THE MYSTERY GIRL
By CAROLYN HELL*. <Copyright, 1922.)
(Continued from Wstrntiij.)
!“Aik1 you roa,i bed home—when'.’"
“Something after 11. It'e but a
ew steps over to the Adams house,
rhere I live."
I "Now," summed up the detective,
‘here's the ease. You, Mr. Iax-k
Hiood. are not sure Dr. Waring re
sponded to your good night You did
fiot sec or hear him when Nogi took
jn the water tray?"
S" "No: I did not "
"Mrs. Peyton did not see him then,
lither—though slio imagined she
leard a paper rustle. Nogi is gone—
lie cannot be questioned. So. Mr.
■ .ockwood. the last person whom we
Inow definitely to have seey John
RVatlng alive is yourself when, as \ou
1 mi left him at almut—er—wliat
nit 8:30 or 9," said Lockwood,
Carelessly.
"Yes: you left him anil sat in the
lall window. Now. we have no posi
ive evidence that he was alive after
hat.”
"What!” Lockwood stared at linn
i “No positive evidence. I say. Nogi
fcent in, but no one knows what Nogi
Saw in there.”
t "Come puff. Detective Morton.
1 .ockwood said, coldly, "you’re ro
mancing. Do >nu suppose for a min
tite, that If there had been anything
Wrong with Dr. Waring when Nogi
Went in with the water, he would not
|iave raised an alarm?"
* "I'suppose that might have easily
have been the case. The Japanese are
afraid of death. Their one idea is to
flee from it. If that Japanese servant
had seen ills master dead, lie would
have decamped, just as he did do.”
"But Nogi was here when I went
home, lie handed me my overcoat
find hat, quite witli his usual calm
demeanor.”
"You must remember, Mr. Lock
wood. we have only your word for
that.”
Gordon Lockwood looked at tho de
tective.
"I will not pretend to misunder
stand your meaning." he said, slowly
and with hauteur. "Nor shall 1 say a
word, nt present, in self-defense. Y’nur
implication is so absurd, so really
ridiculous, there Is nothing to be
said."*
"That’s right,” anil Morton nodded.
"Don't say anything until you get
counsel. Now. Mrs. Bates—I'm
nudity sorry to bother you—hut I
must ask you a few questions. And if
1 size you up right, you'll he glad to
tell anything you can to help dlscovei
the truth. That so?"
“Yes," she returned, "yes—of
course, Mr, Morton. But T can't let
you seem to suspect Mr. Lockwood
of wrongdoing without u. protest! Dr.
warlng's secretary is most loyal and
devoted—of that I am sure."
"Never mind that side of It just
now. Tell m« this Mrs. Bates. Who
will benefit financially by l>r. Wait
ing's death? To whom is his fortune
willed? I take it you must know, as
you expected soon to marry him.”
"But I don't know,” Emily Bates
said, a little indignantly. "Nor do 1
see how It can help you to solve the
mystery to get such Information as
that. You don't supiio.se anybody
killed him for his money, do you?"
“What other motive could there
be. Mrs. Bates? Had he enemies?'1
"No; well, that is, T suppose lie had
spme acquaintances who were disap
pointed at his election to the college
presidency. But I'd hardly call them
enemies."
"Why not? Why wouldn't they he
enemies? It's my Impression that
election was hotly contested."
"It was," Mrs. Peyton broke in. "It
was, Mr. Morton, and If Pr. Waring
was murdered—which I can’t see how
tie was—some of that other faction
did it."
"But that's absurd." Gordon I.ock
Wood protested; “there was. disap
pointment among the other faction at
the result of the election, but it’s in
credible that they should kill Dr. War
ing for that reason!"
"The whole,cane is Incredible," Mor
ton returned. “What is it, ITigby,
what have you found?”
"The doctor," Hlgby said, coining
into the living room, “they have just
noticed that although there is a pin
hole in Dr. Warlng's tie, there Is no
stjeknin there. Did he wear one?”
"Of course he did,” Mrs. , Bates
cried. "Ho had on' his ruby pin yes
terday."
"He did so,” echoed Mrs. Peyton.
"That ruby pin was worth an Im
mense sum of money! That's why he
was killed then, robbery!”
“He certainly wore that pin last
night," said Pock wood. "Are you sure
il's hiisslug? Hasn't it dropped to the
floor?”
"Can't find it." returned Hlgby, and
then all the men went back to the
study.
"Anything else missing?” asked
Morton, who was deeply chagrined
that he hadn't noticed the pin was
gone himself.
"How about money, Mr. Lock
wood?" said Dr. Marsh. '"Any gone,
that you can notice?"
With an uncertain motion Gordon
Lockwood pulled open a snmh dra\#>r
of the desk.
"Yes," he said, "there was fijOO
in cash hero last night—and now it is
not here.”
"Better dismiss the suicide theory,”
said Detective Morton, with a quick
lock at the secretary.
The Volume of Martial.
The medical examiner. Dr. Marsh,
the detective, ^lorton, and the secre
tary of the late John Waring, Gordon
Lockwood, looked at one another.
Without anv words having l>eeii
spoken that might indicate a lack of
harmony, there yet was a hint of dis
cord in their attitudes.
Dr. Marsh was sure the case was
a suicide.
"You'll find the stiletto somewhere."
he shrugged, when he held upon that
point. "To find the weapon Is not
my business—hut when a man is dead
in a locked room and dead from a
wound that could have been self ad
ministered, I can't see a murder situ
at :<Ul /
"Nor T." said Lockwood. "It.is the
wastebasket been searched for the
thing that killed him""
Acting quickly on his own sugges
tion, Gordon Lockwood dived beneath
the great desk.
Like a flash Morton was after him,
and, though the detective was not
sure, he thought he saw the secretary
grasp a bit of crumpled paper and
stuff It in his pocket.
"Now. look here. 1 11 make that
search," Norton exclaimed, and al
most snatched the wastebasket from
the other's grasp.
"Very well,” and Lockwood put
his hands in Ids pockets and stood
looking on, as Morton fumbled with
the scraps,
lie emptied the basket on the floor,
but there were only a few torn en
velopes and memoranda, which were
soon proved to lie of no indicative
value to the searchers.
"J'll save the stuff, anyway." Mor
ton declared, pettipg a newspaper
and wrapping In it the few bits of
waste paper.
"Did you take a paper from this
basket and put it in your pocket?’’
the detective suddenly demanded.
Lockwood, without moving, gave
Morton a cold stare that was more
negative than any words could be,
and was, moreover, exceedingly dis
concerting.
"Look here, Mr, Morton," he said,
'■‘if you suspect me of killing my em
ployer, come out and say so. I know,
in story books, the first one to be sus
pected ts the confidential secretary.
So, accuse me. and get It over with.”
The very impassivity of Lock
wood's face seemed to put him far
beyond and above suspicion, and the
detective hastily mumbled:
"Not at all. Mr. Lockwood, not at
all. Hut you ijon't seem real frank,
now, and you must know bow im
portant it is that we get all the first
hand information we can."
"Of course, and I'm ready to tell
nil I .know. Go on and ask ques
tions."
"Well, then, what do you surmise
has become of that $500 and that
ruby stickpin? Doesn't their disap
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pearance rather argue against sui
cide?”
Lockwood meditated. "Not neces
sarily. If they liave been stolen—"
"Stolen! < >f course, they've liocn
stolen, since they aren't here! 1 don’t
see any sate."
'No, Dr. Waring had no safe.
There has been little or no robbery in
Corinth, and Dr. Waring rarely kept
much money about.”
"Five hundred dollars is quito a
sum." ,
' That was for housekeeping pur
poses. Whenever, necessary, t diew
for him from the' bank the amount,
and ho kept it in that drawer until
it was used up. lie always gave Mrs.
Feyton cash to pay the servants and
some other matters as well as her
own salary. His tradesman's bills
were pa id by cheek.”
“Was the money in bills?”
”1 invariably brought it to him in
the same denominations. Two hun
idled in $3 bills. $200 in ones, and
$loo in silver coins.”
"In paper rolls?”
"Vos; it may have been injudicious
to keep so large a sum in his desk
drawer, but ho always did. Though,
to lie sure, lio often paid out a great
deal of it at once. Sometimes he
would cash chocks for someone or
give some to the poor.”
"Drawer novel- locked?"
“Always locked. But both the doc
tor and I carried a key. He was not
so suspicious of me ns you are, Mr.
■Morton." The speaker gave his cold
smile.
"And as to the ruby pin, Mr. Lock-,
wood?’' Morton went on. "Are you
willing wo should search your ef-'
fects?"
Lockwood started and for a mo
fient ho almost lost his equipoise.
"I am not willing," he said, after
an instant's pause, "but It you say It
Is necessary, I suppose I shall have
to submit.”
Morton looked at him uneasily. He
had no appearance of a criminal, he
looked too proud and haughty to be a
culprit, yet might that not be sheer
bravado? a
Discontinuing the conversation,
Morton turned Ills attention to the
table In the window In the hall where
the secretary so often sat.
He examined the appurtenances,
for the table was furnished almost
like a desk, and lie picked up a sil
ver penholder.
It was round and smooth and
without chasing or marking of any
soct,-save for the initials Cl. L.
"This yours?” he asked, and
Lockwood nodded assent.
"I ask you. Dr. Marsh,” Morton
turned to the examiner, "whether
that wound which is in Dr. Waring's
neck could have been made with this
penholder.”
Startled, Marsh took the imple
ment and carefully scrutinized it. Of
usual length, it was tappring and
ended in a point. The circumference
at the larger end was just about
tho circumference of the wound in
question.
(To Ho Continued Tomorrow.)
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