Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1923, Page 22

THE MYSTERY GIRL A Thrilling Detective Stos BY CAROLYN WELLS. (Copyright. b7 J. B. Lippincett Os.) | SYNOPSI8 OF PREVIOUS ] INETALLMENTS. John Wating, newly elected to the presi: deney of Corinth College, & venerable New England seat of learning, is found stabbed to h in his study. As he is at the pinnacle of 'his Jie's achievement and about to marey Emily Rates, 4 charming and cultured widow. o motive for suicide appears. His life wa an open book. He had no known enemies, d: there was no way in wh Dave left the locked Nogi, the Jn h a murderer conld The next morming i mis ol secretary, is cdll- 1y for examination An When Lockwood returned to thé study he found th& medical exam- tner and Dr. Greenfield in consulta- tion. The examiner was a large, pom- pous-looking man. with an air of au- thority. He looked at Gordon Lock: wood from beneath his heavy brows and demanded. “What do you kfow of this?” The younger man resénted the tone, but he knew the question was ’usl!<l fied, and so he replied, respectfully: | Nothing more than you can see| for yourself, sir. I broke in at that glass door, being unable to get in any other way, and I found Df. War- ing—as you see him now.” “There was some othér though, to met in and out” iner Mars ted “Positively not,” Lockwood repéat- ed “Don’t contradict me! I te been—for this man | Incredible Case. way, Exam- tell you there must have was murdered.” “Impossible, sir’ and Leckwood's eves met the examiner's with a gaze fully as and insistent as his own “very death?” : ! “I am not the examiner,” the ‘sec- id, and he folded his arms and leaned against the corner of the great mantelpiece; “but since you ask me, I will repeat that there was no way of ingress into this room last night 1t necessarily, the case is a suicid well, how came he by Hhis retary and. granting that, will what may have bécomeé pon that was used?’ was the weapon?' Lock- wood asked, not so disturbed by the question as the examiner had ex- pected him to be c lés me." return- vou can elearly inflicted with a sharp t. The man was stab. bed just below his right ear. Siguiar vein was pierced, and he bled lo death. A plexus of nerves was pierced also, and this fact doubtless rendered the victim uncoriscious at once—I mean as soon as the stab wound was made, though he may have been alive for a few minutes thereafter.” i Gordon Lockwood gazed impér- terbably at the speaker. He had al- ways prided himself on his unshak- able calm. and now he exhibited its full possibilities. Tt annoyed Dr. Marsh, who wae accustomed to hav- ing his statements accepted without question. He took a sudden dislike to this calm vouns man, who pre- sumed to differ from his deductions. I “must say.” observed the mild- mannered Dr. Greenfield, *1 knew Dr. Varing ve 11, and he was surely NER suld expect to kill at the present looking forward college and also ming lady. time—when he w to high honors in the c¢ ected to marry a © CX0fhat isw't the point,” exclaimeéd Dr._ Marsh, impatien “The point is.’if he killed himself, where is the Rapon?” 5 WP Gamit isn't in view—and 1 edmit that secems strange,” Lockwood agreed, “but it may yet be discov- ered, while a way of getting into the locked room cannot be found.” “All of which is out of your juris- diction. voung man,” and Marsh look. ed at him severely, “The police will be here soon, and I've no doubt they will learn the truth, Whatever it may be. What instrument do jou deduce, Dr, Greenfleldr “That's hard to say. field, slowly. - “You see, the aperturs it made a perfectly round hole. Now, most daggers or ponlards are lat-bladed. I'm not sure a r Seapon (e ever round. ~Tne hole i§ much too large to have been made by 2 hatpin—It is as big as a—a—— “Slate pencil,” suggested the ex- aminer. * replied Green= es, or a trifle larger—but not 8o large as a lead pencil.” A lead pencil could hardly accom- waittoo long Bleedinggumsherald Pyorrhea’s coming. Unheeded, the price paid is lost teeth and broken health. Four persons out of évery five past forty, and | the thousands younger, are Pyorrhea’s prey. 10000000000000000000000000000 00! FOR THE GU " More than a tooth =it checks Pyorr 35¢ and 60c in tubes Reescesecseressesssceesseces Nutra-Vin in the Spring After the strain of the win- ter and you feel alf run down —Maybe the influenza has had you for a victim—you need a tonic—not only a re- storative tonic, but a nutri- tive tonic as well—something that will build tissue and normalize the whole system. ‘RA-VIN does just that. It’s a sensible and scientific composition of in- grediénts that will not up- set the stomach, but will put “new life in you.” Pleasant to the taste—and quick to act. W is_the timmé to take NUTRA-VIN. At a1l les and other Peop! other good oot o plish the deed,” March mused. “A slate pencil might have—but tht is a most unusual weapon.” “How about & bili file?" asked Dr. Greenfield. “I knéw 6f & man killed with one.” “Yes, but where is thé bill file?” askéd March. “There's one on thé desk, to be sure, but it is full of papera and shows no signs of having eey lised for a criminal purpose. 1T, as Mr. Lockwood insists, this is & sulcide case_ the vielm posjtively could not have cleaned that file and the papers after stabbing most cértainly could not have done that:* declared Dr. Greentield. Marsh éxamined the file caréfully. it was an ofdinary affalr, consistin of a steel spike on a bronzeé standacd. 1t would without doubt make an effi- cacious implemént of murder, but it was difficult to belleve it had been used In that way. For the bills and memotanda it contained were, to all apyearance, just as they had béen thrust on the sharp point—and sutely, had they peen removed and réplaced, they would have shown traces of such moving. “Anyway,” Dr. Greenfield said, after ancther examination, “the hole in the side of Waring's neck seems to me to have been made with an_ instru- ment slightly larger than that file. Surely, there are round stilettos, are there not?" “Yes, there are.” 8ald Lockwood. “I have séen them.” “Where?" demanded the examliner, suddenly turning on him. “Why—I don't know.” For onee, sécretary’s calm was a trifié shaken. “§ should say In museums— or_in private collections, perhaps.” “Are you familiaf with &0 many private collections of strange weap- ons that you can't remember wheré you have séen & round-shaped blade?” Examiner Marsh stared hard at him and Lockwood became tacitirn again, “Exactly that” he concéded. I have somie time, gomewhere, seen a round-bladed stifetto, but I cannot re- member where.” “Better brush up ¥ouf memory,” Marsh told him, &nd tHen the police arrivea, The io¢al police of Corinth were rather proud of themselves as = wholé, and they had reason to be. ¥ & worth-while chief the men had béén well trainéd snd weére alere, energétie and capablé. Détective Morton, Wwhé took tlis matfer in chafgée, Wént straight to wotk 1h a most businesslike way. He examied the body of John Waring, not as the medieal men had done, but merely to find possible clues to the manner of his death. “WhHat's this ring on his foréhead & asked, looking at the dead man's ace. . "f don't know. xhul struck me as ueer” said Greenfiéld. “What is it, B Uaran tfie éxainlner peered through his glasses. “I can't make thaf 6ut myself,” he confessed frank]y. Morton looked more closely. Thers was a red circle on Waring's forehead that looked as if it had been Put thére of somé purpose. A perfect circle it was, about two inches in diameter, and it was red and sunken ingo the flesh, as if it might have bedh done with a brand- ing iron. “iNot a very hot one. though,” Mor- ton remarked, after suggesting this, “But surely somebody did it. I'll say it's the sikn or scal of the murderer himaelf. For a dead min couldn't do it; #nd theré's no sense in assuming that Dr. Waring branded himself be- fors committing suicide. Was it done DbEFGFE or after death?” hé asked of the two doctors present. “Before, 1 should say,” Dr. Gréen- fleld opined. \ “Yes." concurred Marsh, ™ “but not 16ng before. I'm not sure it is a Service Main Office: drand. Such a mark éould have béén mlagl with, say, & small cup or tum- T “But what readon ig théré in that?’ éxclaimed Morton, “Even a& lunatie murderer wouldn't mark hfs vietim by means of a_tumbler rim.” Absorbedly, né picked up from the water fr and fi thl red mark o %1t oesn't ‘“but it doés almost,” 'AP&M.”' guid bofauzl*uclwa'ad in his superfor w‘gy. !;x wauld any one mark Dr. Warlng's facs wit a ? “Yer it has béen miarked” Merton 1y. “Can looked at the secretary shatp > you suggest any expianation—How- ult of bélier”! ever dificu “No,” Lockwbod said. ‘“Unless he fill ver on some found thing =8 he e “There's nothing Heré” sald Mor- ton, seantiing the lurnlmnumot th désk. “The Inkstana {a closed—an its smafler round, anywhy, Theres no one of thése desk Altings that ou1d podsibly hage madé that matk herefore, since ft wis made héforé death, It must have béen dons by the murdéret.” “Of by thé sulcide,” Leckwood ifi- sisted, firmly. orton, looking at theé secrétary, docided to kéep an eye on this cool chap, who must have some reason for repeating his opinion of suicide. 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