The Washington times., 1920-05-02
A Fascinating Detective Story

self 10 BE- doing spy wrong 20 her
mistress's memory In telling about
her these tales. whel1sr true or
false. She did not conceive them
as In any way lowering To the esti-
nation In which q man Of the world
would hold her mistress. ] believe
she looked on Il all ~ the most
natural and even the most inevit-
able thing In the world for a young
woman mated with q man q dozen
or so years older than herself,
When she came 10 speak OF Cap
tain vibArt's visits 10 Sootney and
OF all that happened In their course.
the SERGEANT could feel the ground
more secure; for he could check
her In some measure here by EVIL
dence Of other people. Three or
four timss. she said. Captain Wharf
had bsen down to stay. and each
time he had stayed for q long time.
and each time that Sir Ralph" he
had seemed more silent. more mo-
rose. more put out about II.
sut hat was not the way. was
its-Celsste appealed 10 monsieur
Ito win milady's thoughts back
from the captain, " that had been
IN any way pessiblef Not that
Celeste. for her part. believed that
Il was possible---he was 90 charm
ing. such an, old friend. The
sergeant had TO arrest the fiow OF
words here, which threatened to
traverse again all the country that
they had gone over before.
sAhd the last time that he was
down here?" he asked.
,sAh, yes. the last time-that was
the most dreadfui. Heavens" and
Celeste threw her eyes In the d.
rection where she believed that
celestial place TO lie. Figure to
yourself that II is only two days
aeo--this h Saturday end that was
Thursday--that he wss here, and
they wsrs so happy, % happy, the,
captain and milady." That delicate
handkerchief went again to Ce-
lests's eyes and the sergeant
thought that It could hardly be ade-
tIuate To- ali the woyh that she was
imposing On II. "And to think that
she ID pow--like thatl" Celeste
indicated the room In which the
body was laid out.
"On Thursday they were happy.
were theyf" Crisp put IN.
"Yes, monsieufj on the Thurs :
day. That ID to say. II was IN the
evening, not the afternoon, OF that
Thursday that there happened
aWbatE Sergeant Crisp asked.
"What?" echoed Celeste. "Ah,
that, God knows" she said. as one
who would imply that she did not
and that few rnortals did. "They
had gone out together. so happy,
: In the half light after tea, and it
wss all so peaceful. except that Sir
Ralph, he was so silent, SO morose.
And then, when they came In. there
was something, l do not know
what. Milady came to her room,
and I knew there was something.
She did not say to me word. but
her color was high and she came IN
like a flame. She sat down on
the bed. asked her what 1t was.
She did not answer. Then she
took OF her hat, hat so pretty,
and threw Il from her on the floor.
II was time for her to dress for
dinner and she began to take on
her things and | to help her. not
saying word. When did speak,
when asked her anything, she
said, Don't speak to me. l can't
bear it. II you sneak to me shall
cry, and ] don't mean to cry So
we went on. Il was terrible. And
when she went down to dinner she
did not say to me a word. She was
afraid to cry.
"Ah, but that night she did cry.
She was not any longer afraid. She
did cry When she came up to her
room--she came up early-she let
me take her in my arms. and she
cried, oh, as II she would not stop,
and 30, always crying. | got her
into bed, and she saying nothing
but I can't bear 1t. can't bear
IT, what Il was she could not bear
she would not say. She would say
nothing--only that I caht bear II
again and again. And so, still
crying but quieting down. ! left
her"
THAT was the Thursday night?"
the sergeant remarked.
"Yes, and In the fnorning-ah,
ciel, only yesterday!-she was
quiet. when I called her she said
she would take her breakfast In
bed. That was nothing. 1t was so
milady often did. Then she went
down when she was dressed But
she told me nothing, no-not even
me. whom she told everything.
Rnt I knew. we all knew. that Cap