The Wingham Times, 1914-10-29, Page 7October 29th, 1914
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By Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Copyright 1912 hy. the Bobbs-Merril Comea.nY
Acting on thls hint. SedgwIck let ills
:conipanion severely alone until a bus-
tle from without warned him that the
Crowd was returning. Being aroused.
Kent accosted one of the villagers who
:had just entered.
aik "Body coming back's" he asked,
"Yep. • On its wny uow."
"What occurred in the house where
they took it?"
"Search me! Everybody was shut
'out by the sheriff and the doe. They
'had Butt body to theirselves nigh twen-
ty urinates."
, ACtitis morneot the sheriff entered
the hall, followed by Dr. Breed, who
escorted the coffin to its supporting
•sawhorsc•s. The meager physician was
• visibly at the. fag end of his self con.
Eren the burly sheriff looked
dike ti sick man as he lifted aside the
coffin lid anti spoke.
"There was reasons, neighbors," said
die, "why the corpse wasn't suitable to
.be looked at. Nobody had seen It since
.last night. We've fixed it up as good
as we could, and you'll now please
,pass by as quick as possible."
In the line that formed Kent got a
'place behind Elder Deunett. who had
'decided to take another look for good
measure, as he said. The look was a
.productive one. No sooner bad it fall-
en on the face of the dead than Den-
noett jabbed an indicatory finger in that
'direction and addressed the sheriff:
"Hey, Len! What's this?"
"What's what?" growled Schlagen
"Why, there's a cut on the lady's
'rt ht cheek. ft wasn't there when I,
?Teen the corpse last night."
"Alt what's 'the" matter with your
eyes?" demanded the sheriff savagely.
"Yon want to hog the limelight, that's
• your trouble!"
This was evidently a shrewd lash at
• a recogeized weakness, and the elder
moved on amid jeering comments.
But Sedgwick. whose eyes had been
Oxed upon Kent, saw a curious expres-
sion flicker and fade across the long
Jawed face. It was exactly the ex-
pression of a dog that pricks up Its
--Zffra. The next motnent a titter ran
through the crowd as a bumpkin in a
reat seat called out:
"The dude's eyes ain't mates!"
Chester Kent, already conspicuous
in his spotless white flannels, had
made himself doubly so by drawing
out a monocle and deftly fixing it in
his right eye. He leaned over the
• body to look into the face, and his
ibead jerked back the merest trifle.
tending lower, he scrutinized the un -
manacled. wrist. When he passed on
his lips were pursed in the manner of
eone who whistles noiselessly.'
He resumed his seat beside Sedg-
- !wick. Chancing to look down at the
:knonocle, Sedgwick started and stared.
kent's knuckle, as seen through the
, glass, stood forth, monstrous and dis-
torted, every line a the bronzed skin
howing like a furrow.
The monocle was a powerful mag-
: nifying lens.
The sheriff's heavy voice rose. "Any
one here present recognize or identify
the deceased?" he droned, and, with-
out waiting for a reply, set the lid in
place and signaled to the medical of-
ficer.
"Feller citizens," began the still
shaking physician, "we don't need any,
• jury to find that this unknown drown-
-ed woman"—
, "The deceased was not drowned."
Emerging from his reverie, Chester
Kent bad leisurely risen in his place
.and made his statement.
"N -n -not drowned)" gasped the medi-
•cal man.
"Certainly noti As you mist knew,
yeu made an autopsy."
"No autopsy was necessary," replied
rtheother quickly. "There's plenty of
ttestimony without that. We've heard
ethe *witnesses that. gaw the ffrewned
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"The body never washed. ashore on
that grating."
A murmur ran through the Crowd.
"How do you figure that?" called a
voice. .
"On the tinder side of the grating I
found a cocoon df a common moth.
Half an hour in the water' would have
soaked the cocoon through and killed
the insect inhabitant. The insect was
alive."
' "How'd the grating get there, then?"
"Dragged down from the high water
mark on the beach. It was an old
half rotted affair such as no ship
would carry. Ask Sailor Smith."
"That's true," said the old seaman,
with conviction.
"You're an expert, Mr. Smith. Now,
was that grating large enoirgh to float
a full grown human body?"
"Why, as to that, a body ain't but a
mite heavier than the water. I should
say it'd just barely float it, maybe."
"Exactly, but plus several .pounds of
clothing and some dead metal extra?"
"The clothes would have been soak-
ed, and handcuffs 'weigh something,"
said Kent calmly.
"There might have been extra spars
under the grating that got pounded
loose on the beach and washed away,"
propounded the medical officer des-
perately.
"Lbok at the face," said Kent, with
anality. "This is a bad coast. Most
�t you have seen drowned bodies. Did
any one ever see an expression of such
terror and agony on the face of one
who came to death by drowning?"
"No, by thunder!" shouted somebody.
'He's right."
Others took up the cry. Clamor rose
and spread in the room. The sheriff
silenced it with a stentorian voice.
"What are you trying to get at?" he
demanded, facing Kent. .
"The truth. What are you?"
Schlager's eyelids flickered, but he
ignored the counterstroke. "Look out
it don't lead you where you won't want
to follow," he returned, with a signifi-
mnt look at Sedgwick.
"This is as far as it has led me."
said Kent in his clear, even voice. "The
body, already dead, was dragged down
and soaked In the sea andthen lashed
to the grating by a man who probably
Is or has been a sailor,"
"Then the deceased met death ort
shore, and presumably by violence,"
said Lawyer Bain.
"It's murder!". cried a vventan
shrilly. "Bloody murder! That's what
It is!" .
"Murder!" echoed a voice from the
doorway. thinsett Jim, his half Indian,
Intlf negro face nlight with fury, stood
there pointing with stiffened hand at
eedgwielt. en:Ih de murderer!"
CHAPTER VII.
Simon P. Groot Does Business.
N0 one moved in the courtroom
for appreciable seconds after
that pronotancement
First to recover from the sur-
prise was the sheriff. "You, Jim, set
&mai" he shouted. "If there's to be
any accusin' done here, Pil do IL"
"I do it," persisted the half breed.
"Blood is on his hare. I see it."
breeluntarily Sedgwick looked at his
right hand. There Wee a low growl
from the crowd.
"Steady!" cane Itent'll Voice at
elhOw. 41tiletakes like that are 3
tykkehla eVidenee."
"Whah Watt he the night of the kill -
in'" cried Gazutott Ata. "AO kW.
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"Where was you if it comes to
thet?" retorted the Sheriff and bit bis
Up with a scowl.
At that betrayal Chester Kent's eye-
lids flashed up and instantly drooped
agein into somberness.
"This hearing is adjourned," twit-
tered the medical officer. "Burial. of
the unknown will takeplace at °nee.
All are invited."
During their slow progress to the
door Kent kept up a ruuniug com-
ment, which Sedgwick silenerted with
equal coolness. The crowd, darkling
and undecided, nressea amend them.
Ara they went through the doorway
they were jostled by a sudden pres-
sure, following which Kent felt a touch
on his shoulder. He turned to face the
sheriff,
"Better get out of town quick," ad-
vised Schlager in a half whisper.
"Thank you," said Kent in a clear
and cheerful voice, "Where can I get
some tobacco?" •
"Sterrett's grocery keeps. the best,"
,said some informant back of him.
"End of the square to the right."
"Much obliged," said Kent and stroll-
ed leisurely to his car, followed by
Sedgwick. As they tools their seats
and started slowly through the crowd
Sedgwick inquired earnestly:
"Do you crave tobacco at this par-
ticular moment worse than you de the
peace and loneliness of the green
adds?"
"Policy, my young friend," retorted
Kent. "I wish I could think up a
dozen more errands to do, The more
casually we get out of town the less
likely we are to be followed by a flight
of rocks. I don't want a perfectly
good runabout spoiled by a mob."
Both of them went in Sterrett's store,
where Kent earned the reputation
from Sterrett of being "awful dang
choosy about what he gets," and came
out into a considerable part of the
populace, which had followed. As they
re -embarked the sheriff put his foot on
the running board.
"Better take my tip," he said sig-
alficantly.
."Very welt," returned Kent, "There
will be no arrest. then?"
"Not just now."
A peculiar smile slid Sidewise off a
corner of the scientist's long jaw.
"Nor at any other time," he concluded.
He threw in the clutch. When the
car had won the open road beyond the
village Sedgwick remarked:
"Queer line the sheriff is taking."
"Poor Schlager!" said Kent, chuck-
ling. "No other line is open to him.
He's in a tight place. But it isn't the
sheriff that's worrying me."
"Who, then?"
"Gansett Jim."
"What did the sheriff mean by ask-
ing Gansett Jim where he was the
night of the murder?"
"Murder?" said Kent quizzically.
"What murder'?"
"The murder of the unknown wo-
man, of course. I.think that Gansett
Dm drilled her and is trying to turn
suspicion on me."
"Humph!"
"But if the sheriff knows where
Gansett Jim was at the time of the
killing, he can't suppose ane gtrilty. I
wonder if he really does believe me
guilty?" •
"If he does, he doesn't care. His con-
cern Is quite apart from your guilt."
"It's too much for me," confessed
the artist.
"And for me. That is why I am
going back to the village.'"
"But I thought you were fright-
ened."
"If I stayed away from everything
that alarms me," said Kent, "I'd never
have a, tooth filled or speak to a
woman under seventy. I'm a thnid
soul, Sedgwick, but I don't think. I
shall be in any danger in Annalaka so
long as I'm alone. Here we are. Out
with you! I'll be back by evening."
TO his surprise, Kent, turning into
tbe. village square, found the crowd
Still lingering. A new focus of in-
terest had drawn it to a spot opposite
Sterrett's store, where a wagon, deco-
rated in the most advanced style of
circus art, shone brilliant in yellow
and green. Bright red letters across
the front presented to public admira-
tion the legend:
StMON GRO'OT
SIMON PURE GOODS
A. stout projection rested on one of
the rear wheels. Here stood the pro-
prietor of the vehicle. while behind
him in a window were displayed his
wares. It was evident that Simon P.
Groot followed the romantic career of
an itinerant hawker, dealing tn that
wide range of commodities roughly
coinprised In the quaint term, "Yan-
kee notions." Kent was struck with
the expansiVe splendor of the man's
gestures, the dignity of his robust
figure and the beauty of a broad
whitening beard that spread sidewise
like the ripples from a boat's stem.
Two blemishes unhappily marred the
majesty of Simon P. Groot's presence
—a pair of pinhead eyes, nuttually at.
traeted to each other, and a mean and
stringent little voice.
"There, gentletten and ladles," t.
mon P. Groot was saying, "there in
that place of vast silendes and Intel&
lug shadows 1 Met and addressed (MO
who was soon to be no more. 'Madam,'
I said," 'you are worn. reit are wan.
You are weary. Trust the chivalry of
one who might be your father. Resit
and be comforted as with balm'.
Standing by the readskle, she drooped
like a flower. 'There is 110 rest for
she mild in mournful totes.
txtuet away upen my Mission.'
"She vanished, that fait creature, Intel
the forest. I lOoked at my watch -el
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ot enctLattlea Of alletondIL
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dread news, I realized that my ears
bad thrilled to a death cry."
Kent moved away, his chin pressed
down upon his chest Ile went to the
office of Lawyer Adam Bain and spent
an hour waiting, with his feet propped
up on the desk. When the lawyer en-
tered Kent remarked:
"You rather put our two official
fiaends in a hole this morning."
"Just a mite maybe. But they've
crawled out. I guess I spolre too
quick."
"How so?"
"Well, if they'd gone ahead and
buried the body as it was we could
have had it exhumed. And then we'd
have seen what we'd have seen." .
"True enough. And you didn't see it
as it was?"
"See what? Did you?"
"Suppose," Kent said, "you give nid
the fullest possible character sketch of
our impulsive friend, the sheriff."
Half an hour was consumed in this
process. At the end of the time Kent
strolled back to the square, where
Simon P. Groot had been discoursing.
There he found the ornate wagon
closed and its ornate proprietor whis-
tling over some minor repairs that he
had been ranking.. An invitation to
take a ride in Kent's car was promptly
accepted.
"Business first," said Kent. "You're
a seller. I'm a buyer. You've got
some inforraation that I may want. If
so I'm ready•to pay. Was any of your
talk true?"
"Yep," replied Simon P. Groot aus-
terely. "It was all true but the frills."
"Will you trim off the frills for $10?"
"Fair dealing for a fair price is my
motto. You'll find it in gilt lettering
on tbe back of the wagon. I will."
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cliffs?"
"Sleeping In the wagon."
"And you reelly met tills mysterious
wanderer?"
"Sure as you're shinding there."
"What passed between you?"
"I gave her goo a evening, and she
spoke to me fair enough, but uueer,
and said that my children's children
might remember the day. Now, I ain't
got any children to have children, so
wouldn't have thought of it again but
for the man that came inquiring after
her."
"When was that?"
"Not fifteen minutee after."
"Did you tell the crowd here that?"
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rings ou the strength and romance a
that point. From my description they
"And you heard the woman cry out
less than an hour tater?"
allowed it was a painter man named
Sedgwick. 1 thought maybe I'd call in
and have him touch up the wagon a
bit where she's rusty."
"And you heard the woman cry out
less than an hour later?"
"That's a curious thing. I'd have al-
most sworn it was a man's voice that
yelled. It went through me like a
sharpened icicle."
"All this was night before last.
What have you been doing meantime?"
"Drove over to Marcus Corners to
trade yesterday. There I heard about
the murder and came back here to
make a little business out of it. Would
it be worth $5 to you, likely, a relic of
the murderer?" suggested the old man.
"Quite likely."
"Mum's the word, then, for my part
In It. The next morning 1 followed her
trail a ways. You see, the yell in the
night had got me interested. She'd met
somebody in a thicket. I found the
string and the paper of the bundle she
was carrying there. Then there was a
tight of some sort, for the twigs were
broken right to the edge of the thicket
and the ground stamped down. One or
both of 'em must have broken out into
the open, and I lost the trafl. But this
Is what I found on a hazel bush. Do
I win the five on it?"
The car came to a stop. Digging into
his pocket, Kent produced a bill, whicb
he handed over and took poseession of
Simon P. Groot's "relic." It was an
embroidered silver star, with a few
torn wisps of cloth clinging to it.
CHAPTER VIII.
Beckoning&
CTS that contradict each other
• are not facts," pronounced
Chester Kent.
Fumes of tobacco were ris-
ing from three pipes hovered about
the porch of the Nook where Rent,
Sedgwick and Lawyer Bain were hold-
ing late council. A discouraged obser-
vation from the artist had elicited
Rent's epigram.
"Not all of them, anyhow," said
Bain. "The chore in this case is to
find facts enough to work on."
"On the contrary," declared Kent,
"facts in this case are as plentiful as
blackberries. The trouble is that we
have no pail to put them in."
"Maybe we could borrow Len
Schlager's." suggested the lawyer
dryly.
"We dont seem to be getting much
of anyvehere," complained Sedgwick.
"Complicated cases don't clear them-
selves up in a day," remarked Kent.
"In this case we've got opponents who
know more than we do."
"Schlager?" asked the lawyer.
"And Dr. Breed. Alpo, 1 think,
Gannett Jim. What do you think, Mr.
Bain, is the mainspring of the sheriff's
action?"
"Money," said the lawyer With con-
viction. "Iles as crooked as a snake
With the colic."
"Would it require mob money to In-
fluence him?"
"As much as be could get. If the
case was in the line of blackmail, he'd
hold out strong. He's shrewd."
"Dr. Breed must be gettliag some
ot it."
"Oh, Tim Breed LS Len's Little dog.
He takes orders. Of course he'll take
Money, too. If it conies his way. Like
Master, like man."
"Those two," saki Kent slowly,
"know the identity of the body. For
good and sufeelent reasons, they are
keeping that inffietnation to than-
etelves. These reasons we aren't likely
to find out from theni."
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that die -sheriff found something ou
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derer, which isn't likely. Flow improb-
able it is that a murderer—allowing for
argument, that there has been murder
—who would go as far as to cover his
trail and the nature of the crime by
binding the body on a grating, would
overlook anything like a letter incrim-
inating himself!"
"What did tbe sheriff find, then, in
the dead woman's pocket?"
"Perhaps a handkerchief with a dis-
tinctive mark."
"And that would lead him to the
Identity of the body?"
"Presumably, Also to some one,
we may assume, who was willing to
pay roundly to have that identity con-
cealed."
"That would naturally be the mur•
derer, wouldn't it?" asked Sedgwick.
"No. I don't think so."
"It looks to me so," said the 'limier.
"He's the one naturally interested in
concealment."
"I'm almost ready to dIsmiss thesno•
tion of a murderer at all."
"Wiry so?" demanded both the oth-
ers.
"Because there was no murder prob-
ably."
"How do you make that out?" que-
ried Bain.
"From the nature of the wounds that
caused death."
"They look to me to be just such
wounds as would be made by a blow
with a heavy club."
"Several blows with a heavy club
migbt have caused such wounds. But
the blows would have had to be deliv-
ered neetdiarle. A circle on the skull
six inches in diatneter, impinging on
the right ear, is erushed in. If. you
eau imagine a man swinging a base-
ball bat at the height Of Iris shoulder
tweeted iy and ‘vith great force at the
tietilles head you mu itaer suet) a
ensiling 10 of the butte. My timeline -
non Meetly retrieve me so far."
"Item itig te1w11 trent above would be
the natural way." said Bain.
"Certainly. No such blow ever made
that wound."
"Then how was it Made?" asked
Sedgwick.
"Probably by a fall from the cliff to
the rocks below."
"And the fall broke the manacle
from the right wrist?"
"The broken manacle was never on
the right wrist."
"That's merely conjecture," said the
bi wyer.
"No; it's certainty. A blow heavy
euough to break that iron, 'old as it is,
must Mire left 0 mark on the flesh.
There was no mark."
"Why should auy one put one hand -
on a woman and leave the other
tin he ?"
"euppose the other was not left den-
glingr
"Where was it, then 1."
"On the wriet of some other person,
possibly."
"A nein had ettained the woman to
lotoselfr said incredolotIsly,
"NI ore prohnley the other way
rotted."
"Titers even more mihellevable."
"Not 11 you mushier the evidence.
You will remember tlint your mysterl-
etts visitor, while talking witli yoe, ear-
rled a heavy bundle. The manacles
were, I infer, in that."
"But 'what eonceivable motive could
the dead woman have lit dressing het -
elf up like a party, gmng to meet n
man and Chaining him to herself?"
"When you have a bizarre crime you
must look for blzarte Motives. Just at
present I'm dealing with facts. The
item was on the left wrist of the body;
therefore it Was on the right wrist Of
the unknown COmpanion. It Is natural
to vertptt4 Attlett, deft
pigbn atliluUrLtliwiuILitrIgiiL'tElhid.
Hence, presumably. your visitor was
the one who clamped the cuffs."
"And the man broke off his?"
"Yes. But only after a struggle, un-
doubtedly. If I 'could find a mart with
a badly bruised rigbt wrist I should
consider the trains end in sight. You'll
make inquiries, will you, Mr. Bain?"
"I will; and I will keep an eye on
Len Schlager and the doe. Anything
more now? If not I'll say good night."
After the lawyer had made his way
into the darkness Kent turned to his
host. "This affair is really becoming a
very pretty problem. Why didn't you
tell me of your meeting with Simon P.
Groot?"
"Who?" • • •
"The patriarch in the circus wagon."
"Oh, I'd forgotten. Why, when 1 was
trying to trail the woman I chanced
upon him and asked if he had seen
her. He hadn't."
"He had. Also he heard u terrified
cry shortly after. The cry, he thought,
was in a man's voice. Simon 1'. Groot
isn't wholly lacking in sense of obser-
vation."
"A man's voice in a cry? What
could that mean?"
"Oh, any one of several hundred un-
thinkable things," said Kent patiently.
"Wait! She must ha t' attached
some other man as she did me. She
was going to 11 rendezvous, wasn't
she? Then she and the man she went
to meet quarreled, a tal he killed her
by throwing her over the cuff."
"And the handcuffs?"
Sedgwlek's bands weet to his head.
"That, of course, is the Inexplieable
thing. But don't you think that was
the way she met. her death?"
"No "
-Then what do you think ?"
"Never nand that at present The
point Is that Simon P. Greet eatetelly
StIppOsed yoll to hare itven 1t11 Nt•t1 itp
in ‘I'luitt,ver tr:Igt•ti Own, vkt&teem:.
Yeeeve on unfortutinte kne• e et menu -
fact -tiring eVitienct• nee hi.l potreeit,
sedpvick. Ttiv rt.-teem:tie ieeture
that the sheriff' r veo ‘r ell eee 11
to itiTeSt yon
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