Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-22

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ters discarded shoes. and also he had
taken an occasion when Granger was
on an errand in the village to 20 TO
his bedroom n ascertain that the
paper pattern which he had taken
OF the slender shoe print fitted OK
actly one OF a pair which GralnKer
wore in the house.
or course. ! saw by. this time
whittier his conjecture pointed. HIS
idea was that 1t was Granger, no,
Uncle Ralph that / had seen, and,
h w 0 being much Of z figure, and
l being now uncertain whether the
figure that ! saw was In IN overcoat
or-wtthout one. In a hat. or barehead-
ed, I vvas very ready, - I was a2so
very willing to believe I had been
mistaken. l said a. much tot-the ser
geant. But them" / was obliged to
add, what about thu third .po!pt?"
With regard to the third point
the evidence that Celeste and Jim
Heasden saw Sir Ralph consider
THAT to be even. more uncertain and
unreliable than either Of those others
which we have examiner already"
But" objected. "the moon was
bright and they both saw him."
Pardon me-" he. corrected, the
moon was bright. and they both say
that they Jaw him That would be
the more accurate statement, would
You mesa that they might have
invented the 4Atory, they might have
lied, they might, have agreed to lie p
That Is exactly what I do mean"
he declared, seniphaticaily.@
But I don't Understand said.
What would beotheir object? And
what would GrainEer be doing? II
ho 1ouNlsoA ipAn tI,0 C,,r1~An la,~~A -.
have see1--why did he not
give the alarm"
"MiRs Carlton" said the little man,
If o will allow me I will'try to re-
construct, as the French say. not the
crime itself, indeed, but some Of the
happenings Of that Friday night be-
tween II O'Clock and midnight I am
o pretending, please to understand
to be infallibleI leave that to those
wonderful detective fellows that we
read about But I will give you my
W theory, for what It may be worth,
Of how certain things occurred.
To begin with, I have very little
doubt that you were mistaken in your
idea that you saw Sir Ralph croe the
gravel sweep, just as I was mistaken
in my idea that it was Hr Ralph who
had looked in. at the Summer-house
window. Apart from the fact that
Sir Ralph, who is 4 man Of honor,
denied that he had been out OF the
house, what motive could he have
had for denying that he had been out,
even II 1t were true, for a harmless
moonlight stroll? And what motive
would he have for approaching the
house in the stealthy man
ner which is suggested by the looking
in at the window? Why did he not
go straight up to the door and throw
it open? And IL for some inscrukable
motive he did look in In that way,
why did he not at once give the
alarm? Do you see all the difficulties
.aboutSsupposing 1t to have been Sir
Il DO. indeed. I said. now th,s
Q put them TO me IN this way"
Well, now" he went on. we will
take the alternative suggssuon. per-
that II was Granger tfsk you nav.
! am surmising. though it ID not e.
sential TO my theory, that Graingef
had Obtained In some way the knowl-
edge that Lady Carlton was cut that
night. It Is possible that he had seen
her from n OF the windows ana had
waited, expecting her return. But she
did not return. In any caae, he went
out-itsmay have been to look for her
or II may nave Dee0 only Ih4t t1lG
beauty sof the night tempted him. ]
think that an all probability he went
out In q hat, and I also think II Ike
~ that It was an old h9t o. hi
RAph's-for this rsa1szn, that IL ne
were listed on capped - you are &C.
cuatomed to see Sir Ralph you would
be 20 much the more likely 70 make
the mistake that you dld, and fatso be-
canss / think your Attention would
probably have been 'cAughE BY II II
you had seen edthsr 6Ar Ralph or the
butler going ont hatIeas at that hour.
DO you NOT. think 10 yourself
I admitted thak IL Was likely.
We'll. then" he resumed, iafaln4
eer, hav1ng ON TO the by-path "a
the aunnmef-house and having the
Idea Of looking into the bouse-pos-
stbly 70 no whether her Iadya&lp wa
there-approarhed II. a. suppose,
along the southern side OF enc paxh,
which would Keep him Under the
shadow Of the trees. ana % arrived
1T thu right-hAnd ride. q YOU faoe
II, OF the SummSr-houss. There,
ptSehAnG the bushes Z lttze away. ret
ting one foot the riEft. On the newly
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