The Washington times., 1920-04-25

Oven In the country she always
wore shoes that would have been
TAR more In place on . London
pavement. but still she did make
a difference between those which
she wore out OF doors and In the
house. And they were .out-of-door
shoes In which she had gone 70
her death.
And yet she had put nothing over
her head. nor had she worn any
cloak or shawl. The night had
been beautifully fne and still, but
the season was autumnal. had
been shivering with cold during my
vigil with uncle in the Summer
house.
II is curious how unwilling peo-
pie are to confess that they are
sound sleepers and hard to wake.
Susan admitted to Sergeant Crisp
that she had not heard the loud
ringing of the bell-"though q
light sleeper as rule" she hast
ened to inform him. "And, indeed,
don't see how Mr.. Granger heard
II as he did on the second, his
room being up the attic stairs, and
James sleeping handy to the bells
who heard nothing"
Perhaps James is a heavy sleep
er," Crisp had suggested. To
which Susan had replied demurely,
"Men are" as II light sleep were q
delicate and peculiarly feminine
grace.
"you might Just take. me TO Mr..
Grainger's room" said the ser
geant. sOh, DO not mean TO enter
It." he added hurriedly, as he saw
o look of something very like dis
may pass over susan's face. II
should Just like to see where II 10.
And James's. too" ~
As o matter of fact. Grsinger's
room was, as Susan had said. 10
far from the passage In which the
bells made their sound that It was
singular that Granger. dosing In
his chair" as he had suggested he
might have been, should have
heard the ringing, and It seemed
almost equally surprising that It
should have failed to rouse James.
whose room was most adjacent TO
the passage. although inst youth.
on being questioned. did admit
freely that his mother had ex-
pressed fears that he would not be
wakened BY the last trump by rear
SON Of his singulsr powers OF sleep.
"And now that we are here"
Crisp said, II should be Obliged II
you would show me the disposition
Of the other rooms-Sir 'Ralph's
room and her ladyship's and 90
on"
l had given Susan instructions
that she should assist Sergeant
Crisp's inquiries in every possible
way. But for that instruction ] do
not suppose that she would have
shown him all that she did without
referring to uncle or to myself, but
fancy that she made very much
less demur to showing him any OF
the chambres de maitres than she
did to introducing him into the
! room sacred to the slumber Of Mr.,
Granger. After all. there Is much
reason In the distinction which
servants made In this respect, Tor
they are in the constant habit OF
going in and out. of our rooms In
course of their domestic service,
whereas, except In the case Of such
tragedies as the fusing OF an cleo.
trio wire or some unusual occur
renee of the kind, our lawful oc-
casions" do not take US into their
rooms.
"He was a wonderful silent gen
tleman," Susan told me Of Sergeant
Crisp after~ard.
II APPEARED. Tor all that that he
had asked her q good. many Ques-
tions. But her comment had RET
erence to that habit OF his. which
had been given considerable op-
portunity Of noting in the Summer
house, for standing perfectly still,
without the movement Of muscle,
and, as 1t appeared, letting all that
came within his view sink IN
through his eyes into his brain
That was the manner OF his opera.
tions as they appealed to me. and
they seem to have struck Susan
similarly.
He stood perfectly still and
looked out of the window OF Uncle
Ralph's room at the front OF the
house and at the way leading into
the Summer-house. He gazed with
the same silent intentness on the
objects on each OF the tables in the
room, as II he would photograph
them in his mind, but especially. as
Susan said, he made prolonged
study OF the rows Of shoes and
boots, ranging from evening
"pumps" to nail-clad shooting
boots, which were ranged along
one side OF the wall. He even took
up one Of each and looked at them
beside each other, the pump" and
the shooting boot. -
zone would hardly believe, would