The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-08-22
CHAPTER VII-Continued

''Mervyn!" she whispered. "Par-
slavel Gone in-there!
"ParSlave !" | exclaimed. 1.-THE man
missing from Marrasdale? Impossi
ble!'
. Il tell you ParsIave has just gone
into that shOp-the tobacco shop!
Parslave is in that shop! Come back !"
You're certain?" | said.
Dead certain! Parslave is in
there! Watch for him-let lie stand
In this shop door"
Hell know yOu?"
"Of course! If he comes this way.
I'll slip into this shop and buy some
thing anything. If lie goes he other
follow. Good Heavens !-whai is he
doing here lin LondOn?"
II was a drapery establishment by
/ which we were standing, with deep
doorway-Sheia slipped within its
shelter; |. half-hidden. kept an eye on
the tObacconist's door. And presently
out came a tall. wiry fellow. obviously
cOuntryman. brOnZed in cheek and
neck; he turned along the pavement.
away from US.
Sheia came out of the doorway and
glanced down the street.
That's Parslaver' she said. But
knew it was. What next?"
'We must follow him." | answered.
mo matter where he goes, I'm going
TO track him. Look here l-I'll keep
little way behind him; you keep a
- little way behind me-
So we began oar chase of this man
who had disappeared from Birnside
on the night of MaZaroff's murder, and
for whom the police had already in
stituted a hue-and-cry.
Parslave went slowly away in front,
and just as slowly SheiIa sauntered
after me in the rear. He was an easy
man 10 follow, and il needed little
,watchfulness on my part to see that
he had not the ghost of an idea that
he was being followed
He turned TO his right sharply, into
Praed street, crossed the roadway.
and a little further along the other
side, turned again. Sauntering after
him, at a considerable distance saw
him enter the side door of a house-a
rather bigger, more pretentious house
than those that fanked it, Then he
disappeared. | hastened my steps.
walked swiftly past the house he had
entered, and on the side door. on a
dirty, uncleaned brass plate read, to
my utter amazement:
"Dr. EccIeshare
Surgery Hours $50 TO II a. m. Z to
$50 p. M"
1 hurried back TO the top of the
street, where Sheila was already
hanging about.
"Got hm?" she asked.
| touched her arm with one hand.
pointing with the other to the house
at the further end of the street.
you see that house down there?-
the one that stands out from the rest ?"
81 see it r'
. That's Eccleshare'sl Eccleshare's.
do you understand? Doctor Eccle-
share. Eccleshare's-good Lord! And
-Parsave's in there!'
Then silence fell upon u.s. We stood.
mutually questioning each other.
Sheila spoke first.
"Eccleshare'S house land Parslave
N il? Then here's some devilry at
work. Mervyn-what's to be done?
Of course, SEE how things are. Ec-
.leshare sent Parslave hereto hide! !"
But l had been thinking during that
moment of silence-thinking fast.
There's only one thing to be dOne,"
said. Look here-you do just what
= tell you. Get a taXicab.. Go straight
INSTRUMENTATION Conduit street
rot that ?-and tell him exactly what's
happened. Get him to come back here
With you, and to bring his clerk Cot
ingIey. Meanwhile. I'll keep an eye
IN Parslave and that house. Now
lurry!"
. She went off on the instant, without
as much as word, and | turned to
watch the house fifty yards away.
And ! had not watched long before
1arslave came out again. and came my
way. too. He was carrying a rush
basket, such as servants use when they
20 shopping. | sauntered after him
ION the opposite side). He went to a
grocer's shop: he bought potatoes and
4 couple of fine caulifiowers. And,