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FRAN6S EVERTON
(Contlnited from laatt week)
' 'That is a grossly unfair thing to
say," Kenneth .answered hotly. "1
might just as well say That you don't
care whether he did it or not, and I
begin to think that I shoulden be far
from the truth if I did, say that. Ev-
erything proves that he . doped the
draught, and you can ides him and
fondle his hands! You don't even re-
serve your judgment and say this
man may be a vile murderer - you
just flaunt your absurd hero worship
in front of us •all. If he had a spark
of .clecency in him he would give him-
self up."
"Oh, yes, I know that is exactly
what you would do. I ,can just see
you doing it. I suppdse you haven't
given a thought to what this will
mean to daddy's practice."
",„Why, what on -earth do you mean?
Surely he is not implicated in any
way? It can't make any difference
to him."
"Oh, can't it!" •
It was horrible to hear them quar-
relling, and I tried onee. or twice to
interrupt them, but in their anger
they ignored us entirely and might
have been alone. At last I did man=
agesto get in the remark that "every
one should be considered innocent un-
til their guilt has been proved."
It was a fatuous remark - worthy
•Margatet herself -and Kenneth
sneered that seemed to have rather
funny ideas on the subject of inno-
cence. •It wee• 'Margareti. .however,
who ultimately turned the discussion
in a more pacific direction. She point-
ed obit that Ethel knew the doctor
about ten times as well as the rest
of us, but even so she didn't see how
any one could be expected to entirely
ignore all the evidence against him.
"However," she concluded, "Mr. All -
port as good as said that he thought
that he probably did it, but that there
may be just an outside chance that
he didn't. Well, for my part, I am
quite willing to wait until he has in-
vestigated that outside chance," and
she turned to Ralph, asking him what
he thought about it.
Ralph paused perceptibly before re-
plying. "There is nothing to be gain-
ed by beating about the bush. Allam
port would not have said what he did
if. he had 'much real hope fror,n his
outside clue. But, for your sake,
Ethel, and because of your father's
practice, I am willing to agree to any-
thing he 'asks us to do. • Hotie.stly,
though; so far as the practice is con-
cerned, I can't see that it makes
much difference.. This sort of thing
can't be hushed up, you know."
protested that ife the outside clue
proved relevant, it aid make all 'the
'difference in the world. Then, none
besides ourselves need know how
heavily Dr. rHlans•oe's locum had been
involved, and, endeavouring to carry
out the Tundieh's request, I conclud-
ed with, "For my part, whether this
clue leads to anything or not, I shall
take a lot of convincing before'I 'can
believe that either he or any of the
rest of you are poisoners," but even
as I said the words, I was wondering,
"If the doctor hasnit done it; then
which of the others has?"
"Right, then now we all know ex-
actly where we are," Kenneth grum-
bled. "Ethel and you have quite de-
termined that he is a hero, I know
that he's a blackguard, and the other
two know that he is, one, but don't
quite like to say so. .You had better
let the little man know. I can only
hope that it won't be for long, and
that you won't insist on my pretend-
ing to be friends."
"No one but a fool would think
you capable of pretending anything,"
I retorted, aid went in search of All -
port.
I had heard him busy with the tele.
phone whilst we had been. making our
decision, and I found him talking with
the inspector in the drawing room.
He was balancing himself on the curb
round the fireplace, and I imagine he
had been laying down the law to the
local official, who looked annoyed and
uncomfortable, and emitted a grunt
of emphatic disapproval as I entered
the room. Allport was grinning at
him, his grotesque little face pucker-
ing up in his amusement, and as he
came towards me he patted the big
man on the back, -saying, "Well, that,
my big friend, is what I am going
to do whether you like it or not."
The drawing room at 'Dalehouse is
an exact duplicate of the dining room
F'0 far as its dimensions are concern-
ed, and -with its long Georgian win-
dows it must, I imagine, have been
a difficult roOm to furnish. Mrs. Han-
son had done her best with it, but
the deep arm -chairs and comfortable
settee always looked to me out of
place and a little apologetic, like a
party of chorus girls, who,. going to
a night club, have landed in, a bish-
op's palace by mistake. A grand
'piano stood at right angles to the in -
hide wall, It was little used, and on
the top were several family photo-
graphs in frames.
II had taki Allport that we were
ready for him when I interrupted id's
conversation with the inspector, and
he came towards me smiling. 1 could
not help thinking that he, was pleas-
ed with the inspector's opposition.
When he reached the piano, something
caught his eye, however, and I saw
his amused expression die away and
'one of astonishment take its place.
Then, to my surprise; he picked' up
one of the pihotagraphs, and after
scrutinizing it closely, took it out of
its frame and examined the back. In-
spector Brown stood watching him
frotnethe hearthrug, and I gazed' at
hlra.frorn the doorway. We.exchang-
ed an amused glance, his, I faneied,
tinged with despair, but, quite uncon-
cerned, Allport pot the photograph
back in its frame, replaced it care-
fully on .the piano, and bowed to us
each in turn with a whimsical
"That is another little puzzle for
you," he Said.
11 shed- him of our decision. •
I"Grood, and was it unenimous?"
'5We have all decided to do what-
ever you tell us to," was all I re-
plied.
As 90011 as we had rejoined t h e
others he sent 'one of his men to •find
The Tumlish, and then he made us
promise individually that we would do
,exactly 'what he asked without' any
reservation, and that we would tell
him everything we knew that had any
bearing on the matter. We took our
places round the table, he at one end,
and The Tundish at the other.
I felt that the doctor's ordeal had
begun,' and I wondered what be would
say about the key and whether he
would make any statement about his
quarrel with Stella the night before
her death. But we were to .be
rupted 'again. The man wile had
been stationed in the hall came in)
and 'whispered a ,few words in All -
poet's ..-ear. Allport nodded. "Yes,
show her in at owe," he said, a n d
turning to the doctor, "Miss Sum-
merson has just 'returned.
The plainselathes man must have
told her something of what had hap-
pened, because, though she looked
anxious and worried, she expressed
no •surprise when she came in and
found us sitting round the table. She
had already :nit on her white overall,
and as she stood just inside the door
with her hands clasped in front of
her and her fingers working convuls-
ively, I thought she made rather a
lonely piteau.s pieture.
'Somehow or other, Miss Summerson
both surprised' and intrigued .me.
Neither the lie she had told in the
dispensary on the morning of my ar-
rival, nor her general pallid, hesaat-
ing appearance seemed to be in keep-
ing with the character. The Tundish
had painted and the neat precise
print I had been compelled to admire
or, the deetor's bottle.' She ought, by
ail the rules, to have been dark, de-
cisiee, efficient, and fifty, and there
she stood against the door - about
twenty-three, I thought - nervously
clas.ping and unclasping her h.artels,
her colourless hair scraped hack in
to a kind of run, her pale blue. eyes
with their fair lashes turning first to
the deceit. and then to Allport, ani
her .white face and overall all help-
ing to complete a picture that could
only represent incompetence and
fright. I argued to myself, that if
normally she was efficient, then now
she was afraid, and .that if on the
other hand she was not frightened
now, then she could never be careful
or precise, but to that eoncluslon the
writing on the labels gave the lie, so
I guessed that she was badly scar-
ed.
We were soon to learn one reason
for her embarrassment, however, for
before Allport had time to ask her
any question she said in a voice that
trembled with emotion, "Doctor, I've
lost the key to -the poison cupboard,
what can I do? What shall I do?"
'Please tell us all about it, and if
you can, when and where you lost it,"
Allport questioned, in his iciest tones.
"I didn't miss it until I got to-'-."
she stammered and then to our gen-
eral discomfiture she reddened to the
roots of her pale hair, put her hands
to her face, and burst' into tears.
Ethel got up and went to her side,
whilst the rest of us waited unhap-
pily for the flood of tears to abate.
The detective looked angrily over his
shoulder at the clock,
"I never went at all," she sobbed
at length, turning towards The Tun -
dish. "I told you an untruth about
going to
the time off end thought that you
would be more likely to let me go if
I gave some definite reason. I am
so very sorry." She dried her eyes,
and halving made her little confes-
sion seemed to regain some of her.
composure.
"But what has all that got to do
with your losing the key?" Allport
snapped. "Please do answer my ques-
tion."
She explained that she carried the
keys in a special pocket that she wore
underneath her skirt.' They were, ap-
parently secured to a chain attached
to some part of her underwear -five
or six on one ring, and the key of the
cupboard, being specially important,
on a ring qf its own, connected to the
rest by a piece of leather lace. When
she had opened -the .eu.pboard on Tuess
day morning she had noticed that the
leather was becoming frayed, and
had made up her mind to haves it re-
newed. The key was there 'when she
locked up the cupboard at three
o'clock the same afternoon, and she
had put it back in her pocket as us-
ual and had then gone home. She
didn't notice that the line was broken
and the ring with the key gone, until
she undressed on going to bed.
"What did you do then?"
"Nothing, what could I do? It was
eleven'eaclock."
"But surely you ought to have come
and told the doctor first thing in the
morning -it was rather an important
key to lose, wasn't it?"
"Yes, but I thought that 'most like-
ly it must :have dropped out on to
the dispensary floor.. I don't use the
poeket for anything but the keys."
"Where were you this morning? In
Merchester?"
"Yes, first thing.".
"And yet you didn't come to make
sure that the key was safe?"
"No," and atter some hesitation, "I
couldn't."
"Now, why couldn't you?"
"Well, for one thing I had told Dr.
Wallace that I was going to Milling -
ham for the night when I wasn't, but
it wasn't altogether that."
"What was it then?"
ra-cl don't want to tell you."
•"But, my dear young lady, you
must tell me. This is not a game Of
clurrups, it's a serious matter, Come
stow, what is it that you don't want
to tell me?"
"ca -got engaged this meriting."
f
'Oho! Yee, bet surely you ceuld
'hare spayed jest halt an hour to. ask
about the key?';"
1930 you see 1 didn't know that I
was 'going to get engaged. My fiance
came to stay with us yesterday af-
ternoon. He Was going away by car
first thie Morning, and we had
arranged 'beforehand that I was to
go as far as Boston with him, and
then came back by train. We started
at half -past six. • I was upset about
the key but I wasn't goring to give it
all up„ It-ryou see, it meant too
much to me."
"And quite right too," came em-
phatically from The Tundish, and,
"Yes, I should think so indeed," from
Ethel.
"Then it amounts to this,"' contin-
ued Allport, who seemed quite callous
to the girl's obvious and natural em-
barrassreent, "you last had the key
at three o'clock yesterday, and you
missed it at eleven o'clock when you
went to bed. I suppose you made a
thorough search /of all , your .other
.pockets and your bedroom and so
forth?"
• eyes?,
"We11-, then, will you ,please go in-
to the dispensary and write down very
carefully and in full detail exactly
what yon did and where you went,
between three and eleven o'clock yes-
terday. , That"s all I want for the
present."
Mise Summerson had barely reach-
ed the door, however, when he called
her loads again and askedastked herto s,how
bim the other keys. She fumbled a-
bout underneath her overall and pro-
duced •a small bunch of 'keys on a
ring at the end of a chain.
"Tell me exactly how the other key
Was fastened to these."
"It was on a little ring by itself
fastened to this ring -by a short piece
of leather 'lace."
"But what a most extraordinary ar-
rangement! Why didn't you keep it
on that ring along with the rest? It
Would have been safer, ivouldn't it?"
"Yes,.4 suppose so, but these are
my own keys, and I wanted to keep
the "Other separate."
"Why?"
Miss Summerson made no reply,
but stood miserably in front of him,
fiddling with the bunch of keys.
"You are sure tfiat all this about
the leather lace is hot imagination?"
"No," almOst inaudibly, then, "I
mean to say yes, there was a lace
just like I've said."
"Hare you ever seen this queer ar-
rangement, doctor?"
The Tundish, I thought, hesitated
for the merest fraction of a second,
then he said pleasantly, "No, I don't
think I have. I knew Miss Summer-
son had the key secured to a chain,
somewhat in the way she has describ-
ed, but I never had ahy reason to
handle her keys or ask her exactly
how they were attached."
Allport sat drumming with his fin-
gers on the table for a time, then he
shrugged: his shoulders, and told her
curly that she could go, adding,
"Please be careful to be exaot in the
report Dye asked you to write out."
aMiss Summers= hurried from the
room.
CHAPTER VI
The Inquiry in the Dining -Room
"No one has found the key, I sup-
pose?" was Allport's fust question
as soon as Miss Summerson had shut
'the door. "The maid would have re-
ported if it she had found it when
she swept out the dispensary this
rnerning, I suppose. Miss .Hanson?"
"Yes, but if you like I will go and
ask to make sure," Ethel replied.
."No, dcn't bother to do that."
Then after a pause he asked, "And
which of you were in the dispensary
last night after Miss Summerson
lacked the cupboard at three o'clock?
Were you ?" He asked each of us the
question individually in turn, and it
transpired that Ethel and They`
Tn-
dish alone had passed from the hall
into the dispensary itself, though I
had been in the consulting room at
•the time of the accident to the boy.
I ,bergan to think that the inquiry
would he a lengthy one if each ques-
tion were to be repeated so monot-
onously, but he seemed to take an en-
ormous interest in our replies, and
to wait with a kind of ghoulish ex-
citement after each, "and were you?"
as though he were hoping to catch
us in the admission of an indiscretion.
'shave often thought of that hour in
the stifling dining -room at Dalehouse
as the most tense and exciting of my
experience's, The little man, seated at
the end of the table, was angrily de-
termined to search out the truth. In
deadly earnest he looked at each
speaker as one by one we answered
his numerous questions, but he found
time to glance swiftly round the table
now and again to see what impres-
sion this question or that had made
on the rest of us -then back again,
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sure. Never once did he lieSitatea not.
once did he ',give the inepreeSiou of
being on the defenstve. Arid I Oink
It was this quality inhi replies that.
rather aceelatuand the feeling of all
of us as we sat .unhappily meal the
table. To Ethel, I feel sure, and to
me as well, his calm andhis dignity
were splendid. ' To Kenneth, 1 am
equally sure, they were nothing bat
an additional proof of guilt. ,I could.
'gauge his every thought -no• one but'
,a villain oduldekeep thus collectedin
the face of such suspicion -innocence,
surely, would have shown more cons.
cern? And Ethel, how could
She seemed to hang on the doctor's
every word. From him to Allport,
as answer followed questions were
brutal and direct, proud and glad for
the dignified reply. He a murderer,
a poisoner, and she the girl whom he
lovecl-I believe his soul was sick
with jealousy,.
And Margaret and Ralph, I could
see, though him guilty too -but they
were more aloof -they did not con-
demn and they had some sort of feel-
ing of pity.'
There we sat through, a long, long
hour, the blinds drawn against the
stretaning sun, the pleasant garden
noises aiming in through the open
windows. The clock ticked the time
slowly and leisurely away, and once
there was the sound of tramping feet
on the stairs, as they carried Stella's
body down to take it to the 'mortuary.
The room was at fever, heat and our
pulses raced" as Allport tortured us
each in turn.
"And your'key, 'Dr. Valliee, where
do you keep it?" '
in me waistcoat pocket."
• "Not_a.vemy safe, pla.ce...aisrely?"
"I have always found it so."
"You are sure it has not been out
of your possession?"
04Yes, I could swear to that."
"Wlhat do you doswith it at night?"
"I •don't do anything with it. I
leave it in the pocket."
"And you really 'think it safe to
carry a key of such importance loose
•in your waistcoat pocket?"
"Yes, I think it is as safe there as
it would 'be anywhere else."
"Humph, and now I want you to
tell me about these," taking out his
pocket-boolc and unfolding the notice
The Tundish had printed and the two
duplicates he and I had printed later
on at breakfast.
:Ile turned to the doctor for infor-
mation and was told in detail albout
the practical joke, about ourconver-
sation in the garden, and about Ken-
neth's inquiry at the,breakfast table.
The Tundish spoke simply and to the
point, omitting nothing, not even our
arrangement to lie like troopers in
our efforts to mystify the rest.
"Humph, it all sounds rather extra-
ordinary, •you know, doctor, not what
I should have expected of you some-
how. I take it there was no ulterior
motive?"
was a practical joke and
nothing more."
"You don't think it necessary to
tell the truth then, I gather, on ev-
ery occasion?"
'No, I don't," The Tundish answer-
ed pleasantly. "Come now, Mr, All -
port, you know that that is not quite
a fair implication. I submit that any
one might have arrange& the joki,
and then have agreed to bluff it out
as Mr. .1eIrcock and I did. You might
just as reasonably call a man a liar
and r. sheet beat -Ilse he was fond -of
a game of poker."
But Allport took no notice of his
protest and turned to Kenneth. "Yeu,
I understand, conducted this inquiry.
The doctor has confessed that h.: was
tespensible far the notice and for the
disturbed beds. How was it that you
felled to find him out? What did you
-firol out?"
"We came to no definite conclu-
sion at all, but I wasn't then awarc
that the doctor and Mr. .Jeffcock only
te:1 the truth when it happens to suit
them," Kenneth answered with en
uely sneer. "We well divided, hut
me all felt sure that it was one of
the two. I think it is rather signifi-
cant, however, that Dr. Wallace took
gond care to point out in great de-
tail that any one of us had the op-
portunity to be alone upstairs at
seme time or other during the even-
ing without being missed. He went
out of his way to prove it, and now
I know why," he added, turning to the
doctor with a scowl.
Ethel half sobbed, ' "Oh, how ab-
ominable of you," hut Allport would
brook no interruption, and rapped the
table With his knuckles directly she
opened her mouth. "You think he
stressed the point?" he asked, turn-
ing once more to Kenneth.
"Yes, I do."
"And what have you got to say
about it, Mr. Jeffcock?"
I replied that I considered that The
Tundish had made an entirely accur-
ate statement about the whole affair,
and that while I agreed with Kenneth
that it was he who had pointed out
that we all had the chance of doing
it, it was in my opinion the natural
outcome of our plot to confuse the
rest, and that I could not agree that
any particular emphasis had been giv-
en to the point.
I was surprised to see that All -
port paid really serious attention to
Kenneth's horrible suggestion. He sat
frowning, drawing little squares and
designs in a noteboqk he had placed
on the table before him when the in-
quiry began, and in which from time
to time he had jotted something
down, whilst we sat round the table
watching and anxiously waiting for
what he would say.
"Yes; I think it is rather impor-
tant," he said at length, looking up
from his book and down the table to
where The Tundish sat° facing him,
his chair tilted ;back and his knees
against the 'table' edge, "Would you
mind repeating die arguments you
used?" I've already „admitted that it
was I who stuck. up the notice and
played the silly rpractical jokes."
"Yes, you have, doctor, bit that is
not the point. The implication is that
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cies to cone Vs
,ftret tluutgl*t11:0!'fleatv*A„
going to neneSetoshe,. Ogined te heejsa
tate for a fracticei roteteeconcleaheld
then, leaning forward 7ctith. elhewie
on the table,, he repeated the' liant;erS,
"Mg arguments be had adopted eeelien
in the day. • He not only repeated. the
Words, but he seemed to recreate the
atmosphere of' the earlier scene. ,a,s:
well.' IHe put the Clock ' back some-
how. 'We were all sitting arouedi the
breakfast .table again and he. was
teasing Kenneth -k1 , could almost
smell the coffee and the bacon.
Even little Allport was impressed.
"Yes, that certainly sounds realistic,
and innocent enough," he laughed, het
he went 'ever it all again, neverthe-
less, pausing to peke notes in.: his
book, and asking each of us in turn
-to corroborate the statements t h e
doctor had made. It was ultimately
established that he had given Annie
the medicine to take .upstairs im-
mediately before he joined the other
five -Stella, Margaret, Ethel, ,and'the
two boys -in the dining room for
supper. ' I had been alone upstairs.
whilst I changed, and could have add-
ed the poison either then, or later,
• when as a matter of fact I was wan-
dering about in the garden just prior
to the accident. Kenneth and Ralph
had been together the whole evening
-at least so they both said. It trans-
pired that the two, had gone to a
neighboring hotel for„ a drink, an ad-
miesion they made with some little
shaine,, pleading the heat as their ex-
..cuse. Hanson, I should explain, is
rather a. strict teetotaller and alco-
holic drinks are taboo at Dalehouse;,
Etheleavas alone in the '' doeter's 'wing'
for about 'ten minutes after the • acei-
dent, clearing up the mess. Margar-
et had been left by herself in the
basement all the time that Ethel. was
occupied upstairs. •
Taming sorted out all our move-
ments to his satisfaction, and having
completed his notes about them, he
got up and rang the bell at the side
of the fireplace behind him. When
Annie appeared to answer it, he sur-
prised us all by asking her whether
the little heap of washing he had no-
ticed on the dresser, when he had
searched the basement, was ..the
clothe.s that had been ironed the night
before, and whether they. had yet been
put away.
"No, sir, they're still on
er."
"Fetch them."
the dress-
• (Continued next week.)
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Seaforth 11,34 9.51
Clinton • 11.50
Goderich. 12.10 10.37
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Menset . "s` • 5.55
McGaw 6.04
Auburn' • • 6.11
Blyth ' • 6.25
Walton . 06.40
McNaught • 6.52
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McNaught 11.48
Walton 12.01
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Mensht 12.41
Goderich 12.46
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clieSNAPSPOT CUIL
ENLARGEMENTS
Enlargements make ideal gifts for felends
and relations.
314 inch film will easily give you a
sparkling 8 x 10 inch enlargement.
A word about subjects for enlarge-
ments -particularly if they're to be
used as gifts. Choose pictures that
will mean semething to the recipi-
ents. A shot of Fido trying to climb
a tree after Cleo, the cat, will be
vastly appreciated by big brother or
sister away at College, but It won't
mean very much to Aunt Cynthia
who doesn't care for either dogs or
cats.
Some of the best enlargements
we'veseen have been landscapes -or
seascapes. Mountains usually make
good pictures.
A friend of ours makes a practice
of getting informal shots of his
friends which are enlarged and de-
livered to the various cronies as
gifts. All of which simplified his gift
Problem.
With the coming of summer you
will be getting many pictures that
will make beautiful enlargements
such as a picture of grandmother in
the lower garden, or sister standing
In front of a tree filled with beauti-
ful spring blossoms.
Opportunities for hethitifie pies
tures are countless at this three Of
year, SO go forth With YOUr &enure
and get them. •
• JOtINyAl/ ottilpi*
EVERYTHING considered, snap -
shooters are a lucky lot. As we
have seen, they have the edge on or-
dinary mortals In the matter of real-
ly personal, meaningful birthday or
other types ef greeting cards. And
they have the means of creating
gifts oI exceptional charm and value.
These particular "means" are the
snapshot negatives from which beau-
tiful enlargements can be made. If
you haven't yet experimented with
enlargements, now's the time.
In enlarging a picture you get not
only a bigger, more realistic image,
but the Opportunity to select the best
part of any negative for magnifica-
tion. Suppose you have a good nega-
tive of tfie youngsters at play in the
sandbox - a picture' which their
grandparents would be delighted to
have, Warmed, as a gift. But suppose
there's something incongruous -a
wash on the line, a lawn Mower or
anything else that doesn't add a
thing to the charm of the vlew-to
the right or left of the children. With
an enlargement, that distracting, un-
necessary feature can be completely
eliminated.
Enlargements may be --of almost
any size. Any good negative, no mat-
ter how small, may be "blown up" to
make a pletarntilve or six times the
Size of the original. A sharp 2 x
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