Show Tenth The Green e b Solutions SO I U t Ions of 0 f Radford R a dl or d on Narratives Eminent cial iD Edited Police Expert Epert b by by as Y Officers to HEADON Mr bir Dealings Radford of f the HILL with Provin Provincial Shone o the e fit jt must not be taken as M a reflecT T r on on the police that the constable of ot that charming channing coun tV fY applied to Scotland Yard for tor as u assistance uc stance c In unraveling the Chetwynd cose The gallant gentleman foresaw from the tha first that complications touching certain local personages and interests might arise which would stand a better chance of ot satisfactory treatment by a man who could ap approach approach roach them from a detached point of ot Jew few And it is but fair to place it on record that from tram start to finish Superintendent Su Superintendent Williams and his merry merrymen merrymen men gave me their cordial cooperation cooperation tion without a trace of at professional prof Jealousy Williams was on the platform of or Honiford station when my train steamed in tn The only thing about him that I had cause to quarrel with was Us Lis voice which might very well Have nave brought Colonel Chetwynd back to life e Inspector Peters from Scotland Yard he shouted as 09 I descended from my compartment thereby disclosing my business to all and sundry That was the limit of his indiscretion and I will pay him the compliment of ot saying that the way he put the case rase before me was a master masterpiece masterpiece masterpiece piece of lucidity This was the story n he unfolded as we drove through a n network of country lanes to the scene of cf my labors On the previous day Colonel Chet Chetwynd Chetwynd Chetwynd a local magnate and Justice of the peace had arrived at the club clubhouse clubhouse clubhouse house of the East Golf club shortly after midday ay Intending to lunch by appointment with his friend General Appleyard with whom he lie had arranged to play a match dur during during ing the afternoon But Appleyard for domestic reasons since satisfactorily explained had failed to put in an ap appearance appearance appearance arid the colonel having eaten his lunch in high dudgeon had expressed to other members present his intention of going around the links alone for a solitary practice By tho the way you understand the game the Interjected half hall turning to me from his seat in fn inthe Inthe the dogcart I was compelled to plead guilty to the Indictment Ah oh well he sighed as though con condoning condoning condoning a fault there much about play in it It but you will understand the few necessary technical terms I had to learn em myself In a hurry yes yesterday yesterday yesterday He resumed his story from the mouths of witnesses who had de described described scribed to him how Colonel Chetwynd had stumped out of the clubhouse and how on being approached by Raffles Rattles the grownup caddie whom he general generally ly employed l he had dismissed the th man manin an anIn in highly peppered language stating that he would carry what few tew clubs club he needed himself He had then start started started started ed out alone the first of ot the members to leave the building after atter lunch Following him at a brief Interval the Wilson Nilson Nell Neil and Everard Nell Neil father and son eon had bad gone out for fora a game the last named being the su superintendent superIntendent superintendent Informed me In a whis whisper whisper whisper per the unauthorized lover of Miss Mona Chetwynd the colonels only daughter The two gentlemen had also been unattended by caddies Last Lastly Lastly Lastly ly after a further Interval there had started out a foursome of lady mem members members members bers one of whom was Mona Chet Chetwynd Chetwynd Chetwynd wyndI I At this point In Williams disclosures J t we emerged from a steep up climb A Ing Ig road Into a glorious expanse of ot heather clad moorland with a peep of the sea beyond A little ahead of ot us was a modern red brick building flanked by a tall flag post with its gaudy bunting at half halt mast This was evidently the headquarters of oft the t e East Golf Golt club Beyond n a V hint of ot emerald here and there in inthe Inthe Inthe the nearer and farther distances showed the greens and trees of the renowned course But the local man was nearing the end of his story stor On approaching the tenth green greenwhich greenwhich which was hidden from the tee by rising ground and an artificial bunk bunker er the ladles were horrified to find Colonel Chetwynd lying dead on the green He had been the tho victim of ferocious violence his head having been battered almost out of ot recognition recognition recognition tion The two Neils Nells visible some dis distance distance distance tance ahead must mut have passed the green only a few minutes before but recalled by the shrieks of the ladies expressed horror and surprise avow avowing avowIng avowIng ing that the colonels body had not been there when they had been put putting putting putting ting on the green so recently They had believed him either to be bo a R long longway longway way wa ahead hidden by the undulations of the course or to have abandoned his lis Js practice and an am gone home The superintendent said not a word to Influence my m suspicions but I saw sawan sawan an ugly time coming for the two Neils Nells if It the murder was never brought home to anyone anyo le If It nothing worse hap happened happened happened fingers would be pointed and heads wagged at them for as I soon learned In the village relations had been so eo strained between the elder elderN N Nell Neil ll and the colonel that Hint the latter had forbidden his daughter to have anything to do with Everard Neal Well Nell that Is le all said Williams as ashe ashe ashe he got down from the trap at the door Of the clubhouse and gave the reins to the constable who had accompanied us Expect that therell theren be another Richmond in the field unless you make an arrest very shortly Mr Chetwynd tho the colonels brother and ex executor has sworn to call In Radford Shone if the police cant do the trick Now would you ou wish to see the club steward first or visit the ground Come along then Ill show you the links I spent three days das in the village pushing my inquiries by methods which by the readers of ot detective fic fiction fiction tion would be bo regarded as common commonplace commonplace commonplace place and dreary and which shall therefore be omitted here Though Thought I had formed certain theories I had not seen my way clear to an arrest and when on the fourth day I started out after an early breakfast to pay yet lne more visit to the scene of the crime I was beginning to wonder how soon Boon I should have tho the pleasure of eung Radford Shone I had had oc ocy ocIon y F aslon Ion to call on John Chetwynd who Jad ad assumed the tho reins of government Yu t the Grange Granse and he had confirmed my friend Williams statement as to his intention to Invoke aid In Inthe Inthe inthe the event of ot my efforts not being speedily successful John Chetwynd a n plethoric little merchant from Mincing Lane must have been an exact replica of ot his irascible brother He spouted fury on the dilatoriness of or the police aria arl laughed Scotland Yard to scorn I lad had heard the same tort Fort of ot thing before but of course courser I r listened with all due deference def rence ex expressing Dressing pressing perfect willingness to s orate with Radford Shone if he came down In this I was quite sincere for forI I had never yet met the great criminal crim criminal crImInal inal expert whose marvelous powers of ot deduction had made him almost a cult among moneyed people with secrets secrete to find out In six eix months he had become tho the talk of the town as the result of at athis his recovery of ot the duchess of ot Wil fords Jewels a case which was hushed up before it reached the courts and with which I myself had no official connection My way from my lodgings to the scene of the colonels death led me along the switchback crest clest of the breezy down doh amid the succession of tees bunkers and greens that formed the East golf golt course I had left the tenth tee behind and was climbing the th slope toward the bunker a turf bank with gaps saps for tor the pas passage passage sage e of ot the players when I heard voices beyo d and sure enough on through one of the gaps I ILaw It Law t aty a party of three gentlemen on the green below at the spot which during the past three days had been the focus of ot mv my work The short stubby one in breeches and gaiters I recognized as Mr John Chetwynd the murdered mans broth brother er He was standing aloof aloot from the theother theother theother other two his figure thrown into re lief by a somber larch trove grove to the right of the green The next one to fill the eye was a tall man in city clothes who was very slowly crawling across the green like a gigantic earthworm taking an airing The third was a stout young man also wearing the silk hat and velvet col collared collared collared lared overcoat of ot the town dweller who with clasped hands seemed to be ecstatically following the serpentine 0 of at the prone figure I went down to them over the ap approach approach approach tricky by reason of the stunt stunted ed heather Ah here is 19 Inspector Peters cried Mr Chetwynd Now you will But the man on his stomach twisted round and shook his head reprovingly while Sie f e fat gentleman In his wake held up a warning finger So I halted In my tracks till un some three minutes later Mr Radford Shone saw fit to torise torise torise rise to his feet pocketing the lens with which he ho had been examining the ground Mr Chetwynd nd Introduced us formally also tho tiro other oth r man whose name he ho gave gaye as Mr Samuel Martin arUn There was an ingenuous honesty and earnestness about Mr Martin which endeared him to me thera there and then That by the way for Mr r Radford Shone claiMed my chief attention Running the measure of my eye over his lean face I was at once struck by the tho singular mobility of or his protuberant ant eyes I had expected something of what fictionists call latent fire In Inthe Inthe inthe the eyes of ot the celebrated expert which would probably be deep set In cavernous sockets but Mr orbs were like large glass marbles never still for a moment rolline and goggling goggling after the fashion of ot transparency trans transparency advertisements on the un underground underground underground railway His skin was sal sallow sallow sallow low and none too healthy looking and andI I wondered how those spindly arms and legs would serve him in a rough with an ugly customer But after atter all aU it was his Ills brain that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was most concerned with and he was not long In giving me a sample of Its quality Well YeU Inspector he began in a high pitched key after he had extended a athin athin thin nervous hand for me to shake still sUll groping In the dar dark eh Still groping I assented with a laugh But you have had better luck luckI I trust Mr Ir Shone Do you hear that Martin he said turning on his stout friend so suddenly as to make him Jump Can you be bp surprised at the failures of the oW official official cial executive when one of ot their prin principal principal cipal men talks about luck In connection connection connection tion with a simple case like Uke this Very Veo crass I heard Mr lIr Martin murmur In response He plainly did dill not Intend the remark to reach my ears but Shone gave him away ruth ruthlessly ruthlessly ruthlessly lessly by repeating loudly Crass in indeed Indeed Indeed deed You are merciful In your y Ur phrases Martin and Just a little silly I should have Issued quite another word if I had wanted to be rude hon honestly estly rude to Inspector Peters And he his crestfallen en follower In order to pulverize me still further Luck Mr r Peters he said does not belong to the equipment of ot the skilled Investigator and I use the tho word skilled as distinct from the term experienced A man may have all the experience In n the world and yet ret be de devoid devoid devoid void Of skill Now I will give you Jou a alesson alesson alesson lesson In what I mean Do you see those two mole hills one on either side of ot the green Yes I answered curtly for I was beginning to be nettled by his discourteous discourteous discourteous assumption of ot superiority Good he proceeded Exactly be between between between tween those two mole hills at a spot In the middle of ot the green I hope to find confirmation of the only logical explanation of Colonel Chetwynds death Martin The Tho stout young Joung man who ho had been drinking in his words stepped for forward forward forward ward What is It Shone he asked ner nervously nervously This Is one of ot the rare occasions when brute strength may come to the aid the supplementary aid of the art artof artor artof of or subtle deduction Down on your hands and knees my friend and tear up the turf along the line I shall shan Indi Indicate cate here and here and here He pointed with his skinny forefinger forefinger forefinger ger to the ground and Mr Samuel Martin larUn panting with responsibility fell upon his allotted task Mr John Chetwynd Ch who had not ceased to glare balefully at me drew nearer and 1 I myself Impeded by a genuine curios curiosity curiosIty curiosity ity followed suit Mr Radford detective methods were certainly im impressive Impressive to my workaday mind and there thero was no reason why they should not be brilliant In other words they might ml ht arrive by a short cut at the re result result result sult for which I had been striving in my plodding way through three days and a n half Martin grubbed and tore at the turf his cheeks shaking with excitement ex excitement excitement and then suddenly Radford Shone bade him pause pushing him unceremoniously aside and flinging himself down at the spot where the last sod in the mole track had been turned For a long time he remained flat on the tho ground examining the un uncovered uncovered uncovered covered run with his lens Then he rose with an m air of ot assured triumph tho the tails lairs of his frock coat fluttering In Inthe Inthe Inthe the breeze from the sea Martin he said his thin lips Ups curl curling curlIng curling ing In a satisfied smile you remember my monograph on the tho habits and customs cus customs customs toms of the mole the talpa of the ancients Oh yes Jes I read it splendid Mr Ir Martin replied picking the earth from his finger r nails You proved roved I that there I really forget what you your r S SV 1 Wn 1 i V r i in n li Yr dr t r rc l 1 tr f L r n i Fr s rf r i l r 7 t tr 1 r ty att 4 7 f 1 fl sw p V t 1 1 If y E Et r 1 r a Jr s F s r 1 rr 2 i f fi r t via rr i r 1 i i ic c r r t r ra A I a r r K r t fr f i r r A Ar c r n 4 i if f r a Q f sr y r i f 7 J r 1 k o Y L t r rT 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green has furnished a |