New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1922, Page 5

Ot RED HOUSE MYSTERY b AAMILNE BEGIN HERE TODAY Within two minutes after ROBERT ABLETT, ne'er-do-well brother of MARK ABLETT, bachelor proprietor of The Red Houee, had arrived and been ushered Into Mark's office, a shot waus heard. BILL BEVERLEY, one of Mark's guests ,arrived at that moment to find Mark's companion, MATT CAYLEY, pounding on the locked door of the office and de- manding admittance, The two men entered the office by a window and on the floor found the body of Robert with a bullet through the head, Mark was nowhere to be found. Investigation by Inspector Birch showed that Mark had learned with considerable disgust and annoyance of the coming of Robert. Cayley refused to believe that Mark had deliberately murder- ed Robert, GO ON WITH THFE STORY CHAPTER V. The housekeeper's room had heard something of the news by this time, end Audrey had had a busy time ex- plaining to other members of the staff exactly what he had said, and what she had said. The details were not quite established yet, but this much at least was certain: that Mr. Mark's brother had shot himself and spirited Mr. Mark away, and that Audrey had seen at once that he was that sort of man when she opened the door to him. Eisle had a contribution of her own to make. She had actually heard Mr. Mark in the office, threat- ening his brother. ‘“He said, I heard him say it with my own ears, ‘It's my turn now,’ he sald, triumphant-like.” ‘“Well, if you think that's a threat, dear, you're very particular, I must say.” But Audrey remembered Elsle's words when she was in front of In- spector Birch. She gave her own evidence with the readiness of one who had already repeated it several times. “Then you didn't see Mr. Mark at all?"” “No, sir; he must have come in be- fore and gone up to his room.” “Well, I think that's all that I ,want to know. Now what about the other servants?” _“Elsie heard the master and Mr. Robert talking together,” said Au- drep eagerly. “He was saying—Mr. Mark, I mean—" “Ah! Who is Elsie, by the way?" “‘One of the housemaid Shall T send her to you, sir?” . “Please.” All' that interested Inspector Birch was that Elsi= was passing through the hall and heard voices in the ctice. “And stopped to listen?" “Certainly not,” said Elsie with dignity, I was just passing through the hall, just as you might have been yourself, and not supposing they was talking secrets, didn't think to stop my ears ,as no doubt T ought to have done.” And she sniffed slightly. “Come, come,” said the inspector goothingly. Now then, what was it you heard? Try to remember the exact words' Something about working in a pass- gge. thought Elsie. YH'm. Working a passage over— could that have been it?" “That's right ,sir,” said Elsle eager- “He'd worked his passage over." “wel?” “And then Mr. Mark said loudly— sort of triumphant-like—'it's my turn row. You wait.!" “Triumphantly?" “As much as to say come.” 5 “And that's all you heard?" “Thats all, sir—not standing there listening ,but just passing through tne hall, as it might be any time. “Yes. Well, that's really very im- portant, Elsie. Thank you. Elsie gave him a smile, and turned eageriy to the kitchen. Meanwhile Artony had been ex- ploring a little on his own. There was a point which was puzzling him. He went through the hall to the front of the house and stood at the open Goor. He and Cayley had run vmunr} the house to the left. Surely it would have been quicker to have run round to the right? Undoubtedly they went the longest way round‘.‘ “Why?” he asked himself. ‘Was it to give Mark more time in which to escape? Only ,in that case—why run? Also, how did Cayley know then that it wos Mark who was try- ing to escape? If he had guessed.—- (hat one had shot the other, it was much more likely that Robert had shot Mark. Indeed, he had ad- mitted that this was what he thought. The first thing he had said when he turned - the body over was, 'Thank‘ God! 1 was afraid it was Mark. But why should he want to give Rob- ert time in which to get away? And again—why run, if he did want to give him time?” Antony went out of the house again to the lawns at the back, and sat down on a bench in view of the ly. his chance had re- he sald, ‘let's go through Cayley's mind carefully, and see what we get."” Cayley had been in the hall when Robert was shown into the office. So Refreshing Itnn}' suggested trying Cayley saw that that was the obvious The servant goes off to look for Mark, and Cayley goes on with his book. Mark comes down the staiys, wards Cayley to stand by in case he g wanted,, and goes to meet his brother, What does Cayley expect? Possibly that he won't be wanted “AND THAT'S ALL YOU HEARD?" after all; pogpibly that his advice may be wanted in the matter, say, of pa 3 ing Robert's debts, or getting him a rassag® back to Australia; possibly that his physical assistance may be wanted to get an obstreperous Robert out of the house. Well, he sits there for a moment, and then goes into the library. Suddenly he hears a pistol- shot . For the moment he would hardly realize what it was He lis- tens. Perhaps it wasn't a pistol-shot after all, After a moment or two he gees to the lbrary door again. The profound silence makes him uneasy now, No harm in going into the office just to reassure himself. So he nd finds it locked! are "his emotions now? Alarm, uncertainty. Something is happening. Incredible though it seems, it must have heen a pistol-shot. He is banging at the door and calling out to Mark, and there is no answer. Alarm—yes. But alarm for whose safety? Mark's, obviously. Robert is a stranger; Mark is an intimate friend. Robert has written a letter that morning, the letter of a man in a dangerous temper. Robert is the tough customer; Mark the highly civilized gentleman. If there has been a quarrel, it is Robert who has shot Mark, He bangs at the door again. Of course, to Antony, coming sud- denly upon this scene, Cayley's con- duct had seemed rather absurd, but then, just for the moment, Cayley had lost his heead. But, as soon as An- the windows, thing to do So he leads the to the windows—the longest way. Why? To give the murderer tifne to escape? If he had thought then that Mark was the murderer, perhaps, v But he thinks that Robert is the murderer, If he is not hiding anything ,he must think so. Indeed he says so, when he sees the body; "I was afraid it was DMark; he says, when he finds that it is Robert who is killed . No reason, then, for wish- Ing to gain time On the céntrary, every instinct would urge him to get into the room as quickly as possible, and seize the wicked Robert. Yet he goes the longest way round. Why? And then, why run? “That's the question,” said Antony to himself, as he filled his pipe, “and Lless me if I know the answer.” He sat there with his unlit pipe in his hand, thinking. There were one or two other things in the back of his brain, waiting to be taken out and looked at. For the moment lLe left them undisturbed. They would come back to him later, He laughed suddenly, and lit pipe. “I was wanting a new profession,” he thought, “and now Ive found it. Antony Gillingham, our own private sleuthhound. T shall begin today.” ‘Whatever Antony Gillingham's other qualifications for his new pro- fession, he had at any rate a brain which worked clearly and quickly And this clear brain of his had al- ready told him that he was the only person in the house at that moment who was unhandicapped in the search for truth. The inspector had arrived in it to find a man dead and a man missing. It was extremely probable, no doubt, that the missing man had shot the dead man. But it was more than extremely probable, it was almost certain that the inspector would start with the idea that this extremely probable solution was the one true solution, and that, in consequence, he would be less disposed to consider without prejudice any other solution. Inspector Birch was certainly pre- pared to believe that Mark had shot his brother, Robert had been shown into the office (witness Audrey); Mark had gone in to Robert (witness Cayley); Mark and Robert had been heard talking (witness Elsle); there was a shot (witness everybody); the room had been entered and Robert's body had been found (witness Cayley and Gillingham). And Mark was missing . Obviously, then, Mark had killed his brother: accidentally, as Cayley believed, or deliberately, as way his and so purely healthful —“ICED"— "SALADA” T Xl A - Sold only in Sealed Metal Packets to preserve original fragrance of the leal, nooo - BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1922, Elsle's evidence seemed to suggest But there were other possibilities, It would have Interested Antony to know that, just at the time when he was feeling rather superior to the prejudiced inspector, the inspector himself was letting his mind dwell lovingly upon the possibilities in con- nection with Mr. Gillilngham. Was it only a colncidence that Mr. Gllling- ham had turned up just when he did? And Mr. Beverley's curious answers when asked for some account of his friend. An assistant in a tobacco- nist's! An odd man, Mr, Gillingham, evidently, It might be as well to keep an eye on him. CHAPTER VI, The guests had sald goodby to Cay- ley, according to their different man- ner. Bill had seen them into the car, had taken his own farewells (with a speclal squeeze of the hand for Detty) and had wandered out to join Antony on his garden seat. “Well, this is a rum Bill as he sat down, “Very rum, Willlam." “And you actually walked right into g2 ' “Right into it,” sald Antony and proceeded to tell all that he had al- ready told the inspector, Bill inter- rupting him here and there with ap: propriate “Good Lords” and whistles, “I say, it's a bit of a business ,isn't {t? Where do I come in, exactly?" Antony smiled at him. “Well, there's nothing to worry about, you know. Besides, I need you. Things are going to happen here soon." (Continued in Our FUTURE OF WORLD NONE T00 SECURE English Writer Warns Against Fegling Too Sure of Tomorrow London, Aug. 4.—Sir Rider Haggard is of the opinion that Western civili- zation is by no means so secure as many Westerners believe. “We have an {dea that the west is going on forever,” he said, leecturing before the Norwich Rotary club, “but can we be quite sure of that? Those who have studied and know the east; its enormous power of reproduction; its simple habits of life on the land, show,” sald Next Issue) and its system of moralities which make every woman think it her duty to have children, know that it con- tains an enormous potential power which must one day break out. Friend of Teddy. “Whether it can be curbed T do not know, but I have grave doubts. I shall never forget my friend, Theodore Roosevelt, saying when talking to Japan, 'Look out for your Australia; it will be the first place to go.' “If once Japan secures the control of China the outlook for the Western world will be very cloudy."” The speaker sald he thought our existing civilizations in the end prob- ably would go the way of other civili- zations that had preceded ft. | “Who would have thought a dozen years ago,” he asked, ‘that there would be such horrors in the world as we have recently seen in Russia. Even in Ireland it has been revealed that the savage is uncommonly near the skirt of civilized man, and so always it will be.” PLEA AGAINST ALL ELK TEETH CHARMY, Department of Agriculture De- clares Animals Are Disappearing Washington, Aug. 4 (By the Asso- clated Press)—Don't buy Elk teeth for watch charms, stick pins or other ornaments, is the plea of the depart- | ment of agriculture, for the price of each pair of such teeth is the life of a member of the country's small and fast diminishing herds. They are very pretty ornaments, and for many years have been used by Indians, especially the squaws, for that purpost but the difference is| that the Indians used only the teeth | from animals slaughtered for food | and their hides, while the white man| kills the elk, extrats the teeth and wastes the rest, Many Flk Killed. Thousands of bull elk have been killed in the Yellowstone Park region | by hunters who illegally poach upon the government preserves, and, des- [ ITT;ings for the Bal)}es for | government preserves, and despite the vigilance of rangers and guards, | shoot down the elk in all seasons, merely for the teeth. The fashion of wearing these bits of bone as watch charms, cuff links, stick pins and hat | pins has been steadily growing as the once vast herds of elk dwindle and vanish and are threatened with entire extinction, according to the Biologi- cal Survey. The hunters receive high prices for the teeth. A few years ago the wearing of’ aigrettes for hat trimming threat- ened the annihilation of one of our most beautiful birds, but through aroused public opinion a halt” was caused in time to save the birds. U'n- | less the market for FElk teeth i8 curbed before it is too late, it is de- clared, it will mean the extermina- tion of our Elk, the most magnificent of deer. A fuller understanding of the history and price paid for Elk teeth will have an influence in de- preciating the market and thus re- moving the incentive for this wan- ton slaughter, the department feels, —PALACE — Next Mon., Tues.,, Wed JANE AND KATHERINE LEE, IN PERSON IN VAUDEVILLE NOT A MOVING PICTURE Felt Sport Hats $1.79 A large varicty of colors 5 /Vev? Britains J/rbpping Center THE STORE ADE U - q il i 2 ! i 80 10 580 Mainsl. g : E i w"‘//f/orp/@' lverybody. Women's and Misses' Jersey Suits- and JERSEY Bramley Dresses $3.95 plece Tux- edo Suits in a variety of mix- tures and Bram- ley Dresses in light and dark shades, I'wo /\/R'V[)‘/'/ larmn ¢ i) One of the Most Impo rtant Occasions of Summer An Immediate Clean-Up at These Prices Clearance Prices on Hosiery fashioned, lisle top — Black, cordovaa, white, Regular value woM ors. 8$1.25.. .. WE CARRY THE LARGEST Motre Silk Hand Bags, value $3.50 Hard finest quality Valne 'S THREAD ! 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