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Duke McCale, private detective, is
guarding the wedding presents at the
Bigelow mansion. He senses that old
Miss Adelaide Bigelow is afraid of some
thing more than theft. He meets the
bride and groom-to-be, Veronica and
Curt Vallaincourt, and Veronica’s moth
er, Sybil, and her brother and sister,
Stephen and Victoria. McCaie^learns that
Vallaincourt Is a free spender and gam
bler. He also finds out there was a
curious episode in the lives of Stephen
Bigelow and his wife. There Is a strange
tension at the mansion. Christopher
Storm, who had once been rejected by
Veronica, seems particularly 111 at ease.
Stephen Is also notably Jumpy. Karen
goes out, and returns in an hour.
CHAPTER VII
Comes in all decked out for the
night life. Soup and fish. Gave me
the once-over and had a few quick
straight ones without more than a
glance at me sitting there with my
tongue hanging out. When the but
ler stuck his snoot in the door, he
spat out, ‘Tell my mother I’m going
out this evening.’ Not his wife, mind
you—his mother.”
"Mama's big boy.”
“Oh, sure. He and his wife don’t
get along, I take it?”
“Your surmise is a good one, I
think.”
“Well, while he was having his
snort, the wife comes in. I’d been
wondering who’d been playing chop
sticks all night until she stood there
in the doorway, looking daggers at
him. ‘Going out, Steve?’ she says,
and he walks by her without a
glance. She put her hand out, but
he brushed her off.”
"Then King, the major - domo,
calls her to the phone and she goes
out.”
"She had a phone call?”
“Yep. After which she banged
heck out of the piano for another
half hour.”
"She went out, you say?”
“Yes, she did. She wasn't gone
long. About an hour. When she
came home, she messed around the
Ivories until hubby rolled in, about
twelve o'clock. Then the place
quieted down for the night.”
"Stephen came home late?”
“Yes. He must have heard her
going in, ’cause a door opened up
stairs. The piano stopped. He
shouted something or other at her
that I didn’t get. Then a couple
more doors slammed.”
“That the story?”
“All but mamma.” She stopped
King in the hall and asked for Ste
phen. She almost dropped when he
told her sonny boy was doing the
town. Then she yelled for Karen.
While King went looking for her,
she went through a gamut of facial
expressions worthy of any one of
the old silent movie gals. When the
butler reported that Karen had gone
out too, she made a beeline for the
upstairs. In about twenty minutes,
she came down looking like the Mer
ry Widow—and just as worn out.
She called a cab and made her
exit.”
“When did she get home?”
“Just before Stevey-boy. She
came in, or floated in, would be
more like it. She had just got the
shock of her life. No act this time.
I actually had to help her upstairs,
though I’ll bet she won’t remember
It."
McCale nodded thoughtfully and
they fell silent for a few minutes.
The figment of his imagination was
jumping about wildly. He was surer
than ever that tragedy stalked the
Bigelows. Finally with a gesture
half disdain, half despair — he
launched into a description of the
events witnessed by Ann and him
self at the Abbey.
Rocky listened avidly McCale
never kept any information from his
assistants when they were working
together on a case. He felt that to
withhold developments made an op
erator less interested in me out
come, made him feel less like an
integral part of the investigation.
Besides that, everyone’s opinion
was valuable. A word here, an
idea there—
Miss Adelaide Quits
The Pretense
When he had finished, he cocked
an eyebrow, looking interrogatively
at his friend and employee.
Rocky said at last slowly, “The
thing that sticks out farthest, chief,
at least as I see it—”
“Is what?”
“Is what Mr. Curt Vallaincourt,
bridegroom-to-be, seems to be as
busy as a bee. painting himself right
into a corner.”
At four-thirty that afternoon,
Duke McCale stood before the fire
place in the upstairs drawing room
of the Beacon street house. He was
facing Adelaide Bigelow, who was
huddled in the comer of a Victorian
sofa. There was something held
back in her, a studied remoteness.
McCale had been talking quietly.
In a voice which surprised himself
at its own compassion.
“You’ll have to pardon me if I
say you have been—shall I say—
extremely British about this situa
tion. You have made a concession
here, an appeasement there, until
it is quite futile to take any action.
You have called me in months too
late.”
“Mr. McCale,” there was a light
touch of hauteur in her tone in
spite of herself, "you are presum
ing too much. I called you in to
look after the house during the week
of the wedding.”
"I’m sorry, but that is not the
truth. Never once have I believed
you came to my office with that in
mind. I knew you were in trouble
even though you withheld your con
fidence. Even now you will not ad
mit it, even to yourself. I have
gone on that premise from the first
—that you wanted me to find out
things without even the responsibil
ity on your part of telling me what.”
“I wish to withdraw from the
case, Miss Bigelow. There’s noth
ing I can do for you.”
“Oh, r.o!” The words, half muf
fled in the heavy atmosphere, mag
nified themselves in the vastness of
the room.
The fire crackled fiercely for a
long minute, while the essence of
fear hung in the air like a strong
accent.
It is necessary for me, since you
will not confide in me, to tell you
exactly what it is that is bothering
you—what it is that you fear. You
see, I know. What is it?”
Miss Bigelow turned once more
to the room and McCale saw into
her mind quite easily.
The house was quiet and the room
seemed Just as it should be—a
chamber of solid, Victorian fast
ness, cozy, warm, intimate. Her
fingers caressed the sheen of old
wood, the back of a chair. She
looked at him.
“So many things are not as we
He stood behind her looking over
her shoulder while he talked.
want them to be, nor as we be
lieved them to be,” she said.
He nodded. “There was, for In
stance,” he answered, drawing a
parallel, "the case of France, with
its vigor, its impregnable defenses,
its Immortal and imperturbable
morale. But the enemy bored from
within, sabotaging that morale, and
when the battle came, the heart was
as rotten as an overripe cheese."
Her eyes clouded. “What do you
know?”
A Strange Will
Complicates Things
"I know that a certain young man
of undeniable physical attraction
is marrying thirty million dollars
next week. I know that in your
subconscious mind, you believe him
to be an adventurer. I know that
you should have investigated him
months ago—that you are also both
ered by the fact that your entire
family seems jealous of his mar
riage to your niece. Not jealous,
mind, of his perhaps having the
benefits of a great fortune, but jeal
ous in a more personal way, as if
secretly they were all in love with
him and wanted him for them
selves.”
"You are so—right,” she faltered.
Her eyes lit up in admiration. "How
in the world—”
“I am a trained observer. It is
my job to see what others miss.
Then, too, I have sources of infor
mation.”
She crossed to the windows again,
searching the outside hastily. What
in the world is she looking for
there? he pondered. Is she anxious
to have this over with before the
others get back? The family was
having another of the interminable
wedding rehearsals. Or was it some
other thing she sought in the dark
ening afternoon? She had glanced
at the clock more than once, he not
ed.
He crushed his cigarette in an
ashtray, going over to her again.
He stood behind her, looking over
her shoulder while he talked. There
was nothing to see. The sailor still
slumped against the gateway, try
ing to read a paper in the unsteady
glow of a street light. A woman
passed in a shiny silk raincoat, a
red scarf whipping out from her
neck in a sudden gust of wind. Far
off, near the bandstand, hoboes had
started to burn rubbish in an iron
basket, as was their custom on
these cold evenings. The red glow
of it flickered fitfully in the fog.
“I know,” he went on, his voice
low and impatient now, "that you
must have another reason,for sure
ly you are not caught in the trap
this fellow sets for the unwary. Are
you afraid Veronica will lavish too
much of the Bigelow money on him,
forgetting the others? You see, I
have heard that she inherits the
bulk of it upon her marriage,”
She sought his eyes again, and
the queer secret duel that they had
all the while been fighting under
neath the smooth surface was ended
suddenly and completely.
Adelaide Bigelow was giving in.
McCale could tell. It was in her
eyes, all the pent-up gnawing worry
of something horrible and unclean.
She wasn't going to hold out on
him any more, and now maybe he
could help.
‘‘I will tell you,” (die said simply.
“Veronica’s father, my brother,”
she began, motioning him to sit,
“was a hard man, I suppose, but
not unusual for hi3 time, I think.
He believed that women have no
heads for business—cannot handle
money. He was heir to my father's
business and fortune of about twelve
million dollars. With real estate
and clever investing, he more than
doubled that fortune. There was no
male heir to whom he could leave
it, you see.”
"There was his adopted son,
Stephen,” McCale put in quickly.
"Yes,” she hesitated, "but not his
own flesh and blood. But there was
certainly Stephen.” She edged over
to the window again."
She faced him from the recess of
the window's bay, the high red
velour draperies dwarfing her in the
elongated shadows. Her eyes, for
a moment, seemed to play hide-and
seek with a memory.
At one time, I think he intended
for Stephen to inherit. But Stephen,
in his eyes at least, proved himself
unworthy. Sybil always spoiled
him. He grew up precocious, ex
travagant He ran away once and
joined the navy. A bitter experi
ence for him. The more so when
he found that Joel could no doubt
have procured an appointment to
Annapolis for him. He did manage
M.I.T. by the skin of his teeth. Mar
riage to Karen has straightened ,
him out somewhat."
“So the Bigelow fortune is held
In trust?"
“Yes and no.” Miss Adelaide
rushed on now as though pressed
for time. “My brother did not be
lieve in having money standing idle
for always. He wrote a most pecu
liar win."
She steadied herself, as if giving
Information on so private a matter
required a supreme effort
“I think he believed we would all
benefit eventually. I—I believed he
counted on Veronica's marrying
someone whose background we all
knew. You see, Sybil and 1 have
to agree on Veronica’s choice.”
“Rather hard on Veronica, I
should say.”
“Oh, yes." She was trying hard
to explain it as she saw it. “But he
thought—”
The old voice rose now. an hys
terical note in it “He wished a man
to have control of it. Veronica's
husband gains control of it to do
with as he will."
"God!” McCale exploded. The
spool of his brain turned swiftly in
a convulsive unreeling. The plot it
brought to mind left him numb
—by its malevolence.
It was his turn to go to the win
dow. He stood looking into the
blanket of fog. seeing nothing for a
moment. He felt lost in the stunned
silence of his own thoughts. Be
hind him, he heard Miss Bigelow
sigh.
“Why didn’t you come to me be
fore?" was all he could say. And
his voice sounded so loud In the
stillness that it stemed almost to
penetrate the outside. As if he had
heard, the loitering sailor across the
way actually looked up once at the
windows. McCale laughed harshly.
“Now you are caught in a really
diabolical web. Too late to extri
cate yourselves without a scandal."
Light fled from her old eyes as
inwardly she contemplated such a
thing. He felt cruel and vicious and
hard, but at least rational, and was
not quite able to comprehend he*
attitude.
Tranedy Strikes
Suddenly
“We can still expose this fellow
me-lad. It's quite possible that 1
can dig up something in a few days.
She joined him in the bay win
dow, shaking her head in a quick
gesture of distaste.
“Impossible," she murmured.
“Then why, in all justice to your
self. did you call me in at all?” he
wanted to know.
“I think I wanted to be sure.”
He left her staring out into the
rain and went back to the fire.
"Who introduced Curt Vallain
court into this house?” he asked,
raising his eyes to the woman at
the window.
But his query went unanswered.
For on the instant of bringing his
glance to focus on her, he saw her
sway as If something outside had
struck terror to her heart. He
thought for a moment she would
fall through the window.
A shot split the silence, forcing
a cry from her Ups. He believed
for one awful moment that someone
outside had shot Adelaide, half ex
pected to hear the shattered glass
of a wlndowpane faU to the floor.
In one leap, he was at her side.
She huddled against him, pointing
out and down.
One quick glance and the scene
below was forever photographed on
the film of his mind. He saw a
woman in green running along the
by-path of the Common that bisect
ed the hill.
(TO BE CONTINimiU
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