Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1929, Page 37

The Door of Death By John Esteven (Copyright, 1929, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service.) _(Continued From Yesterday’s Star.) SYNOPSIS. After the murder of Celia Ballion cir- cumstances point to her husband, Franci as the siayer. He denies guilt, but later & confession * signed by hi rns that Cai He feels that Carl's influence on Eleanor is evil, and in this be- lief he is joined by her old servant. The woman begs to be taken from Greyhouse, but Eleanor refuses to leave. Norse shows Ames an anonymous letter in feminine handwriting that purports to e: make & profound impression on She leaves Grevhouse and goes into retire- she breaks her engagement romises to marry Ames. Catl appar- takes all this calmly. He asks Eleanor nch with him. When Ames When “they attempt to enter, they are atfacked hv Hasta. the hutler. | whom Ames has always susvected of kno: ing somethinz ahout the murder of Celia. In fact. the man had been revorted as miss- | ing by’ Carl Rellion after the attempt to | stinate; but, at any rate, I went over these points at the inquest with a grow- ing sense that they did not fit anywhere, and the intention if possible of knowing why they did not. Besides, I could not forget Hasta's expression as he stood at the door of Celia’s room. I'm sure you remember. “Well, in this irritated, uneasy state, .| I went back to the library afterward with at least this much in mind—that I was intrigued as to the whereabouts of Ballion’s g>m collection, of which t | every one had heard. It was then, with no particular purpose, that I uncovered 1ll1e rack and found the first actual clue.” "You refer to what?” I asked. “The moisture of the wrist-straps.” At this point I interrupted him. "u"g a fact, then, that torture was “Unspeakable torture,” replied Norse, “and not only the rack, as we discovered on exhuming the body, which as you know had been immured in the under- ground vault. Francis Ballion was broken inch by inch, and then dis- patched when the confession had been obtained. “But to return to my clue. Naturally enough, at first I could make nothing of it. I was even uncertain that it meant anything at all, and could @ot be sure until the following evening, d | when, on examining it, I found that e ime to save Eleanor's life. but & | battle ensues before Carl is captured. Later | Carl confesses to murdering Celia and 8lso admits that he forced his brother to sign the confession. Then he cheats justice by taking a dose of poison concealed in the setting of a ring. T“'ENTY-NINT; iNSTALLMENT. HEN I asked Norse to tell me how he had come to suspect Carl Ballion of the murder of Celia and Prancis, he said: “The starting point of it all was at the inquest, where I remembered a phrase you had quoted of Celia Bal- lion’s, to the effect that she believed not in ghosts but in ‘those who re- turn.’ “The question presented itself as to ‘what, provided she were not mad, could have been her meaning. It was, at first, simply a whimsical speculation. But when I realized that her words might be taken as a fanciful theory to account for a good many detached phenomena in the case: the furnish- ings and architecture of the house, its singularly Old World atmosphere, the ! personality, superstitions and tastes of Mr. Ballion, the instrument used in committing the crime, and so on. Was it not to them she had reference as ‘those who return?’ And, assuming the possibility of some uncanny manifesta- tion alien to normal experience, did it not explain numerous singularities of the problem? | “It was along the lines of this idea that I began to think. Heredity is sim- ply a word for something we fail to ui derstand, after all; but the name, Ba lioni, supported such a view of the mat- ter by lending it a kind of scientific sanction. “Well then, admit some lingering sur- vival, some telesoping of time, and that Francis Ballion, account for it as one might, exemplified the Renaissance —what was the essential chzracterl.(tlci of that epoch? And I considered it in- dividualism, manifesting itself in every | form of thought, therefore, in essence, | opposed to conventional restraint, dis- | cipline. or ideals—in & word, from the normal standpoint, lawiess. But if law- | less, then often unscrupulous, subtle, brilliant, daring: “All this applied to and explained Francis Ballion; but I should have come | no further, were it not that I was im-| pressed by the physical resemblance be- tween him and Carl. “Moreover, I could not rid myself of | the impression that, in this case, two and two did not make four. An unworn | glove on Celia’s bed, the strangling| thong laid out in full view by the drive- | way. footprints that were not Fri Ballion’s—this, on one side, and then | th> confession itself, useless, if he did | not intend to commit suicide, but, if he did, giving no clue as to why he escaped from Greyhouse for the purpose, at the | risk of being stopped by Roose or Reds- | by and thus prevented from committing | it at all. Yes, and that he was able to| eseape looked queer. | “I admit that chagrin made me ob- | | | | the moisture had evaporated; but oil used to preserve the leather would not have evaporated. Then I knew. And I recnlledwthnt phrase you had quoted | relative to the torture instruments as ‘aids to eloquence.’ “But, if the rack had been used, this could only have occurred during the preceding night, and there was but one person to whom torture could have been applied, for, with the exception of Francis, all others who had entered the room were present. Then I remembered those marks evidently made with a fin- gernail on the paper that bore his sig- nature. “It was all a cobweb theory, but, if assumed for the moment to be accurate, then Francis Ballion's body had not been removed from Greyhouse. Two police officers were outside and it was therefore utterly impossible to have smuggled out a body. For a similar reason, this body, admitting its exist- ence, would be probably either in the library or in a hidden place adjoining it. 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He benefited by the death of his brother and also indirectly by that of his sister- n-law, knew of the strained rela- tions between them and of the fears she expressed. It would not be im- possible to fasten the guilt on Francis. It would not have been impossible for him to leave the banquet he was at- tending in time to commit the murder of Celia. It was he who had been closeted with his brother during that evening, , “And yet there were manifest diffi- culties in the way of such suspicion. racter he bore and my own sdmiration for him. were discounted there remained, of course, the difficulty he must anticipate in establishing Francis’ guilt, ided ter could furnish an alibi, and there was every reason to believe he could, unless—and here an explanation occurred to me, not for the first time— unless Carl knew something that would invalidate such sn alibL.” “But,” I interposed, “if he knew of Mrs. Starnforth—" “I'm cretain,” answered Norse, “that he did not. Otherwise, he would have found means to silence her. I believe Prancis Ballion had other and more questionable dulcineas in town, whose testimony, provided it could be ob- tained, would have prejudiced rather than helped his case. I believe Carl had reason to take these for granted, and I shouldn't wonder if he tried to extort from his brother, vainly, in this instance, his whereabouts of the pre- ceding night. “Aside from this, T had to ask myself | why, if Prancis were successfully impli- | cated, was the law not allowed to take | its course? Why commit a crime, go | to extreme trouble in attaching the | gullt elsewhere, succeed in doing so, and | the discard for no reason? “Stupldly enougn, tnis opjection con- | fused me for some time, but when I finally saw a possible solution it did more than anything else thus far to make me distrustful of Carl Ballion. I remembered how, like a fool, I had re- vealed in detall to you and Carl my| reasons for beuevlnr Prancis innocent. | One of my profession ought never to talk—but, at that time, who would have dreamed . . . Ames when I con- sider the coolness of that man, I'm daz- zled. Think, too, of his having had you invited to Greyhouse on the night of | the crime, simply as an exnert witnees! At all events, I realize now that it was through my chattering he discovered a loophole for his brother's escape and took prompt action. You can imagine how that rankles and always will.” Norse stared for a moment absently | beyond and then, as one who shrugs' THE STAR, Off & useless regret, continued: “So far, however, it was simply theory. But following, for lack of better, my line of thought that had started at the inquest, I spent the day, as you remember, in reading up on the Baglioni, and I kept stumbling on details that fitted them- selves uncannily into my hypothesis— their physical strength, versatility, ex- travagance, intellectual keenness, lack of ‘scruples, even such a feature as lightness of tread, which he had ob- served in the two brothers. I de- ciphered also, if you recall, those apparently meaningless scratches on the signed confession and connected them, rightly, but_in vain, carved face of the Medusa. They were ll;\']anda Ballion's useless appeal for elp. “But it was not until night, on re- turning to Greyhouse, that my suspicions of Carl were given something more than fancy to build on.” * (To be concluded.) MRS. ROESSING WINS. Divorce Is Granted Pennsylvania Feminist Leader at Reno. 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