The Wingham Times, 1915-04-08, Page 7April, 8th 1915
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Jennie Brice
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SYNOPSIS '
Jennie Brice and her husband, Ladley,
-quarrel. She disappears from Mrs. Pit-
man's boarding house during a Pittsburgh
flood,
Mrs, Pitman tells Holcombe, an amateur
detective, that she believes Ladley has
kited Jennie Brice.
Holcombe ands Incriminating evidence
in Ladley's room. An onyx clock is miss-
ing. Mrs, Pitman's knife has been stolen
rind broken.
"Por your whisky. and soda before
you go to bed, sir."
"Oh, certainly, yes. Bring the soda.
And—just a moment, Mrs. Pitman.
Isis. Holcombe is a total abstainer and
thas always been so. It is Ladley, not
•Hollccombe, who takes this abominable
'stuff."
I said I quite understood, but that
3Mir. Ladley could skip a night if he so
,wished. But the little.' gentleman
rsvonid not hear to It, and when I
brought the soda poured himself a dou-
ble portion. He stood looking at it,
With his face screwed up, as if the
ivery odor revolted him.
"The chances are," he said, "that
Ladley-that I -having a nasty piece
•ot work to do during the night, would
-will take a larger 'drink than usual."
;He raised the glass, only to put it
<down. "Don't forget," he said, "to
put a large knife where you left the
<y
,one last night. I'm sorry the water
has gone down, but I shall imagine it
:still at the seventh step. Good night,
.Mrs. Pitman."
"Good night, Mr. Ladley," I said,
.smiling, "and remember, you are three
weeks in arrears with your board."
His eyes twinkled 'through his spec-
tacles. "I shall imagine it paid," he
said.
I went out, and I heard him close the
door behind me. Then, through the
door, I beard a great sputtering and
-coughing, and I knew be had got the
whisky down somehow. I put the
,knife out, as he had asked me to, and
went to. bed. I was ready to drop.
Not even the knowledge that an
imaginary Mr. Ladley was about to
:commit an imaginary crime in the
house that night could keep me awake.
Mr. Reynolds came in at 11 o'clock.
.I was roused when he banged his door.
That was all I knew until morning,
The sun on my face wakened me.
Peter, in his basket. lifted his head
as I moved and thumped his tail
.against his pillow in greeting. I put
on a wrapper and caned Mr. Reynolds
by knocking at his door. Then I went
on to the front room. The door was
closed. and some one beyond was
, groaning. My heart stood still, num
• then raced on. I opened the dour rood
looked in.
Mr. Hulvutnbe was on the bed. runs
.dressed. Lie had a wet towel tied
. around his bead, mud his (•are tuekrtl
• swollen and puffy. lie opened one
. eve and looked at due.
"What n night!" he t ni:tiled
"What happened: Mint alit) t•u't
• find?"
lie groaned again, -Find!" he :until
"Nothing. cxet'pt that there \Os sono,
thing wrong with that whisky. it
poisoned Ino. t I01 'en's been out ot
the house!"
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tended to stay on, he said nothing
about changing his identity again, and
I was glad enough. The very name of
Ladley was horrible to me.
The river went down almost entirely
that day, although there was consider-
able water in the cellars. It takes
time to get rid of that. The lower
floors showed nothing suspicious. The
papers were ruined, of course, the
doors.„warped apd sprung had the
floors coated with mud and debris.
Terry came in the afternoon, and to-
gether we hung the dining room rug
out to dry in the sun.
As I was coming in I looked over
at the Maguire yard. Molly . Maguire
was there and all her children around
her, gaping. Molly was banging out to
dry a sodden fur coat that had once
been striped brown and gray.
I went over after breakfast and
claimed the coat as belonging to Mrs.
Ladley. But she refused to give it up.
'There is a sort of unwritten law re-
garding the salvage of flood articles,
and I had to leave the coat, as I had
my kitchen chair. But it was Mts.
Ladley's beyond a doubt.
I shuddered when 1 thought how it
had probably got into the water. And
yet it was curious, too, for if she had
had it on, how did it get loose to go
floating around Molly Maguire's yard?
And if she had not worn it, how did
it get in the water?
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CHAPTER VI.
HE newspapers were full of
the Ladley case, with its cu-
rious solution and many sur-
prises. It was considered
unique in many ways. Mr. Pitman
bad always read all the murder trials
and used to talk about the corpus de-
lictt and writs of habeas corpus, corpus
being the legal -way, I believe, of spell-
ing corpse. But 1 came out of the Lad-
les trial—for it came to trial ultimately
—with only one point of law that I
was sure of. That was that it is
mighty hard to prove a man a mur-
derer unless you can show what he
killed.
And that was the weakness in the
Ladley case. There was a body, but it
could not be identified.
The police held Mr. Ladley for a day
or two, and then, nothing appearing.
they let him go. Mr. Holcombe, who
was still occupying the second floor
front, almost wept with rage and de-
spair when he read the news in the
papers. He was still working :on the
case in his curious way, wandering
along the wharfs at night and writing
letters all over the country to learn
about Philip Ladley's previous life and
his wife's. But he did not seem to get
anywhere.
The newspapers bad been full of the
Jennie Brice disappearance, for disap-
pearance it proved to be. So far as
could be learned she had not left the
city that night or since, and as she
was a striking looking woman, very
blond, as I have said, with a full voice
and a languid manner, she could hard-
ly have taken refuge anywhere with-
out being discovered. The morning
after her disappearance a young wo-
man, tall, like Jennie Brice, and fair.
had been seen in the Union station.
But as she was accompanied by a
young than, who bought her magazines
and papers and Nude het' an excited
farewell, sending Ills love to various
members of a family and promising to
feed the canary, this. was not seriously
considered. A sort of general alarm
went over the conutr'y. When she was
young n' she had been pretty well
known at the Broadway theaters in
New York. One way or another, the
Liberty theater got at lot of free ad-
vertisitng from the ease, and, I believe,
Miss Hope's salary was raised.
The police communicated with Jen-
nie Brice's people --she had a sister in
Olean, N. Y., but she had not heard
from her. The sister wrote -I heard
biter• -that Jenuie had been unhappy'
with Philip Ladley, and afraid ho
would kill her. And Miss Hope told
the same story. But—there was no
corpus, as the lawyers say, and finally
the police had to free Mr. Ladley.
Beyond tanking an attempt to get
bail, and failing, be had done nothing.
Asked about his wife. he merely shrug-
ged his shoulders and said she had left
him and would turn up all right. fie
was nnconeerued, smoked cigarettes
all day, ate and slept well and looked
better since he had had nothing to
drink. And two or three days after
the arrest be sent for the manuscript
of his play.
Mr. Howell came for it on the Thurs-
day of that week.
I Was on my knees scrubbing the
parlor floor when he rang the bell.
I let him in, and it seemed to me that
he looked tired and pale.
"Well, Mrs. Pitman.” lie said, smil-
ing, "what did you find in the cellar
when the water went downy -
"I'ot ' :Id b, smJ IItat 1 didn't lint!
What 1 trait:a, Mr. 1.toevit."
"Not even the onyx cluck?"
"Not even the clock," I replied.
"And i feel as if I'd lost a friend. A
clock is a lot of company."
"Do you know what I think?" he
said, looking at me closely, "I think
you put that clock away yourself in
the excitement and have forgotten all
about It."
"Nonsense."
"Think hard." He was very mink In
earnest, "You knew the water was
rising and the Lndleys would have
to be moved up to the sevond nom
front, where the clock stood You
went in there and looked around to see
if the room was ready, and you saw
the clock. And knowing that the Lad-
leys quarreled now and then and were
apt to throw things" -
"Nothing but a soap dish, and that
'July once."
—"you tools the clock to the attic and
out it, say, in an aid trunk."
"I did nothing lit the sort. I went
on, a,s you say. and I put up au old
splasher, because of the way he throws
!nit about. Then I wound the clock.
put the key under it and went out."
"And the key is gone, too!" be said
thoughtfully. "I wish 1 could find -the,
clock, Mrs. Pitman."
"So do I."
"Ladley went out Sunday afternoon
about 3, didn't he—and got back at 5':'
T
Owned and looked at him. "Ye,.
.lir Honors; I salsa. "a'evIiaps yon
Upon. something about Ili l,"
He ehaams' elder. Twenty
ear's of Hulloing hoarders has tn;utr
tile pretty shark at reading faces. and
he looked is nueuuifurutblr las it' lir
owed nae Money. "1!" I knew then
Holt I loud been right about the voter.
It had been him,
"You" I retorted. "You were here
Sunday morning and spent some tithe
with the Lndleys. I ani the old she
devil. i notice you didn't tell your
friend. Mr.' Holcombe. ahotIt having
been here on Sunday."
He was quick to recover, "I'll tell
you all about it, Mrs. Pitman." he :mid
smilingly. "You see. all my lire, I Move
wished for an onyx clock. It lois been
my ambition. my great desire. Ixnv-
lug the house that Sunday morning
and hearing the ticking of the .clock
upstairs '1 recognized it was an onyx
clock, clambered from my, boat through
an upper window and so reached it.
The clock showed fight, but after
stunning it with a chair"—
"Exactly!" I said. "Then the thing
Mrs. Ladley said she would not do was
probably to *Ind the clock?"
He dropped, his bantering manner at
once. "MO'. l5'itnian: 'lie 'laid, "1
don't know what you heard or did not
hear. But I want you to give me a
little time before you tell anybody that
I was here that Sunday morning. And
in return I'll find your, clock."
I hesitated, but however put out he
was he didn't look like a criminal.
Besides, he was a friend of my niece's.
and blood is thicker than flood water.
"There was nothing wrong about my
being here." he went on. "bet I don't
want it known. Don't spoil a good
story, Mrs. Pitman."
I did not quite understand that, al-
though those who followed the trial
carefully may do so. Poor Mr, Howell!
I am sure he believed that it Was only
a good story. He got the description
of my onyx clock and wrote it down,
and I gave him the manuscript for Mr.
Ladley. That was the last 1 saw of
him for some time.
That Thursday proved to be an ex-
citing day, for late in the afternoon
Terry, digging the mud out of the cel-
lar, came across my missing gray false
front near the coal vault and brought
it up, grinning, and just before (I Mr.
Graves. the detective, rang the bell
and then let himself in. I found him
in the lower hall looking around.
"Well, Mrs. Pitman," he said, "has
our friend come back yet?"
"She was no friend of mine."
"Not she—Ladley. He'll be out this
evening, and he'll probably be around
for his clothes."
I felt my knees waver, as they al-
ways did when he was spoken of.
"He may want to stay here," said.
Mr. Graves, "In fact, I think that's
just what he will want."
"Not here," 1 protested. "The very
thought of him -makes me quake."
"If he comes here better take him in.
i want to know where he is."
I tried to say that I . wouldn't have
him, but the old habit of the ward as-
serted itself. From taking a bottle of
beer or a slice of pie to telling one
where one might or might not liye the
police were autocrats in that neighbor-
hood, and, respectable woman that I
am, my neighbors' fears of the front
office have infected me.
"All right, Mr. Graves," I said.
He pushed the parlor door open and
looked in, whistling. "This is the
place, isn't it?"
"Yes. But it was upstairs that he" -
"I see, Tall woman, Mrs. Ladley?"
"Tall and blond. Very airy in her
manner."
Iie nodded and stood looking In and
whistling. "Never heard her speak of
a town named Horner, did you?"
"Homer? No."
"I see." He turned and wandered
out again into the hall, still whistling.
At the door, however, be stopped and
turned. "Look anything lake this'''. he
asked and held out one of his hands
with a small kodalc picture on the
palm.
it was a snapshot of a children's
frolic in a village street, with some
onlookers in the background. Around
one of the heads had been drawn a cir-
cle in pencil. I took it to the gas jet
and looked at it closely. It was a tall
woman with at hat on, not unlike Jew
ole Brice. She was looking over the
crowd, and 1 could see only her face.
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fluoiijiit it uti harm •to curry an old
t razor of Mr. Pitman's with the blade
open and folded back on the handle,
the way the colored people use them,
in my left hand.
But I saw at once teat he meant no
mischief.
"Good evening," he said, and put out
his hand. I jumped bark until i saw
there was nothing in it and that lie
only meant to shake hands. I didn't
du it, I might have to take him in
and make his lied and cook Iris meals,
but 1 did not have to shake bands
with him.
"You, too!" he said, looking at me
with what I suppose he meant to lie a
reproachful look. But he could no
more put an expression of that sort
in his eyes than a fish could. "I sup-
pose, then, there is no use asking if I
may have my old room -the front
room. l won't need two."
I didn't want him, and he must have
teen it. But I took him. "You may
have it, as far as I'm concerned," I
said. "But you'll have to let the pa-
per hanger in tomorrow."
"Assuredly." . He came into the ball
and stood looking around him, and I
fancied he drew a breath of relief. "It
isn't much yet," he said, "but it's bet-
ter to look at than six feet of muddy,
water,"
"Or than stone walls," I said.
He looked at me and smiled. "Or
than stone walls," he repeated, bow-
ing, and went into his room.
So I had him again, and if I gave
him only the dull knives and locked
up the breadknife the. moment 1 had
finished with it, who can blame me?
I took all the precaution I could think
of -had Terry put an extra bolt on
every door and hid the rat poison and
the carbolic acid in the cellar.
Peter would not go near him. He
hobbled around on his three legs, with
the splint beating a sort of tattoo on
the floor, but he stayed back in the
kitchen with me or in the yard.
It was Sunday night or early Mon-
day morning that Jennie Brice disap-
peared. On Thursday evening her hus-
band came back. On Friday the body
of a woman was washed ashore at
Beaver, but turned out to be that of a
stewardess who had fallen overboard
from one of the Cincinnati packets.
Mr. Ladley himself showed me the ar-
ticle in the morning paper when I took
in his breakfast.
"Public hysteria has killed a man be-
fore this," he said when I had read it.
"Suppose that woman had been man-
gled or the screw of the steamer had
cut her head off! How many people
do you suppose would have been will-
ing to swear that it was my -was Mrs.
Ladley?"
"Even without a head I should know
Mrs. Ladley," I retorted.
He shrugged his shoulders. "Let's
trust she's still alive, for my sake," he
said. "But I'm glad, anyhow, that this
woman had a head. You'll allow me to
be glad, won't you?"
"You can be anything you want as
far as I'm concerned," I snapped and
went out.
Mr. Holcombe still retained the sec-
ond story front room. I think, although
he said nothing more about it. that he
was still "playing horse." He wrote
a good bit at the washstand, and, from
the loose sheets of manuscript be left,
I believe actually tried to begin a play.
But mostly he wandered along the wa-
ter front or stood on one or another
of the bridges, looking at- the water
and thinking. It is certain that he
tried to keep in the part by smoking
cigarettes, but he hated them, and
usually ended by throwing the ciga-
rette away and lighting an old pipe he
carried.
On that Thursday evening he came
home and sat down to supper with
Mr. Reynolds. He ate little and seemed
much excited. The talk ran on crime,
as it always did when he was around,
and Mr. Holcombe quoted Spencer a
great deal -Herbert Spencer. Mr. Rey-
nolds was impressed, not knowing
much beyond silks and the National
league.
"Spencer," Mr. Holcombe would say
-"Spencer shows that every occur-
rence is the inevitable result of what
has gone before and carries In its
train an equally inevitable series of
results. Try to interrupt this chain in
the smallest degree and what follows?
Chaos, my dear sir, chaos."
"We see that at the store," Mr. Rey-
nolds would say. "Accustom a lot of
women to a sills sale on Fridays and
then make it tooth brushes. That's
chaos, all right."
Well, Mr. Holcombe came in that
night about 10 o'clock, and 1 told him
Ladley was back. Fie was almost
wild with excitement, wanted to have
the back parlor, so he could watch him
through the keyhole, And was terribly
"Look anything like this?" he asked.
a lot of stage pictures of her, but, what
with false -hair and their being re-
touched beyond recognition, they don't
amount to much." lie started out and
stopped on the doorstep to Light a cigar.
"Take him in if he comes," he said.
"And keep your eyes open. Feed him
well and he won't kill you!"
I had plenty to think of when I was
cooking Mr. Reynolds' supper -the
chance that I might have Mr. Ladley
again and the woman at Horner. For
it had come to me like a flash as Mr.
Graves left that the "Horn-" on the
paper slip might have been "Homer."
* * ; * * • 5
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came at 8 o'clock that night, fresh
shaved and with his hair cut, and, al-
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• upset when 1 told him there was no
keyhole, that the door fastened with
a thumb bolt. On learning that the
room was to be papered the next morn -
lug he grew calmer, however, and got
the paperhanger's address from me.
Ile went out just after' that,
Friday, OS I Si',ywas very quiet.
Mr. Ladley moved to the back parlor
to let .the pape'hmnger in the front
room, smoked and fussed with his pa-
pers all day, and Ale Holcombe stayed
in his room, which was unusual. In
the afternoon Molly Maguire put on
the striped fur coat and went out, go-
ing slowly past the house so that I
would be sure to see her. Beyond
banging the window down, I gave her
no satisfaction.
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my kitchen, rubbing his hands kitchen,togeth-
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hand about a foot long, with an ar-
rangement of small mirrors in it. He
Said it was modeled after the something
or other that is used on a submatrine,
and that he and the paperhanger had
fixed a place for it between his floor
and the ceiling of Mr. Ladley's room, so
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he could.
"I want to find his weak moment,"
be said excitedly. "I want to know
what he does when the door is closed
and he can take off his mask. And I
want to know if he sleeps with a light."
"If he does," 1 replied, "I hope you'll
let me know. Mr. Holcombe. The gas
bills are a horror to me as it is. t
think he kept it -on all last night. I
turned off all the other lights mod went
to the cellar._ The teeter was going
around."
"Fine!" he said. "Every murderer
fears the dark, and our friend of the
I parlor bedroom is a murderer, Mrs.
Pitman. Whether he hangs or not.
be's a murderer."
The mirror affair, which Mr. Hol-
combe called a periscope, was put in
that day and worked amazingly well.
i went with him 4o try it mit, and I
distinctly saw the paperhanger take a
cigarette from Air. Laclley's ease and
put it in his pocket. Just after Mat.
Mr. Ladley sauntered into the room
and looked at the new paper. I could
both see and hear hint. It was rather
weird.
"Gee, what a wall paper!" he said.
T
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CHAPTER VII.
HAT was Friday afternoon.
All that evening and most of
Saturday and Sunday Mr.
Holcombe sat on the door
with his eye to the reflecting mirror
and his notebook beside him. I have
it before ode.
On the first page is the "dog meat—
$3" entry. On the next, the descrip-
tion of what oc'tmrred on Sunday night.
March 4. and Monday morning, the
5th. hollowing that canoe a sketch,
elude with a eiirbot sheet of the torn
paper found behind the washstand:
0,4„ trowel
And then tame the entries for Fri-
day. Satnrdtly and Sunday. Friday
evening:
ti::iO—hating hearty supper.
7 -Lights cigarette and paces floor.
Notice that when Mrs. P. knocks he
goes to desk and pretends to be writ-
ing.
5 -is exmtniniug book. Looks like a
railway guide.
b:30—It is a steamship guide.
3:45 -'t'ailor's boy brings box. Gives
buy 50 vents. Query: Where does he
get money now that 1. B. is gone?
0 -Tries on new suit thrown).
9:30--11as been spending a quarter of
an hour on his knees looking behind
furniture and examining baseboard.
1u- Ila kms the key to the onyx clock.
Ilas bidden it twice -once up the chim-
ney flue, once behind baseboard.
10'tS-l1e has just thrown key or
similar small article outside window
intoy:u'd.
11 --Has gone to bed. Light burning.
Shall sleep, here on floor.
1cannot sleep, Is up wall: -
lee the floor end slnolcihk
m Itsoirdrbence be-
low. Ile had uightmart• Ana was call -
inn -Jennie!" Ile got in t.,'I; a chink
and is now reading.
a a. ie.—Must bate at, e Is shim -
him
l:' nt.•._Notlting this
\wtute for four hours rt read.
ill;; aloud \Tett he tt.'• ti.
It• m.--ile has . ti man.
enIth'it hear ell-- w, dui then.
"1.irwellyn is tit•
01 n r9'.k:' ' Wr—
"Last rhe slip"
ort:;h "
the ho.
nt,e
''Eliza Shaeffer."
Who went to a private house?.. Jen-
nie Brice?
2:30 -Cannot hear. Are whispering.
The visitor has given Ladley roll of
bills.
4 -Followed the visitor, a tall man
with a pointed beard. He went to I he.
Liberty theater. Found it was Bron-
son, business manager there. - • 1Yho
is Llewellyn, and who is Eliza Statel-
ier?
4:15—Had Airs. I'. bring telephone
book; six Llewellyus in the hook; no
Eliza Shaeffer. Iaiiley nppems more
cheerful since Pruaso is rtstt. He has
bungbt all the evening pope's hod is
searching fur something. liras not
feuud it.
7—Ate well. Have asket \It's. I', in
take my lube here white I interview
the six 1.lewelivIts.
11—Mrs. P. report. a hider reentti_.
He read anti smoked, lias gun, to
bed. Light hurtling yaw live Llew-
elivus. None of theta knew Brunsmr
or Ladley. Sixth -a lawyer -out at re-
vival meeting. Went to the church and
walked home with him. He knows
something. Acknowledged lie knew
Bronson. Had met Ladley. Did not
believe Mrs. Ladley dead. Regretted,
I had not been to the meeting. Good
sermon. Asked me for a dollar foe
missions.
9 a. m.—Sunday. Ladley in had
shape. Apparently been drinking all
night. Cannot eat. Sent out early for
papers and has searched them all.
Found entry on second page, stared at
It, then flung the paper away. Have
sent for same paper.
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