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Firm At the Omaha Market [thT n* ‘den RDER E Qv S.S.VAN pine COPYRIGHT > S.S.VAN PINE 19 W.NU.bERVICE CHAPTER XIV—Continued -“16— ‘‘Moreover, nearly everyone has acted in a manner which conceiv ably would make him appear guilty. There have been an amazing num ber of accusations. Mr. Kroon was the first victim of one of those un substantiated accusations. Miss Graem has been pointed out to me as the culprit by several persons. Mrs. Garden last night directly ac cused her son. In fact, there has been a general tendency to involve various people in the criminal activ ities here.) From the human and psychological point of view the is sue has been both deliberately and unconsciously clouded, until the con fusion was such that no clear-cut outline remained. And this created an atmosphere which perfectly suited the murderer’s machinations, for it made detection extremely dif ficult and positive proof almost im possible . . . And yet,” Vance added, “some one in this room is guilty.” He rose dejectedly. I could not understand his manner: it was so unlike the man as I had always known him. All of his assurance seemed gone. Then he swung round quickly, and his eyes swept angrily about the room, resting for a brief moment on each one present. “Furthermore,” he said with a staccato stress on his words, "I know who the guilty person is!” There was an uneasy stir in the room and a short tense silence which was broken by Doctor Sie fert’s cultured voice. “If that is the case, Mr. Vance— and I do not doubt the sincerity of your statement—I think it your duty to name that person.” Vance regarded the doctor thoughtfully for several moments before answering. Then he said in a low voice: “I think you are right, sir.” Again he paused and, lighting a fresh cigarette, moved restlessly up and down in front of the window. “First, however,” he said stopping suddenly, “there’s something up stairs I wish to look at again—to make sure . . . You will all please remain here for a few minutes.” And he moved swiftly toward the door. At the threshold he hesitated and turned to the nurse. “Please come with me, Miss Beeton, I think you can help me.” The nurse rose and followed Vance _ into the hall. A moment later we could hear them mounting the stairs. Fully five minutes passed, and then the tense silence of the room was split by a woman’s frenzied and terrifying cry for help, from somewhere upstairs. As we reached the hallway the nurse came stum bling down the stairs, holding with both hands to the bronze railing. Her face was ghastly pale. “Mr. Markham! Mr. Markham!” she called hysterically. “Oh, my God! The most terrible thing has happened!” She had just reached the foot of the stairs when Markham came up to her. She stood clutching the railing for support. “It’s Mr. Vance!” she panted ex citedly. "He’s—gone!” A chill of horror passed over me, and everyone in the hall seemed stunned. In broken phrases, Interspersed with gasping sobs, the nurse was explaining to Markham.. “He went over—Oh, God, it was terrible! He said he wanted to ask me something, and led me out into the garden. He began questioning me about Doctor Siefert, and Pro fessor Garden, and Miss Graem. And while he talked he moved over to the parapet — you remember where he stood last night. He got up there again, and looked down. I was frightened—the way I was yes terday. And then—and then—while I was talking to him—he bent over, and I could see—oh, God!—he had lost his balance.” She stared at Markham wild-eyed. “I reached to ward him . . . and suddenly he wasn’t there any more ... He had gone over! ...” Her eyes lifted suddenly over our heads and peered past us transfixed. A sudden change came over her. Her face seemed contorted into a hideous mask. Following her horri fied gaze, we instinctively turned and glanced up the hallway toward the drawing-room . . . There, near the archway, looking calmly toward us, was Vance. "I told you last night, Miss Bee ton,” he was saying, his eyes rest ing sternly on the nurse, “that no gambler ever quits with his first winning bet, and that in the end he always loses.” He came forward a few steps. “You won your first gamble, at long odds, when you murdered Swift. And your poison ing of Mrs. Garden with the barbi tal also proved a winning bet. But when you attempted to add me to y«ur list of victims, because you suspected I knew too much—you lost. That race was fixed—you hadn’t a chance.” Markham was glaring at Vance in angry amazement. ‘‘What is the meaning of all this?” he fairly shouted, despite his obvious effort to suppress his ex citement. ‘‘It merely means, Markham,” explained Vance, ‘‘that I gave Miss Beeton an opportunity to push me over the parapet to what ordinarily would have been certain death. And she took that opportunity. This aft ernoon I arranged for Heath and Snitkin to witness the episode; and I also arranged to have it per manently recorded.” “Recorded? Good God! What do you mean?” Markham seemed half dazed. “Just that,” returned Vance calrr^ly. "An official photograph tak en with a special lens adapted to the semi-light—for the sergeant's archives.” He looked past Mark ham to Quackenbush. "You got the picture. I hope," he said. “I sure did," the man returned with a satisfied grin. "At just the right angle, too. A pippin.” The nurse, who had been staring at Vance as if petrified, suddenly relaxed her hold on the stair rail ing, and her hands went to her face in a gesture of hopelessness and despair. "Yes!” she cried at Vance; "I tried to kill you. Why shouldn’t I? You were about to take everything —everything—away from me.” She turned quickly and ran up the Stairs. Almost simultaneously Vance dashed forward. "Quick,* quick!” he called out. "Stop her before she gets to the gar den.” But before any of us realized the significance of his words, Vance was himself on the stairs. Heath and Snitkin were just behind him, and the rest of us, stupefied, followed. As I came out on the roof. I could see Miss Beeton running toward the far end of the garden, with Vance immediately behind her. Twilight had nearly passed, and a deep dusk “Miss Keeton, 1 Think You Can Help Me.” had settled over the city. As the girl leaped up on the parapet at the same point where Vance had stood the night before, she was like a spectral silhouette against the faintly glowing sky. And then she disappeared down into the deep shadowy abyss, just before Vance could reach her. CHAPTER XV A half hour later we were all seated in the den again. Heath and the detectives had gone out imme diately after the final catastrophe to attend to the unpleasant details occasioned by Miss Beeton's sui cide. Vance was once more in the chair at the desk. The tragic termina tion of the case seemed to have sad dened him. He smoked gloomily for a few minutes. Then he spoke. “I asked all of you to stay be cause I felt you were entitled to an explanation of the terrible events that have taken place here, and to hear why it was necess'ry for me to conduct the investigation in the manner I did. To begin with, I knew from the first that I was deal ing with a very shrewd and un scrupulous person, and I knew it was someone who was in the house yesterday afternoon. Therefore, un til I had some convincing proof of that person’s guilt, it was impera tive for me to appear to doubt ev eryone present. | “I was inclined to suspect Miss Beeton almost from the first, for, although everyone he.'e had, through some act, drawn suspicion upon himself, only the nurse had the time and the unhampered opportu nity to commit the initial crime. She was entirely unobserved when she put her plan into execution; and so thoroughly familiar was she with every arrangement of the household, that she had no difficulty in timing her every step so as to insure this essential privacy. “Subsequent events and circum stances added irresistibly to my suspicion of her. For instance, when Mr. Floyd Garden informed me where the key to the vault was kept. I sent her to see if it was in its place, without indicating to her where its place was, in order to ascertain if she knew where the key hung. Only someone who knew ex actly how to get into the vault at a moment’s notice could have been guilty of killing Swift. Of course, the fact that she did know was not definite proof of her guilt, as there were others who knew; but at least it was a minor factor in the case against her. If she had not known where the key was kept, she would have been automatically elimi nated. My request that she look for the key was made with such casual ness and seeming indifference that it apparently gave her no inkling of my ulterior motive. “Incidentally, one of my great dif ficulties in the case has been to act in such a way, at all times, that her suspicions would not be aroused at any point.” ‘‘Her motive was not clear at first,” Vance explained, "and, un fortunately, I thought that by Swift’s death alone she had accomplished her purpose. But after my talk with Doctor Siefert this morning, I was able to understand fully her whole hideous plot. Doctor Siefert pointed out definitely her interest in Floyd Garden, although I had had hints of it before. For instance, Floyd Garden was the only person here about whom she spoke to me with admiration. Her motive was based on a colossal ambition—the desire for financial security, ease and luxury; and mixed with this over-weaning desire was a strange twisted love. These facts became clear to me only today.” Vance glanced at young Garden. “It was you she wanted," he con tinued. "And I believe her self assurance was such that she did not doubt for a minute that she would be successful in attaining her goal.” Garden sprang to his feet. “Good God. Vance!" he ex claimed. "You’re right. I see the thing now. She has been making up to me for a long time; and, to be honest with you, I may have said and done things which she could have construed as encourage ment—God help me!" He sat down again in dejected embarrassment. “No one can blame you,” Vance said kindly. “She was one of the shrewdest women I have ever en countered. But the point of it all is, she did not want only you—she wanted the Garden fortune as well. That’s why, having learned that Swift would share in the Inher itance, she decided to eliminate him and leave you the sole beneficiary. But this murder did not, by any means constitute the whole of her scheme.” Vance again addressed us in gen eral. “Her whole terrible plot was clar ified by some other facts that Doc tor Siefert brought out this morn ing during my talk with him. The death, either now or later, of Mrs. Garden was also an important in teger of that plot; and Mrs. Gar den's physical condition had, for some time, shown certain symptoms of poisoning. Of late these symp toms have increased in intensity. Doctor Siefert informed me that Miss Beeton had been a laborat’ry assistant to Professor Garden dur ing his experiments with radio-ac tive sodium, and had often cdtne to the apartment here for the purpose of typing notes and attending to oth er duties which could not conveni ently be performed at the univer sity. Doctor Siefert also informed me that she had actually entered the household here about two months ago, to take personal charge of Mrs. Garden’s case. She had, however, continued to assist Pro fessor Garden occasionally in his work and naturally had access to the radio-active sodium he had be gun to produce; and it was since she had come here to live that Mrs. Garden’s condition had grown worse —the result undoubtedly of the fact that Miss Beeton had greater and more frequent opportunities for ad ministering the radio-active sodium to Mrs. Garden.” Vance turned his eyes to Profes sor Garden. "And you too, sir,” he said, "were, as I see it, one of her in tended victims. When she planned to shoot Swift I believe she planned a double murder—that is, you and Swift were to be shot at the same time. But, luckily, you had not re turned to your study yesterday aft ernoon at the time fixed for the double shooting, and her original plan had to be revised.” "But—but," stammered the pro fessor, “how could she have killed me and Woody too?” "The disconnected buzzer wires gave me the answer this morning,” explained Vance. “Her scheme was both simple and bold. She knew that, if she followed Swift upstairs before the big race, she would have no difficulty in enticing him into the vault on some pretext or other— especially in view of the fact that he had shown a marked interest in her. Her intention was to shoot him in the vault, just as she did, and then go into the study and shoot you. Swift's body would then have been placed in the study, with the revolver in his hand. It would appear like murder and suicide. As for the possibility of the shot in the study being heard downstairs, I imagine she had tested that out beforehand under the very condi tions obtaining yesterday afternoon. Personally, I am of the opinion that a shot in the study could not be heard down here during the noise and excitement of a race broad cast. with the study door and win dows shut. For the rest, her orig inal plan would have proceeded just as her revised one did. She would merely have fired two blanks She Fired a Blank Shell Out of the Bedroom Window. out of the bedroom window instead of one. In the event that you should have guessed her Intent when she entered the study, and tried to sum mon help, she had previously dis connected the wires of the buzzer just behind your chair at the desk." "But, good Lord!" exclaimed Floyd Garden in an awed tone. “It was she herself who told Sneed about the buzzer being out of or der.” "Precisely. She made it a point to be the one to discover that fact, in order to draw suspicion entirely away from herself.” Vance paused. After a moment he went on. "As I say, her plan had to be revised somewhat because Doctor Garden had not returned. She had chosen the Rivermont Handicap as the background for her maneuvers, for she knew Swift was placing a large bet on the race—and if he lost, it would give credence to the theory of suicide. In a way, Doc tor Garden’s absence helped her, though it required quick thinking on her part to cover up this unexpected gap in her well-laid plans. Instead of placing Swift in the study, as she originally intended, she placed him in his chair on the roof. She care fully wiped up the blood in the vault so that no trace of it remained on the floor. A nurse with operating room experience in removing blood from sponges, instruments, operat ing table and floor, would have known how. Then she came down and fired a blank shell out of the bedroom window just as soon as the outcome of the race had been declared official. Substantiatin’ sui cide. "Of course, one of her chief diffi culties was the disposal of the sec ond revolver—the one she fired down here. She was confronted with the necessity either of getting rid of the revolver—which was quite impossible in the circumstances—or of hiding it safely till she could remove it from the apartment; for there was always the danger that it might be discovered and the whole technique of the plot be re vealed. Since she was the person apparently least under suspicion, she probably considered that plac ing it temporarily in the pocket of her own topcoat, would be sufficient ly safe. It was not an ideal hiding place; but I have little doubt that she was frustrated in an attempt to hide it somewhere on the roof or on the terrace upstairs, until she could take it away at her con venience without being observed. She had no opportunity to hide the revolver upstairs after we had first gone to the roof and discovered Swift’s body. However, I think it was her intention to do just this when Miss Weatherby saw her on the stairs and resentfully called my attention to the fact. Naturally, Miss Beeton denied having been on the stairs at all. And the signifi cance of the situation did not occur to me at the moment; but I be lieve that she had the revolver on her person at the time Miss Weath erby saw her. (TO BE CONTINUED) The Word Babel The word babel characterizes tumult or confusion as of sounds, and is pronounced be’bel (first e as in prey, second e as in get). Babble characterizes incessant idle talk; senseless prattle; gossip, and is pronounced bab’l (a as in fat). This word is from Middle English babel en, to prate; mumble repeatedly; chatter. 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