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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-04-03, Page 2You will like the flavour of this Japan Green Blend "SALA (GREEN) JAPAN 'Mk 'Free from the gardens 1 739 The Step on the Stairs By ISABEL OSTRANDER CHAPTER V.—(Cont'd.) "When his dor had cicsed and ha was out of the way I rushed up to her; I don't know what 1 said; I must have been crazy with jealousy and the tayste'y 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 facet I descended, let myself in here almost mechanically, and dropped into that chair y.u're sitting in now, sergeant." Craig was settling hack` in his chair, with a gesture to Barry, when the latter stepped forward. "Mr, Ladd, as I understand it, your apartment here is li'replica of the one just above, studio and all. Have you ally objection to showing us about?" "Not at all," 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 sore- 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 me about that!" "Why?" demanded Burry quickly, for the young man's tone had tenied 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 :alk in her studio -1 advised her to use more burnt sienna with the seal brown to get the proper effect of the wood on the staircase in that portrait she wan doing of.Mrs. Vansittart, the one before which her -- her own body was found tonight" Barr replaced the tube _•aflectivel Y re n1't Y on the table as Craig, with an evident effort to emulate his colleague, picked up 000 of the bottles and sniffed it speculatively. "That's turpentine," Ladd remark- ed, and his voice hall 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 nine I've smelt that odor somewhere else in this house tonight." "Naturally the studio above is per- meated wit'.. it." Barry turned away from the window 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 mote tonight," Barry thanked the artist and bade him goodnight. In the hall Craig produced a handkerchief and wiped hisruddy brow. "Well, John, we've a nice nness to report at headquarters!" he announc- ed in a kw 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 teens mixed up in it nemehow, though every one of them have lied and WRIGLEY'S is good company on any trip. It's delicious flavor adds zest and cnjoytnent, 'The sugar sup- plies pep and energy when the day seems long. In short it's good and good for you. ; 3—'30 peached on the rest! Who the devil was this Miriam Vane, anyway? Where did she come from and what :net when he noticed something which it wa0 obvious that the detectives had overlooked; h sma11 compartment at the top, with a handle farmed by a tiny red -gold dragon, remained un- disturbed, Bary tugged at the little dragon but it was immovable, the single gilt eye above its snout-1i1c3 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 Hunt pencil from his pocket he pressed sharply pen the globule of gilt es upon a bell button. Instahtly the 'dragon turned in- ward as upon a spring, the front of the compartment dropped forward on noiseless, unseen hinges and the in- ter kw of the small, secret space was exposed. Mentally congratulating himself that Doane had elected to remain out- side Ba ry drew forth. tike contents iof the unnpartunenc in both hands fed carried it carefully to a.0mall 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 regard for episodes in her life th„t had van- ished from the sophisticated present, were the rest of thein to her?” for 'here beneath his hands were "I think we can guess whit, Ladd clearly mementos of the past, the fool - was," Barry whispered as he led his ish, faded objects, meaningless to any - colleague up the stairs once more. "Just at idealistic young fool who let her play with hint like a cat with a mouse to pleasd her vanity and then kicked him out when he became incon- one slse, which every woman treasures until memory ceases to have value, kfaded, blue satin ribbon, stiff and yellowed at the edges, held a ]snot of crumbling brown sprigs which must venient. He may have killed her, but once have been flowers; a torn scrap I don't think so; I think he would of 55111 lace, discolored new, and too have adored the woman he thought rich in quality for a graduation dress she was, and protected her with his but it might have been a bit of a tid- iest breath." dal veil or christening robe once upon "The woman he thought she was!" a time; a lock of short, curling hair, repeated Craig, pausing on the stairs matted and red -brown; a battered in his astonishment, gold locket without initial or inscrip- tion; an empty cartridge of .44 cal - CHAPTER VI, ibre, and a small snapshot, alike faded "What are we going upstairs again and discolored and half torn 011'000 for?" demanded Craig. "I've got to as though someone had started to de - make my report at headquarters, and stroy it and then thought better of it, it's getting on toward morning." Taking up the faded snap@hot he "You're not going to rouse up old examined it closely. Its faint lines Griswold again, then, and ask him showed the figure of a tall, slender why he lied about his acquaintance girl clad in a light-colored gown which with Mrs. Vane?" Barry bent a made it stand out against what ap- quizzical glance upon the younger ser- peered to be a mass of shrubbery in geant, full leaf. At her side and reaching to "I am not,"'the other announced above her knee was a blurred object with decision. "We have young Ladd's resembling a huge dog, but the outlines word for it that Griswold lied, hut were so indistinct that its breed could neither of thein were under oath. not be determined. They're both under guard and in the (To ha continued.) morning we'll have them down on the ti• 1� carpet and get the truth out of them." Garden �i �[es "That's a good idea,,, approved Barry. "Anel while you are abort it, you might find out what time little If Based on Miss Shaw goes out and let the pro. Chance Ideas feasor know. I fancy he'll be waiting to hear." Craig stared. "01h, 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 ane, John?" "No." Bary smiled, "I'11 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 whiskers wav- ing in tine early morning breeze. That note simply asked him to get into the other apartments when he was sure the occupants were gone, and search for traces of a certain chemical com- pound." onpound." "But we'd only just left Miss Shaw's apartment; we ho1:'t seen either Griswold•s or Ladd's thennl" 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. than turned to the guard. "Doane, do you know who I ant?" The patrolman nodded. "All right," Barry broke in. "I take it that your orders tonight, Doane, are to keep guard outside the apart- ment here in which the woman wee shot unless 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 suspicious withii1 five minutes, and that something is going to be me! Understand?" "I don't, sir," Doane replied. "Brit what you say goes. You mean you want to have another look around the Mace? I've orders not to let anybody in, but as long u you're taking the responsibility, the lock's smashed and I can't see every shadow in this dark Bary pushed open the broken door, which swung drunkenly on its hinges, and entered the perfumed: littered ing room, where i10 found his way to the wall switch and turned on the opalescent lamps, The little writing clerk was open, its profusion of papers scattered on the floor, and the drawer, of an almost priceless Oiliest. cabinet had been forced. Approaching the latter, Barry observed that its contents were main- ly scraps of drawing paper on which tiny figures had been scrawled, each with a few deft lines, and picking one up ile whistled softly. It was a nniniacure caricature, cruel in its sharply defined character delin- e.tion, of pompous, good-natured Theodore Vansittart, husband of the woman whose unfinished portrait stood on the easel in the studio, end glanc- ing ever the others Barry found like caricatures of several people promin- ei t in the social and political life of the city, De was turning a'$' from the gab- advance—lovely gardens do not just grow like Tops3", but are t110 result of forethought coupled with taste and skill. A good way to go about the plan- ning of the garden is to thiole of it from the house outwards. How, for In- stance, does it 10011 from the living room window, and how do you reach the ga'deo; is it from a piazza out- side the living room, from a porch at the end of the house, or must you walk from the foot' across a stretch of drive and around the corner of the 1101150? If the garden entrance can bo re- lated to one of the main outlooks from the house—placed, for instance, op- posite the door from the sun porch or in line with the main window of the living room—it w111 fall Into what is a natural line of sight for the eye and, the result because 1t Is easy to follow will be pleasing and gratifying, The mistake of disregarding the relation of the garden to the house is very of- ten made because the owner thinks of the two separately, The location of the garden Is de- ckled upon, the space bisected and the design made about this central ax18 regardless of its relation to the house, with the result that viewed from the porch or living room It may be just annoyingly off centre with the line of sigit, or make an inharmonious angle with the house. It is far more Im- portant to have this relatio.t of house to garden right titan to have the space within the garden itself divided sym- metrically. 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