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CHAPTER VIII.
AMBLEE JEVONS 18 INQUISITIVE. People were about me the whole time. Hence I had no opportunity of re-examining the little object I bed picked up from the spot where the murderer must have stood,
When morning dawned two detectives from ¦ Footland Yard arrived, made notes of the circumstances, examined the open window in the conservatory, made a few wise remarke, and closely scrutinised the dagger in the hall.
Ethelwyan had taken hersister to a friend in the vicinity, accompanied by the puree and the cook. The house was new in the possession of the police, and already it had become known in The CHRONICLE govern the notable events the neighbourtond that old Mr. Courtenay was of the last half century in the Far East together dead. In all probability early passers-by, with the Texts of all the most important Treaties men on their way to work, had noticed 's con- concluded with the countries of Eastern Asia, viable in uniform enter or leave, and that had the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, excited public curiosity. I hoped that Ambler Chambers of Commerce, Scales of Commissions, Javons would not delay, for I intended that be Consular and Court Foos, Hongkong Stainthould be first in the field. If ever, ho bad had Daties, Postal Guide, Bignal Codes, Chinese good mystery before him this certainly was Festivals, Tables of Money, Weights, and one, I knew how keen was bis arent for clues, Measures, and other Commercial Information, and how carefully and ingeniously be worked including
when assisting the police to get at the bottom of any rack afiftir.
He came
friend Doctor Boyd. Los just wired to me.".
Hallon, Thorpe. What's coonrred My
Marder," responded the inspector. You'll 11 to yon. Queer case-very queer onse, it find the doctor som-where about. He'll explain
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TREATIES WITH CHINA Great Britain Nanking, 1842 Tientsin,
little after vine in het haste, 18h8; Tariff Agreement and Rules, 1858; having driven from Hammersmith in a Convention, 1800, Rules for Foint Investigahan om. I was upstairs when I heard his deep tion of Customs Seizures, 1869 Cheloo, cheary voice orying to the inspector from 1876, with Additional Article; Opium Con- Bestland Yard: vention, 1888 Chungking Convention, 1991; Thibet Eikkim Convention, 1890 Burmah Convention, 1807; Kowloon Extension, 1998; Weiluiwei Convention, 1893, France Tinten, 1838, Convention, 1860
Tientsin, 1885, Conventiona, 1886, 1887, and 1895; Frot ties Trade Regulations. United States Tientsin, 1858: Additional
1888, Peking, 1680; Immigration, 1994, Germany: Tientsin, 1861 Feking, 1880
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Portugal, 1888.
Is that you, Ambler P" I called over the banisters. "Come up here."
and gripping my hand naked:
He came up breathlessly, two steps at a time,
Who's been murdered ?" Old Mr. Courtenay." "The devil!" he ejaculated.
**A most mysterious affair I went on.. down here, only to find the poor old gentleman They called me sond after three, and I came stone dand-stabbed to the heart."
"Let me see him." my friend seit in a sharp FINAL PROTOCOL made between China and intended to lose no time in sitting the matter. business-like tone, which showed that he
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He had his own peculiar methods of getting at the bottom of a mystery. He worked indepen- dently, and although be nesisted the rollde and was therefore always welcomed by them his efforts were always apart, and generally marked by analog, ingenuity and swift logical renson- Ing that were slike remarkable and marvellous, Γ gave him a brief farm ontline of the tragedy, and then, unlocking the door of the room where the dead man still lay in the same position as when discovered, allowed him in, j
The place was in darkness, an I draw up the light of the wintry morning. Venetion binds, letting in the grey depressing
Ha advanced to the bed, stood in the exact spot where I had stood, and where without doubt the murderer had stood, and folding bis arina gazed straight and long upon the dead men's features.
Then he gave vent to a kind of dissatisfied grant, and turned down the coverlet in order to examine the wound, while I stood by his side" in silence..
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stories always at his command: 8 tos. 7... Ita appearance presenteile nothing extrak Himen he used to entertain us for hours together, ordinary, for it was mere v soft plure of relating details of mysteries upon which he bad ervan culotzed chenille about balf-an-nch long, at one time suether been engaged. Women But the sight of lying in
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we always font of mystoria, and we often had both of them breathless by his vient narratives. Thorpe, the detective from Sectland Terit, big, sunlily-built, middle-aged man, whoup hair was tinged with grey, and whose round, rosy face made him appear the picture of good health, joined nan moment later. To a low, mysterione tone he explained to my friend the circumstance of. Short having admitted passion of the knife hanging in the hall.
Is it Amber Jevens at once scented a clse." I never liked that fellow he exclaimed, turning to me. My impression has always bean, that he was a sneak, and told old Courtenay overvibing that went on, either in drawing-room or kitchen,”
Thorpe, continuing, explained how the bank door had been found unfastened, and how Short had admitted unfastening it in order to go forth to seek the assassin.
A ridiculous story-atlerly absurd!" da. clured Jerons. A man doesn't rush out to shed blood for blood like that!"
my mind appentances are entirely against this Of course not," agreed the detective. "To faslow, Yet, we have one fact to bear in mind. namely, that being sent to town twice he was afforded every opportunity for escape."
"He was artful." I
**He knew that his infest plan was to remain and face it.
remerket.
If, as seems very probable, the crime was planned, it was certainly carried out at a most propitious moment."
It portainly was," observed my friend carefully scrutinising the knife, which Thorpe Lad brought to him. "This," he said, "mast be examined microscopically. You can do that, Boyd, It will be asy to see if there are any traces of blood, upon it. To all appearances it has boon recently clease I and ofled."
Short admits cleaning it, but he say be did so three days ago," I exclaimed,
He gave vent to a low grunt, from which I knew that the explanation was unsatisfactory, and replaced the knife in its faded velvet shenta.
Save for the man upori whom suspicion had thus fallen. the servants had all gone to the honse where their mistress was lodged, after being cautioned by the polics to say nothing of the matter, and to keep their mouths closed to d the reporters who would no doubt very soon be awarming in the district eager for every sorap of information. Their evidence would be required at the inquest, and the police forbade them, until then, to make any ceniment, affair. The tongues of domestics way quickly |ör to give any explanation of the mysterious
and wildly in such cases, and have many times been the means of defeating the ends of justies by giving away important clues to the Press.
Ambler Jevous, however, was a practised hand at mysteries. He sat down in thelibrary, and with his crabbed handwriting covered two sheets of paper with notes upon the case. E watched as his pencil went swiftly to work, sal when i had finished 1 saw him ouderlins certain words he bad written..
Thorpe appears to suspect that fellow Bhort," he remarked, when I met him again in the library a quarter of an hour later. "I've just been chatting with him, and to me his demeanour is not that of a guilty man. Ho's netually heon upstairs with the coroner's officer in the dead man's room.“ „A murderer generally excuses himself from entering the prewe of his victim,"
Well I exclaimed, after a panes, "you know the whole circumstances now. Can you see any clue which may throw light on the affair?**
He slowly twisted his moustache again; then twisted his plain gold ring slowly round the little finger of the left hand--n hinbit of his when perplexed.
Na, Ralph, old chap; can't say I do,” he answered. There's an unfathomable mystery somewhere, but in what direction I'm utterly at
loss to distinguish." slowly, his dark eyes, searching everywhere! But do you think that the assassin is a He did not open his lips in the presence of member of the household? That seems to me the dead. He only examined verything, our first point to clear up.' swiftly and yet carefully, opening the door slowly and closing it just as slowly, in order to see whether it creaked or not.
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“That's just where we'ra perplexed. Thorpe suspects Short; but the police, so often rush to conclusions on a single surpicion. Before con- It oresked when closed very slowly. The domuing him it is necessary to watch him creaking was evidently what the under-house- narrowly and note his demeanour and his move-. maid had heard and believed to be the creaking ments. If he is guilty he'll betray himsel of boots. The murderer finding that it creaked kooner or later. Thorpe was foolish to tak a series of creaka, which to the girl had sounded slight have seen him and had his suspicious, in the silence of the night like those of new abused thereby. That's the worst of porica boots.
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When he had concluded bis examination of the room and re-covered the dead face with the sheet, we emerged into the corridor. Then I told him of the servant's s'atement,
"Bouts!" be echoed in a tone of impatience, Would a murderer, wear eresking boots? It but when closed quietly it creaks. was the door, of course. It opera poitolosely, however, that he should have risked the Corions, creaking and the awakening of the household motive in doing so." in order to close it. He had some strong
all method-method-method. Everything must be done by rule. They appear to overlook the fact that s window in the conservatory was undoubtedly left open," he added.
Well?" I asked, noticing that he was gazing nt me strangely, fall in the fas
"Well, has it not pernered to you that that window might have been purposely left opau?”
"You mean that the assassin entered sud left by that window?"
have been connived by one of the household, if I mean to suggest that the morder might the men wo suspect were not the actual assessin himself."
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The theory was a curious one, but I saw that He evidently had a motive in the crime." I there were considerable greands for it. As in New remarked. "If we could only discover it, many sarburban houses, the conservatory joined we might perhaps fiz upon the assassin.” the drawing room, so unlocked glass door being "Yes," he exclaimed thoughtfully. But to between them. The window that had been left tell you theirath, Ralph, old chap, the fact which unfastened was situated at the further end, and is puzzling me most of all at this moment is being low down was in such a position that any that extraordinary foreboding of evil which intruder might easily have ent red and left. yon conferred to me the day before yesterday. Therefore the suggestion appeared a sedad uno You had your suspicions aroused, somehow, more especially se because the cook bad most Cadgel your brains, and think what induced solemnly Jeclared that abs bad fastened it that very curious presage of evil,"
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In that case one must have crept down on nothing. Only yesterday afternoon, when and unfastened it after the woman had retired Sir Bernard incidentally mentioned old Mr. and done so with the object of
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No. 12 DES VEUX ROAD WEST. Hongkong 615 MUME, KAME
Guest Barley Malt only, and warranted not to contain Chemicals in any form.
The Beer is sterilised after being bottled, and full mature age insures its fine condition in ap dligate Beautifully bright, sedustively spac ling, and perfectly pure.
F BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Hongkong 5th July