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Show THE PAGE TWO y il4j-s-F,etche,,- M WHAT WENT BEFORE liervyn Holt la encased by a man calling himself MasaroB a a traveling companion. After a boit tour they put up at Wood cock Inn, on Marrasdale moor.e Mra. Elphln-tonThey and Sheila Merchlaon. Inform Holt that tbey arc hie wife and daughter and that lila real name le Merchlaon. That rilgtal Masaroft falla to return to the Inn. Holt meeta Sheila and telle her of MasarofTs disappear, a nee. They go to her coualn'a (Verner Courthope) ehootlng box. hoping to hear word of Masaroft. They meet Mr. Armlntrade and Police Doctor Eccleshara. Mannera and reporter. Bow nee, question Holt. Masaroff'a la found. Crole, murdered body Masaroff'a lawyer, and Maythorne, private detective, arrive. Valuable diamonds that Masarnff usually carried are missing. A gun, atolen from Mum rave, la found at the scene of the murder. meeL-eaeuall- Ma-aar- Ber-rea- nt CHAPTER III Continued "There now, master I remarked old woman, glancing reprovingly at the old man. "You see now ! this gentleman'e only asking his way. The path, sir? It leads across the moor to High Cap lodge, elr; Mr. Conrthope'g place." "Then It makes a short cut to where, now?" asked Maythorne. "Well, sir. It's a short cut from Mr. Courthope'a to Blrnslde, and to the Woodcock," replied the old woman. "But It's little used, sir It's little better than a sheep track." "And we didn't see nobody along It that night, neither one way nor t'other," growled the old man. "Don't know nothing nln't got nothing to tell nothing 1" We backed out, closed the door, and went away. Maythorne smiled Inscrutably. "All the same, Mazaroff followed this path," be said. "Why? Did he want to go to High Cap lodge? Mr. Courthope's place? Or had lie been there and was coming away from it? Who knows? How ever, I want to go up to the top of those rocks." He turned off the path, and began to make his way to the bead of the ravine through the scrub and undergrowth. Crole and I followed. We came out on a sort of plateau, overlooking the black depths In which Mazaroffs body had been found. Ad(I there, a solitary figure, stood another old man, older, It seemed, than the crusty and ancient fellow we had Just left ; grayer, more gnarled and wrinkled, but erect and alert, and evidently quick of hearing as a boy, for at the first sonnd of our approach he turned sharply npon us. "The place already attracts the curious," he observed, the and went off. May thorn watched hi in for a minute or so; then glanced at the policeman. "Who la thol old gentleman?" he asked. Thut'a Mr. Haaaeiulean of Blrn aide house, air," replied the policeman. Maythorne drew Crole' attention and uilne lo a mime and address let Into the engraved on a plnieWooth-otInn. stuck J. Musirrave. Marrasdale. "Tide la the landlords missing property, sure enough," be remarked. We loft ttetver'a den. and went back across the moor. MHythorne, us soon as we reached the Wood cock, aought out Musgrav and told him of the discovery ot hi missing gun. He hurried over his lunch, and as noon na I had on (shed mine, addressed me. "The police are sure to come that along here after the finding of gun," be remarked. "And I wantI to be beforelinnd with them. want to examine Mazaroffs belong- ings." "Just ao!" murmured Crole. "ThHt, of course, must be done." We went up to the dead man's room. Maythorne did the searching while Crole and I looked on. In the wnlstcout pockets of a well worn tweed suit Maythorne found a number of loose diamonds, large and small. "What did I tell you?" exclaimed Crole as the diamonds came to "He did carry diamonds, light. loose, on him? Inok at those, now must be a dozen or so stones there, loose In his pocket Do you suppose those are worth a lot. Maythorne? 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"We seem to be dealing with a He and His Party Were There. mysterious matter, quite strange, the cause of his death: the men apart from the death," he remarked. who had found the body at Iteiver's "This gentleman" he glanced at den gave evidence as to the cir the card "Mr. Stephen rstle-thwaltcumstances under which they came solicitor, from York tells across It At this stage an Inter me that he saw accounts of this ruptlon came through the entrance case In the papers yesterday, and of Mr. and Mrs. Eiphlnstone and has hurried here to give some InI suppose we'd setter Sheila, with whom apteared an el formation. bearing; have It now?" derly man of professional Manners, by whom I was sitting, Mr. Postlethwalte formally dewhispered to me that this was Mr. scribed himself as a solicitor. He lawWetherby, Mrs. Elphlnstone's produced a diary, and exhibited an yer. which recorded a call from In letting entry Wetherby lost no time MazarofT. Sallm Mr. the authorities know why he and "Mr. he continued, MazarofT," bis party were there. "who was a total stranger to me. lie said, addressing the coroner, Introduced himself as staying In "I wish to make an application to York for a few at the North days Mrs. on behalf of my client, you Eastern hotel. He then Informed Eiphlnstone, of Marrasdale tower. me that he was a very wealthy To support It, I shall have very man; that he had made his briefly to refer to some past his In various trading concerns money In the Miss tory. Mrs. Eiphlnstone. as some In extensive diaand lately East, was married, Jean Llnto.n, In South Africa; or four years ago, to mond dealings twenty-threhad now retired from all he that forwho Andrew Mr. a Merchlson, this, had realized his various propmerly had some connection with erties, and lodged all his proceeds The this neighborhood. marriage was not a success, and to put ma- In cash at his London bank, the tters plainly, Merchison, within a Imperial Banking Corporation of South Africa, investment comparatively short time and after an this country. pending Then In a rather his due for wire, provision making fashion he remarked that deserted her, and. It was believed. Jncalar to then, he had no children, and Ftrht rmintha up An .iff In lha tfiicf n he h"u nlade a ,never after he had gone. Mrs. Merchison j will,reIatlo"s' desired to do so. had a daughter the young lady He but he now a sheet of paper on whom you now see here. Miss Sheila whichproduced he had written out his Merchison. Merchison was never hanaed It to me, and asked heard of again until . some years wishes, I could put It Into shipshape later, when Mrs. Merchison received If news that he had been drowned off form. I toW him I would have the prepared for him and he was Momhusa, on the East African willcall and execute It at any time coast, while on a voyage from to From that after three o'clock that afternoon. Bombay to Durbnn. to my office nt half-patime forward Mrs. Merchison be- He returned when the will was three, lieved herself a widow, and In due course she married again, and be- ready for signature. He duly apNow I pended that and curried the will came Mrs. Eiphlnstone. It was not until come to "the cause and reason of off with him. Yesterday, Mrs. some days later that I found thnt I my application. give him his own Eiphlnstone was visited by two had omitted towhich I fonnd lying original draft, gentlemen now present, who have, I understand, Just given evidence-- Mr. amongst some papers on my desk. I Holt and Mr. Crole. On the went round to' the North Eastern myself, hut learned Invitation of Mr. Crole, Mr. Holt In- hotel with it, formed Mrs. Eiphlnstone that on then that Mr. Mazaroff and his the second evening after he and Mr. friend, Mr.theHolt, had left for Durnorth, leaving no adMazaroff arrived bore at the Wood- ham and locked up tho cock, Mr. Mazaroff told him that dress. I therefore I read In the newsthough he had a perfect right to draft Yesterday the name he was now known by, papers the various accounts of what here, and as parhaving legally adopted it some had happened the ticularly noticed thnt Mr. Maznroff years ago, he was in reality marhad been robbed of his papers as Andrew Merchison who had ried Miss Jean Linton, and bad well as his money and valuables. I left her. . 1 need hardly say, sir. thought It my duty to come here tell what I knew." thnt this is a very serious matter at once and BB (TO CONTINUED.) for my client, and 1 think it will be well for a;i parties. If Mrs. EiphlPreparation of Suede nstone Is allowed to view the body Suede Is asunlly mocha or lambof this dead man, in order that she may see if she can recognize It as skin tanned on the wrong or bleached side or with the thin, that of Andrew Merchison. "That seems, obviously, the very glossy outer grain shaved or peeled thing to do," agreed the coroner. off, leaving an undressed surface. Street 167 Main SALT LAKE CITT mainland. ELECTRIC Cafe and Cafeteria W. In4 So. St. Bolt Lake) City, I to. STlt West tnd Bo. coast of aside as sanctuaries for the native birds which are becoming scarce on the d tr. rnrene, Aas't STORAGE AND SERVICE O lsaoi Several islands along the 'ew Zealand have been set Island. Near AYelllngton Is KapHI Island, big and hilly, once the stronghold of Maori chiefs ; it Is now the equally citadel of the native birds. P. O. Bricoa CULLEN GARAGE Dot One of these Is Little Barrier Island, a steep, wooded Islet about SO miles from Auckland. Ships of all kinds pass within a few miles of it on their way to and from Auckland, but no one Is allowed to land without permission of the government, and except for the caretaker, who keeps watch for possible marauders, there are no human beings on the a. Wot ! Kolt lke City. Utah. Temple HI., Malllns aveluvua and Box furnUhod ea requoet. It Coast of New Zealand time" 1 ASSAYKKS AND CHEMISTS Cullen TlieWortf et Selling Insect 1 Just then a policeman opened the door of the room, ushering in a young spectacled man. The coroner paused and glanced inquiringout a II I Identity?" ly at him. The newcomer pulled Bmlaeat Teaehere Faculty ef School In Intrnioatla Musle tlesloii. Mualr, rrmtio Art. Uenclus. su North Maia tt.. Halt Laka CHy. Utah, fUNMON NICHOLS Le11ns Meet Your Old Friend at tte v. "I am absolutely positive! The man was Andrew Merchison, whatever he may have called himself ot recent years." The coroner glanced at the solicitors gathered about the table at the head of which he sat. "1 think we had belter adjourn for a fortnight?" ejs iht "During that McCone School of Music and Art real is remarkably keen, and recognized him easily enough when I saw him the other night. Andrew Mer chison. without doubt!" "Where did you see this man, Mr. assendeane?" interrupted the cor oner. "I saw him on the night on which he evidently met his death," replied the old gentleman. "It was In Birnslde village street near my house." "And you are quite positive on this matter ? Salt Lake City Directory TW4 J. Leonard, 1 I'1'', IE pray it. an d fore use. "Look at this!" he said presently. "Here's something, at any rate." The scrap of paper was a receipt for a registered letter, dispatched from Cape Town, and addressed to the Imperial banking Corporation of Soutn AXrlca, 6ii!S Lombard street, Loudon. Maythorne pointed to the dute January 17 on the postmark. "Nine months since," he remarked. "How long had MazarofT been In England when you met him at the dirty roaches! THE uT1.ll' Flit fa soli anry In this ytllovt tan uitk ihg buck bondt Kill r 1 "I know," said Crole. "He came to England In July about the end of the month." "Then the letter, or packet, or whatever It was, to which this receipt refers, was sent off from Cape Town to the London branch of this bank some mouths before came MazarofT here," observed ly. He turned the receipt Maythorne. "We have something more than over. "There's an Indorsement on Idle curiosity to bring us here, sir," the back letters and a figure," be retorted Crole, almost sharply. continued. D. 1. BL. "Seel "We are the dead gentleman's What's that mean, I wonder?" I friends May I in my turn ask He carefully put away the reas you seem Interested In the maceipt tter if yon can tell us anything to "We'll Just keep the knowledge of help us?" man to ourselves, for the present," The old smiled, and looked that he said. "If the police come here from one to the other. as they're pretty this "Well, I could tell you of some- sure afternoon, after that to, gun business, whether will It help you thing, but want to examine his effects, or not I don't know. Tet It might. and I'll But let 'em. keep this scrap I beard a gun discharged I want to work to of myself paper was on man the nlgbt this abouts from it." up things missed." The police came to the Wood"And about what time would cock a little later. They asked a that be?" Inquired Crole. "About what Is usually my bed- lot of questions of Musgrave about of me and of Webster time," replied the old fellow. "Ten bis gun,ourandmovements on the night about o'clock." at Maythorne. of the murder, of Crole about the Crole looked ; "That must have been the shot," he deadme man's Identity and position of again about the money and Bald, musingly. Just then the policeman at the valuables he was likely to have on foot of the rocks, who had been him. And In the course of their a fact came out of pottering about the bushes, looked Investigations which L until then, had been unup, and waved his hand excitedly. It turned out that after "Come down here!" he shouted. aware. dinner on the night of the murder, "I've found something. A gun!" I We began to descend the rocks while was busied in writing some Maznroff, who was to the dense undergrowth amidst private letters, which the policeman stood. He. was naturally a sociable man, had the of tie gingerly handling a sporting 'gun, strolled Intowhere a highly divert-fleand as we drew up to him, be nod- Woodcock, had gathered assemblage ded toward a clump of overgrown farmers, cattle dealers, drovers. gorse. bound all from homeward exIdlers, "Shoved In beneath that!" he Cloughthwalte fair. There he had claimed. "That's where it was." made himself very agreeable, and Maythorne opened the breech there were two cartridges in the had treated the entire company to drinks and cigars, which he paid barbarrels ; one, in the choke-bor- e note, taken, He for with a rel, had been discharged. said the barmaid, from a notecase glanced at Crole. "Odd 1" be said. "Why didn't he that seemed to be pretty full, and use the right-han- d barrel In firing?" In open view of anybody and everyThe old gentleman, who seemed body. This bit of news appeared to to be fascinated by the sight of a weapon that had doubtless been give considerable satisfaction and used by a murderer, laughed a even relief to the police officials, and Manners, who lingered behind little. "If that's the gun that was used when his superiors went away, to shoot this young gentleman's el- found It Impossible to refrain derly companion," he remarked, "as from communicating to me his beil, personally, have no doubt It was, lief that they were on the right there's a good reason why the mur- line of pursuit. I communicated the police serbarrel. derer used the I'erhaps you're not a shooting man, geant's notions to Crole andtoMayuneir? if not, I may tell you that the thorne. Maythorne seemed d barrel of a fowling piece derstand Manners' standpoint. Is always narrowed In the bore as "Following the most probable it approaches the muzzle; the no- line," he remarked. "A sensible Here's an evidently tion, of coarse, is that the shot, or one, too. discharge, Is concentrated rather wealthy man, traveling In a luxthan diffused If a man wanted to urious car of his own, puts up at a shoot anothtr man ded, at close roadside inn, goes Into a public lets It be seen that he's quarters, a in this cse, he'd naturally use the choke bore barrel In lots of money on him, and strolls out on a lonely moor after night prefetence to the other." L Then, with a polite cod, be tamed has fallen. What more likely than left-han- whom "I'erhaps youll accompany your purse Client, air. Wetherby?" There was considerable hushed should allp after him. murder him. excitement In that room during the and rob hlin?" "Willi Musgruve's gun?" I asked. absence of Mra. tClphimitune and "Nothing out of I he way about her solicitor. Some of the older that little detail !" said Maythorne. folk amongst the Mieilators whis"What was easier than for the pered the name Merchison had evimurderer to take down the gun dently roused sleeping memories. When Mrs. Eiphlnstone, followed from those hooks, and slip out by Wetherby, reappeared, at the after MazurolT?" glie win I Into "Thiil would presuppose a knowl coroners suggestion, the witness box and gnve evidence. edge i hut th gun waa there," re It compressed Itself into tills she marked Crole. could not Identify the dead man as "PrevlMy," agreed Maythorne. Andrew Merchison. Had the fea"There were no doubt Imul char- tures remained unmolested, she acters about who know quite well said culmly. she might have rionrf what waa In this room and what so, but aa things were Impossible! hung oti thai wull. I think Mini Crole. In his professional capacners has (r"l hold of a good theory murder for Hie sake of robbery. aity. roe to ask Mra. Elplilnsione question. Kutw heftier It's the right one or "Mra. Eliihlnstone." he said, "had not ii m ! Merchlaon a cast In hla Andrew "You doubt It?" I asked. left eye?" He gave us a candid, confidential "Certainly, he hod." she replied. mile. "A decided one I" Crole turned to the coroner. "If you really want to know," he "Numerous witnesses can prove replied. "I neither doubt IIt nor thnt the unfortunate gentleman Into agree with It. At present likedon't to whose death you are Inquiring had know ware we are. I'd Ids left enst a 4tilnf-l- n know a lot of things yet. In par such tlculiir who was the mnn tlmt eye. sir." he remarked. "He also Mnzaroff mid he wanted to see. had a birthmark. In the form of a hereabouts? Did he see htm? If brown mole, or blemish, on his right so. when and where? If he hadn't forearm. That, however. Is not an seen Id in, was he on his way to see uncommon mark, 1 believe, and I hlin at the time of the murder? don't attach great lmHirtam-- to It Again does this man. whoevei he Hut I am strongly convinced that Is, know MnxnrofT as MazarufT er further proof of the Identity nt the as Merchlaon? Was Maznroff mu- deceased as Andrew Merchison will an unknown be found, and I should suggest " rdered aa MnwirofT. man here, or as Merrhlsnn. a man "There need be no donlil about It 1" exclaimed a sudden voice from who bad been known here?" "Ah I" uiuilered Crole. "My ques- the spectators. "The man was An drew Merchison I" tion 1 knew whose voice that was berhl Mi Has- fore I looked round. CHAPTER IV setideane, Arhom I had noticed when Crole and I entered the room, had The York Solicitor. from his seat, and was smilInquest was duly opened risen coroner. iimniing. 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