The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-10-08, Page 6Nki7E, ".11
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MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
oeuneniGnr pee/ ev MARY ROBERTS RIIVEHART
SYNOPSIS
Six people, Horace Johnson (who
teile the story), his wife, old Mrs.
Dane, Herbert Robinson and his sis-
ter, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and
neighbors, are in the habit of holding
m
I confess to a nervous tightening
of my musrcles as we made ouway
around the house. if the key was
there, we were on the track of a rev-
elation that might revolutionize much
that we had held fundemental in
eekly meetings. At one of them,
science and in our knowledge of life
Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the
itself, If, sitting in Mrs. Dane's quiet
ream, a woman could tell us what was
happening in a house a mile or so
away it opened up a new earth. Al
most a new heaven,
The sitting opens with the cust
omary table rapping and other incon- I stopped and touched Sperry's
arm. "This Miss Jeremy --did she
sequential and humorous happenings.
Then the medium goes into a trance know Arthur Wells or Elinor? If
she knew the house, and the situation
and gives disjointed details of a mur- .
der. After the sitting breaks ,up and between them, isn't it barely possible
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the members go home, Sperry tele- hat she anticipated this thing?"
phones Johnson and tells him Arthur "We knew thent," he said gruffly,
Wells had killed himself. "whatever we anticipated, it wasn't
this."
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Sperry had a pocket flash, and when
we found the door locked we proceed-
ed with our search for the key.
"Here's the key," Sperry said, and
held it out. The flash wavered in his
hand, and his voice was strained.
We admitted ourselves.
"Look here, Sperry," I said, as we
"Wells was shot about 9.30," lie stood inside the door, "they don't
program by arranging a spiritualistic
seance with Miss Jeremy, a friend of
Dr. Sperry and not a professional, as
.the medium,
I told him he was right,
"Then that fixes the time at which
Miss Jeremy told us of the murder,"
he came back over the phone.
There was silence at Sperry's end
of the wire. Then:
said, and rang off.
I am not ashamed to confess that
my hands shook as I hung up the re-
ceiver. As I stood there. I wondered
want me here. They've sent for you,
but I'm the most casual sort of an ac -
viction that if the house caught fire
while 1 was in the midst of the pro-
cess, I would complete it and wipe
the soap from my face before I would
take up the fire-extinguisher.
Had he killed himself, or had Eli-
nor killed him? Was she the sort to
sacrifice herself to a violent impulse,
Would she choose the hard way, when
there was the easy one of the divorce
court? I thought not. And the same
was true of Ellingham. Here were
from the nursery abow. She was
frantic, but she had to soothe them.
The governess, however, came in al-
most immediately, and she had sent
her to the telephone to stomnon help,
calling Sperry first of all, and then
the, •police.
"Have you seen the revolver?" I
asked.
"Yes. It's all right, apparently.
Only one shot had been fired."
"How soon did they get a doctor?"
"It must have been some time.
They gave up telephoning,and the
governess went out, filially, and found
one."
"Then, while she was
"Possibly," Sperry said. "If we start
with the hypothesis that she was ly-
ing."
"If she cleaned up here for any
reason," • I began and commenced a.
desultory examination of the room.
Just why 1 looked behind the bathtub
two people, both of them careful of forcesene to an explanation I am
appearance, if not of fact, There was somewhat loath to make, but which
another possibility too. That he had will explain a rather unusual proceed -
learned something while he was dres- ing. For some time my wife has felt
sing, had attacked or threatened her that I smoked heavily, and out of her
with a razor, 'and she had killed him solicitude for me has limited me to
in self-defence. one cigar dinner. But as I have been
1 had reached that point when a heavy smoker for years I have
Sperry came down the staircase ush- found this a great hardship, and have
ering out the detective and the medi- therefore kept a reserve store, by ar-
eal man. He came to the library rangement with the housemaid, be -
door and stood looking at me, with hind my tub. In self-defense I must
his face rather paler than usual. also state that I seldom have recourse
"I'll take you up now," he said. to such stealthy measures.
Site's in her room, in bed, and she (To be Continued.)
has had an opiate."
"Was he shot above the ear?"
TIM'S BOYS ARE
"Yes." BACK AGAIN
I did not look at him, nor he at
me. We climbed the stairs and en- To the Editur av all thim
quaintance.. I haven't any business tered the room, where, according to Wingham .paypers.
here."
linor's story, Arthur Wells had kill-
Deer Sur:—
for the first time whether there might That struck him, too. We had both ed himself. It was a dressing -room, intinded tellin ye befoor that we
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not be, after all, a spirit -world sur- been so obsessed with the scene at aMiss Jeremy had described. A hev thine Hoigh School byes back wid
' us
rounding us, cognizant of all that we Mrs. Dane's that we had not thought wardrobe, a table with books and agin, but havin so manny other
magazines in disorder, two chairs, tings to wroite about, I clave fergot
did, touching but intangible, sentient of anything else.
and a couch, constituted the furnish- to minshan it. I may say' that thine
but tuned above our common senses? 'Suppose you sit down in the lib-
ings. Beyond was a bathroom. On a lads do be corrin on foine, be rayson
I was shocked by the news, but not rary," he said. "The chances are a- av the quare tings they do be larnin
greatly grieved. The Wellses had been out av theer books, an the useful gin -
among us but not of us, as I have eral informashun they git from me at
said. Of the two, myself had pre- noights, whin the missus isn't at
ferred Arthur. His faults were on Name to make thim slitay up in theer
the surface. He drank hard, gambled, room.
and could not always pay his gam- Bein both counthry byes, av coorse
bling debts but underneath it all there they hev heered the shtory av the
had always been something boyishly down throdden farrumer so after that
honest about him. He had played, it they belaive it is thrue, sCi wan noight
is true, through most of the thirty lasht wake I tought I wud give thine
years that now marked his whole life, a little naidful inshtruckshun about
but he could have been made a man
by the right woman. And he had
married the wrong one.
Of Elinor Wells have only my
gainst her coming down, and the ser-
vants don't matter."
As a matter of fact, we learned
later that all the servants were °tit
except the nursery governess. There
were two small children. There was
a servants' ball somewhere, and, with
chair by a window the dead man's
evening clothes were neatly laid out,
his shoes beneath. His top hat and
folded gloves were on the table.
Wells lay on the couch.
The house was absolutely still.
When I glanced at Sperry he was
the exception of the butler, it was staring at the ceiling, and I followed
after two before they commenced to
straggle in. Except two plain -clothes
men from the central office, a physi-
cian who was with Elinor in her
room, and the governess, there was
no one else in the house but the chil-
dren, asleep in the nursery.
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wife'- verdict, and 1 have found that,
as is the way with many good women
her judgment of her own sex is rath-
er merciless. A tall, handsome girl,
very dark, rny wife has characterized
ler ae cold, calculating and ambitious
She has said frequently, too, that Eli -
nee Wells was a disappointed woman,
that her marriage, while giving her
zocial identity, had disappointed her tragedy, a real and terrible one. Sup -
n a monetary way.
There was no doubt, by the time
they had lived in our neighborhood
for a year, that a complication had
riven in the shape of another man.
Our street has never had a scandal
en it, except the one when the l3er- throwing watches and pens about.
rington's music teacher ran away with I remember moving impatiently,
their coachman, in the days of car- and trying to argue myself into my
riages. And I am glad to say that ordinary logical state of mind, but I
that is almost forgotten. know now that even then I was won-
dering whether Sperry had found a
hole in the ceiling upstairs.
Suppose Sperry came down and
; As I sat alone in the library, the
j'house was perfectly silent. But in
;some strange fashion it had apparent-
ly taken on the attributes of the deed
that had preceded the silence. It was
sinister, mysterious, dark.
Overwrought as I was, I was for-
ced to bring centment sense io
bear on the situation. Here was a
pose we had in some queer fashion,
touched its outer edges that night?
Then how was it that there had come
I mixed up with so much that might
ibe pertinent, such extraneous and
grotesque things as a hurt knee, and
Nevertheless, we had realized for
some time that the dreaded triangle
was threatening the repute of otir
quiet neighborhood, and as I stood
by the telephone that night I saw it
had come. More than that, it seemed second bullet hole in the ceiling? Ad -
very probable that into this very tri- ded to the key on the nail, a care -
angle our peaceful Neighborhood Club less custom and surely not common,
had been suddenly thruit. . we would have conclusive proof that
aur medium had been correct. There
was another paint, too. Miss Jeremy
had said, "Get the lather off his face."
That brought me up with a tarn.
Would a Man stop shaving to kill
his eyes, but there was no mark on
it. Sperry made a little gesture.
"The detective and I put him there.
He was here." He showed a place on
the floor midway of the room.
"Where was his head lying?"
asked cautiously.
"liere."
I stooped and examined the carpet.
It was a dark Oriental, with much
red in it. I touched the place, and
then ran my folded handkerchief over
it. It came up stained with blood.
"There would be no object in us-
ing cold water there, so as not to set
the stain," Sperry said thoughtfully.
"Whether he fell there or not, that
is where she allowed him to be found.
"You don't think he fell there?"
"She dragged him, didn't she?" he
demanded. Then the strangeness of
what he was saying struck him, and
he smiled foolishly. "What mean
is, the medium said she did. I don't
suppose any jury would pass us to-
night as entirely sane, Horace," he
said.
He walked across to the bathroom
and surveyed it from the doorway. I
followed him. It was as orderly as
the, other room. On a glass shelf
ove.r the .wash -stand where his razors
a afety and, beside it, in a black case,
an assortment of the long -bladed var-
iety, one for each day of the week,
and so marked.
Sperry stood thoughtfully in the
doorway.
"The servants are out," he said.
"According to Elinor's statement he
was dressing when he did it.
"And yet some one has had a wild
impulse ifor tidiness here, since it hap-
pened4 Not a towel out of place!"
It was in the bathroom that he told
me• Elinor's story. According to her,
it was a simple case of suicide. And
she was honest about it, in her own
way. She was shocked, but she was
not preteriding any wild grief. She
hadn't wanted to die, but she had
not felt that they could go •on much
longer together. There had been no
said Arthur Wells had been shot a- ,quarrel other than their usual bide -
hove the ear, and that there was a ering. They had been going to a
dance that night. The servants had
all gone out immediately after dinner
to a servant's ball and the governess
had gone for a walk. She was to re-
turn at nine -thirty to fasten Elinor's
gown and to be with the children.
Arthur, she said, had been depress-
ed for several days, and at dinner had
hardly spoken at all. .1-10 had mit,
.however, objected to the dance. He
had, indeed, seemed strangely deter-
mined to go, although she had pleaded
a headache. At nine o'cleek he went
pulse or a cold-blooded and calculat- upstairs, ,apparently to dreq43,
ed. finelity, A man who kills himself I She was in her room, with the door
while dressing comes under the form, 'shut, when she heard a eliot. Site ran
classification, and Will usually seize in and found him •lying on the. floor
of his dressing -room with 14.k revel,
ver behind him. The governess was
still out. The shot had roused, the
children, and they lead come down
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The street, -with its open spaces,
was a relief after the dark hall. I
started for Sperry's house, my head
bent against the wind, any mind on
the news I had just heard,
Sperry was waiting on his door- himself? If he did, why a revolver?
step, and we went on to the Wells Why not the razor in his hand?
house. I knew from my law experience
Although the Wells house was bril- that suicide is either •a desperate irn-
liantly lighted when we reached it,
we had difficulty in gaining admis-
sion.
"We might try the servantsent-
rance," Spel'ry said. Then he lauged the first method at hand, But there
mirthleesly, I.was eornething else, too. Sheeting is
"We might see," be said, "if there's an automatic proeess. It completes
a key on the nail among the vines," itself". My Wife has an irritated con -
how tings used to be in the mild days
whin theer grandads wits runnin the
farrtuiNl
ilt to tell ye, me byes,,, s
ee
,
"that ye hev had an aisy road to
thravel alt yer whole blissid lolves," I
sez,.."an ye are not afther Icnowin an-
nyting about hernia tonnes, at till, at
all, compared wid what yer mothers
an fathers had to put up wid whin
stlities.
theywusgirruls an byes loike yer-
,
In thim days byes loike youse guys
didn't wear whoite collars iviry day
in the wake, so they didn't, but wud
hey a paper wan fer Sundays, arr cir-
cus days, arr the twilfth av July. Thin
theer wus no tillyfones, arr radios,
arr ottymobeels, arr rooral maiis, arr
pickter -shows, arr paved roads, arr
safety razors, arr shtrate dances, arr
crame siperatars, arr roidin plows, arr
hay loaders, arr hay farks, arr man-
oor shpreaders, arr litther carriers,
arr schrane dures in thim days. Yis,
an I kin remimb'er whin we had only
tally candles an the foire place to
loight the hous9 wid, an our mothers
used to shpin theer own yarn, an knit
it into socks, an make an mind the
.clothes fer the whole family be hand,
befoor sewin masheens wus invinted,
arr, ,at iaist, befoor we cud affoord
to buy wan.
An tings the farrumers had to sell
wus not Wan cint dearer than they
are today. Butther wus often only a
york shilling a pound, an eggs sivin
an eight cints a dozen, an ye had to
give two dhressed chickens fer a
quarther in thrade at the grocery
shtores. A dollar a cord wus tought
to be a big proice fer the besht av
harrud maple shtove. wood, an tirty
dollars wus all ye cud git fer the
besht cow in the barrun yard.
Av coorse ye will say that ye cud
buy tings chaiper in thim days, but
grane tay wus a dollar a pound, an
whin we fursht got tin pounds av
whoite shugar fer a dollar we almosht
taught we wus shtailin it. Our mo-
thers had to save up iviry cint they
cud git theer hands on, fer wakes
ahead, in ordher to be able to buy
raisins an tings fer the plum puddin
at Christmas toime.
The winther rn,e„. brother Matt. an
mesilf wint to shkool, our mother
bought a few shates av foolscap pa-
per, cut thim across the rn. iddle, an
bound thim wid brown paper to make
copy books fer us, an saved tin chits
ches and
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be loin it, an,. belave me, iviry tin
cints counted in thim days."
Shure, I can't begin to till ye half
av what I said to thim lads, fer I
talked fasht fer fear the missus wud
come home befoor I got troo, but,
faith, 1 wus afther givin thim some -
ting to tink about fer a few days an-
nyway.
Yours till nixt wake,
Timothy Hay.
Her Troubles
Waitress—I have stewed kidneys,
stuffed heart, boiled tongue, fried liv-
er, frog's legs and pig's feet.
Diner—Well; sister, never mind
telling me your troubles; Just bring
ole some chicken piel
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