Show mazaroff 1 abaro r 4 mystery st BY 5 JS so FLETCHER it wits toe by IRWIN amylu MYERS 1 10 9 lh by IL AV be after 11 id ill I 1 1 moor af bloom ava at tj bif all ably are it al taller god that j abst ball to return to aall ORs disappear let couslin I 1 to mar M ar scooting ting bair I 1 idt f it bla usi and bolks set rt r ait 14 of a reporter MAr offs sail L is fog crole A A bl thorris W TEA ill BIN 1 l 1 cun gun ap to ol 01 gen V cia ill r 10 bear this bad 1 I aup I 1 TIN only beard I 1 I 1 itin ered then it my companion I 1 aa if Is mr natii lea gr r crole ll 11 lit n boodoo and he M i vy A surprise sur at this taught that crole my 4 ale turned bak Sg US 01 to fol tot a in the kw six she gave ire os as ao an oa on 3 look as we ml indeed not too holt aw ift 1 her fashion 4 aiosi tai at nil its itji quite aft ua als ka a food dead on 00 thil te is hit his solicitor atil v loadho and be PLO emitted to toasa ask a arising out 4 my client crole mentia arst a fact jpy a balther of ot joo you j oo a was wa mur produced dit 11 its two behlem law marmur ot hot W mrs elphin al quick glance fm of that she VV lt slidell opinion tC A ahle roIi with a it ga I 1 of no ao reason I 1 ellent ass slot pointed a eager ber aik ift it totor bhe she said cea lou 1 ou gay say III a me 10 ine ques hwayong Hw along i really thi t they can tab be I 1 weter about this 14 T my iao late client wed crole I 1 aed d io every VAI at 1 e 10 it this cad 1111 g id quiche 4 kr holt were stand oil of the ion r daughter passed ell I 1 it jarl elph 4 did see it her to ahle cogul him with a keen kalady aher ques ing store demanded I 1 at do log ii J Is fill C ketly nei ft mo M ped be hill of eiselt in sa MO I 1 you auar andrew kine thIm SAY dra 4 hit il noab ing ln happened that tc it nol noll ing ln particular ti Sli ellae hilpa OP opil rd a lit III tie in to and fill her cic turned ft auto crole to tier her mother mrs jim MI as tilting sitting bolt hull upright very stem and rind at her desk suddenly and awl itly a satirical lill finite showed ftp luf ff round he the comer comers of her finely cut thin ller follow me ille if it you pirate please the she bald said she marched ui us through tiro two or three into the hull hall out of t the house kross the rounds look ing in neither elther to nor left anil and to through the porch of the church and under its it flue due old nordau door way into the be tOWY ing tip p thai that to th the tha a chattel die she iud sud denly PROW paused minted upward anil gil gitig croft a frowning lotholc lot oak spoke two words look there aberer I 1 we looked there 1 on the north vail fit of the chancel cli ancel wui was a phalti square tablet of aberdeen granite whereupon were deeply incased and a it few words in 10 memory of andrew sometime resident in thil this parish drowned in the day Octilo october tir I 1 glanced at crole billit 11 fuce gee was ile ie a arely looked at the tile tablet read the Iti and turned jtb ith a to ura mrs elphin tone stone now mw come back to the house she he commanded mrs matched ui us back to the bof aud up to the tile old oak staircase atair casc hat that led from the tile big ball she sent along one curri cord der after titter another until ebe she came to a door selecting a key from a bunch hit that tiling lung b by y a silver chain she unlocked he the door and ushered us into a email small room ft herein wherein there was nothing but an old fashioned bureau a chair set before 14 it a book case filled with old volumes and a tide side table whereon lay a much worn cabin trunk she went straight to this and laid a hand on it it mow now the she said looking at crole 1 jim bobc more than anyone has a 91 right to ask ine me to dot do I 1 am only doing dolo it to set at rest once and for ill the utterly ridiculous idea that you mentioned when you came here you will please listen to mel it Is quite true that I 1 married andrew merrill con hen he and I 1 were ery young and foolish and headstrong wi 1 did not dot get cc 0 lie ile mude made full pro proal vilon ion for me shared equally all he had with me in fact and left me eight woe au and my friends did our best to find and him and make bira him acquainted with that fart we failed I 1 never neTer heard anything of him until the early part of the year 1000 when I 1 got ot a let ter from the lie captain of a steamer which traded between bombay dombay and durban you shift read it ft she another key nn un joked the cabin trunk and from a whet rocket inside took out an envelope fron from which ebe she withdrew drew a lette she tuned to crete crole you lad ind mr holt can read that to together ether the she eald said lad it care ally I 1 atad the letter over caroles boulder it was wa from one james sinclair AIr who Intro introduced duco himself as captain of the S general central live he said that on III hh IIII I laet last voyage from bombay lie he bid taken on board it at that port a pasi passenger named andrew Herch Non whom he ie described mr sit Merch lyo two was bound for durban in to lie file course of the a stay was made c Hom basit on lath of october U ste shearrer arrer being at alenor lo 10 basa bay mr merchison Merc hlson die dis ftfe ra d L the writers belief was that ur liff ilson had had it 1 I den attack of faintness or kese lott 1011 bis balance find and fallen overboard probably striking 64 6 4 f head the tide side of the eliop as he fell nothing hela beans cred ered about his passenger tie he had examined bis his effects found sira a address addre m in a dim hook and therefore fore forwarded mr a cabin rank trunk anil all that it contained with oth other small ti iatter liing about his cabin the solicitor read this letter in silence lence el and ellent ly hande 4 it luck back to mrs stone she replaced it in the e trunk this trunk and itt its contend contents tave tare t ave intact ever since I 1 received them now many year ago a she be eald said now ow yon you come aind nd tell me that this stranger calling niro bin elf sell mazaroff Mii aroff was in reality an drew I 1 absurd I 1 nothing fing absurd inas manz in mv telling r you 9 u that retorted crole with th the e least of asperity holt turning to me you will just tl os us precisely what alaxa roff confided to you that second night of or your tay stay at the woodcock tell the whole story I 1 toll the whole story as its we all stood there in to that little room cut but though I 1 watched mra mrs elphinstone closely during my narrative I 1 saw DO to eign sign of any watering on ber part tin the thing thin Is absurd she the do flared in n the rod end utterly absurd I 1 ibe the nun man was probably tily some adventurer aitho bad had got bold hold of celato facts about i past his tort md and wanted to majc money out of othas his knowl edler cutill crole said quietly now that ina tam am if yoa you will imil nic we for using plain speech to a lady Is I 1 indeed on utterly absurd shourd lion I 1 hr Ua or as we should cull call him ill lr mahlon n so 0 o far froit from helne king a aly nial ad 1 was a wealthy clil thy nuni i ami n you will III pardon me till j burti further jet li 1 will just put in tilling before you joul if 1111 A m roin 11 wills wi mahe as he averted film self elf to ft tx and iii ni al re we hall probably 1 prole andrew ifer hl 01 who married rou you twenty two iwo 01 11 three year HO 1190 your second ich with mr ii IS no DO mar il at all I 1 you are still till in law low lire jim Merc tilson and clial hat ti Is all this leacint tin tor for denin tided sim 1 I to this ihl ma am P continued crole lifting an finger and a very too aa its nu riu will quickly eee see although I 1 bleave bave had very little dealing with I 1 thie a man I 1 hire have had bad tome some dealan de alln alle he rai was la in loo don and it la Is mj my distinct imbres elon mod that he baa has died I howiate welland well and what haa has that to do with we questioned mr sim elphin tone stone merely this maam if lif he wae was ilen tilson and you his wife and thil this young lady four our child you and ehe she come in between jo you for every penny bele he lefta and there til ill be a great many mil penna ann et or im a butch dutchman mant I 1 my advice to you maam ii Is his before settling lettl ln on an tin attrude of incredulity and nd just alep tep across to the and see if yoo YOU cannot satisfy yourself hat the man ivin there sadly 11 but ident flable was no net 3 ibri tho nun min be claimed to be 11 ith Ms this crole made os 0 s of bis his old fast ened buns bors and walked out and I 1 alm ilm 1 im leaving leming mother and daughter stav landing ding looking at each other As we the crole role pulled out a and took a hearty pinch mint I s a dd d d flint like woman llort Il Dit he said cynically birdan bird hird an aal aol I 1 obstinately lnater sly own impressions of urs mrs EI ph instone were precisely ly those these which mr role espil express til so em but hut I 1 was just then thinking of 4 other matters if the real andrew Merc Ner hlson chison wae was drowned in bay I 1 eald sold how flow could aie crole interrupted me with willi a it sharp sham laugh b but ut was he so drowned there or elsewhere or be exclaimed my own belief bellet Is that he was neter drowned at all till I 1 for till all that calr the writer of that letter I 1 new lVer chison had bad arranged for a boat to come coute off for him at a certain hour at night it comes and be lie slips off into it and Is clean gone haic haie sent money and things espe claley wrey iw coy ahead of him to wherever he ine was bound you tell me he spoke of durbana of ot durban yes ies I 1 at it was there he took the name of dauroff blan iroff aye well continued crote crole no doubt led hed some other the one he told you leaving ids his old cam name bellind hirn him he may MOY have wished folk aik oik in both Fri england gland and to believe that andrew merchison was dead bot but letter or no letter cabin trunk or no cabin trot ronk lk monument oc cc ao jo monument I 1 believe that kalliat madaii was andrew tonii mist he lie was wits murdered as merchison Merc hlson and not as U mazaroff As I 1 I 1 exclaimed 1 pausing in theer sheer rite hut but who knew blim bem as berchi son lot 7 got goll to be found out my lad be answered with a knowing look loot we found maythorne Stay thome standing at the dour door of the tile inn la 10 company nith with musgrave IraY thIme gave I 1 smile as crole yole a corr sort of informing we ive came ranie up to 0 o them sir it Mur 11 grave has jut jutt made A 6 aid ufa ills gun 1 te said discovery T e ry he be mi mining tsiria not vol three months sinic slate I 1 gave twenty pounds for ill magme mattered very iery near brand new it li could nit hae hine hell believed eved it coula ha tin been taw from there nell neither hell troma aad va where here was it taken asked crole it ans taken from the private sutin sitting room that mr holt there and the dead gent gentleman leli an had re the ion lan landlord hord llord with A glance cv at the wall on two hung fung on me inside the door hook hooks it nas just noticed it mr holt you bwy mo Y ha ba 1 UA I ex I 1 W noticed weed a gun there ctr hado I 1 dalti I 1 replied ru I 1 noticed thai tha I 1 it had gone gom nor me deonly DIY I 1 been into let room this last two or do d said magme it three was the missus that found it 11 oot out about it jutt bow she came to P tte me drover of course som some ie 0 them their noses in there acted chaps I 1 and seeing steling no nobody hody about helped them selos to 10 tasy enough would ber be r that deir asked aag was the gun ioa 1 I 1 suppose not maythorne may home N 14 11 it wui was admitted mus JUD it ft loaded yoa YOU 1 kept grist never newer grae e know ehst bat yon you may wint w int la to place plat like this lonely jointly a though to keep a dangerous about dont doull you thiner gun loaded humo bufflo rood lhorne bald aid jila May of cartridges lly py the b wb sort were there in your number itier es replied 1 Kyno cbs nual always 1103 rAve use akwa that might mish I 1 help you in thorin remarked Alsy gay lhorne thome be the gun glin should tell t se pollee that ue tie you from roa lb be e tar di rd toward MO file tie moor motioning crole and my self to follow III bilm I 1 m golli to have a IS iw IN kalibe k at ibea altel ter a jen den in ji eald hitter 1111 er tome with willi isn 1 14 it allt pun gun loud ed with ith cumer tilie hes should liou lil desai pear ar oa on the my very on n walh Mazo dead 00 YOU oo tell i ill mr holt that the tide d tr tot bowed so shot hot which alch ti he called number tr lie ile d alil IV I 1 fit donled hi 1 I name suppose alil this doctor louvi i dweire from number ceasr he suggested uE eted valt A boot lne man halmel hl mel I 1 replied staying St ayling at ulab ftp cap lodge with a shootings shoo tins party ab then hed bed know what be he was talking boot be remarked remark td sol mra from rora me to arole u ole itell and mrs crole told him all about our doings at sit marrs magdale adale tower ai 11 ve walked across the moor be Is bened and eald sold little but I 1 acted thai that his eyes yew grew brichter brighter and plis II 11 whole air more alert when we rame to delvers ne Rel lvere vers dena dell black gloomy eerie cerle jott juit the place for a murderous deed there was a lol policeman on guard there he thawed na us the where malati bad lain and been discovered this as amongst a mass of gorse end land bramble at the foot of an thrift perpendicular rock tone some thirty to forty feet in hel height bt 31 my mate what torrid bov him the april eman aid said in a confidential iLl per he be says aa as how bow when he first came across him he thought si as the gentleman had fallen over them crags hi in the darkness but out of course he be bilant ead eibi why if it hed ha fallen from there therk hed ha lis broken his neck and every bone in to his bt body big beary we tike like that he was WAL and there no bones broken lly my impression 11 gen it tie lemen raen isas Is als how he was murdered int first and carried here afterward look how these here shrubs ii 4 tiara usim pled down I 1 i maythorne was wits closely the surrounding surroundings I 1 noticed that he be ton was apparently struck by tx evident trampling of the we pirse and bramble once or twice he looped stooped ae as if to took look closer at his once I 1 aw raw him dick something bIng from the ground and thrusa it into his it pocket presently he 1 came back to where crol croft and I 1 stood with the policeman if it pin gun were fired in this ra ril tine vine ahne borks would adre idre lre h hc haill aill a fine be observed then he looked at ahe he you dian didn hear bear ebat ni hf ho asked with a mile ll 11 1 heard beard Dot dobbing bing agreed tile tie pw policeman don it know nobody as lid oclther there theres a cottage hy by wa julif back 0 that claria 0 beeth the folk there they hear bear rin what cr I 1 oh there a 9 a cottage there IL there eald said maythorne and 1 who lives tn in old shepherd and anti his nil gle if ajla in cowie his ahme le Is 1 ferhad the be policeman i was wall galung to hira him about this affair jud just now 1 they beard nothing ilay Slay thorne turned away toward I 1 the he clomp clump of beech we followed him along a n narrow arow track hit ran at the foot of ot the docs rocs tefler the lower bt branches anches of the its and went op up a al bared path to lie be rot cot tage if door Mx mathorne thome id a tro nane voice bade us as enter inside at a table drawn up in front of a turf ore an oil old man and sad vt sly old woman al oi at t slight of us the old woman ruse rose tely bat but he the of old man stock stuck to bis his eat lent eyeing ng us with DO friendly lince its H got ot to a the first word too ton ur llly before addressed him bin don I 1 know nothing abolt that here there affair in the den yonder be growled yowled beird the policeman just low inow we 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