The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1916, Page 13

The Evening World Daily Magazine. Monday. September 11, 1916 THE SCIENTIFIC GUNMAN || The Day of Rest , By ARTHUR B. REEVE . aa ~~~" MIRABEL'S ISLAND Cra'g Kennedy, the “Scientific Detective,” wins LET HER Go | } 4 ( | . Ge by LOUIS TRACY 4 rorvarkalle duel of wits with a master criminal You awe tor ‘ , nd cultured girl should be Heing alome whose methods are as scientific as bh ; a ’ wet ~~: — By Maurice Keiten () 1) WEEK'S COMPLETS NOVEL ‘To | , i , | oo corm wwopt hand ia only the tarting point j - 2 4 / i the ba mya rien that the 4 ‘ ; ern, OD, 10 GNA ean Gah | / | here of the story, who fell in love with CHAPTER I. her, ect himeelf to golee. ‘ ) The 8 olen Car, POINS IN NEXT MONDAY EVENING WORLD Sidereviy over & million de . of sulomebiles etvien ia thie oy « past fow monthet | Our Vieiton @ae & sandy haired, red everything bul the name deleotive @rities mannenome He was accompanied by an athletically Inclined, freeh faced young tetlow, Whoee civihes Procinimed him to be prectioniiy the leet 1 io haperted gvede from Landon, 1 had not been surprined at reading the name of James | whieh pou ewer dreamed of Before Kennety bed ignored bie anger The bullet ee compesed of some sre under the etreumetances, he oo or Nquid, promebly can. shout 0 ask Bin @ question * @ole uu mush Y OU ore ewere, I euppose, Prof Mennety, that there has been pustached, stocky man, wtta | m trom bis face to hie! dey thet Ge ia (hel Peighborhood was Melirney on the detective’s card, underneath which was the title of the Au: | " ergy A A “% Veen. eighth ‘reek, femodile Underwriters’ Association, Hut 1 had been surprised when the CHAPTYR It * il admit A» for the other younger of (he visitors woom 1 had Mtted at the sound of the Busser on) UTE” HO 1S | The Blackn der = (,unew any more about I ar apartinent door had handed me w card with (hie simple mame, Mortimer | Toray. | : ys pit Vou eee, it'o ithe thie: @ines @ae nie th the afternaon, vice inves be aan Warrington, | may say, wae at that tine one of the celebrities | | DINNER D ouite naiords, and t orci , igh pe mn been @ NOT I} + ae far ae the AcWepaper men were concerned, He wi wry” almost a _= — sae toa ort. wot me y to around the ety, look! ike ‘ar of the etty, at | one of the richest young men in America, and good for a any time, lahoratory opened eoftly. ington holdings, m wome per. farrington wes not exactly @ wid ~ SeRRE URES lady entered sonal Inquiries ae to the conditions ak tm epite of the fact that hie ** Were going to do a little slum he wan tall and gave promize of (na, nmeee, (he sharacter of fH ly in the ming and the uses to whieh they name appeared so frequeatl : developing with years into @ stately pul the propertios The have woman @ pronounced brunette, with Complied @ list of all the p—-B sparkling black eye viaces in uM I have a are Pre pared ty wi of our proper- Craig, TI mt frome to thie one yet, avked of Craig, Th I up eur saeor ower she added: “lam Migs Violet nH admit it, and eancel that lease Winslow. A friend of mine, Mr War. jose ‘om up. I'll Agent until headlines, As a matter of fact, the t doesn't make any difference, woret that could be said of him with thouwh, The slumening party aever any degree of truth was that he waa cane of ified with @ large Inheritance of red “Angus and Thad a very guod din bleod as as real estate More fer at the Mephistoph . and by than that, it wae scarcely his fault if and by the fellows began to drop in ennedy?™ he the guardian press of the nation had been busy in a concerted attempt to marry him off eafely—-with a weather aye on future black type headlines for possible domestic discord. Amone chose mentioned by the society Fre. porters of the papere had been, I knew, Mise Violet Winslow, weil known on Fifth A ‘enue and at Tuxe- do, an heiress to a moderate fortune, closely guarded by a rather duenna- like aunt, Mra, Beckman de Lancey “1 wann't aware of the exact extent of the thefts," remarked Cratg, tak- ing in the situation at a glance, ‘though I knew of thelr existence. What's the matt he added, turn- ing from the detective to young War- rington “Have you had @ car 1% chimed tn the youth to Join um When Lt went out to look for the car, which I waa going to drive myself, \t was gone. | had left In the parking space half a block low the restaurant. A fellow nd ing Near the curb told me that a man In @ cap and gogm@ies had come out of the restaurant, of seemed to do 60, had apun the eagine and ridden off— Juat like that.” “What did you do then asked Kennedy, “Did you and Forbes go! anywhere? “Oh, he wanted to play the wheel, and went around to a place on Forty- eighth Street. 1 was all upset about the loss of the car, got in touch with the insurance company, who turned me over to MeBirney here, and the rest of the fellows went down to the club.” + “There was no trace of the car in DROP IN ANY TI ¢ EAR HERE \F Nou HADN'T BUTTED IN. NORA WouULD HAVE |rington, haw told me that you are tn- vestiqnting @ peculiar case for him, the lows of hie car.” Kennedy had piaced a chair for her in the least cluttered and dusty part of the room, “I have the honor te be | able to any ‘Yes to all that you have asked, Miss Winslow,” he replied, “Ie there any way in which I Gan be of nervice to your” 1 thought a amile played over his | tnee at the thought that she might be laaking Rim to work for three clients instead of two, The girl wae very | much excited and very much tn earn. ext, as she opened her handbag and ‘drew from It @ letter whieh ehe hand- lea to Craig. | “1 received that letter," she ex- | plained, “in the noon mall, 1 don't know what to make of tt. It worrtes me to get such a thing. What do you “ Interrupted Kanned: yet, Don't make any preg a Want to fing out what the game fa. It may be that It ts some one whe has tried and failed to get your tenant to come @croas with graft money. If we ae without nding out firet, we q Playing the ort the hands of thie biackmatier™ a Kennedy had been hold. the} 1m bie band, examining v oritioatly, While he was speaking, & toothpick and was running it hast. ily over the words, carefully studying them. His face wan wrinkled, as if ba, 9 Ce be dee out saying anything more, Kennedy had walked ov. ys the windows and pulled down the dark shades. Then he unrolled « hugs ue sheet at one end of the inbora- ry. From a@ corner he pulled out what looked ike a flat-topped stand, about the height of hie wa.et, with @ curi- ous boxlike arrangement on it, in ly and with Just a trace of ner- vousness. “Worse than that, 1 can stand losing a big oine thousand dol- lar Mailard, but-—but--you tell It, McBirney. You have the facts at your tongue's end. “Pm very much afrald,” responded the detective, “that this theft about caps the climax of car stealing in this city. Of course, you realize that the automobile as a means of committing crime and of escape has rendered de- tection much more difficult to-day than it ever was before, There's been t to me fort Who which was a powerful light. For sev- nara dla : eral minutes he occupied himself with | ore ty had glanceé quickly at (Be the adjustment of this machine, ennedy whieh awitching the ight on and off ant envelope, the postmark on fe the lenses, 7 showed that it had been matied that took the letter to Mian ning at the eral post office. Jaid it flat on the machii ing being in @ bold ecrawl and hastily oniarged copy of the writing. excoutedt “This ie what has been called a et tee ateges §=PAYORTApH by aw detective whom I You bogey lap ey Mertime Wer Pye fiat on some tr hs foun ot om . 4 is superior to using a micro- » city, (00? You don't have to neglect rings. 1 bare oreo your nane 4 bas oon one client to serve anther, li do ages Saal '@ was tracing over the words with anything I can to help you with tho emesetion with his severai times lnvely, Po ae pointer, much as he had already which L have photographed and pre- auto cases. In f. you'll do better peor done with the toothpick. the city?" asked Craig of the detec- tve. “I was coming to that," replied Me- Birney, “There was at least a rumor, IL happen to know several of the police on fixed posts up there, and one of them told me he had noticed a ear,| which might have been Mr. Warring- ton's car or not, pull up, about the} time his car must nave disappeared, at a place in Forty- * that Le teputed to ten sat of seat of, No don't thank me for taking tion engaged @ hackman who knew definite, however, until 1 can comp 3 Feputed to be & sort Of pool the case. My thanks are to you OF the Coroner, a lovai doctor, the actus! ‘marks made by the room for worhen, At any rate, some putting it in my way.” ‘The Coroner was glad to assist us, O” the stolen with these marks one must have been having a wild : to @ murder done in or with or by that and on the way over to the village served.” t oa," ‘There fo more “4 ” here, partied 4 erve »y both cl ANON. you to time, There ‘Now, must know,’ car of Warrington’s, or 1m ready to Se pag yegpidter dts : girl Vee CHAPTER Il. ker’s, where the body had been On our return to the city, | was not “O'Connor, Kennedy than pe wil core to tell, 10a tinued net tou Tsay on bee resign from the profession.” Bigpurvaygln ree a O78. Bree The Liq. id Bullet. volunteered that the New “eae iennedy bad quickly, 1 On thd ighing of the netartous wore to which M4 ty @ well proved that those who Ret aban the Lexcites: cy gone, and even the air didn’t re- DOUBT whether K ay York police, whom he had notified im- don vi lide, hentai Jovel with me. Tecan trust you. Con- or ae been put, Wut you will loom mo auffer rious affections of the ! McBirney had rise . vive her—that is, Assuming that she whether menneny Hea ee it was, w spices s thd sider that It Is a bargain, We'll work — [M.1)" Meanwhile, let me inform you tit nervem or heart often betray the fact ment of his revelation, and had pag peen colebrating mot wisely but slept much during the night. Mmedittely, ne bhai ie man up First hs pury O'Connor, whom N@ together, Now, who waa that pirlt he and soue of the wikter of bie et bad in their handwriting. Of course, in ded Kennedy what looked like a : nt farenge Abst eta! Certainly he was about there, Who had taken @ description wanted to sec. os “Her name was Kena Taylor,” iid lent planned @ fat to © gemblies casas where the disease has patie ed Bh m fa cartriage. Craig eeu Mee a oat early enough the following “4 finger prints, but had not, ao far (1) his oe o8 ee eee neni O'Connor, appurently much gratified oid, og Forts cietth Mtreet, I mymll ew grossed very far it may be evi Saeperges Sel oS } {s only speculation. Maybe it wasn't id © us tenet, succeeded in placing the girl, UCOnnOr Breeted ie Cae path © At the success of his proposal. “I had “Treg ttore another gambsing 4@ even to the naked eye In the ordinary took it and turned it over critically, the car, after nll, 1am telling it only morning, ty Bu ’ placing Ook blufe and honont voice that potligs ne Her At work wetting evidence against Street about the ame ime, writing. But it is there, to the eye examining every olde Of ih 006 Wait- for what it may be worth.” “That's curious,” { heard him re- ee idea esas Abr Mey p rere Pe tcl WE Here pedll aot ( Me SUM DA IAC Oe al aoibo tthe expert, even in Incipient caseae/ ing for MoBiraey to resume, “Do you know the place?” asked M4k, a# he ran his oye hastily over ing. ng us intuuo inner sanctum. "Did never been able to ‘got rights, ‘an wresvory reyutation es a gambling ‘In short, what really happens is " t right! Ldon't fasten chareete = that th n acts sort - the front page of the morning paper, She was rather flashily dressed, and in the papers this morning Know just what happened, ‘But | dot which yous inten of ie Rae NaN EMErTeph. replaterine the poleatians “Mr. ‘ington’s car was insured e y, ‘Mr, Warring’ Kennedy of Warrington, although good looking, ‘rouge and .o ut that murder of a @ltl who @ company which ls “yy, he sal “but I rather expected something of 4 know that she had the gooda on the ae h we I think you can see t whea ie «ra Racslaiion® ont BANS Crasthely of kaow'thetene the sort, Read that dm the @rat Powder had long since spoiled what tody was found up in New place, As nearly wa I can find out, @ whem row hang coniiteame 80 ca.'> pRB My wie a = bd Ps Of the swifter ones of the siuart set column, Walter." might otherwise have been @ clear | “Not only that, but tive ua stranger came to the place well In- se a te wal ot, lied thet mach uf the , the tremors ae | plained MoBirney. “When it was by there once in a while for # little : ? and fine complexion, and the condi. and picked up a few things that your troduced, a man, accompanied by & the resnda, ou wil Ci Si UN aay, apparent” atolen, we immediately put In motlon poker, bridge, and even to play te The story that he indicated had@ all then of the roots of hen hair showea ™&2, ‘uverlooked,” confided Kennedy. . woman, ‘They got into some of t property on these two s ine wrenmee- eo marks were quite evident even ide ‘the usuaj machinery for the tracing ra I've never been there myself, the marks of having been dropped pialaly that it had been bleached soatlinnteaercaunene : AG oe oan Seu, or ane too otkegg engl cay moret of stolen cars because—with all def- but I wouldn't be surprised if Angus into place at the last moment ae the Kennedy examined the body closely, Craig nodded. alone in @ room tn some part of the which was without su- erence to the police—tt is the insur foUld tell you all about it. He gues city edition went to press in the small and more especially the Jagged wound Well, do you know who that girl house, No one heard any pistol abot, The letter, will She a letters nued | Ke “as vi hours of the night. It was headed: in the breaet, it seemed utterly ine was? Of covrae not, We haven't but then I think they are lying. At perscription oF Ca jacovered y hi run- any rate, we haven't been able to find ly with the words, Well Wisher.” ning over it with the toothpick and anoe companies and not the police “After all,” cut in MeHirney hat's | jitl'’s Body Found T explicab! There he soon di: Aven it out ye and who get ears back usually. only rumor, Here's the poiut of the “GITl's Body Found in Thicket,’ Xplicable, here a> . onnedy, “ft don't ° 4 a sian Was more accufately by enlarging 5 ze . covered, a sort of greasy, oleaginous No, : in the house a particle of evidence endo of the thing a “Late this afternoon word came to Whole thing: For a long tine my as- ‘Tue despatch was from @ iittle town dezosit in the clotied blood of the know to know. ‘To put It there that u murder or violence of 180 Ine PY studying it with the rayouraph, te eoclation had been thinking shat, and 'hd ke i there parent. suffering trom ullar conjun me that @ maa, all alone in @ oat fnerely in working for the teovery {2 Jersey, and, when I saw the date huge cavity in the flesh. It inter. bluntly, it seemel to me that she Was any kind haw been dane. At any Fate, PATS say owned reading and of Rering srom @ peoulles eomsunsties ¥ r smimonge Kena Taylor disappeared from that As whieh in some respects tailed with of the cars we have been making & ne, it at once suggested to me, as it ested him, und he studied it long and of the deminong y he remarked: heart which ls latent, and bas mot yet y rf » . 4 carefully, without saying @ word, “She was—in a sense,” vouchsafed cumbling place the same night and before he could speak, @ .! ‘ Warrington’s, although, of course, the mistake, Ut hasn't put a sip to the had to Craig, that thin wae in the “af iiy wuhout myine oor | ee tern “That girl” NO about the atme time that Warring: of course, 1 know that there te ™énifeated \talf even to him. license number and color had bee enough, vicinit ; rai z . y N a) to y that must have been us up the road in the direction of the went on Imn asively, rane ond Of She ton'a cor er anes Ro ve find omething back of it, Some person nq nim?” Pa HE | ‘mae altered, had stopped early thie morn- fg about ft, Tt struck me that 'T@Versed in order to reach the point New York State boundary to tne best stool pige ro : rtimer. Still"—— patiently, ‘ ing at a little garage over in the here was « caso ea which to be fromm which had come the report of *POt where the body had beon found, Some one's coin to aufter for willing ‘i ‘And and reports and traces that to Lrving to insure Morte potty Sagar Patent, es aed northen part of Now Jeraty, The Mid Hat you Profassor Kennedy are ihe bloody car that had aeemed to Ane aT Ee catetel terre hon Cental ciutder, but beohine! the dee te ieee ks been dm the vicinity” | op Mevident that the well wisher need one thing tho letter makes it pretty car was stained with blood, but the (iv une (o Wain it for us white 1 tally with that whlch Warrington had ment to fad any weapon or even a partment has got to make an exam- "yoy gee," beamed O'Connor, Ot have sald more 12 vow the aveds evident that he knows something fellow was in a rather jovial mood, Tho gang wre growing bolder and lS It rea Lemgieeiorete eat ineiad tie ate whom we employ is “that's how we work together, Bay, “1. 20UPt oo, thie with me? one of the regular fibiube ot the more clever every day. ; kate “ ee o attempt to pick o@t any of the safe, you ought to a 3 the That wi ny said he had run into a cow a fow Hom, clever Overy day And then fiktien In the undeeinish. ‘not two tw footprints, ‘The earthewas soft, even “T'va got one of my bert men on rang « bell, and @ blue sived Kennedy, still scrutinising Diace, | That was why T dida't + miles back and had been stung a BuB> Point Cem up there iw monlimit te foals ie ySt, tis ,mon Wareued automobile muddy, but so many feet had’ trod- the ense now, Inspector Herman. Tl opened ‘the door. "Call Herman, IC" iy qnat te what £ brought place up immediately. I want to dred dollara by the farmer. what they may do tn terrorizing the of « murdered girl was discovered Y den It down since the frst alarm introduce you to him tf he happens Tor I have given Herman ca or’ ought It waa only fair there and look it over while it is ” : nuvered late seater. had been given that | sis to he aro Herman's all right. blanche instructic onduct @ it for. 1 though’ Oo “Th keeper's assistant had °!'Y: day afternoon by © gang of [allan leboren ¢' % wae lmposal i he instructions to conduct @ hould know about tt, operation, Now, you admit that you 0 waren pied low does this Rang, as you call It, — employed on an catace vearby ble to distinguish them one from an- Rut here you come tn, Kennedy. 9nd thorough investigation, He's beon Me should " eonly for a have beot in the place, don't your”, swallowed the story and had cleaned operate?" asked Kennedy famsds sae other, tell me you picked up something that vetting the goods on Another awell Kennedy regarded hor a eat "Oh, yen, I've. beet thorn with tre car. But afterward the garage Poet Of he Cee) ce stoton,! — aiioniie’ at the aes iirosad,b7 tte mi "Sui there seemed to be something ‘my men missed up there tn Jersey, T Joint ‘on the next, block, in Forty. moment: Tem earn’ he Wl Nee pokes aad the other fellows, Dut Os keeper himself had been told. He met expl in the mud, just off the side of the know It's the truth, too, I've worked eighth street, a Joint that te just Mr. arring' More than th IT 1 told you I don’t go in for that sort ined McHirney, “are taken from — the finding of the bod; ” 4 Able, Mant ‘of thee an teed us" road, that did interest Kennedy, Very with vou enourh to know feeding on young millionaires in thie YOUr frankness. of thing.” As up Ue red toward Tues carefully, so as not to mar anything He was evidently debating aon town, and ta or will be the cause of fee) sure that you pee ave 0 00) “We Seb te were Unemee himself that more careless searchers thing in is mind, “Herman'll he more crime and broken hearts if I to worry abou bd ¥ ives of good ry the automobile district, which em- the farmer In town later, and th® braces also not a emali portion of ue nyway,” persisted Kennedy, farmer denied that he had lost @ cow. new Tenderloin and whe theatre dis- ‘ Pawan al aacuen’ kaawe ts ke That sot the garage keeper thinking. trict, Actually more than nine out of Tidsed, te uainvied coudiuee of MELE have loft, he began a munute to stand for I" he went on, half to don't land {t and break It up than this letter, | bon {ules ory ee a able to Rot in again. leant: the garage '¢" hive a'sappeared between Forty- Indicawe, sovording to the the ground, Apparently he } mself, “I don't care whether he any such place has been for years, tll you he ° fund vice talk fy- — “Certainly T can get in aga: And then, jn cleaning up the garage gerond and Beventy-second Streets, ver, that the gid wae "broustt ded, for although he wild rete jealous or not, 14 ike to have Herman, shake hands with Prof, Ken- Koo deal of minke HM Vad MINTS nan at che door will let m later in the day, they found that carts Some of the thefts have been so bold re, probably already dead, in am sutomooile nothing, he took @ hasty glance at you, Kennedy, take up the case for us nedy and Mr, Jnmeson,” Ing around loos, eee. nd yn me to & couple of friends too, If that's what ridge where the car had been washed that you would be astonished, and it hich dew up off the rad a far as pombe the direction of the sun, upended the too, I've heard already that you The detective was a quict, gentie- Winslow, you may sna not deceive You mean.” tnd brushed out, We had advertised |% those stolen cars, 1 believe, that f%! \tt her arwoned by Be thick growth of camera he had brought, ‘and began to working on the automobile cases, manly sort of fellow, who looked ie “That is exactly what I mean,” re- i. are used in the wave of taxicab and — {et 4nd shrivbery photograph the ground itself, or You see, I have ways of matting In- rusged, stfong and a fighter to bo re- hn.” ehe sald as turned Kennedy. “It's no use to go @ roward for information about the jnotor car robberies, holdcupa. ard Vere Nan only ope wound, tm che chest, rather some curlous marks on it formation myself. We're not aa help- spected. 1 would much rather have \“Phank you so muon. aie tee’ Oo eany, 4 want to see the place in full atolen car, and when he heard of that other crimes that te sweeping over i 4 however, « tom puller wound, and = Which I could barely distinguish, The les as your friend, McBirney, maybe jad a man like him with us than #h@ rose to & tae) blast, just as the after-theatre crowd iat a terrific force mum have been Coroner and I looked o without say. :hinks”™ aga . Bu Konnedy'a Confidence added: is coming in, Suppose you meet us, in order to make tt. A biow could Ing a word, 5 Bonk #67 he coll un "Por Instance. it may eet Mis tae pS ee ty'# all T don't care so much about It my- s PP Warrington, about half-past 10 or so, complishe 1, 90 Jagued That concluded Kennedy's investi- utrrest you to know that We have and wae hot surpriaed that he did elf, but, you know, my aunt 1s @® Weeanteet in, ‘They don't know any- reward he telephoned in, thinking the the city, They are taken to some obacure marage a y de- Story might Interest us. It did, for F fiyystd by mon HY by aA am convinced that hs description of - "We have frequently had occasion 2.8%: and if the gist tad teen struck by — Gation, and we started back to town, just planned A new method to recover not overwhelin Mr, Herman by the dreadfully prim aad Bropet baat, 6 thing about your Intention to cancel the machine tallies closely with that to call on the p © pene {4 gyeod car, as was at fim “WwW I remarked, as we settled *tolen automobiles and apprehend the cordiality of his greeting. Kennedy thing Ike tats woule Mr Warring. the lease and close up the place yet, * lost't but somehow or in uevewlnd, there f# no way to account for the ourselves in the suburban train, “we {ileves A census of all cara in the always pli ‘a lone hand, pre- & fit. She'd never let Nt. S. although apparkntly some one sus- which Mr, Warrington lost. worked, ‘They don't seem to bo able" A of other wowids which must natu — don't seem to have added much to the «| nable garages of the cliy ha® ferred tt, and had only taken O'Con- th 1 tne Aga even hint to pects It or he wouldn't have been “Where bad you left the car to help us much, If anything js done, gent i (es been ins by such am wel. sum of human knowledge.” 1 taken, and each day every po- nor into his confidence biy:ause of hie she smiled, ‘don't you KAT reasons ®"Xlous to get that letter off to asked Kennedy of Warrington. we must do it, If you will take the woud. tor cosously eto ln, Finehot “On, you we have,” he replied al Hiccman ts furnished with descriptions oMecial position and authority. that that was one o slow.” Tie young man seemed to hesitate. °&5% Prof. Kennedy, I can promise curiously qmough there vase no most cheerfully, patting tho black of carw stolen in the past twenty-four “They are going to work Independ- ery well,” agreed Warrington, “I owing the eait of @ bullet, uor as tm the body after the most oly shut the door be- re a tng about Wil meet you at the north end ef “rm 4 time, Gvod luck until the te “Tm aot going to Hime Guod tuck until then” that the association wil “T suppose,” he sald, at test, with a Zor fetes anion Wall pay yeu , slipped into bs pocket. “We'll jus sort Jf resigned r.nive, “I'li have to "I will ‘add whatever ts necessary, pegped e preserve the records which f” Have Mmuke a clean breast of it. The fact 0%” putin Warrington. “Tcan stand 4 gin vernare tweou.ae oe tac a wean «here. Did you notice what It was camera which ho had folded and ours e policem then sup- ently on the Rena 1 to inspect the garages in him plained O'Connor, “i want you to strict, and if he finds a machine give Mr, Kennedy every anstatance, the city that shouldn't be there, according to Herman, and I'm sure he'll do the Mngten nylor came,” @x- the loss of the car--In fact, 1 don't that I phi . the census, he sees to it that ft tan't b ” tell him too h about her visit,” he snnedy when W. : nad ¥ 7 ot * hewght, fair, good iook: and photographed? e census, he sees t warne by you, ha ed Kennedy when Warrington ha Is that I had started out for a imild caro if 1 never get Mt back. I have drei, nan stl unidencfiel, ‘whe eaves ‘TSaW something, but Xcoulda't tell fenoved from tho place until It iw Kennedy podded with a show of femarked, 1! wight i ko dim think disnppeared down the path to the tah. litte sort of celebration, beginning othors, Hut Tean't stand the thought — hin lo this part of se eeenere “a you what it waa,” he description of this cordiality. too Mighly of himself, Hesides, | want Cratory, “1 believe he means to do has gone out with ex- A tolephona message for O'Connor to se4 If he has told us the Whol® t.6 square thing by every one. Its if tt'e ja New about another departmental matter truth i A shame he has been dragged into a tt terminated the interview, and we Ffal¢ an hour later, Warrington joss like this, that may affect bin narked Ken- went our several ways, himaelf burst tn on us eierenty ee in ways he doesn’t suspect. Oh, _ oof Warring- Much help I've ever got out of a ing more news about his car, In- wot), there is nothing we can do for i t the Mephistopheles that my car is going about the coun. ca “Well, we: A SI MANO Ah re Pity te he try 8 the Property, of 5 sunme Fgh pe a4 | aM Anlaheg read~ tire of A Sines AED NR, TOAEKA OF ee " perhapa-an engine of murder an ; Kennedy had his hat and coat on You know the place, perhapacciu a run up Into the bushes froin the rou¢ struction.’ and had shoved into his pocket his You know, ever; utomobiie : about on the edge of the automob.le Kennedy had been thoughtfully bal- jiitig detective camera, leaves ite own distinctive tuarky tte H » exploded shell between his ; * atective . ead Kennedy handed him the letter, ' istrict and the white light anolng the oxp! “ - thumb print as it were. You will se in the c regular detective Hke Herman," re- stead K y the present. I'll Just add this clue disur pus the eat Ps is vpeur UIMTS during most of the interview. 1 think wo ought to go up there that the marks that have beon left “I hardly think {t {4," replied O'Con- marked Kennedy, aw wo paid the fara “Say, le demanded, slapping I the Teeaerine = Ber glial vy oe thi As Warrington concluded, Craig looked and investieate that,” he remarked, thore are precisely like those made by nor. “Whoe it was who took it Is of our cab a few minutes later and down on the table before Wennedy IM qutomobile tires against the day what ought to be named Crime up a he paid almmy, “TRO circumstances of the thing, the make of tires used on Warring. probably |p about our new entered his laboratory. \ high state of excitement, “what do When we get-—pshaw, he's ti a Uauare. Who were you with?” “E think you wit And there ie moe} stosoly after the report of (0% ERE, according to the advertive. scheme. Tha‘'s not the point L wan © S¥em" T agrocd, | Hu glad you yor wake of shart tank it bad enough jetter with him. T suppose It ia safe “Why, Angus Forbes and I were to jt than you even ioe. Before Warritgton’s car, are very suspicious, prove Ri Shey eee Fest witne Hite? 1 00, OF tralia cross said nothing About the surinidge, ale to love 8 car without beng eangeras engue Wik RW lame ne 4 Proves nothing. Many cars may use ti) these cases In imber of ways. though L can't see, for the life of ma, about it into the bargain? And to do wait, I suppose, until he has Going to dine together, and then we Me get through, Tail ket @ convies I feel sure that we shail find some that make of tives. Still, it Is an In New, T have a Il fun at my what good it is." * fein much an underhanded way, Writs to that aia that hes stra@ke £ Mere to weet Winch of follows who fn naa tucks Of It al, he Inno connection between the two affairs.” teresting coincidence, and if the make disposal. 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