16 Mary Roberts Rinehart's Thrilling Mystery of ' The Curve of the Catenary' (Continued From Yesterday.) "Oh, don't be an ass, Ollie. I don't believe she was looking in a tree. If she was. it may have been for one of the carrier pigeons." "Carrier pigeons?" "He has a few. He used to send them out with miniature cameras tied to their feet. But that was a fad; he doesn't do it now." It looked quite plausible, or at least possible. "The trouble Is with you," Martin said. "You are trying to connect a series of disconnected episodes. You say you don't believe in coincidence. That's rot." He upset the glass of water just then, and while the cloth was being changed we rather lost the thread of our talk. We tossed to seo who would pay for 'he lunch, and Martin lost. "How about golf this afternoon?" he asked, as he signed the chock. "I'm on. I need something to steady me. "I'll come around for you. Here?" "Here." I said. "Where's that watch crystal, or whatever It is?" 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The bank protection service was destroyed with the rest, accord ing to the papers." I pulled a gold piece out of my pocket and held it out to him. "Feel that." I said. "Feels good to me." "It's heavy. How much of that could you carry about? Ten thou sand dollars, twenty-five, perhaps. I don't know. But take pearls and things like that. A fellow could carry a considerable fortune in his pocket." Good for you!" said Martin. "Hon est, Oilie, I didn't think you had it In you." "Not only that. They're easier to dispose of than securities or than bank notes of large denomination." He smoked meditatively. "I see." he said. "Of course, he's got to hide them for a while. That's not so hard. I suppose, as getting them." Charlie Thomas came up about that time and wanted Martin to have the postponed party for Lottie Murray. But somehow what we'd been through had taken the party feeling out of both of us, and Charlie called us quitters. "I'll have the party and not invite you," he threatened. "Go to It." Martin said. "Ander son is nursing his right foot, which is 50 per cent of his business capital, but I daresay the girl would stand for some sort of a celebration." It was after Thomas had drifted off that I drew out of my pocket the slip on which Martin had written the dead woman's address and showed him the reverse side. "What it Is?" I asked, "An acros tic?" "Where did you get that?" "You gave it to me. I'd like to know what the deuce it is." "It's a formula." "What's the Curve of the Caten- ary ?" "Some time," he said, as he rose, "when I have lots of time, and you haven't been up most of the night. I'll explain the Curve of the Catenary to you. It's mighty interesting.'- Well, the glass was gone, and Mar tin, having finished his cigar, went back to the office. At 4 he was to pick me up. So I had more than two hours to spare. My brain was foggy. I felt like a man wandering about in a darkened room and knocking into things. Every way I turned I struck something, but I couldn't find a door. Not bad, that! It was a bit soon after lunch to box, which I usually do at Sam Blake's when I feel groggy. It sets me up. But I thought I'd go to Sam's anyhow and do a little light work. It was on my way to Sam's that I got the first light on things. I was thinking about old Mr. Haz eltine, and his wanderings about at night, and his baby camera, tied to carrier pigeons. I was passing a camera dealer's just then and I stop ped at the window. There were all sorts of cameras, but none small enough to tie to a bird's foot. And then I saw a duplicate of the glass affair I'd picked up, only not so large. Of course. It was the lens of a camera. Disappointing? Well, that's as you look at it. A camera is not as sensa tional as a revolver or a bomb, per haps. But there are exceptions. I was to learn, some time later, that a camera may be a party to a crime, may steal and murder, may— I"ll be giving this thing away in a minute! It cleared the whole situation for me in a twinkling. Or I thought it did. The old map had been out tak ing night pictures, and he'd lost his camera. Perhaps he'd slipped into Boisseau's and was working from an upper window. Then he dropped the thing and It tore a hole in the awn ing. Do you get it? Probably the springs were a part of it. Then the girl went out to look for him, and for the camera. She found him and sent him home and stayed out, looking around, noor little kid. Then, when she learned what had happened at Boisseau's, she went to pieces. All this In a minute. I think that way sometimes. But when I got down to brass tacks it didn't all fit together. How did the other spring get across into the park? Why should she think the camera had lodged In a tree? It couldn't have got into the park from Boisseau's unless it had been fired out of a gun. If it fell on the awning, where was it? Was there any con nection between its falling and the attack on the policeman? 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Maybe I had had some sort of a fool Idea of helping Miss Hazeltlne and showing her that I wasn't the dub and play boy she'd thought I was. But I give you my word, at 3 o'clock that after noon, when I wandered back to the club, my mind was a chaos and I was saying over and over to myself I—l.w.—l per cent. The Curve of the Catenary. The golf that afternoon was a fail ure. In the first place, Martin couldn't play. He has an old car without a self-starter, and halfway to the club he stalled the engine. I offered to get out and crank it for him, but he was irritable anyhow, and he swung over the side without even replying. He gave the crank a vicious twist, and the thing came back at him and nearly broke his wrist. He came around, holding it. and said I'd have to drive the rest of the way. Then he relaps ed into a silence that was half temper and half pain, and I took the wheel. "Going too fast?" I asked him once, when we struck a bump and he'd clutched his arm.. "Drive it into the ditch and smash it up," was his pleasant reply. So, naturally, there wasn't mud' rip to my game that afternoon. Mar tin sent his clubs and the grip will his golf clothes to his locker, and fol lowed me about the links. But the only time he cheered up at all wa: once when I got into a sand pit .am. stuck there. Somebody had been fly ing a box kite on the links, which they'd no business to, and it had conn down and lay smashed in the pit. 1 had a right to move the thing, and ht knew I had, but he was in one of the nasty spells he takes now and then, and he insisted on arguing about it. "Be a sport and play through it," he suggested. "How do you know the greens committee hasn't put it there as an extra hazard?" "You go to the deuce," I said. "Very well,, then, I won't touch it." I lighted a cigaret and flung the burning match on the kite. It blazed like fun in an Instant, and In three minutes I was out of the pit and on my way. We had dinner at the club, and went back to town early. Martin's wrist was beter, though, and he drove the car. He was In a better humor, too. "I've been pretty sore all day about 'our father, Ollle," he said. "But ta-night I'm over the worst. I don't tnow that I'd have been very agreetble In his place to-day. What does -6ur mother place her loss at?" "S