Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 40

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929. yers, who have put a caretaker in the|as he got through the gate and lnldedlbed on which it lay was wet where it house.” it into the ear. 1 thought it was one |had leaked. 'A search of the roof revealed no more | of the sleuths.” | "It looks as it it had been used re- than that the detective was still on| To Dick Shannon it seemed impos-|cently,” said Steel. 1 duty. They saw the red glow of his|sible that one man could have cnr-} “The needle certainly gives that im- cigar and before he himself was visible. | ried the body without assistance, and |pression,” agreed Shannon, examining “Rather unnecessary, isn't it, your|there was something unnatural about |the threadlike steel. “Send the contents being here?” said Shannon. the thing. When he came back to Steel |0f the syringe straight away for “From my point of view, yes,” was|he found that the sargeant had made a|analysis. I am beginning to see day- the reply. “But I carry out instruc-|discovery which was eventually to|light.” tions from my chief as you carry out|solve the mystery to some extent, et - yours.” “I found this in the courtyard” he| (Continued in Tomorrow's Star) said. “Our friend must have dropped S it in his flight.” 3 It was a flat leather case, open-|jjce for the slippered feet on the stairs—an old theatrical trick. If you give me two pleces of sandpaper, I'll show you how it's produced.” They went back to the big room again. “And here’s a second room.” Again Dick tapped at what was apparently a solid wall. “This takes him to thé next floor, and he was up there waiting to noose our policema: “Where is he no “A sane question,” sald Dick dryly, “but I'm not prepared to answer you. I should say that he was some miles away. If that cordon had been in its| This is surely the coldest and most place there would have been one ghost | lonesome job on earth.” less in the world.” He examined his ‘“You've heard nothing happening be- lamp. “I'm going to have another shot | low?"” at the roof, though it is unlikely that| “I héard someone come out of the our bird will be nesting there. By the |back just now; I thought it was you. way, Willitt's detectives have been with- [ There has been a big car waiting there | drawn?” for the last hour. I looked over, but I “{llll'lt is alt's la sheer mischief. There is a good, solid | reason behind his antics, and the rea- | son s that there is something in this room he wants to get at.” He inspecied the narrow stalrway that led below to the old drawing room, but found nothing except clear evi- | dence that this system of serving stairs | was general throughout the house. | You notice there are no servants’ stairs at all.” He pointed out the fact to Steel. “Probably this house was built long after that on the left and the right of it, and the architects had to | design & method of working in a second staircase without encroaching upon the room epace.” “But there are no stairs from the drawing room to the kitchen,” said Steel, and tapped the wall where the stalrway ended on the drawing room tevel. To his surprie, it sounded hol- low. “That's a door with a concrete face, suggested Dick. He put his shoul against it and it turncd easlly. late in arriving, avparently, for they|is the way our friend came and went. | were not on the scene until 10 minutes | Come up here.” He ascended a dozen after Dick had returned to Malpas'stairs and stopped. “We are now mov- sanctum. ing parallel with the main stairway.| “This room must never be left with-|Listen.” out & guard,” he said. “If there is one He tapped at the wall thing clearer than another, it is that “You could almost put your finger | the old man isn't playing ghosts from |through it,” he d. “That accounts | By Edgar Wallace THE RAGGED PRINCESS Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Dally News Te Baftimere . . . $1.28 Philadelphia . . $3.78 Stopping at Aberdesn, H de Gi Eikion, Whimidgton, Chenter. Connoeing t Priladéiphis_with Mator’ Coachies for ty. Ni Eng- “You've seen nobody?"” “No sir. I'd have %een mighty glad | to have had éven a ghost to talk to. ames Higgins, commissioner of po- ca'f0 Bufl‘:l)n‘. sngs:l"lvery driver of otor vehicle Vi IE‘.hmdermlc syringe and two needles. | determine wh‘et’air°§r‘n’3€‘§e‘u“i§1$ he A‘Vrins; had évidently been put|blind and that his eyesight should be away in a hurry, for it was half-fi led‘mong énough to reveal any object or, with & colorless liquid, and the velvet! opstruction in the street 500 feet away.” AUABLIE City. "New Yok and New eptt g hind was open; 8o, too, was the gate 00 _N into the alley. “Marshalt's body is in the house; there’s no doubt about that,” said Dick. “They couldn't have got it Away. Where's your ecordon, inspector?” he asked sharply, looking up and down the deserted alley. ‘The second half of the cordon were Continued from Yesterday's Star.) Metropolitan 5314, CHAPTER XXXVIL THE figure lay motionless, fearful to look upon, and then the As far as I know, sir. didn't see who it was. He was dragging B i1l under the orders of Ma something heavy. I heard him grunt came a hdllow rumble of sound like distant thunder. Dick stumbled to his feet and ran across the room, but his groping hands fel: nothing but the carved paneling. The strange apparition had vanished! As he felt he heard the sound of | Zeet in the hall below. “Anybody here?” shouted a voice. “Come up. Use your lamps. The Jights are gone.” As though his words were a signal, the lights flared up again. “Who opened the street door?” asked Dick quickly. “I don't know, sir. It just opened.” “There’s another set of controls some- where, Steel, get that ax. It's up- st of you men get it. it in the little room on the top landing. Use your lamps and club anybody you see.” i The ax was procured without eny untoward incident, and Shannon at- tacked the paneling. In a few min- utes ke had laid bare the cavity where | he had seen the body of Lacy Marshalt | lying. “A buffet lift,” he said. “They have them in some of these houses—the width of the sideboard and on the side- board level.” He reached in and felt the twin steel cables that operated the elevator. The kitchen was in the basement, and the atout door had to be forced. Since Steel had visited the place eariier in the evening somebody had shot the bolts. When an entrance was made he found, as he expected, the buffet lift at rest. But there was no sign of Marshalt. “That's how they got the body away in the first place, leaving the lift sus- pended between this room and the kitchen. I searched this place before. If you notice, Steel, the opening even here is carefully masked by the panel- ing.” g‘l'he detective led the way through the scullery into th: little courtyard to the rear of the house. 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