The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1911, Page 9

eee \ < —< ede wetness ‘ ys. rons wana Re MRA A COMPLETE STORY DOO9DO9H9.5GOS00679OTO0) 5O9FOTHODIHDIOHIOG/IHIATGOI!VINGOV 1G HISA‘ATSIOUTSHHOVSSSHOSIOS IONIAN ON GIGEG 1IOONDTOOVSTEBHIOEDIOPISHGHOTS OWOIHISHOHESHHIHO GOHIOHIHISTOVOSOIOS e Jeeems to have been to you. I have; “Mr, Rranower,” Trant ravlied, “Dr. It was some one close enough to Law. | ‘In this case if Margaret Lawrle had) Margaret, conceal—2.6—hide. known for two weeks, and nower | Lawrie was found this morning dead In /rie to cause him to conceal the thing | reason to believe that any one of you Branower, figure—2.l—shape. e€ an in e oom has known for nearly as long—for I] his office @s long as he could, and some one in-| were closely associated with hee! yargaret, thief—2.s—stlver took him inte my contidence-shat there] "An. accldent?” the woman asked, | timate enouch to knaw of the treas-| father's troudie the speaking of that! Remover, tuentififth._}¢—twen: Were irregularities in the treasurer's leaning forward, Even as ahe whitened | uror's tinkering habit, ao that, even In| one's name or the mentioning of any. | 9 fanmeer U eet — = office, I questioned Lawrie about it|with the horror of this news, Trant | great haste, could think at once of thing connected with that one must A Sgt re Ses B ; when I first stumbled upon the evidence, |found himself wondering at her beauty. | the pbers in Lawrlo's private tool betray an easily registered and de-| “Soalyn'* ‘rant tried nn tnteilisist A Detective Story of an Entirel: New To my surprise, Lawrle—one of "Dr, Lawrie asphyxiated,” ele re-|drawer, Gentiemen,” the young asslst- cidedly measurable disturhane | teat word suddenty. Ho hind just Ly est personal friends and certainly peated, accidently, Mr. Trant? jant tensely added. “1 must ask Trant came early the next morning | Rested | “thiec” to the gist; now te be ’ B + .99| man of all men tn whose perfect hon-| "We-hope eo, Mra, Rranower.” which of you tiree was the one to the dead treasurer's house to set up| Named her father's friend, the presiden ort, Where a Guilt-Gau ung Machine erty 1 trusted most tmplicitiy—retueed |. ‘There 1¢ no clue to the perpetrator?” |room with Drv Lawrie last night the chronoscope 1 the spare bedroom | of the university. But “friend” she w , ig. to reply to my questions, He wonld| “Why, if it was an accident, Mra! “what!” next to Margaret Lawrie’s Jable to associate in two and six-tenth F. h T; F; D neither admit nor deny the truth of my | Branower, there was no perpetrator, “E realize,” he went on more quickly, | The instrument he had decided to use| seconds, ‘Trant sane back and wrote orces the Truth rom Sealed Lips. accusations; and he begged me almost] President Joslyn met Branower's graan) “that after having suggested one charge Was the pendulum chronoscopa, as | this series without comment: tearfully to aay nothing about the mat-| mechanically ad acquainted the prest! and having it shown false, I am now adapted by Prof, Fitz of Harvard Uni-| Margaret, Jostun-—2.6~ friend. ny ter until the meet of the trustees| dent of the trustees, almoet curtly, With) making a far more werk one, which, | versity, It somewhat re la brass) Rranower, wife—j.)—Cora. to-morrow night. [understood from] the facta a@ he had found them, fied srove it, must cost me my | dumbbell very delicately 1 upon an! Margaret, secret—2.1—Alice. Jim that at, or before, the trustees'| "It seema, Joslyn,” Bra j But 1 make it now again, [axle # rane en sone clowiy ‘back and! Trent glanced up, surprised, consid - ; | meeting he Would have an explanation| almost the mame worts that Joslyn had Ono of you tives was In thia| heavier, could ug slowly ac Jered & Moment, but then bowed to Mr. “THE MAN IN THE ROOM’’ is the second of a series ke to me; I did not dream, Ret+| used Just before his arrival, “ike a= with Dr, Lawrie last night, Whteh |forth ike a pendulum. (A. tight, at | Senn ree dus en cp yen a y ; > he would make instead’ this" | confosmion! It In sutcide? T could tell within the hour if C|potnter paralleled this pendulum The | geiwound. ta which he Wrote the £ of LUTHER TRANT stories which will be printed com- joned to. tho figure on the| He turned, fumbling tn his pocket for sively to ie pay | Weight, when atarted, rung to and fre ee nat aHES hee Ga eee ae i “this confession! This note,” hela fetter, “He aent this Saturday," he boratory and submit you |! the are of a circle; tho pointer, sw sn war Want enade the Gris lashes EVENING WORLD each Saturday, Be sly unfolded the paper again, “Ix| confessed, pitifully. "T_ should have But, perhaps 1 need tot. | before it. But the ag ent | ond attest aod InteHinible teste oO drawn for twenty thousand dollars, I] como to Mim at once, but I could not , at least, Knows that I/to awing, could be instantancou: i eri" he shot euggestively to n the lookout for next week's, You must not miss it. } srawn for twenty thousand dollars. 1) cone to him, spenie the truth.” |atopped by an clectromagnet, ‘Chie| , Tranower!’ be shot sugKestiny te ] Retland; and I remember that tt was| Joslyn read the letter through with a] It was 5 o'clock that afternoon, when | magnet was connected with a battery | ioe ee Aw the moment be- Jauthorized by the trustees for two] look «f Increased conviotion. It was in| Jrant rang the bell at Dr. Josiyn’s door, | and wires led from tt to the two instruc | (9 Usa are Mt lin aNd Tae flanks (Copyright, 1910, by Small, Maynard & Ge.) More than merely amazing! Face the fact, Dr, Reiland, and it is 66 JMAZING, TRANT.” ] stounding, incredible, disgraceful, that after five thousand PEDSODHODHIGHGHODAGOGGHHHDGHHHHOGIOTTGHOOOSGAIOHNLSDSHODSOIOONHOHOAG A Genius’s Discovery of a Strange Scientific The Achievements of Luther Trant THE EVEN a terete NYE TE ING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1911. CODVSOOOE DOH OOOO UGUOO OG Oe 1OHO By Edwin Balmer and William McHarg thousand dollars, not twenty he clear hand of the ead treasurer, ! lie saw ihat Mr. Branower and Dr, Rel- FOOOOGHOOOS lethod of Det ODOT OCG cting Crime ments used in the test, | ‘The first pair of wires connected with two bits of steel wiich ‘Tramt, in o | ducting the test, would hold between glanced at Joslyn, now the president of the university. nodded to Branower. Trant continued his list rapid Margaret, Branower tot No she Hranower turned on Pre haggard face, Is this true?” the president de. manded sternly, Branower buried hie face tn his hands, I will tell you all” he sald, thickly, Ilarrison, as this fellow found out how, is my wife's brother, He niwayn been reckless, wild; but #he Cora, do not stop me now—loved him sod clung to him as—as @ slater some- times clings’ to such @ brother, They were alone in the world, Joslyn. she married m@ only on condition that I save and protect him, He demanded A position here. I hesitated. His life had been one long scandal; but never before had he been dishonest with Finally I made it @ condition » keep hi# relationship sectet and sent for him. of myself first discovered he had raised the notes, weeks before you came to me with the evidence you bad discovered that something was wrong in the treasurers office. As soon as T found It out I went to Law ie agreed to keep Harrison sbout the vifice until I could remove him quietly. He paid the notes from the university reserve, just raised, upon my promise to make tt up. David had lost all epec- | |llp, ‘The least motion of hia lips to) 5 sat, latteropener friend. | clating in stocks, ‘I could not pay thie l years of civilization, our police and court procedures recognize n enunclate @ word would break the elece Yast Bnd dda I | tremendous amount In cash at once; higher knowledge of men than the first Pharaoh put into practice tric circuit and start awinging the pen. | Margaret, father—no association. — | wut the books were to be audited. Law: tm Egypt before the pyramids!” | peal ore | ll ag sae ort ne| , Branower, Harrison—65.3— Cleve rie, who had expected immediate re ‘ con ir ! "i to a ayme ne, Wo! ty Young Luther Tront ground his heel impatiently into the hoar frost on the telephoie. receiver, When Margaret bt jaret, untversity—?.5-——stud | Drenent a fuine’ tiatoment. In exe art campus walk. His queerly mismated eyes—one more gray than blue, the other| would reply into this, it would close ar UErer, Unieere ry a : ve gument hie heart gave out-=2 id not more blue than gray—flashed at his older companion earnestly. Then, with the the circuit and instantaneously the elec ranower, married—2.1—tife. | know it was weak—and he collapsed in fame rebellious Impatience, he caught step once more with Refland, as he went| tro-magnet clamped and held the points Margaret, expose—2.6 Pabst ts his chair—dead.” on in his intentnes: | er. A F odie en te ede a4 oi arses MMe MAH ak Am Gd roof “Oh, Professor Reiland!” Mra, Bran- ee 7 the gynct tite morning, wise a NA, A man's body found in 5 essond fhe time between the speaking Bhenower, collcpas —4.8 ~hatloon thing. Tt bad totowes tne igh a park ! suspects seen near t re per rrested } . Kost vo! n he M r nt sy as r ihoay Schlaack’s abduc Abas UWE: UNAS REGIE Tee, Chane ine jot the euggesting word and the first) wetiandt rant eald tothe giriat last.| “You followed him?” Trent erted, mn or niurder;' three men under arrest for that stnco lest Wednesday. Lawton trial progressing;’ with the lkellhood that young Lawton will be declared innocent; eighteen months he has been In confinement —#ighteen months of indelible association with criminals!” The old professor turned his ruddy commented, sniffing, face, glowing with the frosty, early-}the empty buliding. morning air, patiently and que | At the door of Dr. Lawrie's office the’ toward his young companion \ third of the doors with high, ground- as they entered tion ted word replied. hee? | “ e hi otf the 1 for | rrant had this instrument set up) Tt was as if i} had p ; rf trial f | land tested before he had to turn and| His own old friend as long as he could. | Yet if any one had been watching hi Mr. Branower and admit Dr. Reiland. President Joslyn soon Joined them, and | Hebe vi are noted now the aul k e ered sup. f his mismated eyes. Put vs & moment after & nurse ent A0+| Cees) Upon (ie bwlogine beiatar 96 ta | porting Margaret Lawrle. were upon the wringing polnter of the | |, Trant nodded to the nurse, who with. | "s best pldest friend looked to Dr. Reiland her father's best and oldest friend in| I thought—I told him," the wife burst on, “this had happened by Providence to save Davia! ‘Then it was you who suggested + [him to leave the stiletto letter opener in Lawrt suicide Branower and his wife both stared at hand as an evidence of ” drew 1 y ret toy 4 dn what is! g/ass transoms which opened on both | |” “Bisase "! | that way, Margaret was unable to stop. | Trant in tresh terror. Hides into the corridor—the smell of gas | | Fcedee na eeinr anaes ge Aaya One fuil second it swung, two, three, it you, Mr, Branower,” ‘Trant went Five thousand | grew stronger. Trant stooped to the Ceae or the girl, who had been placed | “ur Ave,-elz on, “not being @ woman with @ precious years of being civilized,” Trant Durst on, | keyhole and found it plugged with pa- ren th eee ‘The young assistant in psychology | brother to save, could not think of mak “amd we still the ‘third de: per. He caught the transom bar, set ee Margaret” he aatd, tenderly, ‘we| Picked up his papers and arose. He went | ing a wound, You thought of the 8 We still ¢ ® #u his foot upon the knob and, drawing lsnew ean Vnnot speak well this morn. | ‘9 the door and called tn the nurse trom | Of course! But it was inexcusable ia me crime, hop he will ‘fiush’ or ‘lose | himseif up, pushed against the transom Re Ment and that you cannot think|{@ next room, (‘That is all, gentle | not to tast for Mra. Branower’s pres gnep' of ‘slammer.’ And if in| it resleted: Dut be pounded tt in, and, [ev earie. We shall not ask you to| Mem" he said, “Shall we go down to | ence. It was her odd mental association ace of this crude test we find him|as {ts glass panes tink the do much. Mr. Trant is merely going| ‘te study? Pe de. | 08 & Perpetrator with the news of the prepared or hardened s> that he can | fumes of iluminating gas burst cut and 4 words to you slowly, one| .. jel: Trant Sab RRB at ts suspected suicide that first aroused my prev the blood from suffusing his | choked him. sora at a time: and we want you to} mances impatiently a8. the four Siled| susciciona face, or too noticeably leaving it: If he] ‘A foot,” called down to his trembling eee eee ieed only “speak very | {nto the rooin below, which had been Dr. |” tty turned ae though the matter were inflates his lungs properly and controls | compaztons, as he peered into the dar entiv—enything at all, any word at] Ayres “Fou act ae if 4 dls) Aninned: but met Dr. Josly his tongue when he speaks, Wo are | ened room. "Some one on the lounge aoa ay near, which You think of first,| covered aome clue, What eyon, ‘The end abdtained was pla 9 call him innoce sit not so,| Dropping down, he hurried to a rect | ae a this a horn over you ta es " |to the president of the university the ‘ M ‘tation room across the corridor and BranoWwer was upon reall eh, yak ces al One Scoundrel's j fond whish they had come was, ark e ! nt went on more| draged out a heavy table. Togethers ‘ i ” he 4 | fe eset as ever. Branower had taken a panies Seu ikave latent a, ihe Gael Hon ceOuTTA Goren Or pan tnene En him with a harsh cry. dear” sven closed tn assqnt, ‘Tne | Vue, Confession. into another rowm. He returned, of the cardlograph, by which the effect | lock: it broxe, and as the door whirled | per | others Htew nervously hearers Retland| ‘Trant was closing the door carofully,| "Dr. Joslyn,” eaid ‘Treat, "ttt upon the heart of every act and passion| back on its hinges tho fumes of gas “You devil! You devil! |otners drow nerve rea grand ot | When a kurprised exclamation made him | actentificaly imposstbie—as any pay can be read as a phystelan reads tha] poured forth, stifling them and driving wT 4 ing ean Gat of wired aba Held it bel tur chologist Will tell you—for @ person who pu hart of his patient, the pneumo-| them back. Trant rushed in, tarew up| / But you lie! I did not hill) ve » Ne girl's lips. Trant picked up|,,{Cora:’ Mr. Reanower exclaimed: | associates the first suggested tea in avoph, ) traces the mlnutest mean-/| the three windows one after tie other, | / aes eae ene eoetalneattncked to the atart.| {you here? Oht You came to sem poor| two and one-half seconds, Mke Mar- ing of the breathing: the galvanometer, |and beat open the shutters. As the gra him! ne cikg ese Margaret!" karet, to substitute another without that Wonderful instrument whieh, mn Mght flooded the room a shriek | tng wit “[ eo no reaaen for sending Mra.| almost doubling the time interval. though a man hold every feature and the girl and @ choking exclaniatio We may as well begin at one Branowes away If sho wishes to stay | “Odserve Margaret's replies, ‘Tron’ sclo passioniess as death, will betray Reiland» greeted the figure | Trant ald, as he seated himself deside| ang near with us.the results of our test] followed ‘steal’ as quickly q@ ‘oat’ fol- m through the sweat glands in the, @tretched motionless uy the couch. the ;table which held the chronoscope oh Dr, Retland t# about to give us." | lowed ‘dog.’ ‘Stlver,’ the thing @ wom- ns of his handa You h. tau Trant leaped upon the fit-topped de and took a penoil to write upon a pad | trant t ed to the old professor and|an first thinks of tn connection with He-as a scientilc experiment—how af Under the gas fixtures {a the centre o! of paper the words he suggested, the | handed him the sheets upon which Ne| burglary, was the first assoctation ehe man not seen to stammer or hesita and turned off the fuur Jets | words associated and the timo elapsing.| had written his record, + [had with ‘thief." No possibie gullty in perfect con Speech and ch the Was pouring. Dart ‘hen he put his mouthplece between | “Now, Dr, Rolland, please! Will you}thought there, No gutlty secret oon- facuit t through his ‘oss the hi 19 opened the win- his lps. ; explain to us what these tell you nected with her father prevented her Pe aa cannot | d0Ws of the room onposite i a ! Dress!" he enunciated clearly, The} Hr, Josiyn's hands clinched and] trom assoctating, in her regular time, phn lg As the strong morn breeze eddiod “But tt has been cancelled. See, BS) Pendulum, released) by the magnet.| nranower drew toward his wife as| some girl's eecret with Alice Seaton aay ion through the building, clearing the gas, Paid it! And these old pr 4 started to swing. The pointer oe Reiland took the papers and examined | next door, I @aw her tnnocence at ence psi tg While 1 with tears prote: ashes in the beside ft in an are along the scale: /them earnestly, But the old professor] and continued questioning her mere! ayia as Waele by the 0, s-raised, | Skirt!” Miss Lawrlo answered, feevly, | tatwoa a puzzled face. te AVOIA' A wicew aoerCas: SEMRIRREN EE anes 7 Ae larenerel Hend, it lifted f 5 he must, have | Into the drum at her lps. The current | ®t iia he appeaied, “to me these| the athers, I Tasped my chair over the eee Ale AGatore returned | ¥ caught the pointer instantaneously, 4nd | show nothing! Margaret's norma! as-| floor to disturb her nerves, @terefor: rnd's : nents of cha Dr. Josiyn's voice rang | + 3 Trant noted the result thus: sociation time for tnnovent words, as| and got you Into the teat. Toes eth ‘ tered over the room, over the floor and | Paid ‘from the university | Dreses-2.7 anoond reted the| You established at the start, is about| “The first two tests of you, Dr. i : furniture, over even the couch where the The examination which) made Dog’ Trant apoke, and aturted tno /p1-2 eeconds, She did not exceed that| Joslyn, showed that you had no aseo- nents atill figure lay, with tt» white face |Personally of his waknoe nto) tf pointer again, “Cat!” the girl answered | oe ee words with guilty asso-|Clation with the notes, The date half {Girl's Appeal wn and contorted, Lawrie—for I could nfess at first | and atopped It, Trent wrote’ lcueions® which #a0 put to he rom|of them came due meant nothing to CES 9 Ae | {land arose and touched his oa |t? MY old friend the suspicions I held y “ wna arte ered fiva| these results, I should say, it te ecl-| YOU. “October suggested only recita- for Assistance. friend's hand, his volce breaking. ‘He | @&ainst tim—showed that he had meth- Heme are a ndaiad i a onia entifically tmpoasibio that she even | tone and ‘fourteenth’ permitted you to he fused the old professors "Merely the| corridors; end the rooms ahout wore tred then agaln at thelr face amounts |‘Thla aetties ail” he said, decidedly, pathnttoally, at the other en etl Pe paised painfully, “becaige ane coud | .'t, substituted Mr. ‘Beanowan, Thad method of the German doctors:. Tho | fast fling % © Trant mado out.the| 2% Be paid tiem. The total discrepancy | dnd ho reread ad watched with “8 ene Trane ‘a tre ged associate nothin, ith my name you explained this system ae getting remnlte method of Freud and Jung. Do you) president's thin figure bending against [exceeds one hundred thousand dollars: | Gea od LRonwnt Money" lie @aid. euddenty. | consider that Implles"— | Bom ergone Sie peas Wan sere that 1. with that method, would! tne wind as he hurried qcrose the-cam-|, “W20. filled thie out Trant dad | : for a man with sixty yeauieet, ye aa Lwinging | "That you'are #0 close to her that at |{e% 1 had not mentioned it as even Re eee htown eee or the nee |taken the paper from the hand of the) Sears of probity bebind him facing Folland watched he aT ee eEee eat Che kine et font fat | Murer of resulis"when (on. Geedog Siaeie Wton was innocent?’ Do you 8u=| President Jostyn'a swift glance as|President and asked this question sud-| dishonor and disgrace, t pointer tremblingly, Bus Upurae Corn | eee ana eamation ‘nas vay delet £2°| ts tm full control of hie faculties, even T could not pick out among} + Gnaniel. che Ag himesonside | Geter possible Margaret stopped re sesiahed lSeallaanit ten pon Tateehe Di | auspicious and trying ta prevent he that I co ties OE ROE | rant, bane Bi him—e | “Harrison, Tt was the custom, The I pray, d 1 Pp. registered mora than her eatanttshed | Helland.” the young man ‘Iterruptol.| fraving himself, Mr. Branower, clearly sixteen men the ron ed and compre Jeignature ie Lawrie's, and the note is| day, J dmplore : 2 normal time for Innocent asnociations, ut do not look only at Margaret’®| thought he could guand himeelt from fever auch & Broulen sy, ale | there can be no doubt, LAWRIF, Money— onda—puras, assoclations! ‘ell us, instead, what | giving me anything, Now motice his 1 not take eighteen n sadly, But who | srt there?" | Tey : “When did you get that, Mr, Bran-|land had been takon into the president's ‘Trant anid suddenly: and Joulyn's and Mr. Branower's show!" | Foptten 1 will he asked sharply after an instant. hese h 1 . ie wer?” 'Tra ked, finall, vivate st before him; and that the | etter” he wrote again In two and six. n's and Mr, Branower's?’ cmp In spite of ad's Ups| He laid himself there," Reiland sott- | HNO). nol’ the old man oly Tt ede WHOTOTAE BataIaey. mornitel TRA Or all Chrae aan lesa Rises: atieseee “Yes! For they show, do they not— (he eer aE Se Aare matt ae curled at t assertion, "it | Iv led, “It was there we found) James Wawne wa ae was delivered to my house Saturday | toward him than he had expected, Cannot you proceed, Trant? Joslyn | uncons-tously, but scientifically and |tt took double the tine before he could be #0, “E have seen, |! TAO TOUNS Te Ae afternoon, But I was motoring with| “Dr. Relland and Mr. Branower have | apged, quite trrofutably—that Dr, Joslyn could | Yrve out hie. first euaplete a of the German, | Trant put his finger on a scratch on |@8 he totter te igea’ waldls my wife, I did not get {t until I re-| come to hear the Coroner's report to we can take her unders| not possibly have been concerned {x | Gfive out Rie, Twentrtelt te vertigators, and) the wail paper made by sharp cor. | Clear him!” he prom ed a that Dr. | turned late Sunday’ afternoon.” {ine," Josivn explained. “The phyatetans | air." the young man an-/any way with those notes, part of tan merely to say, “wenty-siatl in the psychos | ner of the davanport lounge; rner| Shall prove, T swear, not only that Dr. ““Then you could not have come much | ay Lawrle did not die from asphyxla: |qwared, “But I think, Dr, Joslyn, tf| which were due and paid ‘upon the | told you T auspectod his wife was at 1 make vis was still white with plaste Lawrie was Met, put-he wes! onar,! | ton, Aa autopsy to-morrow wil akow | you would show her what we mean—| fourteenth of October, but that Mr, last cognizant of something wrong. It of | the lounge hag heen violey Oa me errant’? the| "No: yet I might have done something | the cause of th. But, at least, pot merely try to explain again—we| Branower has a far from innocent aa- | 00K im twice the necessary time to ave fire ay ima out of its position, scratching ther Al Bereta Vat He ! tient twhen [H€ I had suspected that behind this I Trant ni jong this morn> right go on, IT mean, when I say t sociation with them, w the {S87 ‘Core’ after wi was mentioned. de that the murderer Dr lyn's eves passed on ab president ¢ alee tatty beth wae was hidden his determination ing which ea e no foundation 1 next word, will you take the mouth- twenty-fifth of the month, on which the | He gave the first association, the oF even less able to conceal ro 1 by Relland’s apy met | the facts are fo pla ore ies amit eul bu irtof what you sald YOU piece from Dr, Reiland and speak into rest were paid! chronoscope registered mercilessly that ERR edi lad i ipa or) ‘ edt lank and followed eto tual 00. piel: De the Not suicide, Mr. Branower!” ‘Trant| must have rrect; {or obviously jt some different one?” He swulg toward the trustee, ‘so, he had to think {t over, ‘Wound’ then their knowledge of the sentences r desk de the dead tr young man rejo ain 10-1 interrupted cu some other perso te room.” Very wall,” the president agreed, im-| Mr, Branower, you were the man In the Drought the remarkable association ‘no’ @ have had previously read to the: Ne opened the door to his own of- | deed—the fact that befo papers)” what? t not Marrisor r ‘T patientiy, “if you think it will do any| room Sunday night! You, to save tha | at the end of four and six-tenths sec- Dut I myself ain too old a man to try s were bit before the gas Waa! ‘Look at his face, It is white and|! j ome from Higing whore | good, rascal Harrison, your wife's brother onds, ‘There was no wound, but some- such new things: and you will not meet en Mr, Harrison comes," he com- | turned on or the t i e ne drawn, If asphyxiated, it would be though | was not allowed to speak with |" -ephany you!" Trant replaced Bls/and the real thief, struck Dr. Lawrie | thing had made it so that he had to ere any such proble:ns,” ed, apeaking of Dr. Lawrie's sec- fixture, bet that a was slarinen |p| ine Metore” the: in him, T eu mn | the hi 8 pital mouthpetcets, “Oataber'* at narued dead in } * offic, burned he fatsed | think {t over to see if it was susp! 4 19 the que rs Ents Malt hin T wlan to | ad the spring lock fastened ol turned on he was dead—str “You dounte was there”? tho month fust ended ha pointer | notes, turned on tha-g Vtatt him | ge “yee tree and white-t ; ‘Tho treasirer's office wi!l not | OUlskte Dr. Lawrie was dead and WAS) sstruck dead? By whom’? [2a » sure, Mr Bra> parted, “Recitations!” dho president of | to secm a suicide and a thief!” A Solenin Pledge “pnt why,” he demanded suddeniy in| be opened this morning.’* | Wid Upon’ thee lounge cae | “By the man in this room last night! | ower traced the notes the university answered tn one and) "{t you could not 6 no you migat|/o Remain Silent, ms @ startled tone, “is a delicate girl Ike) “Harrison 1s Inte” he commented, as| | wvhat? What what, Tran” | By the man who burned those notes, | too," th an continued. “AL pine-tentha esconda, | at least haye spared my wife thig last] wiwnen 1 pret saw that dagger lette: Margaret Lawrie running across the|he returned to tho othera, “He usually |, “You yourself, air, before we told yOu! plugged the keyhole, turned on the gas, | Were tna as Usual, signed Tegu- | phan you, Now for Misa Lawrle,| raving accisat Come, Cora oiesén ac Dar Lanes Aan ad eee ampus at 7 o'clock on this ehilly morn-|{s here by 7.32, We muse notify Bran- | how We found him, saw that Dr. Lawrie) arranged the rest of these theatric Dr Lawrle and paid by BM pp, Helland!" | commanded Vata on be eure | gh ig without either hat or jacket?” ower also.” Hie pieked up the Jad not himself lain dow my but had! and went away to leave Dr. Lawrie soon maturity, from the unk | i i | Branower bent sto his wife; « Ban sare ii ing ft aoe t Tig girl who was spesding toward|aend called Branower, the president of | veer laid upon the lounge © Js not! thief and a suicide to—protect himee sity reser So I have made only| 4 Test That Led straightened and recovere teem eulol must at least have chen along @p intersecting walk, had) the board of trustees, asking him merely ome one almgst dropped Dim /‘pwo men had access to the university |More certain that the man in the room | “Ms, Branower,"' thought of using the dagger before the y caught up as she left hor home| to come to the treasurer's office at wnce. since the edge of the lounge cul! funds, handled the One Hex | must have been one of Dr, Lwwrie's fo Odd Results. then, "if you will ex s. Now note the next test, ‘Harri. ’ ve hendyoa. shawi-wnich | the plaster on the wall, The viele room | closest friends, I came back and saw RS LL El che aera gon.' Any fnnocent man, not overdoing shed about her shoulders. On| The Mystery of note not burnad lay under his body he Margaret Lawrie, r ia tem Pt he tried; and the girl asso- | 7 NH male a ; tiga i, would have answered at once the ree Soy waite aader tiie masa | ses where it ¢ r escaped if ‘ ‘ ane stroyed. Che could compre ron” in two and seven-tontha|, °F ehould gay, frst, apes jname of the Harrison tmmediately jark hair, in her wide gray eyes the Loched Room, the notes burned ¢ 9 has n t up. | he ve knows only of her fath- | or tpt rey F ‘a a!l our minds, Mr. Branower thought the tense lines of her straigh would mort surely hay 5 ¢ no has been said of Trant exclatme If you Noryresr yr: * f hin of course, and could ne ae int rounded chin, ‘Trant read “| “N » me the pa Jiooked if ody aires nwer repeated co: 6 aga Does his er agala T think we can go | jit) ne answered tn two seconds, To drt Ste nervous anxiety of a highly-] pres! sald, turning to Gas wou pour ydeath a em cause enough for her i H wn ak 2 that and think of President Ha earak |'ephey are all before you, the prostratio More likely, I think, tt Ady ) us to give a seemingly ‘Innocent’ as- ¢ jtetiand,” she demanded, in al pited briefly, “T n was f taken off 18 Mr. Trant.” the | points to uiity know of her a od noclatton, ‘Cleveland,’ took him over ten Mee, “do you know where my}@as. ‘These ou how theatric all 1 ned, “was | f ' and Whom he was pro- * aaah f . I then went for the hold rede | Wer full ¢ ‘ 8 thought of its ef j tecting » he condition makes aga “ : ; ; | of arrison, probably, upon Mire May dea, Margaret,” the old man|toucled 5 ay Ay He ha , for her to conceal those | chair upon the foo t! that ne | Branower, I tried for it twloe, took ‘her hand, which trembled vios} with eon | dead, arcely cou | Builty utiong under examination." | repeated the next ¥ aitiav nate ‘Phe second trial, ‘brother,’ made him n you must not exe yourself wh upon the tale, * 6 s ft % r all | “Gu associat! Dr, Reiland | unable make hen et eae it « again for five seconds, practical!» da way! [tips had Geen removed, probably with Md had risen, his): “How did you lear Mr, Bran-| rose 1 Yo you mean, Trant, | tried to help. Aranower shook his head i Nt ere) i otore he could decide that aisie Wate “You do not know! the girl erted ex-| ese pincers that le beside thoi ou} ower At you think Mergares knows. ally, But Trant turned to bi : ave pr A 6 word to give. as the first \tedly, ‘1 seo it in your £ Dr,| . door 4 locked inside siawiey "I have helped many young men to | thing of the loss this money? On, | ir, Branower, you can help me, I 1 only brought ‘wind’ Reliand, father did not the president. ry siyn was standing by! posi here, Harrison was 0: 3 impossib lbelieve, if you will take De, Joalyn's a ) 90 and ‘strike’ suggested ‘la- night! He sent no word. | door ts @ spring lock = a Ms eyes had caught) cuuge of that, I supp id ats ate account for her |place, I beg your pardon, Dr. Joslyn, | payment in his book at once, | knew he eould pot have Reiland’s face went blank, No one} “And he had been burning papers: ; pproach of a limousine au-| name on the ‘whom to tie aosistant repeated | hur f am eure your nervousness pre-e | ick Dr. Lawrie a blow, and my last knew better than he how great was the| pine one had been burning papers," tomobile which, with Its plate glass) personal identification wand 1 have, rmined tO | vents you trom helping now.” | for audit. Law teed, ‘that Lawrie Neak an Dr, Lawrte's habits that this |Trant softly interpolated shiminering in the sun, was taking the | Toe ho doctors n make 4 test of her for association with |” Frangwer hesitated @ moment scep-| foal to you to put off before him, And [ set {mplied, for the man was bis Gears) | Sonya tufted At 9 letter-opener | broad sweep into the driveway As it) 7 was leaving hon her farher's quilt, Twill use In this |ecaily, then, smiling, acquiesced und|fonzr ‘mut before tho * awrie een treas- trom thi é rf separate, slowed befo entrance the prest-|him at the Higin } ase Relland, eniy the aimp ook up th m. 4 1 me 8 el est friend. Dr. Lawrie lied pee youre, po aa to read, the easbonized ashes left dent swung back to thoso In the revi, | noon.” poviation of wordk—Hreud's method.” | took up the drum Tramt replaced his | iver: A you and M was pacing the room w ver of iat time only three events—|an the tray, ‘They gell into a thousand fo two.” he sald, “were Lawrie's) Young ‘rant stared tnto the steady! “How? What do you mean?* Brame |Mi mere iy wing ppranower | 204, Of 0, Pain N 4 ta! Mant) Mikak asaraent 14 durtiage, to birth of his daughter pieces, and as he gave up the hopeless nearest friends—he Lad Wut one other, eyes of the p of the trustee ower and aimed. anduoned Ghaly. Svans meonianale | Ce etaee veal Bena? | Jina man whl deeeh pee ek ee ie wifes d-ath--had been allowed |@ttompt to decipher the writing on Branower 1s coming now. Go down “Phen ilarrison could not } eon \ ave whine, the chrono ted tie time, two seconds, for all) You went to a ‘ ma. ation you might have gained through Norfeve wich the wterp and rigorous |them, suddenly tho young assistant him, Trant, IIis wife s/the man in the room last 1 Do | seop ontinued, a4 the othera( |. intent upom the next tris! with|ceyvment, there on truc! a arkable method you used tine into Which he had welded his \bent before the couch, slipped his hand pust not ¢ p. ou realize wha at imp «ol walted, interrogattvely ich regia: | Were intent payment, there ia i " ick | th to grees holy life. So Redand paled and drew |vader the body, and drew out a crum- noe : t com- asked, white nln "T pr 3 1 said, ters the time to a thousandth part of snare (li@eanh ania? Uilbn . 1 ha lt makes no difference," Trant an- sed Pa toward him, pled paper. rough the window of the car to fix him as Ifarrison. at 1 i ne ar . nan ante 4 a ri ata ee ¢ you Ww tv sa ® trembling gitl (ward Wes iias|, It was a recently eanceiled note for |he could A n,and keep both Dr, Lawrie fro ng the phy'stel mr sation ot] the SF, now bie to aencniata the alt . nek en hn chives fe See + ba tor oan geet twenty thousand Gotiars, drawn oa the beyond 11 " fue of ¢ and a ate ise tn Wie patiene { ent words we Tah aba) t Hones Ge De, Sclland’ saabemans Ta OY eat watt university regularly and signed by @ man, with sandy beard parted and of 1 ick ideas the bottom of hia in-| of two and @ hy ne i spd} nee os Mena pple oogge ast TIGRE he sane 60 84) Lawrie, as treasurer, Drughed after a foreign fashion, Bran. him dead here wii words which ‘are con-| "E think wa are going agatn.” anid Jno! You raised) Prossouiing Attorney of Chicago’ wag vough the older man bad spoken. “What is the matter, Joslyn?’ Dr. ower hel succeeded his father ag presi. Ilarrison not here, the treas N nected Ww the Mle cause deeper | Tran ake Te ee tree ‘ Pe hp a | Se ae ah ati: Rieeta sullty—are held; but Sunday night, It was very gpusual, | Refland etarted up. [Sent of the board of trustees of the|selt must tiave known ef! the partiou-|frellng in the subject and are marked | ower, Mirlkel, Ne exon med, te erart PA teubee oe neers . “ ll cannot be ploked among oma ne had acted so etrangely, He| “A note,” the president anawered | university. Inv of this erime," ha wtrucie tho ‘ ger intervals of time Hefare the} the votnter, Atabor trouble,” Branower |out your promise meant ia| the crinitn ot be. Steed arneng roked #0 tired, and he hag Rot come | shortly, ‘Well, 'frant, what ia 3:2” the truates celled note in his hand, “and be n+ word in rep) spoken. ‘The na- | returne Ut dha atv Bee Ueoramnt" . igh f o the staten a If I succeed, J shal! “y n now to aee| 4" he said gompamionately, |asked. He had opene? the door of the cealing it for—that colse friend of his ture of the word spoke the patient | asain he guided the girl, For “concesl” | Do you wish to continue the statene holagy again, If } gucces@, bot mae Lew. nae ne [er mua’ 20 you that Cos wagceing gf: (Simougino and Was preparing tv de> who came here with him. You seo how mental) ao answered “dee at ones, Then | now youn ay woe end Bes after rime the gow _ i i 4 ‘ Nem} ‘The ered herseif, ‘It ‘way “her Aue: bo 8 58s Jenks” rant CMT is wot che aysprise to sp SHAE Ht HESnE § Very STAR 3 almnplitiey our prybien | Teamt tented bapetty this" pares Ae i i!