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Mrs. Lucas— did. Just stt down here at the desk and make me a copy of the note. Take as much time as you want—don’t let me hurry you.” The butler jerked at his trousers legs and seated himself at the desk. He inserted a dean sheet of paper into the typewriter with a nervous hand, then looked at the original note. Then, to the vast amazement of all of us gathered there in the from, he typed off the words with consummate ease and an expertness which told of long experience. The Inspector, I could see, was definitely non plussed. “I suppose that you, too, were a secretary at one time,” he said sarcastically to the butler. Hutchinson shook his head. “No,” he said, "never a secretary. But once, long ago, I worked on a news paper. I learned the touch system of typing in high school.” "So thtt’s that,” the Inspector sighed. "Neither one of yen wrote this note, then?” The housekeeper and the butler silently shook their heads. u “All right,” said the Inspector, “let's be getting back to the bed room. There might be something there we’ve missed.” "Pardon, sir.” A patrolman salut ed the Inspector. "There’s a phone call for you. The Bureau of Stand ards. They rushed the examina tion of that rug and are waiting to give you the results of the tests they conducted.” “That’s fine.” The Inspector went to the telephone. He listened in silence for a few moments. Fin ally we heard him say, “Soluble salts of arsenic, huh? In the eoffee? Are you sure—absolutely sure—they I couldn’t have been in the rug be fore the coffee was spille^ on it? All right. Many thanks—you did a splendid job.” He turned to us. “The Congressman was„killed,” he said, “by a poisonous solution of some arsenic salt. This salt was placed in his coffee this morning— FREE 64-Page Beauty Book. , Write Dept. 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I al ways attended to it, sir, every morning. ” “I see. So this morning you drop ped a little arsenic into it while It was dripping, didn’t you?” Hutchinson shrank back in hor ror. “No sir, Inspector, I swear I didn't. I tell you I had no cause to harm him. He was my employer, his death leaves me without a job, and almost penniless. Why should I murder him? It's preposterous.” j “On the other hand, it might be' made to seem rather logical,” the1 inspector argued with him. “We can’t tell what your motive was, but we do know certain facts—in criminating facts. In the first place, you fixed Mr. Lucas’s coffee, didn’t! vou?” ‘ Yes, sir.” ‘‘No one was near it but you?” “I couldn't say as to that, sir. But I watched it almost constantly, and saw nobody put anything into it.” “You intentionally spilled the cof fee onto the carpet, thinking that the contents of the fatal cup could n't be analyzed then, didn’t you?” “Of course not. That was purely an accident. We were moving Mr. Lucas’s body from his chair to his bed. ” “Then_ycur conscience is abso lutely clear?” “Absolutely, sir.” "That's fine. Maybe, then, you can explain why it was that you; attempted to escape through that window when this reporter started to call the police? Doesn’t that indi cate that you didn’t want to be found here?” _. “Well, you see, sir, my mind was sort of in a muddle. I could hardly realize that the Congressman was dead, and yet I knew enough to be sure that if the police came, they would immediately accuse me. And; I had no defense—no alibi—ready to offer them. I was equally sure that the real murderer would have an airtight alibi. And I fig ured that I wouldn’t get half a chance—I d either go to the chair or to jail for life. The only thing that occurred to me at the moment was to try to escape. I didn’t real ize then that that would only get me in deeper. My mind wasn't “I see.” The Inspector looked down upon ;he dark, quivering little butler, a mowing smile playing about his lace. “I’m afraid, though, Hutchinson, that I’ll have to arrest you anyway for the murder cf Representative Paul Lucas. Almost every bit of evi dence that w'e've uncovered points directly to you. The one and only point not yet cleared up is that of the ncte we found, and who wrote it. But, after all, that’s only an unimportant detail. Even if we found the author, we would have nothing really definite on him.” “Hey, Inspector!” One of the patrolmen called from a back rcom. The Inspector, sens ing some important discovery, mo tioned two detectives to guard the housekeeper and the butler, and went to the rear of the apartment, whence the sudden call had come. He f-cund two patrolmen there, holding between them a young man of perhaps twenty-two, a young man who in facial features and coloring bore a remarkable resemblance to the dead Congressman. 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