The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-20

through my ears. sentences | ha0 for
gs tten entirely:
"Ive had an invitation my
summer playground -. Carroll
Bays the name l stick 10 the
old traditions !. My brother was
highly romantic We're not all
well suited to stand the blows of
life. :" The icy fingers of pre-
monition grasped me. and ] heard
Peters voice saying heavily:
"Not our Professor Harrington
Mr.. Amy nodded reluctantly.
"He's under arrest"
l stopped short In the street In
horror.
"He's not the suspect you mentioned
to Julia Harrington when you told her
she was cleared?"
He nodded again.
Now you see why put II that
way"
But he's her uncler gasped. "Oh,
If this is your bad news. 1t certainly
is very bad!"
u
does she. Almy?" demanded Peter Wig
orously.
"Not yet But the evidence against
him is very strong. She'll have to
know II soon."
"Tell me first what has happened"
urged Peter. whats this evidence?
And finish about that marriage on
Almy's island. This Is ter
ribleT"
ITO begin with the evidence" an
swered Mr.. Almy. "All along there
was tiny gap In Harrington's alibi
that didn't appear to many observers,
and might have been unimportant.
There were three or four minutes
when he was alone In the aisle. Osten-
sibly looking at hooks on the table
there, that were not accounted for In
detail. We started to look him up,
and found directly that his birthplace
was Eliot's Crossing. the old Grosve-
nor homestead; and while the Grosve-
nCr-Harrington feud seemed rather re-
mote as q motive for an attack on Mr..
Grosvenor, 1t was we'll remembered as
very bitter down In that section. So
there 1t was, a factor to be remem-
bered, and there were the proud, con-
sentative characters of those two eld-
erly men.
San investigator went up to the cell
ebratiOn at Carroll Bay, and there,
talking to the older tOwnsfOlk about
young Miles Harrington, stumbled on
a trail which led finally to the unearth-
ing of that secret marriage. The man
who performed the ceremony was a
justice of the peace In the one little
town on Almy's island twenty-odd
years ago. He's misery old charac-
ter; | know well who he is. Miles
Harrington was spending his vacation
alone at Carroll Bay that summer, as
his brother had just gone to Oxford;
Mary GrOsevenor was up there with a
party of artists who had come to paint
the coast. When they decided to get
married, 1t was easy to sail down the
bay to that remote island and bride
the old j. P. to hold his tongue. 1t
was equally easy. day or two ago to
bribe him to loosen 1t.
''Then we learned that Clarihew's
Notes had belonged to the professors
library, and had been stolen; that 1t
had turned up again and had been
sought by many people, among whom
Mr.. GrosvenOr was included, without
doubt, for he and his granddaughter
had been engaged In controversy over
book, and that book was the one
she was so eager to obtain. That 1t
was certainly of extraordinary interest
seemed proved by the presence of the
cleverly forged bookplate concealing
the key"
1.-THE key!" | interrupted. 81 flung
it on that table in the living-roomw
you'll have to leave it there now"
said Mr.. Almy; perhaps that's the
best place for it. Well, to a cut a long
story short, it seemed as if Professor
might he among the per-
sons interested In recovering that
book, perhaps the most so. since ii was
his own possession. He had had OPP
portunity to try to do so last Monday
morning. OF the five persons in the
shop then suspected of trying to get
the book, four were gradually elimi-
mated. Mr.. GrosvenOr was attacked |;
MacIvor obviously never got chance
at the book; Mr.. Case"
'Case?" interrupted Peter incredu-
iously. "You never suspected that
correct person of assault and rob
bery!"
YES; he was absent from the cob
ference Monday morning, and was seen
in the shop just before the clock
struck eleven. He finally admitted
that he had formerly known Mr..
Grosvenor. and he gave indication of
remarkable personal interest in Clari.
hew's Notes But now he is elimi-
mated. The second click of the spring.
lancet at ten-fifty sets the time of the
attack, and MIR. Case did not leave the
conference until ten fifty-five. By the
way, you haven't seen the lancet, have
you, Burton? brought 1t along"
"rd like to-" said Peter, receiving
the little brass box from Mr.. Almy's
hand and looking at it with close atten-
ton. He worked the flashing knives
once, then returned 1t, as Mr.. Almy
went on:
"We have to thank Mr.. Case at least
that Clarihew's Notes didn't leave
Darrow's. He could have accepted the
Juddes offer tentatively In Mr.. OAR
rows absence, but he turned Miss
Wilkes down. OF course, the fourth
suspect was Miss Grosvenor, as we
then called her. and the one thing that
fhaf h.