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The Stcp on the Stairs
By ISABEL OSTRANDER
CHAPTER V.—(Cont'd.)
"When his 'door had closed and he
was out of the way I rushed up to
her; I don't know what I said; I must
have been crazy with jealousy and
the mystery of it all. I do remember,
though, quite distinctly, that she
turned on me in a cold fury, forbade
me to ever address her again, and
entering her apartment, shut the door
in my face! I descended, let myself
in here almost mechanically, and
dropped into that, chair you're sitting
in now, sergeant."
Craig was settling back in his
chair, with a gesture to Barry, when
the latter stepped forward.
"Mr. Ladd, as I understand it, your
apartment here is a replica of the one
just above, studio and all. Have you
any objection to showing us about?"
"Not at alt." In contrast to that
of the dead woman's Ladd's studio
was hung with rare tapestries and
furnished as luxuriantly as that of a
social dilettante, yet its easel upon
which stood an unfinished landscape,
and the carved refectory table care-
lesly covered with paint tubes and
smeared cloths, showed it to be a
workroom no less than hers.
"What color do -you call this?"
Barry picked up a tube, and squeez-
ing a bit of its contents on the palette,
he indicated the blotch of reddish
brown.
"Burnt sienna," responded the art:,
ist, promptly. "I seldom use it—you
can see there was none on the palette
before—but I always keep a full as-
sortment of colors on hand. It is odd
you should have asked nee about that!"
"Why?" demanded Barry quickly,
for the young man's tone had tensed
with some sudden emotion.
"Well, it is just a trivial matter,
but over a week ago—the last time,
in fact, that Mrs. Vane and I had a
chummy little talk in her studio -4
advised her to use more burnt sienna
with the seal brown to get the propor
effect of the wood on the staircase in
that portrait she was doing of Mrs.
S'ansittart, the one before which her --
her own body was found tonight"
Barry replaced the tube : sflectively
on the table as Craig, with an evident
effort to emulate his colleague, picked
up one of the bottles and sniffed it
speculatively.
"That's turpentine," Ladd remark-
ed, and his voice had sunk again to
a dull apathy.
"It's funny about this turpentine"
Craig still stood by the table. "It's
used as a cleaning fluid, isn't it?
Seems to me I've smelt that odor
somewhere else in this house tonight."
"Naturally the studio above is per-
meated with it." Barry turned away
from the viindow and let the shade
drop. "Mr. Ladd, if you'll just show
us through the rest of your apartment
now we won't trouble you any more.
tonight."
Barry thanked the artist and bade
him goodnight. In the hall Craig
produced a handkerchief and wiped
his rudely brow.
"Well, John, we've a nice mess to
report at headquarters!" he announc-
ed in a Icw tone that the policeman
on guard might not hear. "Here's a
woman shot dead, and every last ten-
ant in the house except the professor
teems mixed up in it eomehow, though
every one of them have lied and
peached on the rest! Who the devil
v as this Miriam Vane, anyway?
Where did she come from and what
were the rest of them to her?"
"I think we can guess who, Ladd
was," Barry' whispered as he led his
colleague up the stairs once more.
"Just an idealistic young fool who
let her play With him like a cat with
a mouse to please her vanity and then
kicked him out when he became incon-
venient. He may have killed her, but'
I don't think so; I think he would
have adored the woman he thought
she was, and protected. her with his
last breath."
"The woman he thought she was)"
repeated Craig, pausing on the stairs
in his astonishment.
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CHAPTER VI.
"What are we going apstairs again
for?" demanded Craig. "I've got to
make my report at headquarters, and
it's getting on toward morning."
"You're not going to rouse -up old
Griswold again, then, and ask him
why he lied about his acquaintance
with Mrs. Vane?" Barry bent a
quizzical glance upon the younger ser-
geant.
"I am not," the other announced
with decision. "We have young Ladd's
word for it that Griswold lied, but
neither of them were under oath.
They're both, under guard and in the
morning we'll have them down on the
carpet and get the truth out of theist."
"That's a good idea," approved
Barry. "And while you are about it,
you might find out what time little
Miss Shaw goes out and let the pro-
fessor know. I fancy he'll be waiting
to hear."
Craig stared.
"Oh, yes; I forget that note you
slipped under his door. You said
something about porch -climbing and
chemistry. You're not putting any-
thing over on me. John?"
"No." Barry smiled.
"Pll put the men on guard outside
Wise, so that they won't kick up a
rumpus if they see him, like a modern
Santa Claus, perambulating the fire
escape with his white whizkers wav-
ing in the early morning breeze. That
note simp:y asked him to get into the
other apartments when he was sure
the occupants were gene, and search
for traces of a certain chemical com-
"But we'd only just left Mies
Shaw's stpartment; we hale't seen
either Griswold's or Ladd's then!"
Craig exclaimed beneath his breath.
"You don't suspect her, John?"
Barry smiled, but a trifle dryly.
Barry waited until the younger
sergeart's footsteps had died away in
the quiet night air and then turned to
the guard.
"Doane, do you know who I am?"
The patrolman nodded.
"All right," Barry broke in. "I take
it that. your oeders tonight, Doane,
are to keep guard outside the apart-
ment here in which the woman was
shot nnless you hear any suspicious
sound within, or see something which
you think should be investigated. Is
that so?"
'Right, sir," Doane responded.
"Very good. You're going to see
and hear something suspissious within
five minutes, and that sc;mething is
going to be me! Understand?"
"I dot% sir," Doane weplieel. "But
what you say goes. You mean you
want to have another look around the
place? I've orders not to let anybody
in, but as long a; you're taking .the
responsibility, the lock Is smashed and
I can't see eveey shadow in this dark
hall."
Bares/ pushed open the broken door,
which swung drunkenly on its hinges,
and enteted the-petfumed, littered
ing eons, where he found his way to
the wall switch and turred on the
opalescent lamps.
The little writing' desk was open, its
profusien of papers seattered on the
floor, and the drawers If an almost
priceless Chinese cabinet had been
forced. Approaching the latter, Barry
observed that its contents were main-
li'seraps of drawing paper On which
tiny figures had been scrawled, each
with g few deft lines, and pickilig one
up he whistled eoftly.
It wits a miniasure caricature, me'
in its shateily defined character delin-
eation, of pompous gOod-netureil
Barry tugged at the little dragon
but it was immovable, the single gilt
eye above its snout -like nose seeming
to wink mockingly at the futility of
his efforts. Something about that eye
and the curious formation of its socket
gave the sergeant a sudden inspiration
and taking a blunt pencil. from his
pocket he pressed sharply pon the
globule of gilt as upon a hell button.
Instattly the dragon turned in-
ward as upon a spring, the front of
the compartment dropped Asmara on
noiseless, unseen hinges and the in-
teeior of the small, secret space was
exposed.
Mentally congratulating himself
that Doane bad elected to remain out-
side, Barey drew forth the contents
of the compartmens in both hands and
carried it carefully to a small table.
It was evident enough at last that
somewhere beneath the hard, surface
brilliancy and devilishly clever, bitter
humor of the dead woman there had
lurked a humanly sentimental 'egad.
for episodes in her life that had van-
ished from the sophisticated present,
for shere beneath his. hands were
clearly mementos of the past, the fool-
ish, faded objects, meaningless to any-
one slse, which every woman treasures
until memory ceases to have value.
A faded bine satin ribbon, stiff and
yellowed at the edges, held a knot of
crumbling brown sprigs which muet
once have been flowers; a torn scrap
of real lace, discolored now, and too
nich in quality for a graduation dress
but it might have been a bit of a bri-
dal veil or christening robe' once upon
a time; a lock of short, curling hair,
matted and red -brown; a battered
gold locket without initial or inscrip-
tion; an empty cartridge .ef .44 cal-
ibre, and a small snapshot, alike faded
and discolored and half torn across
as though someone had started to de-
stroy it and then thought .better of it.
Taking up the faded seapshot he
examined it closely. Its faint lines
showed the figure of a tall, slender
girl clad in a light-colored gown which
made it stand out against what ap-
peared to be a mass of shrubbery in
full leaf. At her side and reaching to
above her knee was a blurred object
resembling a huge dooe but the outlines
were so indistinct th;t its breed could
not be determined.
(To be continued.).
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Garden Fails
If Based on
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A good way to go about)the plan-
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the garden; is it ,from a piazza out-
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the end of the house, or must you
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porch or living room it may be just
annoyingly off centre with the line of
sight, or make an inharmonious angle
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to garden right than to have the space
within the garden itself divided sym-
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because planting may be so arranged
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MAN'S CHARACTER
The gifts of wealth, place and posi-
tion, ease and luxury, are dispensed
with a good deal of caprice, but no-
body ever heard that a character was
got by ehancea Tne gifts of fortune
are often taken away as rapidly as
they came, bat everybody kaows that
strength of soul and mind and person-
al nobility are possessions which sur -
SETTING OF HOPE
The setting of a great. hope is like
the setting' of the sun. The bright -
use, of our life 'is gone. Shadows of
evening fall around us, and the world
seems but a dim reflection—itself a
broader shadow. We look forward
into the coming lonely night. The
soul withdraws into itself. Then
stars arise, and the night is lonely.—
Longfellow.
TRUE C.OURAGE
True conrage is not incompatible
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ly indicated will naturally be the en-
trance to the garden, and this Dalt
having been established the garden
designer should ask himself where he
wants to go in the garden. Can a
pleasant objective such as a seat un-
der a, fine tree be arranged? Does a
central point with a sundial to mark
it seein desireble, or is there to be
a fountain at the back of the garden
to which the paths should lead? Easy
circulation about tbe garden is 'one
of the most desirable things to pro -
nide and a path that comes to a, dead
end is always a disappointment.
A central panel of grass is an in-
fluence for quiet and spaciousness in
a garden, and if the available area is
not restricted a plan which provides
such a green carpet is one that is
Most likely to be agreeable, A good
rule to follow with respect to the
iloever beds themselves issno make'
them twice the width of the paths; a
path four feet and six inches- in Width
Theodore Vansittart, husbaed of the- is about as narrow as two people can
woman evhoee unfinished portrait stood walk cm comfortably abreast.
on the easel in the studio, end glanc- In planting the contents of the beds
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caeicaturee et several people promin- the garden is to be enjoyed aud make
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