him
quickly aside.
what does he want?" I asked, as
soon as George had returned to my
side.
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obey any summons the police may
seDc me-"
"Then they still suspect Brother
SOM"
They must
AS we stepped out of the hotel
George gave my arm quiet pinch
which served to direct my attention
TO an elderly gentleman who was just
alighting from a taxicab at the kerb
He moved heavily and with some ap-
p,.arance Of pain, but from the crowd
collected on the sidewalk, many OF
whom nudged each other as he pass
ed, he was evidently a person of
some Importance, and as he disap-
peared within the hotel entrance.
asked George who this kind-faced,
hright-eyed old gentleman could be.
He appeared to know, for he told
me at once that he was Detective
Gtyce; a man who had grown old in
solving just such battling problems
ss these.
That night bided Georges coming
With an Impotence could not con-
troll. He was late, Of course, but
when he did appear, almost forgot
cur usual greeting in my hurry to ask
him If he had seen the evening pa
pers.
his overcoat Been pushed about
ell day. No time for anything"
"Then let me tell you"
But he would have dinner first.
However, little later we had a
comfortable chat. Mr.. Gryce had
made discovery. and the papers
were full Of It.
The opinion had become quite gen.
eral with those best acquainted with
the details of this affair. that the
mystery was one OF those abnormal
ones for which no solution would ever
be found, when the aged detective
showed himself in the building and
Was taken to the room, where an In
spector of police awaited him.
This is very good Of you,' the in
spector began, glancing down at the
aged detectives bundled up legs, and
gently pushing chair towards him
The elderly man thus addressed
glanced down at his legs, now propped
M on a stool which someone had
brought him, and smiled, with the
pathos of the old who sees the inter
ests of lifetime slipping gradually
away.
az am not what was. can nc
longer get down on my hands and
knees to pick up threads from the naI
of rug, or spy out a spot of blood
IN the crimson wool of carpet"
''You shall have Sweetwater here
10 do the active work for you. What
we want OF you is the directing mind
the infallible instinct. It's a case
m thousand. Gryce. 1t will make
you young again"
The old mans eyes shot fire ant
anconsciously one foot slipped to the
floor. Then he bethought himself
and painfully lifted 1t back again.
what are the points? What's the
aificulty?" he asked "A womaa hai
been shot"
mo, not shot, stabbed We thought
abe had been shot. for that was intel
ligible and involved no impossible
tiles. But Drs, Heath and Webster
under the eye OF the Challoners' owl
physician. have made an examination
OF the wound and they declare tina
40 bullet Ia to be found In the BODY
As the wound extends no furthe
shar ~. heart. this sAftles one grea