Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-02-04

right to ask the question"
Il have the right of magistrate5"
I returned. Every captain of q ship
is a magistrate as well, and ] assure
YOU it will be greatly to your advan-
tage to answer questions and hive as
much light thrown upon the matter
as possible"
On the morning after the murder a
dreary task was mine. had to be
the one to break the news of what
had happened to Mrs. Ransonae and her
daughter before they should have time
TO hear of it in some even more star
Ting way.
Mrs Ransome at o1ce broke out In
to a Mortified condemnation of Sewer.
who. as well as Trefusis, was a cousin
of her own. "Wretched boy" she
cried II knew his feeling-we all
knew his jealousy of Arthur. but who
could have dreamed 1t would lead him
to this y
Don't, mother. beg" implored the
girl whom Sewer had called Moyra.
He can't be guilty. And whatever
may be the truth, 1t is. cruel of You
to prejudice the Captain against him.
Mrs. Ransome flashed feproach at
her. 1T is you who are cruel TO de-
fend Arthur's murderer she ex-
claimed. Listen, Captain Bruce" she
impetuously went on, "Anthony Sc
vier inherits Arthur's money should
Arthur die unmarried The fortune
was left in that way by their uncle
Anthony himself got bare pittance.
Besides Eyes, | will tell, Moyra---it Is
my duty to speak,. Arthur Trefusis
and my daughter We're to have been
married month from now in England
at the house of that uncle's sister,
who promised to leave more money to
him if the wedding should take place
at her home.
"As for Anthony, he has always
cared for Moyra; though itN was inn
possible I should ever have allowed
her to become the wife of such a
ne'er-do-well.
Late In the afternoon went to the
Statero0m where the murdered man
lay, and shut myself in. Locking the
door, / turned on the electric light.
which Illuminated every corne: of the
room
AS I questioned myself. lifted the
bath-robes with the other clothing on
the wall and put myself behind them.
At once faint but agreeable perfume
was perceptible to my nostrils.
Slowly | took down the garments
which seemed more strongly saturated
with the perfume than the others, anG
suddenly gave vent to a slight
exclamation. A hairpain was sticking
in the loosely woven meshes of the
Turkish toweling of which the robe
was made, as though it had, in close
contact, been dragged from woman's
hair.
Miss Ransome's hair was brown.
We carried two stewardesses on the
Canada, and I lost no time, on leaving
the room of the dead, in going first to
one, and then to the other.
After dinner the stewardesses came
to me in my cabin. There was long
array of hairpins arranged according
to my order.
/ could hardly control my excite
ment as my eye lighted on the mate to
the hairpin | had concealed in my
pocket I drew it from the paper. It,
too, was scented.
mo 81" / read aloud from the card
underneath.
'sYou can go, and let me impress it
upon you again that not a whisper is
to go around about this, on pain Of in
slant Dismissal" / said.
In a moment l was alone. In an
other I had found the name of the
woman who occupied No. 81. 1t was
the next stateroom but one to that In
which the murder had been COM
mitted. and the name of its inmate
was Mrs. Rochester, of Quebec. The
Ransomes, Trefusis and Sewer had all
come from Montreal. A daring plan
entered my head.
/ went out on deck. | had the good
luck to find Mrs. Rochester alone.
She started and looked around as
approached and took up position be-
side her.
"Will you allow me to offer you a
penny for your thoughts?" | inquired.
They are worth more than that
she answered in a low voice.
.You are right. Mrs. Rochester"
said, but / believe that ] can guess
that you are thinking of last night;
living over again the time when you
stole into stateroom 40. picked up
knife which lay there, hid behind the
clothing hanging on the wall, waited
for Mr.. Arthur Trefusis to come in,
and then, when you saw him at your
mercy, struck"
For Heavens sake!" she uttered
thickly. "For Heavens sake !"
Her voice broke, she reeled, and
would have fallen in dead faint had
I not caught her across my arm.
Later | had all the truth from her
and from Anthony Sewer, who would
not have spoken out his suspicious
chad she not been detecteO for fear
of screening himself by wronging the
Innocent.
Trefusis had known her in Quebec,
,rraolxod bar life and ma rripd hanui-