The Golf Course Mystery

almost universally accepted as the fiance of Viola Carwell, had been held as having vital knowledge of her fat

ed Viola, when they told her. "It can't be possible t

mbert. "The law is not always fai

r indisposition caused by the shock of Bartlett's testimony. Colonel Ashley, w

began Viola. "Have they a right

and they have, I am sorry to say, a right to

n a-a

etter quarters; and I understand that he will

jail, thoug

e witness rooms are not at all like c

he charge, absurd as it is, is not such as would make them keep him locked up w

e it is a murder case, and though Harry is not accused of murder, in law the disti

la. "Aunt Mary has money, too. You'd go his bail, woul

e world. You know that, dearie. But if the law feels th

Aunt

Carwell. "And he won't say what it was about. I don't want to tal

er forgive you for that!" an

asking her to suspend judgment and trust in him, and then he was taken to the county jail by the sheriff

m?" asked Viola. "Seems to me I've heard of some pr

as corpus proceedings," said Colonel Ashley. "In brief that means an order from the court, calling on the sheriff, or

he means of freeing the accused. In this case, if Harry persisted in his refusal not to tell about the quarrel, the judg

oh, Colonel Ashley, I am sure something

ry both for your sake and that of the mem

och Harbor, as well as the neighboring seaside places, talk of the death of Mr. Carwell

ve been except for the dark chamber with its silent occupant-was putting h

the familiar equipment. "Is we-is y

haven't eve

ut

o intimately mixed up in this mystery, and I don't see why I shouldn't keep my hand in. Come here, yo

o 'jections to lookin' at papers now, has you?" he asked hesitatingly. For when

I was going to send you out f

lled out from under his coat a bundle of papers that he ha

d, the colonel read the papers, which c

day he we

by some quiet and intensive thinking, that Viola spoke to him in the lib

he young doctor went very much into details, even so far as giving the various chemical symbols of poison, dwelling long on arsenious acid, whose symbol, he told the reporter, was As2O5, while if one desired to test the organs for traces of stryc

OH C21H22 +

or a column

found out anything ye

portance, I am

are worki

e you anythin

s all so terrible. And we can't even put poor f

secutor. It seems they are trying to find some one who

Harry isn't that kind. I'm sure he is not guilty. Harry Bartlett

ce and to prove Harry Bartlett innocent, we must fi

ry did it, do you?" Vi

t answer for a moment

h the crisis had not yet been passed, you would not expect a physici

N

his mystery case. It has only begun. The crisis is still far off, and n

Viola. "I know Harry B

who then?" ask

, I mustn't say that-Oh, I'm almost distracted!" And, with

had been reading, delving through a maze of technical poisoning detection formulae, from Vortmann's nitroprusside test to a consideration of the best

s "Compleat Angler." He delved into several books, and again read, very carefully, the article on the eff

amp, as though it had been splashed with water, and when the detective had read i

penned. "I am distracted. I know Har

witching off his light. It was an old rhyme, the source of which was not given, but which seemed wonderfully comforting under th

line, my floa

plummet, my whe

baits, both li

meat (for that

thread, and hairs

ng purse-and so

he dozed off, "I guess I'll need all

he been discoursing in the talk of Mr. Walton, and on going to the window

telling me the fish are biting unusually well. I hope they're not, for I must

yet is it from Viola. Printed, too! The old device to prevent detection of the

ot tearing the address, which, as he had said, was pr

a small piece of paper o

what this means.

er did, and the paper was of a cheap, common variety which might be come upon in almost any stationery store. The colonel read the message again, looked at the back a

one at the table. Either Viola and her aunt had already b

Ashley officially with the matter. The reporters seemed to have missed noting that a celebrated-not to say successful-detective was the guest of Viola Carwell. It was an hour after

u were here!" she exc

just going out. I was wondering if there happened

imed the girl, h

. If there happened to be one-Or perhaps yo

s. But I'm afraid I've f

a laugh. "Then there isn't a book givi

t if it wasn't too complicated. I remember that water is H two O

th a period after the C, a dash after the H and a star

hook he

That is too complicated for me. Isn't it

id the colonel. "I'll have to ge

ned to

anything more?" Vi

peak about,"

oon," she murmured. "This suspense is terrible

t softly up the stairs to the room of the girl who had summoned him to The Haven. With a skill of which he was master he looked q

p, a look of disappointment on his face, when he found a slip of paper

. H.