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} D THUS THE STORY Skeel'. finger the apartment of ores Odell, but Vance does not be- e him gee It is proved later that Manvix, aver and Dr, Lind- quist had been lying about their whereabouts the night of the murder. The truth comes out that Mannix had been calling on a young lady in the apartment adjoining the "Canary's"; that Cleaver had been in the buildin around midnight, and that Dr, Lind- quist, knowing Spotswoode was calling on Margaret Odeli, had planned in a Jealous fit to kill him. But this plan was frustrated when Spotswoode Jumped into a cub. Skeel telephones that he will tell who committed the murder, and Markham, Vance and Heath wait for him in the district at- terney's office. CHAPTER XL. A few minutes later Heath turned abruptly and went out into the hall. We could hear Lim calling to Snitkin down the elevator shaft, but when he came back inte the office his expres- 8lon told us that as yet there was no news of Skeel. "I'll call up the bureau," he decided, "and see what Guilfoyle had to report. At least we'll know then when the Dude left his house." But when the sergeant had been connected with police headquarters he was_informed that Guilfoyle had as yet made no report. "That's damn funny," he comment- ed, hanging up the receiver. It was now twenty minutes past ten. Markham was growing restive, The tenacity with which the Canary mur- der case had resisted all his efforts toward a solution had filled him with discouragement; and he had hoped, almost desperately, that this morning's interview with Skeel would clear up the mystery, or at least supply him with information on which definite mction could be taken. Now, with Skeel late for this all-important ap- pointment, the strain was becoming tense, He pushed back his chair nervously and, going to the window, gazed out into the dark haze of fine rain, When he returned to his desk his face was set. "I'll 'give our friend until half past .~ DN f FAR: ten," he said grimly. "If he isn't here then, Sergeant, you'd better call up the local station-house and have them send a patrol wagon for him." There was another few minutes of silence. Vance lolled in his chair with half-closed eyes, but I noticed that, though he still held his cigarette, he was not smoking, His forehead was puckered by a frown, and he was very quiet, I knew that some unusual prob lem was occupying him. His letharg had in it a quality of intentness and concentration, As I watched him he suddenly sat up straight, his eyes open and alert. He tossed his dead cigarette into the receiver with a jerky movement that attested to some inner excitement. "Oh, my word!" he exclaimed. really can't be, y' know! And yet"-- his face darkened--"and yet, hy jove, that's it! . . . What an ass I've been "Tt He sprang to his feet; then stood looking down at the floor like a man dazed, afraid of his own thoughts. "Markham, I don't like it--I"don't like it at all." He spoke almost as if he were frightened. "I tell you, there's something terrible going on--some- thing uncanny. The thought of it makes my flesh creep. , . . I must be getting old and sentimental," he added with an effort at lightness; but the Jook in his eyes belied his tone, "Why didn't I see this thing yesterday? , . . But I let it go on. . . ." We were all staring at him in am- azement. I had never seen him affect- ed in this way before, and the fact that Ke was habitually so cynical and aloof, so adamant to emotion and im- pervious to outside influences, gave his words and #etions an impelling and impressive quality. After a moment he shook himself slightly, as if to throw off the pall of horror that had descended upon him, and stepping to Markham's desk, he leaned over, resting on both hands; #Don't you see?" he asked. "Skeel's a ---- 4 _ .«Weary miles seem shorter "and the day is brightened when 'you have Wrigley's with you. {delicious flavor adds to any enjoyment, : | a not coming. No use to wait--no use rints were f lof our having come here in the first the mordered Mar. place We have to go to him. He's waiting for us, . . Come! Get your hat." Markham had risen, and Vance took him firmly by the arm. "You needn't argue," he persisted. "You'll have to go to him svoner or later. You might as well go now, don't vy' know. My word! What a situation!" 4 He had led Markham, astonished and but mildly protesting, into the middle of the room, and he now beck- oned to Heath with his free hand. "You, too, Sergeant. Sorry you had all this trouble. My fatlt. I should have foreseen this thing. A devilish shame; but my mind was on Monets all Jesterigy afternoon. . . You know where Skeel lives?" Heath nodded mechanically. He had fallen under the spell of Vance's strange and dynamic importunities. "Then don't wait. And, Sergeant! You'd better bring Burke or Snitkin along, They won't be needed here-- nobody'll be needed here any more to- " Heath looked inquiringly to Mark- ham for counsel; his bewilderment had thrown him into a state of mute in- decision. Markham nodded his. ap- proval. of Vance's suggestions. and, without a word, slipped into his rain- coat, A few minutes later the four of us, accompanied by Snitkin, had enter- ed Vance's car and were itching up- town. Swacker had been rent home; the office had been locked up; and Burke and Emery had departed for the homicide bureau to await further instructions. Skeel lived in 25th street, near the East River, in a dingy, but once pre- tentious house, which formerly had been the residence of some old family of the bettr class. It now had an air of dilapidation and decay; there was rubbish in the areaway; and a large sign announcing rooms for rent was posted in one of the ground floor win- dows. As we drew up before it Heath sprang to the street and looked sharp- ly about him. Presently he espied an unkempt man slouching in the door- way of a grocery store diagonally opposite, and beckoned to him. The man shambled over furtively. "It's all vight, Guilfoyle," the scr- geant told him. "We're paying the Dude a social visit. What's the trouble? Why didn't you report?" Guilfoyle looked surprised. "I was told to phone «in when he left the house, sir, But he ain't left vet. Mallory tailed him home last night round ten o'tlock, and I relieved Mallory at nine this morning. The Dude's still inside - "Of course he's still inside, Ser- geant," said Vance, a bit impatiently. "Where's his room situated, Guil- foyle?" asked Heath. "Second floor, at the back." "Right. We're going in, Stand by." "Look out for him," admonished Guilfoyle. "He's got a*gat." Heath took the lead up the worn steps which led from the pavement to the little vestibule. Without ringing, he roughly grasped the doorknob and shook it. The door was unlocked, and we stepped into the stuffy lower hall. way. A bedraggled woman of about 40, in a disreputable dressing gown, and with hair hanging in strings ¢ver her shoulders, emerged suddenly fiom a rear door and came toward us un- steadily, her bleary eyes focused on us with menacing resentment. "Say!" she burst out, in a rasping voice, "What do youse mean by bustin' in like this on a respectable lady?" And she launched forth upon a stream of profane epithets, ~Heath, who was nearest her, placed his large hand over her face, and gave her a gentle but firm shove backward. "You keep outa this, Cleopatra!" he advised her, and began t. ascend the stairs. The second-floor hallway was dimly lighted by a small flickering gas-jet, and at the rear we could distinguish the outlines of a single door set in the middle of the dall. "That'll be Mr, Skeel's abode," ob- served Heath. He walked up to it and, dropping one hand in his right coat pocket, turned the knob. But the door was locked. He then knocked violently upon it, and placing his ear to the jamb, listened. Snitkin stood directly behind him, his hand also in his pocket. The rest of us remained a little in the rear. Heath had knocked a second time when Vance's voice spoke up from the semi-darkness, "I 'say, Sergeant, you're wasti time with all that formality." "I guess you're right," came the answer after a moment of what seem- ed unbearable silence. Heath bent down and looked at the lock: Then he took some instru- ment from his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole. "You're Hight)" he repeated. "The key's gone." & 4 He stepped back and, balancing on toes die a sprinter, sent Jia shout, the panel directly -- ne Ad the moulding. The door swung drunkenly inward. darkness, We all hesitated on the threshold, while Snitkin crossed war- ily to tne of the windows and sent the shade clattering up. The yellow- i gray light filtered in, and the objects lof the room at once took definable form. A large, old-fashioned bed pro- jected from the wall on the right. "Look!" cried 3nitkin, pointirg, and something in his voice sent a shiver over me, We pressed forward. On the foot of the bed, at the side toward the door, sprawled the crumpled body of Skeel. Like the Canaiy, he had been strangled. His head hung back over the foot-board, his face a hideous dis- tortion. His arms were out stretched and one leg trailed over the edge of the mattress, resting on the floor. "Thuggee," murmured Vance. "Lindquist mentioned it, Curious!" Heath stood staring fixedly at the body, his shoulders hunched. 1iis_nor- mal ruddiness of complexion was gone and he seemed like a man hypiotized. Markham was shaken also. He set his jaw rigidly. "You're right, Vance." His voice was strained and unnatural. '"'Some- thing sinister and terrible has been going on here. . . . 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