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What horrible and mysterious power
was forcing the three Drake brothers,
Hobart, the Wall Street broker, Roger,
the scientist, and Andrew, recently re-
turned from Australia, to place them-
selves in ridiculous situations. Some
power had forced Hobart to deliver a
mock speech in the public square, Ro-
ger to burlesque a scientific address
and Andrew to sit en the floor and
play with toys. Patricia Drake, daugh-
ter of Hobart, secretly secur 's Owen
Miles, detective sergeant, and his col-
league, Scottie McCready, to investi-
gate. Miles is eniplcyed as a house-
man and Scottie as a gardener.. Miss
Jerusha Drake, spinster siste, of the
brothers, is discovered by Miles in a
wildly excited state late at night be-
fore an open grate in which she was
burning -papers of some kind. Pa-
tricia disappears and Hobart sends for
Miles.
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ISSUE No. 42—'28.
letter to the home of Mr. Martin Kemp
and deliver it to his son, Mr. Richard,
personally. Be sure that you give it
to no one else. If he asks you any
questions tell him merely I said it was
a matter of the utmost importance, but
do not mention the fact that Miss Pa-
tricia has—gone away. I think I can
trust you."
"Yes, sir.
A. -trim -looking parlormaid opened
the door of the Kemp bungalow in an-
swer to his summons but shook her
head when he asked for Mr. Richard.
"He's gone out motoring with the
family and they won't be home until
late this afternoon. They didn't say
where they were going."
"Maybe you could leave the mes-
sage with me and I'll give it to Mr.
Richard?"
"No. I have orders to deliver it
myself. I ought to have brought it
to Mr. Richard last night."
"He wasn't here. He bad to take
his mother to a theatre party in the
city, for Mr. Kemp wouldn't go him-
self. They never got back till half -
past one. Who shall I tell Mr. Richard
it was that sent you here?"
"Just say William had a message
for himand he'll knew," Miles smiled
meaningly.
Miles returned with all haste to the
Drake house and placed the letter
again in Hobart's hands.
'"Young Mr -Kemp took .his mother
to a theatre -party in town' last even-
ing, too, sir," he added. "They didn't
get home till after one o'clock. I
thought I had ''Setter tell yoe every-
thing the maid sale."
"Young Kemp was at the thea+re,
you say? Don't go, I want to think
for a minute." Hobart turned and be-
gan slowly to pace the floor and it
seemed to the detective that the assur-
ance of hick's alibi had fallen: upon
him, like a blow. Then he sat down
and, wrote rapidly.
"I want you to go to this address
and present this note to Mr. John
Wells," said Hobart. - -
"Yes, sir," Miles replied, glancing
at the envelope. It bore an address on
West End avenue, "Will there be any
answer?"
"I will leave that to Mr. Wells. Be
sure that you see him personally."
Wells was seated in his study and
there seemed to be an added grimness
about his mouth as he greeted the
detective.
"1 was expecting you."
"Mr. Drake telepl.oned?"
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"Then you know what has occur-
red? Do you mean that you have
heard from Miss Patricia Drake her-
self?"
er-self?"
"Exactly." Wells nodded and, tak-
ing from the drawer a crumpled twist
of paper, he held it out to the detec-
tive. "Seo what you can make of that
while I read what Hobart has to say
about the matter."
The paper was of pear texture, limp
and grimy and as he smothed it Miles
"When did the young lady lis-
• appear?"
plain when I can. Tell M. keep at
work without fail but no one else must
know you have heard from me. This
is vital for everyone's sake. Warn M.
look out for tattooed arm. Pat."
"What time did you receive it and
'what did you do when it came, Mr.
Wells?"
"What she asked." The attorney
shrugged. "About ten o'clock this
morning the man presented himself
and I went out to the vestibule to give ly. "Now study the scrap of paper
him the money personally and have a on which the message is written.
look at him He was a rough -leaking Zorn took up the letter, rear] it care -
"What can be the meaning of her
reference to a. tattooed arm?"
"When we have learned that, Mr.
Wells," responded Miles, 'we will be
on our way - toward dispelling the
nightmare of grotesque horror which
hangs over the Drake family. Our
young client has Mumbled upon the
path to the truth."
CHAPTER XI.
The result of a brief conference was.
that Sergeant Miles should engage a
friend, Zorn, a private detective, to
Work out the -disappearance of Pa-
tricia. This would enable Miles to re-
main at Brocklea in hie capacity as
houseman and, unknown - to Hobart,
keep in touch with Patricia's disap-
pearance,
"Before Zorn arrives, Mr. Wells,"
remarked Miles, "I wish you would tell
me something about, the early history
of the family. What was the original
sum which each of them inherited?
]Prom whence did it come?"
"From a distant cousin of their
mother in England. He had owned or
been interested in a South African dia-
mond mine, if I remember correctly,
and died leaving no other heirs. I was
not the attorney for the family at the
time but later, when Hobart and then - - - -
Jerusha placed portions of their inher-
itance in my hands for investment, I
learned that they had never seen this
cousin but had kept up a desultory
correspondence with him since their
mothers death and I do not know -whe-
ther
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they all shared alike under his h that h
will or not." have stopped the van on the road and
°But what has all this to do. with arranged 'with one of the moving men -
the test you propose making? What- to bring the note here as soon as they
has it to do with Patricia's warning
about a tattootd arm?"
Miles was saved the necessity of a
reply by the entrance of the servant,
who announced Mr.- David Zorn. The
latter proved to be a fair-haired im-
maculately attired young man with an
expression, of polite boredom in his
sleepy blue eyes.
"Sorry I could not get here before,
Sergeant. You mentioned a—er-lit-
tl.e proposition over the phone—?"
"To be brief, Mr. Zorn, a young lady
of eighteen who lives with her father,
a maiden aunt and two bachelor uncles
in a Long Island suburb has left her
home under mysterious circumstances
in which, however, we are satisfied no
romance is involved. Her father has
asked me to engage a private detective
to locate her, but we are, at the request
of the young lady herself and without
his knowledge or that of his sister or
brothers, investigating a' certain mat -
tee which threatens them. The position
which Sergeant Miles and I have ta-
ken is this: the young lady must be
located at the earliest possible moment
but not disturbed if she is in safe
hands, and we do not want her father
informed of her whereabouts, although
he must -be persuaded upon to take no
further step on his own' initiative. Do
I make myself clear?" •
"Perfectly." The drawl was gone
from Zorn's -voice. "When did the
young lady disappear, Mr. Wells, and
in what manner?"
Jer-.' For argument's sake, let us
say that 'Mrs. Jar-' is Mrs. Jason or
James Slocum or something combs
Road, Brookside—if such a place ex-
ists -New Jersey. That will give uff
a starting point.
"Yes. It is my theory t a s a roust
reached the city. We ftave'reason to
believe that she has gone to none of
her friends, although it is barely pos-
sible that she may have taken. refuge
with a Miss Millicent Armitage, Lane's
End, Oyster Bay."
CHAPTER XII.
Miles saw nothing of 'Scottie until
they met in the servants' dining room
when the latter -muttered:
"Come to my room, lad, whc-' you're
free. I've• a curious bit of news for
you."
(To be continued.)
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"Was his manner furtive and did he the nearest window.
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"On the contrary. He was brisk paper has been torn from the blank
and business -like as if he had cone page of a receipt book. The smudges
upon an every -day errand and he ex- are from carbon paper and the inden-
hibited neither curiosity nor - hesita- tations give us a fragmentary clue to
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saw that it was lined not only across
the page but vertically at each side.
It appeared to be a fragmerit torn
from a largele sheet and the few sen
tences'hastily scrawled upon it in soft
blue crayon west so blurred and
smudged as to be almost illegible.
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identity, handed him a five -dollar bill
and watched him go off down the
street. On snap judgment he might
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have been' porter, mechanic you
know the type. But what do you make
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"The letter was not written under
compulsion; that is self-evident," re-
plied Miles. "She left the house of her
own free will, without taking me into
her confidence. Indeed, I have reason
to think that she had an appointment
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