THE lYlYJHN.
By KOBMAH HUBST. ,
Copyright, 1899. by American Presa Asso
ciation. , , .
.. ' CHAPTER IL ;.
' DARRENT FINDS A CXEVf," . '
To say that Herbert Darrent passed a
good night would have been to have
etretched veracity to breaking point.
It was cold in that email bedroom in
the village hotel, and the 'discordant
clanging of the cracked bell of . the
chnrch clock, from quarter to quarter
and from hotu to hour irritated him in
his restlessness. His mind was far top
active to allow his eyes to be wooed by
slumber, and through the long watches
of the bitter winter's night (the few
threads of information that he had
gathered tangled themselves into twists
and knots in his brain, and the very
fact , that prima facie the solution of
the mystery seemed to be so simple only
served to worry and irritate him more.
detectives, after, all, are only human
beings, not mechanical contrivances,
and their intellects, trained though they
be to keener and clearer intuition' than
those possessed by ordinary men, do not
render them free from the worries in
separable from complicated problems of
which the solution ia obscure. .?
Darrent lay awake for hours wonder
ing and speculating. Those clews which
seemed to point at once to the culprit
often, he knew, failed utterly - upon
closer, investigation, broke off sudden
and short, and, once the thread snap
ped, one was, left absolutely without
the possibility of following the trail for
another inch and had to hark back to
the very, commencement again, only
perhaps to have- the same experience
and the same result.: , One never hears
of a detective's failures.; It is only his
victories that are noised abroad. - One
does not learn of all th$ byways and
crossroads, all the narrow lanes and
blind alleys, that his search leads him
into. It Js only , when success has
crowned his patient task that one hears
of him atalL-
I : Once when he had dozed off for a lit
tle while the dreary, monotonous recital
of the untimely death of the wretched
20 cows disturbed his brain, and he
'awoke with a shiver to realize that,
whatever the winter of 1 1881 in Nor
combe was like to have killed the score
of cows in one night, the winter of 1896
was quite as severe a one as I he ever
desired to experience. Thinking of the
:ows recalled the brief conversation he
had with the driver of ; the dogcart.
Evidently that individual did not think
very much of Josiah Marsden and,
moreover, had admitted to having
grudge against the murdered man be
cause his rent had been raised. ; Was it
possible that that man who told soglib-
y the story of a ghost was implicated
n the t murder T Perhaps. Ope never
mew. 3 But against that supposition
here was the paper that had been writ
an by the dying man, the half finished
accusation that : he had been murdered
y Astray. What a colossal idiot Dob-
on was to have . shown that paper to
istrayl And directly Astray had seen
t he fled. That certainly looked like
milt and yet might only be a sudden
pasm of fear fear that a train of cir
umstantial evidence might be gathered
ogether that would inevitably put the
ope around his neck, be he innccent
r be he guilty. '
' There were indeed many black factors
a the case that pointed to Astray. Let
im recapitulate them:
! (1) Astray was not Mardsen'g own
m; but had been adopted by him, and
ho could tell what Astray 's anteced
ats were or why Marsden : had kept
imt:H;:jr -VV; ft':;Ir
(2) Astray and old - Marsden had
arreted and separated some two years
.ck. Why? .:f;,; ; .
(3) Astray had returned, after an ab
nce of two years, on the very night of
a murder. Why T '.
(4) The unfinished note written by
3 dying man seemed 4o accuse Astray
'. Vao ranrder. . .
(5) Astray had fled. . '. '
Yea ; all these facts certainly did point
Astray JIarsden as the murderer. All
h the long winter's nip;lit the dis-
r.l?d f-imnents cf the puzzle jnm
1 then vires about in the perplexed
cf I Itrbert D.irrent until the dawn
l;e rr.-iy and chr-Tloss. '
in: 1
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rf t:: v
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wirdow aero
...re in tho ili.
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its crisp toast,, savory bacon ; and nejv
laid eggs, over, and Darrent felt another
er man, ready to commence his investi
gations, to piece together every tiny
scrap, every minute . fragment, until
the whole puzzle was complete, . the
mystery solved. Josiah Marsden avenged
and justico satisfied.
Mine host, who waited upon the
stranger from Chicago himself, was of
a communicative turn of. mind. Oh;
yes, he knew the Marsdens, father and
son at -least they called him son well
enaugh.-;: Josiah Marsden was a strange
sort of. fellow ; seemed to have no
friends and no enemies. Visitors to The
Grange were very rare indeed. Marsden
kept himself to himself and never asso
ciated with the inhabitants of Nqr
combo;, went over to Barnstaple once
or twice a year. He rarely had any let
tens.' Now and again one with a foreign
postmark, so the village postman told
him, would come, or maybe he would
have a French newspaper or a chess
magazine. Young Marsden ah, he was
always a nice, affable, young gent, he
was I Many's the bottle he'd had in the
room where they were now, and many
more bottles he hoped to open for him.
Yes, Astray Marsden staid there at the
Palace on the night of the murder, and
in the morning, after Dobson had called
and seen him, he left for Barnstaple.
1 5 'Bless your heart, air. " said mine
host as Darrent buttoned up his coat
and prepared to start for The Grange,
"there are some, people , who suspect
Astray of the murder, but they might
just as wcu suspect me, sir just as
wejl." ' '
The irritating church clock' chimed
the hour of 0 as Darrent reached the
gates of The Grange and found await
ing him, erect as a soldier on parade.
the patrolman ho had seen the previous
night. .
"Good morning, I am glad to find
you are punctual. '
"Good morning, sir."
"Any message from Mr. Dobson?"
"He hoped you would call upon him
again this morning. " ' - ' , -
'Eight. Have you the keys?"
"Yes, sir,'1 answered the policeman,
unlocking the gate as he spoke. -
.VI suppose you didn't see the ghost
who committed the murder?" Darrent
hazarded, with a smile. - ;
"Ghost 1"-laughed the young officer.
VNot much. There's no ghosts in Nor-
combe. I've 'heard the fairy, stories
about ghosts and The Grange being
haunted, but I don't believe any such
nonsense, sir," -
i"IndcedJ" - -
"No, sir, not a bit of it There was
flesh and blood on this job, sir, and it
looks like a case of revenge. " -, .
"What makes you think that?'.'
. "Well, sir, as far as we can make
out, nothing in the house has been dis
turbed and no robbery committed."
"Well, let's get inside."
. The policeman unlocked the heavy
door and pushed it open.
"jnow, go .slowly,- saia JLiarrent as
they entered, 'and tell 'me all you know
about the building. "
The door banged after them, and the
dull , echo of the sound reverberated
through the house. .
The entrance hall . gave access to
rooms on either band, and the police
man, unlocking and opening a door on
the right, stood on one aide for Darrent
to enter.
' The room," which was at the back of
the house and evid6ntly the library,
was a large and lofty apartment paneled
in dark oak, and the old fashioned fur
niture matched the ; decoration- solid
armchairs with deep seats, and sunk
backs and a massive oblong table. The
walls were lined with bookcases, but
they were evidently very rarely opened,
for Darrent ;. noticed how thickly the
ddst lay in all the crevices, where the
glass doors shut. : He walked slowly
round the room. Two sides were en
tirely; taken up by the bookshelves
while at the two others were tho fire
place and a broad window. The chim
ney piece, with its high mantel in
carved oak, had a conrlo of corv corner
seats, one on each side. The window,
which was opposite tho fireplace, com
manded a magnificent view of the dis
tant snow covered country for miles
and the windings of a river, its frozen
surface glistening in the sunlight Some
dozen skaters were gliding , over the
splendid ice, and Darrent, after watch
ing them for a moment, turned with a
sigh from the scene. I He could not yet
afford time for indulging, in an exhfla-
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'Now, then By the way, what's
your name?"
"Thompson.'; , '
"Right. I daresay you know mine
already Darrent. ' 1
!Yes, sir." . ? ,
"Is this the room where the murder
was committed?"
"Yea ; this ia where we found him,
sir, ' ' replied xnompson, indicating a'
spot on the floor between the table and
the fireplace where an ominous dark
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asked Darrent, his eye upon the floor.
"No, sir; never entered it till. the
day after the murder. We searched the
rooms, but, as you ' know, discovered
nothing." -
.'Ah 1 Who went over the house?'.'
"'Chief Dobson.? '
. "Ah, we'll go over together present
ly" Thompson. Now, tell me, is the
room exactly as it was when the crime
was discovered, eh? - Nothing has been
disturbed, nothing removed ?"
"Exactly the same. Nothing has been
taken away except a box of chessmen.
I Buppose Mr.. Dobson has mentioned
that to you already, sir?" -
"Ah, yes I They were called for yes
terday morning, I understand, t by a
man who said he was a detective from
Chicago." -
"Yes; that's what he said, sir.'
i "Did you see him?".
"No, sir. Mr. Dobson saw him. I
was on my round. " . ,
i "I- supposo you . have never seen the
particular set of chessmen ?" i
. "No sir." - -
- "Andhavo no idea what, they were
like?" . , , -
. well, sir, Jt neard Air. juooson say
that - they were Indian work in ivory,
very, finely carved with figures, .ele
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