Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1902, Page 22

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Criine 10 Weat Indies by the clegant 8. 8. Prince Arthur January 15 Independent steamship and rallway tickets s where. Information and booklets, 28 Clark Bt., Chicas: 0. ——————————————— TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER Best Agricultural Weekl CHAPTER IX. The revelation held me utterly dumb- founded. Already I had by placing my hand in contact with the shawl ascertained its exact texture and saw that both its tint and its fabric were unquestionably the same us the tiny fragment I held in my hand. Chenile shawls, as every woman knows, must be handled carefully or the lightly-made fringe will come asunder; for the kind of cord of flpss silk is generally made upon a single thread, which will break with the slightest strain. By some means the shawl in question had accidently become entangled—or, perhaps, been strained by the sudden uplifting of the arm of the wearer. In any case the little innocent-looking fragment had be- come strained and been dropped at the bedside of the murdered man. The gave suspicions of Ethelwynn which I had held on the previous night when she endeavored to justify her sister's neglect crowded again upon me, and Sir Bernard's hint at the secret of her past thrust the fron deeply into my heart. My eyes were fixed upon the little ob- ject n my palm—the silent but damning evidence—and my mind became filled by bitterest regrets. I saw how cleverly I had been duped, and recognized that this woman whom I had thought an angel was only a cunning assassin. , 1 was not prejudging her! The thought had already occurred to me that she might have entered the room wearing that shawl perhaps to wish the invalld good night. She had, however, in answer to my question, declared that she bad retired to bed without seeing him— for Nurse Kate bad told her that he was sleeping. She had therefore not dls- turbed him. Then yet another thought had occurred to me. She might have worn the shawl when she entered after the raising of the alarm. In order to clear up-that point 1 had questioned the servants, one by one, and all had told me the same story, namely that Miss Ethelwynn had not entered the room at all. She had only come to the door and glanced in, then turned away in hor- ror and shut herself in her own room. As far as anyone knew, she had not summoned suffiglent courage to go in and look upon the dead man's face. She declared herself horrified and dared not to enter the death chamber. In the light of my discovery all these facts as related to me made the truth only too apparent. She had entered there un- known to anyone, and that her presence had been with a fell purpose I could no longer doubt. It T gave the clue into Ambler Jevons' hands he would, I knew, quickly follow m | it. gathering up the threads of the tangled ekeln one by ene, until he could openly charge her with the crime. I stood unde- cided how to act. Should I leave my friend to make his own investigations independ- ently and unblased, or should I frankly tell him of my own startling discovery? 1 carefully went through the whole of the circumstances, weighing point after point and decided at last to still retain the knowledge I had gained. The point which outbalanced my Intention was the curious admission of Short regarding the possession of the knife. So I resolved to say nothing to my friend until after the inquest. As may be imagined, the London papers that afternoon were full of the mystery. Nothing like a first-class sensation, sub- editors will tell you, There is an art in alliterative headlines and startling “‘cross- heads.” The inevitable Interview with a “member of the family,” who Is generally anonymous, be it eald, is sure to be eagerly devoured by the public. The world may sneer at sensational journalism, but after all it loves to have its curiosity excited over the tragic demouement of some do- mestic secret. As soon as the first informa- tion reached the Central News and Press aseociation, therefore, reporters crowded upon us. Representatives, not only of the metropolitan press, but those of the local newspapers, the Richmond and Twicken- ham Timew the Independent over at Brent- ford, the Middlesex Chronicle at Hounslow, and even the Middlesex Mercury of Isle- worth, all vied with each other In obtaining the most accurate information. “Say nothing,” Jevons urged. “Be civil, but keep your mouth closed tight. There are one or two friends of mine among the crowd. I'll see them and give them some- thing that will carry the story further, Remember, you mustn’t make any statement whatsoever.” T obayed him, and although the reporters followed me about all the morning, and outside the house the police had difficulty in preventing a crowd assembling, I refused to express any opinion or describe any- thing I had witnessed. At 11 o'clock T received Bernard at Hove as follow “Much shocked at news. Unfortunately very unwell, but shall endeavor to be with you later in the day.” At mid-day T called at the neighbor's house close to Kew Gardens staiion, where the widow and her sister had taken refuge. Mrs. Courtenay was uttesly broken down, for Ethelwynn had told her the terrible truth that her husband had been murdered, and both women pounced upon me eagerly to ascertaln what-theory the police now held. 1 looked at the woman who had held me so long beneath her spell. Was it possible that one %o open-faced and pyre could be the author of so dastardly and cowardly a crime? Her face was white and anxiou but the countenance had now re-assumed its normal innocence of expression, and in her eyes [ saw the genulne love-look of old. She rranged her halr and dress snd no r wore the shawl. s torrible—terrible, Ralph,” she cried. “Poor Mary! The blow has utterly crushed her. “I am to blame—it is my own fault claimed the young widow, hoarsely. I had no idea that his end was so near. tried to be a dutiful wite, but oh—only Ethelwyon knows how hard it was, and how I suffered. His malady made bim un- bearable, and instead of quarreling I thought the better plan was to go out and leave him with the nurse. What people have always said was, alas, too true. Owing to the difference of our age our marriage was a ghastly failure. And now it has ended in a tragedy." 1 responded in words mpathetic as I could find tongue to utter. Her eyes were red with crylng, and her pretty face ‘was swollen and ugly. I knew that she now felt a genulne regret at the loss of her husband,®even though her life had been 50 dull and unhappy. While she sat in & big armchair bowed in silence, I turned to Ethelwynn and dis- cussed the situation with her. Their friends were most kind, she said. The husband was church warden at Kew church, and his wife was an ardent church worl hence they had long ago become excellent triends. “You have your friend, Mr. Jovens, with wire from Sir you, I hear. Nurse has just returned and told me wo." “Yes,” 1 responded. independent inquiry.” “And what has he found?" she inquired breathlessly. “‘Nothin; Then I watched her closely, I saw that she breathed again more freely. By the manner in which she uttered Ambler's name I detected that she was not at all well-disposed towards him. Indeed, she spoke as though she feared that he might discover the truth. After half an hour I 1éft, and more puz- zled than ever, returned to the house in Richmond Road. Some times I felt en- tirely convinced that my love was author- ess of the foul deed; but at others there seemed something wanting in the confirma- tion of my suspicions. Regarding the la ter I could not overlook the fact that Short had told a story which was false on the face of it, whlle the utter absence of any motive on my love's part in murdering the old gentleman seemed to point in an en- tire opposite direction. Dr. Diplock, the coroner, had fixed the inquest for 11 o'clock on the morrow; there. fore I assisted Dr. Farmer of Kew, the police surgeon, to make, the post-mortem. We made the examination in the aft- ernoon, before the light faded, and if the circumstances of the crime were mysterious, the means by which the unfortunate man was murdered were, we found, doubly so. Outwardly the wound was an ordinary one, one inch in breadth, inflicted by a blow delivered from left to right. The weapon had entered between the fourth and fitth ribs, and the heart had been completely transfixed by some sharp-cut- ting instrument. The injurles we discov- ered within, however, increased the mys- tery tenfold, for we found two extraordi- nary lateral incisions which almost com- pletely divided the heart from side to side, the only remaining attachment of the upper portion to the lower belng a small por- tion of the interior wall of the heart be- hind the sternum. Such a wound was absolutely beyond ex- planation. The instrument with which the crime had been committed by striking between the ribs had penetrated to the heart with an unerring precision, making a terrible wound eight times the size within, as compared with the exterior puncture. And yet the weapon had been withdrawn, and was missing. We were about to conclude our examina- tion in despair, utterly unable to account for the extraordinary wound, when the door opened and Sir Bernard entered. He looked upon the body of his old friend, not a pleasing spectacle indeed, and then grasped my hand without a word. I showed my chief the wound, explained its extraordinary features, and asked his opinion. He removed his coat, turned up his shirt cuffs, adjusted his big spectacles and, bending beside the board upon which the body lay, made a long and careful in- spection of the injury. “Bxtraordinary!" he ejaculated. “I've never known of such a wound before. One would almost suspect an explosive bullet if it were not for the clean incised wound on the exterior. The ribs seem grazed, yet the manner in which such a hurt has been inflicte is utterly unaccountable.’ “We have been unable to solve the enigma,” Dr. Farmer observed. I was an army surgeon before I entered private prac- tice, but I have never seen a similar cas: “Nor have I, responded Sir Bernard. is most puzzling.” “Do you think that this knife could have been used?”’ I asked, handing my chief the weapon. He looked at it, ralsed it in his hand as though to strike, felt its edge and then shook his head, saying: “No, I think not. The instrument used was only sharp on one edge. This has both edges sharpened.” It was a point we had not overlooked, but in a moment we agreed with him, and at once abandoned our half-formed theory that the Indlan dagger had caused the ‘wound. ‘With Sir Bernard we made an examina- tion of the tongue and other organs, in order to ascertaln the progress of the dis- ease from which the deceased had been lering, but a detailed account of our discoveries can have no interest for the lay reader. . In a word, our conclusions were that the murdered man could easily have lived an- other year or more. The disease was pot 80 advanced as we had believed. Sir Ber- nard had a patient to see in Grosvenor Square; therefore, he left at about 4 o'clock, regretting that he had not time to call round at the neighbor's and express his sympathy with the widow. “Give her all my sympathies, poor young lady,” he sald to me. “And tell her that I will call upon her tomorrow." Then, after promising to attend the inquest and give evidence regarding the post-mortem, he shook hands with us both and left. At 8 o'clock that evening I was back in my own rooms in Harley Place, eating my dinner alone, when Ambler Jevons entered. He was not as cheery as usual. He did not exclaim, as was his habit, “Well, my boy, how goes it? Whom have you killed today?" or some such grim pleasantry. On the contrary, he came in with scarcely a word, threw his hat upon a side table, and sank into his usual arm chair with scarcely a word, save the question uttered in almost a growl! “May 1 smoke?" I sald, continuing my meal. “Where have you been?" eft while you were cutting up the “-he said. “I've been about a lot e then, and I'm tired.” ‘ou look It. Have a drink.” “No," he responded, shaking his head. “I don’t drink when I'm bothered. This case is an absolute mystery.” And strik- ing a match he lit his rather foul pipe and puffed away vigorously, staring straight into the fire the while. 1 asked, after a long silence. your opinion now?" none,” he answered, yours is that “He is making an gloomily. the mystery increases | hourly." “What mortem " In & few words I explained the unac- countable nature of the wound, drawing for him & rough diagram on the back of an old envelope, which I tossed over to where he sat. He looked at It for & long time with- out epeaking, then observed: “Hum! Just as I ibought. The police theory regarding that fellow Short and the all a confounded myth. Depend did you find' at the post. “What motive do you suspect?’ I fn- quired, eagerly, for this was an entirely fresh theory. “One that you'd call absurd if I were to tell it to you mow. I'll explain later onm, when my suspicions are confirmed—as 1 feel sure they will be before long.” prised. “Why?!™ “I1 have a reason, my dear fellow,” was all the reply he vouchsafed. Then he puffed agalu vigorously at his pipe, and filled the room with clouds of choking smoke of a not particularly good brand of tobacco. CHAPTER X. Which Pussies the Doctors. At the inquest held in the big upstair room of the Star and Garter hotel at Kew Bridge there was a crowded attendance. By this time the public excitement had risen to fever heat. It had by some unaccountable means leaked out that at the post-mortem we had been puzzled; therefore the mystery was much increased, and the papers that morning without exception gave prominence to tHe startling affair. The coroner, seated at the table at the head of the room, took the usual formal evi- dence of identification, writing down the depositions upon separate sheets of blue toolscap. Samuel Short was the first witness of im- portance, and those in the room listened breathlessly to the story of how his alarm clock had awakened him at 2 o'clock; how he had risen as usual and gone to his mas- ter's room, only to discover him dead. “You noticed no sign of a struggle?” in- quired the coroner, looking sharply up at the witness. “‘None, sir. My master was lylng on his side and except for the stain of blood which attracted my attention it looked as though he had died In his sleep.” “I rajsed the alarm,” answered Short; and then he went on to describe how he switched on the electric light, rushed down- stalrs, seized the knife hanging in the hall, opened one of the back doors and rushed outside. “And why did you do that, pray?’ the coroner, looking at him fixedly. “I thought that someone might be lurk- ing in the garden,” the man responded, a trifie lamely. The solicitor ot Mrs. Courtenay's family, to whom she had sent asking him to be present on her behalf, rose at this juncture and, addressing the coromer, said: “I should like to put a question to the witness, sir. 1 represent the deceased's tamily. “'As you wish,” replied the coromer. “But do you consider such a course wise at this stage of the inquiry? There must be an adjournment He understood the coroner's objection, and, acquiescing, quickly sat down. Nurse Kate and the cook were and afterwards Ethelwynn, who, in black and wearing a vell, looked pale and fragile as she drew off her glove in order to take the oath. As she stood there our eyes met for an instant; then she turned towards her ques- tioner, bracing herselt for the ordeal. “When did you last sec the deceased alive?” asked the coroner, after the usual formal inquiry as to her name and con- nection with the family. “At 10 o'clock in the evening. Dr. Boyd visited him, and found him much better. Atter the doctor had gone I went upstairs and found the nurse with him, giving him his medicine. He was still sitting before the fire.” ““Was he in his usual spirits?" “Quite. “What was the character of your convers sation with him? 1 understand that Mrs. Courtenay, your sister, was out at time. Did he remark upon her absence “Yes. He sald it was a wet night, and he hoped she would not take cold, for she was often so careless of herself.” The coroner bent to his paper and wrote down her reply. “And you did not see him alive again?” 0. asked You entered the room after he was dead, I presume “No. I—I hadn’t the courage,” she f tered. “They told me he was dead— he had been stabbed to the heart.” Again the coroner bent to his writing. What, 1 wondered, would those present think if I produced the little plece of stalned chenille which I kept wrapped in tissue paper and hidden in my fuseebox? To them It, of course, seemed quite nat- ural that a delicate woman should hesitate to view a murdered man. But if they knew o, my discovery they would detect that she was an admirable actress—that her horror of the dead was felgned, and that she was not telling the truth. I, who knew her countenance 5o well, saw even through her vell how agitated she was, and with what desperate resolve she was concealing the awful anxiety consuming her. ne witness has told us that the de- ceased was very afrald of burglars,” ob- served the coroner. “Had he ever spoken to you on the subject?" “Often. At his country house some years ago a burglary was committed and one of the burglars fired at him but missed him. 1 think that unnerved him, for he always kept a loaded revolver in a drawer of a table beside his bed. In addition to this he had electrical contrivances attached to the windows, so as to ring an alarm.” “But it appears they did not ring,” sald the coroner, quickly. “They were out of order, the servants tell me. The bells had been silent for a fortnight or so.” “It seems probable, then, that the mur- derer knew of that,” remarked Dr. Dip- lock, again writing with his scratchy quill. Turning to the solicitor, he asked, “Have you any questions to put to the witness?” “Nome,” was the response. And then the woman whom I had loved 80 fervently and well, turned and reseated berself. She glanced across at me. Did she read 'my thought: Her glance was a glance of triumph. Medical evidence was next taken, Sir Bernard Eyton being the first witness. He gave his opinion in his habitual sharp, snappy volce, terse wnd to the point. In technical language he explained the disease from which his patient had been suffering, and then proceeded to describe the result of the post-mortem, how the wound inside was eight times larger than the exterfor inclsion. “That seems very remarkabl ex- clalmed the coromer, himself & surgeon of no mean repute, laying down his pen and regarding the physiclan with interest suddenly aroused. “Have you ever seen a similar wound in your experience, Sir Bernard 1" “Never!" was the reply. “My friends, Dr, Boyd and Dr. Farmer, were with me, and we are agreed that it is utterly im- possible that the cardiac injuries I have described could have been caused by the external wound." ‘Then how were they caused?” the coroner. “I cannot tell.” There was nd cross-examination. I fol- lowed, merely corroborating what my chiet bad sald. Then Diplock turned to the twelve Kew tradesmen who bad been sum- moned and sworn as jurymen, and address- ing them, sald: “I think, gentlemen, you have heard sufficient to show that this is & more than usually serious case. There are certaln elements both extraordinary and mysteri- ous, and that being so, I would suggest an adjournment, o order that the police should be enabled to make further inquiries into the matter. The deceased was & gen- man whose philanthropy was probably well known to you all, and we must all therefore regret that he should have come to such a sudden and tragic end. You may, of course, come to a verdict todsy if you wish, but I would strongly urge an adjournment—until, say, this day week.” asked and after some whispering, the foreman, & grocer at Kew Bridge, announced that his fellow jurymen acquiesced in the coroner's suggestion, and the public rose and slowly left, more pussied than ever. Ambler Jevons had been present, sitting at the back of the room, and In order to avold the others we lunched together at an opposite public-house in Brentford, on the opposite side of the Thames to Kew Gare dens. It was the only place we could dis. cover, save the hotel where the inques had been held, and we had no desire to be Interrupted, for during the inquiry he had passed me a scrap of paper upon which he had written an earnest request to see me alone afterwards. Therefore, when I had seen Ethelwynne Into a cab, and had bade farewell to Sir Bernard and received certain private in- structions from him, we walked togethor into the narrow, rather dirty High street of Brentford, the county town of Middlesex. The inn we entered was close to a soap works, the odor from which was not con- ducive to a good appetite, but we obtained & room to ourselves and ate our meal of cold beef almost in rilence. “I was up early this morning,” Ambler observed at last. “I was at Kew at § o'clock. “Why “In the night an idea struck me, and when such ideas occur I always seek to put them promptly into action. “What was the idea?” I asked. thought about the safe in the old man's bedroom,” he replied, laying down his knife and fork and looking at me. “What about it? There's surely nothing extraordinary in a maa having a eafe in his room?* “No. But there's something extraordi- nary in the key of the safe belng missing," he sald. Thorpe has apparently over- looked the point; therefore this morning I went down to Kew, and finding only a con- stable iIn charge, I made a thorough search through the place. In the dead man’s room 1 naturally expeoted to find it, and after nearly a couple of hours searching in every nook and every crack I succeeded. It was hidden in the mould of a small pot fern, anding In the corridor outside the room.'’ “You examined the safe, then?" “No, I didn't. There might be money and valuables within, and I had no right to open it without the presence of a wit- ness. I've waited for you to accompany me. We'll go there after luncheon and examine its contents. “But the executors might have something to say regarding such an action,” I re- marked. “Exeéutors be hanged: morning, & couple of dry-as-dust old fossils —city men, I think, who only think of house property and dividende. Our duty Is to solve this mystery. The executors can have thelr turn, old chap, when we've finished. At present they haven't the key, or any notion where it Is. One of them mentioned it, and said he supposed It was in the widow's possession." “Well,” I remarked, “I must say that I don’t half like the idea of turning out a safe without the presence of the execu- tors. “‘Police inquiries come before executors’ inventories,” he replied. “They'll get their innings all in good time. The house is, at present, In the occupation of the and nobody, therefore, can disturb u “Have you told Thorpe?" “No. He's gome up to Scotland Yard to make his report. He'll probably be down again this afternoon. Let's finish and take the ferry across.” Thus persuaded I drained my ale, and to- gether we went down to the ferry, landing at Kew Gardens and crossing them until we emerged by the Unicorn gate, almost opposite the house of mystery. There were still lojterers outside, men, women and children, who lounged in the vicinity, staring blankly up at the drawn blinds. A constable in uniform admitted us. He had his lunch, a pot of beer and some bread and cheese which his wife had .probably brought him, on the dining table, and we had disturbed him with his mouth full. He was the same man whom Ambler Jevons had seen in the morning, and as we entered he saluted, saying: “Inspector Thorpe has left a message for you, sir. He'll be back from the Yard about half-past 3, and would very much like to see you." “Do you know why he wants to see me?" “It appears, sir, that one of the wit. s who gave evidence this morning is ing." Missing!" he cried, pricking up his ears. “Who's missing?” “The man servant, sir. My sergeant told me an hour ago that as econ s the man had given evidence he went out, and wa: seen hurrying toward Gunnersbury station. They believe he's absconded.” 1 exchanged significant glances with my companion, but neither of us uttered a sound. Ambler gave vent to his habitual grunt of dissatisfaction, and then led the way upstairs. The body had been removed from the room in which It had been found, and the bed was dismantled. When inside the apartment he turned to me calmly, saying: There seems something in Thorpe's theory regarding that fellow Short, after L It he has really absconded, it is an ad- on of guilt,” I remarked. Most certainly,” he replied. “It's. ® suspiclous circumstance, in any case, that he did not remain until the conclusion of the inquiry.” We pulled the chest of drawers, a beau- titul plece of old Sheraton, away from the door of the safe, and before placing the key in the lock my companion examined the exterior minutely. The key was partly rusted, and appeared as though it had not been used for many months Could it be that the assassin was in search of that key, and had been unsuce cessful 7 Heo showed me the artful manper in which it had been concealed. The small, hardy fern had been rooted up and stuck back heedlessly into its pot again. Cer- tainly no one would ever have thought to search for a safe key there. The dampness of the mould had caused the rust, hence before we could open the iron door we were compelled to oil the key with some brillian- - I saw them this tine which was discovered on the dead man's dressing table. The interior, we found, was a kind of small strong room—built of firebrick and Ilned with steel. It was filled with papers of all kinds, neatly arranged. We drew up a table, and the first packet iny friend handed out was & substantial one of five-pound notes, secured by an elastio band bemeath which was & slip on which packets of parchments, deeds, which on ex- amination we found related to his Devon. e property and his farms in Canad: cried Ambler length, tossing across to me a small packet methodically tied with pluk tape. “The old boy's love letters, by the look of them.” I undid the loop eagerly, and opened the first letter. It was in & feminine hand, and proved a curious, almost unintelligible communication. 1 glanced at the signature. My heart ceased its beatiug, sudden cry voluntarily escaped me, although next mo- ment | saw that by it I bad betrayed my- self, for Armbler Jevous sprang to my side t 1 covered the signature with my hand, grasped the packet switt (hought, snd turned upon him deflantly, without uttering & word. £To Be Conth ed.)