The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-07-18
CHAPTER III-Continued

The scrap of paper was a receipt for
registered letter, dispatched from
Cape Town, and addressed to the In
perial Banking Corporation of South
Africa, go Lombard street. London.
MaythOrne pointed to the date-Jan-
uary lion the postmark.
Mine months since" he remarked.
"How long had Mazaroff been in Eng
land when you met him at the Ceci?"
"a few weeks" l replied. "As far
as | know"
Il know" said Crole. He came to
England in July-abOut the end of the
month"
Then the letter, or packet or what
ever it was, TO which this receipt re-
ferS, was sent off from Cape Town to
the London branch of this hank some
months before Mazaroff came here"
observed MaythOrne. He turned the
receipt over. There's an indOrSe-
ment on the back-letters and a fig
ure." he continued. See? BL. D. 1.
What's that mean, l wonder?"
He carefully put away the receipt.
that to ourselves, for the present" he
said. IF the police come here this
afternoon, as they're pretty sure TO.
after that gun business, and want 10
examine his effects, let en-. But I'll
keep this scrap of paper to myself
/ want 10 work things up from it,
The police came to the Woodcock a
little later. They asked lot of ques-
tions of Musgrave about his gum and
of me and of Webster about our move
mentS on the night of the murder, of
CrOle about the dead mans identity
and position; of me again about the
money and valuableS he was likely to
have on him. And in the course of
their investigations fact came out of
which |, until then, had been unaware
1t turned out that after dinner on the
night of the murder, while | was
busted in writing some private letters.
Mazaroff, who was naturally a sociabe
man, had stroled into the bar-paror
of the WOodcock, where a highly di-
versited assemblage had gathered
farmers, cattle dealers, drovers, idlers,
all hOmeward bound from Cloughth-
waite fair. There he had made him.
self very agreeable, and had treated
the entire company to drinks and
cigars which he paid for with a five
pound note, taken, said the barmaid.
from notecase that seemed to be
pretty full, and in open view of any
Oody and everybody. r1
This bit of news appeared to give
considerable satisfaction and even re-
lief to the police officials, and Man
ners, who fingered behind when his
superiors went away, found it impos-
sible to refrain from communicating
to me his belief that they were on the
right line of pursuit.
| communicated the police sergeant'S
notions to Crole and Maythorne. May
ners' standpoint.
Following the mos: probable ine,"
he remarked "a sensible one, too
Here's an evidently wealthy man,
travelling in luxurious car of his own,
puts up at roadside inn, goes into
public bar-parlor, lets it be seen that
he's lots of money on him, and strolls
out on a lonely moor tfter night has
fallen. What more likely than that
one of the men before whom he's
just pulled out his purse should slip
after him, murder him. and rob him?"
with Musgrave's gun?" | asked.
Nothing out of the way about that
little detail :" said Maythorne. "What
was easier than for the murderer 70
take down the gun from those hooks,
and slip out after Mazaroff?"
THAT would presuppose knowl-
edge that the gun was there" re-
marked Crole
Precisely" agreed MaythOrne
"There were no doubt local characters
about who know quite well what was
in this room and what hung on that
wall. | think Manners has got hold
of a good theory-murder for the sake
of robbery. But-whether it's the
right one or not-umi"
"YOu doubt it?" | asked.
He gave us candid, confidential
smile.
"If you really want to know" he re-
with it. At present l don't know
where we are I'd like to know a lot
of things yet In particular-who was
the man that MazarOlf said he wanted
to see, hereabouts? Did he see him?
If so. when-and where? If he hadn't