New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 5

't. v NEW BRIIAIN DAIL{ less than half prices and “then some’ 100 Suits in this sale; broken lots; only one and two of a kind, but most all 'sizes at 1.00 “Clean Up” of the Year--Make It Yours Also CONNORS- HALLORAN STORES The Main Store On the Main Street 215 MAIN STREET THE UNLATCHED DOOR — By Lee Concerning a And a Thayer — Man a Maid Murder (Copyr!ght, 1920 by The Century Company.) nflnued fmm Ye-terdny’- Herald.} ichard Van Loo Schuyler, the last of one of New York's oldest and thy families, arrives home partial- intoxicated one night, walks into wrong house and stumbles over tie body ,of & - murdered woman. lizing Qld dangers of his predica- n. he 'flees to his home next door. Il the morning he. receives a call for n}i‘l: trom a servant girl next door, to t om he has been attracted. She tells her name is Nora and says she has just discovered the corpse of her mistress, a Mrs. Rutledge, who ap- Peared to have been murdered during the night. In the absence of any one in the house except the servants, ichard tagkes charge and summons a ysiclan and the police. * When he tells Nora what he has dan& he is surprised to hear her say, “I am going to ask something more of you, you know the best reward for having wrought well—" .:'Is to have more to do,” answered Richard. ora, whose surname proves to he dy, asks Schyyler to keep for her a'ymysterious package, which she ms would prove embarrassing if fQuind in her possession in the event OLE police search. While being ex- ined by the police Miss Brady séddenly faints when the house- keeper, a Miss McLeod, states that p!e objected to engaging Nora when sBe was hired, because the latter had no references. - Peter Clancy, a famous detective, working for the police department, learns that Mrs. Hntlédge was out the night of the .-der with a man named Pendle- who has subsequently disap- =d. Chancy. also finds ‘the inner i of his shoes when he started to % of a man's sho¢, which Schuyler ¢ 'gnizes as having dropped from ".\ove ‘them. the night before. “After several attempts to get rid of 14e shoes, Schuyler finally drops them. nfto the ash can. He 1s horrified t> #id in the package given him by Nera a photograph of the murdered viiman and.a plece of the blaol ed mysteriousiy, is thought to be 11v- 0% in old Greenwich village, her cor- rect address being known only to «u man named Vincent Quarterly, whom \ Sehuyler has met and followed on a ' ffain. Rutledge, when examined by He police, admitted being out the right of the murder wih another mau aff¢ two women. one of whom Wwas T ne Claimont, an actress. He de- ibed Pendleton as a “sort of a isne cat,” and sai¢ he thought there some mysterious understanding 'ween his wife and Nora. Quarterly “tained eloth. Nera, who has am»e-r] ve Nora telegraph hin. . 1On the strength of a clie that Pen- v ton may be living at tae boarding . fi.u Mrs. REph Tooke, at Fair. ‘Seld or Seaport, adjoimint towns on .;clly tells Schuyler he will try to at Altonville, Pa. i Vi delivers the package In person. Detective Clancy interviews a'Miss Alice Dalton, also an actress who Long Island, one detective goes there only to learn that his man had been there anq left. Schuyler receives a letter from Nora, who tells him that Nora Brady was an assumed name and giving her real name as Eleanor Wentworth. She asks that her package be sent to her He drives over and helped make up the supper party with Rutledge the night of the mur- cer. During her' temporary absence from the room he discovers in a *able drawer a knife which mign have been the weapon used to com- mit the murder. him when he left stained handkerchif. The shoes thrown into the ash can by Schuyler are found by Policeman Clancy and turned over to one of the detectives who discovers the insole missing. Detective Fox in the mean- iime has located Pendleton in a rura! village in New Hampshire. Dick Schuyler, while driving to New York with Nora, is thrown out of his car, which skids when a tira blows out, the ground. He regains consciousness to find that his injuries are not serious. Nora has one injured ankle. Dick pro- poses to Nora and is accepted. Nora tells her history, explaining that she became a servant because of financial veverses. She is an amateur por- trait painter and the supposed bloody cloth in the package given Schuyler was simply a paint rag. Her history was known to Mrs. Rutledge. Dick is summoned to the office of Captain O'Malley to explain about the <hoes. Nora goes along to explain ahout herself and is surprised to learn that the police know all about her. During the conference Rutledge comes in and is informed that the criminal who murdered his wife has b2en found. He also had with a man's blood- and falls unconscious to O'Malley waited until Rutledge was seated, the. he turned, crossed the room quietly and drew back one of the curtains which concealed the en- trance of the adjoining room. Rut- ledge leaned far forward, expecting to see Pendleton’s hated face, but noth- ing moved in the' room which was dimly lit and apparently empty. The old captain faced about slowly raised his hand. There was an instant’s strained si- lence, followed by a faint whirring sound. Then a voice spoke softly, an old voics, low and trembling. and NEW BRITAIN son peaking were thinking aloud. that her Voice?—No, not yet. A pause. Hammond Rutledge, whose eyes had been striving to pierce the dim shadows of the back room, turned a startled glance upon OMllley and half rose from is ch%ir. O'Malley shook his head slightly, enjoining lence, and the old voice went o “So late, so late! Oh, my poor lad- die, my poor bairn!” The tone changed to one of hate and scorn: “The scarlet woman, decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand the golden cup full of abominations—' The voice trailed off to silence. Rut- ledge started to his feet. “Anna!” he cried. “Poor old Anna! Is she there? What js it? How— “It's an invention of my own,” O’Malley spoke rapidly. “Clancy got the records. She knew nothing about it. He's been getting themn for the last two weeks and we've pieced them | together. We've suspected for some, time, but he only got the conclusive ones this morning. Listen.” From an indistinguishable murmur the old voice rose again: “Watch! Watch and wait—Hush, there they are!—Ah, look, at her, the traitress! How long, O Lord, how long!—Her poison is like the poison of a serpent. If the poor laddie tried to reason with her she would, not hear. She’s like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears. “Look. What is that little paper he’s giving her. And she smiles at him—DMischief! I can tell it by their faces—Ah-h-h! “I've seen enoqugh.” Then, every slowly and solemnly: “Send forthy thy sickle and reap, O Lord, for the hour to reap is come. “The great wine-press of the wrath of God—and there came out blood from the wine-press— it is done— Thou hast destroyed the wicked.— Dead—in her full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. Roses, roses red as blood for the scarlet woman.— Fold her hinds—they ghall work na more evil. “What's this? His card—-the lov- er's card—and on the back—ah, a tryst!—You will not meet your lover No noise.—No one will k.iow.—The knife—back in its place. No, wash it first,—That's right—and now, to bed.—Softly, softly.” “Stop her, stop her!” Rtledge cried in agony, springing forward. *“I can’t bear any more! - She did it for mel— Oh, Anna, Anna—"" O’Malley caught his arms. k “She found peace at last,” he said softly. “Listen.” Faintly and, tremulously the came again, ‘with the trusung of a child: “Now I lay me down to sleep.— It 1 should die—before—I—wake—" A faint murmur and all was still. . Rutledge looked 2ppealingly 0'!\ialley. who nodded quietly “She died this afternoon,” he said. “It neve: entered my head to trace the old woman. I'll tell you frankly,” said O'Malley. “It took some one withwith a keener insight than mine to pick up the right thread. It was Pete Clancy.—Come here, Pete, lad.— Heré's the real detective for you,” he went on as Peter came through the curtained doorway. “If it hadn't been for this boy, we might never voice tone at have found the right track.: You tell ush, listen,” it said, as u um per-them about it, 1ad,” sald O'Malley | tracts and things like that ReXALD, FrIDAY, ddsand Ends Clean Up Suits Formerly Sold From $30 to $40 OFFICE COATS $6.50_ value. " Good Mohair, Now at $4.95 All ‘sizes. - ‘“Well,” began-Peter madestly, “thé ‘first JoIt T had just at the & of Miss, MacLéod's *testinony, on’ morning aftér the murder, whefi;Miss Nora fainted. 'You rémember, ' Mf. Schuyler?” . Dick nodded and Petér went on: “I 'don’t know whether you noticed it or not, but the old lady was pretty much Upset—and - no wonder—and when I took the glass of water she had brought for Miss Nora her hand trembled so that it spilled all. down her skirt. I wiped it off with my handKerchief 'and thousht nothing about it, but' when I took'the hand- kerchief out of my pocket a few min- utes later, it' was all stained red. I couldn’t think where it came from for a second, and then I rerhembéred. It ¥ seemed . awfully queer; : but . I céuldn't mdke it fit ‘ih- anyway T studied" it. ‘The old lady looked and'| acted innocent enough, 'and there was fothing oift' of the way in her room when’ I examined it. I knew she~ must :be pretty nearly batty on res ligion because there were stacks ‘of in her room. There was one called ‘The Seventh: Commandment’ that was all underscored and almost worn out and it wasn’t till much later that it really put any idea into my old bean. The whole thing seemed too far fetched. But then I got another jolt when Capt. O'Malley handed me the sheet of paper that Pendleton’s card was enclosed in. You tell 'em about that, O’'Malley.” And- the okl man told them: the whole story of his receit of Pendle- ton’s card and of Peter’s subsequent trip to Fairfield, which resulted in the pursuit and final discovery of Pendleton. 4 ‘“Pete and I both made up ‘our minds, when we examined the . evi- dence closely, that he had nothing to do with the actual crime,”.concluded O'Malley; *“but we weren't absolute- ly certain which way the cat was going to jump, the clews were so mixed up, and we have kept Pendle— ton under surveillance till today. .I don’t mind telling you, for your pexs sonal satigfaction, Mr. Rutledge, that the man’'s a wreck. He was so afraid of what you would do to him if you found him that he dodged around from pillar to post, and when Fox found him he was ragged, and hol- low-eyed from lack of sleep, k6 and more dead than alive. The man has suffered about as much as that sort of a man can and my advice to you is"—his voice was very kind—"to listen to what your old friend”"—he motioned toward the other room— “saild: ‘Vengeance is mine,’ and the rest of it—You know.” O’Malley paused a second, then in a different tone he said: “I told Fox, the man wHo found Pendleton, to put the fear of God into him when he went up to New Hampshire today to call off his men. Wouldn’t be surprised if Pendleton tried an ocean voyage for his com- plaint. Anyhow, I don’t believe: you'll ever see him again wheén Fox ' gets through with him.” Rutledge, without speaking, grave- ly reached over and shook tHe cap- tain’s hand. The old man grinned appreciatively. 5 “Now, get on with your tale, Pete, my lad,’”” he said and Peter resumed: “It was that blank sheet of paper that made me sit up and take notice. AULUS T ol I knew it was important, for, as O'Malley pointed..out, the ‘person who sent that card had a grudge against K <1921 STQ;!‘E _CLOSES EVERY"MONDAY FP TO AND INCLUDING SEPTEMBER 5th. “‘S‘.mall Lots Of Suits and Coats Marked Unbeliev- ably Low For Quick “Clearance ‘Tdst ‘& feéw '$35.00 Quilted Satin Uned Coats left’, They are marked' down to Jist a°feéw $22.50 Cheviot Sport Suits left. They are ma.rked down to Juit. a, few $22. oo Genuine Jersey They, al‘e ‘arked down to made Sults.left. . . Just a ifew’ $16.00 Jersey Suits left. Thy ;m-e mm‘sd down to _ Just & £éW $10.00. high colored French Flannel Golf Coats left. TRey are marked down to ust a lewfiw 00, Serge and Tricotine tailor- T'hey' are .marked down to ........ $5.00 $15.00 $10.00 $10.00 $19.00 . $7.98 Suits left. Juet @ few $18. q‘o Veldur and Bolivia Coats left. They, are mzrked down"to * *Just s tew $22.50 Bolivia, Velour | Coats lcfl. “Inlaid * TAn- in wood und tile * ‘pat- $l 49 oleym, tegns. Squard yard Neweut déflsns. soc sq. yfl. Congoleum Gold Seal quality Congoleum, waterproof, ‘sanitary,. duratle and good looking, 75¢ sq. yd. Pro-Lino Fell'l%l)e Fae Regular 69c qunllw, Special at 55¢ sq. yd. Pgndleton and it would help a lot if jafter it had been washed, who would what we what kind of a_grudgeiit ufl.. And I knew I'die éfip it that somewherénbn e sure where. Butx:cmin on trom Fairfield, like! a flash. 3 Miss MacLen? W t empty the firs um, nt over 'the: hoyse, but whén"we ecmbsd it " agein with a'fine-booth comb. after. evérybody hafi, goney I .thought . I refollected the hasket beingjhalf fuil of scraps, and almofig them: a ‘piece of§paper of tl “gqueer, mottled Kind:'| I began to''place+things*tofether’ ag'the train buzzed along. and the véry first chance I had I ‘took’ ‘the' handkerchief I told .yoy about. (I'd.| kdpt it carefully wrapped up), to Van Dérn & Sawyer to have the _stain amalyzed. i : I didn’t say anything to O’Malley. yeét and I went to interview Miss' Da tqh for him. While she was-out ofithe rgem I found a queer )ooklng paper- cutter and the.shape and size of. it thyew an awful scare intp me. I swiped it, I'm 'sorry to say. ¢I hope you'll apologize to her for me, Mr. Rutledge. I sént it back by regis- teyed mail as soon u I found the right weapon.” ‘Rutledge frowned l.fld nodded. “Go on,” he said. ‘“Well, I went back’ to the hous\ again and found the dther half sheet T notepaper in Niss MacLeod’s waste-basket, just as I expected. I spent the night there going over everything, trying to imagine just what might have happened. I'd had the report from Van Dorn & Saw- yer and it was human blood that I'd wiped off Miss MacLeod's skirt.” Nora drew in her breath with a little gasp of. horror. Peter continued: “You remember the drop of blood on the .Hoor-of the hall, near ' the stair wall, Mr. Schuyler, and the smear still farther down toward the pantry door? Well, T though( at the time ‘that made it look like &n inside job, becalise othérwise the murdérsy would have beat it out of the front door, and not have gone that way at all. You see that, don’t you?” “Yes.” ‘““So I figured it out that, suppos- ing the old lady had. had a strong enough motive (and her affection. £6r Mr. Rutledge and her anger against any one who was injuring him might have been strong enough for almost anything especially if the poor old lady was off her nut), then what could have been easier than for ther to; slip down the back stairs .and watch through the little window in the pantry: ddor. for .Mrs.. Rutledge to come home? I was nearly sure that Pendleton was with her.and it wasn't hard .td imagine what " Miss MacLeod might have seen. There was a dmawer just inside the pantry door, full of spoons and forks and knives. There were several carving- knives and among them this one. He pulled open .the table" drawer and showed one, long, pointed and very sharp. “What:could ‘have been easier’than to take' this out, and use it; ‘and They are marked down o “Bke || The "gro T4’ Malley was sure that it and Camel's Hair .. $10.00 Slip-On Dresses COOL, ARISTOCRATIC, FASHIONABLE! A miscellaneous lot of the bet- ter sleeveless dresses of mohalr, awning stripe, jersey and several other materials. These dresses sold rapidly at $8.98 and $9.98; but we are going to put them on sale tomorrow at..........$5.00 GINGHAM DRESSES are still at their height, but the prices of our assortmcnt for tomorraw have been cut to the depths from $9.98 for the large and smzller checks to—$4.95; and for the better quality dress with white organdie trimming from $14.98 to—$7.95. An extraordinary purchase of SILK DRESSES containingz taf- fetas and foulards that were pric- ed from $29.00 to $35.00 will be marked for clearance tomorrow morning at—$13.98. SUMMER SPORT SKIRTS EOR IMMEDIATE WEAR White Washable Gabardine Dress Skirts with novelty pockets and wide all-around . belt, . pearl button trimmed; regular $3.98 value; clearance price—3$2.69. Beautiful New Rugs At August Sale Prices STER- RUGS "Fine quality, Closs Weave Axminster Rugs, attrac- tive designs'and colorings, size 9x1 | .. , BRUSSELS RUGS. Seamless Brussels Rugs, in a full line -of designs and_ color- ings, size 9x12. $27.50 Sale price _ GRASS RUGS The Waite Grass Rugs sold s, in Hartford at this store oniy. 0 t the best made. Jten- cilled _borders in_colors of blut. megfibrnwn and rose. Size 112x9, special.value Sllls Size 8x10, special value $13.95 &now that it had ever been taken £om its place?” up around Peter followed is" ‘story. in breatnless suspense. ‘We’ had it all cinched that the | criniinal- was left-handed on account f the: direction of the wound and was a lefl hahdéd ‘man who dld it because ut those watches we found. They were yours, Mr..Schuyler, weren't they? I had''my own reasons for not being So~sure it vas a man that did the trick;. that.smudge on the floor of lhe hall ,Jooked like the mark of a SKkirt to fe, among other things. And afterward I found out that Miss Mac- Leod 'was ‘left-handed.” ! 'Oh, simyle enough. Rawlins was atching the house where she lived on'the outside and she ‘didn’t know him from a hole in the wall, so I had him follow her whenever she went eut.. \He saw her pay for things in a Ehop, ver and over again, and she always took the money out and count- ed it with her left hand; besides using that hand .in preference to her right . everything else, so we made sure there was ho mistake. In the mean- time Capt. O’Malley felt that we had enough to:go on to make it a neces- sity to watch her closely, so I took over the inside half of the job. Gee, it was fiérce work!"” Peter took out his handkerchief and wiped his heated forehead. “I took the room next to hers and|. made a hole in the wall through to the paper on the other side and listened there. night after night. She talked to herself, sometimes all' night long, and pretty soon ] was sure she was crazy. She prayad and prayed, and sometimes it was as if the god she prayed to was in the room with her. Then, about a week ago, sha began to go back over things that had happened long ago, just as it they were going on then. She talked and waited for someone to answer and then went on again. It was spooky, I can tell you, because I knew that she was alone all the time. Then things began to come through that I was sure had a bearing -on 2. Sale Price .. $31 95 LL\'OLEUM RUGS 25 Genuine Cork Linoleum Rugs, in carpet designs, worth $11.95. Size 6x9. Very special price $7o49 CONGOLEUM RUGS Gold Seal Congoleum Rugs, pertect goods, in the best line of designs. Size 12x9, reg. $19.00 Special Size 9x10-6, reg. $16.i so ecfal ... & Size; 7-6x9,-reg. $11.85, «Special .. Size 6x9, reg. $9.50, Bpecial .. were trying to find out and ° 1 brought -the' captain’s: -Dictrola model that he'd just finished and cut a hole clear through the. wall in a place I knew would be hidden by her. It didn't have to be very big and she never saw it.” Peter sighed wearily and spread out his hahds. “And that's all, I think. _ We cut out of the records all the prayers and mutterings and made it as nearly a continuous thing ‘as we could—and you know the rest. “Fine werk, Peter, old-scout!” cried Dick, breaking the spell of awed =i- lence. “You'll be one of the great- est detectives the ‘world - has ever seen! It was good of you to let us |know the whole story. I'm sure Miss Wentworth would thank you, too, but it's all ‘been a pretty rough ex- perience for her and I think I'd bet- ter take her home.” He glanced down at her tenderly, with a look in his eyes which never comes into the eyes of any man for more than one woman. “Come, dear,” he said. She returned his look -with confi- dence and love. Then they quietly bade the others ‘“‘good night” and left the room together. O'Malley held the door open for them and as they passed out the bright light in the hall fell upon their facee. The old man closed the door soft- Iy and turned back to the room with a sigh and a smile. “It's an ugly job we've gotPete, and I, Mr. Rutledge,” he said, “and some- times it seems like a regular night- mare. But when you see people like those two, going out, hand in hand, like two little children, well then— sometimes it seems as if the dream wore thin and that all the ugliness and fear and hate were gone, and that the only real thing left was what those two have—truth und love. May- be—I don't know. Anyhow, it's a great game, ‘a great game—eh, Pete, my lad?” | THE END. Tent for sale and to rent. Eddy Awning & Decorating Co.—advt. If you have a spark of romance in your make-up you will enjoy reading “THE D UKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE” By G. W. OGDEN Which Starts In Tomorrow’s Herald A novel worth $1.50 for the price of R T , one week’s Heralds.