The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1922, Page 13

FRIVAY, AUGUST I8, 1929. Qe RED HOUSE MYSTERY y AAMILNE @ Om 8 Prem Company (Continued From Yesterday) From the beginning Antony had geen this answer coming and had drawn back from it, For, if Mark bad been ki it seemed such a cold-blooded killing. Was Cayley equal to itt Bilt would have sald * Bill wouldn't have killed im cold blood himself, and because he took it for granted that other people behaved pretty much as he did. But Antony had no such iHusions, Mur ders were done; murder had actual ly been done here, for there was bedy. Why not an because other murder? Had Mark been in the office at all that afternoon? The only evidence ether than Cayley’s, which obvious. ly did not count) was Elsie’s, Eiste|h¢ has no quarrel, whom he hasn't was quite certain that she had heard his voice. But then Bill had said that it was a very characteristic | That makes a difference. And I think jthat Mark's dead body ts In the | Passage now, and has been there #inee, say, half-past two yesterday | afternoon. And tonight Cayley is Yoice—an easy voice, therefore, to imitate, If Bi could imitate it so successfully, why not Cayley? But perhaps it had not been such ‘& cold-blooded killing, after all. Sup: pose Cuyley had had a quarrel with his cousin that afternoon over the girl whom they were both wooing Buppese Cayley had killed Mark, either purposely, In sudden passion, or accidentally, meaning only to knock him down. Suppose that this had happened in the passage, say a it two o'clock. Suppose. Cayley there, with the body at his feet, feot fing already the rope round his neck; his mind darting this way and that tm frantic search for a way of en cape; and suppose that suddenly and trrelevantly he remembers that Robert ts coming to the house at three o'clock that afternoon—auto- _ matically he looks at his watch—in half an hour's time, be Antony pictured to himself Cayley fm the passage, standing over the dead body of his cousin, and work tng {t out. How could Robert be made to seem the murderer, if Robert were «live to deny ft? But suppose Robert were dead. too? He looks at his watch again. (Only 35 minutes now.) Suppose Rodert ‘were dead, too? Robert dead tn the office, and Mark dead tn the passage how does that help’ Madness! But if the bodies were brought together + . . And Robert's death looked like suicide? + Was it pos atdie? Madness again. Too difficult. (Only 20 minutes now.) Too difficult to Gerer, but how easy to make Mark! ‘Robert dead and Mark missing: why, ft Jumped to the eye at once. Mark had killed Robert accidentally; yea, that would be more Ifkety—and then run away. Sudden panic. . . looks at his watch again. Fit teen minutes, but plenty of time Row. The thing arranges itself) Was that the solution, Antony ‘wondered? It seemed to fit In with the facts ag they knew them: but then, so did the other theory which he had suggested to Bil! In the morn- ing. “Which one?” said Bill. were asltting In the copse above the pond, from which the In- Spector and his fishermen had now ‘withdrawn. Bill had Ustened with | open mouth to Antony's theory, and eave for an occasional “By Jove!" had listened tn silence. “Smart man, Cayley,” had been his only com- Ment at the end. “Which other theory?” “That Mark had killed Robert ac- ¢ldentally and had gone to Cayley for help, and that Cayley, having | hidden him in the pasenge, locked the office door from the outside and hammered on !t.” “Yes, but you were so dashed mys terfous about that. I asked you What the point of ft was, and you wouldn't say anything.” He thought for a iittle, and then went on, “I suppose you mean that Cayley de anybody | passage, alive or dead.” “And now you don’t think so? ls there,” and k | come Bil, It's wo horribly cold-blooded. hate to think of it." }you, he goes up to the office and de. | Mberately shoots a man with whom |®een for 18 years!’ “Yes, but to save bis own neck going to hide it In the pond.” | jhandful or two, and said slowly guesswork, you know,” Antony if it's @ good guess or a bad one.” BU! brightened up suddenly. “Tonight.” he sak. “I say, to do we work itt Antony wag silent for a little, Place,” said Antony, puffing slowly whatever tt ta, tn the passage, What wilt he do next?” “Come out again,” said Bill help. fully, “Yes; but which end?" Bi eat up with a start green?” a body in hin arms, He can get out by the bowling green, and then come sight of the house at all.” “You're right. Now, what's the next thing?" “The next thing fs to mark the exact place in the pond where he drope—whatever he drops.” thing we can't identify from a dis .{tance, then we must try and get it “Bee anything?” sald Antony at last. out. To see whether {t's worth tell ing the police about.” “Y-—yes,” said Bill, wrinkling his | with water is that one bit of it looks | pretty much like the next bit. I don’t |know if that had occurred to you.” | “Et had,” smiled Antony. “Let's \ come and have a look at it.” | copse, and lay down there in silence, looking at the pond beneath them “See an > FLAP-DOODLE NOW IN TWINS’ HANDS Flap-Doodle had turned all his dinner plates into pancakes.| Everywhere the Twins went they @sked the same question “Do you know where Flap-Doodle fe? Flap-Doodie stole the Fairy) Queen's wand and we're hunting for " But they always got the same &nswer from the queer Tinky-Wink- Jers. The Tinky-Winklers were Ptanse-colored fairies on the Tinky- nkle Star “No, we're hunting for him our elves,” the naid Each one had a complaint to make, for since Fiap-Doodle had got hold of the magic wand, he was doing awful ‘Ex-Gov. Physician €annot understand why people will submit to dangerous operations tor giand transplantation when it ts Not 4s effective as the newer meth ods which require no operation. ‘There are many diseases and weak- Resses that respond wonderfully to these treatments and for a limited things with it One Tinky-Winkler said Flap. | Doodle, with one single stele of his} jwand, had turned all his dinner plates Into pancakes. |} Another Tinky-Winkler said he had jfurned his nice spotted cow into a crocodile Another told the Twins Flap Doodie had turned his chickens into jege planta. | But what made everybody angrier Ithan anything was what he did t ithe Tinky-Winkle Star itself, You know it was flat like a coffee | with the edges turned up. Flap-Doodle took the magic and turned the edges down, my dears, and folks had a dreadful time |to keep from sliding off. | Nancy and Nick, even with their | m Shoes, kept slipping and slip. ping, and several times they almost tumbled down to earth a After awhile they came to a house and knocked on the front door. “Come in!’ said a voice, The Twins nearly fell o surprise when they ente | saucer, | Wherately betrayed Mark, and tried} to make him look like a murderer?” | “I wanted to warn you that we [should probably find Mark in the “Now I think that his dead body | Meaning that Cayley went down 1 him afterward—after you jbad come, after the police had! | “Well, that's what I shrink from, Cayley may be capable of it, but I| “But, dash tt all, your other way | | !* cold-bloaded enough, According to Bil pulled ot the mons on the ground beside him. threw away a! “You may be right, but it's all . of course tt ts, he! enld. “And tonight we shall know night's gong to be rather fun. How | “Let's put ourselves in Cayley's at his pipe. “He's got the body, or “By Jove, you mean that he will| go out at the far end by the bowling. | “Don't you think eo? Just tmagine | him walking across the lawn In full | view of the house, at midnight, with | to the pond without ever being in/ “So that we can fish it out again -| “If we can see what it is, we ahan’t | want to. The police can have a go! at it tomorrow. But if it's some-/ forehead. “Of courre, the trouble; “They walked to the edge of the| “What?” ing?” sald Antony at} ————$$_—____—_—___— j ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barto this friend |into the pond “You, you need to me what a bea on to the b the fence there. Say post from the end. @Vell, then 1 a line from my tree——we'll find |} one for me directly—and it comes » the twentieth post, say. And] remark, v Beverly by Hippod in the be “Of course I knew would have to, but 1 hoped—oh, well, it’a a warm wight.” “Just the nig agreed Antony, «getting up. “Well | smile, WHOM SH wand | © ae NO. 14—-MOLLY ASKS. BILLY “HUMAN” It was lunch hour. Molly left the ing table Mttered with the materials Wheeler Works briskly with pur pose in her eye, Sh arted into | * the nearest drug store For} OUR BOARDING HOUSE ABSOLUTELY UNARMED, ANDTHE PUMA CAME BOUNDING “TowARD ME WITH A TERRIFYING © SNARL + QUICKLY "TAKING OFF MY SUSPENDERS IL FASHIONED “THEM “TO ACT AS A SLINGSHOT, AND LET FLY A SHARP FUNT STONE “THAT FOUND A FATAL MARK DOINGS OF THE DUFFS DO YoU WANT ME } {yu START SPLASH TO SPLASH YOU, {{ AND I'LL MAKE YoU OLIVIA? THINK YouRE AT “ NIAGARA FALLS! NOW USTEN WERE Son) +MIENEVER You ARE ANSWERING ME ALWNS Say NOS OR VES SIR, NOT LUST NO oR MSS «TS JUST AS GAG YO BE Pour — now CUT THE GQass” ¢ fence on the other side.” “What about it “Well, it's rather useful, that's “Said Sherlock Holmes enigmatt A moment later, on had hurled him * added Will laughed “Tt love being Sheriocky,” he said unfair of you not to play |up to me.” “Why is that fence useful, my dear Holmes?” said Bill obediently “Fiecause you can take a bearing You seo- ‘t atop to explal im is.” wasn't going to. But you're| lying here he looked » up-—"“under neath this pinetree, Cayley comes oat In the old boat and drops his parcel in. You take @ tine from here at, and nfirk it off on | it's the fifth thera shall gathered together 4 there, I almost forgot 1 the taller ame, do his famous Ax petformed nightly at ngle, I looked at hi sily say, really? It's beastly dirty “Tm af So it Is writ her.” nat one of us for a bathe,” k for my tree.” th let's have 4 walked ¢ snatched a sandwich and glass of buttermilk, | whisked out again and down to Billy er with | Barton's office. This office was half studio and time the doctor is going to give|there sat Flap-Doodle himself tn a| Molly loved its rambling shabbiness tree conference to interested peor at 1227 Third ave, Hours 10-12, 2-6. yee at once if you are interested.— ivertlsernent. rocking chalr, fanning himself galm. lly with « frying pan | (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by SeattigMtar) and charm, Its prints and casts and odds and ends Billy had picked up in ithful ramblings abroad, Billy looked up from @ long draw: | camp. TTLE STAR PAGE 13 BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN THE SEA THAT LINE WILL 7 PUT CORNG ON YouR EARG- iF HE HAD A PINT Now Ht'D EMPTY NoaH's PHONED OVER “TO COLLECT TH Two OLIVIA, LOOK AT THAT DAME COMING IN ~ SHE MAKES Yov LOOK LIKE A STRING BEAN 3, jot the pond a t's where I shall count your posta ac: | { ks very much, but I shall do * enid Bill with] I don’t want to spend the | whole night diving.” the post in a straight line and the splash, and then! count backward to the beginaing of “go,” motherdear went on with, San Francisdo and the straits so “young Donald said] the boy scarcely knew what “That, mother, is where 1 am go-| to do Leave & to me When I go to America I} “But he finally caught a lum- shall find uncle and get for my-| ber se self some of that very land about! which s which be writes in the letter, and| July 1 will settle there in that coun-| “They made a wonderful voyage » how you will have to at hie watch nge for dinner started to walk back try where it is always pleasant,| UP the coast, no storms, a gdod and the weather }] hot nor very cold.’ At midnight the pond was waiting “So by-and-by he was on the then he was in New] ich crowned the York, and there he found a great Aisappointment, for how could he world very much ousands 0} les to travel be-| set tomorrow.’ unconsciously thousands of mi travel set tomorrow fore he could reach the land he there's. mine. | you don’t move, ance of his seeing you out ti I do quarter of an down the: I then come across the Isthmus of hour or #0, » Panama on the bumpy little rail road, and then set sail for Califor Iked off to their nia, and after all he had still over a thousand m Tomorrow) TO HELP MAKE margin ALL MOLLY MA ~ BY ZOB BECKLEY —— hard and uncertain and there was no regular boat plying between (To Be Continued) Ceereennnennneenecsemenmescnne t+ 1 i a hi ** fyou?" He stood a little away from “But lare you friend or enemy y, Billy! ¥ a one 4 needing your help.” Billy, dear,” ‘It's yours, if the will for It means |into her tone surprised even Molly I guess you know that." | herself and she stopped abruptly “Don't promise rashly, Billy,” she} Billy’turned away, absently knock seriously into his face|ing out his ptpe against the old looked up and if ft isn't Mistress Molly." with reflective girl who is asking silent que: of herself as well as of the man be-|again he looked deeply troublec | kne 1 ce rex ceventing. jaw ply troubled, jknew it wanld not be speect and mouth a boyish galety from the enemy's | concerned Come, give the countersign— want me to do?” ‘0 what end, Molly?" 1d t : , r S win. re } F i | would win you, but deeds. 1 feit,! He turned and walked to the I can't be cautious where you're | n't that end enough?" |too, that when yoy knew yourself |dow without speaking, Well, what do you} "Well, then, with what result? better you would know which of as | (To Be Continned) i That I may all the more sureiy lose | men means most to you \ (Copytight, 1922, by Seattle Bian A BY STANLEY ‘jl A WEANCY EATING TOBACCO a STALE GROCERIES O& GAT. HARD Li Inlala/alnl YOU SHOULD BE FINDING OUT “BouT THAT SUSPICIOUS MAN THATS HANGIAL “ROUND THE MARSHAL OTEY WALKER CARRIES HIS” COAT ON HIS ARM SINCE HE RECEIWED THE BEAUTIFUL SUSPENDERS FOR. SAVING THE VEILED LADY FROM DEATH BEFORE A RUNAWAY HORSE EVERETT TRUE Say, NEIGH BR] 'o UKE To BorRow MY qWN MOWSR are ‘Seattle _ + lv * g's oe owas © DAXS, Ory bad AGO. By Mabel Ct LL , rage, (05 i DONALD REACHES THE NEW WORLD the Forest Queen: about the end of is neither very] Stiff breeze, sunshine and every- body in a good humor, “The captain was rubbing his Wwe eoee hands fn satisfaction. ‘Four days,’ Vm Too WEAK he said, ‘In four days we are with- in sight of tt Fuca; its ar sail into Port Ludlow before suf. ! Straits of Juan de that ho had yet “But the fickle wind, as if it had beard the captain and grown cont suddenty lulled, the galls he had to take a] drooped, and a dead calm seftied over the sea just as the Queen sailed into the mouth of the straits. “The ship rolied and rocked helplessly, rolled and rocked, ropk- ed wnd rolied, but’ moved neyer a half mile forward “he sun dropped in the West, and rose again in the East, and still the ship rocked. Day follows ed night, and came again. A week | passed and still the schooner roll. | ed helplessly st Coast, to go. Donald . and who could} in those days was when you ask me to help ‘an 4 her, yet Molly hag a strange s you choose another man — his: | elp-me melt the hard heart in/as ff he were holding her hands|voice grew husky— “this fend sure-|Ben Wheeler, make him more hu: | warmly,.tightly Whoeler, hard-minded, hard-hearted u'll let me} man, more th | “Lasten, Molly, I haven't pestered | make steel knives, who breaks jyou with declarations. I saw you) his word and tries to break me—* were groping In your own heart, But! ‘That is true, Billy, Nevertheless, you know I want you as I want uir|I still ask you for your help in make = and sunlight and strength and hope ing him-—different And I promise E. and courage. nothing in return because I don’t ve, pondvring her; “¥ have tried to let you find your-!know what will happen myself, When he faced her |seif bere 1 ‘said the obvious. 1/ask you to do this terribly diffioult 8 that thing—for me, Will you, Billy?" human being y u are, » feeling that crep’ brooding eyes of a|/marble mant strange reque