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The Blyth Standard, 1930-04-10, Page 2tenon the back has been scratched Salads quality and price -it longage-" "Look at it through this, sir." Barry ntakepre�niunisunnecessary olTered his niictoseole: "Phe Penc"e" L ti TEA 'Fresh !row the gardens' iso the Step on the Stairs By ISABEL OSTRANDER CHAPTER VI.—(Cont'd.) The girl's slender figure did not re- semble the splendid, sensuously full of the body of Mrs. Vane save in ,ts height, and the face was an indistinguishable blur, but on a sud- den inspiration Barry rose, still carry- ing the picture, and going into the studio he turned on the brilliant light within the reflector, Then be drew from his pocket a small but powerful microscope. It prover of little aid beyond showing that the blurred ob- ject by the girl's slit) was indeed a large dog, for the photograph was too worn and faded, but on the reverse side the distinction between the pencil narks and pen scratches was plainly visible, and three wards written in a round, girlishly unfo'.med hand were • unmistakably revealed: "Mopus would move." Then, standing almost on the same spot which the body of Miriam Vane had occupied in front of the easel; ldal'ry used his microscope to scan every bleb of the portrait with meticu- lous care. Straightening at length with a very grave • expression upon his boyish e: untenance he switched oft the glar- ing in the reflector; leaving only the side brackets in the wall gloving softly, and crossing behind the pot - trait he passed the model throne and sent to the, row .of windows, When he raised the shade of one of thein the empty house beyond the nay - rine strip of garden stood out more distinctly than before and a grayish effulgence was spreading over the elsudy sky. The sultry summer dawn teas at hand. Dropping the shade once more, Barry Turned and reflectively regard- ed the batik of the portrait upon the easel.' The huge square. of canvas was bank :except, for some numbers scrawled in charcoal a the upper left hand enface and a small cross in red paint a little below the centre. 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"One of the boys came up, sir, to final out about the light in that studio, but 1 fixed it with him," he remarked, "Did you find the answer to what was puzzling you, sergeant?" "If I've found the answer to what was puzzling me, Doane," lie replied, "I've stumbled on a bigger myetory, yet, and a blacker ane," He found at headquarters that Craig had already turned in his re- port, and the chief was waiting his 0000 appearance with ill -concealed im- patience, patience, "}What -do you think?" the chief asked, "As to the identity of the murderer, sir?" Barry asked, cautiously. "I'm quite certain that several people who might conceivably have killed Allis. Vane slid not do it, and that lets the out for the moment, however, T took it upon myself to do a little unofficial mos stigating—" "0f course! That's what I expected you to dol" the chief interrupted eag- erly, "The medical examiner hasn't performed the autopsy yet, naturally, but from his account of the affair as well as thereports of the boys from the • local precinct, and Boyle and Craig, it appears that' the Vane wo- man was shot by eom0 visitor, some- one She knew well, and that she had no premonition of the attack. There's one quem• point about the murder that the press is bound to pounce on and play up big, and yet I can't see any explanation; I thought perhaps you might have some idea." "What is that, sir?" Barry's tone aS �Ul C ,.. "Thcre were no powder marks on the w own en's smock, and the medical esnmmer says that tri: shot must have been fired from a distanec.of several fret at least." The chief paused. "Now, according io finale's report, Professor Semyonov stated that when you and he heard the soursd of the shot and opened the dour he beard footsteps on the stairs. Sergeant Barry smiled. "The professor and I have a alight difference of opinion about the direc- tion of the sound of those footsteps; he !relieves that they were corning up, while I an as c stain that they were ,iescending," he said, "However, that's not the main ,roint. You are wrong, I think, sir,. though not in the way you mean, That 'step on the stairs' had everything to do with the murder!" "What -t!" The chief sprang from his chair, "Has anyone given you a descrip- tion yet of the portrait which Miriam Vane was painting when she met her death, sir?" asked Barry. "Only that it is a picture of Mrs. Theodore Vansittart—" "Coursing down n staircase," Barry finished. "The TIIIRD STEP OF THE STAIRS is just on a level with the artist's breast as she sat on a stool before the easel, and there is a bullet hole • in the canvas. Miriam Vane was shot through the heart by someone on the other side of the por- trait!" words beneath the ink stnawl are 'liopns would move.' Now, as I make 11 out, Hutt refers to the him beside the figure of the girl, which under the glass resolves itself into a large dog of some sort." Barry laid the little packet of sketches before the chief and took his leave. It was broad daylight when he reached the street, and on reaching the antique shop found that a crowd had collected before its doors. Boyle's temporary successor and the plain- clothes men were sharply interrogat- ing a surly individual who vvas in the act of unlocking the baseutent door. At Barry's approach they greeted him and stepped aside. "Are you the janitor of this build- ing?" he asked. I ant, Jacob Kedge by name, and what business is it of yours'?" the other replied truculently, eyeing the detective sergeant up and down, "Come inside." Barry brew him within the entrance door, closing it upon the gaping knot of curious sight- seers. "I'm from headquarters, in charge here with Sergeant Craig, I suppose you know that one of your tenants has been murdered?" "I ought to!" Kedge ejaculated. "Yourwren have been badgering me ever since I got back. It's ;lard to believe her cold in death! Why, it's scarcely twelve hours since I sons talking to her!" "Mtg. Vane knew the .other tenants in the house; Barry remarked. "Not that crazy Russian with the whiskers, but sire sometimes spoke to the top -floor '• nant, Miss Shaw, when she passed her on the stairs, The young gentleman just above was 'fair crazy about her, as you could see with half an eye, and Mrs. Vane and talc Getting Ready For 1930 Accidents The tide of motor traffic will 00011 be swelling with the coming of summa', 11 is some comfort to know that; along with "Safety First" lnjnnelious from many quarters, Bell Telephone linemen and construction elders will be found on many highways carrying on their big 1330 construction program. The Bell men are practically all skilled first -alders. They undergo a thorough training in that useful art, and their timely bid In all. parts of the merinee has saved Use lives of many who, without skilled initial cheilion to injuries, would hare been in grave danger. Over 2,100 Bell employees—men and womcu—successfully passed First Aid examinations' in 1929, Sixty-three per cent of the 7,590 male Workers are qualified First Alders. Griswold seemed to be old friends, rfoo Unlucky nluck j1 Y from even before she came here." "Indeed!" Bary smiled engagingly, "It aeems to ane now that he said something nbout that last night ;when I interviewed him after Mrs, Vane's death sons discovered. Didn't they come originally from the same city?" "I dont know anything about that. All I know is that Mrs. Vane was American, for all she landed here from France like that yang Mr. Ladd, and she'd no more than got settled than site sent me upstairs with a note for Mr. Griswold, as formal as you please, Surprised, he was, too." "Yes he must have been pleased to find that es chaining a neighbor was an old friend," Barry's tone was 'guileless, "1'l1 warrant he gave you a big tap." "Tip!" T::e janitor's repetition was as expressive as an oath. "Well, when I gave him that note and he saw the writing on the envelope he jumped and got a little bit more green and then rubbed his chin and smiled in that slow way of his. At last be open- ed the note and read it, and then he told me, still smiling, to tell Mrs, Vane he would do himself the honor ler- calling on her in a few minutes. I remembered it because it was such a queer, old-fashioned way of putting; t." "And did he call?" A trace of eager- ness had crept into the sergeant's CHAPTER VII. For a moment the chief seemed about to explode with the mingled emotions which consumed him. The next he sank back in his chair and `raised his powerful hands, to let them fall with a slam upon his desk. "A bullet holo through the por- trait!" he exclaimed. "And none of those no -account flatfoot dicks, not 'even the medical examiner himself, had eyes to .e it! The reporters would have smelted It out and had a line laugh or the department if it hadn't been for you, John!" "No woman deliberately destroys all signs of her former identity un- less she has a secret to hide," said Barry, "and I ani not certain that is !previous tragedy wan not linked in some fashion with her life. The shot which ]tilled her was not the first to I be involved in -her destiny." "The ribbon, dried flowers, lace, and the hair and the locket—why, I sup- pose every woman treasures just such - things the world over," commented the chief. "That empty cartridge, though. It must have meant something mighty serious to her, and we've got to find out what that something is. The photo- graph is too faded to be of any use, as evidence, and whatever was writ - voice, and Kedge became suddenly wary. "Ifow should 1 know, sir? I (teliv- cred his message to Mrs. Vane, and then went about my business," Barry rose, left him and ascended to the fifth floor. Professor Semyosov opened the door, "Did you succeed, sir?" the detec- tive demanded eagerly. (To be continued.) Use Milard's in the Stable. MANY MANSIONS "Vast is any Father's !souse and gleet. ons aro Its massy mansions, chadors of light, Enchanted moon and redly flaming star Whether beheld or still beyond our right They gent infinitude. Well named sero they By dreaming bards of some mild desert clan, Nihau, Glamor, Betelgeuse, Er Rai, Gomelsa, Fomalhaut, Aldebaran And Tulitha the Malden, Isles of rest, Inns of Eternity, they house the soul Upon its pilgrimage, that splendid guest , Wherein from world to world and goal to goal We, too, shall tread, as myriasis have trod, These steppingstones on the long road to God;" —Arthur Guiterman, In Scribner's lllagazine. 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