THE ROSE
PETAL CLUE
Continued from Page One
Dr. Nolle, can throw some light or
this case, so I have taken the libertj
of asking him to come up here af
soon as it is convenient for him tc
get away from the dance.”
“Who are you?” the coroner asked
gruffly.
“He is Hale Thompson, detective
from New York,” I volunteered.
“Detective!” they breathed.
“Well, well!” began the coroner
“this is-”
He was cut short by the entrance
of Dr. Nolle. When he saw the
body, he gasped and drew back.
“This is terrible,” he said. “Who
did this awful thing?”
He was a heavily built man of
about thirty years, nice looking. His
features had been found pleasant
by the ladies, but struck men the
other way. The tales of his es
capades with women were numer
ous.
“We think we know who did
this, doctor,” said the detective who
had used the phone, with a sar
donic glance at Hale, "but this
this detective from New York seems
to think you know something about
it also.”
Doctor Nolle turned to Hale. "I
know nothing about this case," he
said to him, “and I resent your Im
plication.”
“Whether I have done you an
injustice or not, doctor,” Hale said
blandly, “remains to be seen. If
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mind answering a few questions.”
The young doctor glared at Hale.
I knew nothing; Hale had not con
fided in me, but I felt that the doc
tor was debating in his mind what
course of action to take. If he re
fused to answer the questions, he
would have the support of the de
tectives who resented the intrusion
of the colored detective, but if he
refused everyone, all might become
suspicious and believe that he did
know something.
‘‘AH right,” he said grudgingly,
“what do you want to know?”
“What time did you leave this
office, doctor?"
“I left here about five o'clock,’ he
repUed.
“Did you return here before going
to the dance?”
“No, I arrived at the dance about
eight-thirty.”
“Where were you between nine
and nine-thirty?” was the next
question Hale shot at him.
The doctor hesitated; then he
said: “I went to the fifth floor t<
the lavatory."
The doctor was plainly annoyed
and the detectives were beginning
to get impatient.
"The doctors have a lavatory
that the public doesn’t have access
to,” he said, “and I have a key.”
“You also have a key to this
office?”
“Of course I have!” the doctor re
plied heatedly. “I am getting
tired of this little drama!”
“Oh, I am about through,” Hale
answered, unperturbed, and h e
smiled whimsically, but his eyes did
not smile, “I can now answer all
the questions that need be answer
ed.”
“After you left the lavatory on the
fifth floor, you came down the steps
to the third floor. Perhaps Dr.
Ransom had not gotten through
with his patient, Clinton Warren.
Anyway, you knew the hour, al
most the minute he came and left
because you had waited on hin
during the time when Dr. Ranson
would be away. When Warrer
came out you went in by openin'
the door with your key. You fount
Dr. Ransom putting away an in
strument, but he sat down, prob
ably to discuss the fact that yot
had stolen money from him. Thei
he took his eyes from you for i
second, and you whipped out thi
surgical instrument that you ha<
already procured from the instru
ment cabinet.
"You knew where to aim. Yoi
slashed the jugular vein. It was
that that led me to believe the
crime was committed by a person
with some knowledge of surgery.”
“Are you, by any chance,” the
doctor said sarcastically, “accusing
me of this murder?”
"I hadn’t come to that,” Hale re
plied evenly, “but I do accuse you
of this murder!”
I saw a flash of fear on the doc
tor’s face; then he threw back his
head and. laughed. It sounded so
gross and out of place. Then he
said, “Pardon the laughter, but
your dramatics are so out of place
and funny —but, man, where is
your proof?"
Hale smiled at him cynically. *
“Please step close to the body.’*
Everyone moved reluctantly near
er to the body except the detectives
who came nearer with curiosity. I
could imagine them wondering if
there was something that they had
overlooked.
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and between the index finger and
the thumb,” Hale directed.
We looked. The dead man's hand
was resting: in the chair where he
sat, and had one not looked closely
he would not have noticed the two
rose petals that were there. Then
we looked at Hale for an explana
tion.
“Dr. Ransom's last act,” Hale
said, “was to reach up, perhaps
trying to defend himself, and his
right hand encountered the pink
rose in the lapel of the murderer's
coat. And there is the rose the
petals came from.”
We all stared at Dr. Nolle and
at the pink rose in the lapel of his
coat. Undoubtedly some of the
petals 'Were gone.
“And when the finger prints on
this surgeon’s knife are compared
with Dr. Nolle's. I think you will
find that they tally.”
“I did it-1 did it,” the doctor •
babbled, raising both hands hi_h in
the air. “I gambled—forged check—
he was going to expose me.”
* * *
And when at last we were on our
way home in my Ford, I said: “Well. ~
I guess we will see a doctor to
morrow about your indigestion.”
“No need,” he said, with more
satisfaction than he had felt all
day. . -
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the solving of a case was like a
tonic for Hale Thompson. \
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