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McDonald, Dikrict Passenger Agent, Union Station, To - ?onto, Ont. Clinton News -Roe a 'FUE Secret OF THE ountess By WARD MUIR far side, and coolly placed Ms bard - on a knob 'Weide the fireplace. He pulled, and at once another doer opened not a secret door, but one which had not immediately been re- cognizable becautie it was pasted over with wallpaper to mateh ite sarrouud- fogs. He passed through, and, closing it behind him, found himself in a Smaller chamber, which bad, perhaps once been a dressing -room. From that Iv, passed to another—a valet's room, an thence to the servants* statrceete. Down this lie ran lightly amid silently, At the bottom be passed out through a back door, w/aich wae unlocked, Mt° the garden. Already the police were in the roora which be bad quitted. Up above hint he could see the square of brightnesti which was its window. That window was partly open, and be could hear their voices. "There was someone here, I swear," he heard one say. "HO; tamed off through that there door," another answered. "After Elam!" commanded a third; and promptly a couple of men could be heard thundering down the see ventsso:drams. .Toe slipped, like a ghost, down the long garden, between its high brick walls --one Of those old-fashioned gar - Onto occaalonally found in the best Parts of the West End, gardens as se- cluded as those of the ceuntry. A.t tee remote end of the garden was a door In the wall—a. door leading into a pas- sage -way used by tradesmen and by servants. But .Toe did not make for the door, Before reaching it he plunged into ,the bushes at the side of the path, pushed his way through them, and entered a sort of hollow place in their neldst—a kind of elev..= In laurels. 'Here he stopped motion- lers, his 1:04cle against the -wall. Through the aoreen of laurgls in front of his face he could see -the gar- den, and hardly had Ile found entente 'molt before two policemen issued from the bouse, running. They ran down the path. • • "Ho mustlaave gone this way!" one sheeted -to the other. In thirty secoids they were at the garden -door, Two more,•and they had opened it and gene through, one tak- ing one direction in the passage out. side, and the other taking the ether. Their running eteps died away in the distance. • "So -that's ail right," gala Joe, phile- sophically, leaning agatnst the Wall, and heaving a sigh of relief. "It was a near thing 'though!" It must be %confessed that his beart was beating fast. Nevertheless, he geed a low 'laugh. . "Good thing I knew this nook in tae shrubs," he ruminated grimly. "Friend Barny Lazarus little guessed • that I knew this house, inside and out, a deal better than he did." He shrugged his shoulders. "Those policemen make me Blite." he murmured. • -"They'd be a .b:t as- tonished, I guess, if they knew that the supposed crindual they're pursuing— the Man who bolted that roorn-door— the Iliall who escaped by the s'erVants' ,tairease—the man' they •think coin- aitted .the murder—the man who had aupper with Barny Lamle it—the man. whase description will be all over Lon- don . to-morrow—myself, in short; they'd be a bit astonished if theaknew Omit I ani the nephew of the man who ties dead upstairs. -The murdered :lean," pursued Joe, es' though Stating all the details Of a• aropesition in En- eild, on. Felix imirayei,, and a Who call myself Joe. Deaneate Derrick Dalraven,. bit l'nephew and heirs he deed, not to pat too fine a point oi it, I am at present concealed -in my gar-. den --my own garden—and •the• desir- able' residedce I have jen -quitted s0. hurriedly is ma own house.". • • CHAPTER 1V,. ' The Overlooking.Windeevatee., Ten aeare. ago Deraica Dnirtivete then twenty years of age, and a stu- dent at Oxford, had quarrelled with his uncle, Sir Felix—the man eta° now lay dead in the upper chamber of No. 7 (limy° seenrs. Tbe two men had .never met since, until five minutes criels• uao elou over his uncle's murderer. body. It had been a bitter quarrel. Each had an inflexible' will, and though the dispute was .over a mere trIfle—Der- •rick's failure in an examination—nei- ther woUla glee in. Hot Words had ea,ssed. Derrick had beet' deprived of his allowance„ and had run away to gm, shipping as a common sailor. It • Was on one of his earlier voyages that, 'ae-hnd met Barny Lazarus. • For years Derrick tad drifthd Mont the world, acquiring muscle and 'self- reliance, and perhaps learning more than he would ever haVe learnt at his college. He had suffered often, but was too proud to appeal to, his unce for a . reconciliation. The • Dalra‘ en name he. had dropped, and, vaguely, had choseu that of Joe Dean as more appropriate tor the .fo'taxtie. Onee or twice be had touched England, but al- ways • Liverpool had been the psrt; he had never before come to London. And several times ha lied been io Leith, but lie had never had an opp.r. tunity, even if. he bad wished it, to visit the family home in Stotland„ Dalraven Craig. Only three days ago had his last neainer entdred London, and Derrick, almost destitute, had been tempted to vyander westward to take a look at the 'old home in Olroyd ScililaNns shut ' It wmei He had been tele 1110 taken aback at the discovery. Us bare windows stared at him, its unkempt appearatme Shocked hina The house in which he had spent so much of • hie boyhood was deseeteda this back garden, in which lie had, so often played, was uneared for. The laurels had grown thick round the nooa in Which he bad bad his boyish eas•e and in which he now stood. elanging about the square, and star- ing hopelessly at the deserted male alon, be had seen the caretalter, ac - 'tested himand found in him an old shipmate, Barfly Lazttrua. And then hod followed this amazing evenine, with its ineredible chain of events. Ills untie was dead. Poor male: Hut Derrick, tould not feign an hyp s tritical grief. Ho had beea ithaul man, had Cede Felix; he had b en creel. NO; Derrick was not the man falsely to mourn such a. loss. Bet sir Polls had been murdered! Derrio4 set his tnetli. Ills lower jaw proj fiercelY—that famous Dahaven jaw Welatate-La alia ifoers for- centuries put. Tho murderer ornruslit ebrerifer Voilltiu4ktoewmutreberedaosnoen, why! "There'e rayetery here," he eald to himself. "I awar I'll fathom it; The empty liQuee—the murdered Man; there's a knot to be utirevelled. Og course, suspect me—fools! I must go wariar. I'll eleave off my beard, for one thing. Munk goodness I have money—" He paueed. "Now Why the deuce did Barny give me that fiver? Thai is a Orange busi- ness, whetever way you look at it— cemplicattons within, complications. Never mind, ru eec Me thing out or my name's not Dalraven." He peered again frenn his cave among the bodies. Back at the house a Nueva of brightness still gleamed— the window of the mendere4 man's room. "The stuelY," they mewl to tall It, Derrick remembered, in the old days. Sir Felix often sat there, and his valet served him from tbe room beyoad. The window of the study had no blind; it lay open to the world and Derriek suddenly thought: "What if the people in the neighboring houses are looking in through tbat window?" But he was reasaured by recollecting that no houses_ overlooked the back ot No. 7, Olreed Square, and its garden, No; on Second thoughts there was a house,* house in gn adjoining terrace, one of whose back windows—a hq'w window—dittl oontrloolt this garden and that lighted Window; a house whose front faced elsewhere, but one of whose wings practically overhung the wall under which he now stood. He turned and gazed upwards, above the wall, towards this overhanging bow window, and, as he did so, he started. He cowered down promptly, his lips forming themselves into a 'anent whistle of astonishment, lair, net twenty feet away, that over. looahig window was open, There was no light in it, but the men shone elear, and showed its every detail, Leaning out of the bow window was a girl. tie could see her distinetly frozn where he crouched, see her shoulder, but riot her facts Only the upper part of her aody was visible above the sill. She was clad in white—appereiatly _in a nightdress, for the sieevea of the garment wt re loose and fell back from her bare arms, her elbows beitia rested on the ledge, Ou one of the areal— what exquisitely shapely arms they Were, toot—there was it curious bangle .—a silver ornament, in the shape 01 it snake, whieh clung to the seft zlesh as thougb alive, and which gleamed tinily in the moonlight. But it was net the bangle that riveted Derrick -s at- tention, it was the object which its owner clasped in her long and slender fingers. A ruce•glassl She was holding the binoculars to her eyes, and gazing through them with tremendous inteutress at the un - curtained window of the rsoin itt which the murder had taken place. Derrtck shivered. For this young.0 and lovely creature, gazing threugh her binoculars, was itheolutely calm and ,unmoved. What had she seen? Nay, what had she not seen? And here ehe was, cool arid unemotional, still watching, her eyes gli.ed to the glaeses, her band untremb.ing! Derrica stared, almost bypnetized... She was so close to him, he could have addiessed her. He could see, in the Moonlight, every Ulla Wainkle on her tightly,clutcaing fingers; lie could see the pattern of the bizarre and Unitas. tic bangle which twisted around -her smooth arm; he could see the sheen on the noble -masses of hair piled on top - of her head. But he could.not Fee her 'aace. He viewed it at an angle and one of tar hands hid even its protile. "She has seen everything," be whis- pered, awestruck., . • • At that moment she :lowered her hands, and sighed audibly , could bear the sigh. Then she turned. He had a fraction of a second's' gampee of her .profile. She drew her head in at the window, and closed it. Instant- afterwerds she pulled don a blind on the inside. Derrick was amazed. •. "Told -blooded," he, muttered. "Yet that girl; Whoeyer she is, mt.st be at the very heart of this mystery : - CHAPTER' V.' • , The Family Lawyer . Money even so small' a sum as five pounds, cah work miracles, if jade ciously expended in the world's metro. volts and inarta-Lotiao.a :Derrick Dalraven, at eleven &taxa the following moreing, . .as. clean- shaven and sprucely dressed in a neat tweed- suit,: good boots, a turnozer collar, mid a small, Neck siliCtie. The suit was. reedy -made, of couese, and might have met with criticism in that haunt of tailor' princes,- Savile Row; and Derrick's het had not been baught itt Bond.Street. There arc Heath eeell to a five -pound tote, and Derrick had 'shrewdly. gauged them limits. • a, Gresham Street, E.C., paid no -.par- ticular, attention. to. Derrick as. he passed along its pavement and looked at thebraes plates on the doorposts. The inhabitantof Gresham Street are always.immersed,. at 11 am., in thee important task of mind -Ma their. own business, which busiriege is often, exteusive and peculiar. . So Derrick passed, quite unnoticed, into the ecu- flee which harbored, on one of its teething flats, the ancient and honor- able firm of Abner and C6.; ;Solicitors. Derrick ascended the eletator, and the elevator boy,. like the rest of Gree - 'non Street, paid no attention to him. This, again, was sctiefactery; -and when Derrick pushed open the dears of Abner's °Mee, he fe:t it re. assured -confidence of suceess. le the outer Office, ou e high stool, set an -old man Nathan Kemp, a confi- dential clerk. Derrick recogniz d him at once. He was hardly altered, in appearance, during the ten ye ars which had elapsed shim Derrlek had lest visited Gresham Street; for Der! rick bad been here once or twice be. fore, in the old days, with his uncle. The firm of Abner and Co, Were his uncle's solicitors; for years and y ars, for several eeneratious, th: y had man. aged the Icalraven estates. . All the Delman' basitiess was carried out. by Abner and Co., whh•h Thema, nem Lb days, by Adolf Abner, the nrin's sole head, and one 01 the ItelltP8.t braina In London. Derrick braced ' Dhimself tip. It wee a momentous juneture, ae ite laiew, tics stepped briskly forward. "Hallo, Mr, Kernel" he called to tee elerk, "Still at your post, 1 see. Recognize the prodigal returned?" Nathan Itemp looked up from his .edger, and tremblingly adjusted his meditates. Per an instant he was be. tendered, then it smile spread over his wrinkled countenance. Mr. Derrick!" he exclaimed, "That's all right," reflected Derrick. 'I've bluffed him, and established my :eternity. Thank goodness I was able :0 get a shave! I couldn't bave done it with a beard," Mr. Eetrip got doted front his stool, end shook hands. "Aare -tit hews in this Merning's pa - Peak Sir," he said. in eweeetteale toeeet 'irsptrve *eon, or course's • "My uncle's .08'40;1 death?" raid Der- rick. "It's made a taixisation, befall It? I've come sbout that" "NatUrally—tlatUrallY. Quite so," itgreed Mr, Kemp, You 'Wish to eee Mr. Abner? I'll inquire whether heat disengage4:1 ..zinTetii.eoodeee.clerk hobbled off into att , TWO atinUtell biter Derrick was ush. g'ed into the presence of Mr. Adolf Abner. 'rho great solicitor tat at an enor- mot.e flat desk, it desk that might have ')eell• made 01 ebony, so dark was its eue. and which would leave matte a eery fair billiard -table, so vast was itS eepanse. Monstrous legal tomes, di- reetories, and stacks of docketed pa- pers stood ort it, eurrouuding au oasis in its centre—all oasis which owned a writing -pad and it superb ink -bottle. Opposite this oasis sat Adolf Abner, a clearesbaven, grey-haired man, with a mobile moutli and jow-Iicidcd eyee. Adolf Abner, like Kemp, had changed, little he ten years, reflected Derrick. Be was g trifle older, name oily, and there were strange networks of lines upou las .face, and eapecially. round the eyes. Tlietze eyes now met Derrick's, and surveyed him, a phade coldly. "You are --you represent yourself to be—Mr, Derrick Dairaven?" said Ab- ner, laying down bis pep. "1 am Derrick Deiraven Don't you recognize me, Mr. Abner?" Dellaallactict y•Doautrasvheouwr proof On YOU are "I can get plenty of proofs," said Derrick contielently. "Old soilage felloWs of mine could be found to Wen- lifY me, or Oxford friends,. I've been. !oohing through the newspapers this morning—naturally, I wanted to read the account of the Olroyd Square trae gedy—and when I timed on to the Parliarneat notes I saw thot one of MY Oxford contemporaries delivered a speech in the House yesterday. He, no doubt, would be glad to identify me. Besides, your elerk, Remo, recognized Inc instantly." "Wei!" Mr. Alneer leaned- back in his chair. "Well, well, let that pass. 1 tray admit, unofficially, that I recog- nize you, too. He waeed one of his wiate bands, vaguely indicating his official impootialty. "Of course," he added, "I mate understand the object of your call." ,"Exactly," said Derrick, "Well, what I propose is this," Ab- ner went on, leaning foiward again and fiegeriug his pen. "You Must come and dine With ne to -night, and we'll talk over the whole .thing comfortably and itiformally. Ian busy now,- exces- sive!), besy. Scotland Yard people to see, and so forth. Endless larniaLties in cermet:titan with this appalling tra- gedy, . So if you will. come and dine with me, eh?" "Thanks, eery much." "My address is No. 20, Bradwell Gar: dens. You renieraber it, perhaps: • We dine at eight." • • -"Thanks. But look here, I've no evening clothes. -Ian just. back 'from a/mead, and, to e candidat have no money whatever. I want money. You will advance zne soree, ',suppose?". Mr. Abner cleared his throat. —Yes," he said at. last'. • "You can have. an advance.. How *muck .to you went? Say a hundred pounds?" . It was more than Derrick had hoped for, but the mere mention of such -a • sum indicated .the strength' of his .posi- tion and emboldened him. . "Five hundred," he said, steadily. And he got it. Add!! Abner wrote a cheque, ,andeld Kemp went round with Derrick to see.it ceshecl. By midday Derrick had opened an account Of his own, and was installed in a comfort- s:end:min. athIlaug's hotel, Jermyn "Sea," 1 -oftener": Derrick philoso- ohicaliya "are the ehanges of fortune. Yesterday r was -a, down at -heels out - est; today I am .a resalent in one of the :We se, End's mast sele t. thorough- fares, have plenty of Moneyin. my eeeket, god atn liele—as far as I can. ,-eut sse-to a big .estate. And flow to work! I .must live up to my new pot', iota. The rest of the dey must be .ilevoted to shopping," • . Eight hours later, Derriale stepped : levee the dear of his hotel into a taxi-. ab to drive. round' to Braclwell Gar -- dens. He was Inevening. dress—tall- is -can produce a perfect -fitting even- aog suit in an 'aeterocon if , only .you ;'.y them to do .so—and he wore a adbus bat,•and.a smart dust -Mat. He sari fine linen on his back, • taagood- eretell in itis walatcoete Turkish ciente ettes in ills case, and a full sovereign - purse.. .Quite sincerely ,and unasharn: edly he sighed vita, delight Down Into the 'depths he had claseended—now he had ascended agein.,to the dear old fie. with all its trill/rig niceties and decencies, those snin4I touches of civi- lization which Mean so Much . to the euteast and so little to those who have never missed them.; . ' "Twenty,. Bradwell Gardens"; he said to the- chauffeur and,. as the .car moved off, swaying on its springs, and dipping to. the resiliency of its tires, he lay back and half closed his 'eyes • ."This, is a bit 'better than. pigging On a tramp steamer," he aaid ferieently. The car 'swerved into St. James's Street, with; ite' row -of .rioble clubs; then turned into Piccadilly. On the left Was. the Geeen Park, with its vistas of -greenery, mysterioas he the darkness; on the right the Mansions of. the rich. Far in•front stretched the fine line of 'arc -lamp standards, down to Hyde Park Corner, where. the arch , shone -white against the deep darkness of the sky. And along the vast thor- oughfare thundered .the endless traffic —elephantine 'buses, making the very earth quake 'with their aminsy tread, and. silent tnotor-cars, with shining eyea and dimly lit interiors, wherein glimpses could be centglit of women in priceless wraps of fur mid' lace, and Men greonied like kings wee. it0. mense, thieevealthy and luxurious Lon. don; it was delicious, if you were rich and luxurious yourself. But to savor its full -Meaning, you had to 'lave risen from the underworld; you had to have been knocked black and bare in the Day of Biscay but a week ago on a ctvaaudgdhlts ing-,i clumsy trautp-steamer. Deri•lek urveyed the pageant se - reedy. He could afford to be serene, now. And, at the corner by the Berke- ley, and again at Hyde Park, he s ght of nowsboYs carraing flaming placards, and vending the evening extras, "The Olroyd Struare Sensation" he read. everywhere. "Latest!" But, as he . well 'Itoesv, there was, really, no "latest". Neither the newspapers nor the police knew anything worth knowing. CHAPTER VL Mr. Adolf Abner is Astonished No. 20, 13radwell Gardens, was a handsome house and handsomely ap- pointed, Derrick's mat was taken front him by a butler, who at once ushered Mitt tnistaire into a fashion. - ably furnished drawing -room. Abner came forward anti shook hands, not uncordially; then turned, and introduced him to Mrs. Abner, a rather colorlesa elderly lady in black, with jot ornaments. Derrick bowed, "Delia's& taiont...voto 4e. la— ewer. nere ens, mericit mem; round. A girl had ewept into the roonissitii eequleite girl. As Derrich looked at her he wield not but thrill at se eiperls viidelf Of beauty. She was talt ly tall; elm was attired in one of those long and gracious garments, which Europe has borrowed and adapted from the East, aud which are aurae- ilmea called diibbahs front their Arab origin; and this .garment, together with her raven -black hair, gave ber Orieutal look, although elm Wall. obviously Englieh. The cljibleah was nut low, tO reveal a statuesque, colum- nar peel, which supported a shapely head „ The head would have seemed staaIl but for its pile of glossy hair, and for ite enormous dark eyes, set be- neath long, drooping lashes It was year since Derrick had been in the. presenceof so beautiful a woman. He was entranced. "Delia," sale Abner, "this is Mr. Derrick Dalraven.a Her eyes Met Derriek's—her eyes like sombre pools. For an instant those twin pools seemed to reveal their depths to lam; he eaught a swift impression that sae had flung hint, Just for an instant, some signal, some pleading sign, some invitation to- un- derstazzd. her. He thrIlled, then Waved himself for so misread:tag a casual glance. She field out her band to Mtn 'with a curious gesture of frankuess, and he took it. It felt feverish. And then— The djibbah's loose sleeve, linde with saffron -colored silk, and embrot- dered with strange amigos, slid smoothly back from her erne; and lo, clinging to that white arne lay a ban- gle: it eilver toeake with an'opal eye. Incredible! Be was thunderstruckeyet managed to preserve a . calm deneeanor. Tee bangle was unmistakable, tlaough, of course, there might be two such ban- gles in London—nay, there might be Score," • But be had telt, from the first, that she was already familiar with hint --he bad felt that he bad seen her, somewhere, before. ,And as she let his hand fall, and turned away to adarees a remark to Mrs. Abner, he caught he profile•in a mirror upon the walls, and all doubt faded from his mind. She was the girl of the window. It was she who had wretched, so intetitar, through the field -glasses. . Had sbe se.en him In the murdered man's room? Derrick asked himself, If so, dicl she recognize him now? Was that the meaning of her eyes' sigrxai— a signal, apparently, of distress? Yet she had given him her hand; so she did not thina hint the murderer, Xis had on time to refleet. Dinner was announcea, end a monteiet later Ite ho given his aim to Mrs, Abner. Mt...Abner took Miss Abner—on second thoughts, was Delia "Miss Abner"? Now that he came to think of it, they had not been properly introduced; he. had not heard her sureame. Soon they. were at the dinner -table. The .mea,1 was discreetly vivacious. Everyone, clearly, was tbinkleg of the. murder, and no one aeferred to it. Abner talked of everyday matters, and Merrickdid las best to -play up to him; Mrs Abner ppoke not at all, and Delia rarely joined in the conversa- tion. . •At last the meal was over, and the ladies withdrew. • The Muter placed aroodinee.anter onthe table, and lett the ' ebusiness,"New, to come b " said Abner- briskly. He passed cigars and eigarettes across the mole. Derriek ehose a cigar. "The inquest's to -morrow," said Ab- ner . "Shall you be- present?" • . "1 said Dereielt. Abner coughed.. 'Pc eautious. To be- .eantliti, your Appearanee London is eeitraorda timely opportune—almost . too ' emir- - tune. You are- the heir. Yotepaefit by the death, Forgive ma frankness—" '"I understand," said Derrick.. Don't ap.o.Tlobgeize." police w . • ill try to show tbet you are • concerned . in :the murder," .Abner was blunt. "Remember, you and your ueele had asarrelled. That is known I' myself might have to gaze evidence to- that effect.a ' . "By all means do so,a aid Derrick. Salon -zing will, suit in better than 'strictly 'accurate .• statement eofthe ease. Nevertheless; I shellego teethe Inquest. Although I am in far greater danger than. you .think, beret:W-1 am the man the police, nearly caught last night in the murdered nian's room in No. 7, Olroyd Square.' • • "What!" . Abner was °Oven:sly eleinibfounded. Hie wineg/ass, which he hed been carelessly fingering, broke • et the stem and spilt it: contents far over the damask cloth, For a few seconds his emotion was pnlptebly .profound; then he controlled himaelf. "The meetaker Ilivitetl zne le, e pul invited in a bearded' man, a former. fellow -seaman of his," said Abner, •• "We have, of course. questioned the- paretaker, and got an exact description of his guest." • - ."I was the bearded man. I only shAavbenderIsstamnodriela ivngs! '.still twitching; he looked stritegely foretgo in hie ex. cithin.ent. Dereiek reallet d. for the first time, 'that Aboce's name was not an English one. "You are the betueled maii Whom tinny Lazarus left en elle rge while he went to Actoti?" asked Abner. • . "White he 'Went to BriX1 On," • Der. rick corrected the slip. "Yee; I ,eas that bearded man." • Abner shrugged. lits shoulders. He seemed at last to have regained his calm, "An extraordantry coincidenee," he said. , It was an cbsoltre comMent, but Derrick did not natio its obecur- fey "Tell Inc exectry what happened," 'Abner' went on, . . ."Parny "tek . d me le—we were old ehionbates— lie wee t out—I heard it shot and it cry in the upper part of the house"—Derriek banity ran over the thief heads of Iiis story—"I went up. Malt's, and found my • uncle, dead." Here Derrick beeitae, . for some vaguely' Instinctive rt asera more rota cent. "efeanwhile, someone • MUSt have heard that Shot, or maybe seen tile lIglit of the lamp I left needing lu the hall.. The pence (10110 itt. i wa3 too time to remelt clearly, atul thought I'd better char out; though now 1 bogie to think that was a fool- ish move on my part. I knew of the :valet's room aid the backstairs, of eourze. 1 ea.sily eseaped through the garden." "II'ml" Abner looked dubioue. "Take my advice and fly.' You had better go abroad instantly and van. :181'1"Cou seem to imagine that 1 nom- . 'Initted the murder." . The Indrawn stubbornness was cropping out ttealn. "I can only 'assure you"—Derriek -spoke stiffty—"that I didn't." "Perhaps not, but I advise Yott to "On the eontrary I shall turn up at the inquest to -morrow." Dcrriek's ehin. Vas rigid. "You put yona neck into the noose. I'll give YOU five thouseud pounds"— Abner spoke eagerly -.-"and you prat onninla„ (trona 10 Ow fn. 7 ^ nIght. There'll still time ,to eaten stsa boat-traite" "1 won't!" Derrick was allatioa Ile had begun to dislike the wedellsr wiee soliclior with his counsel* at craven retreat. "Yet you admit yon were in ther houee. wlien the murder was.. commit- ted." "Ob. no, I only admit 1 wall hl ttAll bonsc when there was a revolver -00k and a cry." "Surety that's a quibble," Derrick took no notice of the emu-. nient, . "Tell inc." he eaid qutetly„ "does, * doctor give evidence at the inquestr: "Yes." A.bner's eyes narrowed., ) "That's all right, then 1 may take it that the doctor who wee called in by the pollee—they always Oell la a doctor, don't they, formally to pro- nounce life extMct?-1 MaY take it that this doctor was, actually, railed in, to No. 7, Olroyd Square laet: Wahl, and that to -morrow, at the inquest, ha will give evidence. That being so, a have no hositatien eaylute that a shall attend the inquest* too." "Madness!" -cried Abner. "You were ,by Your own confession, in the, house with the murdei•ed loan - Derrick rose.' "1 thank yOu for your advice, Ore Abner, welch I have no doubt is well meant, but which I shall 'venture to. disregard. If anyone's arrested. it won't be rae. But someone win he arrested, in the end, be sure of that - I make it my 'business, from this -day,, to find out the criminel, I had no love for my uncle, but I intend to fuel and Punish his murdern." Derrick was grim now. "Also," he added, "I 'intend to Dna out how it was that Barny Lazartee who seld he went the rounds in that house every day, apparently did not know that my uncle's room was inteed,1- ted, In abort, I intend, to find out whY• Darn), so elaborately lied th in fact, the blame of this murder was so carefully placed ou a Wenger pick- ed up from the street for the purple:et"' "What do you mean?". "I mean wizat. I say. . This was a foul conspiracy—" "Difficult to prove to it jury," said Abner. "Once More, I eareestly re- commend ken to accept five thouvazal pounds in ease and depart, Don't ire any ease, show your • face at the in- quest. You were in the house when the murder took place—" "Pardon' me. I am prove an alibi:- Abzur sprang to .his fest. "impossible!" • "I was not in the house when the 'murder was counnitteed," said Der- rick steadily; and. I now see that :was foolish to run away front the Po- lice,. It s.etts only oe after .reflectiere . that I realized. the full significante of what I hadseen." ale pausedo then re- sumed: "When I turned my uncle's body over, itwas quite stiff. He had been dead Some tours. The person who fired that. revolver -shot .whatat X overheard did not kill my uncle. Ore anyhow, he did not kill him by that Particular shot. And Me cry was not uttered by my uncle—who Was already dead. He must have, been killed about the time. I was sitting in the eating - house, The attendant at that eating- houae, and others who. were there pre- sent and to . whom I spoke, will prove tny alibi: That Is why the police cannot -frighten nee, and why I tionot take your•advice." - • • Derrick lookedstraight at Abaere The latter's eyes fell. "But I should -liae to know," Derek* wound up, "hew it Was that Barny Lazarus, -who was opposed to be itb the house all afternoon, failed to hear - the shot which killed Uncle Felix, andl which must surely have been audible In the kitchen? 'There are, indeed, a good many.questions to ask our friend.. Barny Lazaru.s.". . • • Ween he quitted No. 20, -13rad'ive1,.. Gardena, Derrick made a .careful tour 'of .the neighborhood. He fenn.d what - he • had expected. to find. Olreiydla Square was adjacent; and the room which overlooked No..7's garden was . a rotten at the back of a wing an Adolf Abner's house. *. CHAPER VII. . Th - Countess The inquest was teem-ibe roodica., evidence •hael. been •gh en execely zis ' • Derrick had ,anticipated. „ la- wa4 proved aonalasieely that Sir Felix Dia- ravensadeath must have •taken•ezhaeree. 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