Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-11-24
CHAPTER III.

on the case himself.
CHAPTER III.
In the Train.
Discussion was inevitable on tho
way up to town next morning. The
two strange friends, planted opposite
each other in the first-class smoker,
Travelled inland simultaneously en-
crossed in a copious report of the
previous days proceedings at the coro-
ner's court.
The medical evidence; was valuable
only as tracing the fatal blow to some
such weapon as the missing trun.
cheon; the buffers evidence explained
that the dinner-hour was seven thirty;
that, not s-:ve minutes before, he~had
seen his master come downstairs and
enter the library, where, at seven fifty
five, on going to ask IL he had heard
the gong, he had obtained no answer
but found the door locked on the in
side; that he had then FASTENED round
French window, to discover the de-
!, ceased gentleman lying in his blood
The head gardener, who lived in the
lodge, had sworn to having seen a
'bare-headed man rush past his win
dows and out of the gates about the
same hour, as he knew by the sound
! ing of the gong up at the house; they
:. often heard it at the lodge, in warm
weather when the windows were open,
and the gardener swore that he him
self had heard it on this occasion.
G The footman appeared to have been
less positive as to the time of tele-
phone call he had answered, thought
Z It. was between four and five, but re-
g.. membered the conversation very well.
The gentleman had asked whether MIR.
Craven was at home, had been told
that he was out motoring, asked when
. he would be back, told he couldn't say,
&. but before dinner some time, and what
= name should be given, whereupon the
( gentleman had rung off without an
p, swering. The footman thought he was
gentleman, from the way he spoke.
But apparently the police had not yet
succeeded in tracing the call.
'Is it difficult thing to do?" asked
Cazalet, touching on this last point
/ early in the discussion, which even he
ashowed no wish to avoid this morning.
EHe had dropped his paper, to find that
Toye had already dropped his, and
z was gazing at the flying English fields
with thoughtful Fuckers about his SOM
Der eyes.
If you ask me-" he replied, Il
should like to know what wasn't diff
cult connected with the telephone sys-
. tom in this country! Why, you don't
have a system, and that's all there Is
to it. But it's not at that end they'll
put the salt on their man."
(Which end will it be, then?"
1.-THE river end. That hat, or cap.
Do you see what the gardener says
about the man who ran out bare
headed? If he went and left his hat or
his cap behind him, that should be
good enough in the long run. It's the
very worst thing you can leave. Ever
hear of Franz Muller?"
!Cazalet had not heard of that i'm
portant notoriety, nor did his ignor-
ance appear to trouble him at all, but
it was becoming more, and more clear
that Toye took an almost unhealthy
interest in the theory and practise Of
violent crime. e. 4.t.
Franz Muller" he continued, left
his hat behind him, only that and
nothing more, but it brought him to
the gallows even though he got over
a. ho 0fh ci1n y,oo60 he
mistake of taking q slow steamer, and
that's just about the one mistake. they
never did make at Scotland Yard. Give
them . nice, long, plain-sailing STERN
chase and they get there by bedtime
wireless or no ,wireless!" -" f~&f~"
VI But Cazalet was in no mind to dis
cuss other crimes, old or new; and he
closed the depression by asserting
somewhat roundly that neither hat
nor cap had been left behind in tho
only case that interested him.
. sG"Don't' be- too sure" said Toye.
Even Scotland Yard doesn' show all
its hand at once. in the first inquiry
that comes along. They don't give
out any description of the man that
ran away. but you bet it's being cir
culated arss5snd every police ONCE in
the United Kingdom"
Cazalet said they would give it out
fast enough ii they had it to give. By
the way, he was surprised to see that
the head gardener was the same who
had been at Uplands in his fathers
time; he must be getting an old man,
and no doubt shaker on points of de-
tail than he would be likely to admit.
.Cazalet instanced the alleged hearing
of the gong as in itself an unconvinc-
ing statement. 1t was well over a
hundred yards from the gates to the
house, and there were no windows to
open in the hall where the gong would
be rung.
I've dreamed of the old spot SO
Often" he said at length. I'm not
thinking of the night before last
meant in the husband now to think
Of a thing like this happening, there.
in the old governors den, of all
places!"
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