The Washington times., 1920-05-30

at once give the alarm 10 you
see all the difficulties about sap
posing u to have been SIR Raiph!"
Il do. indeed I said. nov that
you put them to me In this way"
well. now" he went On, I'VE
win take the alternative sassss
tion. perhaps the oaly possisis a.
tentative. that II was Grsinser thgt
you saw. am surmisinx. though
1t IL not essential 10 my thsoFy.
that Granger had obtained In some
way the knowledge thst Lady Csyl-
ton was out that night. 1t v pos
sible that he hsA seen her from
one Of the windows and hsd wsSted.
expecting her return. But she did
not return. In any case. be went
QUIT may have been TO look for
her or It may have been only thst
the beauty Of the night tempted
him. think that In all probability
he went out In . hat. and ! also
think II likely that It was IN old
hat of Sir Ralph's-for this reason,
that II ne were hstted or capped
as you are accustomed to see Sir
Ralph you would be SO much the
more likely to make the mistake
that you did. and also because l
think your attention would prob
ably haye been caught by 1t II you
had seen either Sir Ralph or the
butler going out hatless at mat
hour. Do you not think SO your
self?"
admitted that It was likely.
"Well. then" he resumed. Grain
ger, having come to the by-path to
the Summer-house and having the
idea Of looking into the house
possibly to see whether her lady
ship was there-approached 1t. -
I suppose. along the southern side
Of the path, which would keep him
under the shadow of the trees, and
so arrived at the right-hand side,
as you face 1t. Of the Summer
house. There, pushing the bushes
a little away. getting one foot, the
right, on the newly turned and son
soil, he looked in at the window.
And what did he seer"
"Ah-don't" I exclaimed, shud.
dering at my recollection OF that
dreadful watch In the mo0nlit
Summer-house.
Forgive me-" he said hastily. y
did not ask only to pain you. ] did
not mean to bring back all the hor-
ror which you we're obliged to zee.
What l meant was rather TO put
the question to myself, a. well as
to you, What did Granger, looking
in, as we are supposing. actually
seer He would not. | think. see
the whole extent of the tragedy by
that moonlight and through that
window with its little latticed
panes and, above all. with his own
head continually getting in the way
of the light, as 1t must have done.
What, then, do you suppose that he
saw"
shook my head. waiting for him
to fill in the details Of the picture.
81 imagine" he said. as I did not
answer, that he saw something OF
what you saw, something but not
all. | have looked in at that win
dow, by such moonlight az there
has been since that night. and
find that you can see, more or less,
rather confusedly. What imagine
that he would have seen is that
there was some body lying on the
floor. some white shape; and he
may or may not have identified 1t
as her ladyship. But In either case
what would he have been likely to
do them"
81 should have thought" I said,
that he would have orened the
door and looked in, to make GER
tain"
"And that" said the sergeant. "is
exactly what I should have expect
cd him to dsFf he we're al English
man or an Irishman or a man Of
any other nation than that which
he did belong to--the Scotch. And
Granger, II ] mistake not, Is very
Scot of very Scots. He has the ma
tional characteristics carried to a
very high degree, and especially,
perhaps, as I Judge Of him, the
characteristic Of caution and re-
serve"
"Yes," I agreed. you are GER
tainly right there"
We'll, then, Granger being OF
the nationality that he Is, and be-
ing the man that he is. It seems to,
me that the thing he would most
naturally do would be to draw
back. He would say to himself,
'Hullo, there Is something here that
/ don't understand. Probably there
is trouble. Probably l shall be
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