Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1923, Page 45

ABOVE S By Robert Orr Chipperfield. Author of “The Second “The Trigger of USPICION | Bullet,” “Unseen Hands,” ’ Conscience,” Etc. Copyright, 1023, by Robert M. McBride & Co HOW THE STORY BEGAN. of Mrs Grother of the Istres . near a stone bench, sith the back of the head crushed in. This Afrvant, Carp, the butler, had left the man. © Jeokard.” sitting upon the bench late - i0d the latter had told him he would the dwors leading to the patio, which jaced the water. The butlers cries Letty, auother servant Japses from exciteins €e of aftairs ager woman, fs instroet Benkard's young niece, ing the full extent of the tragedy N cay . By long © in New York she talks with Mr rlend of Benkand, who had be murdered man & short ftime th dutghter of the ho for her at 1) Stprints In e slaying was of u my crtukes to g had hee e L aquestione, guest the precoding _ (Continued from Y tone sper, as who killed him? ‘s reply w osing of the dining-r: coff made his way o © once more. It was de rieving his pipe which cool on the pile seated himeelf and proc to refill ft when a bulky s Ap- peared on the n fed conere and he looked up t d detective confronting him You the guy that's bee und here™ comprehens i the District flipped the cook in the vou doing 1 ieoff cupped ¥ the mateh then drew i a bullying squinted up shody had 1 “puty nor told me and 1 aim lie drawled My Sob | terrace and the I ®it a chance, here long?" the de- no had fucetious. Tt 3 king on the in- from ginning. you m ufter to tell me how > lald out Gownsta what's this long one here ft that runs from the library way back?” s a-goin’ to be the conservat’ Mis' Cayley gits ‘round to put plante an as you 1d fr -past " y v there's the kito #nd dining room. and | that nt to the entrunce hall purlo «hut up, . o What's it used f 'Nothin’, ow Mis' Cavley's goin® to have the ceilin® handpainted and move the piano in from the parlor and “muste but 1 heard | to have lots | dancin’ windows conservatory always f F kon s Geoff d on with nonchalance, “Henry “tends Henry Carp, « butler.” s of both of these ey kent squinted up once more nno's'I can tell vou that, T aimgt had occasi ‘em. ‘cept and o' course vour name?" as suddenly, after a pause card with you? thrust out his luntern-jaw a be o union, and need to; body ‘round | me like they knew my and he was the hest £on in the county. re odd jobs and steady ones ‘tend to, and 1 hope vou nstable—I mean, the lieu- 1] ketch the feller soon that Benkard so's I can git on on't be idle long. ¥ : then added quickiy tone: “Who is this? glanced toward the path which led around the west side of the house from the newly laid out rden, and rowe. foung lady visitin' here; Miss Sherwood, her name Is,” he replied. “Friend o’ Mis' Cayley -r daugh- ter from the city.—Reckon I'll gt on down to the beach and see how them concrete piles o' the boathouse s settin’, unless there's somethin’ else |Camels nt to ask m. . The detective motioned id Geoff reached in the tool box for his cap and then strolled off down the terruce steps. But as soon as he was out of sight from above. he felt in the torn lining of the cap for the pre bit of soft, wlogsy. black fabric ich he had sacreted there. Reassured of its safety, e went on then shrill and clear proached the boathouse. cted, two youthful, anxious faces peered cautiously at lim from around the corner of the tiny veranda which faced the Sound. Affecting not to notice them, he stooped and ran his hand down one after another of the concrete piles, but when he reached the one nearst T water's edge, the Tain't any o' my busine: he spoke as if to himself. “but I kinder been missed from That voung lady who's i there. Miss Sherwood. just come lookin’ ‘round outside, real anx- ous. She's on the terrace now, but [ don’t reckon she's Jquainted with that path leadin’ out back o the garage.” Cutting short the grateful thanks of the pair by renewed whistling, he turned and started for the terrace once moze. But he silenced his re- fralm abruptly before he reached the stepe, and ducked hastily through a asked the de- | fclump of bushes beside them until he stood just beneath the spot where he had’laft the detective. Mliss Sher- wood's low, clear tones came dis- tly to his eurs. 3 I understand perfectl 1 make my home in New York with M Harper Middleton on Park avenue, ¢ ¢ None, except some distant cousins of the same name from whom 1 have not heard in years,” The unintelligible rumble of the de- at_interva A frightful shock, naturally, al-| though I am merely & friend of the | . Benkard was a man who will 1ot soon be forgotten by those Wwho really knew him. * ¢ & T be- {lleve that I must have been the last {of the household to see him allve, for Carp, when he went to or Miss before 4 few minutes. library. Mr. Benkard asked g0 for a wxuil this afternoon, her replies. o, certainly not! N 7 ver | the union of soviet republics. The pave told you that 1!gigning of the documents is the ovut- | tend of Mrs. Cayley and,come of negotintic rticularly ntimate one! This { yavaral months that sort! time that I have ever i house guest of Lers, in town ntry de the nature stion platn, and | n . but, | S to the house wall, ha!= to the front and in|= ping clos «. Doctor Hood wias crossing (he patio from | ¥taircase to dining room, {leading and h Hing form of d butler; he beck- |oned imperativ, Geoff "sauntered jalong in thelr wake until they had {entered the room and he heard | ¥Henry's quavering tones. “Oh, Mr. Dunn, elr! This is & sad | tor all of us day of shocking changes, in- . Carp” Dunn’s low, still d { voice replied: and then the doctor re- appearad in the patio. “I want you to hear this, he whispered. “I told | somebody perhaps - expected, but T gu; i wasn't quite the way I thought and my theory is knocked into’smith- « | the door between on a crac W srary from which the subdued sound of volces still iasued, Geoff hurried to | the small door leading to the pantry | |and «lipped in silently | | “IHen Doctor Hood was saying in his most persuasive tones, “Mr, Cayley wants you to tell the truth and all the truth ‘as far as vou know it. Mr. Dunn has just told me something that he is going to repeat to vou, and 1 want y whether heard anything about it or | whether it was ever discussed b |Benkard and any of the family at {home in your hearing. Do yeu un- derstand “I—L think 1 do, sir Henry's {voice had risen a note. as if he al- ready anticipated what was coming and was apprehensive of {t. -l haven't seen Mrs. Ca sir, since 1y morning, and I don’t’ know that would wish to have me menthon have Deen sald at ‘She wishes everything done, ever: told. that will help to find the of her brother, no matter | should be brought out. She me thut messawe herself’” the upted. “Tell Henry what e, Mr. Dunn.” that for the last three « Mr. B b and now it | | rang out_wick ted firmnass “1 said that k he had some enemy who wes only biding his time {und “would get him in the end. I said that he was o man who walked | In tha constant shadow of death! | ‘Mr. Benkard didn't know what it war to be afraid of anything norl| anybody, sir, that I ever heard of' |Henry cried. “T—if he {some” enemy who—who mi it or Hood excludmed. Carp did know it s followed with a! fster insisten: rxaminer's ac 3 lwhen the a ‘mous letters hegan 9 Stores in 13th and F 14th and F 1006 F 15th and G 418 7th on Cig § the young s ns! Go into the pantry; I'll opei] i THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 16, 1923—PART 1. coming on cortain days of every yi and how he defied them! He never would ‘admit that he guessed who or why, and perhaps he didn’t know the identity of his efs emy, but he knew the reason all right} He used to wait for the days to come and p Oh, it's true!” Henry broke down. “He wouldn't have a special guard or go to the police, and after the first year not even Mrs. Cayley dared to speak to him about it, but we knew and waited, too, and when I 1aid eyes on him this mornin that {t had come at last! I just as Mr. Dunn says, sir; for theee four years past and more, Mr. Ben- kard has walked In the shadow of; death! " (Continu . CHILDREN WIN ESTATE. NEW YORK, December 15.—The appellate division yesterday decided the three children of the late Mme Serge Voronoff, wife of the French W Tomorow - toctive'y volce Intervened, and then,)surgeon who originuted the “Monkey gland” operations and the five child- ren of her brother, Albert C. Bost- wlick, should receive $1,470,473 more fromn the estate of their grandmother, Helen C. Bostwick, than weas provided in « recent supreme court dectsion. The ruling reversed the findings of u referee. 1!POLAND RECOGNIZES SOVIET. WARSAW, Poland, December 1 An exchange of documents took place yesterday between Russia and Poland, whereby Poland agrees to recognize | which lasted fc | I Than Xmas N [ #The noliday home win be a place oi little com- N fort and cheer if there's 5 a leaky roof overhead. {Send for Colbert's Tin- ners now to replace or = repair—whichever is= N necessary. Prompt serv- 3 ice at the most reason- consistent lable prices @G | 5ith nighest-grade worik MAURICE J. 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