THE DAILY BRIT ISH WHIG. et ee -------- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1022. a -- In the Realm of Women---Some Interesting Features BEGIN HERE TODAY ! The PLonsctive visit of a ne'er- do-well brother, who had been ab- oats in Australia, pleasing prospect or | sent for fifteen was a far from MARK ABLETT, bachelor proprietor of The Red House. Mark and his constant companion, MATT CAYLEY, remained in The Red House awaiting the arrival of the brother, ROBERT, while the house-party Uests were away playing golf. hen Robert appeared, the par- lor-mgid, startied by his rough ap- pearanc. ushered him into ark's went to inform her mas- house she heard the report of a re- volver and then the sound of Cay- ley pounding on the locked office door and emandin admittance. This was the state of affairs when ANTONY GILLINGHAM, a youth- ful gentleman adventurer, arrived. GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER III YLEY looked round suddenly at the voice. "Can I help?" sald Antony po- tely. "Something's heppened,™ sald Cayley. He was breathing quickly. "I. heard a shot. I was In the Ii brary. A loud bang. And the door's locked." He rattled the handle again, and shook it. "Open the door!" he cried. "I say, Mark, what is it? Open the door!" "But he must have locked the door on purpose," sald Antony. "So why should he open it just because you ask him to?" \Cayley turned to the door again, "We must break it in," he said, put- ting his shoulder to it. "Isn't there a window? "Window? Window?" "S80 much easier to break th a window," said Antony with a smile. He looked very cool and collected, as he stood just inside the hall, leaning on his stick. "Window--of course! What en idiot I am." He pushed past Antony, and be San running out into the drive. An- tony followed him." They ran along the front of the house, down a path to the left, and then to the left again over the grass, Cayley in front, the other close behind him. Suddenly Cayley looked over his shoulder and pulled up short. "Here," he sald. They had come to the windows of the locked room, French windows which opened on to the lawns at the back of the house. But now they were closed. Antony, couldn't help féeling a thrill of excitement as he followed Cayley's example, and put his face close up to the glass. But if there had been one shot, why should there not be two more?--at the careless fools who were press ing their noses against the panes, and asking for it. "My God, can you see it?* sald Cayley in a shaking voice. The next moment Antony saw ft. A man was lying on the floor at the far end of the room, his back to ward them, , "Who is 1t?" said Antony. "I don't know," the other whis "Well, we'd better go and see." He considered the windows for a mo- ment. "I should think, if you put your weight into it, just where they Join, they'll give all right." Cayley put his weight into it. The window gave, and they went into the room. Cayley walked quickly to the body, and dropped on his knees by it. With an effort he put a hand on to its shoulder and pulled it over. "Thank God!" he murmured, and let the body go again. "Whois 1?" Antony, "Robert Ableety" + "Oh!" said Antony, *I thought his name was Mark." "Yes, Mark Ablett lives here Robert is his brother." He shud. 'dered, and said, "I was afraid it was Mark." "Was Mark in the room too?" tony had gone to the locked door, and was turning the handle. "I sup- pose he put the key in his pocket," he said, as he came back to the body "Who? Antony shrugged his shoulders. "Whoever did this," he said, point. ing to the man on the floor. "Is he dead?" "Help me," said Cayley stmply. They turned the body on to its back, nerving themselves to look at it. Robert Ablett had been shot be- teen the eyes. "Did you know him well? sald Antony quietly. He meant, "Were you fond of him?" "Hardly at all Mark is the brother I know best. He hesitated, and then sald, "Perhaps I'd better get some water." There was another door opposite to the locked one, which led, as An- tony was to discover for himself ai- rectly, into a passage from which opened two more rooms, Cayley stepped Into the passage, and opened the door on the right. The door from HE MUR- MURED, AND LET THE BODY GO AGAIN, the office, through which he had gone, remained open. The door at the end of the short passage was shut. Antony, kneeling by the body, followed Cayley with his eyes, and, after he had disappeared, kept his eyes on. the blank wall of the pas sage, but he was not conscious of that at which he was looking, for his mind was with the other man, sympathizing with him. Cayley came into the room again, murmured something, and knelt down to bathe the dead man's face. Then he placed the handkerchief over it, They stood up and looked at each other, "If'I can be of any help to you," sald Antony, "please let me." "That's very kind of you. There will be things to do. But you mustn't let me trespass on your kindness." "lI came to see Beverley. He is an old friend of mine." "He's out playing golf. He will be back directly." "I will stay If I can be of any help." "Please do. You ses, thers are women." He hesitated, and gave Antony a timid little smile, pathetic in so big and self-reliant a4 man. "Just your moral support, you know." "Of course." Antony smiled back at him, and sald cheerfully, "Weil, then, I'll begin by suggesting that you should ring up the police." "The police? Y--yes." He looked doubtfully at the other. pose--"" Antony spoke frankly. "Now, look here, Mr--er--> "Cayley. I'm Mark Ablett's cou. "Yes," said Cayley absently. An- sin. I live with him." . Aspirin, UNLESS you see the name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting Aspirin at all . Accept Colds Toothache Headache Neuralgia y an "unbroken package" of "Bayer Tablets of " which contains directions and dose worked out by * physicians during 22 years and proved safe by millions for Rheumatism Neuritis Pain, Pain "1 sup- |b. "My name's Gillingham. I'm sorry, I ought to have told you before. Well now, Mr. Cayley, we shan't do any good by pretending. Here's a man been shot--well, somebody shot him" Cayley shrugged his and went to the telephone. "May I--er--look round a bitr Antony nodded toward the open door. "Oh, do. Yes." He sat down and drew the telephone toward him. "You must make allowances for me, Mr. Gillingham. Of course, you're quite right, and I'm merely being stupid." He took off the receiver. Let us suppose that, for the pur- pose of making a first acquaintance with this "office," we are coming into it from the hall, through the door which is now locked. As we stazd just inside the door, the length of the room runs right and left Across the breadth of the room (some fifteen feet), is that other door, by which Cayley went out and returned a few minutes ago. In the right band wall, thirty feet away from us. are the French windows. Crossing the room and going out by the op- posite door, we come into a passage, from which two rooms lead. The ons on the right, into which Cayley Went, is less than half the length of the office, a small, square room, which has evidently been used some time or other es a bedroom. The window faces the same way as the French windows in the next room. The room on the other side of the bedroom is a bathroom. The three rooms together, in fact, form a sort of private suite. Antony wandered into the bed- room. The window was open, and he looked out at the peaceful stretch of park. "Cayley thinks he did it," sald An- tony to himself. "That's obvious. It explains why he wasted so much time banging on the door. Why should he try to break a lock when it's so much easier to break a win- dow? Of course, he might just have lost his head; on the other hand, he might have wanted to give his cou- sin a chance of getting away. Why did we run all the way round the house in order to get to the win- dows?" There was a step in the passage outside, and he turned round, to see Cayley In the doorway. He remained looking at him for a moment, ask- ing himself a question. It was rather a curious question. He was asking himself why the door was open. Well, not exactly why the door was open; that could be explained easily enough. But why had he ex- pected the door to be shut. He did not remember shutting it, but some- how he was surprised to see it open now, to see Cayley through the door way, Just coming Into the room. Bomething working sub-consciously in his brain had told him that it was surprising. Why? Cayley joined him at the window. "I've telephoned," he sald. "They're sending an inspector or some one from Middleston, and the local police and doctor from Stan- ton," Antony felt quite sure, from what Cayley had said and had hesitated to say, that Mark had been the last to see his brother alive. It didn't fol- low that Mark Ablett was a mur derer. Revolvers go off accidentally; and when they have gone off, people lose their heads and run away, fear ing that their story will not be be leved. Nevertheless, when people run away, whether innocently or gulltily, one can't help wondering which way they went. "I suppose this way," sald Antony aloud, looking out of the window. "I wonder." "Well, he didn't go by the windows in the next room, because they were shut." "Isn't that rather odd?" "Well, I thought so at first, but--" He pointed to the wall Jutting out on the right. "You see, you're protect- ed from the rest of the house if you get out here. If you go out at the French windows, I e you're much more visible." 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