The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-06-29
CHAPTER X-Continued


The sight of blood always makes me
feel faint; 1 have a refined nature.
And his wrist was so badly sldshed
And presently | suddenly remembered
that that yellow paper in my pocket
had been all cut into slivers, tool
was so scared absolutely didn't dare
throw 1t away. | realized II must
have been slit up during those three
or four minutes | was away from the
professor, because when laid II
down on the pile of four books, II
was just as he had given II to me.
] was so frightened | didn't know
what to do, for days and daysl IL did
seem terribly exciting that | should
have picked the note up; and pres
emily | felt that maybe | could solve
the mystery of the attack with it"
what led you to think that?" In.
terrupted Mr.. Almy, interestedy.
"Why, you did" confessed Daisy,
cOyly. Don't you remember that day
you interviewed me up In Mr..
Roberts office? When told you all
about Miss Grosvenor and Mr.. Bur-
ton? | could see you thought | had
more information than anybody;
knew ii was useful to you, no matter
how much Mr. Roberts tried to
sQuelch me. And | did have more In
formation than anybody, so when L"
pray, Miss Abbott" interposed Mr..
Almy, proceed, in reference to the
yellow note"
$50, when," repeated Daisy, in.
cisively, Il read. in the paper that the
weapon used to attack Mr.. Gros.
venor must have been a small, thin
used to tear that paper, perhaps to
try the blade first. But | couldn't un-
derstand the cuts in pattern on the
paper; and Miss Grosvenor wasn't ar
rested; and, of course, was sure
Professor Harrington had had moth
ing to do with the affair, so | decided
that Mr.. Case must have known Mr..
Grosvenor and done IT.
Mr.. Roberts and | gaped Mr.. Alniy
merely said: "Let me hear your
theory, please"
swell, Monday noon Mr.. Case was
dreadfully cross to Ulysses, right in
front of me. And you know he's new
er cross, least of all to person like
Ulysses. We were both in Mr.. Cases
Office, he and L; was writing a let
ter for him. Ulysses came in and
asked him some question about the
shelves he was putting up in the
stockroom, and then he started to
gossip about the accident
"He asked Mr.. Case If he knew
the old gentleman; and Mr.. Case said
that though a number of the staff re-
ported having seen him before from
time to time in the shop, he had never
happened to. Ulysses then asked If
the old gentleman was going to re-
cover; and Mr.. Case said the doctor
thought not, he had lost so much
blood. Ulysses said that was differ
ent from the old days, when they bed
people on purpose. He told us his ia.
Their had had pleurisy when he was
a boy, and had been bled by power.
full fine doctor from the navy and got
well right away. said, Your father
wasn't sailor, was hep and he said
Nom, the doctor was visiting his
folks down to Eliot's Crossing. NV
father he used to live there He said
Eliot's Crossing was In Virginia, and
when | asked him what 1t was near.
he said, 1T amt near nothing 'cept
the woods and the mountains. | was
born there at midnight tween Oc-
tober and November, and my horo-
scope was cast. And the horoscope
says that folks that's born at mid.
night tween October and November
gets messages. An l got a message
this mornin'. knowed somep'n
powerful bad was go'n happen, and II
done happen!' And Their Mr.. Case
told him sharply he was supersti.
tious old fool
swell, then, naturally, he went
away; was sorry for him, but he die
give me the creeps with his bleeding
and his woods and mountains and
horoscopes. | didn't understand him
at all, but he scared me to death
And. got scareder and scareder
about that yellow note with the Sits
in It, until finally just made up my
mind that | wouldn't have anything
TO do with It, So I went and stuck
IL into the most unlikely looking
book / could find in the history sec.
ton!
"Oh. It was so terrible J" shuddered
Daisy. 81 finally decided Thursday
morning that J ought to try to find II
and give it up, after all. And
couldn't remember what book | had
nut It in; that is. i couldn't remem
Der the book by name. | was scared
Just absolutely stiff. knew
shouldn't have hidden the slip. for II
wasn't mine, in the first place. and
if | suspected it was important,
should have told some one In authors
ty. And then, gradually, the more
j thought about the thing, the more
realized that Mr.. Case hadn't re
sponded at all to Ulysses; In fact
he'd shut him up much too quickly.
"And then. that same Thursday,
suddenly remembered. without any
warning-you know the way you dc
sometimes when you're thinking about
thing very hard?-that ! had seer
Mr.. Case walking along the south gal
lery, TO the door that leads upstairs
on Monday morning, just before the
clock struck elevenp
"Why didn't you ever say SO be
foreY' demarded Mr. Roberts. evi
IDENTIFY as much stunned as ! was
and maybe as Mr.. Almy was-at thif