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“I agree with Doane,” said. Hen
derson. "I’m funny that way, but the
sight of bloodshed, or even the
thought of it, turns me sick at my
stomach. You gentlemen, in the pol
ice and the District Attorney’s of
fice, and practicing criminal law, nat
urally ■ take it as part of the day’s
work. I’m going to get back to the
„ business of the evening. Will you
join me?”
Only Doane accepted, and the tivo
drank another highball each while the
others resumed their seats at the card
table and Frazier began to deal.
"Sorry I started anything disagree
able, gentlemen," Michaelis apologiz
ed again, "Dan, you ought not to talk
shop when you’re out in company."
‘Til talk nothing but poker from
now on,” grunted the Inspector. “It’s
a cold, dark night and I crave ex
citement.”
"The excitement begins right now,
Dan,” said Max Michaelis. "Table
stakes, all jackpots, I believe? Then
I’ll take the lid off this one,”
He shoved a stack of blue chips
into the middle of the table and the
%ame was on.
“Poker isn’t a game of cards; it’s
a game of human nature,” was one of
Dan Flaherty’s aphorisms. After a
few hands had been played he could
tell more about the character of the
others at the table than an ordinary
man would learn by months of intim
ate association. With the poker tech-
» nique of Martin Frazier, Archie Doane
and Max Michaelis he was already
sufficiently familiar to estimate al
most to a two-spot the probable con
tents of their hands, by their expres
sions and manner when making their
bets. Michaelis’ friend, Williams, and
the host of the evening, Elmer Hen
derson, were strangers, and the vet
eran detective gave his closest scrut
iny to them.
Williams, he speedily decided, was
■a long-chance player, a victim of in
satiable curiosity who cared little
whether he won or lost so long as he
got action for his money. Hender
son ,however, puzzled him.
Twice, when Flaherty was certain
the other was bluffing and bet heav
ily upon that belief, Henderson fool
ed him by showing the winning hand.
Yet more than once, when the In
spector had folded a good hand of
his own, convinced that the inventor
held higher cards, the other had lau
ghingly shown a worthless hand as
he raked in the. pot.
Dan Flaherty’s respect for the slen
der young inventor mounted rapidly
as the game went on.
Archie Doane, however, was not
playing in his usual form. It was clear
to Dan Flaherty that somethnig was
worrying the actor. It was not hard
to guess that his thoughts were upon
Lydia Lane and the possibility that
the rendezvous which had kept Ste
phen Fitzgerald from joining the par
ty in Henderson’s bungalow had some
connection with her absence from her
own apartment. Doane was playing
I
mechanically, without enthusiasm,
seldom backing his hand and then, as
often as not, laying down what would
have been winning cards. His custom
ary. brilliant and courageous style of
play was noticeably absent, and Fla
herty was not surprised when, after
an hour and a half, he announced he
had had enough.
"Don’t let me break up. the game,
gentlemen,” he said. “There still will
be five of yon. I’m not up to it to
night, that’s all.”
He settled for the several hundred
dollars’ worth of chips which he had
lost, took a final drink and said good
night.
Henderson escorted Doane to the
elevator.
“Archie’s worried about his girl,”
said Flaherty, as soon as the two
were o-ut of earshot. “He isn’t any
too sure of her.”
“My guess is that Henderson’s a
bit touched in the same quarter,” sug
gested Frazier. “He was pretty quick
to come to her defense, when I made
that bad break a while ago.”
“I’m not on,” said Max Michaelis.
“Who’s the dame?”
“I forgot you weren't here,” Fraz
ier apologized. “I made a fool break
about Lydia Lane and both Hender
son
under splendid self-control.
“He’s a great poker player,
right,” grunted Dan Flaherty,
"He sure plays ’em hard to figure/’
Michaelis agreed, “He’s had me fool
ed a dozen times.”
Henderson rejoined them and the
game was resumed, with the stacks
of chips in front of the host of the
evening steadily increasing,
“My lucky night, I guess," he said,
after he had raked in another big pot,
half an hour or so after Archie’s de
parture. "It’s eleven o’clock, and
that’s drinking time. Deal me out
this hand, please. I told my man he
could go down to play pinochle with
the night watchman in the basement,
and I'll have to find the whiskey my
self,"
"Yes, he’s a good poker player, in
spite of his calling it luck/’ said Fra
zier, after Henderson had left the
room, “I told you he was, didn’t I,
Dan?”
“I’d like to sit in with him when
his luck’s out, before I committed
myself,” responded the detective.
“He’s a good winner, but I’ve a hunch
that he’s the sort that would turn
vicious if he lost when losing really
meant anything to him. Rolling in
money just now, and doesn’t care
and Archie snapped me up. If*whether he wins or loses at cards."
“Both dead? All right; stay right there. I'll .be right over.”
Henderson isn’t sweet on her, then
I’m a bad guesser. But Archie an
nounced that he’s going to marry her.
“Lydia Lane, eh?” echoed Max
Michaelis. “Well, there are plenty of
’em in ’the pictures with worse repu
tations than hers. I don’t know much
about her as a matter of fact, except
that she’s a good looker and never
has been mixed up in a public scan
dal. Archie ought to know
about.”
“But Henderson seems
good a sport in love as
cards,” he continued. “If you’re right
that is, about his having had aspira
tions in the fair Lydia’s direction. A
game little chap, I should say. Sensi
tive and high strung, but certainly
what he’s
to be as
he is at
ail
Max Michaelis nodded approvingly
and seemed about to make some com
ment, when Henderson re-entered
the room. They had another round
of drinks and less than half an hour
later the telephone rang.
Henderson answered the call. "It’s
for you, Inspector,” he called, his
hand over the transmitter, “Are you
here or not?”
“I’ll answer,” said Flaherty, rising.
“I always leave word at Headquarters
where to get me. They wouldn’t call
unless it was something important.
Hello! Inspector Flaherty speaking.
"What? The hell you say! . .’Where
are you now?”
There was a long silence in the
room. Max Michaelis, watching the
Inspector’s face from where he sat,
saw it grow tense as the Inspector
listened. Then Flaherty’s voice again.
“Both dead? All right; stay right
there. Don’t touch anything. I’ll be
right over.. What's the address? . . .
Okay, Archie . . . Don’t lose yonr
nerve . , , What’s that? , , , Sure, I'll
bring him with me.”
Dan Flaherty turned from the tele
phone with what Max Michaelis of
ten termed his “Old
sion on his face.
“Get your coat on(
“There’s hell to pay.
Stephen Fiztgerald have been killed
in the girl’s apartment, That was Ar
chie Doane phoning. He found ’em!”
“Lydia dead!” gasped Henderson,
He turned white ’and seemed about
to fall from his chair. Frazier’s hand
on his shoulder steadied him.
“Murdered?” cried William. “After
what we were talking about, too!”
“Archie found them?” Frazier of
the District Attorney’s office spoke
almost simultaneously with the other
two.
“Yes, and he wants you to come
with me, Max,” replied Inspector Fla
herty, addressing Michaelis again,
“You might come too, Frazier. No
use guessing what’s up, but it looks
like a double murder, and . . . well,
Archie’s in a difficult position.”
He turned to the telephone again
and dialled. Spring 3100 while the oth
ers ,stunned, could only sit and stare
at each other,
"Inspector Flaherty speaking,” he
said. “Let me speak to Larkin . . .
Then give me anybody who’s in the
bureau . . .Homicide Bureau? . . Tony
.— this is Inspector Flaherty . . . I’m
uptown • • . Get hold of the Medical
Examiner or his deputy right away.
You go with him to 213 West 59th,
Miss Lane’s apartment.”
He turned from the phone to the
others.- “What floor is it on, any of
you know?”
“On the roof,” replied. HendersJn,
setting down the glass which he had
-just drained. “Penthouse apartment.”
"It’s one of these penthouse apart
ments,” sadi Flaherty into the tele
phone. “Take a camera man and a
Bertillon man with fingerprint equip
ment, along with you. You’ll find a
fellow named Archie Doane there —
at least, I think you will. Don’t ask
him any questions, but just see what
there is to see until I get there. I
may be there ahead of you, but if
I’m not, don’t let Doane go without
word from me. Better phone the pre
cinct and have 'em send a uniform
I man to hold anybody who tries to
| leaves the building before you get -
there. Tell them at the precinct the
instructions are to let nobody in or
out without orders from me. Got
that? , . . And, Tony . . .”
"You don’t really suspect Archie
did it, do you, Dan?” Max Michaelis
interrupted' The Inspector waved, his
hand for silence. “I suspect every
body in a homicide case, and you
know it,” he said gruffly. Then to the
man at the other -end of the telephone
wire he gave final instructions.
“Call the -police garage and have
them send a closed car for me, right
off. I’m at Fifty-sixth just off Fifth :
Avenue, Highart Film Building. 1’11
be waiting in the main lobby, down
stairs. Make it snappy, now, Tony.”
He hung up and rejoined the oth
ers. “No use 'trying to get a taxi
this time on Saturday night, in this
Sleuth” expres-
Max/* he said.
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storm,” he said, “We’ll have time to
cash in on the game before the car
gets here.”
“It’s stopped snowing,” said Wil
liams, who had pulled the curtains
aside and was looking out over the
white-shrouded roofs of the city.
“The storms over. See, the stars are
out. Everything looks so peaceful and
pure—and two people have been mur
dered! Even though I never met Fitz
gerald or Miss Lane, and only
Mr. Doane to-night, it—well, it
me.”
“It’s
met
gets
Mi-got all of us,” said Max
chaelis. “We all know Fitz—knew
him, anyway—and we all love Archie,
And Henderson, here . . . feeling bet
ter, old man? Want to have one of
us stay with you?”
“Come along, if you like,” said Dan
Flaherty, with gruff kindliness.
The inventor shuddered,
thank' you. I couldn't stand it. Even
if I didn’t feel as I do about Miss
Lane, I would go to pieces and be a
nuisance. The rest of you go on.
Don’t mind staying with me, any
body. I’ll be all right. But I hope .
. . I hope it isn’t Archie . . that did
it, I mean. I.thought from the way
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you spoke, Inspector. . .”I of the neck of the womb. She had.
“Well, look at it as if you’d never
heard of anybody concerned,” Dan
Flaherty interrupted. “A man’s en
gaged to marry a girl, He's jealous
of another man. He worried all even
ing because he doesn’t know where
the girl is, or the other man. He
goes to the girl’s apartment and finds
the two together. Of course, he says
they were both dead when he got
there. But if you knew just that and
didn’t know any more, whom would
you suspect?
“Now, I don’t suspect Archie Doane
any more than I suspect anybody else.
But I’m a policeman, Friendship cuts
no ice with me in a murder case. Get
my point of view?"
“Of course, you have to look at it
like that, Inspector,” Henderson ag
reed. “But it doesn’t'sound like the
sort of thing Archie Doane would do.
Does it to you, Frazier?”
“No, it doesn’t,” the Assistant At
torney agreed. “He was awfully up
set though, to-night, ' about
Lane.”
(Continued Next Week)
Miss
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PERIODICAL HEALTH EXAM
INATION
A HEALTH SERVICE OF
THE CANADIAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION AND LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANIES
<N CANADA
CHILDREN ARE VICTIMS OF FOLLIES OF THE WORLD
one refugee ship docked in England,
(RIGHT) This blond young Briton
exerts a smaller
purse than does
the Society for
pull on the British
his pup. Last year
the Prevention of
Mary Smith, Canadian nurse, with
a wealth of golden hair, clear blue
intelligent eyes and handsome feat
ures, served the needs of soldiers in
the hospital at Etaples, France, dur
ing the period of the War. She met
her fate there in the person of Lieu
tenant Sanders, of the United States
Navy. They were married and went
to live in Philadelphia in 1920. The
husband was promoted and had a
comfortable position in the Navy Pay
Office. They were very happy5 and
in the course of 5 years two fine
children, a boy and a girl, arrived to
cheer the household of the pair.
(Names are, of course, fictitious.)
One day, chatting with a young
woman friend, the subject of period
ical medical examination came up for
discussion. The personnel of navies
are required to present themselves at,
regular intervals for physical exam
ination in order that the authorities
may know whether their men ate fit,
This privilege is extended to the
members of the families of those em
ployed in the Navy.
Although there was apparently no
thing wrong with these young women,
they decided to have the examination
thus conveniently provided. Thinking
it a bit of a joke, they went tip for
examination whereupon it was discov
ered that the wife of Lieutenant (now
Captain) Sanders had a small cancer
be alive. Periodical
served to save his,
citizen, the thriftyordinary
the mechanic, find it import-
have an annual overhaul of
as was advised, prompt treatment by
radium in the clinic of the hospital,
and had supervision at regular short
intervals for three years and subse
quently every six months. It is now
8 years since treatment was initiated,,
there has been no return of the con
dition discovered and the young wo
man has remained perfectly well.
There is no doubt that in this case
periodical examination saved the life
of this bright young woman.
A man, 39 years of age," called to
see his doctor because of a touch of
what he called lumbago. He looked
the picture of health. He had never
had any illness. Routine examination
included an analysis of the urine. Sur-
ar was found in the man’s urine and
further investigation proved that he
had an early case of diabetes. He
was put on a proper diabetic diet and
now,-10 years later, is in good health.
If he had waited until the diabetic
condition showed marked symptoms,
he would have had his health serious
ly undermined by the disease. He
would, if alive, be taking insulin ev
ery day. Even with this care he would
be fortunate to
examination has
life.
The
farmer,
ant to
their machinery, be it an automobile,
a reaper or the tools of work. Yet
the health of one’s body is a thous
and times more important than the
maintained quality of any machine.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
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its policy-holders who were regularly
re-examined reduced their average
mortality by 23%. Industrial concerns
find it pays to check the health of
their employees. In one plant dur
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Bright’s disease (a kidney disease)
were discovered at these examinations.
Pulmonary tuberculosis may be found
in time to save the patient a'nd pre
vent infection in his family. The dis
covery of infected teeth and tonsils
results m the Cure and prevention of
much disease. What is regarded by
the person as simple indigestion may
prove to be an ulcer of the stomach,
appendicitis or disease of the gall
bladder. Ask yourself the question.
Can I afford to neglect to have a
periodical health examination? Do it
on your birthday!
Questions concerning Health, ad
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sociation, 184 College Street, Toronto,
will be answered personally by letter,
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young laborer, V|
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