The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-07-30

mat is the conclusion which my ex-
perience dra WIS from plain facts. What
does your ladyship's experience say
against itT'
"Whnt l have said already answer
ed my mistress. 1.-The circumstances
have misled you"
Right or wrong, my lady," he said,
having drawn my conclusion, the next
th1ng to do was to put it to the test.
l suggested to your ladyship the ex-
animation of all the wardrobes in the
house. 1t was a means of finding the
article Of dress which had, in all prob
ability, made the smear. and it was a
means Of putting my conclusion to the
test. How did it turn out? Your lady
ship consented. Mr.. Blake consented,
Mr.. A%blewhite consented. Miss Nerin-
der alone stopped the whole proceed
ing by refusing point blank. That re-
suit satisfied me that my view was the
right n {. If your ladyship and Mr..
Retteredge persist in not agreeing with
me you must be blind to what happen
ed before YOU this very day. In your
hearing ] old the young lady that her
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would put m obstacle in the way of
my recovering her jewel. You saw
yourselves that she drove off in the
face Of that statement. You saw your
selves that. so far from forgiving Mr..
Blake for having done more than all
the rest of YOU to put the clew into
my hands. she publicly insulted Mr..
Blake on the steps of her mothers
house. What do these things mean?
II Miss Nerinder is not privy to the
suppression of the diamond what do
these things mean?"
Finding that l made no remark, and
that my mistress maden no remark, Ser
geant u proceeded. Lord, how it did
enrage me to notice that he was not in
the least put out by our silence!
There is the case, my lady, as it
stands against Miss Eerinder alone"
he said. The next thing is to put the
case as it stands against Miss Verinder
} and the deceased Rosanna Spearman,
taken together. We will go back for a
moment, if You please, to your daugh-
ter's refusal to let her wardrobe be ex.
!. amjned. My mind being made up after
; that circumstance. | had two questions
{ to consider ~neXt-irst, as to the right
method of conducting ny inquiry; sec
ond, as to whether Miss Verinder had
: an accomplish among the female serv-
: ants in the house. l recognized Ro-
sauna Spearlnan, as your ladyship may
remember, When she brought the wash
ing book into this room. Up to that
: time l was inclined to doubt whether
Miss Eerinder had trusted her secret
, to any one. When l saw Rosanna l
altered my mind. l suspected her ut
once of being privy to the suppression
of the diamond. Holding his view,
, the first consideration which naturally
presented itself to III in connection
r with Rosanna was ~this-would Miss
i, Nerinder be satisfied, begging your
ladyship's pardon. with leading us all
to think that the moonstone was mere
= ly lost or would she go a step further
and delude us into believing that the
mOOnstone was stolen? In the latter
event there was Rosanna Spearman.
with the character of a thief. ready to
her hand. the person of all others to
lead your ladyship off and to lead me
off on a false scent.
+, II had another reason for suspecting
the deceased woman, which appears to
me to have been stronger still. Who
would be the very person to help Miss
Nerinder in raising money privately on
the diamond: Kosanna Spearman. No
young lady in Miss N%erinder's position
could manage such a risky matter as
that by herself. \ go-between she
must have. And who so fit, | ask again.
as Rosanna Spearman? -FOUR ladyship's
deceased h%ousenlaid was ut the top Of
her profession when she was a thief.
She had relations, to my certain knowl-
edge, with n of the few men in Lon
don in the money lending line, who
would advance Il large sun on such a
notable jewel as the moonstone with
out asking awkward questions or in.
sisting ON awkward conditions"
He therefore passed the whole of
Rosanna's proceedings under review.
Having stated the whole case as |
understand it, he said, Il have only
to tell your ladyship, now, what l
propose to do neXt. l see two ways of
bringing this inquiry successfully to an
end. One of those ways l look upon
! as Il certainty. The other, l admit, is
a bold experiment, and nothing more.
Your ladyship shall decide. Shall we
take the certainty first?'
My mistress made him Il sign to take
his own way, and choose for himself.
''Thank you,' said the sergeant.
"We'll begin with the certainty, as
your ladyship is so good as to leave it
to me. Whether Miss Nerinder re-
Mains at F~riZinghall, or whether she
returns here, l propose, in either case,
q to keep a careful watch on all her pro
ceedings-on the people she sees, on
the rides or walks she may take and or
the letters she may write or receive"