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•‘Yes, but where is the hill file?”
asked Marsh. "Tin re’s one on the
desk, to he sure, but it is full of
papers, and shows no sign of having
been used for criminal purpose. If,
as Mr. Lockwood insists, this is a
suicide ease, the victim positively
could not ha\* cleaned that file and
I * stored the papers after stabbing
himself.’"
‘ lie most certainly could not have
done that.'" declard Doctor CJroenlleld.
Marsh examined the file carefully.
It was an ordinary affair consisting
of a steel spike on a bronze standard.
It would without doubt make an effl
cviiious implement of murder, but it
wm difficult to believe it bad been
used in that way. For the bills and
memoranda it contained were, to all
appearance, just as they had been
thrust on the sharp point—and sure*
1» . had they been removed and re
placed, they would have shown traces
of : uch moving.
"Anyway " Doctor Greenfield said,
after another examination, "the hole
m the -side of Wiring's neck seems
to me to have been made with an j
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ITCHY PIMPLES
ALL (MCE
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Cuticura Healed.
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ing out of ugly, red pimples on my
fact. They were hard, large and
festered, and ecaled over. The pim
ples itched and burned, and were in
blotches ell over my face, causing
me to be very much disfigured.
“ I triad many remedies but none
a earned to help me. 1 began using
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and
they afforded relief. I continued
using them and was completely
healed in three weeks.” (Signed)
Mias Nellie Gardner, R. F. D.S.
tenths. Mo., Jan. 1>. 1922.
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I instrument slightly larger than that
file. Surely, there are round stilettos,
! are there not?”
j “Yes, there are," said Lockwood, “I
i have .seen them."
"Where?” demanded the examiner,
i suddenly turning on him.
"W hy—I don't know." For once
I ihe secretary’s calm was a trifle shak
en. “I should say in museums—or in
private, collections, perhaps.”
"Are you familiar with so many
! private collections of strange weapons
| that you can't remember where you
have seen a round shaped blade?”
Examiner Marsh stared hard at him
and Loci wood became taciturn again.
"Exactly that," he conceded. "I
have some time, somewhere, seen a
round bladed stiletto -«iut I cannot re
nifmber where.”
"Reiter brush up your memory.”
Marsh told him. and then the police
arrived.
The local police of O’orinth were
rather proud of themselves as a whole,
and tip.y had reason to be. Under a
worthwhile chief the men had been
well trained, and were alert, energetic
and capable.
Detective Morton, who took this
matter in charge, went straight to
work in a most business like way.
He examined the body of John War
ing. not as the medical men had done,
but merely to find possible dues to
the manner of his death.
"What’s this ring on his forehead?"
be asked, looking at the dead man’s
face.
"1 don't know—that struck me as
purer,” said Greenfield. "What is it,
Doctor Marsh?”
The examiner peered through his
glasses.
T can't make that out. myself," he
. confessed frankly.
M»*rton looked more closely.
There was a rod eirlce on Wa ring's
forehead, that looked as if it had been
(put there for some purpose.
A perfect circle it was, about two
inches in diameter, and it was red
and sunken into the flesh, as if it
might have been done with a branding
I iron.
“Not n very hot one. though, “Mor
ton remarked, after suggesting this,
“but surely somebody did it. I'll sav
, it's the sign nr seal of the murderer
himself. For a dead man couldn't do
it. and there’s no sense in assuming
that Pr. Waring branded himself be
fore committing suicide. Was it done
1 before or after death?" he asked of
i the two doctors present.
“Before, I should say," Pr. Green*
! field opined.
“Yes." concurred Marsh.” but not
long before. I'm not sure it is a
brand—such a mark could have been
made with, say, a small cup or tum
bler.*’
'Rut what reason is there In that'.’'’
exclaimed Morton. “Kven a lunatic
murderer wouldn't mark his victim by j
means of a tumbler rim."
Absorbedly. he picked up a tumbler
from the water tray and fitted it to
I the red mark on Waring's forehead.
"It doesn't tit exactly.” he said ,
"but it does almost.”
“Rubbish!" said Gordon Lockwood,
in his superior way. “Why would j
anyone mark Dr. Waring's face with I
a tumbler?”
"Yet it has been marked.” Morton
looked at the secretary sharply. "Can
you suggest any explanation—how
ever difficult of belief?"
“No.” Lockwood said. “Unless he <
fell over on some round thing as he
died ”
"There's nothing here." said Mop
I ton. scanning the furnishings of the
desk. "The inkstand i« closed—and
it's a smaller round, anyway. There's
no one of these desk fittings that
could possibly hate made that mark
Therefore, since it was made before
death, it must have been done by the j
murderer."
“Or by the suicide," LsieUwood in I
sisted firmly.
Morton, looking at the secretary,
decided to keep an eye on this cool
chap, who must have some reason for i
repeating his opinion of suicide.
The Rtihy Stickpin.
"Now," satd Morton, the detective, !
briskly, “to get to business. I must
make inquiries of the family—the
household. Suppose I see them in
some other room-”
"Yes,” agreed Lockwood, with what
i 1 1 ..■
seemed to Morton suspicious eager
ness. Why should the secretary be
| so obviously pleased to leave the study
—though to be sure, it was a grue
some place just now.
"Wait a minute.” Morton said,
"how about robbery? Has anything
j been missed?"
Lockwood looked surprised.
"I never thought to look," lie said,
"assuming suicide, of course robbery
didn't oeeur lo me." He looked
around the room. "Nothing seems to
be missing."
"Stay on guard. Higby,” the de
i teetive said to a policeman, and then
| asked the secretary where he eould
' interview the housekeeper and the
servants.
Lockwood took Morton to th» liv
, ing room, and there they found Mrs.
[ Pates as wpII as the two Peyton*.
Though her eves showed traces of
tears, Emily Pates was composed and
met the detective with an appealing
face.
"Do find the murderer!" she cried.
"T don't care how much that room
was locked jp. T know John Waring
never killed himself! Why would he
do it? Did ever a man have so much
(o live for? He couldn't have taken
his life!”
"I’m inclined to agree with yon.
Mrs. Bates." Morton told her. "yet
you must see the difficulties In the
way of a murder theory. I'm told
the room was Inaccessible. Is not
that right, Mrs. Peyton?"
Flustered at the sudden question
tlie- housekeener wrung her hands and
burst into tear®. "Oh, don't ask me,”
she wailed. "I don't know anything
about it!”
"Nothing indicative, perhaps." and
Morton spoke more gently, "but al
least, tell me all you ilo know. When
did you see Dr Waring last?"
"At the supper table last evening.”
"Not after supper at all?"
"No: that Is, I didn't see him. 1
am training a new servant, and 1
watched him as he took a tray of
water pitcher and glasses into the
study, but I didn't look in. nor did 1
see the doctor.”
"Dlfl you hear him?"
"I don't think I heard him speak.
T heard a paper rustle, and I knew
he was there."
"The servant came right out
again?"
"Yes: my attention was all on him.
T told him exactly what to do during
the evening."
"What were those instructions?"
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"To attend to his dining room
duties, putting away the supper dishes
and that, and then to star- about, on
duty, until L>r. Waring left bis study
and v ent to bed."
"This servant has done these things
before?"
"Not these things. He arrived but
| a few dais ago, and Tto. the butler,
! attended to tbe doctor. But Sunday
afternoon and evening Tto lias off, so
I began to train Nogi.”
"And this Nogl has disappeared?”
"Yes; lie is not to be found this
morning. Nor has his bed been dis
turbed.”
"Then we may take it he left in
the night or early morning. Now the
doctors Judge that Hr. Waring died
about midnight We must therefore
admit the possibility of a connection
between the .laps disappearance and
the doctor's death."
At this suggestion, Gordon Lock
wood looked interested. Whereas he
had preserved a stony calm, his face
now showed deep attention to the de
tective's words and he nodded his head
in agreement.
"You think so, too. Mr. Lockwood?"
Morton asked, in that sudden and
often disconcerting way of his.
“I don't, say T think so." the secre
tary returned, quietly, “but I do ad
mit a possibility.”
"It would seem so,” Mrs. Peyton
put in. "if Nogi could have got into
the study. But he couldn't. You
know it was locked—impossible, Mr.
Lockwood?”
"Yes.” Gordon returned. T heard
Dr. Waring lock his door.”
“When was that?” asked the de
tective. sharply.
"I should sav about 10 o'clock.”
‘•Where were you. then?”
"Sitting in the window nook outside
the study door.”
“Could you not. then, hear anything
that went on in the study?”
‘‘Probably not. The walls and door
are thick—they were made so for the
doctor's sake—-he desired absolute pri
vacy, and freedom from Interruption
or overhearing. No, I could not know
what was taking place in that room—
if anything w-as. at that time.”
"At what time did you last see the
doctor?”
"After supper I went with him to
the study. I looked after his wants,
getting him a number of hooks from
the shelves, and selecting from his
flies such notes or manuscript as he
asked for. Those are my duties as
secretary.”
"And then?”
"Then lie virtually dismissed me,
saying I might leave for the night.
But I remained in the hall window
until 11 o'clock.”
“Why did you do this?”
"Out of consideration for my em
ployer. Me was exceedingly busy and
if a, caller came, I could probably at
tend to his wants, and spare the doc
tor an interruption.”
“Did anyone call?”
“No one.”
"Yet you remained until 11?”
"Yes: 1 was doing some work of
my own, and it was later than I
tin eight, when I decided to co home.''
"And you spoke to the doctor be
fore leaving?”
"As is my custom. 1 tapped lightly
at the door and said good night. This
is my rule, when he is busy, and if
he makes no response, or merely mur
murs good night, I know there are
no further orders till morning, and I
go home."
"Did he respond to your rap Hast
night?"
"I—I cannot say. T heard him mur
mur a good night, but if he did, it
was so low as to be almost inaudible.
T thought nothing of it. Since he did
not call out 'Come in, Lockwood,’ as
he dnos when he wants me, I paj<]
little attention to th»' matter."
(To Bo Continued Tomorrow.)
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