Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-19

would bring it to. nine-thirty. You
are fairly confident. fully confident
I may perhaps say, that her ladyship
Lady CarltOn-was not alive at a
much later hour than n~ine-thirty or
that Friday night?' ~
Tina is So" the doctor answered.
Il am sur OF it." w..
Now II the coroner had been spe-
cial1y aware Of the Of confusion
In which my brain was tangled up
and had been specially deeirous OF dis
changing It. for me he could not have
put his questions in a. better form.
Az he spoke, the whole feeling OF
numbness passed of. realized to the
1nlll thss% Immense Significance, which,
1 had only appreciated I'M a dim,
vague way before, Of the evidence .of
the doctor. q. ~
IT my unfortunate Aunt Enid was
dead by n%ine-thirty. or At latest only
a little after. OF that, Friday night,
then it was absolutely Impossible that
her death could be- in any way con-
nected with that vision which I be-
lieved myself to have Had Of my Uncle
Ralph going out Of the house at
eleven-thirtS. She would have beer
dead already some Two hours,
suppose I had been brought to
a, far more overweight state thar
/ had any idea of by the strain of the
previous two days and more. How
ever that may be, I accomplished a
feat which I have only achieved about
once besides in, the whole course of
my life-I went off in a dead faint,
there, in view Of the whole assembly.
I had a knowledge that somehow the
little ma in gray had made his way
to me-. and that it was he that put
his arm round me and saved me from
falling; and after that I became dead
to the world for the. time being.
When I revivedAI found myself SIT
ting, on a BENCH often occupied by
some old gafrers of the village drink
Ing beer, outside the hotel. Old Susan,
the ~housernaid, had come out Of the
room and was fussing about me-.
knew, at h first return Of conscious
ness. that I had some reason for deem
thankfulness; I, came back to a verv
happy Of things that I recollect-
ed the details and recalled the true
ground for my satisfa ction. And
when l did realize it it was tempered
at once with a dreadful loathing and
disgust Of myself that I had ever
dared to entertain such a terrible. sus-
ptcion about my Uncle Ralph as that
which I now realized, almost. more
c'early than l had allowed myself to
admit before, had been lurking in the
BACKGROUND Of my mind.
I ionged to go back into the room
and stand beside him as If, in so do
ing, ! could make him some amends:
and after a little while. finding that
I was perfectly collected and able Ia
walk about again quite strongly. Susan
assented to my returning, though she
insisted on supporting. me under the
arms all the time as IL I had been
a wounded soldier. ).
do not know exactly how Ions
had been absent, but they did moi
seem to. have made much progress
in the interval. the coroner va
questioning Larncpmbe a good deal
about the knife that had given the
wound. and I gathered that ne was
ANNOYED that a more thorough search
had not besn made for 1t in the shrub.
berry and In the neighborhood Of the
Sumnner-house. 1t appeared to me, 4
that, time aA II It would be like the
hunt for the needle in the haystack.
but then I did not realize, as / came
to do later, what q really Systematic
by trained police could amount
to-.
One OF the questions; which the cor
oner a asked the doctor while I wa.
out OF the room vas whether INV
n wound h1As one which sha cor1d
conceivablx have inflicted on herse'f'
The reply had been that II 5was quite
impossible that she could have done
90. and. besides the absence OF thu
knife wa \ strongestlpossible '
dence that II was ! cas- OF murder
unNre ssesa.d no reasonable doubt
The ques.aon terribly In doubt was
that Of the identity OF the murderer,
and this az was given to understand,
p not really the husaness-or Ger.
tainly no tho main bus ness-ofS the
coroner'a jury, Thar chief duty was
to decide AZ TO the mannes 81 desth.