Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-01-19
An Evening Story
THE BARONESS.

y turns the corner Of interchangeable into
the long side street. lie walks two or
three blocks. then looks NJ his watch and
returns 10 the main street. He has barely
disappeared when a door l. opened IN
the first block Of the side street. u woman
slips out and hurrics AWAY in the oppo-
site direction towards the harbor. In a
few minutes she disappears from sight.
Five minutes later the policeman re-
turns. notices the open loon and goes
inside. The door from the cold bare hall
into the shin j. aiar too. Ii j. n second
hand clothes shop like half a dozen others
in this street. Inside everything is in
disorder. clothes thrown and scattered
al over. 4 door leading Ia the living
rooms behind is closed and groams come
from within while a thin stream Of blood
il running into the shop. lie throws the
door open. Ii j. dark in the room inside.
and he StumhlcS over Il body on the floor.
lie rolls mp the shade and sees the old
second hand dealer lying on the floor.
dressed only in his night shirt. while
blood is gushing from two deep wounds
ia his chest. lie H. still alive. but a.
he policeman tries To raise him his head
falls back. he draws 4 deep sigh and dies.
Loukin. around the room No. -. sees
4 small %crumplcl scrap of paper on the
floor. liz picks il az. II il a receipt
from the Standardization Steam
ship Company inr baggage 10 New York
u, steamship Arkansas.
After looking both he makes a rush
Tor the police station just a. a deep
whistle signals the departure of the Ar
kansas"
The arkansas" had PASSED the Scillv
Island and was >tcaming westward with
It's $40 passengers.
Captain llcnrik>cn stood on the bridge
looking through hiS glasses al 4 big
.tcamcr going south. NJ the wheel stood
The first officer III conversation with the
hips surgeon who. lying in 4 steamer
chair. was ENJOYING his luncheon cigar.
Wireless message from England. cap
.tain!"
Captain 1lcnrik>cn puts aside the
glasses and turned 10 the operator. who
was coming up the stairs. lie read the
telegram aud an angry look came into hi>
face.
Damn it," hr said. ~Of course. YOU
understand nobody on board must know
Anything of this Wc>Sagc."
The operator |>alutc~ and returns ~
his cabin. while the captain turns 10
the first officer and the surgeon.
1T l. 4 dispatch from the London 20
lice he saws. The night We left Go.
penhagcn an old second hand clothes deal
,cr m Nc>tcrbrn was murdered and rob
bed N ao.rhn kroner. The Copenhagen
police have reason d" believe that the
murderer il on board the ARKANSAS"
Here D. The description: Young man.
%>icndcrly built. dark hair and ewes. lobe
and lower part If left ear missing"
We'll. said first officer. ~if We have
him on board il should not he difficult
NJ find him with that description. There
are not many people who have only an
ear and Il half"
u was agreed that the surgeon should
make his usual round through the steer
alr lnd also keep his eve ON the saloon
Passengers IA dinner. while the first OH
Ger should watch those i'm the second
cabin.
IA The evening they met without having
discovered ANYTHING and ~ they had no
"'itrr success the following two DAYS they
concluded that il was one of the usual
"luldrr> nn the part Of the police.
me next evening the surgeon was read
lhG NH his StatcrUom when one Of the ste
Warur>>r> came in and asked him IL
come and see Baroness Aukcrstrom's
maid. who h;ul slipped nn the deck and
hurt her foot
The surgeon knew her well. She was
very pretty. but there was ! neryouS
scared expression in her face lie had
,'"t''''' h'r The first morning when thew
'i' copenhagen "a she came mp the gang
"aN assisting the old baroness with the
strange pale face and the gre, curlS.
"h"lh ne had not seen since A. She had
NOT left her >iatrrnnm.
Nhth The doctor entered. the maid was
lAihs on The sofa and had already taken
~ her stockings. Through the curtain,
at the lower berth he could barely see
the old baroness. who seemed Ia lie
asleep. tie noticed that the grey curl.
'""i' her ears were ~ carefully arranged
~ the morning he came on board.
lie carefully examined the maids foot
winch proved 1" he badly >praincd. and
ne noticed that she n%crvonSlv and cnu.
tlnually glanced towards the berth of
The haroneS>. lie had finished hiS c>
animation AMI was about Ia leave when
his eyes landed on an object which start
let him. ON the dressing table Law. half
hidden under other things. IN open ease
confirming = razor. and Immediately the
idca struck him that there was something
suspicious about the old lady i'm the berth
llc stopped 4 moment at the dressing Ia
bic. picked M his pocket medicine ease
and while taking out a couple of tablets
which h. asked the maid "a dissolve for
= lotion for her foot. he saw a chance To
slip the razor into his pocket.
In his statcroom h. examined the razor
and found that il had been very careless.