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

uncle. But Crisp may Ve.y ~ q 49, 10
thought that he would not arg. -
he may have reflected That ne nae e g.
ready put uncle to some vexatlon. py
Question about his smoking IN the
mmn,er-hols and may not nave
Wished to give him further annoy
nnce. He had every motive 70 Keep
IN The best possible terms with any
body who was likely to be aole "
helm him with information.
probably he had it in his mind thai
anv further light which he might De
sire on the mutual feelings OF uncle
and Aunt Enid was very Likely 70 pe
shed in the next interview Wlicn ny
had in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ceies1e'
INV aunt's French maid.
He asked my uncle about the chaf~
acter of one or two of he van
how long they had been in his en-
especially of Livesay. Uncle
pove him the highest assurance with
regard to one and all of them. And
then he asked whether uncle nan
formed any idea, any theory OF the
murder.
Of course, there was always the
possibility Of some tramp, hlooen,r
nerhaps sleeping for the night II the
bushes or in the Summer-house itself,
| seeing my aunt go n and assaultinE
her for the sake of her jewelry or
ANYTHING she had about her. That
s%upposition was in part
nv the fact that nothing, SO far as We
knew, had been taken from my AUDI
| Her rings and jewelry were e on
the body-really adding to the drea H-
fulness of it's appearance as -
thought. But. of course it was az.
ways Conceivable that the tramp, or
whoever it was, might have been
scared. as soon as he had done L.
decd, by his own act, or might nave
hoard footsteps-perhaps LivesayS
own-and may have fled before reap
ing the fruits of his crime.
/ understand that they talked ovee
the thing in all its aspects, but
find no satisfactory solution. Al onS
particularly knotty point the detective
iamented that he had left his CIGAR
cite case behind him and asked uncle
if he could give him a cigarette, az
tobacco always stimulated his n
activity. Uncle, I think. considered
the request rather a cool n from
man in the sergeant's position, but
he gave him the cigarette he had ask
ed for readily enough and the debate
| proceeded.
Possible solutions Of the mystery
were not wanting, u proof was ack
ing. The only person., as they agreeo-
against whom there was any evidence
was the semi-gypsy, the Adonis and
bad boy of the village, Jim Heasden,
but even against him the evidences
that he had actually been in the Sum-
mer-house itself was not quite clear.
though apparently Crisp thought It
sufficient for getting out a warrant
for his arrest. But at the same time
he did not deem it to suffice Tor ~
immediate serving of the warrant He
nronosad To kaen If ready for uae in
"a Of need.
And, of course. we knew that the
future held in store a further very
painful tr1al-the coroner's inquest.
This was to be held IN Monday-the
day of which I am now writing being
Saturday-at the White Hart. in the
village. But it would be necessary
we were told, for the corpse to be
seen, as a. matter OF legal form, by
the corner and his Jury, and for this
purpose they would come to the house
and to my Aunt Ends room, where
her poor little body was now laid out
decenny on the bed.
What I resented Il great deal more
than this visit OF inspection, though
in itself it seemed rather an Outrage
on the peace of death was that the
tragedy and many family AFFAIR." that
I would far rather had been kept Sc
C1tl, "Oulu NC given up 10 LHo CURIOUS
gossip of the public and would be-
come the common talk Of the village.
To be sure, this was a trivial thing in
comparison with the actual tragedy
itself, but still it all helped to add a
sordidneS which increased the pain.
OF course Crisp, in these interro-
cations through which he put us, had
none of the authority Of a coroner or
Of q judge. We were not under oath
in u examination. He had no pow
err to compel US to answer il we did
not wish or to check any flood Of talk
under which truth might hide itself
away as behind a smoke cloud. He
could not punish US for contempt Of
court.
The power to extract answer from
the unwilling is one which, / know.
he much wished that he had whom he
was putting his questions to the re-
luctant Grainger-there was one ques-
ton In particular which he loneed to
ask him.. but thought that he would
get no true answer SO refrained-but
when he came to the Interrogation OF
MS next witness, Celeste, I am quite
sure that n he most especially
would nave desired was the Judges
power to check an excess Of talk. Ce
lestes tongue normally required only
very slight encouragement to start It
running 10 l~ncalculabl lengths, and
sne now appeared to be so excited
owe TINS terrible thing which had
happened to her mistress that she was
V more roluble than usual,
l had never been able to make out
hethe Celeste was fond Of my aunt
As a rule n servants did not love
Aunt Enid. They did her bidding. be-.
cause spoke to them sharply and
mad no considerations for their feel
lhss. reaan them. in fact: as I have
observed that people who have iived
some time in India and have been
used 70 ordering their Hindu servants
% to deal with English servants
wnen hey come home: and. in o
; Keeping them But our servant. ,tav.
60, partly because Aunt Enid did not
really take the wife's usual shar. ~ ~
a ahae1 besa,' her h 1o tSs but largely
and ali feit q }or me TIn erection they one