New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1921, Page 5

‘e ~ 4 - .). i3 ‘e & GRAY By OCTAVIUS DUSK ROY COHEN A Mystery Story With a l Mysterious Plot (Copyright, 1919, Dodd, Mead & Co., (Continued from Yesterday’'s Herald.) David Carroll, detective, is shocked by the receipt of a felegram from Stanford Forrest, his lifelong friend who had left three days before on his honeymoon, stating that the bride of three days had been murdered and he, Torrest was in jail, charged with the crime. Carroll, with his assistant, Jim Sullivan, immediately rushed to Karnak, South Carolina, where For- rest was in jail, where they interview the latter. They are informed that shortly before she was murdered, Mr. Forrest had received a letter from Bennet Hemingway, an unscrupulous bucketshop opera(or and former ad- mirer. The letter contained a sarcastic reference to the character of Mrs. Forrest, but never had been shown to her. Forre.: 1:lls the detectives that he came home early on the evening of the third day after the wedding and found his bride had been stabbed to death by an ice pick. Sullivan feels the same as the na- tives, that Forrest is guilty of the crime, which theory is not sustained by Carroll. Later developments show that Hemingway was in the cabin used by the Forrests after it had been leased from Franklin Furness, an ar- tist. Unknown %o Carroll and Forrest, a man giving his name as Heston, had been in Karnak for three months prior to the crime, claiming to have bought the Furness lodge but failing to have the deed recorded. Carroll sent a telegram to Furness, who was'in Denver, asking if the lodge had been sold or leased to Hes- ton. A reply from Furncss said the lodge had not been sold. The: detectives then turn their at- tention to Conrad Heston. to whom suspicion seems to point. A conver- sation with Mart Farnham, a local character, who does odd jobs abput the town and who hates Heston be- cause the latter cut him out with his girl, brings out the fact that Heston was in the woods near the Furness lodgo the c-ening of the tragedy. In- vestigation reveals foot prints about the cabin which show that someone had walked to the cabin and ran 4 away from it. The girl, Esther De- varney, has been characterized as “the woman in the case.” Following the footprint clues tha detectives discover evidence which points. so unmistakably to Heston that upon learning his cabin haa been locked up, they ask a warrant for his arrest. The actions of Heston and the girl are under investigation and the detectives suspect that Miss De- varney knows more than she is will- ing to tell concerning what happened the night of tha murder. - This feeling in strengthened by the discovery of 'a ‘diamond ring lat the Furness lodge, which the detectives feel is a valuable clue to the murder- er. Miss Devarney claims the ring, although the initials inside are not her,_initials. Heston is arrested by Sheriff Potter. Later he is interview- ed by Carroll but denies knowing any- thing about the ring. Still feeling that Hemingway had something to do with the crime, Car- roll proceeds to look him up. Ha) found by hotel records in Charleston that Hemingway apparently was not in Karnak the night of the murder. * WOMAN AVOI AN OPERATION HopeNearly Gonc, but Lydia T Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Saved Her Star, N. C.—*My monthly spells gave me so much trouble, sometimes they would last two weeks. I was treated by two doc- tors without relief and they both said I would have to have the “Primitive Bapmt’ per snd decided to e tryrf. 1 have used E. Pinkham’s table Compoun and Lydia E. Piifi:hm ’s Liver Pills for about seven months and now I am able to do my work. I shall never forget your medi- cine and you may publish this if you fimt to gs lt}l" gue '—Mrs. J."F. URSEY, Star, A Here is another woman who adds her testimony to the many whose letters we have alre: blllhed pruvmg that Lydia E. am’s table Com- pound often rexmre! henl to suffering ‘women even after they have gone so far that an operation is deemed advisable. Therefore it will surely pay any woman whe suffers from ailments liar to her sex to ‘glve this good old fashioned remedy a WHO dined with , Inc.) Later ' while walking through the Wwoods near Heston's lodge, Carroll is startled by a bullet which whistles Wwithin an inch of his head. He finds a boy shooting squirrels, who tells him the rifle he is using was pre- sented to him by Heston. Later clues obtainéd by the detec. tives bring to light the fact that Hcston was the victim himself of a clever gang of crooks and the evi- dence in the murder of Mrs. Forrest Dow points to another party. Heston's real name is found to be Averyt. In order to show her loyalty to him as well as her belief in his innocence Miss Devarney appears at the jail ®ith her family and Peter Royce,cleri of the court. She informs the sherift #Ld detectives that Mr. Royce is about ‘v perform a marriage ceremony for aerself and Averyt. Carroll stepped forward, “I think «|yow'll all be delighted to know,” he said, ‘“that Mr. Averyt—whom you know as Heston—has been laboring under a misapprehension which will soon be cleared up. He's told us the whole story,” he said, turning to the girl, “and we found out a good bit for ourselves. That little deal in the North—you know what I mean?” “Yes.” “Will undoubtedly work out all right. It may provide him with a little unpleasant notoriety, but that's about all. There's a small chance that he won't get by with clear skirts.” Carroll turned back to the girl ‘“You have the license, Miss Esther?” ‘Yes. And I secured it from the probate judge.” “And you can perform the service, Mr. Royce?” The clerk of court bustled forward officiously. “I have performed more marriage ceremonies than any man in Karnak county and—" “Then add another to your list,” smiled the detective. i And there in the musty corridor of the red brick jail, George Ransom Averyt and Esther Devarney were anited in marriage.; And then the meeting adjourned. The Devarneys went into the swamp as the guests of Carroll in Forrest's car, driven by Robert Carter. Averyt and his bride accompanied them with the idea of returning and catching the night train for a brief honeymoon in Charleston; pledging their word to Carroll to return on the second day following. And Carroll, Sullivan and Sheriff Potter closeted themselves in the sheriff’s office. The three men in the sheriff's office gazed at one another and it was the sheriff who.spokc. “Guess you know your business, Carroll, but what you did up there was a knockout.” “Freeing Averyt?” “Yes.” “There wasn’t any reason to hold him. I'm convincel that he is not guilty.” He rose and walked to the window overlooking the street, lighted a cig- arette and blew the smoke rings against the pane. Finally he gmiled slightly and turned toward the oth- ers. “Here comes Mart Farnam and he's evidently but for b'ar. Bet even money Peter Royce sought him out and broke the news.” They heard Farnam’s heavy step on the veranda, then the Goor was flung back and the lanky swamp angel stepped into the room. He glarec balefully at Carroll— « “What's all this I be'n a-hearin'?” he demanded. “About what?” “Lettin’ Heston loose?” “Yes—we released him.” “Ye mean ye don’t think he killed her—that he killed Mrs. Forrest?” “No—1I don’t think so.” “But—somebody did!!” “Yés—somebody did.” “Then if he didn’t, flashed Farnam. A hint of steel crept into Carroll's voice. But his reply came in a low level tone. “You dia!” who did?” .. CHAPTETF VIL A gray pallor crept slowly over the face. of Mart -Fagnam; his hand clenched and unclénched spasmodic- ally; his eyes widened and a look of infinite terror dawned in them. He gazed upon Carroll as though upon the superhuman. His knees trembled and 1w clutched the edge of the table for subport. But he was no more surprised than was Sheriff Potter. That dignitary was staring pop-eved at Carroll. Farnam wilted to a chdir, where he sat nervously, staring at his nemesis. 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He also said that he went straight home, which state- ment was given the lie by young De- varney’s remark that Farnam had turned around. “In brief—Farnam Lad met the girl. waited until she had gone a con- siderable distance, and had then turned to follow her! . “Both he and the girl admitted that they had quarrelled more or less when they met on the road. They both said that he was drunk. There- fore, there must have been some sin- ister motive in his trailing of her but most important of all, if he followed her and she went to the lodge, he too, must have gone to the lodge! “And having once convinced my- self that Mart Fa-nam had® gone back to the lodge on the evening of the ninth, I remembered that he had lied about it. And no man lies about a.thing like that unless he has some- thing to conceal. ““Mart Farnam once involved in my mind, it didn’t take me long to re- member purely physical clews which I had noted more or less subcon- scieusly- and stored away for future reference. “For instance; the footprints. Sul- livan will remember that the foot- prints were large—brogans. Also $1 Book of Soda Checks for 79c. Use it any time CANDY SPECIALS $1.50 Lowney’s Assorted Nuts and Fruits. full 1b' 69c. Guaranteed Fresh ° ==Y that the shoes which made them were run down at the heel. You may look at Farnam's shoes yourself; you can see the answer to that. “More, I had noticed at first, and I noticed again later that Farnam's shoes had two red splotches. Looked like clay at first. But those splotches were made by blood as the body of the dead woman slid to the floor. Now then you will remember, Jim, that the day Farnam drove us out to the place he drove with his right Hand entirely. Scarcely used his left. The third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly bruised. The finger- nails were blackened and looked very ugly. E “The way the crime happened was this: Mrs.- Forrest had gone to the ice-box, she was bending over it and holding it open. She was struck from benind by Farnam. She fell. But he, before he struck, had braced him- self by grasping the edge of the chest with his left hand. “As Mary fell she let the cover to the ice-box fall. “It smashed the two fingers®f Farnam’s left hand. Which explains that part of it. “Now for the next. You will notice that there-are traces over Farnam's right eye of a long vertical bruise. Memory of -that bruise came back to me in a floood after I once suspect- ed him. The explanation of it is simple. “You will remember, Jim, that I made you rehearse the crime with me. And that as you were supposed to fall —simulating Mrs.” Forrest—I turned Leather Bill Folds 75c value 9c Sc swiftly, in‘supposed terror, grabbed the screen door open. . . . “And the chances are ninety-nine out of a hundred that a man in such circumstances and in such a hurry would slam himself on the forehead with the screen door. He would run right into it. “But there is one clew which is more important than all the others. Jim will recall that when the ice-box top fell it smashed a bottle of im- ported olive oil which had evidently been taken out ®y Mrs. Forrest and placed on the ledge. The fdlling cov- er which fsmashed Mart's hand also smashed that bottle of oliv€ oil. The| oil was spattered for a considerable distance. He rose, strode across to Farnam and lifted the long left. arm above the man's head. “There!” he said. And his finger pointed to the large greasy splotch under the left armpit which he had noticed the day he arrived in Kar- nak. “He, himself, said that he did not know there were strangers at the lodge. Yet he killed a woman there, and he must have struck instantly as he entered the screen door to the back porch. Why, then, would he kill this strange woman! “And the answer came to me after careful = thought:—He killed Mary Forfest without knowing that it was Mary Forrest! “I knew that Mart Farnam was deeply in love with Esther Devarney. I knew that she had rejected him in favor of George Averyt. I knew, from Baby Pacifiers 2 for 6¢ Farnam’'s own lips, that he truly suspected that their relations were not of the kind to have stood the glare of the spotlight. The bellef was absurd, of course, and could have emananted from no mind but the warped one of Farnam. But I will do him the justice of saying. that I believe he thought it.”. . Carroll finished speaking. There was an oppressive silence in the room. A silence broken only by the labored breathing of Mart Farnam. And it was Mart Narnam who spoke, terror of the future in his whining voice— “I didn’t go for to kill her.-. I didn’t go for to kill her. . Carroll rose. tired. “I'd be obliged, Sheriff, turn Stanford Forrest out. fered a good deal.” Potter tossed him the key to For- rest’s cell. “Let him out yourself, son. You've earned that pleasure.” THE END. He looked drawn and it you'd He's ‘suf- TRUCK DRIVER HURT. Hartford, July 28.—Joseph 'Halli- gan, 42 years old, of No. 830 Broad street, employed as a driver by t! street department, is in St. Francis's Hospital suffering from -a fractured akull as the result of being thrown te the pavement when ‘a‘ city sprinkler which he as driving was struck by a one-man trolley car at Capitol avenus and Lawrence street about $ o'clock last night.