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OLAUS va‘éfifig fiififi‘gfifi TRAVEL BY THE 29.11 l “3:“ “a”?! uxfi :rouizi: Mum "Co. recem at. charge, mule gent». ur Canaaa. Self a! the Shh; Corimms c 136‘... . O 'ecflntkm m n101S111Il‘15.I1b t‘VCD Uluxuu v.--“ -- fate “as ~tz‘a1111ed. 11ith the vindic- ti1e11ess 11:1' had brought this infe1no about. H: saw me at once and a brutal laugh ot satisfaction burst from bet11een the halt-sealed lips which my fist had Split. “1 did it partly for your benefit if that is any sfac~ tion to you But I am 0t ough with you er en y.et puppym aid in my ears as he passed. rko en of spirit to resent ”16%;: other than bya look I passed in once. How I gor through the. le af- ternoon 1 an still unce ten, xcept in a 1a5.:11e 11:11 I dared not keep‘my luncheon e11§_.:age1nent with Mrs. Dace and tell 1111 all: but instead kept mumbling to 1111 self that I would call her up that e1ening’ 11hon I had a chance to think 01er 1111at I should N There is always a chance. thouth it be only one in a million. that some- thing will be saved out of a wreck: and come what might. matters could not possibly be more hopeless at nightfall than they were now. And perhaps by then I could think of som '- thina to retrieve myself temporarily; something which would eventually start me once more along the prim- rose way. Scarcely conscious of what I was doing i wandered to Bruce’s office. He was not there, but his clerk told me that my cousin for some reason had closed out all his holdings the day before at a handsome profit and had announced himself as through with speculation. The bitterness of the contrast. between him and myself ibrought the tears to my eyes. Should ‘he carry out this resolve and stick to his commissions. as I had little doubt sav AA-v vâ€"â€"__V that he would under Clare’s persua- sions and the weight of his promise, has happiness was in his own keeping. He had undoubtedly again gained a modest competence, had a good busi- ness and the love of a sweetly beauti- ful and contented woman. Verily the richest gifts of the gods reposed in the hollow of his hand. Q. I went home and threw myselr heavily upon the bed. At the sum-' mons to the evening meal I failed to respond; burying my face in the pilv low instead, as for the hundredth time I rehearsed what I was to say to Mrs. Dace. I could only tell her that I had received a severe setback, but was planning a new campaign, and beg of her a few days' indulgence until I could go over matters. She had told me that she was to be at home that evening, and it had been understood. between us that I was to be with her; ‘ therefore. at eight o'clock I arose and ; {called for her number. The voice of; Janet answered me, telling me that. iher mistress was not at home. i 5‘ n..-- ‘- 'â€"â€" With an overwhelming presentiâ€" 3 ment of more misery to come, I vainly ’ implored some information as to ’ where she had gone and at what hour i she was expected to return. The an-- swer that I received was a click that’ told me of the hanging up of the ear-i piece and my future voicings brought? only the ringing silence of an un-‘s answering wire. I sank into my chair l t again. “ ‘ A 7;” Y LA-..) In the midst of my stupor I heard the ringing of the door bell, and a moment later the sound of light foot- Steps ascending the stairs. There was 0 L‘____ u-vvrâ€" vv~-- , a tap at my door, and at my listless response LeDuc quietly entered. I saw him run his eyes quickly over me as he tossed his hat upon the bed and drew a ehair close beside mine. He said nothing, did not even smile, as was his habit. and in my misery I did not offer him any greeting. For per- haps a minute he sat without speak- ing. and then addressed me with un- wontnd gravity: “Tom. I have the proofs.“ ‘_.., I started slightly and raised my ex es to his. 1 fancied they were full of legret. ext-n sorrow. but. his mouth “as tirmly s: . Mv head \\ as hot and my throat dry. and I cleared the lat- ter before 1 spoke. Then I asked him hoarsely where. they were. He laid them on the table before me. They consisted of a silver card- case. a bookmaker’s tic x<,et a bit of steel, a soiled piece of paper, and a small lump of some grayish substance. Stupidly I stared at them. In the silence that followed the slow ticking of the tall clock sounded like the tolling ot a hell. I shut my eyes. “Go on,” I commanded, as he sat fac- ing me with no signs of any inclina- tion to proceed. “What does this junk signify to you?” He got up, and cross- ing the room, silently bolted the door that led to my uncle’s apartments; then resumed his seat and addressed me in the low tones of one who adds caution to precaution. “When I began this investigation, Tom, as I then told you I was about to do, I commenced to sift the chaff from the wheat in order to decrease the number of objects which I would in the last analysis be compelled to examine with great minuteness. My inquiries made upon the morning I first came, together with my inspec- ition g: the house upon that occasion, â€"-- Q...” '.’~- CHAPTER XVI. find threw myself satisfied me of several things, among' which were that Mrs. Tebbets had prssessed no knowledge of the money i : einy in the safe, and because of that ’ and divers other reasons she should b: eliminated; that your uncle had in no wise spread the information of his having the currency to anyone except yourself and Bruce. and therefore that he, as a distributor of the news to outside parties. was to be eliminated; that the house must have been en- tered by the front door, and therefore that the idea that all parties were tell- ing me without reservation all they knew about the matter was to be eliminated: and last, that on account v‘ the unusual drilling of the safe and the quantity and quality of the explo- sive used, that all thought of its being the work of a professional cracksman must be eliminated. You see that brought me down to a pretty narrow field.” He ceased speaking, and with my eyes still closed and my head rest- ing heavily against the back of the chair, I nodded slightly. -1.‘...‘_.AL_J “Bulb, . --v .____ “I understand. vHaxiing eliminated the possibiifties of its having been done by a professional, you ha e brought it down to Bruce, who 13-0-- sessed a key. or to Richard Mackazx or one of his friends, who might Lair obtained a duplicate from the key i left at ahead!’ “You seem to be following.r me to a certain extent. Having (lecitletl 1‘. 3 it was the work of an ama-evr. l - obliged to start out with 12: . thoughts in my mind as l aticny 4.. , to still further consu‘ut-t the virl ' Your key was in the passt-‘sslcn r‘"; your uncle at the time of th. (-riw ‘ and I (lid not believe that you ever had anciher. Mrs. 'l‘e'bir-ts 1} your uncle had theirs: Miss \\'intt.n was missing. and you .ad assured nag- that. Bruce had been in the [)OSSPSSit~" of one which he failed to account for; '5 that he had made rash statements’ about getting money; had become angry at your uncle; had been in a generally unnatural and desperate; frame of mind the day before. asd? therefore I started in to investigate him. This seemed to me the most logical way of going at it, for looming? as big as he did among the surround- }ings, I must either concentrate upon him as the probable thief, or greatly ' simplify matters by getting rid of him 'altogether. You had told me of his entering a cab the evening before the crime, and so I went to a friend of mine who is an official in the cab drivers’ union. They are practically all union men in this city, and he sent , out a circular to every member of his ‘lassociation calling upon the driver [who had conveyed the person de- 'scribed to come forward and receive reward. Within two days I was talk- ing to the man who had driven Bruce, and in that way found out where he spent the night. The cabman drove him to a resort ten miles from this place, and Bruce spent the night of the robbery there asleep." _ I opened ~ “I did not know that Bruce went to 'such places.” I muttered. LeDuc . went on. i. “Nor does he voluntarily. He had ;been drugged. But I will come to ;-that in a moment. Having secured this information, which of course leliminated him as the active burglar, , I went to him and told him uphill and dovm that he was making a tool .01 himself. When he learned that I i had uncovered his whereabouts on the :night in question he made a clean ibreast of it. While he had been iplunged in despair by the crash, yet ; he had taken by two drinks that day, lone being a cocktail with you in a loafe. Soon after the last drink he had been stupetied, which fact he at- gtributed to the reaction from his éhighly nervous state, but I came to a ,totally different conclusion, although prise. I said nothing to him about it at the time. With your assistance he en- tered a cab, and remembered mumb- ling a direction to the driver to take him to his rooms; yet when he awoke in the morning he found himself at a place where he had no desire to be. Fear of Miss 'Winton’s displeasure had made him resolve to remain silent rather than hurt her by the con- fession that he had got drunk, as he imagined he had, and gone to such a place. I could not understand why the cabman had taken it upon him- self to convey him to this resort against Bruce's directions, so I came back at the driver hard. By the dint of more questions, aided by a few judicious threats, I drew out the in- formation tiiat the change in address had been Slit-1'1 by a certain party Whom the driver knew to be a frfenai Of his DH.SFJ.*”'I' '1‘ iron": thi- (2i~ 7" 111g seen than together, and xV‘tx-i: _. stopped him and given zit-w i115 ii. tions as to where to convey the slur ring one inside. That exp‘aimd ' driver’s peculiar actions. mid IVS-x. ’were becomiz'zg (it-wirIt-gtilyr Tater’s. .. Although Li‘é‘tctlvtliiy ;-:‘:1Tsii+-_.-«i that Bruce had had 110:3:in rm 3,. directly to do with the 131933.“; , nevertheless went a, lit11e faring-r 32: my investigations. I was very 111129" interested to find out where he 11:» secured the money Whit-T! had (iv-,3?) .4 my investigations. 1 was r interested to find out wher secured the money which he him to resume his Opera ’Change. When I had conr that I would eep the intern solutely secret, he told me, ti furnished him by a woman < did not care to have her n tioned in connection withs matters. I named the s10 foundation and learned the absolutely true. That 1 ‘t matter to be explained so in . was concerned.” “I suppose you mean his possession. thafi before as he resumed his seat. of the key and his denial that he had ‘Tom ” he: rominued “1 have 31- it, coupled with_ the ppssibility that ways been 3 pm friend and 1 Wish to -«u- ’ 0 a,- Mrs. Dace’s. However. THE DURHAM CHROXCLE. 113T IlS some one else had somehow come into possession of it,” I said, breaking the moment’s 1u11._ LeDuc nodded. “"“~L Anu$ngn ULUUJCLLL b) ..... â€"‘,__ w- “Exactly. I was almost certain from the time that Miss Winton an- nounced the loss of her ey that it had somehow got into the possession of her sweetheart; for its disappearance from her keeping convinced me thatl you had not been mistaken when you said Bruce had exhibited it or its duplicate. I had several talks with him and her on the subject, and they still insisted with a positiveness that 1 could not ignore that their original statements were absolutely correct; namely, she denied that she had ever loaned him the key, and he asserted that he had no knowledge of ever having it in his possession. I made them rehearse all their actions when 'together for some days previous to ‘the robbery, and, finally a thought "came to her. 8195 remembered that a ishort time prcfious, while she and Bruce had been strolling together, that she had slipped her pocketbook ’containing the key into his side coat pocket for a few moments while she A...J J-kfi‘ y“--- _-_ _. was putting on her gloves. And that in turn suggested an idea to me. Had the pocketbook been partially un- clasped, the key might easily enough have fallen from it into his pocket, and not having any occasion to use it for the next few days she naturally enough had not missed it. So we got the coat he had worn on that. occa- '1' sion and went through it. We foundl a small rip in the bottom of the‘ out- side pocket, and going further, dis- covered the key in the bottom lining. That solved the mystery. As for his having pounded on the table with it and afterwards denied it, that was easily accounted for by the fact that in his worriment he had unconsciously drawn it from his pocket and usrd it as you described and {hen 1"(,:}‘.l3 t: d it. mechanically without ‘ noticing what ' he had held or remembering the in-j oident. I accepted this as the correct '1 solution of the key incident, and then i and there dismissed Bruce from all connection with the matter. For had ", he entered into collusion with anyone! else and loaned him the key for the? night, the other person most certainly: would have. been a professional who! owned his own tools and knew how' to use them, and that idea. as you know, I had already abandoned. Do. you get me?” 1: 1 i,_1“_.. ‘1zm:“fiffia I It AA-v - uu by “I think so. And having eliminated Bruce, whom I all along told you was. innocent, you turned your attention to Richard Mackay as the next possi- bility.” My companion smiled faintly, thrusting his hands into his pockets and leaning forward in his chair. ALA1-- u va“---o -v- -. i ‘ Yes, for about ten minutes. At the end of that time I had reasoned him out of the case. The man who strangled your uncle was describedl by him as a large, strong man, who? coughed peculiarly. That description titted Mackay to a dot, and further- more there was a possibility of his having been informed, through his more or less familiar connection with Mrs. Dace’s establishment, of the oney being in the safe at this par- cular time. Then, too, the incident of your having left your keys there for some days furnished a possible way by which he could have secured a duplicate through a conspiracy with one of the household. But that he did it personally was absurd. He is far and away above it. He is not a burglar; he is a boodler. He has a million dollars of his own, and would “Data-v“ uv-â€"-â€"_.. __ no more risk himself in an act like this than you would for a handful of silver. And having previously strick- en out the professional cracksman be- cause of the crudeness of the job, I was now compelled to eliminate Mackay and his friends because of the same reasoning that I had applied in Bruce’s case. Had he turned the job over to some needy friend of his from the underworld, that person certainly would not have been a bun- gler. You see what that brought me I arose in my chair with a mingled sensation of heat and cold climbing. my spine and stiffening my hair. “Do you mean to say as the last remaining possibility you fastened your suspig oions upon me ‘3” I gasped. One of his1 hands fastened upon my wrist with tht snapping grip of a steel trap; his fingers biting like teeth into my flesh. As in our school days I felt the piano wire strength of his ten- dons and clinched my teeth between the fierceness of the clasp. . “Tom Halliday,” he returned, stern- 17, “you stole your uncle’s money." Giaring at him, quivering under an imo pulse to tear myself from him and strike him down, I first swelled my muscles for the effort, then letting them subside, sank back with an ex- clamation of supreme disgust. Vlumw- -- - , “So that was your ultimate analy- sis!" I said, ’with bitterest scorn. “Of all the absurd, asinine idiots it was ever my misfortune to come in con- tact with, you are the most complete ‘uub “1"“, JV“ "‘V VAJU mvâ€"rv vvâ€"z_-_v â€"â€"you, an“ alleged detective. But you might as well finish your dream. I will compel myself to listen.” I turned my head from him contemp- tuously; _ became aware that some- 'uv wâ€" â€". , thing cold and metallic was snapped around the wrist which he held, and leaped to my feet, only to find myself handcuffed to the arm of the heavy oaken chair. Frenzied with rage, I made an awkward dive behind my back with my left hand for my right- hand hip pocket. as he locked his arms around me. With the quickness of thought he had twisted a revolver from my fingers, and springing back, laid it 11 the dresser beyond my reach, as shackled to the heavy piece of furniture. 1 could only stand quiv- ering in helpless passion. Realizing my physit-z-j impotence, I sat down sullenly. you}? 1 that. But murder yo OI I'd! :HHI "sored I Would murder ed. He negatived. iot think you would do feared that you might 9.1:“. Do you Wish me to iy. or shall I summon 3 hear What I have to 'moment I hesitated as if by a mighty effort. :1 be no good in getting 11’ you have anything «7, me you may continue . choose. I can scarcely you. but you Will regret :hen I am set free.” He 0 become either alarmed the Tthreat; on the con- ice was even smoother ; flfiays remain 80. man I has done ‘tolling you what I know about this crime we will talk about other mot- \v V1511 tors, if you desire. But what I wish i to tell you additionally is this: I had wheen compelled to eliminate every- body but you. and was therefore comé polled most regretfully to start along; your trail. As my first step I went; to the hotel where you told me you- staid on the night of the crime;‘- looked at the register and ascertained} the room that you had occupied. I en- I gazed it, and went to it for the pub; pose of a thorough inspection. It: ' was a back room overlooking an alley ' and the fire escape ran close by one: iof its windows. It at once occurred: to me, therefore, that it would have? been the simplest thing in the world for you, after having called up your uncle and after having left a request att he office for a morning summons in order to impress it upon the minds of others that you were in your room at midnight, and thus establish :n alibi in case of suspicion. to lure .passed down the escape in the tier“:- ness, gone to any place you "s‘is‘nul, and returned before dajVINVtTiK. l therefore went down the ladder, as l assumed you had done. and at its bottom chanced upon what I consider to have been the only piece of pure. good luck that. came my way in the whole case. 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