Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-30

today at the WOOoE ] need not tell you anything about it.'
 "Yes. Miss Leitfcourt, I only wish you would tell me about D." l said gravely. inviting her to a chair and seating myself Who is the man?"
 An! that we don't know" she re. piled. pale-faced and anxious. 'I wanted to see you alOne--thats the reason | am here They must not know at home that I've been over here"
 Why. is there any service I can render you?'
 "Yes. A very great one," she re. sponded with quick eagenless. "I-| courage to come to you and beg of you to help me l am in great dis tress-and l have not a single friend whom l can trust--in whom l can con- dde"
 Her lips moved nervously, but no sound came from them, so agitated was she, so eager to ten me some thing and yet at the same time reluc taut to take me into her confidence
 "It concerns the terrible discovery made up in Rannoch wood,' she said in a hoarse, nervous voice at last That unknown man was murdered stabbed to the heart have suspi- cions.'
 "Of the murdered mans identity2'
 No. or the assassin. l want you to help me, if you will.'
 Most certainly" l responded But if you believe you know the assassin you probably know something of the victim?'
 "Only that he looked like a for eigner"
 Then you have seen him?' I ex- claimed, much surprised.
 My remark caused her to hold her breath for an instant Then she an- swered, rather lamely, it seemed to me:
 From his features and complexion l guessed him to be an Italian. I saw him after the keepers had found him
 Besides" she went on, 'the stiletto was evidently an Italian one. which would almost make it appear that foreigner was the assassin"
 "Is that your own suspicion?"
 NO"
 "Why?"
 She hesitated a moment, then in low. eager voice she said
 Because ] have already seen that knife in another persons possession" "
 "Then what is your theory regard ing the affair."" ] inquired
 Tt seems certain that the poor fel low went to the wood by appointment, and was killed The affair interested me, and as soon as | recognized the old Italian knife in the hand of the keeper, l went up there and looked about l am glad ] did so for l found something which seems to have es- capped the notice of the detectives
 And what's that?" l asked eagerly.
 Why, about three yards from the pool of blood where the unfortunate foreigner was found is another small pool of blood where the grass ana ferns around are all crushed down as though there had been a struggle there"
 There may have been a struggle at that spot, and the man may have stag gered some distance before he fell dead
 Not 1T he had been struck in the heart as they say He would fall 1 would he not?" she suggested. No The police seem very dense, and this plain fact has not yet occurred to them. Their theory is the same as what you suggest but my own is some thing quite different Mr. Gregg l be 1 lieYe that a second person also fell a victim, she added in a low, distinct 1 tone
 gazed at her open-mouthed Did she l wondered know the actual truth? Was she aware that the woman who had fallen there had disappeared?
 "A second person! echoed as ] though in surprise. Then do you be- 1 lieve that a double murder was com mitted?"
 'I draw my conclusion from the fact l that the young man, on being struck ' in the heart, could not have gone such ! a distance as that which separates the one mark from the other
 But he might have been slightly wounded-on the hand, or in the face at first, and then at the spot where he was found struck fatally" l sug- l gested,
 She shook her head dubiously. but made no reply to my argument Her 1 confidence in her own surmises made l it quite apparent that by some un- l known means she was aware of the second victim Indeed, a few moments 1 later she said to me:
 ''It is for this reason, Mir. Gregg, that 1 have sought you in confidence. No ! body must know that have come here to you, or they would suspect; and if suspicion fell upon me 1t would bring | upon me a fate worse than death. Re- | member therefore, that my future is ! entirely in your hands"
 CT don't quite understand." 1 said. rising and standing before her in the fading twilight while the rain drove i upon the old diamond window panes. ] tRuf | oar nulu oeeura vptr that ttHaf