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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-03-18, Page 2When Ex OSed to Air tea loses Its strength and flavor. ft t edta 1160.1 for that reason Is never sold in bulk. Your grocer sells this delicious blend. Try SAL DA. TYQWA'44tS 4r. „r, ,,,, ay SAN PH11.1101'11 itturrsxceD sy ipA'17'IjR'a�l��� Vel 1" r- BEGIN HERE TO -DAY. Michael Pendean disappears and Robert Red'mayne, uncle to Michael's wife, Jenny, is suspected of the mur- der. Mark Brendon, criminal investi- gator, has charge of the case. Jenny goes to live with her uncle, Bendigo Redmayne. Robert appears near Bendigo's home and sends word to 'Bendigo to meet him in a nearby cave. Giuseppe Doria, who works for Bendigo, • leaves his master at the meeting place. When Doria calls to bring Bendigo home he finds the cave empty and signs of a terrible struggle. Jenny inarries Doria and they go to live in Italy, where Jenny's uncle, Albert Redmayne, lives. Robert is seen in Italy and Albert sends for Brendon and for Peter Ganns, famous Amer- ican detective and dear friend to Al- bert. NOW GO ON WITH. THE STORY. "You're a detective inspector of Scotland Yard," continued Ganns, "and Scotland Yard is still the high- water mark of police organization in the world. The Central Bureau in New York is pretty close up, and I've nothing but admiration for the French and Italian Secret Services; but the fact remains: The Yard is first; and turned in early and slept till day- break. I3efore. noon they had left Battelle on a steamer and were crossing the blue depths of Maggiore, At Luino they left the steamer and proceeded to Tresa. They wound ever Lugano and came In evening light to its northern'shore, Then once more they took train, climb- ed aloft, and fell at last to Menagglo on Como's brink, "Now," said Peter, "I guess we'll leave our traps here and beat it to Villa Pianezzo right away." Within twenty minutes their one- horse vehicle had reached Mr: Red- mayne's modest home and they found three persons just about to take an evening meal. Simultaneously there appeared Mr. Redmayne, his niece, and Giuseppe Doria; and while Albert, Italian fashion, embraced Mr. Ganns and 'planted a kiss upon his cheek, Jenny greeted Mark Brendon and he looked once more into her eyes. Doria Held back a little •while his wife welcomed her uncle's friend; then he came forward, declared his plea- sure at meeting Mark again and his belief that time would soon reveal the truth and set a period to the sinister story of the wanderer. Mr. Redmayne was overjoyed at seeing Ganns and quite forgot the digo Redmayne or else he did not: But we'll stick to the first proposition for the moment. And the next question you must ask yourself is this: 'Did Robert Redmayne kill Michael Pen - dean?' That's where your 'facts,' as you call them, begin to sag a bit, my son. There's only one sure and certain way of knowing that a man is dead; and that is by seeing his body and convincing the law, by the testimony of those who knew the man in life, that the corpse belongs to him and no- body else." They chatted for half an hour and Mr. Ganns attained his object, which was to fling his companion back to the beginning of the whole problem that had brought them together. "To -night, in the train," said Peter, "I shall ask you to give me your ver- sion of the case from the moment that Mrs. Pendean invited you to take it up." CHAPTER XII. PETER,TAICES THE HELM. As the detectives traveled through night -hidden Kent and presently you've won, and fairly won your placetboarded the packet for Boulogne, Mark there. That's a big thing and You Brendon told his story with every de- tail for the benefit of Mr. Ganns. They chatted until the dawn, by which time their train had reached Paris, and an hour or two later they were on their way to Italy. Mr. Ganns had determined to cross the Lakes and arrive unexpectedly at Menaggio. He had now turned his mind once more to the problem before hien and spoke but little. He sat with his notebook open and made an occas sional entry as lie pursued his thoughts. He looked up presently. Mark." "The hard thing before us is this," He paused again, applied himself to• he said, "to get into touch with Robert his gold box, and then proceeded. Redmayne, or his ghost. There are two "Now see how reason bears on the costs of ghost, Mark; the real thing— didn't get it without some work and some luck, Brendon. But now—this Redmayne racket. In a word, your conduct of the affair don't square with your reputation. Your dope never cut any ice from the start." • Brendon did not hide his emotion, but kept silence while Mr. Ganns helped himself to a pinch of snuff. "A great many of your 'cast-iron facts' were rno facts at all." "What were they then?" "Elaborete and deliberate fictions, rough, general idea of what more ie known than Mark and I €tiready know, Now what has happened since you, wrote, Mrs, Doria?" "Tell them, Giuseppe," directed Mr. Redmayne. "Your gift—the gold box—take a pinch," said Peter holding out his snuff to the .old bookworm; but the master of 'Villa Pianezzo refused and lighted a cigar. "I will have smoke rather than dust, my precious Peter," he said. "The man has been seen twice since you heard from my wife," begat Doria. "Once I met him face to face on the hill, Svhere I walked alone to reflect on my own affairs; and once. the night before last—he game here. Happily Mr. Redmayne's room over- looks the lake and the garden walls are high, so he could not reach it; but the bedroom of Mr. Redmayne's pian, Ernesto, is upon the side that stands up to the road. "Robert Redmayne came at two o'clock, flung pebbles at the'•hvindow, wakened Ernesto, and demanded to be let in to "see his brother. But the Italian had been warned exactly what to say and do if such a thing hap- pened." (To be continued.) evidence of Robert Redmayne and his trick acts since first he disappeared. A thing occurs and there are only cer and the manufactured article. tain ways—very limited in number— He broke off and changed the sub - to explain it. Either Robert Redmayne jest. killed Michael Pendean, or else he did "What I'm doing is to compare your not. And if he did, he was sane or, verbal statement with Mr. Redmayne's insane at the time That much can't. written communication," he said, pat - be denied and is granted. If he was ting his book. ' sane, he committed the murder with 'You'll find the story of Robert Red- a motive; and pretty careful inquiry inaynne from childhood and the story proves that no motive existed. Then, of the gir], his niece, and of her dead ;assuming hien to be sane, he would not father: Mrs. Doria's father was a have coniniitted such a murder. The rough customer—scorpions to Robert's alternative is that he was mad at the whips apparently—a man a bit out of the common" "I Shan like to read the report." "It's valuable to us, because written in which you don't believe and con- cerning which I hold a watching brief; Mr. Redmayne was overjoyed at seeing Ganns. object of his visit in receiving him. "It has been my last and abiding ambition to introduce you to Virgilio Poggi, dear Peter, so that you, he and I may sit together, hear each other's voices and look into each other's eyes." Jenny and Assunta had hastily, pre- pared for the visitors and now all sat at supper and Brendon learned that rooms were already taken for him and Mr. Ganns at the Hotel Victoria "That's as may be," he declared to Doria's wife. "You will find, I think, that Mr. Ganns-is going to stop here. He takes the lend in this affair" After a cheerful meal Peter abso- lutely declined to cross Como and visit Signor Poggi on the instant. "I've had enough of your lakes for one day, Albert," he announced, "and I want to talk business and .get a. time and did homicide on Pendean while out of his mind. "But what happens to a madman after a crime of this sort? Does he without prejudice. That's where it get off with it. and wander over Eur- beats your very lucid account, Mark. ape as a free man for a year? Granted There was something running through the resources of maniacal cunning and your story, like a thread of silk in all the rest of it, was it ever heard cotton, that you is-on't find here. It that a Iunatic went at: large as this challenged me from the jump, my boy, man did, ,and laughed at ScgtIand and I'm inclined to think that in that Yard's attempt to run him down and thread of silk I shall just find the rea- capture him? No, Mark, the,i man'�re_, soln•of your failure, before I've wound nsible e iinpossiiile things u Ifo for these �t F isn't mad. And that brings me bac. "I don't understand you, Ganns. the pleasure of The Singers. Men say the strings are broken Of the magic lutes of old, That heaven sendsno token Of its, silver tongues and gold; They say that song is weaving No more the heart's repose, They say that song is. grieving " ' In the shadows and the snows. to my preliminary alternative. "1 said just now, 'Either Robert Redmayne 1.illed Michael Pendean, or else he did not.' And we may add that either Robert Redmayne killed Ben- " You wouldn't—not yet. But we'll change the metaphor. well say there was a red herring drawn across the trail, and that you took the bait and, having started right enough, presently forsook the right scent for the wrong." Blandon., made no reply. Neither his conscience nor his wit threw any light on the point. Then Peter, turn- ing".to hie note's, touched on a minor incident and showed the other that it admitted of a doubt. "D'you remember the night you left 'Crow's Nest' after your ' first visit? On the way back to Dartmouth you suddenly saw Robert Redmayne stand- ing by a gate; and when the moon - ,Plater Every Mea light revealed you to him, he leaped aevey and disappeared into the trees. It doesn't take much to keep you in trim. Nature only asks a tittle help. Wrigley's, after every meal, . benefits teeth, "Ile" knew me." "We had Met at Princetow*n and we had spoken together for some minutes by the pool. in Foggintor quarry, where 1 was fishing." "That's right, But he didn't know who, you were then, Even if he'd re- membered meeting you six months be- breath, appetite and fore in the, dusk at Foggintor, why should lie think you were a. man who dtESt3iirC2, was hunting him?" A Fifty/rye fogEvery Mark reflected. '".Chat's true," he .said.. i..i rear did not pursue the subject. 40.7-v." -Cat4 lie shut his• beolt, ya t reed, took snuff, ------, land declared ltiniseif ready for a; meat. 23. 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