New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1922, Page 5

I ISABEL Continued From Our Last Issue, “Certainly, You know the blulsh smoke and flame which is sometimes observed escaping from the exhaust pipe beneath the rear of the car?" the professor asked, *“That is carbon monoxide," “Would it be possible to convey this carbon monoxide In some way from the exhaust pipe of an auto- mobile to a closed room?" Barry's voice trembled with excitement, “Certainly!” the professor ex- claimed, and the sheriff took a step forward. “A rubber tubing would convey it directly from the exhaust pipe into any sort of container, metal or otherwise, T understand what you mean, Sergeant Barry, and it is a most ingenious and practical theory! The container could be opened in a closed room and the carbon monoxide allowed to escape, or it could be di- rectly forced into the lungs by means of the rubber tubing by which it had been introduced from the exhaust pipe, There have been more than one case of accldental death reported in the medical journals, in .which chauffeurs, working in closed garages, have been overcome by the fumes and died before help could reach them. The theory of the use of the gas by burglars in the effort to ren- der their victims insensible, has often occurred to me. In fact—" He broke off, and both hands clutched at his bushy white hair in sudden consternation. “My God! And I unwittingly de- scribed the very means by which the murder was committed here in the house, in the possible hearing of any of a score of people who might have utilized it for their purpose!" “You?” The cry came simultane- ously from the coroner and the sher- iff, while Lieutenant Cadmus started ferward. “Yes. I mentioned.this matter at the dance—!" “Where did you hold this conver- sation?” the sheriff demanded. “In what part of the house or grounds?” “In a corner of the library, and to my hostess. We were closely screened by tall, flowering shrubs. that ‘we could not see who else might enter but people were constantly passing. This is horrible!” the professor ex- claimed. “Did you mention also the way in which the carbon monoxide might be transferred from the exhaust pipe ot a‘car to a container, and how it might be used to asphyxiate people?” asked Barry. “That would, of course, be the most important part to us.” “Yes, I did!" Professor Semyon groaned. “I am an enthusiastic idiot!” Barry strolled around the house to the garage. Barry found Frank, the chauffeur busily engaged in cleaning the large touring car, which, together with Mrs. Tudor’s own fast little racer and the station bus, occupied the space with- in the garage. “‘Are these all the cars owned by the family, Frank?” Barry began without preamble. The chauffeur looked up in surprise at the sudden query. “Yes, sir, except for the limousine which is being overhauled in town.” “Would you hear if any one start- ed one of the cars running down here during the night?"” “I should say I would!” he re- sponded. “Did somebody take one of these machines out last night for a joy ride during the dance?” “Wouldn’t you have known it if they had?” Barry retorted. The chauffeur shook his head. “Not last night; I wasn’t here. Mrs. Tudor gave me a night off on account of the dance, and I went to a movie in the village and stayed over with Pete Whaley, who runs the public garage. I got home here about nine o'clock and went straight to the gar- age, but it was all locked up tight Jjust the way I had left it. There was one queer thing, though.” “What was it?” the detective de- manded as Frank hesitated. “Well, it don’t hardly seem worth mentioning, but it struck me just now as T was cleaning the touring car that there ought to be more gasoline in the tank, according to my calculations, than there is.” He shook his head. “I usually figure it out pretty close, but I must have made a mistake just now."” “Who has the keys to the garage besides yourself?” Barry changed the subject abruptly. “Only Mrs. Tudor and poor Miss TLaurel. The locks ain't been changed in three years.” “It rained hard last night,” the detective remarked. “You didn't find any muddy tracks in here this morn- ing, Frank, did you?” “Only my own!"” he said, strange, rather confused look came over his face. “I usually keep my floor like wax, sir, but I was kind of hurried last night and didn't hose it down. T didn’t find any muddy foot- prints this morning, but I did see some queer dried smears here and there, as though someone might have washed up the marks of their tread. Look here, sir—and here!” He ! pointed, and Barry looked. There were clean places on the oily Then a Rub on Sore Throat ‘Musterole relieves sore throat quicke ly. Made with oil of mustard, it isa ‘clean white ointment that will not burn or blister like the old-fashioned mustard plaster. Just spread it on with your fingers, Gently but surely it penetrates to the sore spot and draws out the pain. Get Musterole at your drug store today. 358 65cin jars& tubes; hospital size,$3. SR O STRANDERT == floor, as though indeed someone had tried to obliterate their footprints, Barry went carefully over every yard | of space. Then he straightened and inquired casually: “How did you first learn of the trouble up at the hosse? Did Martha or another of the maids come out here to send you for the doctor?" “No, sir. 1'd gone up to the ser- vants' dining room to have a cup of coffee, and was just sitting down to it when Martha came flying from the young ladies' room with her face as white as a sheet and told me to go as fast as I could—that Miss Laurel was dead.” at the threshold he dropped his handkerchief and, stooping to recover it, turned once more. “By the way, I was having a little discussion with Lieutenant Cadmus a while ago about the exhaust of mo- tors in general, and I asked if a rub- ber tube could be attached in some way to the exhaust pipe on a car and led out of doors, so that, when the engine was running the fumes would escape into the outer air. He says it could not be done; that the pres- sure of the exhaust would force off the rubber tubing. What do you think?" “Me? retort came promptly. seen it done myself! It was done as an experiment, just as you said, ser- geant, to scc if the fumes could be driven directly out of the garage. It was extra heavy tubing, of course, and had been fastened on pretty tight, but it held all right."” “Is there any extra heavy tubing of that sort lying about tie garage here?" demanded Barry. His voice had suddenly sharpened. “Why, there was some The chauffeur looked his wonderment. “We never used it, though, and I don't know what has become of it. I'll look for it, sir, if you like.” “I wish you would.” He left and proceeded slowly to the house. When Frank had drawn his attention to the cleaned spaces, he had observed something which had escaped the other's eye: A tiny, I think he's a sim The “Why, I've “MY GOD! AND I UNWITTINGLY DESCRIBED THE VERY MEANS BY WHICH THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED.” rounded spot of mud with an elong- ated triangle in front of it. Barry recognized the print of a small, high-heeled slipper, and he knew that when he had found it and its owner the search for this sinister Cinderella would be at an end. He found Anna the cook, Louise and Martha all congregated in the kitchen, and a single glance at their feet assured him that none of them could have worn that fairylike slip- per. “Do you know if Mrs. Tudor has been out to the garage today?” “Why, no, sir!” Martha stam- mered. “The poor lady hasn't been out of doors except for a minute on the front porch when the coroner came.” Barry dismissed the subject, asking where the telephone was, he called up Whaley's garage. Yes, I'rank had slept the night in Pete's own room, and who the devil's busi- ness was it, anyway? Frank's alibi yond further question. He walked silently to the front of the house, and, hearing the voices of Mrs. Tudor, the sheriff, and Profes- sor Semyonov in the libfary, he| vaulted quickly up the stairs. The| locked door of the room in which Laurel, had met her death presented | no difficulties to him, and in a mo- ment he had opened it with a skele- ton key. The two narrow, cmpty, tumbled beds, with clothing scattered about and the breakfast tray with only one chocolate cup used were the first ob- jects which met his gaze. He examined carefully the tiny pair of low-heeled lounging slippers which stood on the floor by the bed near- est the window, then turned his at- tention to the king satin mules be- side the other bed. Shaking his head, he was replacing them when, kicked or thrown far under the valance, he discovered a pair of incredibly small dull-black satin slippers with exag- geratedly pointed toes and high stilt- ed heels. They had been curled all out of shape. As he drew them forth he welt the grating of the mud which still cake them, and realized that they were sopping wet. He had risen and was examining them with minute care when an ex- clamation from behind him made him turn swiftly. Fay Tudor stood in the doorway watching him. As her eyes fell upon the objects in his hands she opened her lips, but no words came. and, established be- o “Can you tell me, Miss Tudor, to whom these belong?" “They are mine, Sergeant Barry." CHAPTER VIII. | The look in her clear, limpid eyes Barry turned as if to depart, but| “HOW ARE YOU?” YOUR FRIENDS ASK They Hope That Yon Are Well and Strong—Poor Health is Unnatural All your friends greet you Wwith “How ‘do you do?" or “How are you?"' They want you to be in good health, TIoor health means unhappi- ness and trouble and pain to you and your friends and is not what Na- ture planned for human beings. Tut through overwork or improper Hving people do become run-down and sickly, If you feel that way and are weak and nervous and do not sleep well and have headaches, go get some Gude's Pepto-Mangan and take it with your meals for a few weeks and you will get your health and strength back again and be as well as your healthy friends. You can buy it in liquid or tablet form. Ask for Gude's Pepto-Mangan. Advertisement, was that of a child who does not understand, but senses no danger. De- spite the damning revelation Barry felt an odd impulse of compunction. She appeared so small and frail, yet . as well as everybody else in Sandy Cove, had heard of the fortitude and courage she had displayed during her two years of unceasing service. Could that courage and fortitude turn into implacable relentlessness under the urge of reckless passion and a desire for revenge against the girl who, she Jearned only the previous night, had supplanted her in her absence? Could it be that she was still in love with the young lieutenant? Continued in Our Next Issuc. (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service). PRIME MINISTER T0 HOLD GOVT, REINS W. L. Mackenzie King I First in Canada Since Laurier Ottawa, March 6 (By Associated Press).—Itor the first time since 1911, a Liberal prime minister will hold the reins of government when the 14th parliament of Canada is opened by the Governor-General Bying next Wednesday. W. L. Mackenzie King, the new premier, is the first of his party to hold that office since Sir Wilfrid Laurier was defeated more than ten years ago on his policy of reciprocity with the United States. While lacking much of the pomp and circumstance that mark similar events in Great Britain, the convening of the Canadlan Parliament is accom- panied by observance of many tradi. tions. A few relics of medieval pag- eantry, borrowed from the “mother of parliaments” at Westminister, have been retained and probably will con- tinue. The Induction Ceremony The governor-general, in full dress mifitary uniform, drives to the house of parliament in the state carriage, attended by a guard of honor, mount- ed and afoot. He enters the senate chamber and occupies the speaker's chair. ' Then a functionary known as the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, clad in silk knee breeches, silken hose, huckled shoes, tailed coat adorned with rosettes and a cocked hat, pro- geeds to the commons chamber, where the members of parliament are wait- ing patiently and gives three sounding raps on the door. The sergeant-at-arms of the com- mons, who is also attired after the fashion of Cromwell's day, goes to the door and investigates the rapping. He returns to announce to the speaker of the commons the arrival of the mes- senger from the senate. The speaker orders that the messenger be ad- mitted. 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