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"l cannot say that," she answered "Sometimes ['thought she cared more {for Mr. Griswold, and then again I would feel certain she preferred Mr. Sands. In the main, however, I al ways believed that Mr. Sands held her affections; while Mr. Griswold simply pleased her with his atten- tions." "Possibly know her own mind?" asked, "Perhaps not," comb. "Did she ever make any remarks to you that led you to believe she cared more for one than for the other?" "Nome that I recall." "Miss Holcomb, do you know the history of the Maharanee diamond?' he suddenly fiered. A quick spark of memory kindled her mind, apd with fhe first flash, she understood the import of bis gue:- Mrs. Missioner didn't the detective agreed Miss Hol mn. "Mrs. Missioner told me the history of the stone," she said. ; "I belleve there was some scandal 'connected with its purchase in India. She told me that when her husband obtained if, there was some talk of it having been stolen from a temple and that the provincial native government tried to regain possession of it. Mr. Missicner succeeded, however, in retaining ft as part of his collection." "What opportunity did the Indian servant have of cbtaining the neck- lace?" "None at all," she answered hope: "unless he broke Into the safe, and I believe that was not done." "Mra, Miasionaer informed me that on one occasion,' when thé necklace was Jving on the table, the servant entered the room with a box. You were in the room at the time. ' Was he close enough to the table to touch the necklace?" "] remember the incident very well," she replied "I took the box from him at the door and he turned around and went downstairs, 1 do not believe he was within ten feet of the table at any time." "1 don't know what fo think" Britz said, after some reflection. "Al most as soon as 4 new clew bobs up, it falls down and I have to begin ail over again. | have no more ques- tions to ask to-day." Fitch accompanied the detective out of the prison, begging vainly for some word of encouragement, Britz an- swered his questions with monosyl lables, as if he feared to commit him- self with regard to the oulcome of his investigation. Just before parting however, Britz said "Every line that case, you can rest assuied, will he followed to the end. So far, nothing has béen discovered that ~hanges the aspect of the case in (he slightest de- gree." The detective quarters and entered Chief. "Has Donnelly or Carson reported anything new?" he inquired, "Nothing." answered the "And you?" "Nothing that throws any the case." "Brite," the Chief remarked, though delivering some weigiiry con clusion, "I think you're working on the wrong hypothesis You seem to bave decided that Miss Holcomb Is innocent. If you will survey thé case as it stands, you will have to acknow- ledge that absolutely everything in it points to her guilt. I do not under take to say what her motive was in stealing the jewels, unless it was sim ply the feminine lust far ornaments. I feel certain, also, that she Was not alone in the crime. My belief is ha she took the necklace out of the safe, turned it over to Dr. Fitch, or some one else, to have the duplicate made, and then returned the false jewels to the safe." "But where were the paste gems made?' inquired Brits. ""That's for you to find out," snapped ithe Chief. "I have personally visited every imanufactuper of paste goma in this lefty and in Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo and Washington. My men have been to all the places in the smaller cities. Manufacturers in all the other cities of the country have been visited by the local police, and 1 feel absolutely sure that the dupli- cates were not made in this country, Logan is on the way to Paris now, and until. we hear from him I don't think we are safe in venturing any opinion as to the identity of the thief. | am receiving dally reports -of the move ments of Sands, Griswold, the butler, and the Indian servant, bit they show nothing." "Why do you think Logan will dis cover anything? Has the real neck- lace ever been abroad?' "Mrs. Missioner had jt with her on the other side, but T don't know shat it ever left her possession." The Chief's lips colled into an amused smile. "Kind o' looks as if 'you're on the wrong sgent," he baited, "Wait till 'we hear from Paris," Britz returned. "You're 'way off the trail" the Chief persisted. "You're net even follow- ing the lines of your own deduction. The other day you said you were con- vinced the neckisce was stolen within the last month. H do you suppose got it to Parise, had it duplicated, and then had the counterfeit sent back bers ia four weeks? You don't give any time for the manufacture of "The crime was not conceived and executed in a day" Brits returned, "It fa the work of lomg thought 'and careful planning. The duplicates may have been made any time within five The substitution was made develops in this Head- the waiked to the office of Chief light on a2 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1914. -- at a glance. T «aw him yesterday ant Fhe informed me the siones he Saw were genuine." "Then, following Your line of rea soning, we must conclude that the ori ginal was out of the pogsession of Mrs Missioner without her knowledge lon: enough 10 enable the thief to have the duplicate made? And if that is the case, then only one person could have succeeded in the crime. The secre tary was the only one who had access to the sale, and she also would have known Mrs. Missioner's plans wel enough to enable her to judge the length of time she could withhold the necklace without detection. Of course the theft would have been discovere: at once if Mrs. Missioner wanted tc wehr the necklace while it was gone "The original stones were neve! stolen from the safe," Britz sald int positive tone. "Then how was the made?" queried the cther "I don't know," repited tte detec tive gloamily. 1is00.€ the time of the subiti tution." "It seems to me, "you have still many things with regars As a matter of fa t at sca as ou 'he dav "l have only beg lines." Britz de~lare od, fish before I'm through, be Miss Holcomb." As the detective could not heip a feeling © at the slow progress of yet, lacies were vaguely outlined in hw mind. H saw them a: a floatiug mist, heavy with possibilities but charged with d lusive signs of beckoning tials (ha he instinetiyaly knew Ted to nowhere He was still treading lightly th mazes of the case: One fniza. ste might be fatal, and he preferred to remain in a crouching attitude of watchfulness, ready tc spring from cover at the proper moment. Much as he deplored his enfore: 4 inactivity, he nevertheless had faib in the final outcome. A quick wents survey of the case convinced him that the first necessity was to find the maker of the pasie stones. Whoever made the d:nlicate Maharanee would surely recail having done eo. There were few European firms that could have made the stone. It was dovbtfu] whether apy American manufacturer could have turned out a substitute fo fool the eves of Mrs. Miesione:, even for a night. It {8 hard enough to gel the compact brilliance of the diamond in a small paste gem; infinitely more dificult is {t to mazufaciure a coun tertelt Maharance. - Britz knew that whoever copled the cut and luster of that rharvelous stone was an expert of 'high caliber. No fain shimnwer of glass could have avolled to deceive Mrs. Missioner. The laboratory fire that gleamed from the duplicate was ths work of years of experiment, and only in Paris, Brite believed, was the art' of manufacturing paste gems suffl- afently developed to bring forth a sai- istabtory duplicate of the Maharanee. Three weeks at least, must elapse before wérd wonid come from logan The emissary sent abroad was himselt » diamond oxpert. Before entering the Detective Bureau he had been a foreign agent of the United States oeasury Department. If the dupll- cate 'neclisoce was manufactured sesoad, Logan would find the manu- tacturer without delay. Brits had faith in his man, and he waited impa dently through three 'weeks of tor ment for the first cablecgram. [i same finally, and he opened it with nervous fingers. "Misaioner necklace manufactured from drawings by three "rms. Origl- nal never in possassion of manufac- turers." Brits let the telegram flutter io the floor. "] knew it!" he burst forth. "They wouldn't have dared to take the ori- ginal out of the safe without immedi atedly replacing it with the duplicate." He picked up the message and burst into the Chief's room. "Read it!" he exclaimed The Chief's eyes drank in the words, but his brain falled to grasp their anderlying meaning. "1 don't see that this proves any- thing," he remarked. "It proves everrthing" volleyed Britz. "It proves that the thief was a clever draughtaman. Tt proves that he spent weeks sketching the neck- lace, stone by stones, and it proves 00, that he went to Paris to have the duplicate made." "It proves all that,' ' agreed the Chief. "But who had the opportunity substitutior Toft the offices, he depression) avenis. As the intr the mystery to see the necklace a sufficient num: ber of times and long enough to malke the shetches? Who but Miss Hoi comb? * "I wili find someone who most as good an opportunity" returned confidently "And if you do, what will it mean™ asked the Chief. "It will mean something to work an," the detective said The next twenty-four hours Britz spent In the quiet of his home, his mind focused on the problam before Alm, trying to map out his line of pro- cedure. Plan after plan he discarded As worthless. He could have struck Out blindly in the hope of stumbling on a trail, but that was not Britz's method. Crime mysteries were fo hlm actentific problems to be solved by scientific weans. Step py siep he wept over the ground already cov- ered, and thcn swept the outlook with the keen searchlight of his mind. By a pracess of elimination he tried to sift the rea! thief from the group of suspects on vhom his mental efforts were concentrated. He was unable to drag forth 'the 'eulprit. - Then he sought. to discern the motive for the crime in the action of each possible criminal. but. he could come to mo factory conclusion. ore ipformation. more informa. tion is" needed before the real work can degin!" he murmured. In his preoccupation he did not ob- serve the door opsn and the servant show In 2 subordinate from Head: quarters. Not until the visitor spoke did he becoute aware of his oe I "Two cablegrams for you, sir," the subordinate said. The first cablegram aroused no emo- tions in the detective. "Have obtained original drawings. Will sail tomorrow with them," the message from Logan read. He opened the second envelope and had al Brite fos it to vamp. them J manufacturer by hame of Elinor ft to the physician. The doctor's ryes lingered on each word. His face paled, his eyes bulged forward, a vio lent tremor ran up and down his frame. "This is awhil!" he groaned "It's great news for Jo. 4nd and Miss Holcomb," the detective smiled Fitch eyed him in perplexity. Ty Te detective met his Inquiting gag stesd tly, and, siowly folding cable. po part in the crime." "How" Fitoh demanded eagerly. "It Miss Holcomb had been clever enough to pian the theft, she'd have known better. than to go shout Paris ordering the d& . . Also, if she bad taken the diamonds, she'd never lave permitted oma of them to re main {on her room in Mrs. Missioner's house. No, whoever siole: those gems deliberately tried to throw sus picion on her." "But who could have conceived such a dastardly crime? ¥itch blurted, a wave of anger sweeping his frame. "Whoever it was," Brits returnsd, "either was actuated by enmity to- ward the young woman, or knew enough about the Missioner housebold to realize that suspicion would natur- wily fall on her, and therefore he de cided to use her as a cloak to hide his own identity. However, I now have something to work on, something that will produce quick results. Dr. Fitch you may tell Miss Holcomb that in my calculations she is entirely elimi cated from participation in the crim. You may inform ber also that the hunt for the thief hag begun." - Before the physician recovered from the pieasant shock of the.detiec t*ve's words, Britz was hurrying down the steps. 3 CHAPTER X. Dorothy March Talks Matinee girls in the Forrest Thea tre differ from their sisters of other New York playhouses in that they are fi ore serious than aaybody in the ng audiences. Caramels, marsh mallows, chocolate creams, are forbid den by the unwritten law of their cult. The utmost nourishment one of them can allow herself is a salted al mond nibbled surreptitiously between decorous little outbursts. of kid gloved applause. Kt is not the sort of gathering in which one would expect to find the busiest sleuth of the head- quarters staff, especially with a great diamond mystery on his hands. Yet, on one of those warm January affer noone that make the. metropolis won der if it is being metamorphosed into & winter resort, one of the. most in terested auditors in the select little theatre was Detective-Lieutenant Britz, of Manning's staff. On the surface, that 8 to say. In reality, he was not listening to a word of the Thespian culture that trickled over the footlights. But if his ears were unoccupied, not so his eves, His glance circled the auditorium like a ramrod swung on a swivaél, resting on the stage at long intervals in a per functory way. Manning could have told in a moment tiat hig alert lieu tenant was not at all interested In the unfolding of the at'enuai®d plo: on "he boards; that Brita was looking for somebody Britz found the semehody he sought when his gave fell on a slim lit'l- figure in the trimmest of dove-colored gowns, sitting in the Afth row off the centre aisie. Instantly his last pre tense of attention to the play van ished. Keeping Wis eves on the gray curves of the girl in the fifth row, he quitted his post at one side of the house and walked slowly to the main exit, whence he watched her until' the curtain fell on the firsr act. while, he scribhied on a rard, slipped a liberal tip into the receptive hand of an usher, and indicated the object of his interest, When the curtain fell on the first act, the usher hurried down the aisie. and presented the card to the girl in gray. "If Miss Maveh." read the young woman, "will spare & few minutes to Brits, of Headquarters, she will con- fer a favor aud serve her friend, Mrs, Miesioner." Dorothy gathered her wrap, glasses, snd programme quickly, and followed the usher to the héek of tite theatre The youth led her to the famous de- tective, whom though she bad heard of him through Doris Missioner, she beheld for the first time. She had €3- pected to see & man whose cleverness was writ large on his exterior; she was disappointed by thé simost oom- mouplace appearance of the man who faced her. But she acknowledged his self-introduction with the sweetness inseparable from her mignon features, and, at his strolled with him to a corner of the lobby, Where they seated themselves on so tinted bent-wood chairs. "You wished to see me?" inquired Dorothy. It was & banal question, and a flush finged her cheeks as she realized its superfiuousness could mot escape the greatest detective in New York. Bu! Rritz seemed not to notice it. and the simple directness of bis manner put the 'girl at her ease. "I took. the liberty, Miss March," he sald pleasantly; "because I saw you across the orchestra, and I nead a shar} course in socigl knowledge." His smile robbed the vepiy of flip pancy: "Fancy!" sald Dorothy. She was so utterly at sea as to the detective's pur- pose she could think of nothing else to say save, 3 fear you have sought & poor teache "Well, I don't Apow: now," Brits re- tt her with respectful fge. you're a so ciety girl, and I "xfow nothing ot mo- sty. and there's something 1 want ought, 10 gol oi there's a ahi alton a Br gad Bone" 0 ire will bel You 15 Rad Mr. Masonar de Pend the contents hall a dozen times, | tect! indelibly came. *T believe it's consigérea ome of the best hits of the season. Very elevating you know, and--well, dif- ferent." "Modern, Miss March?" "It bag two periods. The first deals with the life of today, the second harks back to the early.Victoriaa per- fod, with, I undersiand, an abrupt re- turn to the preseat." She was chatting quite easily with the detective now. Had she been rear- ed in Mulberry Street instead of on Murray Hill, she could not have felt more natural. "Now, this society sabject--bdy the way, Miss March," Brits switched again, "is there as much difference be- tween social life then and now?" "Oh; a great deal, I should esy." Her eyes twinkled. "I wouldn't ask you to toll me ADYy- thing about Ward McAllister from personal observation, Miss Maroh™ sald the sleuth. His gallantry on ocos- sion was the wonder of the Central Dorothy looked alarmed. Could it be great detectives wasted time on compliments, todo? But a side glance at the detective's serious expression reassured her. It was manifest ever to a debutante he had no idea of mak: ing an impression along that Ine. She laughed frankly and looked at hm again in the friendliest way. "I know you don't want to ask me about anything so recent as the Span- ish War," she said, "now, do you"" "Candidly, I don't," he rejoined. "To tell you the plain truth, I don't know exactly what I wish to ask nor how to ask it, but I have an idea you cah help me, and I'm sure uyou will for Mrs. Missioner's sake." "And Miss Holcomd's? asked the girl eagerly. "She, too, you know, is a dear friend of mine." "And Miss Hoicomb's," answered the Headquarters man warmly. "Let me say, too, my dear young lady, as one old enough to be your--your----" "Don't say my brother, Mr. Britz" interposed Dorothy mischievously. "I ~[--well, I don't really see how I can be a sister to anybody else." She feit impelled to treat thie strangely nat- ural man naturally--she, who despite her inexperience, could freeze pre sumption with a glance, felt that way. It was a tribute to his adaptability Britz laughed "Miss March," he said with more heartiness in his tone than had col ored it in many a day. "if I were not 80 busy, it would be a delight to be an elder brother you But | guess you're not interested in my impulses, and we were talking of the play." "Oh, yes, 'the play's the thing' w Dorothy countered with keen relish of the situltion.' If subtlety was his in- tention,' she would show him what 8 woman-- Dorothy was all of nineteen --a woman could do. "I never would have supposed." she added. allowing herself full measure of mischief, "that a famous detective could be & matinée man." Britz winced. His ready good nature parried her shafts, however, and it was with the same slow smile that he replied "Does the author reconcile the man: ners of the two periods, or, is the piece one of those problem plavs that leave everything to the apdiengs? You see, Miss March," he went on, "Mulberry Street gets to Broadway occasionally." "1 don't tried to recail the production. time I've see it. wright has bridged how." "It's a wide gap to bridges," obd- served the detective thoughtfully. "From reading nineteenth century novels, I should say it would be hard for the wriler to hold interest with such a groundwork for his plot de 0 4 know, Mr. Britz"" She the advance notice of his is the first I dare say the play- the gap some Mean. + ARO. Things were so different fifty years "Exactly what my grandfather says." Dernthy retorted, fun flashing in that mignon face. "But we'll know soon how the author has succeeded." she added. "The orchestra is nearing the end of this selection." "Even their amusements were dif- ferent," mused Britz. "Instead of golf, tennis. autoing, yachting, they bad archéry, croquet, sketching. and square dances---I don't suppose any- body in society sketches nowadays Miss March?" "I'd hardiy "There are a "And man) "Oh, almost i888 artistic, viction. "But that," she replied. talented men--"" women-- all women are more or said Dorothy with con: one must not be unjust to the men on that account." "I'Hl venture 10 say--well, of course, you're in society, Miss March, and I'm not," Britz apologised, "but still I feel pretty certain you can't think of" "Of course. if you don't think I can think, Mr. fritz," said Dovothy with mock indignation that accented her prettiness as a shadowy background emphasizes a jewel, "why, you can't expect--but I told you you'd find me a poor teacher." "Now, Miss March, Miss March" Britz protested, hitching his chair around to gaze at her mora directly. Over his shoulder he saw curios say few soon must end. Lobby firtations were not approved by Forrest audiences. "Well, Mr. Britz?" This chaileng- ingly. "Well, Miss March," and his sulle from a younger man would ave Cal led caressing. 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