Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Page 4

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A Parody on “The Bridge.”

I sprang out of bed at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon shone o’er the barnyard, With brilliancy and power. I heard the horses kicking, As distinctly as could be, So I on with my pants in a minute, And ran to the barn to see. And far in the hazy distance. Of that lovely night in June, I saw the bright beams twinkle As they slid down from the moon. Under the long, black rafters Was a ton of bull-grass hay, As coarse as the weeds from the ocean, We had put in the mow that day. I walked into that stable, T’was as dark as dark could be, For I forgot to take my lantern Out to the barn with me. Each horse was standing quiet, <, As I groped, each stall to pass, I could hear their grinders crunching That marshy long stemmed grass. I climbed the hay-mow ladder ’ .Among the the wooden beams. And a flood of thoughts come over me, Of ghosts Pd seen in dreams. Then down the ladder rushing, I made for the open door, When an Angora goat in ambush Drifted me a yard from the floor. He sent me through that doorway, I landed on my side, For laying there in the noonlight, So mad I almost cried. My heart was hot and restless, And my mind was full of care, For the pain the goat had given Seemed greater than I could bear. How often, O how often, As the pain shot through my head, And the anger rose in my bosom, I wished that goat was dead. The moon in its broken reflection Was at zenith overhead, When I dusted my coat and breeches, Went home and crawled in bed. 6 Yet whenever I cross that door-sill, Or that son of a goat appears With his odor of brine from the ocean, Comes the though of other years. And forever and forever, As long as the bull grass grows, As long as the heart has passions, As long as life has woes. I think how many thousands Of care encumbered men, At lodge initiation, Have rode the goat since then.

THE IVORY QUEEN

CHAPTER H. DARRENT FINDS A CLEW. To say that Herbert Darrent passed a good night would have been to have stretched veracity to breaking point. It was cold in that small bedroom in the village hotel, and the discordant clanging of the cracked bell of the church clock from quarter to quarter and from hour to hour irritated him in his restlessness. His mind was far too active to allow his eyes to be wooed by slumber, and through the long watches of the bitter winter’s night the few threads of information that he had gathered tangled themselves into twists and knots in his brain, and the very fact that prima facie the solution of the mystery seemed to be so simple only served to worry and irritate him more. Detectives, after all, are only human beings, not mechanical contrivances, and their intellects, trained though they be to keener and clearer intuition than those possessed by ordinary men, do not render them free from the worries inseparable from complicated problems at which the solution is obscure. Darrent lay awake for hours wondering and speculating. Those clews which seemed to point at once to the culprit often, he knew, failed utterly upon closer investigation, broke off sudden and short, and, once the thread snapped, one was left absolutely without the possibility of following the trail for another inch and had to hark back to the very commencement again, only perhaps to have the same experience and the same result. One never hears of a detective’s failures. It is only his victories that are noised abroad. One does not learn of all the byways and crossroads, all the narrow lanes and blind alleys, that his search leads him into. It is only when success has crowned his patient task that one hears of him at all. Once when he had dozed off for a little while the dreary, monotonous recital of the untimely death of the wretched 20 cows disturbed his brain, and he awoke with a shiver to realize that, whatever the winter of 1881 in Nbrcombe was like to have killed the score of cows in one night, the winter of 1896 was quite as severe a one as he ever desired to experience. Thinking of the cows recalled the brief conversation he had with the driver of the dogcart. Evidently that individual did not think very much of Josiah Marsden and, moreover, had admitted to having a grudge against the murdered man because his rent had been raised. Was it possible that that man who told so glibly the story of a ghost was implicated in the murder? Perhaps. One never knew. But against that supposition there was the paper that had been written by the dying man, the half finished accusation that he had been murdered

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A Detective Story Of aCbic-igoSuburb. The Marder at The Grange and How Its Mystery Was Solved by Darrent. the American Lecoq.

BY NORMAN HURST.

by Astray. What a colossal idiot Donson was to have shown that paper to Astray I And directly Astray had seen it he fled. That certainly looked like guilt and yet might only be a sudden spasm of sea that a train of circumstantial evidence might be gathered together that would inevitably put the rope around his neck, be he innocent or be he guilty. There were indeed many black factors in the case that pointed to Astray. Let him recapitulate them: (1) Astray was not Mardsen’s own son, but had been adopted by him, and who could tell what Astray’s antecedents were or why Marsden had kept him? (2) Astray and old Marsden had quarreled and separated some two years back. Why ? (8) Astray had returned, after an absence of two years, on the very night of the murder. Why ? (4) The unfinished note written by the dying man seemed to accuse Astray of the murder. (5) Astray had fled. Yes; all these facts certainly did point to Astray Marsden as the murderer. All through the long winter’s night the disjointed fragments of the puzzle jumbled themselves about in the perplexed mind of Herbert Darrent until the dawn broke gray and cheerless. He gazed out of the window across the waste of snow to where in the distance the trees that fronted The Grange met his eye. Should he, he wondered, fathom the mystery of the midnight murder within that dwelling, whose smokeless chimneys stood out black against the wintry sky ? Breakfast, with its steaming coffee, its crisp toast, savory bacon and new laid eggs, over, and Darrent felt another man, ready to commence his investigations, to piece together every tiny scrap, every minute fragment, until the whole puzzle was complete, the mystery solved, Josiah Marsden avenged and justice satisfied. Mine host, who waited upon the • stranger from Chicago himself, was of a communicative turn of mind. Oh, yes, he knew the Marsdens, father and son—at least they called him son—well enough. Josiah Marsden was a strange sort of fellow; seemed to have no friends and no enemies. Visitors to The Grange were very rare indeed. Marsden kept himself to himself and never associated with the inhabitants of Norcombe; went over to Barnstaple once or twice a year. He rarely had any letters. Now and again one with a foreign postmark, so the village postman told aim, would come, or maybe he would have a French newspaper or a chess magazine. Young Marsden—ah, he was always a nice, affable young gent, he was! Many’s the bottle he’d had in the room where they were, now, and many more bottles he hoped to ppen for him Yes, Astray Marsden staid there at the Palace on the night of the murder, and in the morning, after Dobson had called and seen him, he left for Barnstaple. “Bless your heart, sir,” said mine host as Darrent buttoned up his coat and prepared to start for The Grange, “there are some people who suspect Astray of the murder, but they might just as well suspect me, sir—just as well-”

The irritating church clock chimed the hour of 9 as Darrent reached the gates of The Grange and found awaiting him, erect as a soldier on parade, the patrolman he had seen the previous night. “Good morning. I am glad to find you are punctual. ’ ’ “Good morning, sir. ” “Any message from Mr. Dobson?” “He hoped you would call upon him again this morning. ” “Right. Have you the keys?” “Yes, sir,” answered the policeman, unlocking the gate as he spoke. “I suppose you didn’t wee the ghost who committed the murder?” Darrent hazarded, with a smile. “Ghost!” laughed the young officer: “Not much. There’s no ghosts in Norcombe. I’ve heard the fairy stories about ghosts and The Grange being haunted, but I don’t believe any such nonsense, sir.” “Indeed!” “No, sir, not a bit of it. There was flesh and bleed on this job, sir, a looks like a case of revenge. ’ ’ “What makes you think that?” “Well, sir, as far as we can make out, nothing -in the-house has been disturbed and no robbery committed.” “Well, let’s get inside.” The policeman unlocked the heavy door and pushed it open. “Now, go slowly,” said Darrent as they entered, “and tell me all you know about the building. ” The door banged after them, and the dull echo of the sound reverberated through the house. The entrance hall gave access to rooms on either hand, and the policeman, unlocking and opening a door on the right, stood on one side for Darrent to enter. The room, which was at the back of the house and evidently the library, was a large and lofty apartment paneled in dark oak, and the old fashioned fur niture matched the decoration—solid armchairs with deep seats and sunk backs and a massive oblong table. The walls were lined with bookcases, but they were evidently very rarely opened, for Darrent noticed how thickly the

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dust lay in an tne crevices wnere tne glass doors shut. He walked slowly round the room. Two sides were entirely taken up by the bookshelves, while at the two others were the fireplace and a broad window. The chimney piece, with its high mantel in carved oak, had a couple of cozy corner seats, one on each side. The window, which was opposite the fireplace, commanded a magnificent view of the distant snow covered country for miles and the windings of a river, its frozen surface glistening in the sunlight. Some dozen skaters were gliding over the splendid ice, and Darrent, after watching them for a moment, turned with a sigh from the scene. He could not yet afford time for indulging in an exhila-

“Now, go slowly," said Darrent.

rating pastime in which he delighted, and, although a clear, unbroken stretch I of a mile or so of black ice temptingly invited him, duty called him, and duty I must be done. “Now, then— By the way, what’s your name?” “Thompson. ” “Right. I dare say you know mine already—Darrent. ” “Yes, sir.” “Is this the room where the murder was committed?” “Yes; this is where we found him, sir,” replied Thompson, indicating a spot on the floor between the table and the fireplace where an ominous dark stain showed. “Do you know the house at all?” asked Darrent, his eye upon the floor. ”JNo, six; never entered it till me day after the murder. We searched the rooms, but, as you know, discovered nothing. ’ * “Ah! Who went over the house?” “Chief Dobson.” “Ah, we’ll go over together presently, Thompson. Now, tell me, is the room exactly as it was when the crime was discovered, eh ? Nothing has been disturbed, nothing removed ?” ‘ ‘Exactly the same. Nothing has been taken away except a box of chessmen. I suppose Mr. Dobson has mentioned that to you already, sir?” “Ah, yes! They were called for yesterday morning, I understand, by a man who said he was a detective from Chicago. ’ ’ “Yes; that’s what he said, sir.” “Did you see him?” “No, sir. Mr. Dobson saw him. I was on my round.” “I suppose you have never seen the particular set of chessmen?” (TO BE CONTINUED.]

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