ae aa WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE “Death strikes GARRETT FOLSOM might have attracted him with ‘mur-| to me a different "eg from the hil- derous inten arious shouts of t 4 7 Pear “All ri coy all. right,” Jepson a 1 looked toward the no ear would ‘ay to the more garrulous|1 saw two of the life guards swim- ones, “this isn’t an inquest. I'lktake|ming vigorously that way. They wanted you will}seemed to be intent on some errand, 6o I watched them. They went dir- ectly toward the rope and diving be- neath the surf came up immediately, bearing what seemed to be the un- conscious body of a man. Though naturally somewhat interested, 1 aid little attention to it. But a mo- As Miss Folsom and ‘her compan-| ment latef one of the guards came 8. fons entered the room Jepson W&S/qdown to the edge of the water and ‘s sister, .ANASTASIA, .i8}taiking to Mr. and Mrs. Tracy, who| cajied out: -New . York. were, as many witnesses asseverat-| « «pnocto ee. urd ema is made ed, near Mr. Folsom when he died, ae) Folsom had’ been stabbed to death im} though not holding the rope. medical service, I hurried to fe ae ROSS, his valet, is quest- “Yes, sir.” Mr. Tracy declared,|beach and found the man who had n and his wife, “we were within what you might|been carried there wrapped in a Be wat no ight is shed on the mystery. call a stone’s throw of him. Yes, sir, oss and lying on the ee Anastasia Fol ric and] ~ stone's throw y at @ giance that he was dead. i “Yer, as clase as that!” his wife felt his heart and hie pulse and then, 1 ROBIN Sacn corroberated. “‘We were nearer at assured oe a was et RIGGS and ROBIN SEARS, listening] first, but a big wave came—" Siva, tare SAA OO, eed, SS “It really seemed as if many gave their scant evidence from a desire to get called to the inquest and by that route reach the desired goal of newspaper publicity. WeekEnd Tripto ‘Manitoulin Island and Return + —1is therea doctor here?’ “Realizing the need for — t MACKINAC Island and Return took ST teas EM va furth uest for my sefy- . a é listening believe she already enter- “That was the wave hat took sndd, “y wont Gace tas the me . tPins 5 icions, him under.’ Tracy put i, but Mrs. Then,.after my bath, as I had ‘ é . 3 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY a x aan’ 2 wave took him luncheon engagement, I went away E CHAPTER XIV : . and did not return until ht in the . : ; a under. He was stabbed, you know— . oe Riggs and Robin Sears thought “Yes, and Miss Folsom turned afternoon. Including Meals Including Meals “Then the management of the ho- Bs deeply, and were suddenly brought|her piercing eyes on the speaker.} +.) asked me for ‘a certificate of = 2 tinal erage mane saw. him stabbed?” to Enow. “) death. This, of course, necessitated a “Well, then, I'll ask you, Mr. Bar-| “Mercy, no!" almost screamed the| or" Bort cree Fon, and you. Mr. Sears, to go with) frightened Mrs. “'Course Jleonowed a stab In the abdomen of @ at once to the office and give| gidn't know he was ‘etabbed then! the ddceaned wan.” your depositions.” Bat hé musta been, for that's when) “swith what sort of a weapon It was clear from the glance of|he let go the rope and went under Doctor Manning?” asked the tovon- » ‘Speaker that she meant Croydon|I saw him go under but at firet I e Sears and not his son. ara tee nothing of it we all - under) “so far as I can judge it , eager for the oppor en wave comes, an wel | rp-bladed knife or dagger. : tunity es the investigation | ose hold of the hl nga ect | anouie tava kxite Ueskuen iho ins ), earried on, said, quickly, “Come on, ne ie. + ie preg to ai cision that it made is wider at one ES “and I, of bai te Riggs) he was ner bps up by he. Ute a athe ee ae 7 eae oer added, which left only Madeline Bar- guards and by some men who stoo ing a sharp instrument, whose -blade and Berth and Berth .# . Eg Ss. S. mannounin’s wew Holiday Service Georgian Bay — Manitoulin and North Shore — Soo — Mackinac < SATURDAY TO MONDAY WEEK- END LAKE TRIP was @ Owen Sound Transportation Co.’s steel passenger and freight e 2 ¢ steamer Manitoulin” provides one of the finest trips on the Great Lakes : of Jul n Mackinac Island !s included F zB p ° bad 3 & o a s y FS £ 5 & Q ° 5 3 F B geek Lad 5 = .. jad Ample opportunity is ; Be Short points, to the Soo, makes an ideal o Mackinac Island for r alght-seeing on this most picturesque | ile most tourists will hope to plan provid one, such as is known as a steak the complete trip the Str. Maditoulin, islandthe tourist centre of the Great Lakes. | ron. and eo gee air behind. oe What men® Who?” asked Miss | 85 4 little over an inch wide. The | those comp canno spare the time will be gla .d ; “You _girle ¥ go up to your Fods harnly “Com peat incision is a clean, straight cut, but te know that the boat es 75 mil The steamer “Manitoulin” is’ of steel construction, 190 feet long, and : rooms,” Barron sa, glancing at his} © 0csoll. slarh hi i8b: =r one end of it is perhaps an _—— Wask-end tip from Owen Sound to Little modern in every respect, accommodating 150 passengers, running water : wife. “Run along faddy, and take elon . whe your husband one) 4? an inch and the ‘other o onan a tietar ance’ canto pry in every stateroom, steam heated, pore es saloon, excellent meals. = ; » Angel with yo Cun oa nents? nee . k width at all. This shows, apparently, arney, thence to Little Current, and retu 7 , ‘ “T will, Ned. Come to us there o, Ween ‘t,”” Tracy nag © UP). blade like a knife blade, with only ing, call nitowanin Killarney. Steamer leaves Owen Sound on Mackinac trip every Monday at 11.16 As soon as you can get ‘away.” for himself. IT had my = © 100K} one cutting edge. Not like a dagger ! e ves in ound again p.m., after arrival of trains; returnin Saturday morning. & eo Mites Foils € xd to marshal|#{ter and there was plenty of h Lblade. which has two sharp sides.’ on Monday morning. This will give The Ports of Call o a Mackines trip include Killarney, Manftow- 3 rye ole Sasaa ele a about if the man was in any dang-p ; i the r business man ening, Line Gusrent, Ragewone Gere Bey, Wiad Bae Shaamion, ceeraws Seng ths way, and ied * ae tee eee Deen ane | | and his family an opportunity to secure Bruce Mines, Hilton, Ric bards Landing, Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac Zi them to Room J. where already a “You, Mr. Barron?” Miss Fol- strument of death, Doctor Man- | a fi a —— - ew tee, : hia trip , . crowd was besieging the door 5 ee _ r aicerce : ning? as well as the regular one will also be we z : § ice W tense. Did yo ome to business men fr the —— oing > PINE > Tite Riggs and Robin Sears fell|Soml* voice wag tens 1 youl “The coroner held out to him a Inte Northern, Ontario aa they ee THE FINEST TRIP ON THE GREAT LAKES behind and the elder man said. “Sis-] "uy, 5 "9 aes “ lang sharp knife, much the size and good connections from North Shore “polats. No,"" replied Ned Barron. “I, too, cements all i a ter is certainly on the warpath! I had > wife i > charge. and ehape of a carving knife, a smal Steamer Leaves Owen Boun n ek- . shouldn't care to be the villain of ad my Wie th my Charge. and as end trip Saturday at 11.16 p.m., after aerival the surf was very strong, I didn't] 00 ht C.P. 3 i t - 6 othe paises if she is hunting him) ois my hold on her overt saw the | Carver. oh Binet SE 8 ax oa ak. Rates Se sna From Owen Sound vis Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island, North Shore, [dow commotion about Mr. Folaom. but 1},, Doctor Manning took the weapon with morning south bound trains. Sault Ste. Maric to Mackinac and return on S.S. Manitoulin. r i "No. And she will hunt him down a . in his hand and examined it closely. ry e excellent} meals and usual a a and convict him before she took no part in it Had my help). “So far as can judge,’ he said, a pervie the regular trip are pro- SE EEN Cena a es $45 00 3 through.” seemed necessary, I should, of course “that is precisely the kind of knife idea for this week-end o and Berth ....cccseser e have offered it. But with two able , a would make the incision I dis- lift guards and several quite evi- overéd on the dead ma A breathless silence .,| audience. “This knife." the ceeded, “But she can't do that all on her 3 " 5 “ur ~ E and: jiry ‘will bave pa a dently helpful bystanders, 1 saw no Fe an i a = me B reason for mixing in." 4 aay. Sears smiled. T beer “Where were you, Mr. Seara? 8 en i and Mis os ect reading ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to the pet Fol sm looked directly at . : ( roydon Sears. Barron kiddy,” he said. ‘and sister RETURN Meals & Berth Or, Owen Sound to Sault Ste. Marie and Return $32 00 es FARE Included For Tickets and Reservations Write— n. tell on the $1 2-00 coroner pro- “was brought to me a few moment before this inquest was op- : a s ; e * “Swimming about,’ he returned 1d ~ = reminds me much of one of the 7 «aa . ened. It was given me kg @ man who n rans re) a on Oo a ‘Singh ig disinterested Vole I — notli, now before me. Mr. T¥ acy. will a © ° : 5 o1 ‘ll be judge. I'll be jury.’ itlipele eons . ie cal a you tell of finding this knife? we F ear i a y *» Suid. & : > ’ ls . little embarrassed. Stephen : E. ae ry the hote cause and con-|thoush I saw a sort of excitement | pracy gtepped forward. He Bier the Owen Sound, Canada a , 3 . “/there, I no reason to think of a’ ze Fole ; ’ ‘ a man to whom Miss Folsom had talk- ENT : © A@Bn you to dean Jany tragedy until T saw them rarry. {aman to whom Mise Folsom had talk: OR ANY C.P.R. OR C.N.R. AG i menow cir i" ia For be ri °lin@\Mr. Folsom out to the beach sald nothing o: knit q i J i “me-very — cunning ol¢ And!then I aseumed that it was a Pe . ; ape “Yes, that just expresses hee: I'm stood near Mr. Folsom when : : ~ - much citurentad to see what she that.” of cramp or something like he went under yesterday.’ Tracy ' : .. «makes out of et ervatenes™ oy . said, “and not long after that I felt : - ™ - - ~ ~~ — . ° . —_ . ints thai 4 i ou knew my brother? . . . ntered Room J to find It he something on the sand under my! pelongs to it. As has been said, Mr. ey almost filled with would-be 1 ’ words were shot at him almost ac- witnes- y. eet. I stooped down and picked ft Coroner, that knife or dagger is the up, and ft was that Knife TI didn’t! weapon known as 4 pichaq and fs of t : - for at first there{Qrjental manufacture. Now, person- Was no thought of the gentleman be- ally. I can te u no more of the Royal Sedan $2305 “ft had met him a few times in business. I never act Mr Folsom socially,” It was amazing to see how many ple had suddenly bethought ‘peo: themselves of knowledge they pos- “No, stabbed. Then later, when J} matter than that, except that I can ? but I have have some letters | he ard. what had happened-to—hi . : é pe im, I Foerten: epee * oe —— he you have written him theesit- 5 lo that steht be tell you where the dagger came aay detore SIRO RE: WANE 3: DMIRIDE Ane” Vest "The macmoniylinhite was 4@/the weapon that was used. It's a—a a do so, Mr. Meeker.” SY Datective tenes and the hotel db- ried no invitation ea oe ha pee ig Ae ag peo - A hush fell over the assembly as " a tective, Dixo were at their wits’ — Oo, Mr. Tracy epson intorm-|they awaited the first real informa- J Tes, “ ’ 2 2 ih ed him, “it is not a carving knife, 7 hat, i Sortgat decide UEhict ones aa whieh Yes. You will be so good as to) At least. I have never seen a carver | alt | obability. was ‘the one that had ane appear at as Inquest and explain ait DIODE y of that kind of steel,~ or with such And the handle, or . If you notice you will see that , with-an air of mysterious knowledge, , pts it is of ivory, carved with a design| would bore into his very eoul. She thronged the place and more or lese of this conversa-jand an inscription. Carving knives looked like an avenging fate as her - tion. but as he noted his father’élare not like that. This weapon, Mr.|stong, stern face set itself into an | insistently tried to pour fourth their ve Be otortis. y p — indifference to the remarks| Mr. Tracy, is a picha those lette Eye aeowtl be or ail dismissed with c k workmanship. scant are : both ly all said Croydon Sears.| pijt anc women both. nearly a Robin had looked up anxiously killed Beadle. Fole N olsom aaied ‘at the witness Although the detectives gave Miss| of rarity Folsom precedence in the matter of ry. ; questioning the willing There was a stir In the back of was 6urprised at the deft/they kept a supervision of the af- the room, and a man ca handling of the crowd by the exper-!fair in their own hands, and made ’ red Jepsoa, whose knowledge ofa list expression of accusation. me °< te Riggs was deeply interested,|? ady. he breathed freely a-| “4 pick ax!" cried the bewilder- vet it was obvious that the man, * ; Fs and found himself a place near the gain and returned his attention toled witness. Meeker, could not have been impli- bs . ™ th 5 ’ ONS si ‘ ©. fnterlocutors, where he might get he scene before him. No. A pichaq, which is a dagger! cated in the crime, or ‘he would not "and value, from some!have offered the scabbard of the (the drift of the examinations goin 3 e 501ng Persian or Turkish country.” a weapon as evidence. “It came,” Everard Meeker stat- rose in hisj/eq, “from a shop.on the boardwalk. witnesses, and appreciate its great ut, after all, little was told of vany real help to the investigation. Most Garrett } to his companions Others told of seeing him on the h. before he entered the eurf, ‘but hone could tell of any one who death, they were willing it should be so, especially as it seemed to them that help might come through just that arrangement. And so the procedure continued. One after another the voluble wit- Wanting. Their stories were endgame and uncertain, their ere in i and sometimes tietitious.. their were y and unverified. So, after a morning’s work, a mere handful of witnesses had been instructed to present themeelves that afternoon at the inquest It would not have been held that afternoon, but that Miss Folsom’s regarded without exceeding oy ener orders could not be d ywHave the inquest,’ A wg ordain- ed. “Then, if you do get any- where, you can always “etiam for further investigation.’ *So it was set for two o'clock, and}s at that time the coroner's office was’ filled to overflowing and many dis- }appointed would-be auditors were turned away. CHAPT: The first witness called was, of course, Doctor Manning. He testified-that he was in the ocean for his daily salt-water bath. That he heard a commotion” near “Just what was the or the” coroner asked. ~“Descri it, ease.’ Pp “Its not easy to describe,’’ Doc- tor Manning said, thinking deeply. “For the roar of the surf drowned t Stepping forward,, he handed to the coroner a scabbard of metal and covered with worn velvet of a violet color. The. pichaq, called, fitted it so perfectly cou be no = t it w there they were made _|for each othe James Habbar d, the coroner, ex- perienced a decided feeling of satis- faction as he Inserted the wicked- looking blade into the ornate scab- ~ — found them a perfect fit. last,” uA een, to himself, “wea, ac a po Aloud, he s “Will you a me your name, sir?” “Certainly,” returned the am Everard Meeker, of Portland. Me. Il am é6taying at Qe Victoria Hotel, in Ocean Bade, I have been here a fornight 4 “And where aid you get reed ficnd- bard you have juet handed “T found it In the ocean santsicdas oon after Mr. som: had ‘bee carried ashore “Near where . Mr Folsom had been standing by the rope? “Not very near that Spot. Perhaps a hundred feet away.’ was a tall, portly -of a prosperous business man. He had a pleasant address and a genial}. ‘twinkle in his eye. Althou the raed sensation he was creating His interested gaze swept the.crowd of atientirs faces as he &t with one hand on the coroner’s table. “Yon found this in » n? a8 = that night?” Hubbard eagerly red. njand nineteenth centu . Meeker gentleman, -with the general effect} = Malling List” Oriental metal work. “And you know this dagger me its 6cabbard, together, were inga Tt know it was that was so in the collection hilt and its worn viclet velvet ecab- bard. A pichag, as you may or may not know; is a weapon sha most exactly like a small carving if as a straight blade, not a type made in India, urkey in _ eighteenth ny col- lector of arms would penne it at once, but to. the layman it looks astonishingly like @ steak carver.” Your information, Mr: Meeker, is of the greatest importamce. Have you any idea who bought this—er-- pichaq?t” “No, it was sold after I left the arn room. I went there for the express purpose of acquiring an Ind- an parade dagger, that I desired. 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