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"BEAU GEST
By Percival Christopher Wren
THE GREATEST MYSTERY ;STO RY EVER WRITTEN
WINQHA;<III ARYAN CE -TIMES
FIRST READ THIS accept. that "lying down," and she
The three Geste brothers, John, f would surely take precisely the same
Digby and Michael are inseparable in I steps for its recovery that she would
their boyhood and youth. Michael, or
"Beau" is the leader. They live with
their aunt, Lady Brandon in England.
Lady Brandon owns the "Blue Wa-
have taken had it been stolen by bur-
glars or a servant. She would com-
municate with the police, and see that
no one left, the house 'until the matter
ter,",_a.valuable sapphire. One even- was in official hands.
ing Lady Brandon, the Chaplain, C • ti It would be inexpressibly unpleas-
ant and degrading. I imagined the
questioning, the searching, the loath-
some sense of being under suspicion
-even Isobel and Claudia. - At four
o'clock in the morning the whole af-
fair looked unutterably beastly.
And then. I culled` myself together.
dia, Isobel, Michael, Augustus Bra: -
don and John are together and some-
one suggests a look at the precious
gem. Lady Brandon brings it out.
They were looking at it when the
lights go out and when they are a-
gain turned on the sapphire has dis-
appeared. Everyone disclaims any Of course it would be all right. The
knowledge of its disappearance. Lucy idiot who had played the fool trick,
Brandon gives the person who tqok and been too feeble to own up, would
it until the next day to replace it.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"What do you say to our sitting
have replaced the jewel . Probably it
was there now. The said idiot
would have been only too anxious to•
get rid of it as soon as Aunt. Patricia.
had put the key in the bass box.
here until we hear somebody come i Why, not go and make sure?
down .the hall? - That. door alwaysI Of course -and then one could put
makes a frightful row," I suggested. the silly business out of ones mind
"Certainly not," said Michael sharp- and get some sleep.
ly. "Why not?" asked, eyeing him. 1 I got out .of bed, pulled on my dress -
"Why, you ass it mi ht not be. ing-gown, and put my feet into bed-
,
'room slippers. Lighting one of the
I mean we might. Anyhow, we've 1 emergency candles which stood on
no right to interfere with Aunt's ar- ithe mantlepiece, I made my way
rangements. She has given the per -
!down down the corridor to the upper of the
son a chance. •" two galleries Ghat ran round the four
Michael was by no means floc atsides of the central hall, and descend-
He
escendHe turned to Digby. 1
on'tyou think so, Dig?" he ask- ed the stairs that led to the gallery be -
D low, and thence to the hall. Crossing
ed
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"Any ass can sit up who wants to," this, I entered the outer hall, avoided
was the prompt reply. .. "have had the protruding hand and sword -hilt cfof '
to-day,myself. Who's a figure in armour, and made my sil-.
cooung up?" He rose
yose and yawned . ent way to the big stone fire -place.
coming On the broad shelf or mantlepiece;
"I say," 'he chuckled, "what a lark
to pinch the key and hide it. some six feet from the ground,,' was
the ancient brass box, dating
from the
"Don't be ` a fool,"said Michael. days of pack -horse travel, in which
"Let's go to bed," and we went with I my aunt ,had placed the key.
our usual curt "Good nights." 4 Only she hadn't -or someone had
But is was easier, for me at least, I removed it -for the box was quite
to go to bed than go to sleep, although 1 empty.
my brain seemed somewhat numbed Was this a trap, a trick of Lady
and dulled. I lay and tossed and
turned, refusing to believe that Mich ot
Brandon's to catch the guilty one?
Justly -or -unjustly, • thought she was
ael had done this disgusting thing, ante capable of it.
and unable, somehow, to believe that q If sp presumably I was caught a
Augustus had. It did occur to Iain in this indiscrininatng trap that
me to doubt Digby -and,, as I have
by
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said, I shouldnever have dreamt of
doubting Michel, had I not caught
him.
Leaving out Aunt Patricia, the
Chaplain, Digby and Augustus, there
remained Isobel, Claudia, Michael and
I. Eliminating Isobel, there remained
Claudia, Michael and 1. It could not
be Claudia. How could it be Mich-
ael?
Had I done it myself?
Such was my mental condition that
by this time I actually entertained
the idea. I had read a book not so
long ago before, in which, after a,
most tremendous mystery, and both
er, it turned out that the innocent
hero had committed the crime while
in a somnambulistic condition.
That could not apply inmy case
of course. There was no question
or- possibility of sleep -walking or of
trance about it -but might I not, ab-
solutely unconsciously or subcon-
sciously, have put the thing in my
pocket without knowing it? People
undoubtedly did do absurd things in
fits of absent mindedness, to their
subsequent incredulous astonishment.
1 had never done such things
my
sel
f-
but might I nothayebegun doing
ahem now? It was certainly as poss-
ible, as it was utterly improbable. I
actually got up and searched my clottt-
es.
Of course I found nothing, and
hour after hour of cogitation, and re-
iterated argument brought me nearer
and nearer to the conclusion that ei-
ther Augustus or Michael was the
culprit.
Having repeatedly arrived at this
unbelievable point, I delivered myself
of the unhelpful verdict, "Augustus or
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Michael -guilty. And I believe Au
-
I gust isn't,
Michael
couldn't
r.,, t't us , -and1Vl
Anyhow, daylight would find the
wretched stone back in its place, and
the whole business would be merely
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a very .unsatisfactory and annczying
puzzle, until it faded from the Mem-
ories of the eight people who knew
of it.
I turned over and made anther
resolute effort to go to sleep - a
foolish thing to do, as it is otte of
the best ways an ensuring wakeful -
My mind went off on a new track.
Suppose the "Blue Water" were not
put back during the night? What ex-
actly would happen?
One thing 'would be clear at any
rate -that a determined effort was
being made to 'steal the jewel, -by somee
body who intended to convert it into
ni•0tte
y
Certainly Lady Brandon, that remit
ease "fettttne, . as not the j r nix o
y:l
dering whether ,Aunt Patricia were I its beautifully appointed table, flooded
with sunshine; its .panelled' walls and
arched ceiling -was •a picfitre of solid
settled •comfort, established and se-
cure.
watching.
That was an absurd idea of course,
Then I wondered if the box con-
tained some scent of indelible odour,
which would betray the guilty hand
that had come in contact with it.
Equally absurd,,,
As crossed the hall,'I also thought
of finger -prints,
Had she polished the lid and -ho
dof the box with the intention of hav-
ing it examined by experts for the
identification of , the owner of the
fingers that touched it during the
night? Less abs'ttrd, perhaps but
utterly improbable. Such an idea
might have occurred to her had .it
been certain that the "Blue Water"
was really, stolen by a thief who had
meant to get away with it.
And supposing that were really the
case ,and the jewel were not replaced
during the night?
There were"'my finger prints, any-
how, if she had really thought of this
plan! And there they were if ' °it
occurred to her latei, in the event of
the sapphire not being restored. ' I
re-entered the central hall -not more
than half a minute later than I had
left it -and saw someone coming' to-
ward me. He, or she, carried no
light, and, of course, could identify
me, the candle being just in front of
my face.
"Well, Gtisesie," said I, "Cold
morning."
"Well, John. Looking for the key?"
said the voice of my brother Michael:
"Yes Beau," I' answered. It's not
there."
"No, John,' said Michael quietly.
"It's here," and he held it out towards
me.
"Beau!" I said miserably.
"John!" he mocked me,
A wave of sick disgust passed over
me. What had coine over my splen-
did brother?
"Good night," I said, turning away.
"Or morning," replied Michael, and
with a short laugh, he went to the
outer
hall.
I hear him strike a match and there
followed the rattle of the key and
the clang of a falling lid. He had
evidently thrown the key carelessly in-
to the box, and dropped the lid with-
out any attempt at avoiding noise.
I went back to bed and, the affair
being over and the mystery solved,
fell into a broken.sleep.
I was awakened at the usual time
by David, the under -footman, with my
Digby was wandering about the
room, a plate of pdrridge in one hand
and a busy spoon in the other. Augus-
tus was :at the sideboard and'remov-
ing cover after cover ' and adding
sa'usages., to eggs and rashers of
bacon.
"Good effort, Gus,' said Digby, eye-
ing the piled mass, as he passed him
with his empty porridge plate, "Shove
some kedgeree on 'top."
,'Had it," said Augustus. "This is
going on top of, the kedgeree."
"Stout citizen," approved Digby
getting himself a clean plate.
Isobel was sitting in her place, and
I went to see what I-couldget for
her.
As I stood by her chair she put deer
•left hand up to mine and gave it a
squeeze. ,,
"I'll wait for Aunt. Patricia, John;"
she said.
' Michael came in.
"Aunt .come down?" he asked, and
added a' belated "'Morning, every-
body.
"No," replied Digby. "Watch me
gobble and go. I'mnot meeting
Aunt till the, day's been aired a bit,"
',Claudia down yet?" enquired Mich
gel, ignoring him.
"I saw -her in the garden," I said:
"I'll tell her breakfast's ready," he
observed, rising and going out.
"Take her a kidney on a fork, shout-
ed Digby, as the door closed.
another •er should have adorned. was as ' hot water.
reminded of the occasion many years "Half -past seven sir," said he; "a
before, when she suddenly entered the fine morning when the mist clears."
schoolroom and said, "The. naughty "Thank you, David," I replied, and
child that has been int the still -room sat up,
has got jam on its chin," and my in- What was wrong? Of course- that
nocent and foolish hand promptly idiotic affair of last night, and Mich -
went up to 'my` face to see f"it were ael's heavy fall from his pedestal.
by some wild mischance jemmy. Well there are spots on the sun, and
Well -the best thing to do now was no man is always himself. Why dwell
to fade swiftly and silently ere on one fault rather than -a hundred
h.
trap was closed; atzdI turned, won- virtues? But it was unlike Michael to
tell such silly pointless lies to cover
a silly pointless trick.
I dressed and went downstairs,
taking a mashie and a ball from the
glory -hole, a small room or large cup-
board off the corridor that leads to
the smoking room. I would do a
few approach shots from the tennis
courts to the paddock and back, before
the breakfast -gong went at half -past
eight.
Crossing the rose -garden I ran ino.
Claudia. This surprised me, for she
was more noted for being the last
arrival at breakfast than for early ris-
ing. It struck zee that she looked
seedy and worried, and she was cer-
tainly deep in some unpleasant slough
of thought when she saw me,
As she did so, her face cleared and
brightened, rather too suddenly and
artificially I thought.
"Hullo, early worm," said she.
"Hullo, early bird,"I replied. What's
tip?"
"What do you mean?" asked Clan
dia.
"I thought you looked a bit off
color and bothered," replied I, with
masculine tactlessness.
"Rubbish," said Claudia, and passed'
on.
I dropped my ball at the back of the
tennis -courts, and strove in ,vain to
smite it. I scooped generous areas
of turf from the lawn, topped niy ball,
sliced it into a holly bush, threw my
club after it ,and slouched off, my
hands deep in my pockets and anger
(with Michael) deep in my soul.
Returning to the hots"±e, I saw Bur-
don crossing the hall, the gong -stick
in his hand. The brass box leered
at me cynically as I passed.
I•laving washed my hands in the
lavatory by the glory -hole, I went in-
to the dining -room.
The fire was blazing merrily, a sil-
ver kettle was simmering on its spirit-
stand on the table, a delicious smell
came from the sideboard, where three
or four' covered silver dishes sat on
their tnetal platform, beneath which
burnt spirit ramps. The huge -room -'
n
witeli'Its long windows, looking Ott two
sides to the loveliest est View in Devon;
its tereat warm -tinted 'Turkey carpet
hiding most of the ancient oak floor;
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We satdown, and conversation was
in abeyance for a few minutes in fav-
our of the business of breakfast.
"I suppose the Crown ,Jewels are
all present and correct by now?" said
Digby suddenly, voicing what was
uppermost in all our thoughts. ;Door's
still locked. I tried it."
"Of course it's all right," I said,
"Seen it?" asked Augustus.
"Or was it too dark?" he added
with a
sneer. '
"No -I haven't seen it, he replied.
"But of. course, it's there all right."
"You should know, of course;" said
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Thursday," December 9, x926. / •
ing of this, and they are to know noth-
ing, We will,keep it to ourselves -
as long as ' ossible of course -that
one of yousix is a treacherous, un-
grateful, lying thief."
(Continued Next. Week).
AN INTERESTING .WILL CASE
On Tuesday, Nov, 25rd, an action
brought by Mrs. Annie McDonald
against the estate of Robert MacDon-
ald, late of the Village of Ripley, was
heard before Judge Sutherland in the
Court House„ at Walkerton. Mr.
Murdoch L. Martyn, of Toronto, ap-
peared folr the plaintiff; and Mr. R.
Vanstone of Wingham, • for the Es -
Augustus.
:`Shot it, Ghastly," said Digby, or
1'11 have your breakfast back."
"You're a coarse lout, Digby," re-
marked Augustus calmly.
"'Streuxh!" murmured Digby to the
world in general. "Isn't the gentle-
man's courage -coming on_"
It strubk me that it was. I had
never known Augustus so daring, as-
sured and insolent before. t felt more
and more convinced that, as Michael
had said nothing, gut genuine injured
innocence and a sense ''of injustice
could have wrought this change.
The door opened, and Claudia, foll-
owed by,Michael, entered. She look-
ed
ooked very white "an d Michael very wood-
ent and 'boutonne. I saw Isobel give
her a sharp glance as she sat down'.
and said:
" 'Morning. . Aunt not been down
yet?„.
"No, No. Gobble and go. If asked
about sapphires, say you don't know,”
chanted `Digby, beating time with a
spoon on his cup. ,
Michael' foraged at the sideboard for
Claudia, and then went to the coffee-
table. I watched his face as he took
the coffee-pot and milk-jpg from their
tray and held them poised one in
each hand, over the cup. His face
was perfectly inscrutable and his
hands absolutely steady -but 1 knew
there was something very wrong.
He looked up and saw me watching
hirh.
" 'Morning, bun -face," quoth he.
"Sleep well?"
m
"Exceptdream,
for"one unpleasant ,
Beau," I replied.
"H'm," said Michael, and I tried to
analyse the sound but found it as
non-comnhital as his fate.:
He returned to his place beside
Claudia, and as he seated himself,
Atint Patricia entered the room}. .
We rose, and I drew back her Chair,
and then we stood petrified in com-
plete silence.
One look at her .face was sufficient,
as she stopped half -way , from the
door. I knew before she spoke al-
most the words she was going to say.
i"I have come to request that none.
of you -none of you -leave the' house
to -day," she said. "Unless, that is,
one of you cares to say, even now at
the eleventh hour, `A fool and a liar,
I am, but a criminal I am notil"
No one spoke or moved, I looked
at .Michael and he at me.
"No?"' tiontinited, Lady Brandon,
"Very well, But please understand
that if I go out o`f this room without
the 'Blue Water,' I will have no mercy.
The thief shall pay a thief's penalty-
whoever it may be.'
She paused and fixed her coldly ati-
gry gaze on me, on Augustus, on
Michael, ion Digby, on Isobhl, on
Claudia.
No one: spoke, or moved, and for "a
full minute Lady Brandon waited.
"AM" said she at last; and then,
O:rte other thing please note "very
carefully. 'TheI servants know beth -
tate of Robert MacDonald. Y Mrs.
MacDonald had kept house for ttie
deceased for eight years prior to his
death. She alleged that,,,the deceased.
had said things that led her to believe
she would be renumerated for her ser-
vices, one of them being that she was
a part owner of the property they liv-
ed in .' The heirs under theowill al-
leged that she performed the :'servioes-
in return for her board. The judge"'t'Ci;
his decision stated that he was unable
to . allow the claim upon the evidence
but that he would not sign a judgment
for two weeks so that the heirs in
the meantime might take into consid-
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