Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-04

Ill NASlk' lcIlIllIlAlcS very BUOUCHly a1NAI
night tine young wife is found murdered
In the summer-hou1e. On her bosom is-
an %oninous crimson stain Of blood. "A
clever detective. Sergeant Crisp. Is sum
: CHAPTER VI.-Continued.
The fact that toward morning Live
says bull'e-eye must have exhausted
its oil and that the light had gon out
with q very sfckeniilG smell helped to
give the last element Of misery and
what has been moved since you
saw Inc noay iirst!" the sergeant ask
"NothingS nothing, whatever"
repli-d with loud confidence. Il told
LarncoInbe replied with loud conf
Gcli Gr ItaIaa, as lIay oa...
Sergeant Crisp, in his gentle Ettl.
voice interrupted the constable, with
out the slightest ceremony, IN the
middle Of his protestation:
DO you mean that SIR Ralph has
not moved any of tho chairs, or any
thing?"
"Oh. as to the chairs. I don't know
as nuliced"-
mo" the sergeant said, interrupt
ing the full current of speech just as
bsAofe, you didn't notice."
Larncombe appeared to feel that
he was called upon to justify himself
In some degree. He began again
as his duty was that nothing should
be touched. a
Sergeant Crisp did not seem as>if
ne was aware that any n was speax-
ing. He stood perfectly still He
had hardly crossed the doorway. 1
COULD see in spite of his stiffness OF
body, that his. pale eyes were perpee-
ualiy moving looking to this side and
to that, resting awhiio on the body ly-
into each corner OF the small. arbor,
looking first at one window and then
1t the other. He slightly lifted his
head and the upturn of his gray eyes
told me that he was making q study
Of the matched roof. About the time
that the energy of the constabls.s
booming had run itself down into 81
lence the cray eyes came to niest
Miners and they met them and held
them with that extraordinary unwink-
ing steadi1ess which / have mem
toned before.
What would happen II two Ser
geant Crtsps (if he had 4 double)
were to meet and look at each other
I cannot think. suppose they
would go ON looking till It vas dark
Q e TIL something came between them.
the gaze Of those apparently quite
uninterested cold gray eyes / had
to turn mine aide very ooI
Whom I looked again the eyes were
still on me, and this happened yet q
third dime. Just a I began to feel
that I must call out or throw some
thing at him II he continued TO fix
me. he released me by looking away.
/ had IN idea that he must have ex-
sibly reveal to him and that he had
no need TO ask me any question.
In this respect II Was an idea very
far from the truth, but II was correct
"a Tar, that by this study he had ap-
praised me and had made his mind
up in regard to the questions that he
might usefuliy put TO me. 80 much
as that he himself told mo Aftsrward,
and Il wasA great deal tor him TO say.
inspecting Of ma. was not to me, but
TO LArncombe; nor was II In any way
in answer TO what the constable had
been a~spsrvatinG. CO." he said,
and find Ar. Ilvsaay and bring him
! here"
II struck me that there was q sim
guiar absence OF any such o~aEniahing
Pr eiss n 81 :. TX NJ
centurion Of Scripture and with equal
condolences that hts command would
/ frnas1ns that the sending Tor M.
LAveeay achieved twolends 81 once
that for witch IL was McGt obvtouaaY
designed, and also our temporary
freedom from Iasncombe and hs