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The Blyth Standard, 1930-03-27, Page 2The Stcp on the Stairs By ISABEL OSTRANDER BEGIN IIERE TODAY upon her, gentlemen, for I lied to yet ! ] The report of a revolve followed by �. did see ant upon the stairs! t hurrying footsteps tsteps on thetbs causes 1 was he whom I s,.w leaving her'ipnr . Detective bury ,end his arlena, Irttrzsuri bemyonov, to rush from the latte'slntent a moment before I entered tug' rooms on the fifth floor of a New Yorktown and the shot was fired which inu t apartment house. They discover that beautiful Miriam Vane, society portrait 'nave ended her lift,1 " painter has been murdered to her studful apartment on the third floor. Lurid. 0 young artist en the second floor, Gris- wold, e bachelor on the fourth, and Pa- CHAPTER V. trivia Shaw, a writer Wt tho sixth, deny having heard the shot, Griswold states Sergeant Barry felt that the mo - that Ladd had been frindty with Miss ]tent was too tense stud the possible Vane. Tills, Ladd denies. GO ON WITH THE sTOBY issue too important to give his col- league an opportunity to interrupt, CHAPTER IV—(Cent'd.) Without a glance at Craig he demand - "Well," Gordon Ladd moistened his ad of the almost distraught young art• let before him: "That being the case, Mr. Ladd, tell us the truth of what happened last night! Why did yen go halfway up the flight of stairs leading to Mrs. Vane's apartment if you saw her in the hall talking to a neighbor whom you apparently dislike?" "Mrs, Vane seemed bantering her departing guest in her usual gay man- ner, and he was glowering at her in a resentful fashion. The moment he had disappeared up the stairs 1 be- fore Mis. Vane had had an opportun- ity to turn and reenter her own apart- ment I called to her, and—went up to her." Isis tone had been more and more uncertain and now he hurried "It seemed almost the next moment, on: "I begged fol five minutes of her as I have stated, that the commotion time, but she snubbed me laughingly, arose, and as no one else scented likely and I returned here," to reply to that banging on the en- There was silence for a moment, trance door 1 went down and admitted while Sergeant Craig made no effort the policeman. We heard voices and to enter the examination, and Barry saw lights coming from Mrs. Vane's eyed the young man before them very apartment and went up together, but gravely. At length the more exper- I had heard no shot and of.coursa had ienced official spoke: no suspicion of the truth. That is why "Mr. Ladd, you have not told us it floored me so when—when I saw the all the truth! Whnt, happened between body." those two en the stairs which made It was only at the conclusion of his;you rush up to Mrs. Vane only to be long explanatior that the young man 1r pulsed. Were you repulsed? Were faltered and into his eyes there came ,you not with he..', in her studio, when Again that swift, fleeting look of the deadly shot was fired?" sheer, stark horror which Barry had At the unexpected accusation the noted earlier, when he had collapsed at, young man shrank back, then sprang the discovery of the murdee, from his chair, "Mr. Ladd;" he recommence! suave- "This is what you in your pollee ly. "How was Mrs, Vane dressed slang call a'frame-up' isn't it? You've when you saw her in tho landing get to hang the—the nerd, r on some - above? The sante as when her body one, I suppose, and so I ant, to be the was found?" goat?" "0f course!" The artist stared. "By no 01ea:'0," Barry also had "Did you see anyone else in the hall- risen, "You must realize the strong ways or on the stairs, either shove ar circumstantial case against you, but I below?" do not ..,ink you are guilty "No ore." The reply was decisive Barry continued quietly: but the pause before it came was a "Do you know why? Because ever fraction too long and Barry seized since this interrogation was started, upon it. in spite of the damaging admissions "Then, Mr. Ladd, what in your you made against yourself, you have pinion was tho reason for Mts. Vage's deliberately equivocated and evaded, presence out there in the public hall? and I think 1 know the reason." Did she offer any explanation?" Barry's tone softened and deepened. "Certainly not, and I thought .,o- "I believe you did care for Mrs. Vane, t' ing of it!" Ladd replied hotly. "It honorably and sincerely, and it is for is a ridiculously trivial notion to quib- that very fact tout I ask you to tell 1)1e over! There might have been a tis the truth no -v." hundred unimportant reasons," For an instant the young man hesi- "There might have been a hundred tated, and then sinking once more into reasons Mr. Ladd!" Again there Inc chair he buried his face in his came that maddening repetition of his hands, name which. had so often helped in breaking a stubborn witness under the third degee. "Rut m this case there was only one, and you know it! Mrs. Vane was either receiving or ejecting a pest! We have purposely interro- gated the other tenants of the house before approaching you and are have learned mono than you think! The saying that walls have ears is true also of ceilings—" He paused significantly while Ser- geabt Craig stared at hint in genuine surprise, but th't shot found its marls, Leaping to his feet, with his hand- some face darkened and distorted in a paroxysm of rage, Ladd cried: "So that's what you two have teen trying to get at, is it? That miserahle wretch Griswold has note, any ac- quaintanceship with Mrs. Vane- and deliberately tried to blacken her char - twin in your eyes! 1 admit that I was in love with her; all our world in Paris as well es here will tell you of my long attempt to make her any wife, but they will also tell you that she has laughed at my love for iner, as she has at that of all others. I would have said nothing, but now that he has spoken, ask hien what claim he has customed nbrond to the society of not- able men?" "Why did you not ask her?" "I did, but she a:ways put me of; told me he was an American type that she had almost forgotten land that lie amused her, A week ago I couldn't stand it any longer; I proposed to her for the last time, and when she laugh -1 sail o, 1110 00 trews; I must have lost my le.'td and nd ro ne a bit too far, for she b told the seriously at last that silt would never be my wife." Gordon Ladd paused, his clenched hands tightening until the knuckles showed white. "I kept away from her after that until tonight, when I came in as I told you and saw her bidding hint 'good- night' on the landing above. There's no love lost between them, I could swear to that! She was jeering at hint, and if ever hatred looked out of a man's eyes, it looked out of his, and yet somehow the sight drove me wild!" (To be continued.) Demurely Smart lips and spoke slowly, weighing each word with care. "I let myself in at the entrance with my house key and had reached the door of my apartment outside here w;en glancing up the stairs I caught a glimpse of Mrs, Vane in the hall above, just outside her own door. "As I had not seen her in several days I went half -way up the stairs and greeted her, with the ha.f-form- ed inteutien of paying hers short call if it were not too late, but she said that she was too busy and must work upon a portrait, or words to that ef- fect, so I bade her 'good night' and coming back to try own apartment, let myself in and closed the door. Keep awake ., WRIGLE Drowsiness is dangerous. Weary miles seem shooter and the day is brightened when you have Wrigley's with you, Its sugar peps you up. Its delicious flavor adds to any enjoyment. A five cent package is safety insurance :`i JE .Na, i:l— '30 At last Gordon Ladd raised his n upon his white et face head, and p S there was written im lac able resolve, 'You win, Sergeant Barry! I would die myself before I would willingly rake up anything against the memory of the woman I loved, even though she had played mercilessly with me, only to turn ane down irrevocably in the end, but there's conte mystery about this whole thing that I don't under- stand, and it may in a way have some bearing upon thy manner of he' death,. No breath of scandal has ever touched her. Nevertheless, she must have had some source of income, for her studio was luxurious --almost palatial com- pared to this—and her war work and tits of idleness which she indulged in; later were aliko unrcmunetative." Itis voice broke, and Sergeant Barry waited a moment before asking: "Why did Mrs. Vane return to Am- erica last autumn?" Gordon Ladd shrugged. "A whim of hers, we all thought; we would not have been surprised had she announced her departure. for China. There was nothing—nothing definite between us two, you know. I was simply one of many who were permitted to adore her at .( distance, The rest forgot, but I didn't; I follow- ed her to New York, and when I found that success had crowned her bizarre talents and yet she was living in this hovel, 1 was amazed beyond words! In rite artistic colony in Paris false conventions are unknown, and when 1 discovered that this studio here was vacant I took it just so that I Wright be near her, even though she still laughed at my wooing. Then -- then I began to notice this ratan Gris- wold." His voice had haeolenecl perceptibly on the last words and Barry remark- ed: "If the report we get of hint tallies with his own account of himself, he is a highly respectable member of so- ciety," "Olt, I know all about hint! All any- body knows, I mean. I've'looked hila up," Ladd cried defiantly, "What I want to know is this: why is he living hidden away in a cheap, makeshift studio building like this, a man with all Itis money? Why was she, a brilliant artistic success, content even for a day in such surroundings after the luxury which had always been hers? Why did he—reputedly a confirmed woman-hater—call upon het' and why did she even permit or toler- ate his acquaintance, ;,he who was ac - They Follow Paris Modo to Gain Admiration By ANNETTE You'll just love this quaint pretty dress in calico print in pale blue coloring. It's a modification of the old fash- ioned mother hubbard dress. It's a one-piece affair. 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