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Zelda Lansing seized the lawyer’s arm. “Will they really arrest me, Mr. Fentress?” she demanded fiercely. “They may,” admitted Fentress. “They won't call it arrest, of course. They'd hardly dare to place a charge against you on the evidence in hand— but they’ll do their best to hold you.” He looked at her with serious eyes. “I'm a lawyer, you know. Il do the best I can for you. If necessary, I'll defend you. But tell me this at once. Did you have anything to do with this?” “Nothing! I swear it.” “And you know nothing about it? Remember, there are several suspicious circumstances in your predicament. Your visit to a Hindu, for instance, and that sort of thing. Have you the faintest idea where Percy Jones is to be found?” “I swear I haven't. If I had, I'd tell you. I went to Janice hoping she might tell me something.” “All right,” said Fentress. I'll see what I can do.” Blackwood emerged from the booth with perspiration on his brow. They gathered that he had listened to some Dallas elocution. He was jaunty enough, however. “We're to bring her to the scene of the crime,” he sald. “Dallas is on his way.” “What does Mr. Dallas think?” asked Zelda Lansing, almost timidly. But there was no answer to her question until they were seated in a taxicab. Then Blockwood spoke. “I'm afraid he thinks it quite pos- sible that you murdered Janice, your- | self, Zelda,” he said regretfully. “You see, if Percy did kill Rita—which I don't for a minute admit—and Janice happened to know about it, and you happened to know that Janice knew, and Janice happened to be in a mess | herself, and happened possibly to be thinking about talking—well, you see the sort of mind that Dallas has!” “But you believe me, at last, don't o “At last, darling—at last—I think I do. Provisionally, anyway. I made the error of telling Dallas that I did, in point of fact, and I'm just afraid it won't help your case a little bit.” “Then listen to me, Riley—and you too, Mr. Fentress! I've changed my mind about Janice. The redhead killed Rita Wingfield, and she killed Janice, too. I can't prove it; I just feel it—in my veins. And heaven only knows what she’s done with Percy. I'm just afraid there’s going to be another murder!” “Now don't worry about that,” said Blackwood easily. “Leave everything to us. By the way, you're quite posi- tive that you never heard of this Anne Gray before?” “Positive!” ‘Do you happen to know & man named Rollie Colbath?” | Miss Lansing stared. “Rollie Colbath! What has he to do with this?” “Do you know him?" “A little. Nearly everybody does, I think.” “Who is he? What does he do?” “I don't know. I don’t think I do. He’s just—oh, just one of those men, 1 guess! You meet him every place. He has plenty of money. 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She was really a very decent little scout—although once again he won- dered what she or any other woman could see to like in Percy Jones. A large car, furiously driven, was turning in from the street. Its wheels grated against the curb and Dallas sprang out of it, followed by half a dozen huskies. Blackwood nodded affably. “Brought your gang with you, did you?” he grinned. “This is Miss Lansing, Dallas; you met her Satur- day night, I think. As for Fen- tress—" He swung an arm in airy introduction. The chief of detectives was in fair humor, considering the circumstances. “Hello, Mr. Fentress,” he said, shaking the lawyer's hand. “So Blackwood’s dragged you into this, has he?” He bent his brows over the shrinking girl and continued, “I'm very glad to see you, Miss Lansing—very glad, indeed. Shall we go up?” The uniformed doorman was hover- ing about in perplexity. His dismay at sight of the police was obvious. “Has anybody got a key?” asked Blackwood. “I imagine the apartment is locked. It was a contingency for which no one had provided. The doorman swore he had no duplicate. Dallas cursed and then apologized to Zelda Lansing. In the end it was Black- wood who suggested a remedy. There- after they stood outside the silent apartment while a hulking sergeant passed out onto the fire escape and entered the back bed room window. He was absent for several minutes, then they heard him swear, inside, as he stumbled upon the body and re- treated to find the light switch. Dal- las bawled orders through the door. It opened, and with shocking sud- denness they were looking down at Janice Hume, blocking their entrance to the apartment. She lay where she had fallen, a look of horror and sur- prise upon her face. Dallas stepped over her and knelt for & moment beside the body.. Then he rose. “Come in,” he invited grim- 1y, “and be careful not to touch her as you pass.” He closed the door be- hind them, and for a moment stood in silent contemplation of the prem- ises. His eyes at length came back to Zelda Lansing. “We'll listen to your story first, Miss Lansing,” he added. There was a menacing smile upon his lips. Bhe wrenched her eyes from the silent figure on the fioor. “I had been trying to reach her all afternoon,” sald Zelda Lansing. “It was after Mr. Blackwood—" Mr. Blackwood courteously inter- rupted. “It youll excuse me,” he bowed, “I won't remain for the recital. I've heard the story, after all—and, as it happens, I have a review to do to- night. I merely wanted to see the body. And Fentress is quite capable of looking after Miss Lansing. Good night, Zelda. Chin up, you know, and all that sort of rot! Gentlemen, good night. TI'll call you in the morning, Lulu.” He left them staring in astonish- ment at his abrupt departure. Outside the door of the apartment, when the voices had resumed, he turned an eye upon the doorknob and shrugged his shoulders. He had small use for fingerprints, in any case—they were too scientific—but it was prob- able there were none. The murderess had not touched the doorknob. She had simply stood outside the door and rung the bell until the victim, herself, had opened it. “Very clever!” said Mr. Blackwood. But in any event the fingerprints could be left to Dallas. He shrugged again and strode di-| rectly to the fire escape. Then, soft- ly, as he had before, he slipped down to the eighth-floor landing and jock- eyed for a view of the Wingfield bed room. The room was quite dark, but the window, he could see, was slightly Miss REE LEEF say WOODWARD & LoTHROP A For an opulant season ahead GOLD JEWELRY s Your Smartest Choice raised, exactly as it had been whea be saw it last. Swinging outward into space, he pried at it with his toe. 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