Evening star., 1924-03-16
The Mystery of Lynne Court
By ]. S. FLETCHER


might be in possession Of a large
! sum of money in French and Eng
lish bank notes." he said.
local superintendent. "At least. he's
$4,000. / should say. in Bank Of Eng
and tSnnsh THsrs W ass 9 HIM n9d
! that's about all that there is on him;
no papers much beyond a queer sort
of map or chart which we couldn't
make out But we'd better go on
left left ,Se Of my msn At tbsfs the
too"
"what did the doctor say?" asked
.He said he was very bad. sir
assa rheyss doSo.fn nf il
be able to move him to the hospital"
the Lynchfield police with their con-
freres from Lynne, and. proceeded
! through the little town. A couple Of
miles further along the high road
turned sharply away from the main
road and suddenly twisted off
! amongst overhanging trees. There
the police got out of their car and
| the whole party went down the lane
on foot.
IT'S a perfect marvel to us that
this man should ever have tried to
ride down this lane" remarked the
Lynchfieid superintendent You Sa can
| it's like-madness to ride down 1t.
! The only thing we can think of that
induced him to do 1t is that from the
road we've just left you can see that
| that this lane makes short cut to
| it. Then, of course, you can't see
that it's SO steep until you come to
| WI he N ha
you see, he crashed through those
| rails-and yonder's the cottage
where he's lying. OF course. we may
! find him dead-it's possible"
| Hextall, who was chiefly occupying
| himself by watching Darrell Tress.
! caught a CLEAN of hope in his eyes
it was abundantly plain that nothing
| would give him such relief as to
! know that Tickell was silenced for
good. He was pondering over this
| strange conduct when they reached
the cottage door and encountered the
doctor and the constable who were
| coming out to meet them. The doc
tor shook his head as he met the in
J quiring gaze of the Lynchfield super
| intendent.
| "Still unconscious" he said. 81
! to arrange an operation-I must have
! further help and advice"
| This gentleman is a DOCTOR" said
the inspector from Lynne. DIR. Hey,
| tall-a London doctor, l believe. sir?'
| The two medical men went outside
and talked. and the police superin-
| tendent turned to Darrell.
Just come inside; Mr.. Tress, and
f.. 1T won't take you minute, and it
can't do him any harm If he's uncon-
| scious."
Darrell entered the cottage with
! closely at his elbow. The injured
| man lay in the house place on an i'm
provised bed. at the side of which sat
! a constable. Darrell gave one quick
! glance at the white face and turned
| away.
'Is that enough?"
He turned sharply and was walking
| out of the cottage when the superin-
! tendent called him into another room.
a little parlor on the opposite side of
! the small entrance porch. He pro-
| duced a Norfolk jacket, and from an
| inside pocket took a note case held
| together by a stout elastic band.
! Here's all that we found on him."
he observed, looking at Smith, whom
he evidently conceived to be- be a person
| nothing more beyond watch and
! chain, ring or two, and some small
things. Now, look here, Mr.. Tress-
are those bank notes part of the lot
| They total up to about what I said
/ getting on to four thousand pounds.
| Pretty good proof that of who killed
! kesteven, that! Now here's the only
] scrap of paper we found on him-and
| what 1t Is I'm shot If can make out.
Looks like a bit of a map or a chart,
or something of that sort. What do
you make of it, sir?" he went on,
handing a much h-crumpled and folded
! half sheet of note paper to Smith. IT
hear you're an expert in these mat
teTs."
Smith took the paper into his hand
and looked carefully at it. Upon it
was roughly drawn, in almost oblit-
Grated pencil lines, a diagram which
was something like a leg of mutton
in shape; across this various lines
were traced; at certain points along
these lines figures were inserted. Be-
meath the diagram were what Smith
took to be explanatory notes. These
| were puzzling enough. Against the
figure appeared the letter w;
againt the letters PIP; against 8
more letters, k>of d; against one
letter, c. Beneath all this were two
lines of writing: one, ANY evening
12th-1sth, sh-9A"; the other, p
Endeavor; C-Accomplishment
"If you've no objection" said Smith,
"I'll make a copy of that document
Then I can perhaps get at its mean