The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-18

vorite of his many charming ex-
pressions. ''Mrs. Avery's little
niece, Sylvia. She had gone out
into the kitchen. For some reason,
none of the maids was there"
"Did she recognize your"
eyes. I lifted my mask"
"Did she speak?"
Before she could say anything !
put my fingers to my lips and she
kept perfect silence"
''Where did you go?" Patrick
asked next.
81 took little STROLL" Doctor
Marden answered, Through the
meadow which stretches. between
Mrs. Slows and Mrs. Avery's
house."
"You were in costume, Doctor
Marden. Did your walk injure it
I mean, dew, vines, weeds, etc.?''
There's very pleasant little
path between the two Places" Doc
tor Marden informed Patrick po-
litely.
/ had feeling that / was watch
ing the preliminaries to duel OF
two skilled fencers.
81 went through the opening in
the hedge, across Mrs. Avery's
drive, across the lawn in front OF
her gardens and onto the path lead
ing to what Mrs. Avery calls the
Spinney."
'Did you see anybody on the
place or on the road?"
Nobody
$50 on!"
81 walked into the Spinney. AS ]
entered / heard voices" He paused
politely. ''Does this interest you,
Mr.. O'Brien?"
Every much. Whose voices were
they?"
"There were two voices. One
was a woman's. I did not recog-
nize it. The other was a mans
Doctor Blaikie's."
"Did you hear what they said?"
81 heard nothing!"
"But as you got nearer"
"When realized that there was a
tete-a-tete going on in the Spinney
I stopped, started to turn back but
the voices stopped and I heard
footsteps retreating. I waited a
minute and kept on until I came
across Doctor Blaikie."
"You did not see the lady at all?"
"No."
"You spoke with Doctor Blake
of course"
"Yes-for several minutes"
"And then you went on?"
eyes"
"Was your conversation long
one?"
ga very brief one"
'What was the nature of your
talk?"
Its one of those talks that you
can't reproduce because really
nothing was said. ! knew that a
lady had just left the Spinney. !
think he knew I knew that. I don't
know whether he was embarrassed
or not. I was little conscious of
the situation. I think I told him
that I'd come out because the house
was so warm and that I wanted to
smoke"
Had you lighted a cigar YETI"
mo. But / told Doctor Blaikie
that I was going back to the
house and I asked him to join me
in a smoke"
"What did he say to that?"
"He said no; that he was re-
turning at once to the Dance"
"Did you go after that?"
Gas remember, that was my
last remark"
"You left Doctor Blaikie in the
Spinney?"
eyes"
''Had he turned-had he started
to leave the Spinney?"
"No."
''By what path did you go out
from the Spinney?"
81 continued along the path that
runs beside Mrs. Avery's Little
House; then up onto the road and
then back to the Slows"
did you smoke on the way
back?"
"Yes-one cigarette"
did you meet anybody else on
the way back?"
EMO"
"How did you enter the house?"
SPY the garage door-as I left
it."
"Did you leave your cape and
cap there?"
eyes"
"Did anybody see you come in?"
81 think nobody noticed it; for
the reason that the kitchen was full
of masks. They had come out,
I think, for water. There had been
plenty of punch about, but no wa
ter and apparently a big group
had suddenly invaded the kitchen.
Nobody paid any attention to me
and l went back to the dance"
"You were there then at the un-
masking?"
"Yes."
Sand what time did you say you
went homer"
"About half-past twelve"
"You walked homer"
eyes"
"Did you go straight up the
Head?"
"Yes-exactly the way I came. "
when you were in the Spinney,
did you hear any noise in the
bushes, let us say, or among the
trees?"
81 heard nothing"
Don't you yourself think, Doc
tor Marden. that it's little strange