SILVER SANDALS A Detective Story of Mystery, Love and Adventure. By Clinton H. Stagg. Copyright. W. J. Watt & Co.. International News Service. Sh© was coming to - town last night, and he wanted to take her to the the ater. I offered to lend him money, but he said he had enough of what he had earned. Then, shame-facedly, he told me what he did want. He want ed to borrow my small car for the evening. He'd told ner, lying, as he admitted, that he owned a machine. Colton, he was the son of the greatest friend I have on earth. He had ap parently braced up. The thing he ask ed was a simple thing; perhaps it meant a whole lot. Women are funny, you know." He walked the length of the steps again; his face sseemed to have aged years in the seconds. He spoke again. "But there was a bigger thing than friendship Involved in the oath I took when I become district attorney.'' Colton's cane still swished his trous ers. His mind was back in the of fice of Manager Carl at the Beau monde. He was listening again to the facts regarding the waiter who had helped the dead man to his seat. He had been personally recommended by Bracken. Here was the son! How easily the recommendation could have been secured! How logical the choos ing of the Beaumonde! He remem bered the pedigree of the serving man who had secured his position but two days before, and had disappeared when his work was done. He was the man that must be found. "When was your car returned?" asked the blind man. "My chauffeur says It came back about two o'clock." "Bracken returned it personally?" "My man doesn't know him, but he says a blond chap brought it back." "Blond? Um!" Colton stood in thoughtful silence, then: "It was he who met the girl at the Waldorf, where she tried to avoid pursuit. He didn't wait to take her and Silver Sandals, and perhaps my secretary, away. There wasn't time enough." "He might have taken her to the station." "No. They wouldn't risk trains. The old woman would be too un mistakable." "We'll look over the house," sug gested the district attorney. "We may find the clues we need there." Colton followed him. As the other put his hand on the door handle Col ton suddenly swung to face the street. Fine lines came to his eye corners and across his forehead as his ears strained to catch some far-off sound. "Shrimp's footsteps in the alley," he said. "We'll wait for him." They stood on the top step, the blind man getting everything with his ears, the district attorney with his eyes, when the boy came into sight. The red-haired kid, face dirty, clothes muddy, bobbed up the steps with a twisted grin of triumph on his freckled face. 'lt was easy!" he exclaimed joy ously. "The kids knew him. His name is George Nelson, an' he's a waiter!" 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In the early evening papers, on the streets before the average businessman had even thought of leaving his bed. were stories that bristled with lurid speculation. But that was all. There was nothing be yond the actual finding of the dead man, the woman who had come with him, and the astonishing fact that he had been brought to the restaurant dead. There all facts ended and reportor ial imagination ran riot. Every pa per had its own theory, weird, won derful, ridiculous. Each proved its facts after its own style. But what every one who had been in the din ningroom had seen was all that any one seemed to know. There was not a thing that would tell who the man was nor whence he had come. The pockets had been absolutely empty. The woman was a mystery; not one of the hundred of keen-nosed news paper sleuths who were scouring the city had had time to connect the clair voyant of the Peck Slip district with the strange woman who had entered the restaurant. The waiter who had helped, and then disappeared, was be ing searched for in every nook of the city. But he had disappeared com pletely. The woman, too, had gone from the hotel to step Into oblivion. According to the taxi starter, she had refused a cab, and had walked around tho corner. If there had been another machine waiting there no one had seen her enter it. An interview with Manager Carl at the Reaumnnde was very brief. It con sisted of a newspaper man's questions and a slam of the office door in his face. Interviews with Captain Mc- Mann and Coroner Bierbauer were equally terse. "Come to the coroner's inquest at ten o'clock," was the gist of both. So the coroner's suite was filled ! when Bierbauer, with the pompous authority that marks the official busi j ness of the city, started the proceed ings. Newspaper writers jostled el | bows with newspaper artists in their ' cramped space. Women sob writers, who sought eagerly the one touch of human nature in the case that yielded no straight facts, wrote notes about jthe crowd of morbidly curious that in fest such places at such times. Bier bauer selected his jury with the dis patch qf long practice, and necks were craned eagerly for the first witness. "Doctor Brown!" called the coroner, and a well known police surgeon took the stand, crossed this legs, uncrossed them, cleared his throat importantly, and leaned back comfortably, con scious that he had made a good im pression on the newspaper men. He carefully kept his profile toward the lean-faced young man whose pencil was busily working over a "sketch from life." "Going to take no chances of his own judgment being wrong," went j the whisper among the reporters, j The surgeon's name, age, official | capacity, and length of service were j established and then came the first question. "What, in your opinion, was the cause of the victim's death?" asked | Bierbauer, "victim" evidently being ! the official designation of the bearded I man. "Arteriotomy. The wrist arteries were slashed and the man bled to death." "Isn't this supposed to be a painless | method of suicide?" "Yes. After the first sharp sting of the incisions the victim feels about [ the same sensation as that of morphia; J the dreamy, floating-away feeling, | lassitude, and then gentle sleep. It j is, of course, much slower than an opiate, and never gained wide favor among the unfortunate victims of mel ancholia because of the innate horror most persons have of blood." "Would you, as a practicing phys ician and surgeon, on your oath, give it as your opinion that the victim in this case might have been a suicide?" "No!" The negative reply came sharply. "Why not?" "There were unmistakable marks of violence on the body!" Heads lifted in all parts of the room. The inquest was surely carry ing out its promise of startling de velopments. "Tell the jury the nature of the marks?" The police surgeon uncrossed his legs and recrossed them again. He saw that the artist's pencil was idle, and fixed his body in a more comfortable .position. "The largest mark was on the left side, directly over the heart, starting -almost at the breastbone and extend ing under the left arm at the armpit. It was a bruise, six inches long and nearly two inches wide." "This could be made, how?" inter jected the coroner. "I should say"—the witness cleared his throat impressively "that it had been made by a heavy club. The blow was struck over the heart while the victim had his arms raised, pro ably in an attitude of pleading for mercy." "Two: A wide welt on the left fore arm and a bruise on the shoulder that could only have been made by a ter rible grip of fingers." "Could you tell, by the marks, whether they had been made by the hand of a man or a particularly strong woman, such as the one who support ed the dead man?" "No. The hand that made the shoulder mark, and probably the welt on the wrist, was heavily gloved, to prevent Bertillon measurement and comparison. The arm bruise is a welt because the fingers entirely encircled the thin forearm. The man could not have weighed more than a hundred pounds. Age and a sedentary life had wasted the body. On the narrow shoulder, the finger ends sunk into the flesh." "How would you place the time of death?" "About seven hours before I exam ined the body, or about six hours be fore you first saw It." "Then there is no doubt that the man who apparently walked to the table was dead ? M Again all heads lifted and all ears strained for the answer. Each per son in the room knew what it wonld be; yet each wanted to hear confirma tion of the thing that seemed so im possible, so absurd. 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S—Main Floor. I BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. BOWMAN'S Basement batim the words the blind man had used. "You examined the framework that supported the body and gave the im pression that the dead man was merely a victim of partial paralysis." "I did. It is the most ingenious thing I have ever seen. It must have taken years of study and work. Its designing and building show a keen insight into the anatomical structure of the body." "Would it be possible, in your opin ion, for such a frame to be fitted to any \ody?" "Most emphatically not!" "You mean that the frame was made for the body it fitted?" "It would work on 110 other, unless the one chance in a million of another body with exactly the same measure ments and of exactly the same weight." "Could the frame have been fitted quickly to a dead body?" "It could not. The fine adjust ments of the thirty-three places where the silver circlets and steel springs were placed would have taken hours." "Five?" For a full moment the police sur geon sat in deliberative silence. His eyes looked over the heads of the eager men and women who leaned forward so that they would not miss a word. Finally he answered the ques tion. "My own personal opinion is" came another of his impressive pauses —"that one person could not have fitted the frame on the dead body It was the work of two, or probably three, persons. One person could not have committed the murder and at tended to its following details." "Then it is your professional opin ion that it was murder?" The tone of the coroner told that this was his last and clinching question. "Unqualifiedly yes! Fiendishly plan ned and devilishly executed'" The surgeon's eyes searched the faces of the newspaper men to see that they had gotten that last well-turned sen tence. "Thank you, doctor; that is all." Coroner Bierbauer waved a dis missal with one pudgy hand, and glanced at a sheet of notes at his el »°h,'„* A V he P h> l siclan stepped down, a buzz of excited comment went up. Ine newspaper men were writinsr The morbid element whispered its satisfaction. A good murder! This was the unanimous verdict of all who I* i the doctor testify. A bru tal killing, with a strange new twist of the restaurant and the silver-san £ j u Woman ' and t ' le framework that had been made for the body of the murdered man! Feet scraped expectantly M HARRTSBCJRG TELEGRAPH coroner looked up from his notes. "Adolph Heindle!" A well-fed, well-dressed German mounted the stand nervously. "Business?" "Captain of waiters at the Beau monde." There was just a trace of accent, but it was in the harshness of consonants rather than the pro nunciation of words. "How long have you been at the Beaumonde?" "Fifteen years." "The dead man, and the woman who accompanied him, sat at one of your tables ?" "Yes." "Tell us what you saw." The captain described how he had seen entering the restaurant with the waiter who should have been at his tables. He told of the effect of the woman's eyes on him, the bot tle of rare wine, the curious words of the man, and the reservation of the table through the manager. This last with a trace of hurt pride, and a glance toward where Carl sat scowling awaiting his turn to testify. "The waiter was a new man, wasn't he?" "He had been at the hotel two nights." "An experienced man?" The waiting captain hesitated before he answered. "He seemed to know the dishes and silver," he said slowly, "but he was a poor carrier. Had he not been put on by Mr. Carl, I would have spoken for his discharge." "Was there anything suspicious in his actions?" Again there was hesitation before the captain's answer. "A girl was sit ting at the table next to the dead man," he said slowly. "The waiter seemed to know her. She was unac companied, and I was about to tell her of our rule regarding unescorted ladies, when the waiter prevented me." "How?" The captain told of the brushing past and the to the mythical Mr. Smith. "Describe her!" There was real animation in the coroner's tone this time. The newspaper men, alert, to catch ths new turn, stopped their writing to get every word. The group of detectives in the rear of the room, whose eyes had sized up and properly classified every person in the room, stretched their necks as an aid to ears. Bierbauer glanced over them, and a look of disappointment came to his face when he did not find the person he sought. The waiter described the girl in a way that showed plainly his fifteen years of experience in a Broadway restaurant had not destroyed his eye far faniinixia hotuilv. Th« —r - n writers' pencils were flying now; their part of the story had come. "Did you see her enter?" quizzed the coroner. The captain shook his head. "Is that usual?" The captain seemed to take this as an implication of personal neglect. "Not at all," he assured, darting an other hurt look at his manager. "But two of the other captains had been allowed a night off, and I had three table groups to attend." "Then you did not see the couple enter the restaurant?" "No. When I first saw them they were at the fourth table from the lobby entrance. It was early, and the diners had all been shown to tables in the center of the room." "That is all. Thank you." Again the coroner referred to his notes. Heindle made his way ner vously down the center aisle with an uneasy glance or two over his should er as a small group separated from the crowd of reporters and started af ter him. The uneasiness became real fright when a square-jawed detective took him by the shoulder and whisked him out of the room before the news paper men had a chance to pump him further. Two pages, whose duty it was to stand at the lobby entrance of the restaurant to take hats and coats that had passed others of their kind, added a new element of mystery. They had not seen the strange couple enter from the lobby. Both had been busy with hats and coats inside the room. The hotel clerk declared that the man had not been registered as a guest, and he had never seen him. There was a stir when Manager Carl was called. The table had been reserved through him. He must know something of the strange couple. But Carl was sullenly antagonistic, and showed it in his manner, his words, and the very way he sat in the witness chair. The police had evidently badg ered him to the point of distraction, and he apparently saw his diningroom business ruined. "How long have you been manager of the Beaumonde?" Coroner Bier bauer asked the question brusquely, and his manner showed that he was not to be trifled with. He had evi dently had enough experience with the irate manager the night before. "Nine years." answerd Carl curtly. "Do you know anything of the man and woman who came into the res taurant last night?" "No." "The table was reserved through you wasn't it?" "Yes." "How?" "Note." 11" xad £luah mouniad tlxa AUGUST 31, 1916. jowls of the coroner. "Show me the note, and answer the questions fully!" he snapped. A sneering smile on the lips of the hotel manager was the only answer to this as he handed over the papyrus note. The coroner took it scowling ly. cleared his throat ponderously, and read to the jurymen: Manager Carl: With this note are fifty dollars. Is this sufficient to re serve the fifteenth table from the lobby entrance, which is the fourth table from the east wall, for an hour before your time of midnight? 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