Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1923, Page 22

John Waring breathed his 1 had her visiting him in his study la olthnm off next morning, as Soon as| was instantaneous—-?" must be either suicide or murder, |the same unimportant way: “I'm a plain man" Trask at night. She said at first she wasn't [the body was discovérad. We have | “Yi e doctors agree that it was. | then it follows that either the weapon | “And he A Dr. W, b g he didn't care to pose undu here, but as she left the impress of |the. word of two witnesses for this |Positively he had no chance to hide |isn't gone or the room itsn't locked | that might was there & red ring e Ms{s ER]’ GIRI tuts detective, 'Tve come Into |her drexs trimmings on thal ehsir- |spisoda™ — = ose of the instrument - of up.” | his orehead estaie of my cousin’s—my sec ack, an nand a | . .A 0 " 5 Cenal o 'wee anEir Dtoriad ont with d as she has & ruby p! Who are the witnesses ‘Wasn't, you mean. o = i & - G B No,” said Miss Austin, and then, S7Arm’ determination Lo find the Vil | tor ’v:-‘g::-}:ovt-hnz ‘l”fleor:&":)n‘:em?::g to, the Japanese butler, and Miss | “And why should he? Suicldes| “Yes, wasn't. But I dou't yet think |suddenly awakening to what she Peyton, who Jives in this hous never make their death seem a mur- | that any one disturbed the conditions | naq dome ne . cried § 2 = - lain who killed him. But there Is a bit quoe P i o Y one dlatnr SR ions | ne she cried impetuously, - A Thrill tective Story e sthave | t - “Ge ony der, though often a murderer tries to | Purposely. For why would the secre- | nif 197G TNe SUICH Inpetuonsty, 1 ling Detective . Tady ;.:;;af-ir Iy .:-T::;. O'Alnrl Teasin wv'f,;'{ 'ml;'flb:y.m'bl" planted on ' . then, evér since the tragedy, |simulate a sufcide, taLy take rhd the weapon tomake it | “stone smiled gravely. “You were BY CAROLYN WELLS. the situation: If you can solve the| “That's what she says—or, father. |Miss Austin Has acted queer. Queer| et that wasn't done In this case, | S¢m & sulclde— J; | here,” he said Now let us ta mystery of Dr. Waring's death and [that's one of the things she sald.|in all sorts of ways. She is sad l": or the murderer would have left the| He would if he did it | about what happened during | free that girl from any taint of blame, | The girl contradicted herself conygn- (desolate one minute, and saucy and | weapon.” He didn't do it. Trask sees that.|yisit.” £0 ahead” But If your investigation | ually She says one thing one Jay |Independent the mext. 1 can't make | “'That may be the very point he|The man Trask is a sharp ome. He|' '\t oo caucen by * (Copyright, by J. B, Lippinoott Co.) leads to her, stop It. I want to marry | and another the next." her out at all. And she {s more than |neglected. Now, how did the mur-|3ees all there s to sce, and since| ' HLEECIRCON, W A her just the same, whether she killed |~ “Is she pretty?" This from Fibsy. |half in love with this Lackwood. I\ derer get out? Get busy, Fibs.” there's practically nothing to see that | (3P at tho closed door. '~ = anybody or not. But If she didn't do| “Protty s the devil™ And that’s|have to cut him out, you see. And 1| "For nearly half an hour, the three |80Ives the mystery, he sent for me. |, lmpationtly, Trask rose and went it T want to know it.” not 50 bad as u description. She has|figure, if you prove the case agAINSt|men gearched the room. Had there [It Would be a good one on me, Ter- |2, LIo Coor [t Was Tto, BrIDEIng s SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS. |come a woreawhile and much appre- | ~“Can’t you learn the truth from the | great big dark eyes, with straight |Diss Austin, and if 1 agree to MAITy |been any secret exit, or any con-|ence. it T haveto glve the thing up |lfiekram for Miss Austin Tt had ar 5 Clated asslstant. Not only did the|young lady herself, If sho is your |black brows that almost meet. her &nd huah up the whole MatleT. fcealed passage, it must have been | &8, unsolvable i Stone, but|besnisent over, - John Waring, newly elected to the preai- | joq “)oo) after all details of their |flancee?” asked Stone, “She has a jaunty little face, that [and make it seem suicide |found. ~Fleming Stone's knowledgs |, ~That won't happen. S0l oo [ Misx Nuatery) mead it witr ¢ dency of Corinth College, a vemerable New [ trip a5 well as taking care of the Oh, she savs she dldmt do it of [can be roguish or scornful or merry| “You Ogure that she'll throw over|of architecture” would not let him |LM free to confess that T can't sco| Aiss Mystery read it with great {8 found stabbed | offices, but many times his ingenlous |course. But there's such an over-|or pathetlo as the little rascal |the secretary for you® eried KISY,|overlook any thing of the sort, and | A1¥ WAy tolook” = =~ = |§flcwliy controlied her agiiation, a lo,Js a¢ the pin | mind mo stimulated or aided Stone's| wheiming mass of evidence—or ap- |chooses. She has completely bowled |his eyes aghast at the man's DIAD. . | Fibsy's alert oves and quick wits would | The next morning Maurice Trask|tho auickly went to the blazing log A0t to ATy | own that more often than not they |parent evidence—against her that it's |me over, und I'd be glad to have her | “Exactly that, -You see, Mr. Stofie. | have found any thing out of the ordi- | WeNL over to the Adams house and |firg and dropped the paper in. = B harming a0 e WO mg | Were practically colleagues. the deepest sort of a mystery. on any terms and whatever her past |I don’t try’ {o decéive you. While I|nary. brought Miss Mystery m:‘k}:u'l him, | “Skip over to, the t ,v.”' ph office e e P ™ trace. of 'a weipon: | They had a compartment to them- | “Main facts first. Where was the | history. But, there It is. If she has{have a natural gorpow at my cousin's o way out” Stone concluded, | She eame willingly enough, and the |and got a copv.” sald Stone quietly, Dor was there any way In which a murderer | selves at the end of the car, and they | body found?" a cloan slate’ In this murder business | death, vet remember that I Rever |finally; "and no way of locking & door |Interview with the ‘detective took | and Fibey oheved =~ y 3 have lefe the locked room, were no sooner started than Stone be- n that desk chalr. seated at his|I want to know it knew' him in life; aud that, while Ilor a window after departure from |Place in the room of the tragedy it-| SoL ior Atas tustinie® continued morning Nogl, the Japanese but- | gan to dlscuss they case with the boy. | desk, as he often was evenings. Read- | “And if she hasn't?" want to avenge his death in any oase | the room. Looks as 18 the murder | #elf. : |distress Stone read the message ler. is missing, as are a valuable ruby stic “I don’t know all the details, of [Ing in a Latin book, so you sce he| “Then I don't want anybody clse |but one, T do not want to If it #m-|theory was as untenable as the other,| Stone noticed that the girl showed |aloud. It was from San Francisco worn by the dead man, and $500. known s No chance of a natural death?” | Rno horror or distaste of fhe scene and |and it said: you T 1 $000, known | course,” he began, “but it's a setting |wasn't looking for trouble. to know it If " Mr. Stone, | Dlicates Anita Austin.” 5 ! e e e has apeast |after my own heart. “Found dead in the morning? Been |real evidence that aninr Koriin sing |7 T understand.” sald Stone, ssem=| “with = r hole in his fugular | €ven sat in the chair he placed for | “Hotter own up and tell the whols een burned in the grate lis | “Then T can guess it”” put in the dead all night?" John Waring. or if she confesses to [Ingly not so shocked at the conversa- |vein? No. sir. The doctors here |er. which was the same plush-cov-|truth. I have annexed Carl” It was estata reverta to a distant Telative. Maurice | wise Fibsy. “Man found dead in seal- | “Yes, to both those questions. And |the decd, then you whip around and |tion'as his assistant was. 2 won't stand for that. Try again. ered one that had received the tell-|signed merely “A™ and apparently it Trask. Gordon Lockwood, Dr. Waring's sec- | ed room." locked in his room. Had to break In." | prove a suicide, and I'll double your | “There's another queer thing.” said “I shall. T don't know when TI've |tale imprints. . | was of dire fmport to its recipient. retarr. fusists firmly, een suspiciously, upon [~ “You're a wizard! What made you | “And no weapon about rge. You needm't do anything | Trask. “They tell me that when the |had such a baMing, Intiiguine can | Fleming Stone regarded Miss Aus- | Miss Mystery sat silent and wide e o e Mystery Girl as_she | tHIRK of that “Not & slgn of any— .| wrong. you know. Just sum up that |body wa# found there was the Impress | us this appears to be at gra ‘sient. It |tin curiously. Not only “was her|eved in desperation as she looked has been dubbed by th "ot M ‘ause that's the problem you like | “Then that cuts out all suiclde Idea.’ |all indications point to a suicide, and | of a ring on the forehead. | may resolve itself into a simple prob- | beauty all that Trask had described hopelessly from one to another. A Tams bosrin s (Hactratittihorini i F. Stoné. Wise me up some| “It does and it doesn't. You may |let it go at that. Nobody will arrest| “A seal ring?' lem, but I can't think so now. Fven |it. but there was an added quality of | “Don’t you think,” said Stone, not concerning herself acd her business in Col °. as well say the locked up room cuts|Miss Austin if you say that.” “Oh, no. Not a finger ring, but a|if it were the work of your Miss A fineness, a trace of high mentality unkindly, “that you'd hetter follo inthy. Is drawn into the tragedy when M s further interesting because the |out all idea of a murder.” “You must be crasy, Mr. Trask,” |circlo, about two inches acros tin—how did she get in and out? = |that naturally enough Maurice Trask | A's advice make a clean breast o Roscom, a prying old maid, accuses her victim is a great and good man; in ut it must be one or the other.|returned Stone, coldly. “I don't con- | mark, as if it had been mas Oh, i €0t fn. alliciangy Sucs quite overlooked i the whole matte; = visiting Dr. Wariug on the night of his death | fact, the president-elect of the Uni- | And Isnt it more plausible to look for |duct my business on’ any sueh prin- | er in e o enne ¥ g d of g an sccomplic . sign or symbol of some sort.” let her in, at th, At first glance Stone’s thought was | Continued tomorro "’I!”M'N';;‘,':f e e Mo murder. o | versity of Corinth!” some way that the murdered could |ciples as that. 1 can't perjure myselt| “It remained on the flesh? e French window. & (Gontinuedi rrow.) T 3 Probably that's when —“That _child commit murder? m————co tlTC TOROTION fit, are found in the crusted snow leading fo My! - Somebody didn't want him |have gone away and left the room |to save your lady love from a just| “Until the embalming process took | door. But—say she m’n‘:a“r’fi,';i'i.,‘.?{: Never!” But a few moments later he and from Dr. Waring's study window. More. | for president? That's the idea? locked than to think up a way that,conde place. That removed it. I didn't see | did she get out and lock the room be- | Was not quite so sure of his negation. | over, the roll of hills and his ruby stickpin pparently not. Nothing in the [the suicide could have disposed of | ou haven't seen her yet.” Trask |it, but I'm 'told it was a clearly de- | hind her?” IS | tay Jhat mat axdlTogked af her | are found in her possession, together with un |letter about that. this weapon?” | nodded his sagacious head. “Wait till {fined cirole, ‘quite evidently jupressed | “She couldn't. The window locks |He had no occasion to speak, unless b el s e d‘;.' h the fatal| .ywpo wrote the.letter?” “Yes, that's so, but I want ywu'm')on do with some intent.” | are bolts, and could not be shot from | addressed, so, in silence, he mer | With fingerprint evidence against her. and | “The relative who inherits the |investigate both possibilities. You e e Al the points against| “Sounda llke a sign of a secret %0- | outside. For the moment I see no ex- | let his eyes feast on the piquant face | with unmistakable proof that it was the im- | whole estate.” see if you could prove a suicide, that (her” the detective suggested. clety,” Fibsy suggested, but Stone | planation. It is blank, utter mystery. | with its ever-changing expressions. print of her button-trimmed dress, which w “He do the job?" would free Miss Austin at once. | grol Wil T'd rather you knew them |paid no heed. b When can T see Miss Austin?* | " After casual questions, Stone said found on a plush chair-back in Dr. Waring's | No reason as yet to think so. But| “And—if things go against her—I |from me. Not that I'll color them— “Let's reconstruct the case” he| "“Tgo late tonight, tomorrow morn. directly, “Did vou know Dr. Warin studs, Anita admics visiting him on the bWt | (he' criminal musn't be guessed al. |want vou toon hard to | thf¥re facts that speak for them- |said: ““Waring sat at his desk, his|ing will have to do. But she won't |before you came to Corinth, Mi fn'wnd her distress sa appareat. that Mauties | ThE DOINL 15 the locked room. put into words 1 Dt Sther peuple MGt quag- jocurstary Guiaide in that Rt | run_away. The police won't let her.” | Austin?" ! Track finds hix sympathies eniisted ‘in her | HOW wa3 the killing done? “I'll do that” said Fibsy, “if things | Ferate, them, = Well. to begin &ith, Yes; ‘the Japanese, the other one,| “Yet, they can’t hold her.” No," she said. a little hesitantly; Tis interest 4n Anita is so evidens | “Stabbed. on found and no | go against Miss Austin, you want Mr. | 18 Bt]. @ day or so after she ar-[the one that disappeared. brought in| «They are doing so. They claim |“I had heard of him, but I had never s the fealousy of Lockwood, w vay to get in or out of the locked |8tone to frame up sulcide and de- | JAVed here, was seen kissing the ple-|water, and then Doctor Waring closed | she was the last one to see the. victim | seen nim.. | e s e e e i Hine problems e it the oty ture of Dr. Waring which she had cut | the door and locked it.” | alive " 6w Ead you heard ofhim? grerrides ail dbjections aud consituies himselt | "**Yes—i¢ we don't find a secret stair- | < “Exactly’ that. and Trask looked [{FOm @ newspaper. I tell you this, | Iminediately? “Does she admit that?" o § - o He ! Tipined | . “There was much in the papers 5 s | way—or a Iying servant. Such caBes | relleved at the thoaght ail his cards| €3use you'll hear it, wnyway. and| “Iden't kmow that, but anyway, no | -noc” anet o mue it Tite nothing. | i i e ki) Dack Dis feel | generally fiasle out that way." Fooare: o tho aDIERL 8 e orf!the possips: think it shows a DPe-|one that we know of sew him acaln f- |abput nis election. ¢ You'll get nothing out of that little | ™ . our" k, infatuated with her, attempts to bribe | “Fibs, Boy Cassandra. | Miss Austin suspected, but 1 do want | ;i0US #cquaintance between the two. |alive. Nogi Is under no susplcion, for | sphinx!™ e e il i her to become his wife, oftecing to drop all | “What's to know if she's innocent.” But 1 hold that as girls have mat- |after he came out of the room, t “All right, then, Mr. Trask, if you've e e o haute charzes ‘and remove all muspicion from her | Stone explained, for it was his habit Ahy other suspecta? naked Stone, |I1®e idols and movie heroes, this girl | deotor rote amd locked the doo sudden accession of hauteur. ) | finished your tale, suppose you leave | ; cam l';:'r11"77::;1“1.:‘“Ivnxlh'r.n'£r"\l |.',‘Ln_bmx'm':-,: to supplement McGuire's very scant Vot definite ones. There's the Jap- ‘-]m.:m ~-4>v!|__» have adored the scholar- | Lockwood can't be suspected, as he | me here to ruminate over KK‘” thing. | ,:::B;::{::.f ;‘:“:’:\;:,e::’v‘le‘t’:\ st ientine partls. diuarered b hie reropal, | ducation by bits of information now |anese who absconded that same night, | ¥ man. though .!lhv‘ had never seen |{heard the door locked, and couldn’t |and I'll go up to my room when [;“‘("‘ S{opeis Guestions with sy ab 7 ol o {and then, when time served. and, of course, there's the secretary, | Mm” : get in. He is more or less suspected | wish.” | L jelie o e the mystery. | “But there's a aqueer clause in the | Gordon Lockwood. I'd like to Suspec 1t 1 possible” Stone acreed, “but | Socause of hia benholder. hut much | Frask went off to bed. and Stone | Minded alr, answered e aan 2z ed detective, is called {n Arrangement one went on, “If we |him, all right. and he has a round |MOt VEry probable. She denies they |as I should like to think him the and his young assistant sat and looked | Jables, of by a movement of her h on the case-_vel with & certain provision | find the evidence leading In a certain | silver penholder that just fita the | Were acquainted eriminal, 1 know he iam't. PSR She even gave a side smile to Fibsy, made by both Lockwapd and Trask, that he |direction the chase is to cease. I wound ‘that killed Waring. "But f¢| "Yes. Vows she never saw him You're very honest, Mr. Trask.” “Up against it, F. Stone?” j ohich: “thoyghs it amased him. alac ghail cease s “lavedtigations 17 Avita i | TThat won't e ’ | doean’t look like he did it. he never [UNtil one night she went to his lec- | “Yes, because I want the truth. Can| “I certainly am, Fibs. And yet, the | filled him with a strange exultant joy Amplicate | “Of course not, and T'll soon make | would have left the penholder in evi. | ture, scon after her arrival here jyou get it?” | thing 1s so absolutely impossible that |and made him her abject slave at e e e [that clear. But T can't think it will |dence, and he would have arranged | .What is she in Corinth for? o Sk o there must be a solution within easy | Once. : & Stone to the Rescue. | jead in the given direction, a t|matters to look more like suicide. | [To 8ketch—she's an artist. | ©You still eliminate suicide>" reach. It can't be suicide, with the | Stone went on, drawing out a string pe.* |implicat. : a voung girl, and rarely | Then, too, how could he lock the o I can't see how I can think it.' weapon gone, and it can’t be murder | of unimportant questions in a monot- |indeed have T found a criminal an- |door 'behind him? ell. as 1 said, might have | with no weapon. Y. v tha e the room locked up. e Now, a ! onous voice, and at length he said in |swering to that des > Enet aieation. miiat answered | COme here that Sunday night, for one | Spex." ¥ouisay st ideath with ¢ i Zib P ASSC New England it is.” "Tisn't usual know, .| first of alle: satd Stane, Il examine | Of the boarders at the house she lives rt this afternoon. stay a few |Stone. since the war s are so in- | the room. of course, but after the ! faw hercrossthe snowy field. Also, maybe a week, among the clas- |dependent and so ¥ that there's Jocal police and detectives have done footprints just fitted her shoes. shades of Corinth.” no telling what they'll do. Me for |that, T doubt if I find anything en- |AlS0, the tracks led right up to the - ‘orinth 1t 1 —as a suspect.” lightening. So far as I can see, the $/d# porch here to that long French | M L R e e L Whole affate 1w unique, snd T think | Window. 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