The Dover News (Dover, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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THE NEWS, DOVER. OKLAHOMA.
We Want
ALL OIR READERS
To Meet
THE
GOVERNOR'S
LADY
SERIAL
STORY
We
Chronicles
sf
Addington
Peace
By B. Fletcher Robinson
Co-Author with A. Con n Doyle of
"Till Hound of the H «kervil!c«," etc.
THE MYSTERY OF
THE JADE SPEAR
_ —■' .CWiLkdaSKi'ia ■'!
'1 he Governor's Latly
1 he Governor
The "Other \\ nman'
(Continued.)
Aa it disappeared up the avonne
towards the house I heard a faint
bubble of laughter In my ear. 1 turn-
ed In surprise.
"Why, 1'eace." 1 said, "what 1b the
Joke?" ft
"There is no Joke, Mr. Phillips.*
he answered. "It was fate that
laughed, not I."
There were moments when, to a
man of ordinary curiosity. Inspector
Addington Peace was extremely irri-
tating
We walked up the avenue In si-
lence. The motor was standing at the
front door, the chauffeur, a bright-
faced youngster, loitering beside it.
Pea^e greeted him politely, entering
at once into a dissertation "Pnn
greasy roads and the dangers of side-
slips. Was there nothing that would
prevent them? He had heard that
there was a patent, consisting °
small chains crossing the tires, thai
was excellent. t
"It's about the best of them, sir,"
said tiie lad "Mr. Hulstrode uses It
on this car sometimes "
"So this is Mr Anstruther Bui-
strode'a car?"
"Yes. sir. lie was the brother of
the poor gentleman inside."
"The roads are fairly dry now."
continued Pear*, "but if yn had
been out !his •morning——"
"Oh. Mr. Hulstrode had the chains
on this morning," he Interrupted. I
did not go with him. but when lie
came back ho t(4-l me he was glad to
have them, for the roads were very
bad."
"And Mr Hulstrode thought the
roads were dry enough this afternoon
to do without them?"
"Yes lie told me to take them
off He "
"1 am glad to see the police inter-
est themselves in motoring." broke in
a high-pitched voice behind us. ' I
was under the impression—false as
1 now observe—that they were con-
firmed enemies to the sport."
A yellow husk of a man was Mr
Anstruther Hulstrode, as I knew this
stranger must be. Years under the
Indian sun had sucked the English
blood from his veins and burnt their
own dull color into his cheeks. He
stood on the step of the porch with
his hands behind him and his little
eyes glaring at the inspector like a
pair of black beads His mouth,
twitching viciously under his strag
gly mustache, proved that the poor
colonel had not been the only mem
her of the Hulstrode family possessed
of an evil temper. Over his shoulder
1 could see Miss Sherrick's white
face watching us. And now she
stepped forward to explain.
"This is Inspector Peace, uncle."
she said nervously.
"I know, my dear. I know. Do you
think I can't tell a detective when I
see him So you have caught your
man eh, Inspector?"
"If you will come into the library.
Mr. Hulstrode. I will answer what
questions 1 may."
It was now close upon eight o'clock
and the pleasant twilight of the long
summer evening was drawing into j I w:
heavier shadows. There was no gas | pact
in the old hotise< but Miss Sherrio
ordered lamps_ to be brought in \\
all seated ourselves about the bi
i fireplace save Peart, who stood on I
the hearthrug with bis back to the
Howers that filled the empty grate.
The shaded lamp dealt duskily with
. ur faces. There was a strain, a
i va-jue anxiety in the air tha* kept me
j S ailing forward in my chair, nervous
i and watchful.
"Well. Inspector." repeated Mr. Bui-
I strode, "what is your news0"
For answer. Peace walked up to
the lamp and laid beneath it the jade
! spearhead, now cleaned and polished.
| with its four inches of broken shaft.
"Do you recognize that, Miss Sher-
rick?"
j The girl bent over it without alarm.
; She had no idea what part It had
played in that grim tragedy.
Certainly." she said "It Is a
unique piece of stone and Colonel
?'ulstrode prized it more than any-
thing else In his collection I know
it was hanging in the hall this morn-
ing. for 1 was at work with a duster.
How did the shaft come to be brok-
•We did not come here, Mary, to
| talk about jade collecting," snarled
the old planter.
"But does the spear really belong
to you, Mr Hulstrode?" asked the
inspector, blandly.
The man stiffened himself In his
chair with hi* fists clenched on hiB
knees, and his beady eyes staring
straight before him
"That spear is mine, Mr. Detective
My brother having practically stolen
it from me, threatened me with per
sonal violence if I attempted to re-
claim it. It was the most perfect
piece of workmanship in my own col-
lection I shall take legal steps to
claim my rightful property in due
course."
"Your brother seems to have acted
in a very high-handed manner with
you. Mr. Hulstrode. I wonder that
you did not walk in here one day and
recover your property "
The planter rose with a twisted
laugh.
"I'm not a housebreaker," he said.
"Also. I must point out that I don't
intend to sit here all night. Can I do
anything more for you, Inspector?"
"No, Mr Hulstrode."
"Or for you. Mary?"
"No. uncle I have my maid. an.
; there Is Agatha, the housekeeper."
"So that's all right. Let us thank
1 Heaven the criminal is no longer at
' large. It didn't take long for our
excellent police to make up their
minds Gad! they're clever beggars.
They had their hands on him smart
enough. It is a pleasure to meet such
a man as you, Inspector Addington
Peace. A celebrity, by thunder, that's
what I call you."
He burst out Into a peal of high-
pitched laughter, rocking to and fro
and clutching the edge of the table
with his hand. Then he bowed to us
all very low and swaggered out of
the room. Peace stepped out after
him, and I followed at his heels.
A lamp hung in the roof of the
porch, and Mr. Hulstrode stopped be-
neath it. In Its light he looked more
tierce and old and yellow than ever.
"It Is no good, Mr. Hulstrode," said
Addington Peace.
"Kxactly; can I give you a lift?"
he said quite quietly as he i>ointed to
the car.
"It would certainly be rncst conve-
nient."
Mr. Hulstrode laughed again. leer-
ing back at me over his shoulder, as
if my presence afforded an added zest
to his merriment There seemed an
understanding between him and the
inspector. Frankly, if puzzled me.
"You do not make confidants of
your assistants, Mr. Peace." he said.
The little inspector bowed.
"At the same time," continued the
old planter, "1 should like to make a
statement before we go. There is
no necessity to warn me. I know the
law."
"It Is Just as you like, Mr. Hul-
strode."
"If 1 sneered at the police this
evening I now make them my apolo-
gies. You have managed this busi-
ness well. I still do not understand
how you come to accuse me. Re-
member, I did not know he was dead
until I received a telegram from my
niece after lunch. It was rather a
shock; perhaps at first I was of a
mind not to confess. It would have
saved me much Inconvenience."
"And endangered an Innocent man,"
said the inspector.
"Well, well, you couldn't have
proved It against him, and I might
have escaped. The whole affiir was
an accident. I had no intention even
of wounding him."
"Kxactly. Mr. Hulstrode—no more
than the excursionist who throws out
a glass bottle Intends to brain the
man walking by the line."
The truth was clear enough now.
In some strange fashion this man had
killed his brother. I stepped back
a pace instinctively.
"You see," he continued, "brother
William had, under circumstances of
no immediate Importance, appropriat-
ed my jade spear. I made up my
mind to £et it back. I knew the hour
at which he lunched, and leaving my
motor in the road I walked down the
avenue, hoping to find the front door
open and no one about. I had a suc-
cessful start The front door was
ajar I went in, took the spear from
the wall, and set off back to my car.
I was some fifty yards down the drive
when I heard a yell, and there was
brother William tumbling out of the
porch, revolver in hand.
• It startled me. for he had the
most devilish of tempers; hut though
the elder man I knew 1 had the
I pace of him. and set off running.
I When 1 reached the entrance gates
! and looked hack he was nowhere to
be seen 1 took it that he had thought
better of it and gone back to lunch.
| 1 was driving the car myself, hav-
I ing left the chauffeur behind, as I
did not wish him to know what I was
j about I started up the engines,
umped into the seat, put the spear
and let her go We came
nod thirty
off the motor—T had a thought for
the tracks 1 might fcave left--and
carne back to And out how the land
lay. Well, you know the rest."
"You have done yourself no harm,
Mr Hulstrode, by this confession."
said Inspector Addington Peace.
"Thank you. And now, if you wfll
Jump In. I will drive you to tht i>ollce
station. You will want to get Hoyne
out and put me in, eh, Inspector*"
He was still laughing In that high-
pitched voice of his when the car
faded into the night.
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It was not until the next day that
Peace Rave me his explanation over
our pipes in my studio. It Is inter-
esting enough to set down, If briefly.
"There were many points in the
favor of Hoyne," he said. "Miss Sher-
rirk's story not only coincided with
that told us by Culien, but it also fx
plained much that the butler consid-
ered suspicious. The young man left
the drive hoping to meet Miss Sher
rick C'ullen told me that liovne ask
oil where sl'e was as he left, and was
Informed somewhere in the upper par
d( II He failed lo find her. however.
;tnd probably concluded she had gone
In to lunch. Doyne said he was walk
ing down through the Wilderness
when he heard the scream. Suppose
tills were a He, then how could he
have obtained the spear? Was he a
man of such phenomenal strength as
to use it in so deadly a fashion? You
observe the difficulties.
"It was when I was upstairs exam
Inlng the body that the idea occurred
to me. The force used in throwing
the spear was abnormal. Either the
murderer must have been a man of
remarkable physique, or he must
have thrown the spear from a rapidly
moving vehicle. You remember the
notices that are displayed in railway-
carriages begging passengers not to
throw bottles from the window which
will Imperil the lives of plate-layers.
It Is not in the force of the throw
but In the pace of the train that the
danger lies. It was a possible par-
allel.
"And here I made a remarkable dis-
covery. On closely Inspecting the
shaft of the spear, I found a smear of
lubricating oil such as motorists use.
It suggested that a man who had late-
ly been attending to the machinery of
a car had been handling the weapon.
Had one of the group under posslhla
suspicion anything to do with motors
or machinery? Not one.
"I had noticed the jade collections
in the hall This, spearhead was of
unusual beauty. Could it have come
from the colonel's own collection" He
had not taken it with him when he
ran toward the Wilderness, loading
ids revolver. Why did he so run thus j
armed? Had he been robbed?
"Yet the thief had not passed that
way. Culien would have seen him if
he had done so. Was the colonel en-
deavoring to cut him off?
"I found the motor-tracks In the
drying mud—unusual tracks, mark
you, for the driver had run off the
road circling the place where the col-
onel had stood. 1 traced them easily
by the chain marks on the tires They
led to the front gate, and just beyond
it the car had stopped for some time j
close to the hedge. I.ubrieating oil >
had dripped on the road while it wait-
ed. The case was becoming plainer.
"My talk with Bulstrode's chauffeur
made it self-evident. The information
of Miss Sherrick and her uncle's own
explanation as to his quarrel with
his brother over the spear swept
away my last doubt. Do you under-
stand?"
"Yes," I said. "It seems simple
now. Bulstrode has had bad luck,
though. Things look black against
him ."
"I think he will be all right," said
Addington Peace. "His story has the
merit of being not only easily under
standable, but true."
"And Boyne?"
"I saw him meet Miss Sherrick. Tt
was enough to make an old bachelor
repent his ways, Mr. Phillips. Be-
lieve me, there is a great happiness of
which we cannot guess—we lonely
men."
(THE END.)
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"An nrcident, MIsb Sherrick."
"My poor uncle would have been j happened. I was In a blue funk about
Jrcadfully angry about It, and so j the business. I meant to get out of It
must you b€, Unci® Anstruther, for I til couUL Yoy mo I am hldtng notb*
understand you claim It to be yours " | Ing 1 told my mail to take the chains
besidi
round that corner at
-i ai 1 there was brother I land one sees girls in nurses cos-
William in the road, waving his re 1 tunics attending the valuable animals
volver and cursing m«- for a thief. , that are on exhibition. An advertise-
11.' had run down through the Wilder-! ment appeared in a l^ondon journal
ness to cut me off. only a few weeks ago offering $300
"! give you my word I was fright- \ per year and all found for a qualified
ened. for I knew him and his tempers, j kennel maid.
I took up the spear, and as 1 passed ; —
I threw it at him anyhow. I.et him ; Told of Eugene Field.
keep it, and he d d to him, I I Kugene Field ami his wife once en-
thought. 1 wasn't going to have a
hole drilled In me for any jade ever
carved. I never saw what happened,
for In that second I was off the road
and only pulled the car straight with
difficulty The spear must have
struck him end on, and I was travel-
ing thirty miles an hour.
"My niece sent me a wire. When I
received it 1 understood what had
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