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CHAPTER V.
·DISCLOSES A MYSTÉRY,
The man'a amazing announcement hold me speechless.
Murdered" I oried when I found tongue, ***Impossible!"
"Ah air. It's too true. He's quite dead." "But surely he has died from natural euusce -eh."
-“Come in bere * 1'en d. leading her into the dining room. Tell me all you know of the afair."
**Short discovered him just after two o'clock. Ho was then quite affil” ay may
But thers may be life," I erchimed stairs and into the room where the old man had muddenly find loving her I rushed up the chaited to me so ruerrily not many hours before. The instant my gaze fell upon him I know the truth. Cadaverio rigidity had supervened," and he had long been beyond hope of humsa aid. His furrowed face was as white as ivury, and hie lower jaw had dropped in that manner. that unmistakably betrays the presence of Death. As the man had described, the sheet was stained with blood. "But there was not much, and. I was some moments before I discovered the wound. It was just beneath the heart, cleauly-cut and about three quarters of an inch loug, eridantly luflicted by some sharp instru- want. te bad no doubt been struck in his. sleep, and with such precision that he had died without being able to raise the alarm.
The murderer, whoever he was, had carried the
No, sir. My poor master has been foully murdered."
"How do you know that?" I asked breath-weapon away. lessly. Full me all the facts."
It was by the man's agitation, hie white face, and the hurried manner in which he had evidently drossed to come in search of me, that Soothing tragic bad really occurred.
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We know nothing yet, sir." was his quick response. "I cutered, his room at two o'clock, tual, to see if he wanted anything, and saw that he was quite still, apparently asleep. The lamp was turned low, but as I looked over the be I saw a small dark patch upon the host. This I discovered to be blood, sud a mement later was horrified to discover's email wound close to the heart, and from it the blood was alwly oczing."
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We think so, air. It's awful. Terrible! I cald, utterly dumbfounded by the discovery how did you act!" the meu's amazing story. After you made
adjoining. And then we awoke Miss Mirart. "I awoke the nurse, who slept in the room The shock to her was terrible-poor young lady! When she saw the body of the poor old gentle- -mau she burst into tears, and at once sent me to you. I didn't find a cab till I'd walked almost to Hammersmith, and then I came alaight on here." 12101
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"But is there undoubtedly foul play, Short?" No doubt whatever, air, I'm nothing of a doctor, but I could sea the wound plainly-like a small clean cut just under the heart.
"No weapon about?"
"I didn't see anything, sir."
Have you called the police?"
No, sir. Misa Mivart said she would wait untit you arrived. She wants your opinion."
"And Mrs. Courteney? How does the bear the tragedy?"
le poor lady doesn't know yet." Doesn't know Haren't you told her p** "No, sir. She's not at home." "What? She hasn't returned?"
No, sir," responded the man.
That fast was, in itself, peculiar. Yet there was, I felt sure, some strong reason if young Mr. Courtenay remained the night with her
friends the Hennikers. Traius run to Kew after the theatres, but she had possibly missed the last, and had been induced by her friends to remain the night with them in town.
Yet the whole of the tragic affair was certainly very extraordinary. It was Short a duty to riso at two o'clock each morning and go to his master's room to ascertain if the invalid wanted anything Generally, however, the old gentle. man slept well once there had been no necessity for a night-nurse,
When I entered the cab, rnd the men having taken a soat beside me we had set eat on our loog night drive ont to Kow, I endeavoured to obtain more details regarding the. Courteney Menage. In su ordinary way I could scarcely have questioned a servant regarding his master and mistress, but on this drive I saw an occasion to obtain knowledge, and seized it.
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Does your mistress often remain in town with her friends at night
"Sometimes. When she goes to balls," "And is that often?" "Not very often
"And didn't the old gentleman know of his wife's absence?"
Sometimes. He uso to ask me whether Mrs. Courtenay was at home, and then I was bound to tell the truth."
By his own admission, then, this man Short had informed the invalid of his wife's frequent He was an informer, and as such most probably the enemy of both Mary and Ethel you. I knew him to be the confidential servant of the old gentleman, but bad not before suspected bit of tale-telling. Without doubt Mrs. Courtenay's recent neglect had sorely grieved the old gentleman. He deted upon hor, indulged her in every whim and fancy, and like many sn aged husband who has a smart young wife, dared not to differ with her or complain of any of her actions. There is a deal of truth in the adage: There's no foot like an old fool."
But the mystery was increasing, and as we drore together down that long interminable high road through Hunters long
wet, dark and silent at that bear, I reflected
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I turned and saw Ethelwynn,a pale was figure in ber light gown and shawl, standing on the threshold, watching me intently. She stood there white and trembling, as though fearing to enter the presence of the dead-
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I made a hasty tour of the room, examining the window and dading it fas oned. As far as could discover nothing whatever was disturbed. Then I went out to her, and closing the door Labind me, said...... We must report Short must
along to the police-station. "But is it really necessary?" she asked anxiously. Think of the awful exposure in the papers. Can't wehash it up? Do, Esiph, for my sake," the implored.
But I can't give a death certificate when p person has been murdered," 1 explained. Before burial there must. be a post-mortem and an inquest."
Then you think he has actually been murdered pr
"Of curse; without a doubt. It certainly isn't saioide."
The discovery had caused her to become rigid. almost sataque, Bqdden lerror ofteu acis
thus upes women of her highly nervous temper ment." She allowed me to lead her downstairs and back to the dining room. On the way. I met Short in the hell and ardered him to go at once to the police-station.
Now, ilear.st." I mid, taking her hand ten- derly in mine when we were alone together with the dour closed, tell me calmly sil' you know of this awful éffair."
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Was the houre still locked up?"
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But is it not strange that Mary is still absent?" I remarked, Lerplexed.
"No, not very. Sometimes she has missed her last train and has stopped the night with the enn-Pagots or the Heuakers. It is difficult, shemys to go tosupper aftert otheatre and catch the last train. It leaves Charing Cross so early:" Again, there seemed a distinct inclination on her part to shield her sister.
The whole thing is a most profound mystery, abe went on. I must have slept quite lightly, for I hesid the church clock strike each quarter until one o'clock, yet not au usual sound reached me. Neither did Nurse hear anything."
It
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Nures Kate was an excellent women, whom I had known at Guy's through several years. Both Sir Bernard and myself had every confidence in her, and she had been the invalid's sincertainty is a mystery-one which we wust leave to the police to investigate, In the meantime, however, we must send Short to Redcliffe Equare to find Mary. He must not tell bar the truth, but merely say that her bushand- is much worse. To tell her of the tragedy at once would probably prove too great & blow."
he ought never to have gone to town and left him," declared my well-beloved in sudden condemnation of her sister's conduct. "She will never forgive hersalf.”
Regrets will not bring the poor fallow to life again," I said with a sigh. We must ect--and art promptly in order to discover the identity of the murderer and the motive of the crime, That there is a motive is certain; yet it is in leed strange that anyone should actually kill a man suffering from a disease which in few months at most must prove fatal. The motive was, therefore his immediate decease; and that fast will probably greatly assist the police in their investigations.
But who could have killed him ?** "Ah! That's the mystery. If, as you believe, the house was found to be stul secured when the alarm was raised, then it would appear that someone who slept beneath this roof was guilty." "Ob Impossible!. Remember, there's only myself and the servants. You surely don't suspect either of them?""
"I have no auspicion of anyone at present." I answered. "Let the police search the pisce, and they may discover something which will furnish them with a clue.
I noticed some telegraph forms in the station. ery rack on a small writing-table, and taking one scribbled a couple of fines to Bir Bonard at Hove, interming him of the mysterious affair. This 1 folded and placed in my pocket, in readiness for the reopening of the telegraph office at eight o'clock.
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