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CHAPTER III.
I sat there, with a crowd o£ child-
tn paddling on a raft outside the
window, earl .Molly Maguire, next
door, hauling the morning's milk up
in a pail fasteni.d to a rope, her
doorway being foe narrow to admit
the mill:ntnrr'.; boat, and I told hdrn
the Deed!! story, •
"Humph!" he exclaimed, when I
had lini:rhed. "It's curious, but -•--
you enn'1 prove a ntttrt!ar unless you
can produce a body, -
"When the aver goo., down we'll
find tate body, .,aid 1, ;ttivu'ing.
"It's in the parlor." ]
"Then why doesn't he try to net
away
k ready to go now, TIe only
went !melt when your float ,acne in.'
:SL. Holcombe ran to the door and
flinging it open, peered d into the dow-
er lull. He was too late, ,Ills boat
was gime, tub of liver, pile of wood-
en td 1t ere laud all!
IVe hurried to the room the' Lad-
leye had occupied. It was empty.
From the window, as Wo looked ant,
Wo 0011141 see the boat, almost a
square away. It had stopped where,
the diesel beim: higher, a doorstep
rosy ,Love the flood. On the .=tip'
we, sitting tt forlorn yellow •puppy,
As wo .toed Mr, Ladley stopped the
bean, looked back at us, bent over,
pieeel a piece of liver on a platter
and reached it over to the dog.l
Then, rising in the boat, he bowed, j
with hie hat over his heart, in our
direction, sat down calmly and ;row-
ed around the corner out of sight.
Mr. Holcombe was in a frenzy of
I'VE, He jenneel up and (hewn,
shaking Id list out of the window
after the :otroating boat. He ran
down the staircase, envy to conte
back and look out the window again.
The police boat was not in sight, but
the Maguire children had worked
their raft around to the street and
wore under the window. He leaned
out and called to them.
"A quarter each, boys," he srid,
"if you'll take me on that raft to
the nearest pavement."
"Money first," said the. oldest boy,
holding his cap.
But Mr. Holcombe did not Wait.
He swung out over the window sill,
holding by his hands, and lit fairly
in the center of the rart.
"Don't touch anything in that
room until I come back!" ho called
to ole, and, jerking the pole from
one of the boys, propelled the raft
with amazing spited down the street.
The liver on the stove was burn-
ing. There was a smell of scorching
through the rooms and a sort of blu-
ish haze of smoke. I hurried back
and took it orf. By the time I had
cleaned the pan Mr. Holcombe was
back again in his own boat. He had
found it at the end of the next
street whore the flood ceased, but no
sign of Ladley. anywhere, Ho had
not seen the police boat.
(`Perhaps that is just as well," he
said philosophically. "We can't go
to the police with a wet slipper and
accuse a man of murder. Wo have
to have a body."
"He killed her," I said obstinately.
"She told me yesterday he was a
fiend. He killed her and threw the
body in the water."'
"Very likely. ,But he didn't throw
it here."
But in spite of that he went over
all the lower ']fall with his boat, feel-
ing every foot of the floor with an
oar, and finally, at the back end, he
looked up at me as I stood on the
stair's.
"There's something here," he
said,
I went cold all over and had to
clutch the railing, But when Terry
had come and the two of them
brought the thing to the surface it
was only the dining room rug, which
I had rolled up and forgotten to car-
ry upstairs!
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At 1.30 Mr. Holcomb.' wt ,t . a
note and sent it off with Terry, arid,
borrowing my hoot', which had leem
Mr. Pitman., nne.;til';atcrl the
int, room and kitchen from at float-
ing plank; the doors wore too mar-
row to adnlit the hoot. I101 he found
nothing more important than a pill-
ing pin, Hr tt'a;; 11141 at 1111 depree-
.4,e1 by his failure. Ile eagle L:le'k,
drenched to the skin, about 3 and
a=ked 94ln11:4r14n1 to search the Lad -
bees' bedroom.
"I have a friend coming Pretty
;;ono, Mrs. Pitman," he 44'tid, "a
young new'sl tper man named 1T,w•-
e!1. I1 -'s a nice boy and if thee, ie
anything to this 1'd like hint to have
it for Sic paper. ;le and I Imo('
been Hering some art;numet4 alma
circ utnrtalltial evidence, too, and 1
know he'd like to work on this."
1 rave hint a pair of .lir. Pitman's:
socks, for his own W01'0 ea turated,
ami while he was chanseines them the
telephone raw,,. It was the theatre
;mein, asking for Jennie T11111,
"Yeti aro certain ::ho is out of the'
elft,?" rnMC one. a,1;,' 1, the ewe
-;cies 110 111 the morning.
"Her husband .aye so."
"Ask hint to come to the mho0 '."
"11, i; not hero,"
"When do you e ;pest'
' 11ir,1 lewd:;,'
''110 not sen; he i:. remims rock."
"Look here;" said the voice al.;ri-
7„ "can't you Riva ate- any etiefac-
t's.,l1? Or don't you care (14?"
. "I've trod you :di I know."
'You Jorit know where eke .s.
"No, .;de," •
"She didn't say Fahr• WM; coming
i•,k to 184.1,:re. roe next week'.,
piece?"
"Ier husband said she went away
for a few days' rest. He went away
about noon and hasn't cone hams.
1'hnt's ail 1 know, except that they
owe mc' about three weeks' rent that
I'd like to get hold of."
The owner of the voice hung up
the receiver with a snap and left me
pondering. It seemed to cne that
Mr. Ladley had been very reckless.
Did he expect any one to believe
that Jennie Brice had gone for a
vacation without notifying the thea-
tre? Especially when one was to re-
hearse that week? I thought it cur-
ious, to say the least, I went back
and told Mr. Holcombe, who put it
clown in his notebook, and together
the went to the Ladleys' room.
The room was in bettor order than
usual, as I have said. The bed was
made -which was out of the ordin-
ary, for Jamie Brice never made ae
bed -but made the way a ratan
makes one, with the blankets wrink-
led and crooked beneath and the
white counterpane puled smoothly
over the top, showing every hump
beneath. I showed Mr. Holcombe
the splasher dotted with ink as usual.
"I'll take it of and soak it in
mills," I said. "It's hie fountain
pen. When the ink doesn't run he
shakes it, and-"
"Where's the clock?" veld Mr,
Holcombe, stopping in wont of the
mantel, with his notebook in his
hand.
"The clock?"
I turned and looked. My onyx
clock was gone from roe malate]
shelf.
Perhaps, it seems strange, but
from the moment I missed that clock
my rage at Mr. Ladley increased to
a fury. It was all I had left of my
former gentility. When times wore
hard and I got behind wieh the rent,
es happened now and then, more
than once I'd been tempted to sell
or pawn it. But I ha:e never done
it, Its ticking had kept me company
on many a lonely night, and its ele-
gance had helped me to keep my
pride and to retain the respect of
my neighbors. For in the Hood lis•
tricts onyx clocks are not plentiful.
Mrs. Bryan, the saloon keeper's
wife, had one, and I had another -
that is, I had had.
I stood staring at the mark in the
dust of the mantel shelf, which Me.
Holcombe was measuring with a
pocket tape measure.
"You are sure you didn't take it
away yourself, Mrs. Pitman?" he
asked.
"Sure? Why I could hardly lift
1,1," I said.
Ile was looking carefully, at the ob
long of dust where the clock had
stood. "The key is gone, too," he
said, busily making entries in his
notebook. "What was the maker's
name?"
ed"Why, 1 don't think I ever notic-
Ho tu.ree(1 to me angrily. "Why
didn't you notice?" the snapped,
"Geed God, woman, do you only ase
your eyes to ery with? flow 'can
you wind a clock time after time
and not know tate maker's name? It
prawns my content uu----the avc•rrt>,,e
''t lee , . unreliable," ta1 1 i tn'•,il •
tn
"Not; a tel t ant
t, It all," I u t , 1 t,
1l
ordinarily
both accurate i tnrl observ-
ing."
1( , 1.•-
"Indeed!" he e ul ee!sese 1].
halide behind him. "Thee perhaps
you min tell lel • tho color or 11141 Tom-
ei! ( have 1411'4 to 1 ltd.' with,"
C eta:rtl 11'! blast p ne 11.:
ere gel, end 1 thenoto tide +.t„ ,I,•
lot Le I,' td 1,.. (Tee rout l nen
,dtit 't ....r, ',.h, ''1 t , been 'tFt'
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tl t and turned hie trod; '''1 ate.
1iut the neat moment, Ir.,' rel ran
Irtl!.. w:,;1(, land ansa pulie'I d'" oat
o!f1 the 0:181!, Behind it, wh'•r,• it
I0:,1 frill , 1(,v r1 towe1 cover:'.1 88;181
1,114-11,4dl" anode nee duel wheel
1 1 Leek l l 00 it lie h, t 1 it up,
his en,
working. rl in.+; with eveit •11, ,1t. 1
_,i only 101',1 11111 oyes.
'i'hi: looks boa . he :!.1 and
reeking 8 cadet .-'':44:0 of the:
11!•7111 or '1'1'0111 on., piece of
,:muse to ;moth• e, oellin c out
drevege. dreelmethe bed out
, 1 Ur 11:•11 am! ereeeees stigeg
lee ele cl with 0 ,L;8ht-v1 metcll
ill I, , , I e 0 _hoot' of
e i e",eli ti..=,Lp ;end t. t1 ; ,r n,•el room
I,. him,i 1.1, 1,180818188.• b11,1:e.,, 4111
•,lie: keire ie leis hoard,
"Very e•lu ,• le.. s84•1;', "very
lllm.Peter, r , the eon ro 11,1 1etre
test • 11.11,,,
I '11'11 14411.^, i1(, ,s•,li lrr.o-
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ink epe!, n,'e one or Lora ,del:•h
.'nes 111.1` made (141 0118 •e•r. And .: -
ing a coop of note paps' . toe'. be -
:emelt tie hone boatel and the
41uc' it hitt 'trial a hairpin and threes
it into the geete to be burned later.
It was by the mereet t c'henee there
,vas 140 lire there, The next nmment
Mr. Holcombe was on his knees by
the fie:m ime• reaching for the scrap.
"Never do that under ,U"h cir-
eumstlm ere," he snapped, fishing
among the 11411,-0. "You might throw
away valuable- Iiello Hultw,.'ll!"
I turned and saw a young man m
the doorway, smiling, his hat in his
hand. Even at that first glance 1
liked Sir. Trowell, and later, when
everyone was against hint and many
curious things were developing, I
stood by him through everything and
:'wen helped him to the thing he
wanted more than anything else in
the world. But that, of course, was
later.
"What's the trouble, Holcombe?"
he asked. "Hitting the trail again?"
"A very curious thing I just hap-
pened on," said Mr. Holcombe.
"Mrs. Pitman, this is Mr. Howell, of
whom I spoke. Sit down, Howell,
and let me read you eometleing."
With the crumpled paper still un-
opened in his hand, Mr.- Holcombe
took his notebook and road aloud
what he had written. I have it be-
fore me now:
'Dog meat, $, boat hire' -that's
not it. Here: 'Yesterday, Sunday,
March 4, Mrs. Pitman, landlady et'
42 Union street, 1108111 two of her
hoarder: quarrelling, n num and his
wife. ;Man's name, Philip Ladlny,;
Wife's name, Jennie Ladley, known
as Jennie Brice at the Liberty Stock
company, where site has boon play-
ing small parts.'
Mr. How1C11 nodded. "I've heard
of leer," he said. "Not much o.E an
actross, I believe."
" 'The husband was also an actor,
out of work, and employing hls lei-
sure time in writing a play'."
"Everybody's doing it," said Mr.
Howell idly.
" `The Shuhorts were to star him
in this," I put in. "He said that the
climax at the end of the second
act-"
Mr. Holcombe shut his notebook
with a snap. `After we have finish-
ed gossiping," he said, "I'll go on,"
"'Employing his leisure time in
writing a play'," quoted Mr. Howell.
"Exactly. 'The husband and wife
were not 011 good terms. They quar-
reled frequently. On Sunday they
fought all day, and Mrs. Ladlcy told
Mrs. Pitman site was married to a
fiend. At 4 o'clock Sunday after-
noon Philip Ladley wont out, return-
ing about 5. Mrs. Pitman carried
their sapper to them at G, and both
ate heartily. She did not sea Mrs.
Ladley at the time, but beard her in
the next room. They were apparent,
ly reconciled. Mrs. Pitman reports
Mr. Ladley in high good hunter. If
the quarrel recommenced during the
night the other boarder, named Rey,
melds, in the next room heard noth-
ing. Mrs. Pitman was up and down
until 1 o'clock, when sae dozed off.
She heard no unusual sound.
" 'At approximately 2 o'clock in
the morning, however, this Iltiynolds
came to 111e room and said he had
hoard some one in a boat in the
lower hall. He and Mrs. Pitman in-
vestigated. Tho boat, which Mrs.
Pitman uses during a Rood and
which she had tied to a stair rail was
gone, having boon out loose, not un-
tied. Everything eteo was quiet,
excopt that .Mrs. Ladley's dog had
boom shut up in a third story room..
"'ret a gtrarter after 4 that thorn.
Mg Mrs. Pitman, thoroughly awake,
heard the boat returning and, 9.11149'
'o t1 4 stairs, mot ! adh'y ('11)44114e in
1,1 e e r
ut tat 1 ! something • out having
e ', , •.
t, 1 1 1111 l r'4 n i r
t lid 11 ht tat. a l
went 1 his normo shutting the do
nut. Title i; worth :Attention, kr
the dog ordinarily slept In tii..r
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ire fl :'n tt e 11 ,•a'um ': t1(
be Aid.
1 .i:' le where re I ate red the414"
11, lIolctombe., "1 tole ' l into
moraine :o feed
the 4do.. Peter, who tea; w'h1:114: ,i41
Mre, Pitman ,•a•; cunt-
''• rete ,rid agitated orcr the
for; !Ht. t1( • do ,shortly before hod
11,e parlor down-
. .ieeer belonging to epee
I:el', e ;gel lett:•,• a knife with a Met-
h, n 1,1-, .. She nmai:mons '!L t'al;41,-
1(:.d t' • I.ttSre let: t night u!,tai
Ilea it wile not l,,rok'rn and th It fl.
•'.'0' t 4k'!1 410114 a sheer m 1"r )'rv,'11
while elm dozed, The 111: 411ren is,
n: Why -'a; the kuifr taken?
W110 !one. it :,n'1 why? Ha..' 1118; 1m111
11141.4810 10.t'a - with his wife or hue he
not?"
Mr. Howell loked at me and slnil-•
8111. ''Ill, Holcombe and I are old
e nervi ' he said. "Mi'. Holcombe
believe.; that circtmlitantial evi,l',iw
may probably hang a man; I do not."
And to Mr, Holcombe: "So having
found a 10,1. :8I,,!t 1' rand a l:;,1(o n
knife, you are p('r' U0ea so. 4180(1er
and sudden death!"
"I have more evidence," till: Hol-
combe said eagerly, and proceeded to
tell what he had founa in the room.
Mr. Howell listened, omiling to him-
self, but at tho mentlon of the onyx
clock he got up and went to the men -
tel,
"By Jove!" ha said and stood look-
ing at the mark in the dust. "Are
you sure the clock was here ye.ter-
day?
"I wound it night before last and
put the key underneath. Yesterday,
before they moved up, I wound it
again."
"The key is gone also. Well, what
of it, Holcombe? Did he brain her
with the clock or choke her with the
key?"
Mr. Holcombe was looking at his
notebook. "To summarize," he said,
"we have here as clews indicating a
crime, the rope, the broken knife,
the slipper, the towel and the clock.
Besides, this scrap of paper may con-
tain some information." He opened
it and sat gazing at it in his palm.
Then, "Is this Lad'ley's writing?" he
asked ole in a curious voice,
"Yes."
I glanced at the slip. Mr. Hol-
combe had just read from his note-
book: "Rope, knife, slipper, towel,
clock."
The slip I had founa behind the
washstand said "Pope, knife, shoe,
towel. Horn"- The rest of the last
word was torn off,
Mr, Howell was staring at the man
tel. "Clock!" 1e repeated,
CHAPTER IV.
It Was after four w0en * Mr. Hol-
combe had finished going over the
room. I offered to ;take both the
gentlemen some tea, for Mr. Pitman
had been an Englishman, and I had
got into the habit of having n cupful
in the afternoon, with a cracker or
a bit of bread, But they refttsecl,
Mr. Howell said he had promised to
Meet a lady, and to bring her
through the flooded district in a boat.
He shook hands with me and smiled
at Mr. Holcombe.
"You will have to restrain his en-
thusiasm, Mrs. Pitman," he said,
"He is a bloodhound 00 100 scent.
If his baying gets of your nerves
just send for lee." He \vett down
the stairs and stepped into the boat,
"Remember, Holcombe," he cabled,
"every well constituted murder has
two things -a motive and a corpse.
You haven't either, only a mass of
trifling details" --
"If everybody waited until he saw
flames instead of relying on the tes-
timony of the •smoke," Mut Holcombe
snapped, "what would tho fire loss
be?"
Mr. Howell poled his boat to the
front door and, sitting down, pre-
pared to row out.
"You aro warned, Mrs. Pitman,"
he called to me. "If he doesn't find
a body to fit the clews he's quite
capable of making one to !ll the de-
mand,"
"Hoye"- said Mr. Holcombe,
looking at the slip again. "'rho tail
of the '11' is torn off -evidently Only
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181;e tl,., pour. are 1l0111)' -with 114.
and Micro tine vi -it; of the petrol
wagon are ore- of' th2=.' Tuella:
eielite tied- no amount of 1'.1..•titioa
enabled any of us to treat each con-
tempt, I Wats unc4,111fortablc, antii I
remembered that my 9ral:dis,uher
111,11 been one of the first we:yet•: of
b"eity enol 11181, if the peto ..:l
Peen at my house more than ;,aloe,
the entire neighborhood would testi-
fy that my boarders were usually or-
derly.
At the door some one touched ole
on the arm. It was Mr. Ilolc'ombe
again.
"I have been thinking it over," he
said, "and I believe you'd better not
mention the piece of paper that you
found behind the washstand. They
might say the whole thing is a hoax."
"Very well," I agreed, and went
in.
The police sergeant in charge '
knew me at once, having stopped at
my house more than once in flood
time for a cup of hot coffee.
"Sit down, Mrs. Pitman," he said,
"I suppose you are still making the
best cofl'oe and doughnuts do tha city
of Allegheny? Well, what's the
trouble in your district? Want 1111
injunction against the river 'for
trespass?"
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fine tit Life insurance Co.
Assurance
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G. W. ABRAHAM
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C. C. RAIVIAGE, U.U.S., L.D.S.
LR JSSELS 0111'.
seredeem Royal Celleee of Dental
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of riemelit.e. 1+ 1,11ser. 111 all
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''1:100 O <r• :ita,a,lard 1181118,
Phone 2008
WM. SP,.t-ICE
.Lent aloe r1, 1 tiTr Pitot-,n''.'"i
t. I "it 1,r.. 11 1 4th •. 'Loy
•nota ueetai 0 ;o the room?"
"Yes. lir."
"You er., certain net w !1 Dot tired
it on the parlor mantel tw';;•n the
water goes, down?"
"The h, mantels are uneove'•ed now. ,
It is not therm"
' s•,et titin'. 1:ollev has 1_01744 for
"Yes, sir."
"He'd be a fool to try to run
away, unless -Grave's, you'd better
get hold of the fellow, and keel) hien
until either the woman is found or
the hotly. The liver is falling, in a
couple of days wt. will know if she
is around the premises anywl'.:r1."
Before. I left I described Jennie
Brice for them carefully. tasked
what she probably wore, if sae had
gone away as her husband said, I
had no idea; she had a lot of clothes
and dressed a good bit. But I re-
called that I had seen lying ca, the
bed the black and white dress with
the rest collar, and they took that
down, as well as the brown vali e,
The chief rose and opened the
door for me: himself. "1f site actu-
ally left at the time you menton,"
he said, "site ought not to be lurid to
find. There are not Many trade be-
fore 7 in the morning, and must of
thein are locals,"
(To Be Continued.)
Et LA, 1014.
Conve• asts C.40r l :aiwser ::rid C. S
Agent for
The lmpenai Life P .:,ai'an..r, Co. of
- Can,ed,.
and
Ocean Accident Guarantee Corpora.
Con, Limited
11 ri'nt Ivo u a'' Auto.,u1,• In
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Plate I.i dere, l,-U..:,U •, etc
l'hone 2225 Efltel, One
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ll� , o6� ouhfle end Wind Ins.
Cr 14,PANIES
For tdruss. no and vicinity Phone 64
,JA:'I.ra„"$ M'F,'tDZEo(N
Agent Enid Mutual Eire Insurance Csmpair
Also
iurifei i hitt ?see, In Bila
Raga insurance
Phone 42 But: 1 Truahmry 4trect lituFsa'
W i, W:.! I t'I2T,L"?rax 86 u°fP
LIMITED
lCa•°i .Nt.{Gi'z 'de' n a t le.a r'
D, M. SCOTT
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PRICES MODERATE
n^or r'tor•nnes oun,.u11 x1111 ur'r r -n who�r.sl,•.
I bnv,• uIm1.1atrd nt. F51 , v2,:
T. T. M'RAE
M. E., M. O. i'.. ,4i' 0.
M. C. 13., Village of Biu,xl
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Otllee•nt 1:'vrde11e+, 111”4144741,
ln uin' (14,0 111.. 1'5.1,1.
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BARRISTEr• SOLICITOR,
CONVE' ANGER, NOTARY PUBLIC
Lf^.KI 4LO01c • BRUSSELS
C ?. WARDLAW
Hu4or grl, li..te of tIls Untarto weterinnl
Oollerl. Day and night valla. .:fano nerosi
Irnottr Mill, Et1,«1.
:::,dutit..
Another Firm
Out ,'.>» 1f usiness
Just one of the news items which are appearing in paper,
quite too often theac days throughout the Dominion. And
what is the reason? There is only one, and that is lack of
loyalty to hone institutions and the lure of the flashing
publicity of the large: city establishments. - Many citizens,
while earning their wages and salaries 111 one place, never-
theless send a large proportion of this money out of the
community for questionable bargains, thus depriving such
community of that much necessary working capital.
Business Me
o the S
They have local firms who are able and ready to supply
then with all their requirements, yet for the most trivial
reason or excuse they will consent to extend this patronage
to outside firms, thus helping to build up distant cities at
the expense of their home town. They seem to forget that
this money so sent out might otherwise have been largely
'returned to them by those with whom they should have left
this business. Therefore, when in need of printed matter of
any kind, whether farmer, business man or professional man,
always extend first consideration to
The Post
Publishing .House