The Green Forest tribune., 1915-08-27
CHAPTER Vi.-Continued.

man has been murdered.
 CHAPTER Vi.-Continued.
 at once gladly accepted her invi-
 t,tion to investigate the curious dis
 spearance of the body of poor Olin-
 t9s fellow-victim, determined to ob-
 tain the secret knowledge possessed
 w that smart, handsome girl before
 ne That her suspicious were in the
 right direction I felt confident, yet If
 the dead woman had been removed
 and hidden by the assassin 1t must have
 been after the discovery made by me.
 The fellow must have actually dared to return to the spot and carry off the
 victim. Yet if he had done that, why dld he allow the corpse of the Italian to remain and await discovery? He might perhaps have been disturbed and compelled to make good his escape.
 You tell me, Miss Muriel, that you suspect the truth, and yet you deny all knowledge of the murdered mani"
 exclaimed in tone of slight re- pOach
 Until we have cleared up the mys- tery of the woman I can say nothing" was her answer. T can only tell you, MT. Gregg, that If what l suspect is true, then the affair will be found to be one Of the strangest, most startling and most ingenious plots ever devised ey one man against the life of an- other"
 Then man is the assassin, you lhlnk!' exclaimed quickly. l believe so. But even of that I an'not at all sure. We must first find l the woman"
 
 hannoch wood was already in its soaorown glory of autumn, and as I |Gcsqd with Muriel Leithcourt on the |eg5 Of it, near the spot where Olinto |s ~ had fallen, the morning sun RsD Yning in a cloudless sky. Ssket ,.s ,er opinion which was the most aSely Corner, but she replied:
 Know so little of this place, MT. 1legg. You have known it for years, ], suile thls is only my first season here"
 very well," I answered. Let us s'aft here, and first take a small circle. V sAanlnlng every bush carefully. The pOuy may have easily been pushed in Osneath thicket and well escape ob- " Ana so together, after taking our Ssalinss' we started off, working our . "a' iato the thick undergrowth. beat. an, ms "i'h our sticks, and making mi. su sa'e examination of every bush or n.ap ma oi oead leaves. All through the ao,n'ng We walked on, our hands Dauiy torn by brambles. My own coat naa ao Daaly torn, and more than once I ,,a daa compelled to scramble through ,anNs os' impossible thickets; yet we tuoa vau no trace of any previous in- o;..' asuef' and having completed our th. fa'ie were compelled to admit that eri. rI e'aesome evidence of the second a,e m aid not exist at that spot. uits. ,aiiei was untiring in her activity. ,'''nef and thither she went. heating roaa "a tue nigh bracken and tangles of sreuS' ,,n poking with her stick into ev. hs, aoie and corner, and going far as. ,a,. ana farther into the wood in the ,o,sy 'ail'y that the body was therein ins e'n we came to a deep wooded ra- n ;aN VI 'he existence of which I was ,op ,e4orance It was kind of small mi Inf ts through which rivulet flowed, hion M tue banks were covered with a "rs. n' nnpenetrable undergrowth. l,,aa rais IS most likely place." de- "a ny dainty little companion as asi,r ,apploaehed it. Anything could r.os oe concealed in that high ba seAen "A, down there. Let us search ries "hole glen from end to end" she ned with enthusiasm.
 ,th' uns upon her suggestion and ' se thought of luncheon, we made a N,".ent . of the steep bank until re.1. ,sSched the rocky bed of the ,rian,. a undaunted. she went on, esas's sAs from stone to stone and o.E nE herself with her stick. If s.s S0uia 1nly discover the body of the ear s woman. then the rest would be ,non mo, sne ceclared. She would openly rSuhce TS tie assassin.
 ,owos suh had set, and the sky above toss' u the crimson of the distant helo"' hs' warning us that it was time if e9ah 5 to think of how to make our md we were passing around a sharp pra a Ill the glen where the powders
 so tnichy moss grown that our