The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 21

‘ THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1921. ~ plicated case," he began, taking @ seat opposite her. “Mysterious?” she repeated, vague- ly disturbed by bis strictly profess- tonal manner, “Yes; one can't say what may hap- | pen next. I've a notion to send you back to New York: “rm sorry that I ders.” “On, it isn’t that, But there is a | remendous force at work here—mon- fey. Hasn't it struck you that this whole moving picture plant is more lor less phony? And when money i at work—in (he dark—it's danger- ous.” “tf that's all," returned Clara, brightening, “I'm simply not going to eave—unless you do.” ren would be absurd for me to leave. at | BRONX CRIPPLES ON Dr. Gordon, Noted Surgeon, Dies ‘ AN ELKS OUTING] ci Gordon batct tne teneanet ae surgeons in New England, died yester day at the age of ninety-one. He wa t furgeon of the 18th Maine Voluntee: Infantry in the Civil War, From 1 heel: I saw several pairs of high heels among the servants, and almost any of the women as well as Olga Li grand might have been wearing them between twelve and one. “About the tinkle—we'll say it was the Mexican dollar which you aeard, | dropped by the man who ran through | the dark. It could hardly have hee the ring, that has a farge bez whch would prevent its rolling. And tay have been neither, IT picked \. something myavlf at the foot of those stairs, He displayed a tiny gold pox of the shape and size of a lady's watch. snuff-box!" exclaimed Clara, ‘ea, It was probably used for snuff] —onee. [also found the ring and the sword and the petal—just where Bollar found them afterward.” “But I didn’t see"~ “You didn’t see me find them? No, and you thought the Chief was scor- ing over tne at a great rate. And now you are wondering why | didn’t slip seems to be—who turned them on, and why? And then—did you hear anything peculiar, Clara?” When?” While the arcs were on. T was tanding with my back against the wr of the cardroom for a moment,| him, They are lovers.” and I distinctly heard a clicking| “It's only guess work, sound—clicking, not tinkling or tap-| thoughtfully, “and th ping. The peculiar horror of the| that lovers are just the ones who do method of the murder". | kill each other, But at least v “It was horrible!" assented Clara.| better grounds than that for think: | bbed, and to fall back-| ing it wasn't Philippa.” M “Tell me!" “You forget—there were two weap- ons used; the pistol that fired this bullet, and the sword which wae lying on the steps all covered with blood. | # Now Philippa, especially after what | © ghe said about seeing blood, might| | reasonably be suspected of having used either weapon, There fe noth ing to prevent a woman from firing a shot, or even attacking a man with. a sword and perhaps slashing him over the head with it, might haye been mistaken for some- body eine?” | “You mean Darehuret,” said Clara Hoe, with an involuntary shudder “But that clears Philippa completely. She would never have tried to kill 1,500 Children Are Given a Joy: ous Day on Sands of Rye Beach. Democratio National Committee. Bronx Bika, Lodge No. 811, have! had been Vice Prev doubied their accommodations for the | can Medical Aasoc | annual outing to crippled and poor chil- | jdren of the Bronx and to-day thirty | |large sight-seeing cars will convey near- | ly fifteen hundred unfortunate boys and | kirls to Rye Beach where the B. P. 0. | will give them a full day's fun, This aid MeClue | records show | to 1900 he was Maine member of thr HM nt of the Ameri: ation. disobeyed or- “I don't mean that part of it,” corrected the detective. “In the first place, Bstamps wasn't stabbed—he was shot.” ‘Shot? Why, the sword’ I'm coming to that, here." He took from his pocket a sphere of load about the size of a pea, but slightly flattened on one aide, “Did you notice that little clock, Clara—an old fashioned affair half the ."* ore to Ivy Towers, on the Connectiout shore of the axious,”” asking him to make an investigation of conditions inserting in a New York wewspape Picture projecting outfit. Accom ‘® motion picture compan: Inted with the leading are id But look a 4 nda W the kidd’ up they reach the park the amusn- shoot-the-shoc ie stairway. ‘Ola Lewrand. iN. and ‘Tarlow, director of the company, Joln nillippe about a ring he has found. ehiet of poller, Bollar, questions CHAPTER Y. | ments, | ferris wheel and all th ttractions of children, will be But the party | dear to the 0 se way down stairs, with two m_ lookin, for did ometh!, thrown open m, When the; t . ve Combine) a8 If glad of the opportunity of show- |" ro.14 it be any less absurd for them in my pocket. But it woula/ weights hanging below. it on long | Wore oe fometning | anough of this kind of mports they will “6 HEN do you remember see-| ing off a little literary knowledges. | 102 Wouides, after what you have Never have done not to have given|chains? One of the weights is only | “what was it? sit down to a fenst of ico cream, candy, ¥ ing it last? ve seen this here ‘Hamlet’ play. |") ao you think I would let you the Law its clues. Why, without any|a wooden form, and you pull it down! peally, I'm not at all sure that | ctkes and other delicacies. Then there's 1 "A few hours ago, in my|!d anybody else wear a wreath?” (800 00 Monee clues at all, Bollar might have blun-|to wind the other up—that's the sort| pnilippa wasn't present. But as to | Bathing on the progrmme and another ressing-room on the floor above thia| gure’ gue fae wore Primroscs, Tam|""Bhe jiushed furtously the moment Gered om the truth and bealen us.” fof a clock it 1s. And I found this bul. | this it is absolutely ” conclusive— | "any home. ° sure, But 1 might have dropped tha “Then you don't think he has stum-|let flattened against the wall behina me members of tha, Lode, dled on it—you don't suspect Phil-|it. In a house like this, the heavy HEY can't the words were out, Somehow that provoking dress made everything she ‘et the front of the house. It must have there wos some one besides Philippa petal almost any time during the day. Beli on the scene ‘been about midnight. 1 took it off I passed this way more than once.” |PPOy°O its ridiculously feminine and doors would prevent the report being “Don't ask me for bind—and 4 ldn’t, lad t where t don't thi But I'm| heard t le in thet Bare | eran the u ler GBORt ope hahares’ apes they can’t sli and si © 'No you couldn't, lady—not where lon't suspect her—no. jut I'm|heard by people in their rooms, Pei “Well, then, tell me—what do you |of about one hundred — priva ey can't slip. allege it over a stick-pin on @) pound jt” Porrecie studied the napery for @ ashamed of my reasons. They are/haps a silencer was used. Anyway,| suppose Philippa meant by calling | Which will be used to transpo! Uiiler the 2 a On My toilet table.’ “Where—where did you find it?”|.ment, then took out @ blunt-nosed based only on psychology and moon-|the lead went right through the! me Christie Johnson?” |fortunate little ones from their homes inder soft, ‘Don't you know you lost it strug-| Philippa asked the question in a firm automatic and shoved it across the shine.” works, stopping them at five minutes|" xgocine stared blankly, then began oe the various inatitutions in which Il wide webbi Gling with somebody?" demanded | Voice, but she had gone as white as/tjsin, "Zo. you don't think Tam as stupid| before 2—about five utes before | ey chuckle Sy, ye to eis Home or ie Reon : ing Bollar, suddenly dropping his gallant | °"@!k. “Ail right, then," he capitulated. now as you did when I gav lights p alarm of understand 4t now, That explaina | Concourse, where they will, be. trans veins and mus- cpt {1 found It lying on—on, not under “put keep this by you, And now let's name and address to Boliar fired at the clock"—— | lene dreaa, or the dress explains that, [ferred to the valght-seers™ for the trip cles function —the ly of Jean Estamps.”" down to business.” ee t fired at the head , ‘i to Rye. . But this time-worn stratagem to| “Catch her!” Clara called out. Ben deny he told of his own experi- “Oh, yes, you did! I was amps, which at that min-| She was sane enough, pha LE freely. ‘confuse a witness failed in its effect.| But McClue had been watching, ences since his arrival, and listened to you. But I figured that Bo! have been directly between has x4 ake brated. johnson. You're just laughing at me!” Yes, and at myself for not seeing lit before. Exercise your detective in- stinct and you'll be able to penetrate teo, and it was he who leaped for- ward—just in time to receive Phil- ippa’s tottering figure into his arms| «tet me see,” he summed up, and to carry her back to the bench|was stamps you saw at the gate which Olga Legrand hastened to va-|performing athletic stunts, He seems “I have had no struggle,” came the @teady answe “Not in fun, maybe? Not in actin’ ence you were all dressed up going to play the bone-head and make himself unpopular. So the best way for me to get a solid footing was to} make an enemy of him at the star “1 couldn't bring myself to share the clock-facé and a 44-calibre pistol in the hands of somebody r the top of the stairs.” you are sure “Yes; there are stains on the bullet At haber- dashers her story of the same period as seen ve Millett Friel, daughter from her int of vic ‘ Lay! “it n J. Friel of 139 Bast ad Stroet, New York City, was married yesterday to Mr. Joseph Deveraux Green in the Lady's Chapel of St. Pa atanding 2 yt ri e. trick's Cathedral The ceremony was "Certain! , " ate. | seh. 6 5 Darehurst’s the snuffbox with Bollar,” he went on./and utder the microscope in Louns- | that mystery without assistance, If : oe Ophelia, ana nobody’ srugginn Wit “Clara remained with Philippa, and Geaeretaay ti MR Wieden nenee of “That goes right to the root of things, | bury’s laboratory I discovered traces | not, I'll help you—later on. But now by Mar. Lavelle. The brides Ophelia. As I tokl you, 1 had the was her sister, Ida and Mr. John C. Green was his brother's bést man. A small recep- tion followed the ceremony for relatives and intimate friends and coupled with the fact that Phi ippa Bell was wearing a wreath of|in a very dim light primroses—it's almost symbolical.|jt possible that ther “The real mystery of the lights tion to kill Estamps ju the morning Philippa sent her a&/ ne That is, he was substituted white fluffy gown. Putting {t om. jfor Darehurst whenever a part in- Clara, for the first time in her life, /yolyed some dangerous action. The was conscious of being pretty. And|two men looked sufficiently alike, and something in her heart simply in-|with a litle make-up the change sisted on exulting, She thought it/could easily take place without de- was fine feathers and excitement /tection. It's a common practice in then, but learned to know that it was/all studios, though from what I've a great deal more than that; morc|scen of Darehurst, he seems quite even than youth and the freedom willing and able to perform almost from being plain. ny feat by himself. We must find ee jout what held him back. I should CHAPTER VI \judge it was Philippa. But the real jquestion is—why did a company like LARA was dallying with @/the Superba, engaged in trying to hemisphere of grape-fruit!raise the film-drama to the realms of when the Ferret wandered in ince fbiggivdaé Ane See eran? on these low-brow stunt-plays at a from the lawn. He looked “As to the couple you saw at the haggard from lack of sleep, and| fountain, we're sure that was Phil- though his eyes swept quickly over |ippa and Farlow; and undoubtedly it her borrowed finery he seemed to no- | Was eacraling. at in oe me said Philippa, tice nothing unusual. |think ‘it was Derchurst and. Phil- wears a wreath, and| “I suppose you know we are UP) inna yon overheard in the alcove, but The Chief nodded, | against a very mysterious and com-'we don't know who wore the high -|of brain cells, But at I must be going. Do Not Miss To-Morrow’ Instalment. ou should see hig ron om, e Newlmproveo — Gillette éé Patented January 13,1920 Ting at midnight in my rym.” “So you said! So you suid!” “Look here!” oried Darehurst, striding forward. “If you are going to insult this lady, I don't care whether you are an officer or not, I mean to"— “Wait. young man. I'm tryin’ to find out who murdered Mr. Jean Es- ‘amps. And I've only one more ques tion. How many of you ladies wi ‘wearin’ yellow flowers last evening? “I was,” answered Philippa, signal. Ming Darchurst not to interfere. 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