W .1 KpET ;vmmty,m?i. " 1 '-. ' t .V 1 .j a EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1920 THE PARADISE MYSTERY By J. S, CopvrioM, lilt. by THIS STARTS THK BTOllY xk Utile t'npltsh cathrdral town of xeruchtster is the scene of intriauo an&tnviltrv- Uarv Bewery, nineteen Lear old, and her brother Dick, sev enteen, are ward of Doctor Ransford. A ttrange man te Doctor Ransford l a few mlniUc Inter i found dtod. The theory it that he fell, but f Ms i Meeted to, a Varnrr, n stonemason, iniitts he was alaln. Hansford has ilarv purchase flowers for the dead man'i funeral Bruce find an entry in a parish register where Mark Uuns lord had acted as beet man at (hs inarriaae of John Brake ufui ilaru llevttry. Colllshaw, a laborer who taid lit could throw light on the Brake trdrr. (.1 found iteid. Detective snr inlie Bansford is the murderer on tho onund that hu prestribrd tor Colli thaw and hie wife the ntpht before. Dttpttt police tu$pMon, Vniy as mites Bansford of htr confidence in him. Simpson llarker, a detective, auestlonlnp Bryce, learn a scrap of paver he took from ttraden 1-rlln of u tccret chest htdden in a cemetery. Marker admit he hat learned thai Braden cai in truth Brake, father of itary and Dick. Harker tells Brucr of a convict he saw in the olty before Sraitn's death. At the Inquest over Colllthav't body Doctor Hansford in ti outburst denies any part in lio troth of either Braden or the mason. Bryct find a party ha searched the eemttery and found .a box containing jewels stolen from the Duke of Kaxon it tad e many years before. The poltco intptctor and a Brotland Yartt man roll on Doctor Bansford and ask his help. Ut tells them of hi teusptrioni of Brycc and Harker. The officers go to qncstion Bryco. Jit admits lov ng itary Btwcry and leads them to eait tirio suspicions on Hansford, AND IIKHE IT CONTINUUM HXTTELli," ho answered, after a mo '"ment's thought. 'Til qualify that by saying- that from the evidence I have, and from what I know, I believe It to be an Indisputable fact. What I do know of fact, hard, positive fact, In thin : John Brake married n, Mary Bewery at the parish church of Uradcn Med- worth, near Barthorpe, In Leicestershire. 1're Rcn the entry In the register with my own eyes. His best man, who tinned the register hs a witness, was Mark Rinsford. Rralse and Raneford, ar young men, had been In the habit of going to Bradtn Mcdworth to fish; Mary Bewery wis governed at the vlcarago there. It was always supposed ahe would marry Rinsford; Instead, she married Brake, who, of course, took her off ,to London. Of their married life, I know nothing. But within a, few years, Brake was In trouble, for the reason I have told you. He was arrested and Harlsxr was the man who arrested him." "Dear me I" exclaimed Mltchlngton. "Now, If I'd only known "You'll know a. lot before I'm through," said Brycc. "Now, llarker, of course, can tell a lot yet It's unsatW tying. Brake could mako no defense but his countel thrw out strange hints and suggestions all to the effect that Brake had been cruelly and wick edly deceived In fact, on It were, trap ped Into doing what he did. And by a man whom he'd trusted as a close friend. So much camo to Harker'a ears but no more, and on that particular point I've no light, do on from that to Brake's private affairs. At tho tlmo of his arrest ho had a wife and two very oung children. Klther Just before, or at, or Immediately after his arrest they completely disappeared and Brake himself utterly refused to say one single word about them. Harker asked If ho could do anything Brake's answer wo max no one was to concern himself. He preserved an obstinate silence on that point. Tne clergyman In whose family rs. uraxe naa been governess saw Brake, after his conviction Brake would say nothing to him. Of Mrs. Brake, nothing more Is known to me at uny rate. What was known at the tlmo ts this Brake communicated to nit who camo In contact with htm. Just then, the Idea of a man who has been cruelly wronged and deceived, who takes refuge m sullen silence, and who Is already yidiiiuui; ana cnensning revenge r 'Aye, aye!" muttered Mltchlngton "Revenge? Just bo I" ' 'Brake then," continued Bryco. "goei elt to his term of penal servitude, and ;o disappears until he reappears here In Wrychester. Leave him for a mo ment, and go back. And It's a going pclc no doubt, to supposition and to tneorv but thftrA'o n mnAn in whaf T hall advance. We know beyond doubt mm iiraxe nna Deen tricxeu ana no celed. In some money matter, by some mjn some mysterious man whom he referred to an having been his closest friend We know, too, that there was -nurumury mystery in tne uisappear- fUKft Of Ma vlfj. ami M.llif.Bn Wiif from all that has been found out, who ija-i Brake's closest frlend7 Hansford I And of Hansfoid, nt that tlmo there's no trace. He, too, disappeared that's a fact which I've established. Years ter, ho reappears hero at Wryches- ; ii u " D0Ul.ni a practice, nven luany he has two young people, who in. r'PfMnted an his wards, como to 1 V8 With him Tk.l. -- I. n joe name of the young woman whom John Brake married was Bowery. Jnats the Inference? That their Jiethers dead that they're known un . r i"I mal1n name: that they, wlUiout RM?;a1ow of doubt, are John Brako'a iwr'n' tAnd that 'ad UP t0 '"V i. ' "jiicu in now leu you in con- '?.?'"-lf yu w'sh for It' wl " yhil l Pirtloularly wish for," thing I" jeison quietly. "Tho ery f!Then lt,B this." said Brj'ce. "ltans r?.wB the closo friend who tricked nu deceived Brake. He probably trlckpd k 2 '" aS,.ne money affair, and deceived ftm. '?, nl1 'omestlo nftairs. I tilco it wif. narJs'f'l ran away with Brako'B .11 it "u . lnal "raite sooner man air llently and began to concoct ills Ideas i,r.eveJe- I put the wholo thing thla ri "ull!ri ran away with airs. rV?i ttn!J l two children more In inw -and disappeared. Broke, whon SJ..i?;me .Y ot Prison, went nbroad M.u.wllh tho 'dea ot tracking them r-.Ji ht"Va" ,s OUltes evident, lie en fn. i.ln. DUsInes and did well. He came back to Hngland aa John Bradon. iw.-Iori.th9 reason of whloh you'ro uiuIk. ha pald a vl" Wrycheater, him iY ""f'11'8 that ftPy ono known to whi. vd ller' Now tfy to reconstruct elni .PPwed. Ho looks round the of n- ?tat ,momIng. Ho eeeu tho namo of r Mnrlt R?nford on the bnisa plate ti H?'$eTy d00r- trees to the sur in..' - Ks ft question, makes a remark. 55!" J0- what la the probable se nil? ,.ot ?iH? " me(,,B Hansford taftSJ "''hfjlral where nansford cer--mft.fH8'. Ttly recognlio each other thS iiVk'1r thy turn "ld' B ul t0 thlrA. SP ,?" a .9ulet P1&c0' t0 te'X orni.,,lD altercation blows somehow la ?hi Probably from ncoldent Braden to hu ,7.n..throUa:l1 ,nat open doorw.vy, MPPtned" And0olllBnw w what turmnt nnH WRtchlng his listeners, ilhSr rlte.rlute,l' from ono t0 the his nr. V1 lt neded little attention on etot.Pil.t0.see, that thelr" wos alieady tilcin-i ,',n.e ' eno' mtt was eagerly 'King In oil that he ald and sus-eeated ti madnli'n emphasltlng every point reiiMi r"u.,XBnw what happened " Rt?Ad. "That, ot courso. Vs theory ttPeMJitJPP8"!" thXev k. ni . I,ut ,10W wo P" from JoiVv ' nw' Mltchlngton. which ipcsltl ory b ithln rve n ttXu '.''"'"y way, after Colllshaw's tnii. u ,. ' " ot, in ceriain ?a," h k KS,ra. , "SWAP. ! ttilwfiSS.1. yomtpfor her clal. Now! 4ti T-V" """ng over ner nusuana-s lSt viri.,cer,ft,n drawr In which ho lw4nHti.1T? i'nni mailers, camo li3n!K0s-v'h'ch Colllshaw had been ft N Coi iar;j,2""":.uKB8?H: '.p.b: M bit nf'ry yCftr ne managed to put IWICe 01' thrle In In. ..Ann l, mM, r.T2Snmi,,1?"Tn'ven xpr"niutli merely ' ".PvUnii.J" two to 'thtd friendly so- nillLII. IE. K.tTM ffllFAM .UHnallii In Fletcher Alfred A, Knot, tne. fifty pounds, mark you 1 Into tho f.rl,endIy society. Where should Colllshaw get fifty pounds alt of a sudden7 Ho wan a mason's laborer, earning at the very outside twenty-slx or eight kliilllngn a week. According to his wife, there was no one to leavo him a legacy. Sho ?"" heard of his receipt of this money, rrom any source. But there's tho fact I What explains It? My theory that the rumor that Colllshaw, wth o. pint too much ale, in lilm, had hinted that he S"!d ,2V "omethlng about Braden'a aeatii If no chose, had reached Hroden's assailant: that he had made it his busl neaa to see Colllshaw and had paid htm that fifty pounds as hush money and, later, had decided to rid himself of Cot "haw altogether, as he undoubtedly did, by poison." Onco more Bryce paused and once more the two listener ahowed their at tention by complete alienee. "'ow we come to tho question how was Colllshaw polaonedt" continued Hryce. "l-'or poisoned he was, without doubt Hore we go back to theory and supposition once more. I haven't the least doubt thai tho hydrocyanta acid which muted iija dfath w.vi taken by him, n a pill a pill that was In that box which they found on him, Mltch lngton, and showed me. But that particular pill, thouRh proclsely similar In appearnno, could not bo made up of the same Ingredients which were In the other pills. It was probably a. thickly coated pill which cento Ined the poison In pplution, of course. The coating would melt almost as soon as the mn had swallowed It and death would result Instantaneously. Colllshaw, you may say. was condemned to death when ho put that box of pills In his waistcoat pocket, it was msro chance, mere luck, as to when the exact moment of death camo to him. There had been six pills In that box there worn tlvo left. So Colllshaw plckeJ out tho poloned pill nretl It might have been delayed till the sixth dose, you s,ce but ho was doomed." Mltchlngton fchowed d desire to Fpeak, and Bryco paused. "What about what Hansford Bald bo foro tho coroner?" anked Mltchlngton. He demanded certain information about the post-mortem, you know, which, ho said, ought to have shown that thero was nothing poisonous In those pills." "Pooh!" exclaimed Bryce contemp tuously. "Mere bluff I Of such a pill an that I've described there'd be no trace hut the sugar coating and the poison. I toll you, I haven't the least doubt that was how the poison was administered, lt was easy. And who Is there that would know how easily It could be administered but a medical man?" Mltchlngton and Jettison exchanged glances. Then Jettison leaned nearer to Bryce. "So your theory Is that Hansford got rid of both Braden and Colllshaw mur dered both of them. In fact?" he sug gested. "Do I understand that's what It really comes to In plain words?" "Xot quite," replied Bryce. "I don't say that Hansford meant to kill Braden my notion Is that they met, had an altercation, probably a struggle, and that Braden lost his life In It But us regards Colllshaw " "Don't forget!" Interrupted Mltchlng ton. "Vnrner sworo that he saw Braden flung through that doorway! Flung out ! He saw a hand." "For everything that Varner could prove to the oontrnry," answered Bryce, "tho hand might have boon stretched out to pull Braden back. No I think there may have been accident In that affair. But. as regards Colllshaw muruer, without doubt deliberate !" Ho lighted another cigarette, with the air of a man who had spoken his mind, and Mltchlngton, realizing that ho lind said all he had to say, got up from his seat. "Well It's all very Interesting and very clever, doctor." he nald, glancing at Jettison. "And we shall keep It all In mind. Of course, you'vo talked all this over with Harker? I should like to know what ho has to say. Now that you've told us who he Is. I suppose wo can talk to htm?" "You'll have to wait a few days, then," said Bryce. "He's gone to town by the last train tonight on this business. I've sent him I had some Information today ubout Hansford's whereabouts during tho time of dis appearance, nnd I've cotnmlnsloned Harker to examine Into It. When 1 hear what he's found out, I'll 1st you know." "You'ra taking somo trouble," re marked Mltchlngton. "I've told you the reason," anawcicd Bryco. Mltchlngton hesitated a llttlr; then, with a motion of his head toward the door, beckoned Jettison to follow him "AH right," he said. "There's plenty for us to Bee Into, I'm thinking"' Bryce laughed and pointed to a shelf of books near the fireplace. "Do you know what Napoleon Bona parte once g.ivo as sound advice to police?" he asked. "No? Then I'll tell you. 'The art of tho pollen,' he said. "Is not to sen that which lt Is useless Tor It to see Good counsel, Mltchlng ton I" The two men went away through the midnight atrtets, and kept stlenoe until they wore near the door of Jettison's hotel. Then Mltchlngton spoke. "Well!" he said. "We'vo had a couple of tales, anyhow 1 What do you think of things, now?" Jettison threw back his head with a dry laugh. "Never been bolter puzzled in all my time!" he Said. "Never I But If that young doctor's playing a game then, by the Ird Harry, Inspector, It's a domnod deep 'un 1 And my advlco is watch tho lot 1" By breakfast tlmo next morning the man from New Scotland Yard had accomplished a series of meditations on tho confidences made to him and Mltoh Ington tho night before and had deter mined on at IcaBt ono courso of notion But beforu entering upon It he had one or two Important letters to write, the composition of which required muoh thought and troublo; and by the time he hart finished them. And deposited them by his own hand In the general pontolllce, jt was drawing near to noon the great bell of tho cathedral. Indeed, was proclaiming tho noontldu to Wry Chester un Jcttliou turned Into tho poltco station and bought Mltchlngton In his olltce. "I was Just coming round to two If you'd overslept yourself," said Mltchlng ton, good humoredly "We wore up pretty Into last night, or rathbr this morning." "I've had lotters to wrlto," said Jetti son. He pat down and picked up & news paper and cast a casual Blanco over It. 'Qot anything fresh?" "Well, this much," answered Mltch lngton. "Tho two gentlemen wr.o told us so much last rilKht ore both nut vt town. I made an oxctieo to call on them ' riim Afiriv in u mnm nrmt, ah u o'clock. Doctor Hansford went up to iuuuuii uy wiu oiiui i'uuiui uryov, SaS his landlady, went out on his bloyole ut half-mist 8 where, alio didn't know. hut. ehe fancied, Into the country. However. I ascertained mat itansrora is expected back this evening, and Bryce ira.vM nr. ders for his usual dinner to be ready at 7 o'clock, and bo " Jettison nung away tne newspaper and pulled out his nlpn, "Oh, I don't think they'll run away either of 'em," he remarked, Indifferent ly. "They're both too cocksure of their own ways of looking at things." "You looicea at -em any more 7" asked Mltchlngton. "Dtone a, bit of reflecting yes.' replied the detective. "Complicated affair, my lad. More In It than one would think at first sight I'm certain of thU: Quite npart from whatever mystery thero is about thi Braden affair and the Cblll nluiw murder, there's a lot of sohemlng ami contriving ueen koiuk on ana is going on somewhere, oy somenody Underhand work, you understand? How over, my particular Job Is the Colllshaw business and there's a bit of Informa tion I'd like to irt hold of at onm. Whore's the omoe of that friendly soci ety we neara noout last nigntT" 'That'll be the Wryohestor Beoond Friendly," answered Mltohlngton. "There are two such societies In the town the first's patronized by small tradesmen and the like : the second by worktngmen. The second does tnko deposits from Us mem bers. Tne onice Js Fiaauate secrets name outsldfcLjfitahbliig. Vh? you aftcr?JjPBPWWjty!rrr TUE GUMPS-A Lesson From Old Timer QA CMAMots ttooY NbO VATCWMS TO-PAV- ) KNOW JfSWK TtX ARE JHY I CAW TCLl. "TOU XAMfclTK om& to Tevrce. t ' . .. . -- .,...-. WV4AX KIHP O SH 'Vn PETEYHe Needs a Periscope HOLV SWiokers" "THERE'S PT5ED OVE M(M iTftiTaEEwi ioufts T-1UW S.-N.NJ ' " jfft ESCAPE5 WIM ? J aXT V The Young Lady Across the Way The young lady across the way hajrt she saw in the paper tlint there's another notch in Habe Itlitli'u bat but so lnnp nn It i1n.n'f acluully break she supposei it's h11 ! rislit. I SOMEBODY'S STENOG-Details 5MITHERS SEEMS ) To BE OFF HIS Game THis MORAJiMttO (TSfeH. WEBBE tHlS moomtaiw air s I OOUT AGReE ) WTH HIAaI - i ' ii.t ihiti 1 UfcrAf'frN -'I liiSJ! ZL. I a-E-havward.Z7- "CAF' STUBBSIt Was All Right There in His Hand : . . ! . MJ . f I ' i - i - ' . : By Edwind t wunuJ . msn KHOV WUOT A HCKCrtfcU UXVCGS AND A OAV AMP A PltC -- and v know oorr now to Tvvitow r UHE out WHEW rr srawc wate ts jvjsy v COME OH" UWE AH MVlT-ATsON TO GWN6 . cmsic-iI- (ll wmui OLTT U The Bottom amd feEt WX& JM WHERE IS HE GOING TO PLANT THAT SIGN? W $? VJSZ? ?'?" at So Much a Word DEAR MISS O'FLAGE. - L f AIT klfefe Gn Cr. 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