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tered. At the time this puzzled me,
but it was explained when Sperry
Six people, Horace Johnson (who started down the stairs.
tells the story), his wife, old Mrs, "Monsieur is of theP olice?" she.
Dane, Herbert, Robinson and his sis- asked, with a Frenchwoman's timid
ter, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and respect for the contabulary,.
neighbors, are in the habit of holding I hesitated before I answered.. I
weekly meetings, At one of then, am a truthful man, and I hate un -
Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the necessary lying, But I ask considera-
program by unexpectedly arranging tion of the circumstances.
a spiritualistic seance with Miss Jere- "I am making a few investigations,"
my, a friend of Dr, Sperry and not a I told her. "You say Mrs, Wells was
professional, as the medium, alone in the house, except for her
At the first sitting the medium" tells hsuband?' '
the details of a "murder as it is occur- "The children."
ring. Later that night Sperry learns "Mr. Wells was shaving, I believe
that a neighbour, Arthur Wells, has when time, — er — impulse overtook
been shot mysteriously. With John- hint?"
son he goes to the Wells residence There was no doubt as to her sur -
and they find confirmation of the „
medium's account. Mrs. Wells tells prise. sort "Shaving? I think not."
Whatt sort of razor did he ordin-
them her husband shot himself in a arily use?"
fit of depression. "A safety razor always. At least I
have never seen any others around."
"There. is a case of old-fashioned
razors in the bathroom."
Believing them?, that something She glanced toward the room and
possibly be hidden there, I made an shrugged her shoulders. "Possibly he
investigation, and could see some used others, I have not seen 'any."
small objects lying there. Sperry "It was you, I suppose, who cleaned
brought me a stick from the dressing- up afterwards?"
room" and' with its aid succeeded in "Cleaned up?"
bringing out the two articles which "You who washed up the stains?"
were instrumental in starting us on "Stains? Oh, no, monsieur. Noth-
our brief but adventurous careers as ing of the sort has yet been done.".
private investigators. One was a lea- I felt that she was telling the truth,
ther razor strop, old and stiff from so far as she knew it, and I then
disuse, and the other a wet bath asked about the revolver.
sponge, now stained with blood to a• "Do you know where Mr. 'Wells
yellowish brown. kept his revolver?"
"She is lying, Sperry," I said. "He "When I first cane it was in the
fell somewhere else, and she dragged drawer of that table. I suggested that
him to where he was found." it be placed beyond the children's
reach. I do not know where it was
put."
"Do you recall how you left the
front door when you went out? I
mean, was it locked?"
"No. The servants were out, and
I knew there would be no one to ad-
mit nie. I left it unfastened."
But it was evident that she had
broken a rule of the house by doing
so, for she added: "I am afraid to
use the servants' entrance. It is dark
there."
"The key is always hung on the
nail when they are• out?"
"Yes. • If any one of them is out
it is left there. There is only one key.
The family is out a great deal, and it
saves bringing some one down from
the servants' quarters at the top of
the house."
But I think my knowledge of the
key bothered her, for some reason.
And as I read over my questions, cer-
tainly they indicated a suspicion that
the situation was less simple than it
appeared. She shot a quick glance at
ane.
'Did you examine the revolver
when you picked it up?"
"I, monsieur;? Non!" Then her
fears, whatever they were, got the
best of her, "I know nothing but
what I tell you. I was out. I can
prove that is so. I went to a pharm-
acy; the clerk will remember."
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"But—why?". •
"I don't know," I said impatiently.
"From some place where a 'man
would be unlikely to kill himself, I
daresay. No one ever killed himself
for instance, in an open hallway, Or
stopped shaving to do it."
"We have only Miss Jeremy's word
for that," he said, sullenly, "Con-
found it, Horace, don't let's bring in
that stuff if we can help it."
We stared at each other, with the
strop and sponge between us. Sud-
denly he turned on his heel and went
back into the room, and a moment
later he called rite, quietly.
"You're right," he said. "The poor
devil was shaving. He had it half
done, Come and look."
But I did not go. There was a
jug of water in the bathroom, and 1
took a drink from it. My hands were
shaking. When I turned around I
found' Sperry in the hall, examining
the carpet with his flash light, and
now and then stopping to run his
hand over the .floor.
"Nothing here,"'he said in a low
tone, when I had joined him. "At
least 1 haven't found anything."
How much of Sperry's proceeding
with the carpet the governess had
seen I do not know. I glanced up
and she was there, on the staircase
tr the third floor, watching us.
She came down the stairs, a lean
young French woman in a dark dress- "I know, monsieur, he will tell you
ing gown, and Sperry suggested t ! of thought. "My car brought her
p y ggested that that I used the telephone there.' from her home to the house -door. She !
she should have an opiate. She seiz- I told her that it would not be nee- was brought in to us at once. But I
..d at the idea, but Sperry did not gocessary for her to go to the pharm- don't
you see that if there are other
developments to prove her statements
she—well, she's as innocent as a child,
but take Herbert, for instance. Do
you suppose he'll believe she had no
outside information?"
• "But it was happening while we
were shut in the drawing -room."
"So Elinor claims. But if there was
anything to hide, it would have taken
time. An hour or so, perhaps. You
can see how Herbert would jump on.
that."
I said irritably to him. "I 'intend to
go home, it is 1.30 in the morning."
But as it happened, 1 did not go
into my house when I reached it. T
was wide awake, and I perceived, on
looking up at my wife's windows,
that the lights were out. As it is her
Custom to wait up for ine on those
rare occasions when I spend an ev-
ening away from. home, 1 surmised l
that she was comfortably asleep, and
made my way to the pharmacy to
which the Wellses' governess had re-
ferred.
The night -clerk was'in the prescrip
tion -room behind the shop. He had
fixed himself comfortably on two
chairs, 'with an old table -cover over
his knee and a half -empty bottle of
sarsaparilla on s wooden box beside
him. He did not waken until. I spoke
to hint,•
"Sorry to rouse you, Jim." I said.
He flung off the over and jumped
up, upsetting the bottle, which trick -
not be the custom to stop shaving
in order to commit suicide, but that's
no argument that it can't be done, and
as to the key—how do I know that
my own door key isn't hung outside
fn' a nail sometimes?" ._
"We might look again for that hole
in the ceiling?"
"I won't do it. Miss Jeremy has
read of something of that sort, or
heard of it, and stored it in her sub-
conscious mind."'
But he glanced up at the ceiling
nevetheless, and a moment later had
drawn up a chair and stepped onto
it, and I did the same thing. We pre-
sented, I imagine, rather a strange
picture, and I know that the presence,
of the rigid figure on the couch gave
me a sort of ghoulish feeling.
The house was an old one, and in
the center of the high ceiling a plas-
ter ornament surrounded the chande
lier. Our search gradually centered
on this ornament, but the chairs were
low and our long distance examina-
tion revealed nothing. It was at that
time, too, that we heard some one in
the lower hall, and we had only a
moment to put our chairs in place
before the butler came in. He. showed
no surprise, but stood looking at the
body on the couch, his thin face
working.
"I anet the 'detectives outside, doc-
tor,"• he said. "It's a terrible thing,
sir, a terrible thing,"
"I'd keep the other servants out of
this room", Hawkins."
"Yes, sir." He went over to the
sheet, lifted the edge slowly, and. then
replaced it, and tip -toed to the door.
"The others are not back yet. I'll
admit them, and get then up quietly.
How is Mrs. Wells?"
"Sleeping," Sperry said briefly, and
Hawkinswent out.
I realize now that Sperry was—I
am sure that he will forgive this—in a
state of nerves that night. For ex-
ample, he returned only an impatient
silence to my doubt as to whether
Hawkins had really only just return-
ed and he quite missed something
downstairs which I later proved to
have an important b•e.aring on the
case. This was when we were going
out, and after Hawkins had opened
the front door for us. It had been
freezing hard, and Sperry, who has a
bad ankle, looked about for a walk-
ing stick. He found one, and I saw
Hawkins take a swift step forward,
and then stop, with no expression
whatever in his face. .
"This will answer, Hawkins."
"Yes, sir," said Hawkins impas-
sively. •
And if I realize that Sperry was
!nervous that night, I also realize that
he was fighting a battle quite his own
and with its personal problems.
"She's got to quit this sort of
thing," he said sayagely and apropos
of nothing, as we walked along. "It's
hard on her, and besides—"
"Yes?"
"She couldn't have learned about
it," he said, following his own trail
There was something horrible in the black depths of the lower hall.
down at once for his professional bag. acy, and she muttered something re -
"You were not here when it oc- garding the children and went up the
Burred,- Mademoiselle?" he inquired. stairs. When Sperry carne back with
"No, doctor, I had been out for a the opiate she was,nowhere in sight,
"alk." She clasped her hands, . "And and he was considerably annoyed.
when I carne back—" "She knows something," I told him",
"Was he still on the floor of the "She is frightened," '
dressing -room when you came in?" Sperry eyed me with a half frown,
"T3trt yes. Of course, She was al- "Now see here, Horace," he said.
one. She could not lift h`mrn. "suppose we bad come in.heret with -
"I see," Sperry said thoughtfully. out the thought of that seance be -
"No, I daresay she couldn't, Was the hind us? We'd have accepted ` the
revolver on the floor also?" timing as it appears to be, wouldn't
"Yes, doctor. I myself picked h we? There may be a dozen explana-
tip." y tions for that sponge, and for the rat, -
To Sperry she -showed, I observed, ter strop. What in heaven's name has led a stale stream to the floor, "Oh,
a slight difference, but when she look- a razor strop to do with it anyhow? that's all right, Mr, Johnson I wasn't
ed at rime, as she did -after each reply, One bullet was fired, and the revolve alseep, anyhow,"
1 thuteght her expression slightly al- er has one empty chamber. It may T let that go, and went at once to
the object of our visit, Yes, he re-
membered the governess, knew her,
<<s n matter of, fact. The Wellses'
bought 4 good many things - there.'
Asked as to her telephoning, he said
it was about nine o'clock, maybe earl-
ier, 13ut questioned as to what she
had telephoned about, he drew him-
self up,
"Oh, see here," he said, "I can't
very well tell you that, can I? This.
business has got ethics, all sorts of
ethics:"
He T'enlarged on that, The secrets
of the city, he maintained loftily,
were in the hands of. the pharmacies,
It was a trust that they kept. "Ev-
ery trouble from dope to drink, and
then some," he boasted.'
When I told him that Arthur Wells
was dead his jaw dropped, but there
was no more argument in him, He
knew very well the number the gov-
erness had called.
"She's `done it several times," he
said. "I'll be frank with you. I got
curious about the third evening, and
called it myself. You know the trick,
I found out it was the Ellingham
house, up State Street." '
-What was the nature of the con-
versations?"
"O'h, she was very careful. It's an
open phone and any one could hear
her. Once she said somebody was not
to; cone. Another time she just said,
'This is Suzanne Gautieur. 9.30,
please.."
"And tonight?"
"That the family was going out—
not to 'Celt".
(To be Continued.)
CUTTING EXPENSES.
To the Editur av all thim
Wingham paypers.
Deer Sur:—
Wan day lasht wake—wan av thin
rainy days whin the missus cudden't
foind anny wurruk fer me to do in.
the garden—I tought I wud take a
walk down town be mesiif, an see if
I cud foind anny av me ould frinds.
I had -only got down to Billy Lip-
pard's earner whin 'another shower
shtarted, an I had to: run into the
resht room" to kape out av the 'rain.
I' found a lot av fellahs theer, an
they wus all wondherin how they wus
goin to raise money, to pay theer tax-
es. Some av thins tought we shud
lieu a new council in ordher to cut
Thu .aday, October 22, 19
down ixpinses, an rejucc the tax rate.
They ,got putty noisy about it, an 1
lishtened quofte a whoile widout say -
in a wnrrud, till, I tought it wus xouy
turn to shpake.
"13yes," sez 1, "Ye are afth'cr hayin
the wrong pig be the ear intoirely.
Ye loin elickt ,all the new councils ye.
loike an ye can't rejuce the uneon-
thr.aled ixpinditoom•" sez I,
"\tht ye moind Vitellin us now, what
ye mane be unconthrolled i> piltdl-
Coors?" sez wan fellah, whose:name
I won't 1114W -tun;
"I mane ixminses that ye can't hilp,
sez I, "loike whin yer ntissus is of
titer askin ye fer tin dollars to buy
a: new dress. Fe, inshtance," sez I,
"the town council, has to pervoide
money to malate the intrust an sinking
fund iviry year" I sez.
"'Tis the sinking fund 1 foind fault
wid," sez the other fellah, "fer purty
soon they will sink the town if they
kape on wid it," sez he.
"Plaze hould ye harse till I git trop
talkin," sez I, "an thin ye kin shpalce,
if ye hev annyting to say," I sez,
"Thin tink av all the salaries the
town has to pay," I sez. "1 bet theet
are fifty payple dhrawin money out
av the town trezury at the prisint
toime," sez L
"Ari. I'll bet ye the oice cre mme," sez
the other fellah, "that ye are wrong."
"Done!" sex I, shtaring to count.
"Fursht," sez 1, "we hev the Mayor
an Raive an six Councillors an the
Clerk, that's noire, so we borried a
piece av payper an pincil an set thim
down, loike this
Town Council an Clerk 9
Hoigh School taichers 6
Caretaker 1'
Treasurer 1
Public School Taichers
8
Caretaker . 1
Treasurer 1
Elecktrick Loight Plant 6
Conmmishioners 2
Shtrate "min 3
Policeman . 2
Auditors
Assessor
Librarian
2
1
1
Cimitery Caretaker 1
Health Officer 1
Town Solicitor ,,,,_.. ,•, 1
Firemin 13
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just be sure to buy the genuine..
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Mebby I cud hev tought av a lot
more payple gittin paid be the town
fer half toime,' arr whole toime, arr Siff
toiume an a half, but me payper wus
full whin 1 got that far, an 1 bad won
the oice creme. More than that 1
think I had convinshed the crowd that
we can't ixpickt lower taxes until we
git rid av that ould sinking fund, an
thin unconthrojled ixpinditoors,
Your' fer lower taxes,
Timothy Hay.
United Church Anniversary
Rev. Kenneth Beaton, B.A., Tor-
onto, will conduct the Anniversary
Services of Wingham United church,
on Sunday, Oct. 25th.
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