Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 66

The Door of Death By John Esteven: 7 (Copyristt, 199, North Amarican Newssaper Allianes and Meteepotiten BYNOPSIS. Francis Bullions to - whom circumstantial evidence pdints as the murderer of wife, Celia, at first denies Later offi- clals in ting _ti 4 st ars his sighature ates is ghuilty and is committing sulcid body is found several days after the murder. ‘Reosher Carl hag Belleved him tnnocent and'Norse, a Dolice official, has also taken that view.' Dr. Ames, a friend of the mur- dered woman's sister, or Graham, hms been convince guilt from the start. house: attend a servant who is ill. ere of “the ment of Eleanor and Garl. ey is a_ blow his own hopes. Half- heartedly he agrees to aid Norse in certain investigations and he comes to the con- clusion that Hasta. the butler, knows some- thing about the crime. ~Norse warns Ames st it is not safe for him to remain at Greshouse. but Ames Tefuses io leave. 'ON night he narrow) ateering gear on % 'l'mTllN'l‘l‘l INSTALLMENT. IT was surprise and shock that kept iy gtcapes death when the Is car breaks. me for several minutes stretched out on the dry turf, where I found mygself. I was not even stunned, but it seemed to me that I should be; and I hated to mdve arm or leg for fear of finding them broken. The machine had crashed on beyond, and I was dimly aware of it twenty feet off. At last I gathered myself and my thoughts, together and, ~testing_every movement, got up. But now, as T stood in a dazed way looking about, I saw a == wer himself from the embank- ment and conte down as fast as the slope allowed. He was Roose of the metropolitan police. “Dr. Ames!™ he’ cried. “Thought I recognized yot. Well, sir, believe me, tha'; was a close call. Skidded, didn't you?” > “No,” T answered shakily, “the steer- ing-geat broke” - “What!” His voice expressed wonder and'doubt. “It was a new car, wasn't it? ‘Let's have a look at it. But you're all right, aren't-you? Nothing broken? Mighty good work you could swing free.” The machine had turned turtie, and was now a heap of twisted iron and wood. Roose set about examining the sebering-knuckles—a task of no difficuity Recause of the position of the car. *You'd a-been mashed flat,” he ob- ferved. "I'd like now to see what was @rong. It looks queer to me. Look at that—" he pointed—"can you beat it!" Swoping next to-him, I followed the Movement of his finger and saw what he meant. A clean, thin cut showed through the knuckle up to the last fraction of its diameter. + “That's the work of a file.” he mut- tered. “There wasn’t any accident about it—the shot was aimed at you.” I felt a nervous tremor pass through me. ““Fhe man that planned that,” ponder- ed- Roose, “was & winner—an ace, I'd call\him, But it's’ mighty serious.for. oo YO Was willing enough to grant the serfousness of it; but, with a layman’s, impatience, I couldn’t help suggesting the police- might find a remedy. “We can't go arresting people al .random. The captain feels that there ‘was samething that wasn’t cleared up. in the Ballion crime—and this auto- mobile wreck of yours would seem to prove it. But that's the queer part in the business. We're pulling against crystal-clear evidence, and we've noth- ing but suspicion to act on. Don't you, understand? Of course, we'll look for the fellow who tampered with your car, but” he added gloomily, “we won't find him. There's one thing clear, ,though, that whoever we're aiter is more than one or two people—it looks like a gang. Norse’ll be interested in this.” 1 thought he might, well be, but the term failed to express .To be stalked for one's life by invisible pursuers whose motives were unknown seemed to me absorbing. “If I were you. aocwor,” continued Roose, “I'd arrange to leave town for » spell.” . ‘The. suggestion angered me. A fine .police protection this, when the only weliverance for a threatened man was 1 run away! He ought to know be- gides that stail consultants at large Thospitals can't “leave for & spell” when- ever the notion takes them—Iet alone that, in this cas2, there existed an element of pride. And that reminded me of Anne Roderick at Greyho “If you people,” I told him, “can’t keep me unmolested in my perfectly legitimate work, 1 suppose I'll have to see it through by myself. At all events, Tl have to be getting on.” “You don't think you'd better go home for tonight?” he asked aignifi- cantly. But I answered “No” 'with more courage than I felt; and in silence we climbed the hill and regained the road. In silence also, he accompanied me to the gates of Greyhouse. . “What brought you out here?” I in- quired before parting with him.* vl “Oh,” he returned blandly, “some business slong the road.. I haj ed’ Good _night, dodtor. an_automatic into my ) night.” ; And with this_equivocal fatrewell, T/ was left to trudge along the cedar- lined avenue to the house. But it 2p- peared, rather, an illusion I had entered, a _shadowy, corridor’ of “the mind. For, as in a dream one lags interminably with leaden ‘foofsteps, s0 tonight the way seemed long; I felt | confused, oppressed. The air hung warm and scented between ‘the cedars. I walked in a kind of torpor—then, of & sudden, there flashed upon me, un- really vivid, the entrance lights,-and I saw that I had reached the door. This evening differed totally from the Lut. In llll.c‘t, I n‘eov‘l‘er'xunn gln:d alone uring that per: spent at Grey- hml’:‘e? Carl Ballion had arrived for ‘walf . queries and exclamations I returned a brief account of withheld the discovery of the filed steering knuckle. Sufficient of Norse's caution had been instilled to make me dis rly in the vicinity of It was this evening that I first noticed s difference in Eleanor Graham. Whether it was a reaction from the recent strain, or whether she was nervously excited, or whether Oarl acted - as & e accident, but || to | Wha rns | #f the love of e | that T did not consider her attitude in to] . y own. attitude. | tiful. ‘The moments . It began to recur to me with new insistence that ‘Why di t pre-emption had he in her—as ‘womeni were not free field? , luck favored me. e post , - ponements of the kind were ill-starred. Now the queer thing about this was And, weighing myself against Ballion, it scemed that I had more to_proffer than sentimental humbleness had led me to believe. If he was prominent in his career, I was not unconsidered in mine. If he had a future, so had I. f he had acquired a fortune now at his brother's death, I'was not with- out wealth. Now, for the first time, she seemed to me a prize—not only in the personal sense. On the other hand, Carl Ballion had physical qualities that I lacked—dash, and bravura. But there clung to him his ill-omened connection with Francis. It would not be difficult to keep her mindful of that by casual insinuation. Why, he even resembled Francis—more tonight than ever, I thought. How could she forget what had happened at Grey- house? How could she marry the brother of Francis Ballion without falsifying every decent sentiment? That was my best card, and I resolved to play it. Her manner gave me a vague en- couragement. She might have been expected, without any lack of polite- | ness, to betray, a, greater interest in him than in me.” Sut her impartiality struck me a= mtended to convey a hint; it was emphatic, and I was sho! aware that Carl was no less alive to the fact than I. For instance, when he ‘attempled to center con- versation on their mutual concerns she kept drawing it away, reviving our experiences of last Summer, the rides we had taken, the people we had met. And here - I became consclous of two impressions: First, that Carl Ballion, after a curious stare that might have meant anything, grew ‘outwardly more.affable, more pliant, as it were; and second, thai Eleanor seemed to sense a conflict and enjoy | it. Her impartiality was equally | provocative. One felt that the curve tof her lips, the softness of her hair, that strange smoldering of her eyes, | included us both in a veiled intimation. Once or twice, I recall, it seemed to me that I was. dreaming, that this altered relationship between the three of us could only a phantasm, and that I should wake to solid reality. But the illusion persisted—a sense of hate, greed, , cased in good man- ners, and all of this like so many poison fumes lying heavy between the paneled ceiing and tapestried walls. | My growing antagonism led to a| breach of confidence. | “I've been concerned with your an- ‘cestry this affernoon,” I told Carl, but the rema:k was for Eleanor. “It seems that Norse is still interested.” “Really?” he smiled. “Well, they are interesting, the Baglioni, though I should think a city detective might have more pressing claims on his time. nd what was ,your verdict. about them?” : | “Oh,” T laughed, “politeness forbids." “Not in the least, Richard; I'm not sensitive. They ~ were scoundrels, weren't they? I haven't my brother’s information, but there were no doubt a bad lot. I'm exceedingly proud of them,” he added. > “That's a -question of taste” I answered. “Why, of ecourse, it is—just so. They were rascals, to be sure; but they were princes, captains of armies, and patrons monplace. I don’t see why I should rather descend from honest yokels; though doubtless,” he continued suavely, “you have no. objection in your own case. -As you say, it's a matter of pref- erence.” I had cut a poor figure in this ex- change and sat groping for an answer. The only retort that occurred to me would have been uripardonable, and would have left me in a still shabbler position, so that I was reduced to silenee, and attempted to pass it -off with = smile. There was & shade of pity, I thou K In the new Biscay Nude A shade r-flecting the rosiness cf the skin under ‘a 1'ght suntan . . . excellent with. the: new .Au- tumn brown shoes. Also in 15 Other Lovely Fashion Tones for. Fall, ’29 » v almora., ,after-. noen-. .. atmosphere «» . breeze. . .duskee o o-grain . .. sable ‘... seasan. .. gun- metal . .. Manon... . Piping. ‘Rock...sun-~ ,tan ... onionskin... Pawnee . ... Pussy- willow. :’crnud bank into letting him ;have ‘always hads cult for the beau- x you _doing he | Do o e W] stand in the way of what I wanted? |Diomas “round the house after mid | o | Resort Is Popular Playground for, of art. At least, they were not com- | d! A GOl’den Frieze from ‘me to Ballion, which el AR more, " How' serene l”Il'l.' mlwthy for Norse,” Zfi. 3 case from his N and T know. he hen he attem % vestigate my rs. That verges on in- is outside his srovlnee_. He spoke with humorous indignation that.was perfectly genial. And, break- ing into & laug! 1t it seems to me :v-ribody'l become inquisitive. Ames, what were do last night, (To be Continued.) S AT ANTIBES PATRONS PAY $20 TO SWIM Actors and Actresses, Despite Expensiveness. . ANTIBES (N.AN.A.).—Lord Abercon- way's villa, Chateau de la Garoupe, has been standing empty because no | one could pay the rent. Fiftean thou- sand dollars was asked for the season. H Marx, of the four Marx ers, had a villa with a large party, including Lady Ashley and her sister, while Maxine Elliott and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Leith shared the “Corne d'Or.” At Eden Roc it costs $20 to bathe, one has to join the swimming club. Antibes is expensive. It is not therefore surprising to find Antibes the playground of many well known actors and actresses, with Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Henson giving pa dinner parties to Tallulah Bankhead, | Gertie Sanford, Phyllis Haver and the Ashley sisters, but it is astonishing to md it becoming the mecca for Social- ‘The Mosleys, with their two children, Vivien, 8, and Nicholas, 6, enjoyed life during the Summer from their own bathing hut on the rocks, and Lady Cynthia celebrated her thirty-first birthday anniversary there. Sir Oswald will be 33 in November. ‘The honorary secretary of the Cercle Nautique is Ben Finney, young Amer- ican millionaire. (Copyright, 1929: by North American News- r Alliance.) SPEAKS IN ARGENTINE. By Cable to The Star. 1 BUENOS AIRES, September 14—An annual ap riation of $1,000,000 to permit United States Congressmen to travel abroad in order to learn the “other side” of international problems is favored by Representative- Cyrenus Cole, Republican, of Iowa, who spoke at & luncheon at the American Club for United States members of the Pan- American road delegation. He advo- cated higher salaries for United States Ambassadors and commercial attaches, declaring that he was convinced that the cost of living in Buenos Aires was much higher than in Washington. Ll AT Typhus Sweeps Angora. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 14 (#).—An epidemic of typhus, mounting up to hundreds of cases, was reported yesterday from Angora. The Turkish minister of hygiene said the sanitary :‘eptrtmznt was in control of the situa- jon. CURTAIN FIXTURES “Special Sunday 5-COURSE DINNER 34 Fried Spring Chick- Smartly Borders the Silh. 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