Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1932, Page 6

by AcATHA CHRISTIE ung lady.” said hat can to find All Capt effects have the house. 1 n and sha atmosphere me have the m mily rd bended 1 she come ! of any im which 1 agreed with her. The police said, and it was gener that nothing was taken from Capt. T an’s house and nothin a nothing tha 2 there is missing, though not no the time, being unimportant miss, tr is mis which Evans noticed when he went over the thin Burnaby. Though 1 dog’t of any importance, miss? ike to know It he thick kind ch the cap- he had gone didn't go out m to make they are, and who i and tho 1 well know it's of no importance I fe my duty to write, and hoping this as it leaves me st present and are ot worrying too much oung geat I remain, . BELLING. had read and reread this let- sed it with Charles. Boots,” said Charley thoughtfully. “It doesn't seem to mzke sense.’ “It must mear 3" Emily pointed out. * y should a pair_of boots be missing? “You don't think Evens invent- ing?” Why should he? fter all. if people do invent. they invent- some- thing sensible. a silly, pointless thing like this iggests something to do with " sald Charles, thought- “I know But footprints don't seem to enter into this case at all. Per- haps i it hadn't come on to snow again—"' “Yes, perhaps, but even then.” Could he have given them to some tramp,” suggested Charles, “and then the tramp did him in’ “I_suppose that's ~possible” said Emily, “but it doesn’t sound very like Capt. Trevelyan. He might perhaps have found a man some work to do or given him a shilling, but he wouldn't have pressed his best Winter boots on him “Well, T give it up,” said Charl “I'm xol going to give it up.” “By hook or by crook I'm ng to get to the bottom of it.” ordingly, she came to Exhampton vent first- to the Three Crowns, where Mrs. Belling received her with{ great enthusiasm “And your young gentleman still in prison, miss! Well, it’s & cruel shame and none of us don't believe it was him—at least, I would like to hear them say so when I am about 8o you got my letter? You'd like to see Evans? Well, he lives right round the 85 Fore street it is. I wish come with , but I can't the place, but you can't mis- Emily did not mistake it. Evans himself was out, but Mrs. Evans re- ceived her and invited her in. Emily sat down and induced Mrs. Evans to do so also and plunge Straight into the matter on hand “I've come to talk about what your husband told Mrs. Belling, 1 mean a T Capt. Trevelyan's 5 being miss 5 s “It's an odd thing, to be sure” said husband s quite certain Wore these boots most of captain did he wore a inside them.” e to be mended she suggested Evans knowing. they his wife, boastfully. said Mrs. Evans it had a nurder, do_you, mi seem likely,” agreed found out anything new “two things—nothing the u.qu from r I thoug ld m t one for notic- ing. is Tom. remembered there were i he train and in any She had hinched in Exet V e did the inspector go after- asked miss. Tom heard him Pearson. was, she knew, still ttaford House with the ss, to Mr. Duke’s ' Emily fel tated and ways Duke—t unknown she felt, to be able idence, but he seemed to have produced the same ) one—a normal, ordinary, pleasant man T've got to see him,” said Emily to Killing RATS — MICE COCKROACHES is easy—Ask for STEARNS’ Electric PASTE used successfully by millions during the past 54 years. 2 oz. 35¢—15 oz $1.50 Enough te kill hundreds NEY BACK IF hesself. “I'll go straight there as soon as I get back to Sittaford.” Then she hed thanked Mrs. Evan gone on to Mr. Kirkwood's and obtainrd he key and was now standing in the hzil of Hazelmoor and wondering how what she had expected to feel there She mounted the stairs slowly and first room at the top of This was quite clearly Capt s bed room. It had, as Mr had said. been emptied of personal effects. Blankets were folded n a neat pile, the drawers were empty there was not so much as a hanger left in the cupboard. The boot cupboard howed a Tow of bare shelves ily d and then turned and t downsta Here was the sitting e the dead man had lain, the ing in from the open window the scene. 8 k Capt. Trevelyan »wn, and why? Had he been killed five and twenty past five, as every 1e believed—or had Jim re:ily lost his f: d to make front door an window, looked in uncle’s bxdy and in an egony It According to M uck to his story. Yes—bu ve lost his nerve, Had there be Rycroft had some one else in the house who had overheard the quar- od bed room ] sed through the hall again. She t quick look into | the dining room; there were a couple | of trunks there neatly strapped and labeled. The sideboard was bare. The | silver cups were at Maj. Burnaby's | bungalow She noticed, )mm»wr that the prize 1 of three ncw novels, an eccount of which Charles had had from Evans and | had reported with amusing embellish- | ments to her, had been forgotten and | lay dejectedly on a chair She looked round the room and shook | cr head. There was nothing there. | She went up the stairs again and nce more entered the She must know why th (h\ll)[‘«'“mfin”‘ "(‘ fell them out of her mind. ing to ridiculous proportions, dwarfing | everything else to do with the case. | Was there nothing to help her? She took each drawer out and felt behind it. In dotective stories there was always an obl scrap of paper. | But evidently in real life one could not | expect such fortunate accidents, or else ' Inspector Narracott and his men had ! been wonderfully thorough. She felt | fo- lcose bbards, she felt 'round th edge of the carpet with her finge She investigated the spring mattress. What she expected to find in all these places she hardly knew. but she went on looking with dogged perseverance And then, as she straightened her back and stood upright, her eye was caught by the one incongruous touch | in this room of apple ple order, a little pile of soot in the grate | Emily looked at it with the fascinated | gaze of a bird for a snake. Ehe drew | nearer, eyeing it. It was no logical de- | duction, no reasoning of cauce and ef- | fect; it was simply that the sight of | soot as such sugzested a cer’ in possi- bility. Emily rolled up her slecves and thrust both arms up the chimney. | A moment later she was staring with tncredulous delight at a narcel wrapped Joosely in newspaper. One shake de- tached the newspaper and there, before | her. were the missing pair of boots. | “But why?” said Emily “Here thev | are. But why? Why? Why? Why?"” (To be continued.) REPRESENTATIVES SCORE NEW TAX ON BANK CHECKS? 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