The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-09-21

lows, pshaw, have no confidence
in you. Well. sit down and say
what you have to say
| Mr.. Wingate seated himself In .
chair by the fire. and placed his cap
on the floor
81 daresay. SIR" he said, after
pause, you read all about the death
of Capt. Haig''
"Yes. did, at the time. But
have put all that out OF my mind.
"You remember that it was sug-
gested that Capt Haig was killed by
a man called Loando, the brother OF
a man whom Capt Haig had shot In
self-defense In Central Africa"
"Yes, I remember that
well, It has occurred to me that
the same man may have killed your
wife"
Lowther nodded. The idea had
certainly not occurred to him, but
It suited his purpose to let the in
spector think that 1t had done so.
mo man answering TO the descrip-
ton OF Loando has been seen In the
neighborhood," wingate continued.
but we are doing all we can TO ino
him. Now I want you to tell me
sir. IL your wife ever spoke Of this
man"
"She only said that she believed
he had killed Capt. Haig."
/ "She really thought that?"
Eyes"
! "She never suggested-er-that
possibly Mr.. Treverton--'
20, no, she did not like Mr.. Trev-
erton, but she never suggested that
he was q slayer
"She did not like Mr.. Treverton"
"No, after that scandal about the
first Mrs. Treverton-she could hard
" be- expected to like him"
HIM" said the inspector thought.
fully. and then after a pause. you
know the Shils, OF course?"
Eyes, slightly. remember the
fellow as q boy-a bad lot"
I'm afraid So" said Mr.. Wingate
IL brought Mary shil up with me.
II appears that you have engaged
her as a housemaid."
Indeed, know nothing about
1t. But my poor wife did not worry
1 - --t,A Aox~a.<tc Ha,ats d;A ~,
know that she knew the shils. ]
suppose the woman wrote to her and
asked for job
Il suppose So" said Mr.. wingate-
"Her father won't have her At
home"
"who IL her fatherr"
"Gyatt. the Treverton's gamekeep-
er."
20, yes. know the fellows suriy
brute. I'm sorry for the girl"
$50 am well I won't intrude
any longer on your sorrow, sir; ]
only wanted to know II you could
tell me anything about that fellow
keardc" ----------'---------
! II can't: I'm sorry."
The inspector took his departure.
and o few minutes later was drivins
back TO Maitland.
"A deep fellow that" be said 20
himself. He doesn't know that be
was seen coming out OF Gyatt's cot
tage on the night OF Mrs Lowther's
death. To hear him talk one would
think that be had never spoken 70
IGyatt In his life"
1T II fortnight since the Arauns
arrived" said Sibyl, holding out her
hands 10 the fire in the drawing.
room.
Yes. dear"
Can you find ont anything about
the Lucy Drake In the papers7"
mo. Sibyl II Ia only a small
cargo boat. | wrote to Lloyds. and
found out the name OF the owners. I"
"And you wrote 10 them?"
"Yes. They said the boat would
not be reported until she passed the
Lizard. She would arrive in London
three days after that date"
And you asked them to wire
when she was reported?"
"Yes, and enclosed six stamps"
Sibyl picked up the novel she had
been reading, and opened ii. Mrs
Lowther looked at her for few sec.
cnds, and then left the room. Az
she crossed the hall a servant hand
ed her telegram. She tore II open
and read the contents.
There 10 no answer" she said to
the servant. and she made her way
up to her bedroom. Here she read
] through the telegram again. It was