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?"
"You have It, haven't you?"
Well, I hadn't. The thing was
gone.
"Carried out in the table cloth,
probably," Martin suggested. "You
don't want it, do you?"
"Not particularly. But It was cer-
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tainly careless of George to carry it
off. He'd better be made to look for
It."
However, It was not to be found.
We sat around a bit ana waited, but
without any result. It was while we
were waiting there that I mentioned
the big Jewel robbery.
"It was a haul," I said. "Close on
a million, maybe more."
"I've been wondering why they, or
he —since you say it may have been
a one-man Job— why he didn t go
after the vaults of one of the big
banks. 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? He heard
the spring fall and was stooping, you
know.
If he'd had a fractured skull, I'd
have been satisfied. I mean, of course,
I could have fitted In a fractured skull,
but there's nothing about a camera, so
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I got to thinking about the carrier
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don't fly much, do they? Eagles?
Did you ever read "The Hound of
the Baskervllles?" It's about a dog
that wanders about at night, Isn't it?
And scares people to death, or eats
them —I've forgotten which. Well. It
shows what a state my brain was In,
that I had a sort of instantaneous
vision of a huge bird flying over the
city, taking pictures incidentally, and
dropping down now and then to bite a
policeman, or cut the throat of an
unlucky taxi driver!
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the telephone. I got Boisseau's and
called the old chap to the phone.
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have you done with the camera that
was found in front of your place this
morning?
"Who is that?"
"Oliver Gray."
"You know what camera. One with
the lens missing."
Either he didn't know, or he acted
perplexity pretty well.
"I'll inquire, Mr. Oliver."
But when he came back he said
no camera had been turned in at the
office.
"If I hear about one I'll let you
know," he promised. So there I was.
The photographer had been listen
ing and offered to sell me another
camera. But when I asked what sort
of bird would carry a fair-sized cam
era around at night, he got behind the
counter and fingered a steel tripod and
lost interest in selling me anything.
I had started out well enough, but
here I was, winded already, and chas
ing a hypothetical camera. 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
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"I've been pretty sore all day
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other necklace and then some."
I took it from that that he had
reconsidered and wasn't going to
leave the works. I was glad of it. Ho
knew and I knew and the governor
knew, for that matter, that he'd pull
ed us out of trouble a half-dozen
times. He was worth ten times his
salary. The governor doesn't believe
in big salaries.
(To Be Continued.)