Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 5

The story thus far: Jamexon finds out that Mr. 1o finds tial Mr. pnd’s attecney, ofte He and Jameson then ciind the chairs in Kennedy's Too om which tine wires, 1aid_in the cracks of the foory lead o azother rom. x men gathered i labe ance of W HAT night Kenned: utter igno; about to happen 1 was fectly czlm. and so were all the rest. except Gregory. He was easily the most nervous of U Jawyer, Ashe, tried r ure him Mr. Close” b You and Mr. Lawrenc here on this side of the root Dr. Gre a M. oppo: h Mr. middle, I think both of parties will be better suit apprehend that at various what T am about to say both you tiose, and you, Mr. Gresory, will want to consult your attorneys. Th course, would be embarr jmpossible, should-you be each ather. Now, If we b shall begin Kennedy placed a_small leaden cas ket on the table of his “in this casket,” he commen b emnly, “there is a certain substanc tediy to re- it i n Kenned will sit o Asche hal The Sfilr"s Week End Fiction | THE DEADLY TUBE By Arthur B. Reeve Comple;e in Three Installments 1. though his! while | this room had an opportunity to Se- | crete the contents of this deadly tube in the crevices of the metal work of | . bed. One of these per- | have placed an order | nfidential agent in Lon- | hase the radium from the | sh Radium Corporation. e of persons hid a compelling mo- . something to gain by using this | \lr»lh_\' element. * ‘The radium in this tube in the c ket was secreted, as 1 have said, in the metal work of Mrs. Close's bed, | not in large enough quantities to be immediately fatal, but mixed it with dust so as to produce the resuit more | wly, but_no less surely, and thus oid 'suspicion. At the same time, Close was persuaded—I will not'| by whom—through her nat-| al pride, to take a course of X-ray ; atment’ for a slight defect. That uid further serve to divert sus- j picion. The fact is that a_more hor- ible plot could hardly have been planned or executed. This person l. ght to ruin her beaty to gain |« most selfish and despicable end.” ) Awain Cruig paused to let his words | $sink inta ou h (o state that anything That ix why 1 have a o bring your attorney: consult with them. of N getting ready my course, | next As Kennedy had developed his points ! he case 1 had been more and more | amazed. But 1 had not failed to no- e how keenly Lawrence was fol- towing him. i f: With half a sneer on his astute| . Lawrence drawled: “I cannot| ec that you have accomplished any- thing by this rather extraordinary summoning of us to your laboratory. The evidence is just as black against Dr. Gregory as before. You may think | but on_ the! you're clever, Kennedy, very statement of facts as yow have brought, them out there is pienty of - THE EVENING STAR, nen may say will be used Ldig out their queer story. WASHINGTON, Brides Will Be Brides * By Lucille Yan Slyke. v in her manner. JOHN LINDSAY . | great digni ASSERTS H1S RIGHTS. HE dinner party in Ceclly Le- | chg asked. ' e i i “I prefer to communicate wi y land's studio had come to alp,,.0c% orney,” John repeated, wood- dramatic pause, The women | gniy. were gasping “my dears” at| Fora moment she stared at him, a3 : ST though she could not believe he was cach other, the men pushing back |, udny suying what he was saying. their chairs in amazement, and at the | “Phen her slender shoulders straights upper end of the table, with the guest | encd themselves, s of honor steadying her arm, Merriam ':"‘“':NOH- but with a |ment. Lella. John, and send the cable for me?” she asked. he turned with deter- t of bewilder- Lindsay, looking very ethereal in her Someboily else do it quickly.” she | tragile evening gown, had risen. called. “Somebody must love me ! From the kitchen came a strange | ¢nough to do it—Shellv—or Cecily—-" she ran to her cougin, who threw a protecting arm across Merry's shouj- ders. E “If some of you would get out of here,” suggested Cecily excitably. “T— T—there, there, Merry darling—don't babble of sounds, the high-pitched | voices of the Japanese serving boys and Susan Sue’s shrill accents, “The more 1 tell him she never was in Japan, the more he keeps hollering | _qon't shake so. * Ceclly’s voice that ‘he saw her there a month!rang sharply. “John. don’t’ act so ago—" N | stupid—do W lerry asks you.” Poor youth! Already he was realiz- ing that he had perhaps taken an ab- { surd stand; but, with all of them star- ing at him, he would not retract. The women acted as though he were a brute.jas though he had no rights, as though he honestly didn't want his father-in-law found' Again he mur- mured that he considered the lawyer the proper person to attend to the Ned Merrill, who was a lawyer, rose determinedly. John Lindsay was al ready at the other end of the tabl with his arm about his trembling, little wife. Sit “down, datling.” he told her soothingly. ' “Ned's the chap to find out things—he'll bring the Jap back ip_here— The boy came, taller than Merri he_was not much “ie fixed his nar-|matter. row black eyes i ners. He could| Merriam could mot longer control talk very little English. Merrill, who | her anger. ~Utterly 1 -cildared mby had taken charge, cailed the other|what seemed to her Ji i's failure to boy to act as interpreter; it seemed |stand by her in an hou: of need, she an’ interminable time before he could | put ter head down on Cecily's shoul- ider and lat her passionate tears flow. Kuto had come back from Japan | -you cable—cable Richard | three weeks previous, he said,.from : ordeerd. “Oh, please | acting as courfer for a wealthy ! Tnke John aw: American. His employer had kindly ate him! 1 shan't given the boy a week's holiday solook at him! I never want to see him that Kato could visit his family in I only want my own dear the northern part of Japan. It w. while_on this visit that Kato had seen Merriam. Not Merriam herself, the patient lawyer finally discovered, bui a_picture of Merriam—with the same high backed comb she was now wearing, in the inside cover of the case of a traveling clock. “Dad’s.” cried Merriam. “I gave it to him for his birthday, just before he sailed last vear!” The. clock was in the American gentleman, a REPORTS DISTRICT BILLS. Ball Formally Presents Measures to Amend. Formal report to the Senate was Senator room of an man with white hair, who had been in.a serious “Will vou take Richard's address lnm‘ which T have recovered trom the inst swept up by @ vacuum cleaner in the room of Mr. Close.” itial evidence ory-—more than thece was before. gainst Greg- | accident. for any one else in the room. I can't He wasn't As|he couldn’t tell anybody s name ill bodily. but where he made yesterday by Se¢nator Ball of Delaware, chairman of the District came from or what e "eould feel the every air of the | (08 R¥ OC €ie 1 e o oh Sees | . “Some Sort of aphasia or committee, of the bills to amend the ' i surcharged | With Sexeltement, | unless perlaps this new evidence you | Nel Merwill interpolated. (| methiod of astessments in the District raig drew on a pair of gloves a may implicate Asche, ori ry white, extraordinarily quiet, | 0 i istri arefally opened the casket. With Nehaded. including me in!Merriam turned to Leila Graham. ~|*Nd to authorize the District Com- is thumb and forefinger he lifted out - ‘of his hand. as if we were| "Have you Richard Slocum’s ad. Missioners to permit the Baltimore Y tube and held it zingerly at|aiady addressing a jury. ~It's my (dress"? she asked. “Do you know if [and Ohlo railroad to construct tracks Tength. My eves were riveted | ooy e five o our peers|he's still in Japar across some squares in the northeast. for the bottom of the tubel oula be quite kely to bring in;_ Isn't it providential that is The details of these bills were pub- Slowed With a dazziims point of heht | 3 Veraier of guilty against them as|Leila hade forgotten her lunguid|lished whey they were ordered favor- Both Gregors and his attornes and | againet any one else even remotely | AFaWl in the excitement of the mo-!ably reported fo the Senate by the Close " and T Tawrence whisperad o | pannieted with this case. . except ) Ment, her words were tumbling over | Senate committee on Wednesday. cach_other when the tube was dis- ry. No: vou'll have to do bet-i ¢aCh other. “I'll ‘phone my apartment —_— did_throush- i s an this in your next case if of Kennedy's pect to maintain_ that playéd, as indeed thes whole exhibit came to find out some new evid n might well befthrilled w 2 atal tube of tict 1he mysteries of this iis power to work fu larger nity_of this the tube would produce on m now hold it. incur; it did on its dis death. A smaller dmoun wife. ure on of m ome lec! 11 I've got . it only bea before. Gregory home, after he saw office treatments had done. of hi with the Drawin ceeded. lieved Closc be-la fresh cigar. atments with an| In his hand Kennedy held a ew York.” pur-;bcok. “My stenographer writes a it 1s not legible shorthand: at least I find from long practice, 1 suppose. ¥ known but the fa iological effects 1adium are Guite one and the Radium po: this adva however. t b aborat is necessary for its use. dition, the eman: 1t me read: hing against me. has he? imond merchant who had just lea are much the pat he could make his faulty before this o a1 the ghilowing red in fhe N . we’ll have to drop the but f it curi- Jieved to hate caused his death he forced us to i rination revesled n of his skin. n to vie on_that the old w d for a long ti nedy? Even Isuch a thing coming to the ear: Airs. Tulkington would be unpleas: ilin was thiory is that Z ic appli-|You know what_ the eath by a systematic -rays or radium by ty who room- police done to cation o either a studedt in the univer cd next to him. The student his dis marriage and all the rest.’ ‘I'll see what T can ward Kennedy, “a pack of lies! ut it followed, for I ut of the pa- are a fakir and a blackmailer. me she never wan! to return to It. that her memory of sieepless nig in it was too id. hat served to fix the impression that 1 had already formed from reading this clipping. ither the > or radium had 4 caused her dermatitis and nervou.vi%—' ness. Which was it? [ wished to bej sure that 1 would make no mistake., é % President R. N. Harper ! Cashier H. L. Offutt, Jr. Ot course, I knew it was useless to : ook for an X-ray machine in oF near | frs. Close’s room. Such a thing could | pever have been concealed. The al-| Radium! Ah! that was| T determined on an experi- Mrs. Close’s maid was pre- cailed on to sleep in her mistress’ som. Of course, radiations of brief Guration would do her no permanent harm, althgugh they would produce heir cffect, nevertheless. 1 one night he maid became extremely nervous. f she had stayed under them several ernative? different. ent. | {ehts mo doubt the beginning of a i (g lermatitis would have affected her. it g derious trouble. A system- tic ‘application. covering Weeks and | g out for th onths, might in the end even have to death. ""‘Tne next day T managed, as I have aid, to go over the room thoroughly {th a¢ vacuum cleaner—a new one J ¢ my own which I.had bought my- elf. But tests of the dust which'Il ot from the floors, curtains and fur- iture showed nothing at all. As a A Savi it’s only h: E H g8 a 3 2 @ 2 a = H 3 2 4 ® ] a 3 B racks and crevices in the brass bars. ests of that dust showed it to be ex- remely radio-active. 1 had the dust] issolved, by a chemist who under- tood that sort of thing, recrystal-j |3 1zed, and the radium salts were ex-, racted from the refuse. Thus I found | hat 1‘had recovered all but a ver?| ew milligrams of the radium that! ad been originally purchased in Lon-| [§ on. Iere it is in this deadly tube in he Teaden casket. “It is needless to add that the night fter T had cleaned out this deadly ele- S ent the maid slept the sleep of the ust—and would have been all right vhen next I saw her but for the in- erference of the unjust on whom I ad stolen a march.” Craig paused while the lawyers vhispered again to their clients. Then | e continued: “Now, three persons in so-cailed nst the wretch who wrecked the -rays and radi- I suppose what you say is true. < out what I thought treated my wife at the damage his 1 guess would not act so quickly. The | he was capable of making a complete i % = ° . mbunt e tabe, ST disiributed | Jobout oF 1locoverig ap his care. | Oppuctne the search” am tarea || Rid of It by Taking Father t. would produce burns inevita- | jessness by getting rid of the woman ! ;50 te amazement | 9 .. - providing 1 remained near|who w uch a damning piece of ev “Johns: she stammered, “vou must John £ Med]cme for a long enough time.” dence against his professional skill.” | pa out your mind! Richard is r|g|:\l | | paused @ moment to empha-| Never a shade passed Craig's face | there in Japan this minute, and he'd 10 ||| You ought = remarks. as he listened to this tirade. “EX-{anything in the world for me, and he \,o realize Here in my hand. gentlemen, 1|cuse me a moment.” was all he said, | adores dad—why. he's a thousand || iha't the hold the price of a woman's beauty opening the door to leave -the room.! {jmes better to send than any stupid {li> 0 u h He stopped again for several mo- | I have just one more fact to disclose. | old detective agency that's heen looking |12 % % & I ments. then resumed. 1 will be back directly i | these four long months and done noth- | ceeps you 'And now, having shown it to you. Kenned one several minutes. | ing at all but send bills—Johnsy, you -“rapj;e )3Q my own safe il place it|during ose and Lawrence ) aren't serious [1ight is a back in i leaden fell to whispering behind their hands Big and blonde and obstinate, John I( grlofls surance of those who be- | stood his ground. that this was only Kennedy’ “I have found out {method of admitting a defeat. Greg-|yours in this ‘matter.” he responded |[!;% J\° ¢ that seven weeks ago aa order |ory and Asche exchanged a few | tiffiy. “If you communicate with that (| f,® % 150 one hundred millizrams of radium | words similarly. and it was plain that | chap Slocum, you do o against my ex- |f 1t 78 S2B2 H bromide from a erson M} Asche was avoring to put a bet- | press wiches. 1 do not care to have my ||| 378 ¥our Am was filled corporation | ter interpretation on something than wife under any obligations to the sort ||t F €8 i < substance. | Gre Rimself dared hop 1 of man that Sloeum has shown himself ||| (L 1S KeERs 0 L 0o Youll! v said this with measured ! Konnedy re-entered Close was | to be.” - H o oY Fathor Jonn's Medicine rignt |l | «d 1 felt a thrili run through | buttoning up his coat preparatory to! *Johr Linds Leila’s voice ent § D o At ths da HesT tnaicen se. Jeaving, and Lawrence was lighting | “don’t be =0 pigheaded. Mer: right; ||| ROW olrricn - her notes 1 find many terest you later— | hi But—ah, here at the end very clever. but he has “No. not unless he can produce the ent who bought the radium for you.' : A 8 ‘But he can't do that. No one could | box. and with it he pulled up the wires with | 2 Y rrent | ever have recognized you on your fly- tube. Still,| NS trip to London disguised as a dia- Zood by applications of radium vho wanted a good stock of the a At against Gregory atter all, in spite of ; Blclnln;m” October.—What | 3 That part is hoy':lessl)’ case in which £adium a I suppose so. Oh, well, death-dealing 28 nt is en Z pub-jfrae now. She can hardly help lic attention ap this u msent to a_divorce now and a quiet A wealthy oll bacl in I settlement. She brought it on herself name, was fotind dead in his flat. A i _we tried every other way to da it, stroke of apfoplexy was at first be- | but she—she was too good {o fall into “Yes. you'll get a good divorce now. But can’t we shut up this man Ken if he can’t prove any- thing against us, the mere rumor of ‘Go as far as you like, Lawrence. sean to me. Tt will settle my debts to Close. He'll . i be back in momen appeared. 4 n 10men o e here. I believe, was the sug-| Close’s face was livid. “Tt's a pack gestion which this American criminal | of lie he shouted, advancing to- c: cather ex sooner or later|are @ fokir and s blackmaller, in a moment. No. Close, violency o1 rE0 act ¥ s, od— - o3 3 e et hava Horosthte. ovoulld ct ol and you, too. ¥ won't dojnow. Tneidoors axe locked— {t ® bave tHoroughiy examined (hS, Cone moms said Ken- |8nd see, we are four to two. room of Mr S nedy calmiy. ence, will you THE END. —the *man who saves something—or spends all? Certainly the one who goes along judiciously looking of the present. ommendations anybody can have—and one of the best assets. You can’t have money unless you save it—and provision-to take care of it. 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It is safe for all | the family to take because it is i|| guaranteed free from alcohol or | | dangerous drugs. ! we'll cable Richard at once.” note | verv tiny. looking very white, bui very | strangely self-controlled for so pas- it so | sionate a creature, Merrlam secmed to As I | ignore evervbody in the room but her obstinate John. She stood away from , with her arms folded. There was il ! { —_— be so kind as to reach behind your chair? What do you find?" Lawrence lifted up the plain black Remembrance Corsage (Violets and Roses) $2.50 up ! which 1 had so carefully concealed in the cracks of the floor. “That,” said Kennedy, “is a little instrument called the microphone. Its chief merit lies in the fact that it will | magnify a sound sixteen hundred | times and carry it to any given point suit | where you wish to place the receiver. Originally this device was invented j for the aid of the deaf, but I see no reason why it should not be used to I'm | aid the law. One needn’t eavesdrop at but | the keyhole with this little instru- ment about. Inside that box there is nothing but a series of plugs from which wires, much finer than a thread,’ are stretched taut. Yet a fly walking near it will make a noise as loud as a_draft_horse. If the microphone is placed in_any part of the room, es- pecially if near the persons talking— even if they are talking in a whisper s of |—a whisper such as occurred several ant.’ | times during the evening and particu- larly while T wag in the next room getting the notes tade by my stenog- rapher—a whisper, 1 say. is like shouting your guilt from tge house- tops. “You two men, Close and=Lawrence, may consider yourselves under arrest for conspiracy and whatever other in- You | dictments will lie against such crea- 111 | tures as you. The police will be here | | rned dia- will -Vice Presidents W. P. Lipscomb Lewis Holmes C. J. Gockeler N. L. 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