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Six t peen', lleirae'e Ju11.11eou (who
tells tlzt^ ,story), this wife, old lire
Dane, Herbert,Robinson ants his sis
to r, .�iicc^ and Dr. Sperry, friends and
evenitii, sittings so grisly.
1 aux stere she knew we had wante
s1 tihcthing, and that she had failed tc
!give it, to us, forwhen she came me
-1 she was depressed and in a state o
i lotvsred Critttlity.
Heartily ashamed (1f myself. I fun
c1 that a door to the basement had. be
left open, and that the soft move
had probably been my overco
is rhbcirs, are in the habit or holding ! ,.l'nh. afraid. I'm not helping you,
silt said "1'rn tl little !il•ed I th.inlr'
weekly nice tohge. :\t one of thein,
:1lrs. Dane`, who is hostess, varies the
pr ograan by unexpcetedly' arranging
a sfhiritaaalistli seance with Miss lere-
nax .l. friend of Dr, Sperry and not a
pacifeSSithnal, as the medium.
At the first sitting the nediuin tells
the details of a murder as it is •c ccur-
ring. later that night Sperry H.>arns
that a neighbour, Arthur Wells, has
been shut mysteriously, With Sohn -
son he gut's to the Wells residence
and they find confirmation of the
medium's •aecount. Mrs. Wells tells
then her husband. shut himself in a
fit of depression.
The French maid admits she went
e•ut at the time Wells was shot,, tele -
:honing from a nearby drug store.
Johnson goes to the drug store.` where
he clerk tells flim the raid plumed
tic the Ellingham house, telling. .sunhe-
body 'tlherc not "to call that niglht."
OW GO ON WITH THE STORY
When 1 told hint it was a case of
uieide, he remarked philosophically:
"A lot of .people get the bug once
u a while, they come in here for a
Lose of sudden death, and it takes
hatching, It's a matter of the point.
1f view," he continued more checr-
nll}. And my point of view just
tow is that this place is darned cold
nd so's the street. Yciu'd better have
little something to warns you up
lefare you go out, Mr. Johnsod."
I was chilled through, to tell the
ruth, and although I rarely drink
nything I went back with hills and
ouk an ounce or two of villainous
rhiskey, poured out of a jug into a
raduatecl glass. It is with deep 110-
iliation of spirit I record that a
c•usenxaid coming into my library at
even o'clock the next morning,
c•und me, in top hat and overcoat,
sleep on the library couch.
I had, however, removed my collar
nd tie, and my \ arch, carefully
•ran& was oxi the smoking -stand be -
de me.
The death of Arthur Wells had to
r
swaying in the draft.
Sperry had., T believe, told Herbert
, Robinson of what we had discovered
nd
cn
nt
at,
Site was tired. 1 felt suddenly very
sorry for her. She was so pretty and
leo young --- only about twenty-six or
thereabouts — to be in the grip of
;forces so relentless. Sperry sent her
.
latlnxe 1n his car, and took to pacing
the floor of his office.
j' "I'm going to give it up, Horace,"
he said. "Perhaps you are right. We
may be on .the verge of some real
discovery. But- Nvhile I'u1. interested,
is:: interested that io interferes with
I my work, I'm frankly afraid to go
ion. There are several reasons."
1 I argued- with him. There could be
I 00 question that if things were left
as they were, a number of people
would go through life convinced that
Elinor Wells had murdered her hus-
band. Look at the situation. She had
stnt out all the servants and the gov-
erness, surely an •unusual thing in an
establishment of that sort. And 1\iiss
t Jeremy had been • vindicated in three
points; some stains hacl, certainly
been washed up, we had found the
key x'r-here she had stated it to be,
and Arthur had certainly been shav-
ing himself.
"In other words," I argued, "we
can't stop, Sperry, You can't stop,
14ut my idea would be that our inves-
tigations be purely scientific and not'
crihnitxal. -
"Also, in other words," he said,
`"you think we will discover some-
thing, so you suggest that we coin -
pound a felony and keep it to our-
selves!"
'Exactly," I said drily.. .
It is of course possible that .my
nerves were somewhat unstrung dur-
ing the days that followed. I waken-
ed one night to a•terrific thump that
shook my bed, and which seemed to
be the result of some, one, having
struck the foot -board with[ a plank:
Ittuned:lately following .this came a
sharp knocking on the antique bed-
warmer which 1lazigs beside my -fire-
place. When I had sufficiently recov-
ered my self-control I turned on my
bedside lamp, but the room was emp-
$perry was on the floor,azantuung tts carpet with his flashlight.
;. en place on Monday evening. Toes- ty .
ity brought nothing new. The cor-' But on Thursday night of that
oner was apparently satisfied, and on week my wife came into my bedroom
Wednesday the dead man's body was and stated flatly that there were bur- 1
c:ernated, `glars in the house,
"Thus obliterating all evidence,"'. t
Sperry said, with what I felt was.a I trot out of bed and went down
note of relief. the stair. But I, must confess that I
But I think the situation was both- j felt, the moment darkness surround-
:rin„ him, and that he hoped to dis-' ed me, considerably less trepidation t
count in advance the second sitting concerning the possible burglar than
by Miss Jeremy, which Mrs. Dane I felt as to the darkness itself. Mrs, a
had already arranged for the follow- Johnson had locked herself in my
in
g; Monday, for on Wednesday af- bedroom, and there was something : t
ternoon, followin"b horrible in the black depths of the
a conversation ov-
er the' telephone, Sperry and I had a '
, lower hall,
private sitting with MissJcremv in We are old-fashioned people, and
but nothing; had been said to the wo-
men. I knew through my wife that
they were wildly curious and the
night of the second seance Mrs. Dane
drew me aside and made Inc promise
I would tell her all.I learned, after it
was all over,
Miss Jeremy did not come to din-
ner. She never ate before a seance.
And although we tried to keep the
conversational ball floating airily,
there was not the usual effervescence
of the Neighborhood Club dinners.
One and all, we were waiting, we.
knew not for what,
I am sorry to record that there
were no physical phenomena of any
sort at this second seance. The robin
was arranged as it had been at the
first sitting; except that a table with
a candle and a chair had been placed
behind a screen fur Mrs. .Dane's sec-
retary.
There was one other change. Sper-
ry had brought the hwalkttll, stick he
had taken from Arthur Welts' room,
and after the medium was in trance
he placed it on the table before her.
The first questions were disap-
pointing in results. Asked about the
stick, there was only silence. When,
however, Sperry went back to the sit-
ting of the week before, and referred
to questions and answers at that time,
the medium seemed uneasy. Her
hand, held under mine, made an ef-
fort to free itself, and, released, tou-
ched the cache. She lifted it, and
struck the table a hard blow with it.
"Do you know to whom that stick
belongs?"
A silence, . Then: "Yes."
"Will you tell us what you know
about it?"
"It is writing."
"Writing?"
"It was writing, but the water
washed it away."
Then. instantly, and with great ra
pidity, followed a wild torrent o
words and incomplete sentences. It
is inarticulate, and the secretary made
no record of it. As I recall, however
it was about water, children, and the
words "ten o'clock" repeated several
tidies.
"1)o you mean that something hap-
pened at ten o'clock?'
"No. Certainly not. No, indeed.
The water washed it away, all of it.
Not a trace."
"Where did all this happen?"
She named, without hesitation, a
seaside resort about fifty miles from
our city. There was not one of us, I
dare say, who did not know that the
\Vellses had spent the preceding suns-
. mer there and that Charlie Effing-
ham had been there, also.
"Du you know that Arthur Wells
is -dead?"
"Yes. He is dead."
"Did he kill himself?"
"You can't catch me on that, 1
on'.t know,"
Here the medium laughed. It was
torrilde, .And the laughter made the
whole thing absurd. But it died away
duickly,
"If only the pocketbook was not
ost," she said. "There were so many
hings in it. Especially car -tickets.
Walking is' a nuisance."
Mrs. Dane's secretary suddenly
spoke. "Do you want rise to take
hings like that?" she asked.
"Take everything, please," was the
nswcr,
"Car -tickets and letters. It will be
errible if the letters are found."
"Where was the pocketbook lost?
Sperry asked,
"If that were known, it could be
ound," was the reply, rather sharply
given. "Hawkins may have it. He
was always hanging around. The cur-
ain was much safer,"
"What curtain?""
"Nobody would have thought of+
the curtain. First ideas are best."
She ,repeated this, following it, as
nee before, with rhymes for the fin -
word, best, rest, chest, pest.
"Pest l' she said. "That's Haw-
kins!" And 'again the laughter.
"Did one of the btillets strike the
ceiling?"
"Yes. Ent you'll never find it, It
is holding well. That _part's safa -en-
ough--unless it made a hole in the
floor above,"
"But there was only one empty
charnber in' the revolver, How could
two shots have been fired?"
There was no answer at all to this.
And Sperry, after waiting, went on
to his 'next 'question: "Who occupied
f
d
Sperrys private office. I took my have not yet adopted electric light. I
wife into our confidence and invited carried a box of matches, but at the
her to be present, but the unfortun-
ate
;foot of the Stairs the one I had light
ate coldness folio\ring; the house -;cel -went ,out. 1 was terrified. I tried
maid's discovery of me aslep in the to light another match, but there was
library on the morning after the mur- draft from semi ewhere.
der, was still noticeable and she re- t'he second thatch went out before
fused.. •I had time to glance about, I was
The sitting however, was totally . itninediately conscious of a sort of
without value. There was difficulty ,sort movement around me, as of
on the medium's part in securing the shadrhwy shapes that, passed and re -
trance' condition, and site broke tart 1passed. Once it seemed to me that
once rather petulantly,' with the re -!'a hand was laid on 1nyshoulder and
mark that we were interfering with • not lifted, but instead dissolved into
her in some way. the other shadows around. The sod-
I noticed that Sperry had placed Iden striking of the clock on the stair
Arthur' W'ell's stick unobtrusively on landing; completed my demoralize
los table, but' we secured only ram- tion I turned x1111 £iced upstairs, pur-..
bling and non -pertinent replies to our 'stied to xny ag mrized nerves, by
questions, and whether it was because
the Wells matter did not tome up at
ail T found a total lack of that sense
of the 4tnk.»own which
made all the
.1
ghostly hands that came toward me
front between the spindles of the stair
hail.
At 'dawn I went downstairs
again,
c
al
the room overhead?'"
But here we received the reply to
the -lu'eviirus' qae Coni i'Ther,. was 0
lion; .of cartridges in the table -dresser,
'!'hat's easy."
1'r'0)1 that point, h()\, Over, the in-
terest lapsed. Either there was 1112'
ens$ Cr to questions, ul V‘ie got the
Absurdity that we had encountered
before, about the drawing -room fur-
niture. 1kit unha.tisfactat'y in many
ways as the seance had been, the .ef-
fect on Miss Jeremy was prure:end—
she was longer in coming out, and.
greatly exhaustedwhen it was ail ov-
er.
She refused to take the supper Mrs,
Dane had prepared for hpr, and at el-
even o'clock Sperry took her home
in his car.
I remembered. that Mrs, Dane in-
quired after she bad gone.
"Does any one know the name of
the Welises' butler? Is it Hawkins?"
I said nothing, and as Sperry, was
the only one likely to know and he
had gone, the inquiry went no further,
Looking back, 1 realize that Herbert,
while less cynical, was still skeptical,
that his sister was non -committal, but
for some reason watching me, and
that Mi•s. Dane was in a state of de-
lightful anteipation.
My wife, however, had takena dis-
like to Miss Jeremy, and said that
the whole thing bored her.
"The men like it, of course," she
said, "Horace fairly simpers' with,
pleasure while lie sits and holds her
hand, ` But a woman doesn't impose
on other women so easily. It's silly.."
"My dear," Mrs. Dane said, reach-
ing over and patting my wife's hand,
'people talked that way about Colum-
bus and Galileo. And if it is non-
sense, it is such thrilling nonsense!"_.
(To be continued,)
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feed, shell and grit.
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