Show ro mystery aster j S FLETCHER ai 11 myers lot W H U bernico I 1 A 7 f arnt ant filips by a 11 llola son mazaroff as W after A put op at th moor a mrs 2 X 11 ali that 11 I 1 lev at Is aad that 1 talt falls to I 1 return torn to a shell red 4 got molt of tle her br cousin I 1 booting tInK box bolit boo 00 but W of sl azaroff H 3 baird by the W i she tb said almost 1 nt I about ny my cousin ever a ee two dill iron IOU detestable men than then sod Fole sharel I 1 sight at of therol them I 1 and pother amber wants me to 10 courthope insists just won t wont I 1 16 poca ucb ten aback by outburst Bt huret of intimate that lit I 1 lost my tongue dl 1 looking 0 0 king at S redd e n ed a it lit my pie late but her attitude M more confidential and joo IOU think im an SO aw heptig things like that f I 1 karri edly du I 1 alberes bert nobody about L yon you woul boulant ant nt like to ato doing wha I 1 you dont 6 would you ilist t ive seen een of you I 1 lid ley ay that nobody you oa do wb abat you in dont my f own mother would quickly I 1 trying t to fo force ce vemer on me for t taft he last pon that ill and 1 I 1 V IL i elphinstone so keen I 1 idol it knowl che she aid said p 9 may itaf she and his aunt kloct yoa you inga eort sort I 1 eireen et reen then demerl fathers dad d ad Is coal 21 of f the lank and het hes 1 I ey and im e W f fond ond of anybody and aits nits ts blied up alth ai I 1 BUS out I 1 I 1 kh stone Instone Is about ai W as is one of the folios arl he the answered ut you going to do then r ito ne me an arch glance e first time though I 1 a at t her closely enough sair hat that rave gave 4 there via wt the slight my slighter suspicion of alef ital t ee ee just as there ma e d itne d and notice brors 4 what who I 1 to check abl and verner why rl somebody else I 1 tery very candid d 1 t else elser I 1 I 1 it t un int from rom under L As I 1 V as going to I 1 hive a tattle notion U TI 7 near a blunt deci bad fallen in to love at W light tS lit but at that to tamed the corner comer of a 1 and M came a arross mr 0 who ho iraq as mooning 4 1 sort of alpenstock in obviously to t la to the I 1 mists u of bis his 0 own w n redee time e to eart earth h with a ang 1 I UL us 0 1 be lure I 1 he ex I 1 b elleve e I 1 was coming X 1104 jou on must come i with ul ne bi him peremptorily 11 ta do fix I 1 kind nd of yo joa sir I 1 a ld at do d iny anything thing until 1 i or beard heard of mr t k do nowr tow r inquired the he police and have arch of the district in he lost ami ant theres so excuse without MO re ados el well tm I 1 I 1 should see before Z the duy AJ WM was out w days to alle 11 cc webster gatt cron the moor to the was lt andIn bufore the open door 4 I 1 aa I 1 vp th T ua h ere 0 h be e replied 0 I 1 tw otaw 0 man walls bed e holt want the u other OIL ones a 1106 police a I newspaper lot 01 ol ont out qa webster I 1 k makes it all the 44 Idl POOL d the distri t by dy he answered ered ka kno delther rs hes missing 0 nor heard any 1 fill to it m last 11 lin be lie Syn clean digap trailed out of that 10 doubt te T of that web to tell I 1 was lesa di dlou us it ila Ia hd had I 1 his inie rice on pur ed e might be in or tile aa e swo second alf r practically amed oa 06 was all k t the I 1 I 1 wl said inn in web ter an ani 4 leigl hear beat these fel low lows want the policeman poll cenan introduced lim blin wf mt as 01 sergeant manner manners of the county constabulary stationed ut Mem sdale the reporter report tr as a mr bit bodnar district represent atlie of the leading coulty newspaper aal an I 1 of one of the london press agencies hamer manners was u bl big ing bin win noanna a little rally chap chop content content to scribble in bli his book while bile the ergeant int did tie questioning tio ning that quickly turned to i a point which it wits wo very plain to see the police mind considered all Import important itaL gentleman biow sir 1 1 asked the sergeant when I 1 had given him the he main fact facts of the case hed bed be a wealthy gentleman no doubt domitr you may take it that mr hr ia laroff Is 1 a wealthy man 1 I 1 an and in that case ease likely to have wealth on him when he walked ot 1 of thill thi house no douber conter aed the sergeant valuables of course course lie he carried a lot of ready money I 1 aid said watch and chain likel yr be tie asked with a knowing look loot an valuable witch and chain gold I 1 replied and if you want to know be he had a very one diamond in his necktie and another in a ring on his left hand hed also a solid gold dar elgar case and a it gold matchbox the sergeant gave me in cm em nod then III tell ion what it lathe exclaimed and no mistake cither 1 this ti Is a case of murder and robbe robbery I 1 hat hotl 1 beres here a gentleman with all that on him walk alks out on a lonely moor in full lew of all those arner chaps chips that wag was about here last lost night and comes from lord knows where why of course some of tern era fol followed lovied him an and d did him in for what they could get gelt I 1 murder sir hata what it Is I 1 and followed by robbery never heard of a clearer easel case it if it is 1 so I 1 arced how Is I 1 it that lit bis body been fou nill ahl ah he answered gilb me a 4 significant look you doi dont it ki know no w these parts sit wilder ailder nor r what whit think there i place places here chere ft here you could uld drop a body inlet ulet like and ever find bad it bog boles holes lots of places I 1 should say that it if you meant to do 14 it you could hide the vestiges of a crime for or ever on Marras Mer daile moor mom 6 what are you going to do I 1 asked well he replied reflectively have to be reported to head quarters therell be a proper search made and inquiries of course in my mf opinion its as I 1 say come some 0 them drovers ins his dope dove bim him in and rifled his pockets we must circulate the news far and wide yr bobnis berell pit put pieces in the lm papers pers mr bownas lived bla notebook be in aery princel prin cal pl news paper in england london ind and provincial vin cial tomorrow mornin he be announced you haven I 1 got a photo of the missing nol nolt I 1 replied and I 1 in m not at lit all ece sue ec su e that the missing gentleman will ike pike p c much publicity if he be turns op up the sergeant laughed turn cupl dpi lie exclaimed exclaIm Pi I 1 lord bless yon you chell neer turn up not if it he went out with all tint thit able property on him blin murder annl robbery what it 10 UL and with a final remark to the effect that this was r bad job jib and he expected it to work out opt as he had predicted he the two went away 1 ahat hat the local police did I 1 don dont I 1 know but when darkness ell fell that night I 1 was still without news 0 of I 1 Mazaro tf nor did we get any ny dur ing the next day and when the third night after his dImp disappear pear ance once came come I 1 began to feel carto certain in that that disappearance m was As premeditated and intentional intention al and bad that he lie had just cleared out in order to agad the reel allonS of which he had toben to me im it coming coaling gray dawn on the third morning and I 1 was awake wondering wh what at to d do 0 when heo a knok knock came come at my door I 1 sprang out of bed opened it and bud found musgrave Hus grave and webster hair halt dreiser drei sed in the passage pass the land lord agno me a look found him himi he whis leastwise laeve the found m lie ile sefred to choke at that and I 1 gurnei eagerly to the chauffeur he ile too showed eans of unwilling ness but be got some words out rhe yve f feind md a it body bady mr holt lb sj some place 01 on the tt Ill Re ivers eires den interrupted mus H and brou brought gilt it here continued webster it the fact Is air lr the the heade the tho features feature you know gone I 1 but the clothe sir they rellar robla I 1 I 1 dressed hastily I 1 and nd went down with them tn ih tp outhouse abe wherein re ita its finders e 4 local policeman and a game watcher had bad laidre body I 1 am not going in into details detal Is about it here hut but as 83 somebody ome body muttered then were stoats sad weasel weasels and similar CAmlO carol biou Ous animals in hundreds hundred on ahme moor still those were Maxa rotT clothes and there was the bit billu th mark he had told me of ot the news bad h id spread an and d mannera manners the who 14 I 1 a 1 I auts n honed me came I 1 hurrying in ile e examined the he clothing there was not aa as much as a 11 penny IMY acce leu in the pockets watch latch ch chain all I 1 1 o 0 were viere all he lie furj on file u with a it laok thai that ke kt as tri 00 ampha pt to it WAS all halte ten TOO a 0 Murmur and edL didn t I 1 illy ibur robbery and right aint I 1 I 1 abot could be nerr made DO an 1 w er I 1 was think ing of other th 1 however be had come by hl 11 death the tact re moaned that M was dead and there was 12 far As I 1 knew the knell chis illy person 10 file ho a aftret l illch meant flat I 1 have to carry affie ild strangest of stories torie uye to marrissa Marr isda ae tower 41 0 0 0 11 the morning manre came cam e to tile woodcock lie had heard 0 the disco ery he said and bud from ailigh clip lodge to offar his professional sery icel and just then up tip drog dro the weal doctor on 00 the fame am errand the wms wM two of tapin went to 1 tile room where tie oclad min had cwb laid 1 out djey u mero ro there some time at allart came buk movie 11 izolt he said as the police sergeant ter geant and 1 I 1 d him your friend has ha been banho bc nho shot ile att made this with a curious gravity but planners swa and astonishment I 1 both let out exclamations of shot doctora uld mild the police sergeant 11 buhy I 1 never 11 perhaps lc riP not nott interrupted eccie bare hare bledy quietly ul edy o 0 but you noticed that hot some wild ald animal or animal animals bad bid des troxal the feature features and it 1 and yd yet my mother want wants M me to marry verner courthope perhaps occur to you to ex allne the back part of the head he ile wai was shot through the bead head from behind hot shot and by an ordinary fowell li ll piece look there he ile held out a plump smooth white band hand unclosed it and showed us 03 lying in the pain a couple of pellet riddled I 1 he eald said significantly number twelve shot and how he came to his death shot from an 80 ordinary fowling piece at close quarters qu artera I 1 saw that manners was consid drably taken aback by this opinion which vas was corroborated by the local doctor who just then came out and joined us it upset the police pollee sergeants theory for it was not likely that the cattle drovers whoa whom be he suspected would carry a eun gun the to two medical men went away previously turning to me and saying liaf tt af if it there wai was anything he could do for me I 1 was to let liln him know and planners banners for ilie first time betrayed symptoms of uneasiness this Is a queer business cop tain taint lie he paid suld shoaf that never came into my reckoning 1 ellla ell 11 1 1 must most be ding something but now about allm I 1 in ayou YOU know w where here his relations toni ore are 0 to o be cowf to un of coursel they theril 11 hue to be with at once better begraph to em the predia ment I 1 there Is was full facing we me but I 1 was not dot an to a tell this somewhat thick headed policeman policemen that roff wai was really andrew herculson Herc Herh hlson iscia and that his wife and daughter aughter d were athin a 8 mile of LS LL 11 ill liok look through his papers cp up stairs und and e what I 1 can find ond I 1 answered ev ashely that secret of SIai Maza arotTa weighed on me like lead ou ait I 1 to keep it to in 1 elf or ou lit I 1 to go 90 to Marrat dile tower and tell mr mm Ill ostone what I 1 ace nel ne l it seen heend seend id to toe we that 1 I hught 0 for or there was t this his about the if it mazar Sini aroff W was as really Merc Ifer ellson ilson th then en hi his wealth and I 1 wt ats some thing more alian tut bat M h was very wealthy eal dinald urel 1 0 to he his we afe and lec it 11 was no pleasant tank nat lot confront ed me there was shella shells with whom lt waa was useless to deny iti was wasil already ready in 10 love I 1 dined the idea of having to tell I 1 hr or that the father the he had never known had bad been foully murdered at her bet very dohrl yet even then the advice I 1 was ing for was wa coniing to me we a AS quirt and a ramshackle rams huckl an old horse ly as is fly fron from the station beyond d abl th bills could CA cay it IL such ai drove up to the woodcock 1 I equiha ge and from it descho ed first a keen aged looking lookin tharp faund middle whom J at one otel et down 04 man and nd c L I 9 barn barar either a 80 elicitor seand a younger man smart aler hii dro teed they hurtled the open tile inta I 1 heard room door of al my r fitting meak I 1 went fo forgard pad my me none v pok Pk troed filmed do d the lecil legal 11 akin roan t a F hurl gale 1 sir I AM sir mr lie 11 arole of fa cro le 4 wyatt 1111 coln 1 I of row soll ellArs 1 di air atte from the h london a pi liwrA dinst the dig lit mail and nd I 1 caula iw here kow now hr bag mr 1112 dauroff ro bw been I 1 uund or beard heard oyer I 1 lulled lie he was found ris till morning dead murderer Murde Ilard reC e gave two successive stotts tart it t be last ho to words then pointed to the room which I 1 had just left let us so in there he h nia alil this 1 he went on as n I 1 led them in a and closed the door 1 is I mr frank maythorne whom you nay may hole we heard of As one of the cley 1 treat priTi ste inquiry agents gent urine how mr holt holl let me explain as I 1 1 eald sold jus just now I 1 read about this 0 o the your name of f course appeared and as I 1 liv acied prof ily tor for mr hia mam roi since his coming to englana I 1 WAS muth concerned ki binally nally I 1 decided to cume come down here and to fring bring il with me I 1 knew rou IOU see ee that Ilar aroff has ha DO no friends or relation relations in to akis cou country DIU if if any here hert and well or certain reason reasons I 1 was wa ant lotia about baal how we know the wt tit I 1 I 1 was dad to ft ice see ur crole and his companion it vias ai a ts itle relief to be able to share that awful secret alth men accustomed to deal with such matters I 1 ordered breakfast for them ind and mr ur crole and I 1 tit Uthan hanged sed pre U in la III tell you to in a few sen teore III 11 that I 1 know of IfA a ur loll 1011 be he aid said ue he introduced bira self to me a few week weeks ago nt at my office OMCO lie ile told me that he was v in who had been out of england for many years tad ind daring during bli his absence bad had amassed a n large fortune lie ile bald that hed now returned to this country for tood good ano and he lie wanted to buy a real ly dice nice home in london ind sod settle down lo 10 it 11 he ile had heard of our irm and had come to eee see if I 1 could help him I 1 promised to look took oat out a likely house for bim blin and practically all 1 I dc doit kt know much mor I 1 ald said 1 I can tell you IOU bow how I 1 came to know him he lie interrupted me oh I 1 know all about that nd and stoat you mr holt he ex t when mazaroff roff put that advertisement in the times he brought the applications to ne most of em anyway it was I 1 who advised bini bim to fix op tip with you 1011 you got on tol etherl splendidly 1 admirably I 1 I 1 aid said we wed d grown to be ry dose friends aye ayel be replied he deemed a likable cad 1 kindly man but now as got so frien friendly dl Is I 1 viander if observed some thing about Mazar offs habits so something methIn to be plain with yoo you that caused me alarm and sent me off oft up here with maythorne May thorae there as boon soon as ever I 1 read of his bu die dis appearance had bad your 1 I 1 cant say that I 1 baa had I 1 an sm lie bent across the table eyeing maythorne and myself significantly 1 I lunched and dined |