Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1931, Page 10

CHAPTER XIL ‘THE INQUEST OPENS. T was Evelyn who broke the awk- ward tension produced by Stirling’s strange attitude. “Can't we talk of something more cheerful?” she asked. “If it must be crime, perhaps Mr. Haswell will tell us about some of his cases.” Jimmie, not given to discussing his exploits, related an instance where Scotland Yard's ingenuity had beaten He praised its detectives and said that lt‘ would be a good ‘idea to let first offend- ers see the Yard's organization for de- him to a solution of a mystery. tecting crilninals. \ “Delightful idea,” sneered Stirling. “Would-be criminals conducted through Scctland Yard. Might help them a lot. No doubt it is easy to catch cld offend- ers. One might still do a first erime and get away with it.” Again there was uncanny silence. Evelyn shivered slightly. “Shall we g in?" ghe asked. “It's getting cold.” | As they moved toward the houss | slipped to Marjorie’s side. | “This is a trying time for you," he on’t worry too much. The | truth will be discovered.” “Can they prove Joe Allen did it>” | To Jimmie the form of the whispered | question sounded strange. She did not | ask if Allen committed the crime, but | if it could be brought home to him. | Was it tense eagerness for prcof? Or | could it be that other fears or some- thing approaching knowledge v.ould let her cacrifice the innocent rather than face a dread alternative? “It he did it,” answered Jimmie, “h2 s not likely to escape. Not one mur- ‘ derer in 50 does.” The girl shivered, though it was a warm night. | “Your sister said you had not been | sleeping,” he went on. “Why don't you | get a sedative from the dociori” She | made no answer, and he added, “Have | you seen Dr. Netherton today? | “His mother said he was busy, I suppose he couldn't get over this eve- ning?” | “We did not ask him.” So Bill Netherton had not been asked. This to Jimmie proved they were not | openly lovers, or he would have come along_without being asked. If they were lovers in secret, they might wish | to keep apart until Richmond's sus- picions were lulled. Jimmie knew there must be something hidden, but it baf- fled him. Why had Stirling come to | the house? How was he concerned? | The dark-eyed Janet served them cof- | fez and cakes in what was still called | the young ladies’ room. Stirling sug-! gested playing cards, but the !dea was not_much liked, and when Duckworth | declined to sing, all seemed to sgree that music and mirth would hardly be seamly in the house of sorrow. Then Jimmy had a happy thought. He turned | to_Duckworth. | “Is it as easy for singers to get en- | gagements today as it was in the dnysi before the movies and other modern amusement virtually eliminated the | concert halls?” he asked. | 'HE EvausNiind i BUAR, W lioaa bavas 1aaN, B G B uE DAY, awaiting him, left. the maid said, by a policeman bn a bicycle. It was from Richmond and read: “We were right. J. A. is clear. He left the Brown Bear at 8:30 snd rode straight to Beighton, near Shefficld, to say good-by to a sister in service there. | Arrived before 9:30. Her employes Col. Welsted, saw him. Offered to put | him up for th night and to give him | temporary job. J. A. stay. Cast-iron abill. So we are where we were. Hope | you le to attend inquest to- | morrow. G. R. Certainly this development made the | approaching inquest more imvortant, | At any rate, by the time Monday morn- | ing arrived nearly every one present | cF the investigation knew of Joe Allen’s When Jimmie and Nancy Wade| reached Querdling Institute, where the | inquest into the slaying of its donor | was scheduled, the hall was crowded. Police from Bradford were airectihy| matters, but Constable Roscoe never | felt himself quite so indispensable. Audrey Winford sat with Jimmie and Nancy, whose hurband had work for the dey and could nci attend. Nine men were on the jury—three shopkeepers—and three women, one being hostess at the Brown Bear. They were sworn, taken to see the body and with solemn faces filed back and took their seats. Dr. Burbeck, the middle aged coroner for the district, after a few prelimin- | ary remarks called Evelyn Blake as the first witness. Jimmie thought that Richmond, who was near the coroner’s | body had been taken into the house. | table, had some reason for the choice. Evelyn, pale and distressed, tried to steady her voice and answer without nervousness. After giving Miss Quer- dling's name and age, she said that | she, her sister adn her brother, in Lon- don, were the only living relations. Sha told of her aunt’s habit of sitting in the Dutch garden and sexplained, so far as she knew, how eath member of the household was employed on the night of the tragedy. As before, she stated shé was in the houss with Mr. Duckworth when Marjorie brought the news. There was only one inquiry that hinted any particular line of thought in the coroner's mind. ‘Are you engaged to he married to Mr. Duckworth?” 1'a “Is your sister, Miss Marjorie Blake, engaged, or is there any cngagement | pending?” There was perhaps a moment of hesi- | tation. but the answer “No” was quite firm. “Now I must ask you *his. Did you leave that sitting room or approach your aunt while she was in that gar- | farmers, two private residents and four | den?” *I did not.” “Thank you. That is all* Evelyn left the box and resumed her | seat between Duckworth end Marjorie, | some _distance from Jimmic and his friends. Henry Roscoe, the next witness, was impressed Ry the importance of his role He told the time he was called to Merrow Craig, where he found that the He produced a plan of the broperty and a photograph of the Dutch gar- | den, with its fallen image and its broken companion still in position. As the exhibits were hand=d to the jury Dr. Burbeck asked the constable | if the figure could have fallen by acci- | dent. | " “No, sir; it couldn't. | stood on had & level “surfac | figure was well balanced.” | "Roscoe had seen the two images be- | fore and declared they were identical. “Now look at this photograph,” the coroner directed, handing him a piety | of the unbroken figure. “Suppose therc were a fiaw in the stone of ome or both of those legs, might not the figure topple over by its own weight?” | “Roscoe looked at the 'figure | scratched his head doubtfuliy. There was a tense silence in court. Perhaps after all the mishap had a perfectly natural explanation. (To be continued.) 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