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WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, i ath strikes Garrett Folsom while ng with 5 n bss IA had all been, guests, an nquiry is begun, after a doctor, per- functorily examining him on the beach, pronounces him dead. 'olsom's companions had been Neyille, Mrs, Helen Barnaby and Car- melita Valdon. It.is established that Folsom, just before his death, had been standing next to Ned Barron, who was one of a party including his wife, Madeline; Angelica Fair and her fiance, Robin Sears, and 'his father, It is decided to telegraph Folgom's sister, Anastasia, in New York. Then the startling announcement is made that Folsom had been murdered| WV in the ocean--stabbed to death, Ross, the dead man's valet, is ques- tioned about Neville, who was Fol- som's friend. > NOW. GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IX. "Why--why, yes, sir--so far as I know," said Ross, "None of that, Ross, you know about all there is to know of your late mas- ter's friends or enemies. A man of your mental calibre can't be ignorant of the relationships between man and man." "Then, if this is an examination, sir, I can only say that so far as I have ever seen or noticed, Mr. Neville had only friendly feelings toward Mr. Folsom, personally." "Why did you add 'personally'? Had they. other. relationships than per- sonal?" "They had businest connections, sir, that may or may not have been always serene. 1 know nothing of those, for they were conducted at offices, of course. But of my own knowledge, having seen Mr. Folsom and Mr, Ne- ville together repeatedly, in friendly and, as I put it, personal surround- ings, 1 call them tried and trusted friends. If you're suspecting M. Ne ville of" 5 "Hush. Nobody has mentioned the idea of suspicion! "Don't overstep your place." " "No, sir," and Ross again put on his look of quiet, respectful servitude. Dixon said little more to him. He asked for the key of Mr, Folsom's suite, and Ross immediately produced it from his pocket and passed it over. The detective wanted to quiz him further, for he had a feeling that this man knew his master's secrets, but he felt it was premature for him to hold any sort of an investigation that be- longed, by right, to the police. Just as Dixon was about to dismiss the valet, a low knock at the doo¥ of Room J heralded the appearance of Inspector Babcock, a lieutenant detec- tive and a medical examiner. = Partly because he greatly wanted to remain, and partly because, in his ex- citement, Dixon forgot to tell him to €9, Ross stayed in the room, and in- conspicuously eat in a corner, while the preliminary questions were asked. The two doctors conferred above the i body, while the inspector listened to) | the story as related by Dison. The police detective, Jepson, seeing no chance for hunting down clues in ; this room, sat silent, listening to the doctors 'in turn with the 'talk between! | the inspector and Dixon. "Who is this man?" asked Jepson, , as matters proceeded. x * " "Oh, he's Ross, the valet of man," Dixon said, "What's ho doing here?" "Nothing. I had been questioning him, and finished just as you people came in." Rose, not being addressed, said no word, and made no move to go. "Well," Jepson remarked, "as questions must begin soméwhere, I'll start in with Ross." Maybe it's a good plan at that." : He began with the usual request for names and dates and places, Ross answered intelliegntly and re- spectfully, and soon Jepson had a neat list of Garrett Folsom's activities of late and data of his life in a general ay. "Well, that's all I can get from this chap," Jepson said. "Let him go, What are you going to do, my man? You've no master now," "No, sir. I have no plans, either. I suppose I shall just wait around till Miss Folsom comes, and then I'll do whatever she tells me to." "Oh, yes, of course. The sister. Well, stay in the hotel, for we may want to see you now and then." Ross departed, and Jepson summed him up as, "well trained, but wooden." Then he listenéd to the doctors, who had agreed entirely in their diagnosis and decisions. "But it's preposterous, all the same," declared Doctor Potter, the fo examiner. "In all my life I've never heard of such a thing! Why, whoever stabbed that man must have stood directly at his-side." "Or in front of him," amended Manning. "Yes, for choice, in front of him, The stab stroke entered straight from the front, went clean and swift through the abdominal aorta and, of course, he bled to death internally and immediately. It's too incredible! How could anyone strike so truly and ac- curately jn that tossing water?" "Looks like the work of some ona who knew anatomy?" suggested Man. ning. "Not ' necessarily," said Potter. "Maybe; but it may have been by becident that the blow struck where it did. More likely the assassin aim- ed at the heart, but struck lower than he aimed. You see the tumbling water would divert any aim." "He may have simed several times --I mean aimed futilely, without striking 'his victim at all, at first." "Yes, that is possible--probable, even. But in any case, he did hit him fiinally and with a swift deadly aim that hit true and sure." "Where's the weapon?! asked eJp#| son. z "The murderer "carried it off with him," Potter said, promptly. He never let go of it. Stabbed and then drew i out and nobody knew a thing about it." "Some nerve!" commented Dixon. "Well, no," Inspector' Babcock put have equifed nerve. But if the water, the weapon hidden, the dope out of sight, there was little or no danger of being seen or noticed by the busy crowd of bathers." ' "That's "the secret of it all," Jep- son declared: "Whoever the murder- er was, he was mighty cute. He knew he had a cinch, if he kept his head and drove his blow straight. But | we've got our job to pick him out' A from a h d othérs. It could have been anybody in that part of the ocean, and I confess I don't know which way to look." the dead | Jthing-of that sort," Jepson said. "But in, "If it had been on land, it would} decd] to that report Ill let. you know at once, But I think you want to get busy collecitng witncgses ing an inquest--" gi "Don't, have the inquest here," beg- ged Dixon, knowing how this would distress the manager, = : "No, the inspectdr assured him, "the inquest won't be here, but wo may have to call a lot of your guests to testify, There's a long case ahead of us, I'm thinking. That is, unless some stroke of fate or some bit of good luck sends' us an unexpected flash of fortune. I mean if somebody confesses, or if somebody else was an eyewitness to the crime." "There's 'always a hope of 'some- and arreng- : it's not very likely. The probabilities! are we'll have to dig and scratch for| evidence and get very little. And as to clues--well, we can't expect to find those in the Atlantic Ocean!" "Most unsatisfactory outlook," and Babcock shrugged his big shoudlers, "But our duty is plain.' Go to it, Jepson. Question everybody who knew the dead man, even slightly, and get from them hints of others who knew him and won't tell." "Yes, sir," Jepson said, obediently, "I'll go to it." (To be continued.) A-------- el QW nn. PHONE TO CANADA BEING CONSIDERED: Col. Grant Morden Asked in Hause as to Progress London--Lieut.-Ccl. Walter Grant Morden; Conservative M.P,, for Brant- ford aud Chiswick inquired in the House of Commbh recently about the absence of telephone service between Great Britain and the Dominion of Canada. "Why," Col. Morden - asked, "has telephone service between Great, Britain and practically all parts of} ithe United States," yet no. provision has been 'made for telephone conmecs tion with Canada?' 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Plead Piper of Hamplin--did he not coax with his tuneful pipe all the rats in Prussia into the River Weser? Then, b he hall not been ac: | tion. Ho appeared to like "I Want t9Tvorded a square deal, dld he not conx Be! Happy," but when the orchestra switched 'to~ Gounod's "Funeral March" he showed discontent, even is alarm, ™ 3 misunderstood. Even crocodile tears may be"more genuine than we sup pose. The crocodiles never failed to come to the bank and listen raptur- ously to every tung offered. The am- crowded upon the banks and, with 'head lifted, seemed to absorb the] music with earnest satisfaction. 'As a class the insects paid fcant 'attention, although the scorpions and certain species of spiders manifested delight, Ae) > gate The snake charmer 1s supposed to charm his ¥letim through the-ageucy of music. Indian magicians in the East sway from side to side and make plaintive music to the cobra, The re. cent experimentein the snake house of the London Zoo proved. that snakes A pay no-atteution whatever to mu e | The music of the Indian edn at] would appear, ig entirely tor the bene- fit of "his human audience. = What charms 'tha snake--if anything does ~~séems to be tie rhythmic motions of thé charmer, ° i Hm Mosquitos dike thelr own 'music. The male mosquito is much more sus: ceptible to the "sing™ than is 'the fe- male. Start a dynamo that buzzes to it ih millions. : a ou E. G. Boulenger, / director of the Zoological Society's: aquarium,' says, apropos of the recent experiment: "Apparently one beast's mi another's disccrd, and what en the emotional cea lon the phlegmatic rhino, that strike us as m 3 tear the heartstrings atu t m. 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