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f Parslave, thus bidden, screwed up
his face to the feat-of remembrance.
“Cloughthwaite fair day that was!”
he said. "I’d been there. Come away
from there end o’ the afternoon.
Then I went home, and according to
orders doctor’s orders, there
changed clothes. ’Cause why? I was
to go to London that night. Got my
supper then, and after that walked
along to the Woodcock. I went In there
and had a pint—the strange gentle
man as was stopping there, he come
into the room where there was a
reg’lar crowd on us, drovers and shep
herds and such like. He stood treat
all round drinks and smokes.
Gen’rous, he was' Then he went
away. I stopped a bit longer, then
I went off. To meet the doctor there
by arrangement. I met him. That’s
all as I did that night—before leav
ing.”
“Did you ever mention to anybody
that you were going to London?”
asked Maythorne.
“No, master, I never did,” replied
Parslave. “Hadn’t no cause to. I’m
a lone man —neither kith nor kin, no
body to leave. Paid up, I did, where
I lodged—and just went off.”
“Where did you meet Doctor Eccle
share?” asked Manners.
“Where it had been arranged,” re
plied Parslave, promptly. “Near
Reiver's den. He was to be there and
give me orders and my traveling
money. And there he was!”
i “Just so!” Eccleshare said. “There
I was! —and I think I’d better tell
you, as things are, precisely what hap
pened. Possibly, I ought to have told
, all this before. But I had reasons—
for silence."
I felt that at last there was going to
be some revelations as to the murder
,of Mazaroff which, up to then, had
never been made. And I began to feel
a curiously sickening sense of appre
hension, not unconnected with the
events of the previous evening. Ec
cleshare knew something!—£o, too,
probably, did Parslave. But —what?
“I say I had reasons for keeping
silence,” continued Eccleshare, settling
down to talk to us. “I had! —strong
enough for me. Perhaps I’ve been
wrong—perhaps in these cases —mur-
der! —nobody should keep silent, un
der any circumstances. And yet—
you'll see, as men, that I had reasons,
and weighty ones. Now I’ll tell you—
as it seems absolutely necessary—
precisely what happened to Parslave
and myself on the night on which
Mazaroff met his death. Let me be
gin at the beginning. Before I went
up north, to Marrasdale, I’d decided
to sell my practice—had sold it, in
sact —and to leave England for South
America and a quite different life —
prospecting, shooting, hunting, and
that sort of thing. I wanted to take
with me a man who’d be useful to
me—preferably a countryman ; a game
keeper, used to outdoor life, was the
sort of man I had In mind. At Mar
rasdale I camo across Parslave—as
you can see for yourselves, he’s just
the wiry, muscular sort of chap that
was wanted. He is, as he’s said just
now, a lone man—nothing to tie him
to England. He’s thoroughly up in
woodcraft and that sort of thing; in
short, he .was the very man I was
looking for. I broached the matter to
him. and we very soon came to terms.
There were certain things that he
could do for me here in London, so I
arranged that he should come up in
advance of me and stay at my house
until my return. We arranged further
that on the piglit after Cloughthwaite
fair, which he had to attend on busi
ness, lie was to meet me, and I was
then to give him money and some final
instructions and he was to leave for
Newcastle and London.”
“Why by Newcastle?” asked May- :
thorne. “It’s a detail, but why not by
Black Gill Junction and Carlisle? —
the more usual western route?’’
“I’ll tell you," answered Eccleshare. (
“Parslave has some interest in a bit '
of cottage property in Newcastle; as
he was leaving England he wanted to
see a solicitor in Newcastle who man
ages that property and to give him
some instructions about it. So we ar
ranged that, after seeing me, he was
to cross the moor to that little branch
line that runs east of Marrasdale,
catch the last train to Newcastle, stay
the night there, see his solicitor in the
morning, and then go on to King's
Cross. All of which, he will tell you >
himself, he did."
“Very well—and—your meeting that '
night?" asked Maythorne.
"I’m coming to that, now,” contin-1
tied Eccleshare. "I had told Parslave i
to meet me on the path between High
lodge and the Woodcock about
c'cht o'clock. I strolled out to meet
1 as soon ns dinner was over at I
< urthope’s. That would he about
ten rdnuto-- to eight. We met a little
to the forth r side-the side nearest
’’ ’ <r i«, ( j l?n As
.—.' 1 can recollect, it would then. |
be just after eight o’clock. We stood
a few minutes, talking. Then—”
“A moment, if you please,” inter
rupted Maythorne. He produced a
memorandum book, and laying it open
on the table before him, drew Ec
cleshare’s attention to a rough dia
gram penciled on one of the pages.
“Here’s a sketch that I made the day
of my arrival at the Woodcock,” he
said. “A sketch of the paths across
the moor. Now there are two paths
that lead from the direction of High
Cap lodge and go towards the Wood
cock. One leads directly across the
front of Reiver's den, at the very foot
of the rocks—we'll call that the higher
one. The other Is some fifteen or
twenty yards lower down—amongst
the heather; we’ll call that the lower
one. Which path were you and Par
slave on?”
Eccleshare bent over the diagram
for a moment, twisting it round so as
to get a clear idea of its geography.
He put his finger on a spot.
“We were about there,” he said. “On
the lower one. But —I don’t know if
you’ve made it quite plain—those two
paths (one, the lower one’s a mere
sheep track) almost meet on the west
side, the High Cap lodge side of
Reiver’s den, near Cowie’s cottage.
They’re only separated there by a yard
or (wo. Thetf the lower one goes
away through the heather to the top
side of High Cap lodge; the other
one passes High Cap lodge on the
lower side at fifty or sixty yards dis
tance and breaks into the moorland
road to Cloughthwaite.”
“Well,” said Maythorne. “Anyway
—you and Parslave were on the lower
one?”
“We were on the lower one—per
imps a hundred yards from Reiver’s
den. And,” continued Eccleshare, "as
I was saying, we stood there a few
minutes, talking. It was then quite
dark, but a clear, starlit night. We
were just moving away, in the High
Cap lodge direction, when we heard a
shot fired. It seemed, qs far as we
could make out, to be in Reiver’s den,
or’ just beyond it —I think it must
have been in Reiver’s den, because
there was a distinct echo from the
rocks. We heard nothing follow —no
cry, scream, anything of that sort.
Neither of us took any particular no
tice —I think we each had the same
idea; that it was a gamekeeper who
was after something. Ii) fact, we
heeded it so little that we went on
talking about our own business for a
minute or two after the shot was fired.
Then because it was time for Par
slave to be getting on to catch his
train we moved—coming over to the
other path because it leads directly
to the moorland road. We had just
got on it when we heard steps coming
along from the direction of Reiver’s
den. There were some high, thick
bushes close by, and—l really don't
know why we did it, but we did! —
we sort of instinctively moved into
their shadow, where it was quite dark.
And then, a minute later, walking very
swiftly, a woman passed us.”
“A woman!”
It was Manners who let out this
sharp exclamation. Like all the rest
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“A Woman!”
of us he had been following Eccle
share closely; now he showed signs of
excitement; clearly, some notion had
suddenly come to him.
“A woman!'’ repeated Eccleshare,
quietly. "A woman —tall, slender,
walking very quickly Indeed —we
heard her breathing, sharply. She
was past and gone, like a Hash.''
"In which direction?” asked May-
I home.
"Towards, Marrasdale,” replied Ec
cleshare.
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“And then?" suggested Maythorne
after a brief pause.
"Then Parslave and I went on again
—he was getting pressed for time. We
neither heard nor saw anything there.
We passed Cowie's cottage. You say
Cowie saw us together. Probable!—
! hut we never saw him. We walked
i quickly across the moor, struck the
1 high road, and parted. I went into
High Cap lodge, and Parslave—but
let Parslave himself tell you what he
did."
We all turned to Parslave, who still
sat perched on the edge of a chair
near the door, twiddling his thumbs.
"Went straight along the road to
Petherby station, then,” said Parslave.
“Caught the nine-fifteen train—last
train that is—to Newcastle. Got to
Newcastle at ten-fifty. Put,up at a
temperance, near the station, for the
night. Went to see Mr. Graham, the
lawyer, as soon as I’d had my break
fast next morning—’bout ten o’clock,
that ’ud be. When I’d done with him,
got a bit of a snack and then caught
the twelve-ten express to London. Got
to King’s Cross at a quarter to seven
that evening. Came straight here —
and been here ever since.”
“Let me ask Parslave a question
while I think of it,” said Crole. “Par
slave ! —do you mean to say that since
you left Marrasdale, you’ve never
heard of the murder there?—from the
newspapers?”
“I can't read, sir,” answered Par
slave. “I’ve no scholarship. Can’t
neither read nor write.”
“BuV you’ve been in the company of
Doctor Eccleshare’s housekeeper,”
continued Crole. “Do you mean to
say that she’s never read anything
about it to you—out of the papers?”
Parslave shook his head.
“No, sir—she hasn’t,” he replied.
“Don’t seem a paper-reading woman,
that. Her reads them story papers—
tales—such like. But I ain’t seen her
a-reading of newspapers.”
“Well, but you’ve no doubt been In
the habit since you’ve been here, of
going out to have a glass of ale at
some public house or other,” persisted
Crole. “Have you never heard it men
tioned at such times?”
“No, sir,” answered Parslave, with
solemn assurance. “Never! I always
go out to take a pint of ale at the
public up the street, but I ain’t never j
talked to nobody—don’t understand 1
this London talk —'tis all so much i
furrin language to me. And I ain’t
never heard nobody talking of the
murder.”
“You can take it from me, Mr.
Crole,” said Eccleshare, “that Par
slave never heard of Mazaroff’s mur
der at all until last night, when I re
turned home. I told him —we had a
talk last night about our own experi
ences near Reiver’s den that evening
in the light of what we remembered,
of course."
“That’s just what I want to ask
you some questions about, Doctor,”
said Crole. “It seems to me that
we’re getting nearer a solution of this
mystery than we’ve ever been before.
Now, you won’t mind if I ask you a
few straightforward questions?”
“Ask me anything you like,” replied
Eccleshare.
"You were at the inquest on Maza
roff’s body at the Woodcock,” said
Crole. “You gave evidence —”
“Purely professional evidence,” in
terrupted Eccleshare.
“Precisely—as to the cause of death,”
assented Crole. “Now, why didn’t you
tell the coroner and the jury what
you’ve told us just now?”
“And—if I may put a word in,” said
Manners, quickly, “why didn’t you tell
us—the police—all you’ve just told us
about Parslave, when you knew quite
well that we were looking for him?”
“As to your question, Manners, I
wasn’t aware of the hue-and-cry for
Parslave to the extent you think,”
answered Eccleshare. “My time
wasn’t spent in the Marrasdale dis
trict, so much as on the east side of
my host’s house. As to yours, Crole —
well, I’ve told you I possibly made a
mistake—no doubt I did. But I had
reason fqr silence. They’re easily
summed up. The person that Par
slave and I saw hurrying away from
Reiver’s den, where, presumably, mur
der had just been committed was —a
woman!”
Crole summoned our undivided at
tention with a swift glance round the
table. He went forward to Eccleshare.
“Now, Doctor!” he said. “Don’t
let’s beat about the bush any longer—
let's get at the truth, however un
pleasant it may be. Did you form any
opinion as to who that woman was?”
Eccleshare made a gesture of dis
like at the situation. But he bowed
his head and replied without hesita
tion.
“I did !—certainly!”
“Who was she?”
“Mrs. Elphinstone!’
"You feel sure of that?”
“Positive—without doubt. Ask Par
slave !”
Crole turned sharply on Parslave.
Aftd Parslave threw up his head with
a jerk.
“What do you say, Parslave? Who
was the woman that passed you?”
"Mistress Elphinstone, sir—no doubt
on it! Never had no doubt —myself.”
Crole turned again to Eccleshare.
“You said it was dark. then, but
clear, star-lit. How did you recognize
her?”
“Figure, walk, profile,” replied Ec
cleshare. “I’d no doubt at the time,
and I've none now. The woman who
passed Parslave and myself just after
—at least almost just after—we heard
the shot fired, was Mrs. Elphinstone.”
“That’s why you kept silence?" sug
gested Crole.
“I thought things out, next morn
inc," an-wercd Eccleshare. "I kent
silence—Parslave, of course, had gone.
I—well, I didn’t want to give a woman
away. And after all—there might be
explanations.”
“Explanations!" t exclaimed Crole.
"Ex—"
“Here's something that needs .ex
planation,” interrupted Maythorne.
“Doctor Eccleshare and Parslave agree
that they heard a shot fired near
•Reiver's den soon after eight o’clock.
Old Mr. Hassendeane told us, Crole,
when you, Holt, and myself met him
there, that he heard a shot fired,
about ten o’clock. Now then—which
of those shots was it that killed Maza
roff? Remember!—neither Eccleshare
nor Parslave saw’ anything of Maza
roff near Reiver’s den at eight o’clock
And yet, if the eight o’clock shot killed
him, he must have been about there
when they were. What do you make
of that?”
“Don’t know —it needs thinking out,"
answered Crole. "But —to my mind,
the pertinent thing is this. Doctor
Eccleshare and Parslave are both dead
certain they saw Mrs. Elphinstone
come away from Reiver’s den. where,
afterwards Mazaroff’s lifeless body
was found, robbed of money, valu
ables, papers, and his will. Now then,
neither Manners nor Corkerdale know
this —and I’m going to tell them, as
police officers. A few nights after the
murder, Mrs. Elphinstone was found
to be in possession of the will! How
did she get it?”
(continued next week.)
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GEORGIA —Early County:
To all whom it may concern:
S. G. George having in proper form
applied to me for Permanent Let
ters of Administration on the testate
of Maria Gilbert, late of said county,
this is to cite all and singular the
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Mrs. Ruby Lee Justice, of said
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