HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-05-15, Page 6he Stcp on the Stairs
By ISABEL OSTRANDER
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CHAPTER XI.—(Cont'd.)
"She asked if the Griswold woman
had 'displayed- any particular talent
in any direction such as amateur
theatricals or that sort of thing, but
all f recalled the creature had done
had been to•sketch clever but rather
cruel caricatures now and then for
our amusement."
"Just one more question, Mrs. Tyr-
rell," L egged. Barry. "You said the
girl's hair looked as if it had been
bleached out in the sun; do you re-
member whether it was - curly or
straight?"
"Straight as a string," Mrs. Tyr-
rellresponded. "Irenc's hair had been
soft and curling about her, face, while
her sister's was flat and drink and
unpleasant -looking as.though she had
been drowned! Now I really' must
hurry or you'll miss ,your train."
He took leave of Mrs, Tyrrell at he had cQndongd her unfaithfulness,
the station just as the New York train and has been blackmailing him ever
was pullin« in, but made' no attempt since, playing lith fire but never again
to get aboard; instead he ,waited for Permitting herself to be burned; since
jt wouk mean the loss of her income.
"She may have almost forgotten that
first -mad escapade, but she reckoned
without that little sister of the girl-
wife whose life she had brought down
to the grave.
"She was plentifully supplied with
money and the little sister was poor,
with her own living to make, while she
pursued her search, but she continued..
it for seven years, and then the long
arm of coincidence stepped in and
placed her enemy within her reach.
Only two things puzzle me; when she
first knew that Mrs. Vane was Miriam
Griswold, and what became of the
small pistol with•which she fired from
the fire -escape through the bull's-eye
which she had previously marked upon
the canvas of the portrait• straight
into Mrs. Vane's heart. Can you tell
us, Miss Barrows?"
He turned abruptly to the small
figure of Miss Shaw, butthis timeshe
tars and lend his august countenance did not shrink, nor was there '.Ile
tc. the proceedings. and Sergeant slightest surprise or hesitation as she
g replied:.
Craig stoi d near, looking as though "Yes, the pistol is here. I knew
he Were not quite sure what was going that Pr•fesser Sgmyonovs'apartnment
to drop cm him, while, unseen, outside was the only one in the building which
the door two stalwart men remained
on gu:•+rd,
"I've got a -little story o tell you
all; it + ot.'t take long." The figure
it• the window straightened.
Deep silence rewarded him save for
enabled' to provide for .'her younger
sister, remove her by law from the
hand of their guardianandhave-her
completely cured of the physical dis-
ability which had crippled her. 'In re-
turn the younger -sister adored her
passionately i
p y w th a single -hearted de-
votion which bore fruit in later years.
"Wher, the woman known tc all of
you Mit one as `Mrs. Vane' eloped with
the husband of the older sister it
broke her heart and destroyed her
mind. She died within the year and
when her husband heard of it he shot
himself in remorse; the cartridge shell
from that shot was found among the
so-called Mrs. Vane's effects 'a few
days. ago.
"Irl the meantime, however,she had
found her husband again, succeeded
by a ruse in tnak:ng oircunmstanoes ap-
pear in the eye.,of the law as though
the Western express and as he entered
the Pullman he chuckled to himself.
"Gad what luck!" he murmured -
"What a coincidence! Fate played
right into her hands!"
CHAPTER XII.
The group which gathered in Pro-
fessor Sernyonov's shabby, comfortable
living room a fey days later was a
strangely assorted one, but the faces
of all held the same intent expression
and their eyes were focussed on the
boyish figure which lounged easily in
the window seat. All the tenants of
the huuse were present except the
keeper of the antique shop; Gordon
Ladd, moody and silent; Henry Gris-
wold with his little skull -cap; the pro-
fessor himself, as imperturbable as
ever, and even the pale, shrinking lit-
tle Miss Shaw from her attic :Audio.
In addition the Chief had conde-
scended to come over from headquar-
would be exempt from search, so while
t was downstairs with you, Sergeant
Barry, before Sergeant Craig carne up
I slipped in here—the deur had been
left open—and dropped the pistol be=
hind that pile of violin music. I could
an mudilbe
gull, from Craig and a tst•e it hadn't been touched for months."
slight rustle of Miss Shaw's gown as "It is nearly a month since," the
she settled back resignedly in her young woman went on, "going out late
chair. Barry went on: ore evening I passed. Mrs. Vane's door
"Long ego out in a village : Michi- and heard her in a heated discussion
gan, two girls were left orphans under with Mr. Griswold. Of course I knew
the rascally guardianship of a hypo- who he was from the day he came here
• critical bar!: president. The older girl tt live, so I stopped and listened. She
was delicate. the younger crippled to was making a. demand for more money
the point of physical deformity but and I soon heard enough to tell me
with
a strop det n'ntinedi. alert mind, that mr search was finally ended. I
They were pneee.ted -:.t a lttlo pro- had a speaking acquaintance with her
arty and nd h
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� t made his P al•
meads and t awe .rte
mind to marry the oldest girl off as after that night
I managed to have her invite me into
rally and as well as possible but he her studio.
:RIB' his chance with the younger one "I watched her as she sat upon her
because of her r i fi, n ity. ire put her stool, painting, saw that her breast
in an institn en ti: h was practically was on a level with the third step. of
an idiot neeinio. and her older sister the -stairs in the portrait, and, getting
was pawed to help he:. behind it, ntarke' the spot on the can:
'It is a wewler that the little crip- vas with a bit of red
sees mir•1 , .. that
point, Youjsee
n r• ,,
give
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horrors a! t 1 r, but it didn't even what
planned duding that -wthk just
when a grc t melon- andgrief carne what I should do; I knan that she
into her Itf Their . m 'often o worked at nightand I only
T c u u rt gran sent the awaited my opportunity." ."
o'detc er to t fa:ch unable school in) She nodded and even smiled slightly
another - aa•:. •thaee a da, nhter of a at Craig, who stood awkwamdly dangl-
rich f. • ' ford of her and took ing in his huge hands the tiny pistol
he f ":r, hi a 'b.-tant city he had retrieved from beneath the
forr -„ i ,ea thin. dusty heap of music.
(reline met and married "That's what I did it with; I've
a zuw. m she loved de- carried it for seven years, but I'm
votedly. hu. Rhe, tel Int,. the toils of a finished with it no::"
design+ a eeeeee unrlet fable fas-
canat o. an who was shot to
death , dre , 4'w nights ago, the
erring i lr a ; Rife of .lir. Gris
weld, /tare "
A gap -Snit ua„ like the stirring
of dry leave rail around the little
circle, 'tut no one spoke and after a
moment Barry ,•ontint•ed:
"There were two years of happy
Married rife, however, before the other
woman appeared upon the scene, and
daring those two years the bride was
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"What made you go down again
afterwards, , iVltss.n
Craig evidently
felt that something was expected of
him. "I mean when the medical ex-
aminer was there and ordered you
away from the rpse?"
"I wanted to Linear the brown paint
which I new :a. still wet on the can-
vas, over the bullet hole so that it
would not be so readily discovered,
and I did." She turned to Barry. "I
don't in the least care what happens
to me now, but I am curious to know
what made you suspect me at first."
"The calibre of the pistol used," he
replied. "It was distinctly a woman's
weapon; Mrs. Vane was the ruthless,
predatory type who if she turned sex
outlaw would be the natural enemy of
all women; you were the only other
feminine tenant in the house and you
made contradistory statements. When
I found the bullet hole in the canvas
I knew the ahot must have been fired
from just outside the window, the fire
escape was the only means of access
and the choice lay between you and
Mr, Griswold. He would not have paid
blackmail to her all these years if he
had meant to run his own neck into
a noose by eliminating her, so when I
started West we were pretty sure of
our ground, Sergeant Craig and I."
"But the steps we heard on the
stairs!" Professor Semyonov ex-
claimed.
"They were those of Mr, Griswold
ascending and a moment later Mr.
Ladd descending," Barry remarked.
"Chief, I think our :ase is finished."
"May I speak?" Professor Semy-
onov rose before the official could re-
ply. "if it can be proven that this
young lady was for years an inmate
of an institute for the crippled and
feeble-minded I think that I can assist gr
in furthering the ends of real justice,
providing you are willing, sir, to en- Ha
trust her to my care. A nine -days'
s, sation in the newspapers, a year or
so for Miss Barrows in a quiet retreat
'of which I know and which the Dis-
trict Attorney himself will endorse and
the world. Will have forgotten alike
the' evil' woman -whose execution took
'piece beneath this roof and the man-
ner of it."
"I'll take a .ohance-on you any time
Professor!" The'Chief' spoke in' `a
relieved tone, "Sergeant Craig, see
that Miss Barrows is placed in the
prison ward at Bellevue temporarily,
under the charge of manslaughter."'
the ou i
Afteri woman young had.been
lod away sobbing 'hysterically, Pro-
fessor Semyonov turned once more to
Barry with a whimsical smile.
"You were right,' my friend, it had
everything to de with the crime after
all; that step on the stairs."
(The End.):
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Well, they won't be long;
Nothing veers so quickly -
As a thoughtless throng!
Don't take any notice,
But keep on along,
Pull your belt up tighter
And just sing this song:
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There's a hill aa well;
What will come to -morrow
You can never tell.
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Well, it might be worse!
Some folks may be Iooktttg
In an empty purse.
To your dull condition
Quite a spark you'll bring,
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And you start to sing:
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. There's a hill as well;
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Rain can't last for ever,
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Take your old umbrella
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There's a hill as well;
What will come to -morrow
You can never tell.
The world knows nothing of
eatest. men,—Sir Henry Taylor, ,
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It was as the conference of the Na-
tional Council of Girls' Clubs, attend-
ed by girls employed in factories,
trade, -and in domestic service.
The 'problem of the modern girl
arose during a discussion on the funs
tions of the •clubs. •
"1 am tired," declared Josephine
Duckworth, secretary of the Liverpool
Union of Girls' Clubs, •'of' hearing
these endless criticisms of the modern
girl. Thegirl of to -day aa'seen in our
clubs has a sense of responsibility of
which any section of the 'community
could be proud,
"When you get to know her as we
know. her at the clubs, you see that
she has a very much greater sense of,
responsibility and a desire for service
than her Victorian predecessor, What
is merely a- happy -and jolly outlook on
life is too often interpreted by those
eager to cbiticize the modern girl as
frivolity. Site takes a sane and
healthy interest in politics, but she
has not much time for partisanship:"
Miss A. Quiet,' of Manchester, sug-
gested that the girl of to -day had to
do all her living in her leisure time be-
cause her work was so exacting.
"Therefore," said Miss Quint, "she
seeks one 'crowded hour of glorious
life' to make up for the age -long day
at the factory or shop. Clubs are be-
ginning to realize that this is the rea-
son why ,so many girls seek excite-
ment in the form of pictures, dances,
and the streets."
• In a debate on the ways in which
women may be helped in their work
by legislation, a number of the giria
read short papers which were followed
by a general exchange of views,
Miss E. Godfrey (Shoreditch) de-
clared that a girl should not be turned
away from a labor exchange as "not
genuinely seeking work' because she
rehired to take a floor -mopping job.
"it is unfair to the mistress• and to
girl," she urged, "to force imeult-
ble material into domestic service.
lien the servant is given every even -
g, one half-day a week, • and every.
today free, like other girls, then I
ill take a floor -mopping job myself,
t not before then."
Miss Dorothy Elliott, National Union
General and Municipal Workers,
so protested against taking unskilled
ople into: domestic service- There
s no reason, she said, why domestic
rvice should not be regulated by.
, as other industries ware.
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Today is your day and mine, the
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terms of human helpfulness. This
know, for we have learned from
experience that any other course
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Some men are born with. what is
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The World and
The 8 -Hour Day
How Overtime is Twisted to'
Break the Spirit of the En.:
actment Even if the Let-
ter of the Law is Appar
entl r Observed
There are many who assert that
the Washington Pact for the eighfn
hour working day is adopted by Eng.:
land,. that other countries, even, it
they accept Its provisions, will flnit
some .way of evasion.
This non-compliance is generally as.:
sociated with European countries,'but
there is a difficulty, too, with Anted
-
ca. "G,. G. S.," writing in the "Co-
operative News," says: "With the
Government's promises to ,get Parlia-
went to at last give legislative effeetr
to the Washington Pact foie the eight,•
hour maximum :working' day, it wilt,
be -as well to keep the overtime ques.
tion well in mind,"
Under the title of "Iiovr New York
Geta `Round• the 484,Iour• Week," "Gf.
G. S.," iu his Cooperative News, Lon-
don, contribution, says:
"A discovery has been made by -the
State.Labor Department of New York=
that whenever. the Legislature seeks,
to restrict thelength' of the working
week of women in the shops and tae
tortes of. the State, the employers
make every effort to obtain permission
for exemption to meet seasons of ex;
•ceptional demand.
"The present New York State Law
permits a maximum of seventy-eight
hours of overtime to be worked in the
case of awoman, -in thecourse of a.
year. Questions have 'arisen from
time to time of the way in which the
exception clause was being used, and.
a recent investigation has given the
following results;
'The inquiry concerned seventy:
hree factories and forty-eight loci•
antile establishments in which over
ime was worked ,by women. It was
iscovered that as a rule the overtime
llowance was worked: no natter
whether a peak period of demand
xisted or otherwise. Most frequent-
y, the firms added the seventy-eight
out's to their regular schedules in or-
es to keep their plants going as long.
s permitted by law.
Fifteen Minutes Extra
"Thirteen factories and farcy stores
efinitely planted to increase their
orkiug Hours. Some added fifteen
o eighteen minutes daily; a bail-
out',
allour, hour, or one -and -a -half hours on
ertaln days; fon'-and-a half houses on
lie shortest day of the week until the
aximum allowance was exhausted
r a woman-. It seems customary to
se the overtime on Saturdays
roughout the year; all forty stares
ed It in that way from fifteen niin-
tes upwards to ninety minutes.
"Seven of the factories altered their
orking period from six to five days
week by using the overtime allow-
ce. One did this by working over -
mei'
of a halt -horn• on throe days each
ek throughout the year; the other
had the five-day week in the sum-
er and worked from thirty to sixty,
notes overtime daily In that period.
ur factories—to use a technical
nr of 'staggering' -managed to run
ong day continuously.
'The 'staggering' meant working
women in turn to use up their
ertime allowance. A woman would
VT)
off Iter_.seventy-eight hours by
hour a day for five days of a week.
ren she had done sixteen weeks on
overtime basis she was placed on
ordinary basis, The overtime wo-
rt were worked in groups so' that
me of them would 'beworking the
ra hour every day.
Thus the factory got in au extra
r every day of the year from some
thework-people,
A schedule for
department showed one set of wo-
u on the extra hour daily from
nary 1 to April 23; another set
m latter date to June 1; overtime
not worked in summer; a third
was on overtime from September
o Deecmiter 31,
Those responsil)le for the Inquiry
o had a difficulty in coming to a
fusion In opinions, It is consider-
tardly justifiable to say whether
ot the demand for overtime is
d on seasonable or emergency
ods from the study of 121'estab-.
lents, 'Nevertheless, the fact re -
ns that of the 121 plants, employ
around,10,000• women, fifty-seven
ed overtime during their busy
ns or in omeegeneies, whilst
y -font• firms spread their overtime
arty throughout the year in order
ork their plants on a longer doily
eekly basis'."
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That which raises a country, that
which strengthens a country, and that
which .dignifies a country, that which .
spreads her power, •creates her moral
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lions, and bows down the pride of na-
tions to her—tile instrument of obedl,
once, the fountain of supremacy, the
true throne, crown, and sceptre of a
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