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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1908-02-20, Page 6Maratuon stery Story of Manhattan By. BURTON E STEVENSON Author of "TheilaJladay Casa" Cop rt,rhr. 1944,, fir henry Hale and Compan.r CHAT'Thlf , 1. SUDDEN gust of win .wrenched the door from Gq frey's grasp and slammed I with a bang that echoe through the building. "Anything doing?" lie asked as h:dapped the rain from iiia coat. Simmonds, the grizzled veteran the central office, now temporarily 1 charge of: the devious business of th "Tenderloin,", shook, his head d despon eptly. "Nota thing. Only," he added, hi ..eyes gleaming suddenly with appreci ltim:), "Sou were right about that De Janne abduction case, It was all "1 was mighty glad to see you Come zu. was feeling a little lonesome, Wait d till this squall's over anyway and have. God a smoke." I Godfrey took the proffered cigar and d relapsed into his chair, "I'm only human," he said as he et struck a match, "and besides there's a fascination about you, Simmonds.. of There's always a chance of getting re u ' good Story out of you. You know e more about tits criminal history of - New York than any ether man living, I think. Hello, what's this?" s The deer Sew back with a crasia, and a- a man rushed in -a heavy set man . with red cheeks -who stopped, gasp - 0, ing, clutching at his throat, Godfrey hada flask to his lips in an instant. • "Come, brace up!" be commanded sternly, slapplug the strauger on the back. "Take a swallow of this. That's it." "It seems to me I know' him," re. marked Simmonds, looking at the flush ed couuteuance with contemplative eye. "0' course you do," gasped the stran- ger. `"I'm Higgkis--th' Marathon." And he jerked his head toward the door. "Oh, yes," said Simmonds. "You're theail j iter oR the Marathon apartment house, just across the street." "Well, what'shappened at the Mara- thon?" demanded Godfrey. "Out with it!" . "It's murder!" cried Higgins. harse- ly. "I seed him a•Iayin' ou his back" - He stopped and covered his eyes with his hands. Simmonds bad quietly open- ed a drawer and slipped a revolver into his pocket. Then he took down the re- ceiver from his desk phone. "That you, sergeant?" he called. "This Is Simmonds. Send three men over to the Marathon right away." He out back the receiver with a jerk. •f eked up story on the mother's part. She confessed this evening." . "I thought she would If you kept at icer," said Godfrey, sitting down with • a quick riod of satisfaction, "She •izasn't nerve enough to carry through a ping like that; she's too plait and n hate. How does it happen you're atone?" • "Johnston's gone down to 1'hiladel- •biia to • bring back Riggs, the forger. r '1eming's got the grip. Bad went', t There was a certain similarity in the 'faces of the two men, especially in the •expression of the eyes and mouth: ?Age, however, had given to Simmonds' 'features a trace of stolidity which was 'ranting in those of his companion, Ile had been connected with the central of- fice for many years, was dean of the "force, in fact, and though he had de- .*eloped no' special genius in his.cleai- iugs with crime he possessed a matter ,-of fact industry and personal courage ,which had frequently achieved success. 'In the end his chief had come to trust Izim greatly, probably because the brit - pliant theorists of the force made so many unfortunate) mistakes. 1 Godfrey was a brilliant theorist and -Something more. He was not so pa- tient a$ Simmonds, but then he was 'much younger. Ile had more imeglua- tion, and perhaps bis greatest weak- ness was that he preferred picturesque solutions to commonplace ones. Dur- ing his three years' connection with the force ho had won four or five notable victories, so notable, indeed, that they °attracted the attention of the Record management. The end of it was that Godfrey resigned his badge and en- tered the Record office as criminal ex- pert, climbing gradually to the position • Of star reporter. Since then the Record bad not waited on the police; indeed, it bad been rather the other way around. i It was with Simmonds that Godfrey Siad long since concluded an affiance • Offensive and defensive. The one sup- plemented the other -the eagle gave' eyes to the mole; the mole gave the' •eagle the power of working patiently In the dark. Simmonds kept Godfrey In touch with police affairs; Godfrey nabied Simmonds to make a Startling 'arrest now and then. Godfrey got the btory, Simmonds got the glory, and both were satisfied. It may be added -khat without In the least suspecting it the mole Was considerably under the Influence of the eagle. Brains natural- 'Iy lead industry. Besides, the blind 1 must have guidance. They listened until the gust of wind Idled away down the street, then God- frey arose and began to button up his • coat. "Nevertheless,". he Said, "I've got to be moving on. I cau't stay loafing here. I _wouldn't have stopped at ail but for the chance of seeing yogi" , "0h, don't go," protested Simmonds. i When " sweets " lose their sweetness -- and. «substantials," their charm—there are always MOONEY'S PERFECTION CREAM SODAS to - coax back the appetite. Do YOU know how good they are? los Godfrey twirled the janitor sharply, around in the direction of the door, "Go ahead," he commanded, and pushed rather than led him out into the storm. They made a dash for it through the rain, which was. still pouring in tor- rents. Halfway across the street they, descried a Cab standing at the farthe 1 curb and veered to the right to avoid it. "Here we are," said Higgins, naming up a short flight ea steps into >1 light ' ed vestibule. "It's in soot fourteen - second Soor.'► They sprang up the stairs .without I thinking of the elevator -one flight; two, Higgins began to choke again. A. single door stood open, throwing a broad glare of light across the hall. "It's It,s there," said Higgins, and stop- ped to gasp for breath. The others ran on, For an instant they stood upon the threshold gazipg into the loom at a huddled form on the floor, with a red stain growing and growing Open its breast -at a Woman staring white faced from the farther corner -a woman, tall, with black hair and black eyes. Then Godfrey stepped toward her with a quick exclamation of surprise, incredulity, horror. "Why, Ws Bliss Croydon!" he said. CHAPTER It IMMONDfl had dropped on one knee beside the body. He was up again in an instant, "No need for an ambu- lance," he said tersely. "He's dead." The words seemed to rouse the girl froni the ecstasy of horror which pos- sessed her, and she buried her face in her hands,. shuddering cauvulsiveIy. Godfrey caught ber as she swayed for- ward and led her gently to a chair. "Perhaps you don't remember me, Miss Croydon," he said. "Godfrey's My name. It was only the other night At Mrs. Delroy's I met you. It was' Jack Drysdale who introduced me. You know I'm an old friend of his"" • "Yes," she murmured indistinctly, "I remember quite" - An exclamation from Simmonds in- terrupted her. ' He had picked up a small pearl handled revolver from the Soar in the roam. "Is this yours, miss?" he asked. She nodded faintly, Ho snapped it open and looked at the chambers. One bad been discharged. Ile sniffed at the barrel, then held it out to Godfrey. The odor of burned gunpowder was plainly,- discernible. Godfrey's fate hardened as he turned to the janitor, who had regained his breath and stood staring on the thresh - "My frieird," he said, "shut the door"--- ile stopped as he heard the tramp of heavy Meet approaching along the cor" rider. "Walt," saki Simmonds. "There come- my men. I'll be back in it Min - Ute." Godfrey- nocicled curtly and Waited until Simmonds closed the door after "Now, :Stals Croydon," he said, "tell hie quickly how it happened. I can't help you unless I know the whale story", and t Want to help you"" `There Isn't meteh tie tell," site- be. rSlat Steadily. "1 ▪ .,A ;• THE 'WINCTUAK TIMES, FI',IIIW.ART 20, 1908 7 Canadian Bail' Restorer "Now, .Afiss Croydon, tel, me gateau how $t happened." • came here to -to keep an appoint inept"--• She stopped, her -voice dying away, unable to go on. "With this man?" asked Godfrey. "Who is he?" ' "I don't know." And she cast it bor- rifled glance at the huddled term. "I never saw him before."' "Then It wasn't he you came here to meet?" "No -that la -it may have been"-- .' nd again she stopped. ,_ "Mt" . S Croydon," s said Godfrey gently, yet clearly, "I can't help you unless you're quite thank with me, and T fear you are going to stand in need of help. Did you kiII this man?" "Noe" she cried. "Oh, nol" "Then who did?" There was no answer, only a dry, convulsive sobbing. As Godfrey paused to look at her the door opened and Simmonds came in. He closed it and snapped `the lock. "Tbere's a policeman outside and one at each landing," he announced, "We'll Iook things over hero and then search the building. First, let's look at the body." It wan tying partly on its back, part- ly on the right side, with both legs doubled under it. The face was a bearded one, rough, coarse' and a little bloated; not a prepossessing face under any circumstauces, and actually repul- sive now with its gaping mouth and widely staring eyes, It was tanned and seamed by exposure to wind and rain and there was a deep scar across the left temple. "Between fifty and sixty years of age," remarked Godfrey. "Pouf: Smell the whisky." Then, looking into the staring eyes, he uttered a sudden exclamation. "See there, Simmonds, how the right pupil's dilated. Do you know what that means?" Simmonds shook his head. "No, I can't sayI do." "It weans," aid Godfrey,' "that, somebody hit this fellow a hard blow on the left side of the head and pro- duced a hemorrhage of the brain." They stripped back the shirt from the breast, "A Iittlo blood was still welling from a wound just over the heart. "That's wbat did the business," ob- served Simmonds, "and at close range too. See there," anti he pointed to the red marks about the wound. "He 1 wasn't shot from the corner, that's sure. Let's see what he's got in his 'As soon as ho .struck the bI'ow, I pockets." think he -he threw it down. I remem- The examination was soon made. ber hearing it fall" - There were only a pipe, a knife, a pack- I "Yes -here it is," saki Godfrey tel. age of cheap tobacco, a handful oI'un, mphantly, and fished it out from u loose coins and au old pocketbook con- l der a chair Wald) Stood near the wall. taming a little roll of newspaper clip- I "But see, Simmonds, it's not a bar, it's pings and a receipt for a month's rent a pipe," for suit fourteen made out to "H I z11 restore gray heir to its natural soler, Stops failing bait, causes to grow on bald heads. Curesdendrufl', itching, scalp diseases. 3:, its use thin hair grows luxuriantly. contains no oily or creasy Ingredients Is entirely unlike any other hair prepare, - tion ever o,;cred for sale. A good, reliable Canadian preparation. #:tisollertet Testimonials. 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I wonder what's going gu out there?" he added as they returned together to the other room. They could bear a commotion of some sort in the hall, the hunt of many voices, the ehuffiiug Of nanny feet. The eoznmotion swelled to an uproar as imtnouds opened the door and closed it quickly behind Lim. Godfrey beard his voice raised in angry expos- tuiation, and he chuckled grittily to lfiisself as he turned to Miss Croydon. Ito gazed at leer with interest, search- !ugly, pondering bow best to Surprise bee secret -at the bent head, with its Crown of dark hair, shadowed by a lit- tle velvet hat; at the rounded arms, the graceful figure. He paused yet a moment, looking at her, at the slender hands, the little ear, and he pictured to himself what her training had been, hew she bad been fenced away from the rough places of the" worhi, the unpleasant things of life. Certaluly site could never leave cote i:fitted such a crime as this or even• connived at it Yet size he'd lied -deliberately and distinctly she bad lied. She bad told him that she had never before seen the dead man, She lad told Simmonds just the opposite. Which was the truth? Doubtless the first. Her first impulse would be to speak the truth. After- ward, at leisure for a moment, she bad mnstered leer agitation, bad thought out the lie, and had uttered it with sur- prising calmness. "May I see you to your cab, Miss Croydon?" he asked. "To my cab?" she repeated, half ris- ing. "I may go, then? I am free? You bane not" -- "Betrayed you?" he finished as she stopped suddenly. "No, I don't intend b. Whether you know the man yon- der or not, I don't for an instant belie "Yes, sIr.' "You know ltim?" "Only slightly," she answered cool- ly, disregarding Godfrey's stare of amazement. "Ilia pante, 1 think, was. Thompson." "You had an engagement with him here?" "Yes, sir; on a private cannot concern the polic Simmonds passed that moment. "Will you kindly tell happened?" lie asked. "I drove here in a e speaking rapidly, "which for me.: In the vestibule janitor and asked to be suit fourteen.' He brought where 11r, -Mr. *Thomp. In entered g. I ut zed and closed We were talking together door of the inner room man came out. Before I he was doing he had r iron he held in his ha .1tIr. Thompson upon the "standing over him, he d and fired one shot at slirunk away into the Milking him a madman own Itfe in danger, I drewforThompson wait- ing.barhanddrew my pocket( pistol and fired at him. Without even glancing at me he opened the outer door and disappeared. The janitor rushed in a moroeut later," "Did your shot hit him?" asked Simmonds, "I don't know, I think not. He sheered no sign of being wounded." Simmonds stood looking at her. Gods Frey turned to an examination of the opposite wall. "Bliss Croydon's shot went Wild," 1i said, curiously elated at this confirma- tion of ber story. "Here's the bullet," and he pointed to It imbedded in the Woodwork of the Ieclroom door. 1 Simmonds took a look at it, then be returned to the inquiry. "Did you know this intruder?" he asked. "No, sir. I'd never before seen him," she answered steadily, "Will you describe bine?" She closed her eyes, seemingly in an effort at recollection, "He was shod, het' n a h . etmn , ys a, She said at last, "with a dark face and dark mustache, which turned up at the ends. That le all I can remember." f "And dressed how?" "In dark clothes. He wore a slouch hat, I think, drawn. down Over the eyes, I didn't see the face clearly." The answer came without hesitation, but it seemed to Godfrey .that , these • was in the voice an accentofforced sincerity. "What did he do with the bar of iron?" asked Simmonds: • Simmonds examined it. it .was an 1 Thompson." ordinary piece of iron piping about "Thompson," repeated Simmonds, fifteen inches In iength. "and a lot of clippings. Can you read "ger story seetiis to be straight," he French, Godfrey?" said in an undertone to Godfrey. "A little," answered Godfrey modest "What do you think about it?" ly, "Let mo see,' He took the clip -"I think she's perfectly Innocent of pings and looked at the first . one... any crime," answered Godfrey, with "'Suresnes, Sept, 18, 1891,'" he read I conviction, Ile had his doubts as to. haltingly. " `I hays to report an event i the absolute straightness of her story, the most interesting which has just but Ile concluded to keep them to han- bappened here, and whieli proves again , self- ; the futility of vows the most rigorous ! "Weil, there's nothing more to be to quiet the ardent desires of the bu- learned out here," remarked Sha- man heart or to change the"- "Oh, he" "- mends, after another glance around. "Olt, well," interrupted Simmonds, "Suppose we take a look at the other i "we Can't waste time reading any more room," and he led the way toward the of that rot; it sounds like a French inner door." novel. The coroner can wrestle with 1 It WAS an ordinary bedroom of niod- it, if he thinks it's worth .while.' , ; crate size and with it single closet, in ate replaced the\ clippings in the which a few soiled clothes were hang - purse, which he slipped back into the ing: Tho beet had bean Iain upon, and pocket from `levee he bad taken it, evidently by a person fully dressed, "Now," he iddcd, rising to Ills feet, for there were marks of muddy shoes "we'd better get the girl's story." � upon the counterpane, fresh iva;"t'w ^g "Miss Croydon," he began abruptly, or one who had come in dude 'the though perhaps in a gentler nolle than evening's storm. An empty wetisky he would have used toward the aver- bottle lay on a little table near the age suspect, "were you In the room bed. • when this man was killed?" "I guess Thompson `nits it boozer," observed Simmonds. ""Yes," agreed Godfrey, "his face "Lifeshowed that pretty plainly,"' inEvery Dose,' 9f "Well, the man we're After ain't in here; we'll have to search the house," >: cannot speak too highly of Puy- "Can't the let Miss Croydon go chine, for it is the greatest medicine 2 homey She won't run away -ill Eli ever used, t was ,just about `ail t 3 saver for that, Besides, there's nothize rvlzon I began tate treatment, and in 3 g inouttrs I was as .vett as ever. It is a against her." great tonic for weak and run dowwn pee. ` Simmonds pout•iered a minute. pie. There is ter life in every doge,' ` 1 "Yes, I suppose so," be said at last TAS. STOLITil;l . "Or course she'll have to appear at the Ridgetown, Cent., Dee. lel, 1303. Inquest, I)o you knot' her address?" It is a sin not to telt your sick friends . ""i`es, y1 l'as t Sixty-ninth street," Sialmonds jotted it down in his note- book. Y 7 1 lir h h said. A i t as d. "You'd >~ g r ilette about this wonderful prescription. Throat, lung and stomach troubles, and all run dewe renditions quickly cured 1>y its use. At all zlrugguits, 3de and 1.Oo, or Dr. T. A. Slocum, Ltd.., Toronto i take her down to her cab .° w0 you killed him,' "0h, I dkln'tl"sae cried. "I did my, best to save him. But It was done so quickly. I didn't understand until too late." "Nevertheless," continued Godfrey evenly, "1 think you're wrong hi trying to protect the scoundrel who did." The color faded suddenly from her face "Te protect him?" she faltered, "I'iu sure you know him. You could. place bite in the hands of the police it you .;Isbell to do"-- 'ite door oponed and a man came in -a keen faced wan of middle age, who nodded to Godfrey and threw a quick, penetrating glance at his companion. Behind him the clamor burst out anew; various heads appeared in the doorway, various eager faces sou ;btsto peer into the room, but the neweomer calmly closed the door and assured himself that it was locked. Ile Iooked at God- frey again, then expectantly at the girl. "Miss Croydon," said Godfrey, "this is Coroner Goldberg, whose duty it is to ruvestigate this affair, and who may wish to askyou some questions." . "Only a few at present," began the coronertin it voice soft and deferential, as only ho knew how to make it. How often, with that voice, lead he led a wit cess on and on to his own ruin! "You were the only witness of this tragedy, I believe, Miss Croydon?" • "Yes, sir," • "Are you acquainted with the mur- derer?" "11o, sir."' "But you could identify him if the police succeed in capturing bim?" "Oh, yes, sir." •- (To be Oontinued. ) Redden the Blood. Ridden the blood by the use of Dr. Ohase's Nerve rood and you lift your- self from that low level of health whioh leaves yon au easy prey to every ill wind that blows. With the blood thin and Watery you catch ooitl easily and are Bible to becomes victim of consumption or sotne form of wasting or contaatous disease. Mr. T. II. 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