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The skaters passed, flying like the wind, along the stretch of perfect ice. No one was in sight, either to the right or the left, as, pushing aside the bushes, Herbert Darrent and his companion crept on their hands and knees from the narrow causeway out on to the frozen river, and the way of the escape of the murderer of Josiah Marsden was solved. CHAPTER m. ON THH TRACK, Although the passage or tunnel by which the murderer had in all proba bility escaped from The Grange hud now been discovered, Darrent was obliged to own to himself as he stood upon the frozen river that he waB real ly no nearer learning the truth or solv ing the mystery. What had proved a mysterious, su pernatural factor in the crime in the eyes of the unsophisticated inhabitants of Norcombe and had set their imagi nations, such as they were, to work on the wild ideas of haunted houses and ghostly assassins had, after all, turned out to be nothing. Just what he had expected would be the explanation from the moment the Btory was related to him by the driver of the dogcart had proved to be correct —footsteps leading into the house and no return—so that it seemed to Darrent there was but one solution or rather two—either the murderer was still in the building, which was far from probable, or had escaped by a secret passage, and the latter had proved to be the case. And yet, after ail, he mused, as he made his way across the grounds back to tho front of the house, it had proved his theory that the murderer of old Marsden was well acquainted with The Grange. Who should know the ins and outs of the premises better than the dead man's son or ward, whichever he Slowly and painfully they groped along In the darkness. was, the one whose name the dying man had endeavored to write—Astray Marsden Again all the circumstances against Astray forced themselves upon his mind. What if it should prove to be no mystery at all Young Marsden had returned, gone perhaps straight to The Grange, quarreled openly with the old man and in a paroxysm of rage struck the blow which killed him. Darrent took the paper from his pocket again and closely scrutinized it "I am dying, murdered by Astra"— Astray had gone. Perhaps for fear of blackmail, perhaps because he was gnilty, but, whatever the reason, Dar rent decided he must be stopped, and, scribbling a few lines upon a form, he dispatched Thompson to the telegraph office, and again enterod the library. 60 far he had acted simply as a man of caution, but without conviction. He Intended to stop Astray's flight not be cause he was assured of his guilt, but because he might be gnilty. As a detective who had earned fame he suspected everybody but condemned none until link by link ho had forged the chain that was unbreakable. As it was, so many incidents seemed to point to Astray, and yet one thing destroyed the whole theory—the stolen chessmen. If he could trace them, he felt he would be a step nearer discovering the murderer and with them the motive. That was the great difficulty in this case, the apparent absence of motive. He was glad to be alone while from a few fragments he endeavored to make out what kind of man the murderer was and to fix in his mind the style of individual he had to look for. Did the murder arise out of a sudden quarrel, or was it premeditated and ac- 'itillP "Bam you discovered anything, sirt" •complished in a few moments—the en trance, the murder and then flight! He began by supposing that it was rthe outcome of a quurrel that the two men had been in conversation before the fatal blow was struck. The old man probably sat in his chair on the right hand side of the tire. Dar lent took that chuir himself, and the •visitor—where? Ho had the assurance •of the officer thut nothing had been moved. There was no chair convenient ly placed for a visitor. It might have lieen moved, or the stranger might have •stood during the interview. That being «o, he would have stood opposite Mars •den, so Darrent rose and took the placo of the supposed visitor and, as human nature is so prone to loll, felt an incli nation to rest his arm npon the high mantelshelf. He smiled a quiet smile of self satis faction as he glanced at the shelf and noticed the impression left in the dust where an arm had recently rested. It was a high shelf, too, and the impres sion in the dust was that of an elbow only. The man had stood with his chin In hiB hand and his elbow on the shelf. Darrent was a well proportioned man and tried the position. It was not one «t oaafort For eat* h* would have whple uttjgg IqgNt A Detective Story »fi Of Chicago Suburb. The Murder it The Grange and How Its Mystery Was Solved by Darrent, the Amer ican Lecoq. BY NORMAN HURST. Copyright, 1899, by the American Press Association. the shelf and rested his shoulder against it. The wiiu bad stood there was taller tlmn he and clu upon if not over si* feet in height. So far, he thought, so good. The search was narrowing. Surely to trace a man of six feet in that little town would not be difficult. He wondered liow tall young Marsden was then, Betting to work again, drop ped on liin knees and cjirefally examined the fireplace. No papers lind boen burned. Only the dead uslios remained on the hearth and something he had ulmost overlooked, but now caught up with an excited ex clamation and carried to the window— a plug of half burned tobacco that had been cut out of a pipe, because it had been rammed in too tightly, and dis carded, dug out with the blade of a knife, it was obvious, for a dainty shred of meerschaum adhered to the side. Another step—another clew I The murderer was not a tramp who had be guiled the old man to let him stay the night. Tramps were not so wasteful of their tobacco and did not smoke meer schaums. Six feet high—smoked a meerschaum pipe! Darrent folt he was moving. A quarter of an hour afterward, when Policeman Thompson returned to Tho Grange, he found Herbert Darrent sitting in the library writing at top most speed in his notebook, with Darrent quietly nodded his head and closed the book. "Listen to me," he said, "and tell me if you know any one who answers to this description: Appearance, very tall—say a good six feet—and broad in proportion, bronzed and bearded, strong as an ox temper very passionate dress of homespun cloth soft hat smokes a meerschaum pipe lately re turned from somewhere abroad, prob ably South Africa." Thompson, with his eyes wide open, gazed in astonishment at the detective and shifted uneasily from foot to foot. "He wears a heavy gold signet ring on the little finger of the left hand and has recently cut the forefinger of the right. Do you know him?" "No, indeed, sir I You've made a mistake. He wouldn't do it. He could not." "Ah! Then my description fits some one I" "It is Astray Marsden to the life, air, but he didn't commit the murder." "That is to be proved. He was at this house on the night of the murder. You met him on that night." "I, sir?" "Yes, you, Thompson. You've got to do your duty, whether it is palatable to you or not. Astray Marsden left the town nearly two years ago, came back here the night of the murder and left next morning. If you did not meet him that night, you would not know he an swered to my description. A man does not look the same and certainly doe* not dress the same after an absence abroad of two years. Where did yon meet him?" flsgsss "Near the Palace hoteL f?rfSI "What ttnot" "A littaa after 2 o'clock in the morn ing." "Was it snowing?" Spsi "No, sir it had stopped." fefcs "What did ho say Did he seem ex cited?" "He did seem rather rattled. He said that he'd come back to try and be friends with old Marsden, but no one conld be, and he was off again." "Very well then one thing is cer tain, and that is that Astray Marsden was in this room on the night of the murder. It will rest for him to dear himself or for the law to bring the charge home to him. Marsden himself opened the door, and the two men en terod this room. Marsden sat in his chair there, the chessboard was on that small table beside him, and he was un doubtedly working out a problem when he was interrupted. It needs only a glance at the bookcase to show his hob by. Old Mardsen sat there, the board beside him. The young man stood here" —Darrent took up his position by the fender again—"his elbow npon the mantelpiece—so. You can see where the elbow rested. He must be a tall man who stands so, Thompson. That gave me an idea as to his height this thread of wool, the texture of his olothes. He smoked as he talked— smoked a coarse cut ship's tobacco, not the sort that a man of hiB breeding would smoko unless he had been down in the world, knocking about from one conntry to another, and therefore bronzed, and, as a man does not take particular care of his appearance at Buch times and certainly does not give ten minutes every day to shaving, bearded. You see, Thompson, things are very clear when we look carefully." "Yes, sir," the officer meohanically replied, gazing at Darrent, bewildered. "The young man stood here, and they talked. Perhaps young Marsden wanted money—they generally do—and the old man refused, taunted him. Sou know old men can taunt, Thompson. The words got higher and higher, the yonng man's temper hotter and hotter, and then he lannched into a furious out burst, emphasizing each point by bring ing his fist down npon the oak mantel shelf. Three times ho did that, Thomp son. You see three marks made by the concussion as his ring strnob the wood. The strength in that blow would kill a man, so be careful if you ever have to deal with young Marsden. The old man was frightened and faint and over turned the board with the pieces npon it as he started to hiB feet, and Astray gave him some brandy in that little glass from the decanter on the side board. Ashe handed it to him he placed his hand upon the mantelshelf, this time the right hand. Yon see by the impression the forefinger was bound up. Dust is a very valuable thing, Thomp son don't forget that. Then yonng Marsden collected the ohessmen and placed them in the box again." "The old man might have done that," Thompson exclaimed, anxions to test the skill with which the pazzle was be ing put together. "The young man did it, Thompson. One had rolled under the sideboard. Old Marsden would never have shut up the box and put it away with one miss ing. The chessmen are put away, the old man besom** mare and thw titUwuaoU. to offer young llarsden a" cigar. You see one has boon taken from this box, a new box, which young Marsden opened with hi« clasp knife—you know the ugly kind of knife, Thompson. Tlio murder was committed with the same weapon. Ho opens the box, takes out a cigar and lights it, then puts the knife here by his side and sits on the edge of the table. "Again they talk, again the old man taunts, and again the young man loses his temper and crashes his hand down upon the table. His fingers touch that awful knife, and iu a second it is over. For a luon ent ho is paralyzed with fear and, rushing to the sideboard, pours out a glass of the brandy, for himself this time, spilling it upon the wood work and the carpet, and then stands and hesitates. Ho dare not loave by the front door in case he is seen. Suddenly he remembers the passage through the rockery on to tho rivor. No doubt the water at the bottom of the tunnel would be frozen, and he could escape that way. With one glance over his shoulder he leaves the library, rushes across the hall through the opposite room and the conservatory, then out into the grounds along the covered walk and by the tun nel on to the frozen river. "Old Marsden, kio for dead, comes slowly back to semiconsciousness. Ho is dying, and ho knows it, but ho swears the guilty shall not cscape, and oven with his failing strength he will de nounce the murderer.'' Darrent finished his dramatic word picture and then, taking the slip of pa per from his pocket, held it before the face of his comrade. "I am dying, murdered by Astray,'* gasped Thompson. "And Astray has skipped," Darrent interrupted. Thompson could only stolidly nod in acquiescence. Loath as he was to be lieve that Astray Marsden, whom he remembered in years back always had a kindly word for every one, was a mur derer, he had been led away by Dar rent's dramatic recital, and the paper written by the dying man seemed to clinch the rnattor. Yes, thero could be no question about it now. Astray must have done it. "It looks rather black against young Marsden," he said, at last finding his tongue. "You suspect himf" a fragment of thread, a plug of tobacco, a scrap of ivory, a carved ivory chess man and a few matches spread out on a sheet of paper before him. "Have you discovered anything, sir he ventured to ask as Darrent continued to fill sheet after sheet as if unaware of his presence. Thompson nodded moodily. "Well, look here, Thompson," sud denly snapped Darrent. "Don't you be in such a confounded hurry to jump at conclusions. Now, if we find presently that Astray Marsden can prove an ab solute alibi, what becomes of these de ductions, eh? Astray Marsden is not tho only man in the world who stands six feet high, wears a rough homespun suit, carries a Norwegian knife and likos to have his signet ring on the lit tle finger of his left hand." "But the paper?" "Well, what of that? 'I am dying, murdered by Astra'— The ing, and you jump to the conclusion it must be Astray. Now, suppose, Thomp son, that the mystery has a deeper root that it concerns Astray all the same, but not as a murderer. Suppose old Marsden intended, for example, to write 'murdered by Astray's brother'or any other relative, and died before he could write the last word. What becomes of your evidence then?" And, having calmly and deliberately demolished the structure that he had so carefully and elaborately constructed, Darrent took a cigarette from his case and, lighting it, strolled over to the window. "I told you," He said between the whiffs, "that the man stood with his elbow on the mantelshelf. Well, so be did. That's obvious. And then I showed you three dents that looked compara tively fresh, and I said that they had been made by the ring on the little finger of the man's hand. Well, perhaps they were, and perhaps they were done weeks ago by old Marsden himself. Perhaps the man's elbow never rested on the shelf, but old Marsden had put something there and afterward removed it. I shouldn't like to swear to any oi it. I've put a lot of little things togeth er, but they may be all wrong, every one of them. What do you think, eh?" "I think thoy all fit too well." "They fit well enough, but they prove nothing, absolutely nothing. To be a successful detective one must bo ready not only to forge chains, but to set to work directly afterward and break them, if they can be broken, test every link and if there's a flaw find it. One must not persuade himself, because a few circumstances fit, that that, and that only, must be the truth. Why, 1 have made many as good a chain of cir cumstantial evidence before, and every link has been faulty, the whole thing worse than worthless." "But, Darrent, the papers say that you are"— "The American Lecoq, precisely, but I am very much afraid that their knowledge of M. Lecoq has only been derived from French sensational novels, according to which he never erred, was absolutely infallible. I thiuk M. Lecoq himself would tell a very different story. We have followed one set of circum stances closely and—well, with the re sult that it brands Astray Marsden ae the murderer. Very well now we'll Darrent took a cigarette from his case. forget all about that and go on an en tirely different track. What is the mys tery connected with the set of Indian chessmen? Let us look at this question a little. "(1) Why have they been stolen, and by whom "(2) If Astray murdered old Marsden to obtain any secret connected with the chessmen, why did he leave them be hind? "(3) If Astray murdered old Marsden and only discovered afterward the hid den value of the chessmen, where is the motive of the murder "(4) If Astray did not commit the murder, who did? "Once find the secret of the chess men, and you'll find the murderer. Now, what have we got as our clew— the one piece here, a pawn, missing from the sot (there cannot be many sets like this one, Thompson), and a chip from another piece? Still, wo cun not go into everybody's house and ex amine curiosities and bric-a-brac to dis cover if they have the vet we are in search ot. Now, clew the second is more valuable, and that is the knife. You see it is of JIU ordinary Norwegian pattern, with a spring blade, but the letler 'A' is bivimk'd into the yellow wood of tho h.iiitilt'. Find to whom it belongs-—if 'A' means Astray, if young Marsden over owned this knife—and wo shall he nearer the hand that struck the blow. Now, then, Thompson, who do you think committed the murder?" "Well, I don't know, sir. The way) yon put it, it might be any ono." I "So it might," Darrent replied. "It might be any one, aud perhaps we haven't got within a thousand miles ot tho right one yet. 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I also have a choice selection of fabric that I am mak ing up at a reasonable price and I would like to take your order at onco. MY high grade custom work speaks for itself. You get the latest style and fit and best ot workmanship at A. L. Severtson, the A. L. Severtson, Tailor It's a store for everybody* It's a a placo whore tho poor man's dollat will buy the biggest one hundred cent's worth ho ever saw and where the stylish man's money will pur chase the latest styles. Needn't take our word for it. Look around and con vince yourself. New Fall Hats are here in the greatest variety. A Stout. Postofflce Bl'k., Franklin St, Largest stock of clothing be tween Dubuque and Waterloo