Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-14

ne,n And this is what ! Wall 4 yo1
now. by way Of help TO me; va
was II. since you Knew lI1e
Ralph's coming from tne oauan
hn,,se. hat you did not ten me OF
nua nftarnoon? Why did you wal
till now"
no,sed IN a little embarrassment
ahan az If she had made up e min4
IA .neakipg in the role OF the In
a annue h said, II will tell monsieur
SCI viii tell him all that was In M
,oart"-(A bad openings was tn
nasaean+,s silent commonet. ana h
nranared himself for q fiction OF
more elaborate and daciou kinf
than usually ~
"I am only a girl. a foreigner" con
+,n,ad Celeste. TN this country
have few friends-no: now tnat mil
d is o l have no rienos-en
corrected herself, emphasizing n sa
statement by a a. at he1 c5es "'l
the little handkerchief. ~.
"And this was a terrible tnang ina
= had seen. What did 1T NEAR
maant mat Sir Ralph was the-Mo1
Hen T am afraid to a it.. but t
vom Monsieur. I say everything-wa3
y murderer of his wife. You see-N
- meant that I, a poor. French gir1
~ iita q set IN and say s. 1t is xkeg
graat this so much respected Engush1
h]aronet that is the murderer OF hi
u,ife, 10 YOU see? What did II
maan for me? It meantsI wound Nc
he believed-I would be sent away
I would go begging. Is m
i character, heinz.
"That is certainly a question, Made
moiselle," the sergeant wer dry
ly. "But since it was not your evi
dence alone. but there. was tnat Q
Heasden-eh?"
has been up before the police. H
has taken rabbits. He has been 1
prison. He is vaurien. Would h
he believed? Also-he is himse1
suspected of this murder"
"There is much in what you say
mademoiselle,' the sergeant xsplev
thoughtfully, as if all that she ha
said had been brought to his mint
for the first time by her words. ''bul
still all those arguments, 90 they no1
still hold good? In what way ar
they changed since our talk this after'
noon?" 5s.i
"Ah. monsieur" Celeste exclaimed
with an air of virtue triumphant, Il
is. that this afternoon my thought wa
for myself, for Celeste-what woul
become Of me. 1t was very wrong1l
see it now. My thought now is FOL
the truth, as it should have beef
from the first. I should not'% hav'
thought of myself-no. 1t was verl
wrong"
"Mademoiselle,' said the sergeant
in a ont of profound respect, 1T Is I
change of heart, which does, you thu
-->-A~ -.11S$ ~Nro7r0%vTv0fn vNS
on it, if l may. I trust you Hts7
never find that it has injured you
worldly prospects. OF any others
would not presume to speak.
It seemed a high note on whic1
to terminate the interview. Sergan|
Crisp led her most courteouslyxto TIL
door, opened it for her to pass OUT
and bowed. as though she were a mari
J quise under Louis XIVT;cand he a gem
tleman about the court
- Nov, I should think" he said Il
. himself, as he went up the stairs Il
his bedroom. with slow ponderiE|
steps, that that Frenchwoman is jus
; about as fine a specimen OF POLISHED
ungodliness as one would easily find
~ When he reached his bedroom hi
, sat with that entry relating to jim
Heasden and the French maid opel
! before him, thinking long before II
3 decided just what addition was to q
: made to it. He was still ina stat
of indecision when he began jottin(
: in his secret code, and as the find
entry was to be a verdict Of not prov
en-; it suggested Alternatives:
"a ~ The girl and her lover, at the1
: meeting this afternoon. decided thu;
! they would tell me they had seen 81
Ralph leaving the aSummef-house.
: They decided to:do this either Cd
4 because they thought by %inventing TIL
: story they would avert suspicion frod
Heasden, or ~
co. because they really had see
!. 1T. -
Continued Tomorrow Evening,