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The Long Green Gaze
A Cross Word Puzzle Mystery
fit,’ Vincent Fuller
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With simulated difficulty end
enough erasures to lend credibility to
the idea that he was working the puz
zle for the llrst time, Ted worked the
puzzle:
-
l*etween them degenerate into a sort
of hitter memory. And so, in the
nice casual way «-f such like people,
he sent her this thins, in the bottom
of a great chest tilled with mone\
and lovely garments, and rich viands.
FIRST CROSS WORD Pl'/ZT-R.
I ouiid <ni (lie Dining l{>xiin Table.
Horizontal.
— 1. Ail interjection.
2. A preposition.
4, A pronoun (pi.',
5, A he-cat.
6, King of Bashan.
id. Wearies.
.12. Anil so forth (abbi 1
I i. Son of Abijah.
16. Railroad (abbr.).
IT. Southern state (abbr (
1ft. Holy name labbr.):-v.
20. WelA (Greek(.
21. And (Latin).
22. Quark medicine.
25. Black
26. Not on.
28. Part of the arm.
32. First tone of the .- ah
34. Fsed in rowing.
•25. Greek letter 51.
36. Consume.
38. A vase*.
3ft. Past of sit.
4d. Etruscan god
41. Masculine title
43. To unite.
45. Bone.
46. Help.
•IT. A thoroughfare (abbi i
Vertical.
1. A pronoun (mage.),
3. Negation.
4. < quest loll*
5. Toward.
C. Spoken.
T. A pronoun (sing )
ft. A person in the house*.
10. Before Christ (abbr.).
11. South America (abbr.)
13. A cessation.
! 5. beugc.
1T. Animal s hair
14. Girl's name.
23. Tribe of Indians
21. No) high.
2.5. A •• mi-precious stoic ‘
T. \ quartet.
2ft. Behold.
30. Forbid.
31. Either.
38. Green spot in the desert.
35. Horses (fern.);
IT. Resinous substance.
38. Part of the head.
41. Therefor.
42. Two (prefix).
44. Delirium tremens (abbr ).
Burke looked at It dazedly. "That
don't tell me much."
"Look at the starred words—see
^ those horizontals and verticals."
"What about vertical 25 and hod
rontal 38""
Ted told him si! he knew.
"And what about vertical 4?”
"I don’t know anything more about
that than you do.”
"Do you have any idea whn wrote
this?"
"NTot the slightest.”
"A1 right. . . It’s probably a wild
goose chase, hilt the public is sure
demanding action and so is Smith."
"Who's Smith."
"District attorney." Burke started
for the kitchen and shortly 'led heard
two men—the second probably the
plaIneiothesman who had been lurk
ing in the parage—go into one of
the moms upstairs. Though he had
expected it. Ted realiz'd with a shock
that they had gone Into the room of
the person Indicated tn vertical ft.
As h* steeled for the library,
Burke ran down the stairs hehind
him. Ted turned. "Don’t go tn there
- et. ’ Burke said. "You go up to your
room and wait until I send for you.
The- won t be eearchlng your room
—now.”
\\ onderlng, T'd retired to his room
• gain. The room was growing rather
tiresome, he decided, hut it had
grown much more tiresome when, en
hour later. Burke opened the door
and came In.
In that hour, Burke had called
Ohalfonl' into the descried kitchen
and Insisted on sn explanation of the
object named In vertical 25 and hori
zontal 38.
Ghnlfonte had faced Burke across
the table In the kitchen with no
trace of anxiety on Ids heavy, yet
somehow benign fuce
"You forget." he said, "that I am
not familiar with the puzzle you re
fer to. What is it?"
Burke told him.
"And these words"—Ghnlfonte put
his linger on vertical 2 - and horizon,
tn I 38—"are the ones you are qurs
tionlug m# about?”
"That’s the ticket."
“Well, all I eon tell yut Jx In port,
what you already know. You nro
svsre from xvh.it Theodore ho* told
you. xx hot I Intended doing xxllh horl
zontnl 88, shall I sax?" Tills vxltli a
•rnlle. "The story ronneried with tide,
xxdijr.li is about, oil I can (ell you, I*
that one of the old Emperors of I’liiun
v hen be tired of one of his many
".•Ives, el III hud enough courtesy In
him so that lie didn't want her Juki
to wither nxxm Inin old age and iigll
ness, and let the love liiul had been
and she was supposed to spend the
money within a month in whatever
way she wished, wear the garments,
' eat the viands, and at the end. when
I she came to—horizontal 3s"—again he
I smiled—“she used its contents, and
[that was all. There was a pleasant
i little verse on the side of It. A free
translation would go something like
this:
‘Let Death perfect and remember, O
Once Beloved,
What longer life would onl\ mar and
forget.”
They do such things better In the
Orient, you’ll grant.”
“Maybe so. The only poet who
talks to me i° Eddie Guest. But what
I'm interested in now. is this: This
thing isn't in your room—it's just
been searched. Where did you put
ur
“Tn my room. If it isn't there, it
has been stolen.”
“All right, that's all. # Go up to
your room and wait there until I
send for you."
Ghopai Bose was summoned next,
but lie could throw no further light
on the story t’halfonte had told.
Sending him into the dining room.
Burke went up to talk with Ted.
“It's this way, Dunseath.” he be
gan, shutting the door of the familiar
room behind him. “We have enough
copies of the morning paper for
everybody- the paper this morning
had just the design in it: and I'm
going to have you all in the library,
working on that puzzle. You’ll have
to do a little acting and pretend that
you know nothing about it. and work
it along wWi the rest So will t'hal
fonte. whom I've just been talking to.
I'll tell you in advance that I'm doing
that just t.i watch some of the people
concerned, the individual named in
vertical 0 particularly. I*\e got to
have volt all down there or it won’t
go quite tight. Gome on. then.”
“Has anything been found yet?”
Ted Inquired on the way down.
"When I get ready to tell you
something. I’ll probably tell you. Not
before." Burke answered.
Shortly, they were all assembled in
the library, and Burke was explain
ing the puzzle to them. “You can look
on It as a vaudeville, act, If you care
to.” he informed them, “prepared to
make pleasant a rather boresome
day. But before we begin, number
the verticals and horizontals, and I'll
dictate the definitions.
1 'All right, then, go ahead." he
I oomnutnded. and feverishly they be
gan, e«'*h separated from the others
| by a distance of a yard or A
j feverish business was in the air. a
strange silence, as if some supernal
examination were being given, with
life or death as the marks to be as
signed. Burke, placing the original
of tlie list of definition l*efnre 1dm.
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touched the squares o*‘ the puzzle
with a pencil tiuw and theu; but his
eyes wen* on tin- person whose room,
since the solution of vertical it, was
being searched upstairs—while it*
o« »• up:iut sat in the rorncr of the
library, frowning over the puzzle that
had led to the search.
On they worked, with much biting
of pencil* and profound staring* into
space, but pc\er at « << b other. Utirke
felt, after a Uta* . that some • f the
starred words had been solved by n
tew. and that th»\\ ware only mark
lag time in the solution.*fur fear oi
having: t" indicate, by sonic overt |
action, that they km w which of their
number had l»een Indicated.
Then, .lust as one face was chunk
ing: and paling, as lUnke bud expect
«-n the'* i .tine the xniml *»f 1ic;»\\
f. rt mi ill* stairs, and n \ u|ep «-*i 1!
In-. “I’.urkr! Hurk* W'hrr* ure yuti?
Htirk*-! •
Whli i hound. Mut ko* h fi the room,
and all, glad of a break kind
and eager to leave the pressure **f
the roMin, went chattering Into ilic
hall, jiisi in tiin«* t«» ape Murk** dis
appear with one ot' his men into the
dining room, as another deteHIve
rante down the hall to herd them
Into the room again.
In the dining room one of tin
assistants was dtaplasing In hit- hatul
a Harkened greenish mass. "That's
It, ill light," Burke said.
• That - not all. .though." the other
replied. "We found this in the flu
pin e, loo It’S ,1ust a tiiiginent. and
it's | itii\ well ohaJied but look at
what the words m»>
Murk. I . nf down In examine them,
and i * , 1 with dlfth nil> IMtn . . . In
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Kmil\ when >"ii rtnd nut what will
happen if . . nlwnxs been loyal to
you w hen others. . . . ”
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