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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-03-20, Page 2Lovers of fine tea prefer: Salada quality to. premiums 'Fresh from the, gardens' The Step the Stairs By ISABEL OSTRANDER BEGIN HERE TODAY Tltt report of a revolver, .folle'wed by hurrying footstepson the stairs, inter- rupts the socialevening which Detective Barry had plannedto spend with his friend; Professor Semyonov,. in the tat- ter's room on the fifth floor of a New Torte apartment house. - Barry a, 1 the Pro- fessor .rush .down' stairs and discover that beautiful Miriam Vane, socletyy , *. trait painter, has been murdered in her studio apartment on thethird door, Gor- don Ladd, a our swot , i second young t7HenryGriswold, an Irasolble Cor and lien y f -s bachelor from the fourth enter the studio after being told of the murder. GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II.-(Cont'd.) "I wasn't thinking of the door," Barry admitted. "I made for the studio and found the body. You saw it, of course?" Craig nodded. "Yes. The Vane woman mutt have been painting away at that picture when the shot was fired, fur the paint is still wet on it, but the stool was overturned so the medical examiner couldn't tell from the position of the body whether she had been tilting or (standing when the end came; the autopsy'll show that, I suppose, from the course of the bullet" Alertness scores everywhere, Wrigley's creates pep and ear ergs, and keeps you alert, A 5/ package may save you from going to sleep at the wheel of your car. C U KARL. 11 1,WEEKLY SAILINGS TO EUROPE 1:41111. 1I l +LSCAM � 11411 I IDANIIA + Atri :*',f ' i:0. 1'ANTONIA qeVISONisti i IifNew'Cabin Class mlmimum rales -to - North British Ports, $130. To the Isthannsl Ports, $135. dNo change an luxury of accommodation, or yaxcellence of menu and services pedal rebate of 12% on round in Cabin Class bookings during .(fBne ten off-season months. Tourist ,1ftird Cabin rates also adjusted,; 1,1Vookly sailings from Montreal (and Quebec) m. . tram April 26th onwards, e, Book through The Cunard tine, Corner or,re r of Boy and Wellington Streets Toronto, (Tel. Tsl . sighs n471), or any steamship agent. JY CANADIAN SERV'I'CE. CABIN +TOURIST THIRD CABIN-i-TrURO CUSS: assasentenatentonassanzionntazenzatos ISSUE No. .I 0—'30 "What did the 'tenants have to say for themselves?" "Well, the old grouch on the floor above, Griswold, claiins to know no- thing about it and care less. He's a widower and from what the lads from. the precinct said, I shouldn't wonder if he's got a lot of money; I don't know why he's living down in this ears he 1 house, He ars rickety old hos . y r doesn't know thtie ane woman and never exchanged a word with her. "The young pian downstairs, `Gor- don Ladd, admits he knew her slightly but declares he hasn't seen her in some time. Then Miss Patricia Shaw, the lady from the top floor, says she and Mrs. Vane have spoken to each other once or twice, it a neighborly sort of way, and the precinct boys say she seemed all upset by what had hap- pened. That's about all they managed to get before I carie." CHAPTER III. "It's a facer, ain't it?" Craig asked frankly. "It looks as if the whole house was in on this affdtr, except the professor, of course. Anything more you want to see here, John?" "No, I've seen enough," Barry re- plied wsth a significance which was lost upon the other. "If you want me to trail along with you while you interview the tenants we'd better be moving." "Ali right, I get you." Craig led. "It's mid- nightr to the door. Its pest t d the way night nos: and I guess we'll start with Muss Shaw." The footsteps had approached very near the door when Craig knocked and almost at once the handle turned and a ,young woman stood before them. With her small, oval, colorless face and pale hair clipped short sl'e seem- ed almost a girl at first glance, but closer inspection revealed faint but mature lines and a certain poise in spite of her obvious agitation that in- dicated a woman nearer 30 than 20. "We're front polite headquarters, ma'am" Craig cleared his throat. "Come in." Her voice was quiet and controlled, but Barry observed that a muscle in her thin cheek twitch- ed slightly. She threw the door wide, revealing a living room barely furn- ished almost to desolation, with cheap matting rugs upon the uneven, paint- ed floor and the ugly, straight lines of a few dull, fumed -oak mission tables and chairs scattered about. "You are Miss Shaw?" asked Craig, seating himself ginge.:y upon the edge of a chair. "Patricia Shaw, although I • oeea sionally sign my articles `Patsy." The young woman nodded. "I write for the magazines, you know, I have lived here four years next October; I atm 27 years old, and I came origin- ally from Omaha." "I have no relatives in New York that I know of, but the editors of sev eral magazines published in the neigh borhaoi can 'vouch for me, and the agent of this building." "You stated that you did not hear a shot fired from below," said Craig "Are you quite sure, Miss Shaw?" "I am sure that I heard nothing that sounded at the time like a -a shot," Her voice trembled a little "At least, it diel not occur to rue that a shot had been fired, There were several sharp, crashing peals of thun- der before the storm passed. After that I heard rather loud knocking upon seine door below but I did not think anything of it, and I must have fallen into a doze when someone rap- ped upon my own door. It was a policeman, and he told the what --what had happened, At first .T was horror- stricken. I -I can scarcely remember what I said or did! • "I ant -was -the only woman ten- ant in the building bc.ides Mrs, Vane, and I suppose I must have been hys- terical but it carte to me that she night perhaps have been only wound ed in seine accidental fashion; that she night need the services of another woman. I dressed as you see me now and descended to find the detectives there and alt the other tenants except the old Russian gentleman who has the apartment just below me, and a polite roe doctor of some sort. Sheaux d an e p d Craig prompted her. "You Saw the body also?" Miss Shaw inclined her heed and seemed for a moment unable to con- tinue, . When she spoke it was .in a low, shaking voice scarcely above a whisper, "Yes. She--I-I saw at a glance', somehow that it nuist bo true, but I couldn't help going to her and touch- ing her hand," With a sign to Sergeant Craig, Barry interveited in a soothingly sym- pathetic tone. "You knew, hYIrs. Vane?" "Not in a formal serine, We had smiled' at each other and nodded when we happened to meet on the stairs." There .was a little catch in her breath'. and then: she hurried ori; "I. was interested, 'enough to go to one or two of the spring exhibitions which Contained spechiterts of her work. I I admired heraud I was curious' to see her studio, although I am Lot a busy- body, as a rule. One day about three weeks ago I was passing'lter door just as it opet-ed and. one of her patrons came out; the lady whose portrait 'is there now in the studio.. "You mean the one on the easel, thelady standing en the staircase?" asked Barry quickly. "Yes. I recognized- it tonight at a glance. Mrs: Vane stopped me that day is her visitor left; it was ,about a trivial • matter, sono nail of mine which she had received."' The.youne woman halted and passed one hand across her eyes, "Wo didn't talk about anything in _particular, and I only remained a few minutes, but she was so nice and unaffected and -and beautiful, too, that my little call left a deep impression upon Inc." "You don't remember what you talk- ed about?" There was incredulity and a touch of sharpness in Barry's tones which ..made Miss Shaw straighten in her chair, "I do not, except, in a general way," she replied, with the first sign of re- sentmenshe h Rt which had shown. Iain. ' ' very sensitive to environment, to im- pressions, if by any' chance 'you know what that means. The conversation was the inconsequential one of two women, strangers yet neighbors." "When did you sea her again?" Barry persisted. "Did she tall upon you in return, Miss Shaw?" "No, I didn't ask her!" the young woman responded with a note of dog- ged defiat-ce in her tones. "I was ashamed to do so! You've seen her apartment; look about you here! Four years of failure haven't taken away all my pride and self-respect, and I couldn't endure the thought of having her see -this!" The pale oval of her face flamed even in shadow, and then as suddenly her color faded and she added, her voice ,sunk nice more almost to a whisper: "I encountered Mrs. Vane once or twice in the vestibule after that and we greeted each other pieasantly,sbut we did not bold any conversatino, and I never entered her studio again until tonight when I went down and saw her lying there dead! That is all that T can tell you, gentlemen." With a swift glance at Craig, Barry, rose but made no move toward the door. "When was tine last time you saw'. Mrs. Vane alive, Miss Shaw?" "One afternoon last week; Thurs- day, I think. She -was entering her studio as I same down the stairs and she olid not see me." "Are you acquainted with any of the other tenants in the house?" Barry's abrupt change of topic evi- dently astonished her, but she drew herself up and responded coldly: "I ant not." "Was Mrs. Vane?" Tha question cane with almost startling sudden- ness. "I do not know. I have no reason to think so, and as I have told you, I am not a busybody." "Very well, I don't think we'll trouble the lady any further tonight, shall we, Sergeant Craig?" Barry turned formally toward his confrere who shook his head dumbly. Miss Shaw opened her lips to speak, hesitated as though she had thought better of it, and preceded theta with dignity to the door, "Goodnight, gentlemen." There was just the slightest shade of pause before the last word which Ient it irony, and the door closed with emphasis behind them. "That was one of the things I want- ed to find out!" he responded. 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