Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-06
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SYNOPSIS.
TO the surprise Of every one, Sir
Ralph Carlton returns Unexpectedly
from india. bringing with hin q lovely
young bride to grace his ancestral. home
to relieve HIS young wife from the to-
dfuna OF household duties, for which she
had no liking, Sir Ralph asks his broth
pointed post Of h]ousekeeper. Thereafter,
al goes happily enough, despite a few
disasreernents between the newly mar.
Efed pair. until a certain Captain Wharf
Ralph objects to the mans somewhat
too pointed attentions to hig wife and
the visit terminates very suddenly. That
Z, n,s NJ the ss,; young wiss Y ~ 1on una poaom 10
an ofninous crimson stainsof. blood. A
detective, Sergeant Crisp, Is sum
moned Immediately from Scotland Yard,
VIII starts hts Investigation by ques-
~tioninng Sir Ralph's niece and the gar
dener, Ltvesay.
CHAPTER VIL-Contnueid.
wasn't that rather curious. then ?"
Crisp asked, his intent little eyes
watching ~unwinkingly every turn Of
the keepers face.
LAvesay at this point took from his
tail pocket a large red handkerchief.
with which he mopped his brow re-
peatedly during the remainder OF the
interview. 1t was not 30 much that
the day, a. that the Questioning, was
close. Probably he had before
been called on to keep his attention 80
riveted on one particular series OF
events.
'"It was curious, very curious, come
to think OF IT," he admitted, after a
brow wtping.
"But did It not strike you SO at the
time, Mr.. Livesay?' Crisp asked.
"Wycll, no." Avesay said. Il don't
know how It was, bat I don't know as
it did"
Crisp continued his unwirking stare
at him, but for q long while said moth
ing, so that the keeper resorted again
to his handkerchief, which acted at
once as a cleanser-merely temporary
of his face and a shield from the
detectives eyes
"He was running from the Sum
mer-house," Crisp at length suggest
cd.
1T wa from the Sumrner-house,
in q manner Of saying" the keeper
admitted. with a modification.
Whats the sense of that-n a
manner OF saying 2" the detective ask
ed sharply.
"It's q manner Of saying" Lvesay
explained, not too lucidly. III you
was to say to me, George LAvesay,
would you 60 into court and swear
~ you SEQ Jim Hesden running from
the Summsr-house?' I would say to
you a. I would. But IL you was to say
to me, George Lvesay. would you go
into court and swear as you seed Jim
Heasden running u of the Summer
housed I would ~ AZ | wouldn't,
| for the . that I never seed nc
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Sergeant Crisp said HUNT" like a
man not too we'll satisfied, adding:
| twill you tell me, thhn, just where
on this path It was that you first
| aid see Jim HeAsdenT"
LAvssay led him. down the path to
point about halfway between the
little house itself and the angle at
which stood the Constable on guard,
! and after some hesitatiA1 made a stab
side OF tho path, saying: II should
sAy a. It would be somewhere just
about here"
aAnd ns was runnins?"
well, ysss-wtah d slisht heBttA-
tionT"yes, ! should say as he was
.'sat sh.s doubt could YOU have
SvVsi, / mean al ne wasn't I'll
ming very fast like, but ne was run
ining-yes, I should my ~ he wa go
ing faster than q walk"
And he, was running. how. was II
that he didR,t run into you-thAt you
didn't catoif hm p
"Hscause jun ~ / saw him the dog
made Z spring, and, whether or not
beoause OF that, he caught night OF
me, and no sooner had, sight Of me
than he AsNturnsd away in a flash
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