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\ ITHE BORAYAL OF OR. IRONSIDE…
THE BORAYAL OF OR. IRONSIDE < (A COMPLETE STORY.) I By J. i. lEYS. j CHAPTER I. THE DISCO VEKY, j I stood oa the white, silenfc road j minutes, waging for my friend. At leugtu i | minutes, waging for my friend. At leugtu i j grew tired of .vauaig, and determined to explsrv j the place v iout litui. i To my sr. rise, when I applied the key which the house r mfc had given me to the door in. the wall, r turned fruitless in the lock: the door was a-; ;dy open. I passed through, aaid found that had been drawn back and I secured; bj, :jaton. The last person who '<1 I •visited the pv amices had simply pulled the door to behind .it, s»,od the bolt being fastened i back, the I'- had remained open. On miy v.as a flagged paesage leading to a side dooi m the house. Bel ore me was the old house .-200if, one of those ancient dwellings of which vcr-7 tew are now to be found will, twenty mil 's j Jjoudon. The deep muliior.ed windows, high table*, many-shaped ehimn .ya, and, abov,e wth of And, above » tbs wild overgrowth of creepers, bushes, a1,: uarubo surrounding it, supphed countless charming bits far the pencil or the brush. "How p], .» ilarvell will be with this," I I said to inyso! I ascended the steps at the > front entru and opened the main door. 1 It was n -ely .d.V- curiosity that led me to j explore the for we did not mean to take it, merely to it lor sketching purposes. The rooms see* in jxo way remarkable, and I passed1 rap d from one to another. At the farther end of the hall was a baize-covered door, which I sup;K,» led to the surgery, for I knew the house had Leen last inhabited by a medical J man—Dr. lilacklock. I opened the door, wiuch led to a di.iily lighted passage. On my right was another door, which I also opened'; I was now in th>6 surgery. The light *>■ £ ".nred full on my face from two large windows, ajd I saw something black lying on the floor. "Ilallo!' X cxied aloud; "what's woman?" It was the 1 figure of a woman tying all in a J heap, ace If SÙ(c. ha,(l tumbled Dff the benc..h-a fixed bench ran along one side of the room. I supposed that she wa-s tingy, or had fallen down m • at. "What is matter?" I asked, trying to lift her. She v r- -as heavy as lead1. f lo-oked at her face and uttered a scream-a loud cry of terror. The face was almost black she was dead: A moment I stood trembling with horror. Then I tried to lift the body on the bench, but I could not. The womanSèem ed to be Letween forty and' fifty years of age. She was plainly but respectably dressed. t)ver one arm hun? a worn black-leather baig or reticule in her right hand she held a nosegay of withered roses. An awful expression cf pnin, anger, and defiance was on the dead «v-man's fare. A strong shudder ran through me as I looked at it, and I felt, a? though I must set i'nto the _pen air, or I should faint. Looking around, I saw that it was not necessary for me to go back the way I had come. There was a second door, which led apparently to the flagged passage which I had noticed. I opened the door, which was secured with a patent lock, and I stepped out, closing the door behind me. Slowly I walked away from the spot round ) to the front of the house, where the sun was ■hining. Before long I hea,rd a. rapid' step coming to me. It was Marvell. I "What a charming old place he called out. j "But what's the matter, Munro? You look 1 •s if you'd s*3>en a ehost. You're as white as a sheet." | In a few words I told him what I had dis- covered in the empty house and Marvell would hardly helieveme till he had seen the dead woman with his- own eyes. "Why, how d;id she come herep" he exclaimed). "That's the mystery—one of them, I should say. How dlid she cVe? I don't see any sign » wound. There's no blood on the floor." ) "Not a drop. But didn't you open the door I with the key the agent gave you?" "Yes, it was ln4^; but I found the door in the garden wall open. Never mind. It is for the police to find out who she is, and how she came by her death. We must go and tell them at once." Between us we managed to lift the poor creature's body up on the bench, and then we went straight to the police office. Of course the alTair made a great sensation in the little town of Ha.nbury, and as the house where the body had been found was only about a mile from the town, a curious crowd haunted the place for the rest of the week. Next dav it was stated that a woman was missing from 1 bouse in Dalton, and the London police sent down to Hanbury two persons who knew the missing woman. They identified the body at once. The deceased woman, they said', WI1." named Pndsey. She was, a widow, and she had rented a fair-sized house in Kensington, the greater part ef which she had let out in lodgings. Her only known relation ":&8 a daughter, who, it seemed, had gone to a situation as a milliner in Newcastle-an -Tyne me months before, and had not been home since. Of course I attended the inquest, and1 gay* j evidence as to the finding of the body. It did not seem nuite clear how the house had been entered. The hedge surrounding the garden bad evidently been broken through at one place. This would be easy for any one who knew the ipre.tni-seg, and it would be equally easy for any one inside the inclosur.e to open the garden door. But there were no signs of the ho we, itself bavins; been broken into. All this was mieai- tioned by the nolice officer who had charge of the proceeding. A specialist had been sent for to inquire into the cause of death, and1 this gentleman %aid that the state of the blood showed clearly that death was due to some powerful poison, such as those with which certain savacea tip their arrows. The poison had been introduced into the system through a small puncture on the wrist of the right hand, whereat bluish mark remained to mark the spot. Death had occurred at least twenty-four hours before the body had been found. It was tolerably plain that some one enticed this poor woman to the lonely, emwy house., and bad there murdered her in this strange fashion, and decamped, without leaving a .single trace of his presence. Ard accordingly the jury brought in a verdict.of "Wilful murder against some person or persons uptown. It was necessarv that the funeral should take place at once, and the arrangements were com- pleted before the police had succeeded in dis- covering the address of Mrs. Pudsev s daughter. The poor woman was buried in Hanbury churcn- "!y"d, and- nove but strangers like myseli toi- bowed her to the grave. CIIAPTERfi. 4 A CLUE IS FOUND. The excitement caused by the discovery t this crime If gooe result, it rou<5ec« my poor friend, -9-h Marvell, from the depression -unde r which he had been labouring for some weeks. He and I were fa,st friends true brothers of tl <» Km«h •- and I had long known "• as •" i hop! •?«. iHwion i.-r :1 i id whonl 1 1 ft n h1111. Mifs Floreuce «f fTP1,>r f"e r of a -viil'VJS phisiciai' wh;. > '> a harov.1. pi->d clij. wa« far b" 1 'Cv.ii of a namelesr; n.nd pennilesB artif One day th poor fellow came to my studio almost distra* 1. H0 had heard that e St. Helier wr length definitely engaged to one of her thicr'a 'acqnaintanees, a young doctor whose -rtz-r-ie, lav in his brains, n a me (i Ironside. The- .)eN,.s turned out to be true and Marvell fell ir I a of such deep melancholy that I became Ir.i ned for h;B sanity. In crder t > Tlr,,V-e -iiii-ii with change cf scene at a xr-oderate outlay, I had propo: ed that we shoulo,- .Ti n't all the old houses we oilld find near London, and make sketches of t^em. It was in this >, ay we had gone to see Hanbury Grange, as fhe empty house was called1. Marvell was g.ve*.i.iy interested in the mysterious crime which 7- ^een committed there but as all chance of uncovering the murderer faded away, he relapse i into his old melancholy. We had not. yci left Hanbury, when one evening, as w, sauntered together down the lane that led to the churchya.rd. we met a young woman -5th a. baby in her arms. She had a face thai —s still beautiful in its sweet- ness and I could well imagine that, as a anaiden, she have been lovely. She was dressed in very ordinary attire, yet without any of the marks rf peverty. As we approached, I she stood still, evidently meaning to speak to u. "Can you tell me, sir, where Mrs. Pudsey s grave is?" she said to Marvell. "I've been trying to find it but I can't." "JLt is not easy to tell you but it you conw with me, 1 will show you the spot," answerc' xaj friend. itie girl thi.u^ed him and walked on by hi. tide, wiiiie 1 ur-.poed oehiud. "May 1 ask yx. uame" said Marvell. The stranger biuslieHi and hesitated. HAr you. i' o duuu,uter?" be asked, witnoui further prena/ce. Xes, sir, i am, auvs.,tred the girl. "It wa, only yesterday tuat 1 lound out what had h&jjpfcjued. But, oh, sir," she buret out, "you doii t think my poor mother was murdered, do you i" "I'm afraid it is too true," said Marvell, gravely; "and I trunk that you could help LUS to discover the cnni.nal." 1, Sir?" the woman, in evident «arprise; "tin t I'm sure I eoulUii't. it's e.g^t mouths since i iett home; and I—i can't imagine wiio have hurt my mother, if any- body hurt her. j borne thing ithe girl's tone struck me as peculiar.. It .most, seemed as if sh.e weie ckefeading he) •. f; as if she were protesting tpo loudly her inability to avenge her mother's; Mood. The f-tme thougut had occurred to Marvell, for Ir graced suarply at the girl as he .snd- r, "You can aL least give me the name of some one who was rot on good terms with your mother, or some one who had something to gain by her death." "No, hadn't an enemy. in the world that I Luw of, and she had no money to leave." "But it must have been someone's interest to get her out of the way?" "So it wouk, -eem, sir. You said you would •how me the :*ave." (By this time we had reached the bv.y;.):,g ground.) "Just one 0,( question first. Did you ever r bear your mother speak of Hanbury?" "No—never." -it "Not of having been here, or of friends she bad here, 1 0 "Never." The girl's voice had an honest ring, but her eyes fell beneath mv friend's searching lock. This, however, might be due to her modesty and her grief. Evidently it was impossible to ques- tion her further. Marvell pointed out to her the spot she was seeking, and, taking my arm, walked slowly aw ay- T "Munro," he said, gravely, if I am not very much mistaken, that girl knows or suspects more than she will allow." "Wha,t! You do not suspect that child, for she is hardly more 11 "To be a m 'rdere,&S? No. And yet her u answers seemed to be wanting in frankness. I glanced back. The poor girl had laid her foabv on the turf, and had fallen on her knees at the foot of the grave. We could see that she was weeping bitterly. "Come away," I sa'd, impatiently: we can- not intrude on the poor thing's grief. After all, it is no business of ours to unearth Mrs. Pudsey's murderer." Marvell made no replv, and we set out on our way home. We were still a mile or two from our lodgings, when it began to rain and so heavy was the downpour that, before the distance was accomplished, we were wet through. Having reached1 our temporary home and changed our wet clothes, we sat down to supoer. After supper we filled our pipes and, as I was searching in my pocket for my box of vestas, I found and pulled out a Ideh- key-one which I was sure did not belong to -me--a latchkey on a steel ring, w.ith a small key of peculiar shape also hanging on the ring. "How do I come to have your latchkey in my Socket*" I asked, tossing the thing over to arvell.. „ „ *My latchkey? This isn t mine. "Isn't it? Then it must belong to our Land- lady." I rang the bell, and asked the question. No; our landlady assured us that the key did not belong to her, nor to any member of her family. "It is very odd," I remarked. "Very" said Marvell, with a strange look on his face.' "Do vou know what key 'this is? "No. Do you?"" „ "It is the key of the empty house! «{rrreThe*e aw the clothes, I rem em- ber, you had on the day you discovered Jh« murder. Have you worn them since? I think n°"*Waifci" I cried. "I have it! When I first diJvered the body, I felt as if I were going to faint, and went out of doors by the nearest way, through the door that opens from the. surgery into the garden. I was quite giddy at the time and I have no doubt that I closed the door be- bind me, and finding a latchkey m the door I slipped it into my pocket mechanical y, literacy without thinking what 1 was Jomg. The murderer, in the excitement of that a^fid mo- ment. hurried away from the scene of IllS crime, forgetting that he had not removed the key from the door. It seems to me. Marvell,_ that wno- erer puts his hand on the owner of this key, puts bis hand on Mrs. Pudsey's murderer. CHAPTER III. THE POTSON LOCKET. Of course I handed the latchkey, or rather the two keys, which I had- found, to the police on the following morning and two days afterwarcj IfarwtU and I returned to London. Further reflection had made me agree with mj _.r j 1 i*. thinking that the srir! we hnd IB Mie churri'iVard lane—Mrs. Pudsey s aaughter could furnT-h the police with valuable informa- I tion aixl I thought it better to write. to the I a-nlhoTitv*?, a.-l; Socr'^n^ Yard-, and tell th our irvee'ing vnih thr iir! + t time whpther tbet had succeeded in h id '4 Pi"l The answer was efloris I., t. j' }L< ^<>.is;ev in Newcastle had ."i.ih w ar ■_ '.L, had elapsed since she leit "iionie. it za ,n' thought*iikelv that she had had anything to do with the crime, or that she would be a-hle to I throw any light upon it. n, Some weeks passed. Marvell gvaduuav cc- lapsed into the melancholy from which c •» formerly been suffering; and it was ch 1 ft view to rouse hi-s interest. and an, 1 of himself, that I proposed to him ere rh-v '!l,t we should run down to Hanbury. ai 1 a*' > I whether the nolico had made any pros.. ■> r,. ir I tlt-ir inyflstiaat-'oris conrenrn" the key. As I exnecHed. the sape-intendnnt of police, when T put my question, shook his? head wr+h a 3ip7le of superior wisoom. "What can von make of a key?" he said "wy one rna-v have a key." very few persons, I should think, coma have had this particular key," I suggested. now—there's the house z.??r\ r.esnpc,ahIe man, married family pl rrnwn and df 'r? iv,ell. Tlr (,Rn't bad tiigt yours. Then there's the own en, an old fpmi I*vjjio" in T-I.-tl% who avr ,H i-I 1- his life. Then there's the last tenant, Uf. jj'^ck- lock. He liTred in the house twent.v-e;ght. is ne tired now; stays at LewiMiam. qnite J" | If vou suspect li;m. well, fill 1 i". never get Anybody in Hachi"^ cc liir>v<a you. He was liked and respected by e^-s-ry- bodv." "Did he sell his practice?" I asked. j "Yes. ■fi-ir and the gentleman who bousfnr. h I Mr. Meyhr'ck, took a new house close TO thn i town, 'as ;his bride thought the Grar.ee w»* I gloomy. But he could never have anything to do wit';> t^e keys of a house he never lived ji "And he oould hardlv have purloined a before n". BlackWk left. on purpo-So" to a mairder some two years afterwards." put I QTl possession of the kevs, prom'si-ot ra back to the nolice if thev ^h-'Mild re- ouire h"!m; and Marvell and I walked hark to the station. "This is an interesting cace." ,(I mv com- panion. "Sunpose we try to solve it?" "T quite Avillins." I answered; "hnt I hardly -ee what we can do. The police ar" at fault. "Thw seem to have taken no trouble about the mat er," said Marvell. "I mean to go and see D- Blaeklock. It seem,si to me all but cer- tain fchat the key belonged to him, and it must .have been carried away by him, or by ore of his .rvai-ii-R. perhaps, when he left Hanbury." We ■ returned to London, ran down to Lewisi- ham. and called on Dr. Blaeklock. He was a pleasant, intelligent, white-haired man. wdl over seventy. To our surprise. the doctor declared that he had never before seen the latchkey I had taken from the door of the surgery at Hanbury Grange. "The keys belong- in^to'ihe door were longer," he said, than the on I showeil hi-rn. "And you will admit, gentle- men," he added, "that after carrying a latchkey for some thirty years, one must have a toleiably accural idea of what it is like. But if you want corroborative evidence I can furnish you with it. Tlere is a gentleman corning up the avenue who was my assistant for two years. If his recollection coincides with mine you will agree that I am right." "We h ul hardly time to make a suitable reply, when a tall man with sallow complexion, piereiog dark eyes, and a full black beard entered the room- Dr. Blaeklock introduced us in such a slip- shod way that I did not catch the sirangerll name, and handed him the latch-key, which had not be-n removed from the ring. The new- comer L ded a keen look at Dr. Blaeklock, at me, and at my friend, and then bent over tho keys, as to examine them very eaiefuliy. I happened to glance at Marvell. He had turned deadly • V. No, i recognise the kêys at all," said Dr. Blacklock's hlt-e assistant, in a distinct, mea- sured tOilo. "YoL ou'j; guess what house they say that latchkey belongs to? The house we lived in at Hanbury. the one in which the dead body wa« foiind l' cried the old doctor. The gentleman shook his head. "You "sed to have a latchkey for the surgery door, but it was longer than this, wasn't it?" "Yes," answered ti.e gentleman whose name I had not caught. "I feel sure the 9urgery latch-, key w a,- longer." We ren aiued after th:6 for a few minutes, during which Marvell, I saw, was impatient to get. away. At length we took our leave. "I can t bear to sit in the same room with that man," said Marvell, clutching my arm. "Why? Who i* lie? "Didn't you hear his name. He is Dr. Iron- side, the ruan who is to marry I understood, and gave my friend's arm a sym- pathetic squeeze by way of reply. "What are you going to do now?" he inquired. "Thiow this key into the Thames," said 1. As I spoke I felt for it in my pocket, and could Dot find it. "Have you got it?" I asked, flinging my hand into my other pocket. "Got what?' asked Marvell. "The key? Not I! I never touched it." "I must have left it on the table," I said, "or dropped it on the floor, or Dr. Blacklock may ,have it, or Dr. Ironside," and I began to walk rapidly back to the house, anxious to regain pos- session of the little bit of metal whi-ch I had just said I would fling into the Thames. "I needn't go back with you," said Marvell to me, but watch that man Ironside sharply, and see if he drops the key aud pretends to find it for you." I started, and hurried on faster than before. What could Marvell mean by that? I wondered. That Dr. Ironside might have quietly picked up the key from the table, under cover of our leave-taking?—that he had an interest in getting possession of it, and. not daring to retain it, would return it secretly by pretending to "find ? Then Mnrvell s»uspe»ted Dr. Ironside of being Mrs. Pudsey's murderer? But then, I reflected, the doctor was my friend's successful rival. Be- sides, the idea was absurd. What interest could a well-tc do. fashionable doctor have in the death of a plain, midd'e-aged woman, like Mss. Pudsey? I determined, however, that I would watch Dr. Ironside close'y, and if I saw reason t.o think that he had tried secretly to gain pos- session of tne kev. I would mention the circum- stance to the police. After all, he was ore of the very few persons who mi?ht conceivably have committed the crime, one of the very few who might have retained possession of a key for the surcerv door. The two doctors were still together when I re-entered the house. I explained my lose end, a« I kept a corner of my eye on Dr. lrontulo while I hunted about, I distinctly saw him slip the key down oa the floor behind a bassock, and then pick it up. That nigiit I went to Scotland Yard. and com- nnnicated my suspicious to the Chief Comaiv vioner of Police. -r About a week ,¡rL.p, r:, d5 rece- d inote from the detective in h'^—o of the <■ e, a man named Tobin, asking me to go wit-i to Dr. Ironside's house next d--y, and "A-r;?v the key I had .fonrd. np-- private mark. ] did roOt j •»•» th r V.. -i.1 yet I curious, indeed anyiov". to r:i" Vr ?*n,d been discovered. A few yards from the hr e Jmei o n, e s c,,i uiong far behind him. "I wanted you to see ",1.c iVe open, so that you could swea" fr it; he said. A few steps brought u • r> The detective pulled ou' I in.rte<J it in the patent lock, and cr ;1\ !L3 deor half an inch, closing it r-r, (C ate:v. "Do you recognise the he •» «i red to me, holding it up to is t as he ra'.g the bell. "It is the same," said 1. In le s than a minute tve wen. vr into the doctor's consulting room. lie t 1 up as we entered. Mv companion wp,.Ilred to h "May I ask if these v he in- quired, gravely. The doctor turned a shade nr. he glanced at mie, and answered, sh.r-■ < already told this nerson that thev "Odd for one of them ? nr front door. The other opens the desk oi .ou. v tins table." The wretched man tried ti >•" j Me could not. The officer coolly inserted email key in the li}"k of the de~k, and krned it icvnd. "That is nothing." stammered out Dr. Iron- side. "Keys often open lucks which they were id,eve- iniended to open." He drew out one of the drawees of table as he spoke, and put in his hand. Ti- de-tec- tive appeared not to najj" him. Oircfy the i doctor withdrew h'03 Smr.ci from the draper. ] "NVlirt have you got there, sir?" cried the de- tective, seizing his hand. "Stop t r-b You have ki Ped ir? The olTlcer relaxed his prn«i;. The doctor opened his finger, and ,a t'"T a locket, 1 made of steel, fell on the cJir;v- I "What is this?" asked th", detective, nicking it up. "Shov it to me—on the palm of your hand," said the doctor. The man did so, and th.) doctor madf) a furious da-sh at his hand, tryin?, as it jteamfd to me. to i ecjneeze l'is captor's l-.md ever i'K-ket. The police officer, howevef 'n-'lv ..I.; doc- tor's grasp, and d opped the 'u >i :• ■<^ locket on the ground "You are my p-iscner," said the detective, calmly. "It doesa't matter," 'aid the er. with eoual calmress. "T shall ho n -led twenty-four hours. Without- intend ng it. you have ren.do'-ed me r>, r." I Ev.orv effort 1'a 1l1f1(1,? to ?ave the <lJ] Y an'a life. hut in vari. The 'r1 locket f>! ed wth. a virulent po:son— as d, n^Iv a-s the lH);dH1 of 1th° rattlesnake-. Tt wa -turn11* ed on OMP with tinv need'ed'ke points, whi"h merged ihe skin without inHrtvEr par* n'"t;rinnr, t abf, it"1 ibe no-'prn into the veins of the pe' son whose skin had keen pureed. I It was cl,'Oar t' at D". I»*on«ide had forerotien to cive up his latrhVev ht. left TTnvthnry Gra-q,aiid he h"rl acrid-r:ta lvchsro, c e1 that it I would open the door of his home. He had accord:nglv uced owr Ird^hhey to gam ad- m:t,fance to the env; end, bavins enticed Iv* -"i-^t'm to »»nte- ohT e. he had offr-ed her some roses, shaking with he" at the same rime, and in -,o had r» -e^sed the oned I ;or.ket upon her v-r-t. rs. Pfdpev, <-nr.->kmaf that the. of the roses had pricked her, l ad not b-en ab'-mcd. And then, we con- jectured, he had remained talking to her until she pp-a-v-:is. induced hv the no'son, set in and I prevented her from ienv-'ng the house. As for the motive of ihe o-ime. a little inanity maw that we had got on the right- trackt soou made that onlv too n'a.n. There was little .rondel* that the poh'-e couid not find Mi.« Pud- g,?v at. Newcastle. Sh-9 had neTer rcru there. f Ù bad eloped with Dr. Ironside, who, at one time. h(l had rooms in her n other's house. g. p-^v.ny had insisted on a mnr 'iase-taking place, and the doctor had, ir; his turn, insi-ted on its kept, a profound secret- Bclt, long since, he had grown tired of his gentle, stupid, uncultured bride and. havinT fallen medly in love with Miss St. Helier, he determined to rj,k evervth'ng and marry her. It was not from hw wHoe: but from his mother-in-law that danger I threatened him. No doubt sihe had d'scovered his intentions, and had intended to denounce him. The locket (either a rehc of bygone ages, or a modern imitation of some such relic) had suggested to the doctor a means of carrying out his murderous design in silence and in secrecy. Florence St. Helier never knew tie true earn* of her lover's sudd,en death and, of course, time lessened the violence of her sorrow- Two years have passed since then and Marvell, I can see, is not without hope that he may yet gain the object of his desires. He hpe taken Ironside's young widow and her child under his care. She is certain, he tells me, to marry again. I could not but think that she had some suspicions as to ihe way in which her mother came by her end. But she never knew for certain that her husband WAS a murderer; nor did any one ever tell' her that he himself fell a victim to the deadly power of the poisoned locket.
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