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"And have you seen his newest satire on the Newport set--a lot of apes and ba boons and chimpanzees in evening dress sitting at the table with several men and women?' 'A Famlly Re union," he calls it » "Delightful!" said Britz with en thusiasm equaling hers. "I perceive we enjoy a good many things in com mon, Miss March." She smiled. It was not every matinée girl who could interest a man who solved world-famous mysteries "Isn't it strange!" she said. Then the training of years recalled her to A sense of what she was doing. "I fear we've been very uneonventional, Mr. Britz," she sald as primly as her rettiness permitted. "But I've en joyed our little chat ve®™® much" "Which means | mugt be going." said Britz promptly, "if I'm not to spoil your enjoyment of the md Victorian scene. The orchestra has finished speaking fits little piece." "Yes, thera goes the curtain" agreed Dorothy, rising hastily. "Sc glad to have met you. Mr. Britz, | hope I've been of some assistance about dear Mrs. Missioner's jewels Good-afternoon." v"Good-afternoon, Miss March, a very goods afternoon." And he was stepping quickly toward the door when her sweet voice arrested him. "But. Mr. Britz," she eried, "there was something you wished to ask n }something that was to help vou nd the diamonds?" "Some other time, thank you sald Britz, won't detain you now Perhaps we'll meet at another maiinee soon, with a longer intermission between the acs. Delighted to have made vour acquain- tance, Miss March. | know yau'ra n a hurry to get back our seat, F.r rest audiences don't | be ds turbed, yo uknow Good - afternoon Miss March, and -thank you S0 much!" "Good afternoon Mr, and she flitted down the ajsle. "Yes, thank you much, Miss March!" murmured Briiz as he left the theatre and merged himself with the afternoon tide in Broadway He had cause to t k her, he be lieved For, in her girlish talk, she nad given him the Missioner clew of the week---or, rather, she had extended for him a thread in the mys tery that had occupied much of his thoughts from the moment when he received logan's cable saying paste Jewels were made from sketches, For days he had sought to learn who among Mrs. Mission's Intimates was artist enough to make such delicate draughts of the dinmonds as would be required by an arificer for the man ufacture of imitations. With that ob ject, he had ascertained Dorothy's in- tention to g0 to the matinee in Forrest and had gone to the theatre to meet her under conditions not jike- ly to interfere with such gentle Qu tioning of her as he meant to do. iis veiled interrogation of the soc ety girl had brought forth the fact Curtis Griswold could sketch---that the clubman was sufficiently master of his pencil to have his skill pre ty generally known among his acqua'n tances Lorimer and Daubigny. ihe other society artiste she had men tioned, were not, he knew, in Mrs, Missioner's circle It was fortunate for Lieutenant Britz, as well as for Elinor Holcomy and Dr. Fiteh, and everybody whose hopes hinged on the detective's sue cess In solving the great Misgione diamond mystery, that long made him thread ihe traffic March. Miss smiling March, ke 1 then Britz," 50 the the thai of the city's throbbing artery automati ¥. for so deeply did the sleuth ponder the possibilities of his newest informa tion that he had several close escapss from taxicabs, private automoblies, and trolley cars as he crossed Broad way and bent his steps toward Finih Avenue. The case had cleared a little but his course was not much plainar than it had been when he dropped into the theatre quest of further knowledge "It won't do to call Miss March as a witness," he mused, walking north in the carriage-crowded. avenue with that briskness characteristic of him when his brain was most (active. "She can't absolutely prove anything it Was necessary to ohtaln frangible cvi dence of Griswold's ability as a draughtsman. How to do so without alarming the clubman was the jre- sent problem. Britz was by no means prepared to suspect Griswold of the robbery. He realized thoroughly that Dorothy's in- formation was all he had to indics'e Griswold any more than Sands. or 'wo or three others. He did not even know whether Miss Holcomb could draw, and it was no part of his pur pose to distress the imprisoned girl with questions betraying the smallest belief in the accusation --sgainst her. No; Britz. always honest with him- self, could no: say he suspected Gris. wold. His method was the opposite of Donnelly's and Carson's. Instead of suspecting everybody, as thev in. variabiy did in cases at all myster{- ous, he would hot attach suspiclon to anyome without satisfactory proof. t_WAS the secret of his success. Was More than a detective; he was & prosecutor, judge, jury, and counsel to the defense. It accounted forethe fact that he rarely made a mistaken arrest. and that when he caused man or women to be placed in the prison- er's dock, a conviction almost always followed. 3 "Griswold, Sands, All, Blodgett--" The names presented themselves to the sieuth's mind in that order as he hastened along with no place as an pl I, or to stimulate his' mental process. always brigh in It tened Brits to pass the tashion. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1014 - It was with an almost fatherly reer | ing he ganced at the rich, the debon- alr, the gay sauntering along the sida- walks or roiling in automobiles and carriages up and down the asphalt The safely cf their wealth, sometimes of their very lives, depended on the vigilance, courage, and efficiency of himself and of the few men like him on the police force of New York. So far as the rank and file of the De partment were concerned, those care- free sons and daughters of opportun- ity might be at the mercy of the abiest birds of prey in the human flock, It wae because Britz and his compeers worked and watched and waited to patiently, so devotedly, so ceasele vy. that fashion and finance, coqueiry and commerce. conld bask in the sunshine of metropolitan prosperity Ad bize limousine Lhe of Fi ourt Streat caught! his attention moment he studied it © Sack d his a, Then steps. oro standing at corner rty ernoop 1 i He tinguish th ' but the bearing window waiter table, chant t t ° sits with his e sentary gap hetden Told f film Briz Saw clear'y the mde beg r of Mis, Mis features of ( Britz settled vabman a8 a redoubt, looked at him inquir ingly. but the detective fished out of hig pocket a fal cigar with a scarle' and-gold: band, and in a moment } and the eahby were chatting amiably. The Headquarters man had not lo g to wail. Before the cabman had gone far into discussion of the curre i tical crisis, the door of the restanur; across the sireet was swung open by a boy in many buttons, and Mrs sioner apneared on the thr old, She was followed sely by Griswo'd and a moment's pause to giad- den the 'He much-bnitoned youth, hy the watching detsdc- was somewhat surprised 10 see -- held ne The Whose vehic he 18ing ie after ieart of fa man 1 Sands said Mrs Brite Migsioner to her could ad it from } ow step chauffeur word, but He saw the limousine, saw Sands and follow, saw the chauffeur ti clutch, saw the hig car glide south to wheel for a northward along the avenue. Refore the auto mobile reached a turning point, the detective sprang into the cab, whis- pered an address to the driver, and added in a low tone "Double your fare for speed.' ' The cabman lashed his horse, and, knowing his craft, threaded his vay through the traffic so quickly that in a short time he was several blocks ahead of the llmousine. All the Way up the avepue the race coniinued, Britz well in the lead. At the Fifty ninth Street entrance, the automobile swung Into the park, but the cabman urged his horse straight up Fifth Avenue, and so great was the galn made by the short out that a few blocks further north he dropped his fare in front of a mansion of impos- ing ugliness. touched his hat in ac knowledgment of a generous fee, and was bowling eastward, halfway to Madison Avenue, when the Missioner car reappeared from the Park's Sev enty-second Street gate "You at least can stop for a minute of gossip," said Mrs. Missioner over her shoulder as she preceded Sands and Griswold into her library, "Fi nance and club affairs can wait a little while, and--oh!* She stopped in the act of throwing off her furs, and stood gazing at the middle of the room. There absorbed in his task, at ease in a big chair he- fore the crackling grate, sat Detective Lieutenant Britz Pad in one hand, penci! in the other, he was sketching not he the lps. her Griswold his wiftly trip into ------n Mrs. Missioner extended a hand be hind her to silence her companions She turned her head with a smile almost as mischievous as Dorothy could flash. "Hush!" she whispered. She and the others watched Britz quietly as his pencil moved slowly, awkwardly over the paper From his frequent glances at the end of the room that held the big safe, it 'was evident he was making a drawing of fit The \borious dragging of hie pencil point proved he was not accustomed to such work--at least, so it seemed to one of the three who watched him. But the sleuth stuck fo the task d gradly and ai las! he bore so heavily on 8 corner Hf his ake! that thi point, of his pencii broke He laid down pocket-knile, the pad, took out a and began to sharpen the pencil. When the point was fash- foned to Lis liking, he looked up. Then and then only did he seem to see the widow and her friends. He arose Instantly and bowed to Mrs. Missioner, following that with a short nod to the men behind her. "I told your man to let me come in, madam, because | had no time to spare." said the sleuth. Mrs. Missioner inclined her head in assent. "You wish to see me? she inguired. ere is something more you wis oft vib 2 you ih WAS not in the mood for digcns- sion of the detectives quest this even- Ing. The afternoon tea tn Sherry's, the short ride home. including the turn In the park. with her two moat persis- tent admirers, this cosy homecoming In the dusk of a winter day, however unreasonable the weather, had made her meditative. Even as she spoke to the detective ris- 1 od be promptly occup! t! other end of the chair. Facing the beautiful widow, he ignored both Britz and Sands, and he threw into the glances he showered upon the woman all the caress at his command, Britz eyed Sands sharply before re. ing. He gripped his chin with thumb and finger, and seemed study- tag the big millionaire. As a matter wold, ever ready to seize the ost advantage concentrated on the. clubmad who shared the serpentine chair with the wealthy widow. "l want a plan of the room." sald Britz at length, "A sketch of the safe, 00. One of my men was to have fuade draughts for me, but IT had to send him out of town at short notice On another end of the case. So," and be smiled slowly at hia poor work manship, "I'm doing the best I can" "May I see what you: have drawn?' asked Mrs. MM tly. "Oh, Mr. Brits," she laughed, holding the paper at arm's length, "I'm afraid you'll never make an artist. I hope," she added hastily, "you have no pro- fessional pride om that point ™ "None whatever," returned the de- ve. He liked a woman with a Sense of humor, and there was some thing about Mrs. Missioner that 'ap pealed to him anyway. "I told you I Was merely a substitute." Sands. towering above the widow on the hearthrug, shot a single, Indif- ferent look at the drawing. Gris wold's/ interest in it was echoed by him in so far that he took the dia gram from her and examined it for a fow seconds. Then, with a short. barsh laugh, he half turned to Brits. alternately. bending and straightening the paper in his fingers. "Ever hear of such s thing as per spective, Yeteative?" he asked con. descendinggly. Brits overlooked the air of superiority. He shook his head thoughtfully. There was inquiry in his eyes as he waited for Griswold's next words. "You'd starve to death In a studio," the clubman continued scomfully. A crisp little laugh from Britz was the only reply. He crossed the floor and made a microscopio examination of the safe. Then he circled the room tapping the walls again, moving pieces of furniture to look behind them, turning up corners of the rug, and saz ing reflectively at the ceiling. All, the Indian servant, appeared noise lessly at the door, started slightly at sight of the detective, and vanished as silently. Brits pretended not to See the Hindoo, but, in his move ments about the room, he paused at the threshold, and glanced quickly down the passage. There was no one in sight. All that time, Curtis Griswold, hav ing ripped off the sheet on which Britz had drawn the rude diagram was sketching idly as he talked in an undertone to the widow. Hie words held her attention. She took no note of the detective's wandering the heavy silence of Sands, the sound less appearance and disappearance of the Hindoo." Ripples of laughier r» vealed that she, at least, was amused by what Grigwold was saying. It was when Britz, having finished his de talled examination of the room, stop ped close beside him that they looked up. "l see you are an artist, Mr. Gris wold," remarked the sleuth, his ever on the paper under the clubman's pencil. Griswold was genuinely surprised For the first time, he seemed to be come aware of the shepe his idle tracing on the pad had taken. In the course of his brief chat with Mrs Misstoner, he had sketched clearly aocurately, artistically, not only the room, but the great safe at its farther end--sketched them far better in those few minutes than Britz could have done in as many hours. His drawing, almost automatic, showed the subconscious skill of--to say the least--an excellent amateur "Why, that's 80," he said holding up ~the drawing indifferently. His prowess with the pencil was an oid story- to the widow and his rival Griswold tossed the pad and penci on the table! and resumed his taik with Mrs. Missioner, turning the co'd est of cold shoulders toward the sleuth. But Britz was not to be shouldered He addressed him instant aside so easily. self to the widow, winnl her attention with his firs/ Guiry "Has Miss Holcomb ever told you much about her last year in Smith?" he asked. Mrs. Missioner's eyebrows arched. "Nothing Important enough to re member, Mr. Britz," she said staring incredulously. The detective had al ready assured her warmly of his be lief in Elinor's innocence. Could It be he was not going to clear the girl after all? "You know nothing of her engage ment to a Harvard undergraduate, then?" he persited. The widow shook her head. "Before her father lost his fortune, I mean" said the sleuth. "Neither before mnor after, Mr. Brits," replied Mrs. Missioner, rising impatiently. "Miss Holcomb, being a beauty, naturally received a great deal of attnetion, but I never heard of & betrothal." Lieutenant Brita, still standing be fore the hearth, moved to let Mrs The widow pushed heavy hangings of a win peered into the twilight > ¥ the trees in the park Britz, having moved, took another step. . Those gray eyes of his shifted 50 rapidly they were upon the three others aimost simultaneously. So gradually, so slowly did he approach the table that no one noticed Wis hand upon it. Resting that hand upon the edge, he went on. "l am sorry. you are not more min utely informed concerning Miss Hol comb's university days." Slowly his fingérs extended until the tips rested on the tiny pad. "In a case like this, the smallest knowledge may be of value." Slowly, ever so slowly, the fingers contracted, drawing the pad with them. "Perhaps if you make an effort, you can recall something about the--prisoner's past, Mrs. Missioner"™ The pad was in his hand. Deftly, he tore off the top sheet and inclosed it in his fingers. , As the widow started to gpeak, and "entirely unobserved by Griswold or Sands, the detective slip ped that agile hand inte his pocket. When the came out, it was empty. " "No," sald the rich woman with more emphasis than would be expeo- ted of her large good-nature, "I can recall nothing. 1 am sare there is nothing to recall. You must lock elsewhere if you seek .to forge links In a chain of evidence against Miss Holcomb. I have told you all I know all I could possibly know." "That being the -oase" gid B briskly. "thers 1g no! more With your, draughtsman the nd backe a% smile, "may as well meet the mee | they deserve." With a quick move ment, he threw all the sheets of paper on the table and the pad as weil into the heart of the fire. "Guess I'll say 'Good-afternoon,'" and with a bow to Mrs. Missioner and the coolest of nods to the men, he left the room, the widow's de tached "Good-afternon, Mr. Brits" floating after him. 'Was he mistaken, Britz asked him- self as he walked quickly along the passage, or did he see & pair of eyes beneath a towering turbat peer at him from the corner of a cross-corri- dor? He made a mental note lo hawe the Hindoo servant watched more closely as, treating Blodgett's loftl- ness, with exasperating Indiffsrence, he tripped down the steps of the Mis- sioner mansion, and hurried » path in the dark. Once in the shel ter of the shadows, the detective quickened his pace, heading south. His hands clasped behind him, and his thoughts kept time with his steps as he swung along under the scrap ing January boughs. Ou the whole, he was very well satified with his lay's work. Not that he had any idea ) calling a halt for the night. He Jlowed himself plenty of sleep, but 1e wasted little time on recreation. Work was his relaxation. He had an nfallible specific against fatigue Vheén his duties became wearying, he 'rowded on more steam or switched 0 another phase of the case. A :hange of points was 28 restful to Britz as a change of air. Grudging as he was to himself In he matter of praise, he had to admit, wwever, he had spent his afternoon profitably. From little Mise March @ had learned that Griswold was a iraughtsman. and from Griswold him- self he had tangible proof of that fact u the shape of the tiny sheet of paper from the scratch pad. He took he paper out of his pocket ang aused in the light zone of a road ilde lamp. Yes, it was beyond ques ion that the hand which in idleness 1ad traced that plan of the Missione: ifbrary was able, with care, to make i precise drawing of the Missioner diamonds--even of the great Mahara: nee. On that count, Griswold wus convicted by his own hand. But Britz, as he resumed his swing ing stride, did not delude himself with the idea' he had a clear case against the clubman. All he had was dence that Grisweld could have mead: the sketches by medns of which the Missioner jewels were duplicated without the necklace itself as a model. He was not even prepared to suspect the widow's admirer. 'He gave full weight to the lack of a motive as the case then stood, to the impossibility that & man who sought to, marry Mra. Missioner would risk his chances by stealing gems worth even haif a mil lon, when by wedding hor he might gain practical control of ail her mil lions. Moreover, it was by no means certain that Griswold had found op portunity to substitute the paste necklace for the original He was satisfied with his menral piclure of he moment when Griswold fastened the necklace about the widow's neck. It seamed hardly possible that the dubman, with Sands and Miss Hol comp In the room, counid achieve the substitution undetected But the truth remained (hat Gris wald"s skill with a pencil sufficed for tho sketches, and it was a clewv Brita recogn.zed as important It was pare f his policy to neglect nothing that #0 much as had room for rm of revelation All the t e hi upper mini was weighing s sifring~the se as a whole, his conscious ev! the g nese was busy with the facts pertain Ing specifically to Griswold's possible part In the mystery, It was an ex oeptional dual process, but Britz had that kind of a mind. It enabled him to proceéd smoothly and steadily with the main facts of a case and, simul taneously, to weed out the unimpeor tant points of his information. Of Elinor's fonocence, lieutenant Britz still had no tiniest doubt. The more insistently new disclosures tended to connect her with the dis- appearance of the Maharanee dia mond, and the other stones of Mrs. Missioner's necklace, the more reso lutely he clung to his deduction that her course from the first to last had been that one guiitiess of crime. He maintained the judicial attitude of his mind toward the successive discoveries he made, but he did not see how the sternest jurist could ls ten with patience to the strongest of briefs against such an open nature as Elinor Holcomb"s. Donnelly's find- ing the genuine diamond in her room meant nothing, save that the real thief had left the jewel there by accel dent or design To his mind, the exact whereaabouts of the stone ar gued a deliberate attempt had been made to destroy the girl. It remajned fo be ascertained whether that at tempt was born of enmity, or was due simply to a desire to throw off sus- picion.. He qd periectly the pos- sibility t} ang from a combi nation of >t 3 4 Who, ey to have placed - in the socra 'ary's \ ould have mast er arrest and gon se uf the gr! suspected him to cover his ir Qid lesire 11ty and condem * KH the later van was formed, would the thief con tent himself almost over powering ein evidence al ready acou! Elinor ar would he veniure to throw further cuspleion upon her? And if the erim inal contemplated pursuing the pris ouner beyond the threshold of tha Tombs. would he operate throuxh the stupidity of Denneily and Carson. or would he hend his energies on the District Attorney? Britz counsidared briefly, on the chance that the thief would be bold enough to appear as ® witness for the prosecution, them dismissed it as too improbable to af fect the present development of the case. nr he In, spite of the law of average it is much more unusual to see a man shot than to see two men half shot. 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