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Of a Chicavo Suburb. The
-1 Murder at The OrInge and How
Its Mystery Was Sohed by
•Da:rent, thl, Amer-
ican Lecoq.
BY NORMAN HURST.
Copyright, 1899, by the American Press Association.
:etaisamseramsoaosromaume
CHAPTER L
TRU VEURDER AT THE ORANUle.
"Ralf an hour late ! Of course she is.
What can you expect? It wouldn't
have surprised me if he had been an
hour. There must be three feet of snow
between here and Chicago."
"Yep, it be a mortal bad winter
Never had such a stiff one since '81.
That was the year as I had 20 cows
froze to death in one night.
"Yes: I've heard all about those cows
before.
was a most strordinary affair. I
said to myself as I went to bed the
night afore, 'Now, I shouldn't be
s'prised if some of them cows ain't
froze in the mornin.
"She's whistling.
"And said to myself just me I, vas
gain to eleep, shouldn't be stprised
if some of them cows ain't froze to
death in the inornin.' "
"And you got up in the morning, and
20 were dead?'
••Yes, hut the strordinary part of the
thing is 1 said to inyeelf. 'I shouldn't
s. prised if soma <if them C01.1:44 ain't
frOZt,
"Welt. never mind the .eows. Here
she emnes. Are pill Viking any nue?"
'(Jilt' gent that's all
Things aiu t a Lit ince they was when 1
wee panne. and when they gyts
.tn.v yearned I +Mg) shall have to go
i)itu HD.
.. rmaible in the elletaneo growing
n••arer and loncier warniwr, of the
-Joon-melting train. :ii in a few wegauls
th.• 11,3C14.0,1 ftt,;11 11 ' Clinn titi 0
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t‘...ttary 1l»0'. r elk-hty4 and ‘Nnipi
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tpt!,J.trortia us be einieneeete -tote -leen hie
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try roxidsin eznin ratesienerie entivey
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mile yea fele gent as tr3.P11 to 4o. to
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tr.; -nit had ineeit
--w•41 a try
eve. :5 try the cetera chewers
i. niteativenly voice es he elareitent
lino tire- itinia clot:teen. ee-hoie the les.
nermar takes a seat by his stale and,
glancing at the herse, eititt..w.ts that
tee• elver is not very far trreuz. and
that they are net likely trt get to
teentre after nil Brit In ttraf•-•,:cot.44 he
has eiteredi his npinion altzenehe-r ere?
arrived at the renriclitsinn that he doe: -
nee r -now 3 :neve free a tunnel:ay nail
"ffld man. : he wonlit 611474: Say at
erward in recounting the incident to
eoine particular chyme "if yea want a
sure cure for ennni or it eine-gene hver
try a seven mile ride rm a friary eight
with tht- roads like a sheet 1111. glass. be.
hind a Renttecky nag Tol;ogganing in
earcada's a fool to it If yon d seen
that horse. that keel -red as if he erinitIn't
raise enongh energy to drag ; ease
tztee a slippery hill. nearly as ei.e•ie liS
the side .of a h4411.53. at an easy trot
without so much as winking,. pat
•11:117lisped. and when he got to the
top: and wt frill speed down the othei
:nee cora only regret would have been
tent von hachi't efottbled the amount of
vole: met•tdent insure Of ail ;eases
-1. A.. weld give tilentneky mei
•ent s railroad train anti as sure
ee a intite int:none_ nly boy. a
mile drive on a frosty inonneinbi
elliti a zpeadruped that treated
- • • e mar affair as a joire. and thf•ri
s lay with the reins in nit. •
nenen_who di nutihin bn.t gay:
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can't go like he used to. He's gettin
old and lazy.' It was a drive I've never
forogtten and one I'm never likely to
forget,"
"It's a • mortal bad winter." the
drierer again observes as they spin over
the frost bound road, ."mortal bad."
"Yes; it's a bit severe.'"
"Ah, we've never hail such a winter
since '81. when I had 20 cows all froze
to death in ono night."
"Yes, and. the strordinary thing was
that I said to myself as I went to bed,
'Now. I shouldn't be &prised if venue °i-
diom was froze in the niornin. • That's
what I said the nicht afore."
"Then why didn't you get up and
try to make them warmer?"
The driver turtle a lotik of blank
• astonishment cm Herbert Darrent. Jis
the first time that sereli a reasenable
seneation has been tee end to him, and
its wevelty is a hit lenviblering.
"City fence. el e en • t um -le -regatta cattle."
ernitibles at lest anti felte to mini-
na t; ag why he dieln 't tint upend
fee, these eel eaves. bet as he Call -
not :naive at eon, nerisfeetery
he, presently bre:ct•e flea ell. -net. again.
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Tal:' 111 etrell up toe rear tenee
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cometil the vehicle is tint 4...1 eizelet anl
Iben turr,s and evgas, theneinnilly
down Chi: 313,11 Strv. t enell he en... net
a cottage theented ny the legend
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badly fittine :nee rni wiet is tent intit
ting the h,une and smartly &antes as
he opens the gate
"Are yon Mr lb eneae"
"No. air he's 1r:440."
"Off rinty ?'
"Veer. it'e niy reerel."
"Then 1 won 1eietein yen, iert
*ball want *o 'see von in the teeming
early '
"Very grind. sir be here at 1.4
itharp Gored night '
Good nielit
S7114.:1 yeeing, tallow that." Darn et
observes to hinzeref 'o hp 'ih's eepee
the at-itat ri•
all 944 OMtottytt-'.1 t:s c.:y • -•••
The eloe.r open:: ringit lino the nicht it
Of the eeettege where leen ..:1 elle.: •
police ref Near, e .1 to eng in en
their te.e..IT bge The tee liee
-of the• t are or. k arkei re. is
an ten, •• 's dirt> (lee e. au.; ;
*direr te ale .exetay 1
aliat 9A.
feebled intellect can. Still, lie can be
pompous at times, as befits one who
holds and has hell for a round dozen
years the important post of chief of po-
lice of Norcombe, an office that is little
more than a sinecure, aatit, rernoving
his pipe from his mouth, he gazes at
his visitor with an expression of min-
gled annoyance at being disturbed and
the importance that befits his position.
"Well," he inquires after examining
Darrent from head to foot. "what's the '
matter with you',"
"You are Mr. Dobson, I believe?"
Mr. Dobson nods.
'Policemaxi 1'
"Yes; chief of police of Norcombe.
"Well. it's all the same," Darrent
rejoins "I'm an officer front Chicago.
Perhaps you have heard my name -
Herbert Darrent.
"No; never heard of it before." an-
swers Mr. Dobson, at once conclusively
proving himself to be an idiot of the first
water by confessing that he is unac-
quainted with the name of the mut
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detectives is enough to try any one's
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