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,rnW-hr thief enters the pala-
,,l rcittwt of Eugene Utirtsiopher
I'riffllno. lie "in mil again hi
.lantlu nnd into the hand of n detie
tiir Uc is visibly pertmbed and
Hi
P
iipiM he nan noinmg w uo nun
..ij't in dere.
On the floor of a room tie a man
in eicnwg clothes, Ihe front nf whoso
thtrl i' "fi with blood awl within
touch of his hand Is a. huge army
molrrr. The table Is laid for hco
icllh champagne on ice, still mi
netted. The house is empty of human
hsinas. Mr. Mexander, partner in
husineu to the dead man, and uncle
to his wife, appears sailing he has
htm summoned by telephone. Mrs.
frceliu'l appears also. A cither then
ir the servants, trio later assemble,
run throw light on the affair. Mrs.
Citieting insists on engaging the best
dtltrtire tciviec.
Theic had been a quarrel between
flnvntr.s Wnvrrly and the dead man.
Watrily had left the house in n rage.
Ptltelixr MeCarty seeks out Dennis
llmril'in, rho shows much interest in
I,,! uo'tcir as he sets his chair on Ihc
lulewnll. with a clatter.
NI HKKK IT CONTINTKS
4I11IAT. lie eelalnieii with avidity.
W "Is there Mimelhiiijj big on iluwn
nt lipailiin.iilirM that llic inspector bus
lli'l'll Mllt isuiuic ymi ill ll'liil il iiiiini
litl: lli"r- " 'i" iiotni" i-.".-
imrritn: hold-ill tlml would make lbek
'juipln 1'bi'b Hlf nnnnintPiir '."
"If tiiei"1 V, I" vnu ti ncii-i mhmv ii ;
ffier jouvc aiisnrii ynur.pii mat me
illlllltpiOIIHlip I" "' l""', "" ti-iiiiir-
inCV Mill IMP tlllllll Hie" i in .i-',mii
(Ifi'l'in; slrliiiPss. Ihp news nf tbp ilny is
finished for ou." Mrl'nrtv observed
villi tln. scorn, as iii my rcsiKiininiu
from (lit force. I'll have .miii knnw tlml
it's, In I'M temporarily handed hack to me
-. .i . r.l ... I l.ii.ii.i,. Ii. mi. i
, (IIJl II'IIUI! 'Hit HI ..'Mill ,,,. 11.11
loot iin tin iip iiiiipu l" ii"' 'ip ""
all I pihp! I'm ImrU on (Iip j"l iiKnin."
Wll.lt i'. It, .Ulll'.' IFPMI1IM IHPII'
irplllltirill imill illllili"-in u. ii, un ill..
'll (ll'IP I J"U "PI l"v kii'J . i wun
ufl lnt niRht
"I iliilti t Know it in.ypir mi i nnnnpii
tmiiif sppnnil story workpv rominu
lilt nf Hip w Imlow of oiip of tboM1 Kriiinl
hniitP iiirnss u p pun; iiiiipupi- until pvpt
In. went In mill IPiii'iiti wnni no u loiiim
tlffP. 1WIIH "IIP IMHIJ Ol III" I'WIU'l.
Mm thpy .'oil tn i nil 'Milllon-ii-moiitb'
(r.'ii'l i:i- nl"iitr llroiulwiij, with n bul
la in hi lipnrt :inil a ,-n dpiiip nun.
MrCnrty ileinllpil bin nnrtiirnnl p:--iifiifppp
unit Di'imlM lldtpupil with Imlpil
Irrntli to tlip point w!iprp. wbilp Hip
p.irrli "f tin1 upppr ioomin by his prony
iinl In'.ppplor DriiPt wnc rosrPs.iiiK.
tin' slinlnw lifnl nppp.iriil liehinil Hipiii
mi tli MnlrPHsp Tlipn Iip ouhl con-
tnin lilm'pll no Ioiikpp,
"IlDly inotlipr. Iip pjiipiiIhIpiI. ":it
it a &liiit or the inuruiTiT iiinispu, no
ou tliiiils. Map?"
Wlmi'vpr it wni. 'twns no ghost,
iiriuit ns Jii II spp lntor. JIr( nrt.
.MTriil "Tin' tlrnwt.'1'H of thr ilesk in
ihf liiiiiplppppr', room wore lopkpil ninl
when I HftPil tin Pnil nnil shook it I
imlM licnr nniPtnin:,' lii-nvy. II Up Iiooi.m.
'Inliiii; .ironnd liiNirlp ; I notlipil. too.
t tin t tin' lopks. tli ins'elv-s witp rnij.
Minn tlml TIl'TO wpi'p no Kp.vm in tin
lonin ilioiich wi lookpil cvprywliprc, so
tlic lnpi I'toi" ami I liPMt it ilnw n to the
tuilv nnpp morp wherp ilnnry wn
wnitint; with tli- dlpki from Ihii'oiikIi
UailiiunrtPi'ii. Tlipy all said tlif.v
hadn't urtn liark upstairs afnin and tin
itifpeilor kiihlcd iiip about lipiirin:.'
ihiiiRs, liui I rntimn t ;'rt Hip tlioiiKlit ol
that sliiidou out of my mind, and u
-non as I roiild I slinppil a:i anil up
to t'rcvplins's room oiipp iiioip; tin
-nuiil tlml I tlioii'-'lit I (I liennl wlun wp
mimp on t ln ill pit lloor sppturd to ronii
frnm llifrr.
'I. TMhiii'; IooUpcI just tho snmp n-
lUitn t 'mil left it, but wIiiti I wpiiI
mcr to 'iiivi' a HPCond look ill Iiip llllli'
ihaviT with thp cnrln;! loi'k in tlip ihk
burp wi'ti' new marks on it nvpiliijin
hoM our imikpi's lut (l mncip : miopi
lad fdlloHod us wine
i wilil his. plain from tin
gloves, n.s yoi.
oil tho ilel Iim
(jhosts don'l
n on r'lbhi'd up willi.
.irnr gloves. Ueiiny."
"Tlien who V"
"I wmi ovpp tho samp Knnmil from
oom to room thai I'd brcn (Iiihiirii
Mith the im-poplnr oulv u fpw inimilis
'for , lint 1 didn't bnd an) thine ' l"
till I diiii" to the hoiiscki'PpiT'h room
,'i;ain, MpCartr pontiuupd, uiiIk rillir.
tlif intpriiipilon. "Thp lopks on the
hpj'k llii'ii' wimp shiny and dripping with
frrili oil, and wIipii I lifted It it wiin
liclilor and nothing nlid around innilc
Sfiinihivl'. had slipped up behind us mid
"IipiiciI the drawrrn of both of the desks,
taUns out whatever was In.sldu ; some
'ii'lj who knew how to work that spiing
tell "(
"I didn't Dud hidp nor huir of him,
thouch, and I'd upset iind brokp n bot
lit nf porfuinery in Mrs. f"repiri;jV
room. Ii.ul IiipI; to it! When I got biu'k
diinn to the study Clnrtpy Kniffpd it on
me and I doubt ttint I'p lost tho miip'I '
of it iet I"
He went on, tellinR of the mrlwil of
(norRp AIptiiikIit, the viiIpL, Hill. h
oti dUenvprj nf tbo blnodNtalned cnrtl
nrnst under tho luppstr.i on the table
and the mtiirn of Mis. Cipveling uud
nnalb tho p(mk ami butler.
And all you'ip got to g nn,'
Iieiinls siimmi'd ii for him, "is th
liu of ambir uiniithpipce tin- other mini
liad manked with, the lone eard und
'lie marks of gloved linspr.s on ihp desk
upstair!.. '
Not quite I m asking m'self u
lot of iueitlniis. IVnny. for there's
more in n look sometiniiM or a pIiiuipp
nrd than in all the lirigrrprliitN in tin
irld I'nr instaiKp. w hut's therp he-tc-n
that vnlet and Mis. ("Vendlng's
'n'le (i(.(irK(. AlexunderV They tried
'nli hot to slip away for a up
onfnli tonuthtr, but I kept my pm. on
mom there'rt sninplhiiig thev both know
und each of i,rm WN ftfri,, ,,at ,r
r i".'' m',',1'1 ''', U 0,lt' w,l tltnt
Im Hill, sa. be had just 'relurned'
iind eorreet it t0 'airlved'V If he bad
nntiung m conical eithpr on his (,wn
hn'v.?1' ,r " ''"""ding's why ,,
1,1 X ,,C?.K 0llt of I'll" tho little 1
ariicd.' Why wouldn't he toll wIipip
,i. i "1 "'Slit? AVIipn Hip In
M'wtor nj.1,,.,1 ,iln jf ,, Km.H (.rcv(l)i
"nt i-omlng to I, In house liift pvening
was ,1C ,(,, ,,. hh Umxw 0 (,pn
L .,? ""Wii'-inhcrril that he'd tnlicn
ii r " . rnm ,,IP ""''' nn-ii him
' i"r tin. supper arid they'd say so
o, , "'!'"' '1'ieMinncd. H'h plain, of
"'" that (-leveling Rot rid of all
'" ernm m tor the night so that none
iii-iii hiioiiki hre who hi
eomiiiinv
- '"ii i ve an idea
a" the mine "
Hint I.IIII known.
hi. i'1,,n, '. ,,u"k " '"" chose
Mini ,r,'h Vth, t'vl,enl ,,flr''- "Yon don't
knn",,, l ."'"' an ,tt,l llc '""J
Mipper ami Mio shot him after in a
mm Jealousy? '
. 'With a A4 that lias a klek to it
Inn .an"y '" M''Prty Mi'irtoil.
'"M'o.tor Druet nsked Hill If Creie
Uiin, -.7 '''"''tjiined Indies in his home
mi. 7 uvlf"1 ttw nd tho valet
it n," ' ,ht tliov wei strictly stag
4' ""''he 'IWn't wmi any too
tho ..,.r '' '. llM; '""ues ot any or
ad"tl1t,,n"L' ,W""' lM'rn lrh..nt. He
ami ,7 J"7' ft.n'"1 ,lrnnI '' emnlx-'l
I'll!"1"''1 w,h nflu''- little K"'"1-'
' & i"" '""'' hnt frMPlhig
-....,,, iiiru in jeiirn,
I aril huu ,11.1 il.... ..i.....r ii ,
pftino i i .,' ' """ "'"r "' iiiiiiiinnus
"n0!,!!;: "" ,1,e ,ul,,oV" ""
P'JeJ ilowIya-PUU!'e aUi lhC" McCart-T
VW
OSTRANDER
"Suspon.se," "
"Aahct lo A&hci," etc.
Co,
! "I don't know, unless some way It
I nan n part nf the grim game thilt urn
! played out to a IIiiIkIi bctwppti the two
ot tlicm In tho study niter Mipprr.
"A game of life and death, with
Crcvc'lnff losing the odd trick." Den
nlw nodded. "If ,iott did not lint! tho
rest of the pnrk lying around, maybe
thp one raid was brought by the man
that killed him ns n tilgn or a re
minder. Oh. you needn't be looking
at me llkp that. Map! Ktrnnger things
than Hint nro going on behind those
white mnrblo fronts for nil on know!
Hut whnt was that high blank wall
built for at the back?"
"Tlint'H one of the qnestioni I've
been nsklng myne'f, like I told you."
Mct'nrty corked bis ear ut a newsboy's
shrill call down the street and shook
his head. "No. It'll he too early for
the papers to get bold of It ypt. It's
! finiii) how they were nil so sure, even
his wife, thut (.'reveling Iind been tuur
dered, nnd liltn with thp pistol lying
I beside him. It was only when Mrs.
I ('reveling spoke of culling In Tcrliuno
I thnt her uncle backslid and pretended
that he thought It might hiui been sul
rlde after nil."
I "TVi'litine!" Dennis exclaimed. 'Tor
the love of the salntrt, Is be In on this,
too.'
"With both feet, and I misdoubt a
couple of his llltlp scientific recording
machine up his sleeve," McCarty
chuckled.
" 'Twould hnvc dime jou morp good
than n drop of thp best In hnvc soph his
face when 1 came back niter talking
to the cook mid butler uud found him in
the bull:"
"So 'twns Mrs. ('reveling called him
In nml her iiupIp didn't want him."
Dennis wns slowly dlge. ting the fni'ts.
"Do you think this Alexander and Ihe
vnlet were in cahoots? It looks as
though the both of them were trying l'i
shield somebody, all right."
"I don't understand the uttitudp of
the whole lot of them." McCarty shook
his head once more. "From the min
ute Mrs. ('reveling put her foot in the
liuiise there seemed in be a kind of u
silent buttle going on bptuceii her and
her uncle; win cuiild feel t In the air.
He was tr.iiug to run the whole affair to
suit himself and she defying him nnd
gelling her own way, loo, in the end.
.Say, Denny, there wns a lire In the
neighborhood last night, wasn't there?"
Dennis sturcil.
".Sure, what night isn't there, with
the people parked In Hals like sardines
in u bo: Hut what aic you getting ut.
.Mac?'
"When was the lire and where?"
"Along about - on the next block,"
Dennis replied. "An upset kerosene
stoie started it in a dressmaker's place
on the giound lloor where she wns work
ing late and It spread to the iMse-'Piit
bflorp wp could get it nndrr en ol,
but it didn't get uptuirs thougii the
tenants were pretty well smoked out.
How did .ion know uhoiit It?"
"That's where the butlpr's sister,
Mrs. Cuirull, Hies; where lie and his
wife spent the night," MeCnrty drew a
igar from his pocket uud chewed the
end rumiiiiitlvely. "They'rp ipieer birds.
The i ook would huvp talked, I'm think
ing, hut her husband .shut her up,
thougii ut thut I caught them In one
lie. Ilcfnre Sarah got sight of me
-.landing behind Hill she suid to him
that she wished Mr. ('reveling would
have his parlies somewhere else nnd
leap them in pence, but when I told
iheiii ('rending had been shot the butler
denied thnt neither of them knew he
cppcle,l any one last night. In the
upxt breath after Sarah learned that
Mrs. ('reveling Iind already come home
she bewailed that the rooms were not
in order uud sh,, had all the lobstPr
und iliiff from the caterer's to clean
up. Mow did she know there',! been
'ouster for supper if she hadn't heard
ihe order given? Of course, all this
has notliing to do with the murder itself,
nit knowing so much it wouldn't sur
prise Hie if they knew or at least sus
pected who (.'reveling' guest was that
night."
"Then what aie they all shielding
him for? Ulnekmuil?" Dennis' gray
pjps snapped with Interest. "Kroiii
what urn' ve told me of thorn. Mup.
twould baldly bp lo.utlt.i would keep
them unlet; you'd think they cueh ot
l hem h.ul a lish to fry, by the looks
of it:"
MiCmty darted u iiiUk glance ut his
companion.
"I'iiip lor you, Denny, and I'm won
deling if maybe this fellow Hill isn't
trying deliberately in draw our lire by
lpfuslng to tell where lie spent the night,
inenning to collect prliutely fiom some
body for creating the iliversinn. Rollins
and Surah arc easy to Handle, but that
inlet is away above his job uud Iip's
bpcn with ('tending since bis bachelor
day's, probably knows more about him
than any one else in the world. If we
could ouly Iind the way to mnke him
talk "
"What about Mrs. Crpveling?" in
terrupted Dennis suddenly. "Prom
what you say, she took the nows as
cool as a encumber. Now I don't pre
tend to know anything about the work
ings of n woman's mind, not being a
damned fool, but It don't seem natural
like for her not to -cieaiu nor faint nor
raise some sott of a ruction."
"I don't know." Mi Curly held a
match to his cigar nnd then Hipped il
into the gutter. "She's u determined
n omaii nnd u strong one und she's got
her own suspieinus, nil right, but she
knows he can't prove anything by her-
If ; that's win she called in the biggest
man in his line ahc ever heard of
Ti rliune.
"She'll waste" no time keening the
dead till she's i. night the one that killed
him, that is if there's any grief in her
hen i t "
"If tlieie isn't why should she be so
anxious to get revenge on the inur
del or?" asked Dennis.
"Well, If there's one thing that's
sti onger than grief it's hntc, Denny,
and I in thinking Mrs. (reveling for all
her gentle ways would be u good hnter.
We got moie than n hint from her
uncle's testimony thnt there might bine
been a commercial angle to that innr
riagp und every one but him is willing
to admit that ('reveling wns tin saint,
neither before nor nftcr, though her
friends don't think she's been on to his
philandering."
" 'Her fripnds'?" Dennis tcpented.
"Sure. I bnd a little talk with one
nf them just now at the Ilelterre Hotel,
the husband of the lady she's been slay
lug with down on Long Island "
He described his interview with
Douglas Waverly and the corroboration
nf bis alibi over the telephone by Samuel
Vernier, and Dennis whistled.
"So thnt'h the kind of u bird Crevel
Ing's been tiavellng with, Is it? Fat
and flashy and going to con men's
pnitifs on tho siiln! Thnt crowd can'l
be th" real thing in spite of their
money. Map, take it from mo. What
.hnw was it you said tho girls at tho
supper camp from?"
"Tint 'Hyc-hyo Hahy" company."
McCarty glanced again nt his com
panion. "Whv? Is it show girls that's
interesting you now, at your time of
life?"
I he sarenkin passed unnoticed
Dennis' hard head,
over
"It is not," he responded eiiiably
"And as in my time of life I'll hniti
you Kiiieuiber I'm younger than you by
a y en r ', "
"L'leven months," McCarty pro
tested. "Hut whnt about tho show?'
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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