Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-05
see who was ringing the bell I saw
head below ME, out Of his own

see VINO was ringing the Dell l saw
uncle's head below me, out Of his own
window"
Thus we passed hat perilous cor
ner. and I felt my heart beating
quickly in the reaction from my anx-
iety about 1t I flattered myself that
I had fenced with the little man we'll
and foi!ed him without telling an ,ac
tual he.
He went on then to elicit from
me other episodes OF the night in
which I had taken a personal share,
and told him Of. my going t Aunt
Ends to inform her Of uncle's
being called out little dreaming
called him. I told the sergeant, too,
about Celeste. my aunt's maid, and all
the rest just as I have written it al-
ready. I had no from him,
except in that one particular Of my
having e uncle so out before his
going in answer to Livesay's gum
mons. pc.
SO, when we had brought all up
to the point at which Sergeant Crisp
had Been introduced to me by the
village constable, he said:
Now that Is finished, Miss Carl
ton, and I thank You very much for
answering my questions 30 fully and
so fr~ankly"-my conscience smite me
a little at that praise. Il am going
to ask you now to leave me here
alone for a little while. I want to
look around and make q thorough ex-
animation Of this arbor-perhaps take
a photograph or two-and then I shall
he able to relieve you n Sir Ralph
Of some OF the strain you have suf-
fered. There will be no reason after
thai why the body should not be car
ried to the house and properly cared
for"
I could be thankful from my heart
for that. The prolonged watch had
been a terrible strain and trial. The
only thing that puzzled me vas his
REQUEST to be alone to have q look
round the very small space. Had
he not been looking, with those GIN
lefty eyes of his, all the while, for a
hong. a very long half hour and more?
I said as much to him, and he smiled
that queer little ghost Of = smile
which just, and no more, curled one
corner OF his mouth, rs he answered:
You do not know, miss, what look
ing around and examining means to
us who have to lonk carefully, who
have to leave nothing unlocked at,
even through this-ard that" He
brought first d large magntfying glass
and then a smaller triple Tense out Of
some pockets where 1t seemed I'M
possible that they could have found
room to lie beneath his c~reaseless
coat.
"But." I asked. what Is there tina.
you can possibly expect to find? '
I felt It was 4 FOOLISH question even
before he had made the really very
obvious answer: "Ah, II only we
knew that, then. there wouldn't be- 70
very much need to look"
Then from the subdued light in
the sumrner-hougc. from that search
ing inquisition and from the dread
presence OF that dead figure on the
floor, I went out into the golden sum
shine, go dazed and blinded that I
could hardly see my way.
CHAPTER VII.
I learned something Of Sergeant
Crisp's doings In the summer-house,
after I had left him, from what Live
saV. the keeper, told u.s. Crisp had
sent LArncor1be to look for Lvesay
while he u talking to me. and when
the two arrived the detective was 1t
work in his examination. They stood
for a while by the door, which the
sergeant had left open in order to i'd.
init az much light as possible.
: Larncombe had announced "Mr.
ser to the Summer-house, but that
there Sergeant Crisp" AZ Lvesay told
me, The didn't take no more notice
OF us, nina, than II we'd been q brace
lbf beetlek I really could hardly say
whether he knew ~ we were there OF
not; though Joe Lafncofnbe he called
It out loud enough. lis my belief