New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1922, Page 5

BEGIN HERE TODAY The body of the ne'er-do-well brother ROBERT ABLETT, was found on the floor of the locked office of The Red House, and MARK ABLETT, bachelor proprietor of the country estate, was nowhere to be found. In the eyes of In- spector Birch, it was clear that Mark had shot Robert, particularly since everyone knew that Mark learned with disgust and annoyance of Robert's return from his 15-year stay In Australia. But the circumstances terious. The shot was minutes after Robert's when ANTONY GILLINGHAM, a gentle- man adventurer, entered the house to visit Mark’'s guest, BILL BEVERLEY, he found MATT CAYLEY, Mark's constant companion, pounding on the locked door and demanding admittance, The two men entered through a window and found the body. How could Mark have locked the door if the keys were on the outside? puzzled Antony. He discusses some of the mysterious clues with Bill Beverley, were mys- heard two arrival, and GO ON WITH THE STORY. Antony smoked thoughtfully for a ittle. Then he took his pipe out of his mouth and turned to his friend. “Are you prepared to be the com- plete Watson?’' he asked. “Watson?"" “Do-you-follow-me-Watson; that ene, Are you prepared to have quite' obvious things explained to you, to! ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you. Because| it all helps.’ . | “My dear Tony,” said Bill delight- enly, “need you ask?”’ Antony said nothing, and Bill went on happily to himself, I perceive ftom the straw- berry-mark on your shirt-front that you had strawberries for dessert. Holmes, you astonish me.. Tut, tut, you know my methods. Where is the tobacco? The tobacco is in the Per- sian slipper. Can I leave my prac- tice for a week? I can.” Antony smiled and went on smok- ing. After waiting hopefully for a minute or two, Bill said in a firm voice: ‘“Well then, Holmes, I feel bound to ask you if you have deduced any- thing. Also whom do you suspect?” Antony began to talk. “Do you remember,” he said, “one of Holmes' little scores over Watson about the number ‘of steps up to the Baker Streét lodging? Poor old Wat- son had been up and down them a thousand times, but he had never thought of counting them, whereas Holmes had counted them as a matter of course, and knew that there were seventeen. And that was supposed to be the difference between observa- tion and non-observation. Watson was crushed again, and Holmes ap- peared to him more amazing than ever. Now, it always seemed to me that in that matter Holmes was the ass, and Watson the sensible person. What on earth is the point of keep- ing in your head an unnecessary fact like that? If you really want to Kknow at any time the number of steps Spre———m—m—— " Have More Spirit in Your Pace and Face Of course, you've noticed. 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Cantllever Shoes for Men and Women. |the club and I'm devil of a lot of concentration for the ordinary person, If he wants to get his llst complete, but In some odd way I manage to do it without concen- tration at all,” “I should think that's rather a use- ful gift for an amateur detective, You ought to have gone Into the pro- ! tession before,'Y “Well, it is rather rather surprising, you stranger I it, shall we?" ""How ?" “Well, let's ask him—" Antony stopped and looked at Bill comically —"let's ask him what he's going to do with the key of the office."” FFor a moment Bill did not under- stand, “Key of the office?"* he sald vague- | “You don’t mean—Tony! What Good God! do you what about weeful, It's know, to a 's surprise Cayley with to your lodging, you can ring up your landlady and ask her. I've been up and down the steps of the club a thou- eand times, but if you asked me to tell you at this moment how many steps there are I couldn't do it. Could you?" “I certainly couldn't,” said Bill, “But if you really wanted to know,"” sald Antony casually, with a sudden change of voice, “I could find out for you without even bothering to ring up the hall-porter." Bill was puzzied as why they were talking about the club steps, but he felt it his duty to say that he did want to know how many there were. “Right,” sald Antony. “I'l find out."” He closed his eyes. “I'm walking up St. James' Street,’ ! he said slowly. “Now I've come to going past the A do you mean? mean that Cayley—Dut i Mark?" “I dont know where Mark {s— that's another thing I want to know— but I'm quite certain that he hasn't got the key of the office with him. Because Cayley's got it “Are you sur.e?" “Of course, I don't really know||8 |that he's got it, but I de know that he had it. I know that when I came on him this afternoon, he had just locked the door and put the key in his pocket.” “You mean you saw him at the time, but that you've only just re- membered it—-reconstructed ft—in the way you were explaining just now?" “No. I didn't see him But I did see something. I saw the key of the billlard-room."” ““Where 2" “Outside the billiard-room door.” “Outside? But it was inside when we looked just now.” “Exactly." “Who put it there?"” “Obviously Cayley."” ABut—"" “Let's go back to this afternoon. I don't remember noticing the bilifard- room key at the time I must have done so withcut knowing Probably when I saw Cayley banging at the door 1 may have wondered sub-con- sciously whether the key of the room next to it would fit. Well, when I was sitting out by myself on that seat just before you came along, I went over the whole scene in my mind, THE |and I suddenly saw the billiard-room key there—outside. And I began to wonder if the office key had been out- side too. When Cayley came up, I told you my idea and you were both interested. But Cayley was just a shade too interested. I dare say you didn't notice it, but he was.” “I SAW THE BILLIARD ROOM.” KEY OF 2 | smoking-room windows—one, two, ' three, four. Now I'm at the steps. | 1 turn in and begin going up them. One, two, three, four, five, six, then a broad step; six, aseven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. Eleven—I'm in-, “By Jove!" side. Good morning, Rogers. Fine; ‘“Well, of course that proved noth- day again” With a little start he|ing; and the key business didn't really opened his eyes and came back to his| prove anything, because whatever side present surroundings. He turned to,of the door the other keys were, Mark Bill with a smile. *“Eleven,” he sald. ' might have locked his own private Count them the next time you're there | room from the inside sometimes. But Eleven—and now I hope 1 shall for- g piled it on, and pretended that it get it again.” was enormously important, and quite Bill was distinctly interested. altered the case altogether, anr hav- “That's rather hot,” he sald. ing got Cayley thoroughly anxious yound.” about it, as I expected, he couldn’t re- “Well, T can't explain it, whether gist. He altered the keys and gave it's something in the actual eye, or|hjmself away entirely.” something in the brain, or what, but| Byt the library key was still out- I have got rather an uncanny habit °'\side Why didn't he alter that?” recording things unconsciously. You, K «Because he's a clever devil. For know that game where you look at a|,ne thing, the inspector had been in tray full of small objects for three|ipa |jbrary, and might possibly have minutes, and then turn away and try |, ¢iced it already. And for another to make a list of them. It means a|__» Antony hesitated. — “What?" sald Bill, after walting for him to go on. “It's only guesswork. But I fancy that Cayley was thoroughly upset about the key business. He didn’t want to commit himself definitely to the statement that the key was either | outside or inside. He wanted to leave it vague. It was safest that way." “1 see,” said Bill slowly. But his mind was elsewhere. He was wondering suddenly about Cayley. “Now then, Watson,” sald Antony | suddenly “It's time you said pome- thing.” “T say, Tony. IO “1 mean what more." “Well, what does it amount to?"” “Simply that Robert Ablett died in the office this afternoon, and that Cayley knows exactly how he died., That's all. It doesn't follow that Cayley killed him."” “No. No, of course Bill gave a sigh of rellef. “Ex- GIRLS! 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