The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-07-31

Cur said. "Quite right" ead fell silent
again.
At the end of the half hour my mis-.
tress' bell raro -accraef
| On -1ne removal @ it l met Mr..
probably is about eff his aunt's sit
/ Gag soJ1i. &c mentioned that her la.
dyship was ready to see Sergeant Cuff
in my presence as beforehand he
added that he himself wanted to say
two words to the sergeant first. On
u way back to my room he stopped
and looked at the railway time table
in the hall.
Are you really going to leave us,
sir!' l asked. Miss Rachel will sure
ly come right again If you only give
her time"
"She will come right again." answer
ed Mr.. Franklin, when she hears that
have gone away and that she will see
me no more"
In the meantime Sergeant Cuff and l
proceeded to my lady's room.
The first words, when we had taken
our seats, were spoken by my lady.
Sergeant Cuff" she said. there was
perhaps some excuse for the inconsid-
crate name In which I spoke to you
half an hour since. / have no wish,
however, to claim that excuse. / say,
with perfect sincerity. that l regret it
II l wronged you"
The grace Of voice and with
which she made him that atonement
had its due effect on the sergeant. He
requested permission to justify him
self, putting his justification as an act
of respect to my mistress. 1t was i'm
possible, he said. that he could be in
any way responsible for the calamity
which had shocked us all for this suf-
fcient reason that his success in bring
ing his inquiry to its proper end de-
pended on his neither saying nor doing
anything that could alarm Rosanna
Spearman. He appealed to me to tes-
tify whether he had or had not carried
that object out. I could and did bear
witness that he had. And there, as l
thVhthts tht hiatttl hiiEhi hdfC OtCi
judiciously left to come to an end.
Sergeant Cuff. however. took it a
step farther, evidently. as you shall
now judge, with the purpose Of fore
ing the most painful of all possible ex-
plantations to take place between her
ladyship and himself.
II have heard a motive assigned for
the young woman's suicide" said the
sergeant. (which may possibly be the
right one. 1t is a motive quite uncon
nected with the case which | am con-
Quoting here. l am bound to add,
however. that my own opinion points
the other way. Some unbearable anx
iety In connection with the missing
diamond has. as / believe, driven the
poor creature to her own destruction.
l don't pretend to know what that I'M
bearable anxiety may have been. But
l think, with your ladyship's permits
sion, / can lay my hand on a person
who is capable of deciding whether l
am right or wrong"
as the person now in the house?'
nv mistress asked after waiting a lit
tie.
'.The person has left the house, my
LADY,
That answer pointed as straight to
Miss Rachel as straight could be. A
silence dropped on us which thought
would never come to an end. Lord.
how the wind howled and how the
rain drove at the window as l sat there
waiting for one or more OF them 10
speak again!
"8e so good as to express yourself
plainly" said my lady. do you re-
fer TO my daughter?"
81 do" said Sergeant Cuff In so
many words.
NV mistress had her check book on
the table when we entered the room
no doubt to pay the sergeant MS zee.
She now put 1t back in the drawer. 1t
went TO my heart to see how her poor
hand t~rembled-the hand that had load
ed her old servan with benefits, the
hand that. l pray God. may take mine.
when my time comes, and / leave my
place forever.
II had hoped" said my lady, very
slowly and quietly. ito have recon-
nensed YOUR services and to have part
ed with you without Miss Verinder's
name having been openly mentioned
between us as it has been mentioned
now.
IF there had been time, my lady,"
no answered. Il should have preferred
writing my report, instead of commu-
n,cating II by word of mouth. l am
ready to go into the matter at once.
IT is a very painful matter for me to