The Golf Course Mystery

r a few days-some relative's where she can rest a

o with her myself to Pentonville. I have a cousin there, and it's the quietest p

n get her away from here.

the mystery? Won't you want eit

oth of you, but you will be all the better fitted to render it when you return. S

ou wil

you. I'm glad you have colored help. I can always get along wi

and Miss Carw

the request of the prosecutor-it was not considered necessary to keep the poor, maimed body out of its last resting plac

el Ashley, when Viola and Miss Carwell had departed the d

e gen'man, an' hab him 'rested, won't yo', Colonel, sah?" asked Sha

ennebec rod and the sixteen line. I think there are some fighting fish in that little river that runs along at the end of the golf course.

rout! that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than your hi

om Walton just naturally makes me hungry for the speckled beauties. But I ca

Yes, sah, Colonel!" and Shag shuffled a

up his whole attention. In fact he was rather glad that the fish were not rising well, for he had entered in

d now, just because some years ago Horace Carwell did me a favor and enabled me to make money in the co

it was a most skillful and fateful one. How he could swallow poison and not know it is beyond

veral places had settled down under a shady tree at an eddy where the waters, after rushing down the bed of the small river, met with an obstruction a

onel threw in his

riend Walton would, matters in their sequence. Horace Carwell is

s over in his mind the various persons who had come unde

that it disposes of him in a certain order-disposes of him or-involves him more deeply," and the colonel loo

the colonel asked himself. And the answer, nat

the questi

? Why is Viola so sure Harry could not have done it? I think I can see a reason for

ry Bartlett, Colonel Ashley mentally passed that card in his f

I would say so, I must keep him on my list. He also is in love with Viola,-just as much as Bartlett is. I shall list Captain Poland as a remote possibi

information the day before. He had got, by adroit questioning, a certain knowledge of the French chauffe

ide had told the detective. "He's a good driver, and knows more about an ig

o you

had to tell me what was wrong with it, as I couldn't dope it out. Then when we got it running for hi

he go

e drove like a snail. One of my men went with him a little way, to see that everything was all right, for Mr. Carwell is very particular-I mean he was-a

the chau

looking behind to see that no other machine was coming, and when he passed anything on t

afraid,

when he took me for a- Well, I never saw him, but how else can you account for it? Drink will make a man drive like old

aken something o

do you

op

bold as brass, and I guess he'd have driven one of them there airships if any one had dared him to. Then, the next day he was l

emed afraid to spe

ever driven it to the limit, and didn't want to handle it at all. And he spoke the truth, for I heard th

ng to engage him, but if he has such a reputation-not reliable, you know, I guess I'll look farther. Much obliged,"

ep Forette out of a place!" protested

e's out of a place anyhow, since Mr. Carwell died, a

. You know we hav

derst

iew before the mind of the fisherman as

ive a car. I'm glad he isn't in my employ, and I'm better pleased that he won't take Viola out. This dope-bad stuff, w

d had on it the nam

n audience, as he had at the inquest. Well, I don't know anything about you, Mr. Blossom, neither for nor against you, b

rwell had been a member. There were also the names of the household servants, and the dead man's nearest relatives, including his sister and Viola. But the colonel did not linger lon

e mused. "I may need it to find out what k

een book by his side. But he did not open it now, and though his gaze was on

colonel, breaking a stillness t

lored man awoke with a skill perfected by

ishing here

lonel. Shall

ything-even the evidence of Mr. Walton himself-it ought to have be

ll call from his delicate reel, and a momen

a most monu

onel. Dat's wh

net and see if you can forget that you're a cross betwee

s,

e the colonel, on the bank above the eddy, played the fish that had taken his bait and sought to de

rod bent to the strain, but it did not break. It had been

ering the frail means used to ensnare the big fish. And the pr

, Shag!" order

, I'se al

hich was curved like a bow, when there came a streak of something white sailing through the air. It fell with a splash into the water so close to the fish that it must have bruised its scaly side, and then, in som

rt of Colonel Ashley. He gazed at his dangling line

ha

sah, C

happ

t' know. Must hab been a shootin' star

rom somewhere back of the fringe

that forty-five and sixty-four hundredths cylindrical feet of water will weigh twenty-two hundred and forty pounds, figuri

rejoinder. "But I'm ready to bet you a cold bottle th

on, we'll