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Um Ula aoUoa ehiaf, Raeh. aaU Um family ahralclaa. Doctor Kins, ail agree aurae auiea aia ealC but Baitlejr laalata be waa an InaUsaUng, BarUey Saaa avldei auyaa, anar a ear party aa waa abat aa the tower ar of UM arena, and a laced b baa. DurfcMt bie abaeaea (real Um roaea Um nvelver tram Biyke'a CHAPTER IT-A key werklaa at She gmrM aaaeru ba keard a aaat aurma labt. apparently "ha the aaV ef eet reaiiy aa um tower. CHAPTCR VMiarllNt U flaw the BMnbaro af the card party. Ue SjmU ta bla aurpriao Um Slyka, apparaab- naa anaraa ta aau KM Ha Saaa ertdaaoe that tba jail few attaaapted rakbary e Siyka ware traaMS. 17 1 ,' CHAPTER Tt-RataraJag frees m rrii vimi Wt a Karatoca, BarUay. Pelt aa4 Cerrlo eon upoa a laraa metar truck, without Ushta iai tf Um read. . Tbey are Sla evered aadeavortac aa aaoartaht UM ncaaa auaabar, aad Arad aa The a eta away, m taraa dieueed burial vault Ai la mw. aad BarUay saaka M. the vaaJt atored with whiaky, the reToirer which ba4 baaa Slyka'a kaad. A aaaa, aeeailncly iai mm wna na piaos. amr way aetata um. n le airke'a chauffeur., a detecUva, warktaf far ravaauo departmeat. arrrrea a4 M aaarga at ui vauji. . . . CHAPTXR ni-Aftar aaualdartai "alt Um aayatarloaa aaslea of tha aaa. ark' lay apparently reachee aa eoaolualaa) aa to the murderer. He la aatlaned that deal la whiaky had aouMthlna te 4 with R. Mlaa POttara nrm belief I "ouUa board," and apirituailaa " CHAPTKH VUL-Battlay eanttnaaf hta aearch for arldeaca, and apparently Snda oaaaa thlasa he considers of value. The Inquaat opana. Doctor Klac, who m tba coroner, a war veteran, and who had baaa ahaOrhookaS. eeadueta tc A heavy thundaratona la la PTOtrreaa. Dactar Webater, called in conaultatloB, bo baliavea 81he -waa murdered. I reached the. main road without meeting anyone, and, breaking Into a run, was soon at the house.-, I telephoned tele-phoned at once to Koche; and hs was so much startled at my story that I had' great difficulty In making him understand when he was to go, and what he was to do. ; At last be agreed to come at once. . ; - : It took me only a few moments In Bartley's car to reach ' the woods gain;, but, when I arrrlved, I saw two other can already parked on the roadside, and knew thai the police had preceded me. ..-'t- I found Boche and two of his men in the vault, conferring with Bartley and Black. It had been decided te guard the place until morning, when the whisky could be removed. The chauffeur was to be taken to the Saratoga Sar-atoga Jail and locked up. ; " , ; : When we reached tha house, Mrs. ''urrle came to meet us. At the sight f her husband's black eye, which by tMe $ time was very noticeable. the ruin ef Bartley's white suit, she gave a little cry. . i; "What under heaven have you been doing V she asked. Currie gave me a wink. " "Looking for whisky," he answered. , . He went to a' nearby table, took eomethlng from each pocket and placed them carefully upon It Hs. then stood . looking down at them proudly. ; i - ; ' " "A Uttle souvenir of the night's work," he remarked, pointing to two bottles of whisky which be bad taken, without our knowing It, from the box that Bartley, had opened In the vault ' r " CHAPTER VII 7 " "r in Which Bartley Talks ef Many ' ' Thlnga. . - ..'-; Mrs. Currie wanted to hear the atory of our adventures; and when Bartley recounted ' what had taken place, I noticed that he expressed no opinion as to what was back of It all. It was after one when we. reached our rooms, and I expected that Bartley Bart-ley would want to go to bed at once. I knew how tired I was, and supposed that he must be even mon weary. But, after he had gotten Into bis pa-Jamaa, pa-Jamaa, he dropped Into a chair by the window, curled one leg over the arm. lighted his pipe, and turned to me. "Weil, what do you think of IfaUr he dnwled.' .' r - That was a hard question to' answer. an-swer. We had been through so much, so many" . apparently unconnected event, that I scarcely knew what ts think.. Then, too, I knew very little of what had taken place after I bad left him at 81yke, or what new It will pay yon well ts read the sds aae aaramUy tha llk Thaw Sad Sift (Oil ffinit: CKorlss JDcttton Illurtraitonsb IrwinMycttf things- be had observed then. The finding of whisky aad the sudden an pearance of the chauffeur, coupled with my. discovery of tha revolver, seemed .to me to still further compli cate the problem. What had he coma to the yault frt;. r remembered' that the detective had said he thought the chauffeur 'had killed Slyks. I wondered won-dered if this was simply a wild guess, W whether there wu something behind be-hind it - Hrt ley watched me with that Uttle smile on his lips that meant so many things. "Well, Pelt," be said, " looks as if ws wen engaged upon as mysterious a case as over came our way. The mon I look It over, the leas sun I am of anything. Do you know, I picked up very little after you left the house" "' I had been, wondering all day If he would find Buotuea of value. I knew what a careful search ho must have made, and his statement that he picked up very Uttle of lmpo tance surprised me, t f .... j Bartley. watched me for a moment or two before continuing. Then hs told me of his day's work. They had been unable to find ; the chauffeur either at the garage or anywhen else around the estate. ' No one had seen him since the butler saw him on the stain early In the morning. ? Tha cook had later volunteered the. information that Mr. Slyke and he had quarreled over something. What It was she did not know; she had only heard the few words he had repeated to roe. "J The house had been searched from top ts bottom, - but without result. . . Bo far as he could tell, nothing had been stolen';'- "' . ;..;i;..:. - Hartley had learned also that then was III; feeling between Miss Potter and the chauffeur and he had questioned ques-tioned her shoot It ' She refused to say what! It was, and seemed-to consider con-sider Bartley's presence as an Intrusion, Intru-sion, He had secured nothing sow from her. When asked If aha knew whether Slyks had any enemies who might want to take hia Ufe. she replied re-plied she did not Repeated qneatleo-Jng qneatleo-Jng could notdthaka her story that the Btep-daughter Ruth had not beoa expected ex-pected home that night, and that shs had not known the girl was In the house : until we had ,atl hoard her voice on the stairs. As the girl carried car-ried her own key, she could easily, she said, have returned without her knowing It. ', :.. .. - Then then was the dog to be considered. con-sidered. He had slept as usual In the big living room on the night of the crime. The girl's Story of hia walking walk-ing to the foot of the stain with her when she came In, proved that he was then the entire night Bartley remarked that It was very strange that, the dog should , have made no sound. ."It looks," I commented, "as if whoever who-ever committed the crime did not pass through the living room.". ' . - Bartley gave me: a disgusted look. "Or else, Pelt, the dog knew him. The only wsy to reach the room when Slyke slept was up those' stain, and to reach the stairs he had , to pass through the living room.' Remember this, too, Lawrence said that Slyke i was not going to bed, but expected ' another visitor. The butler says "the dog wss In the room with him when be let Lawrence out;' Suppose the other visitor came ' If Slyks himself admitted him, the dog would have! probably barked at least once that : Is, unless he knew him." . ; Then It might have been eomcvoe In the house," I suggested. i Bartley . saaented,- and- we discussed ' the various persons In the household.' Fint, we both agreed that the shot the boy tad, beard was the one thst hsd killed Slyke, snd thst the. time must have been between half-past one and two o'clock. If that wen so. , then, when the girl came In about three o'clock, Slyke was already dead. 1 Bartley was sure that It took at least thirty minutes to undress Slyke and get him down from the balcony to his room If the shot thst the boy heard was fired before two o'clock, thetrthe girl would not be suspected, for she had not returned until three. Ws eliminated her; 'x,' ' v;r ;' ' . " Bartley then analysed the alatar-ln-law. He said be felt sun she wss hiding something, for she had not been fnnk In telling what she knew, snd seemed anxious to get him out of the house. Whether what she wss withholding concerned 81yke's death or not he could not tell; .but whatever what-ever It was, he was determined to discover it . ' .. : i, . ' "Do you remember. Pelt," bs ssked. "thst Currie told us she runs a ouija board? There la nothing startling in that; thousands an doing the same thing. Since the war all forms of spiritualism have made hundreds of converts. When she' met King at the door this morning, she told him thst the board . bad spelled trouble' the night before.",- ; ;:;; ; ;""""'; " . I stared st him in astonishment Ue seemed to be regarding a ouija board seriously. He saw my look and chuckled. ,t , , .. "Oh. m not interested In the ouija board Itself; what 1 am tntereeted la la that word trouble' that It spelled out for her' .w;.--.-.,--V;tt thla wa more astonishing till, and 1 naked. "Why, you haven't any faith In thoee things, hare your Again he chuckled, then became serious. se-rious. "Sun 1 have, but not ro the way you think. The meeaagea people think come from another world, come from thf subconscious minds of the persons who are, fooling with the n" v r Bartley Then Analysed the diater-ln. .t . Law. ; - ' v: .' ; board. They do sot realise that they themselves an subconsciously directing direct-ing its movements and spelling out their own messages. Now, that board wrote for Miss Potter, .Trouble Is coming,' not once but many times. What I want' to know ia this: What was the something that deep In her mind, told her that trouble was coming? com-ing? What was the cause of her fearr : ji; r vtvsv - .-' ' . He lighted another cigar befon he continued: "There la still ' another thing that shows she knew some danger dan-ger was threatening. Ton remember she also told us thst shs had dreamed that Slyke had been killed." I knew what he wss driving at now; Freud, whose theory of psycho-analysis wss-well known, to Bartley, had worked out the interpretations , of dreams. The theory of psycho-analysis Is that In our sleep the subconscious subcon-scious mind has full play ; our repressions re-pressions come to the surface and express themselves In dreams. The psycho-analyst Is thus often able te Jtgplen the secret places of our minds fhrougn them and tell 'the cause of our trouble. . :' ; "Shakespeare was right when hs said, We an such stuff as dreams an mads of," Bartley added la a qulssl-cal qulssl-cal tone as he psused to relight his dgsr. "Miss Potter dreamed, mon than once that Slyke had been killed. We an told a dream Is a- suppressed wish, and thst . In our dreams our wishes an often hidden by symbols. This .woman probabty did not wish Slyke actually dead. She had no quarrel with him as far aa I know. What aha did wish was entirely different differ-ent : She wished that be might be away' so that be would be out of soma trouble, end her suppressed wish caused her to dream that bs waa dead. That's the reason why I believe be-lieve that she knows more than ah viU tell" "What can it ber I asked. "I dont know, but it is something that waa -causing a great deal of trouble to Slyke, perhaps to all of them-'. It might oven be something that will bring dishonor. Anyway, It was ss serious that. Bleeping or waking. wak-ing. It waa on her mind.. I wish she would talk; we need a the light we can. get" , .. .;. "But thatdoea not actually prove that shs knows anything about his death," I suggested. - . Bartley turned quickly and glanced at me to see if I were serious. Beelng that I-was. he vxplfllned: "I don't ay, that it does. The ouija board performances snd the dreams wen befon hia death, not after It Of course, the feet that the dog did not hark throw suspicion on everyone that was Is the house at the time." He was silent for a while, glancing thoughtfully out of the window, and then resumed his story. After l left him. he had locked him-sHf him-sHf In the tower forever an hour and gone over the two rooms and the ba! cony almost Inch by inch. The only thing that had escaped us in our first earch. be said, was a small stopper, the snd covered with red wax. Be was hot sun whether the finding ef '' ' ; . .i - . .' - - ' ' tha stopper meant anything or hot His , second examination had made him ; mors positive than ever that ftlyke had been murdered, and that the murderer wished his death to appear ap-pear to be aulclde. . , , , "'.?: 4 It would be almost Impossible to make a jury believe that It 'w as mu der on the slight evidence that we had,, and I said as much to Bartley, He agreed with me, and admitted he would not be surprised If King,' ss coroner,. brought In a verdict of suicide, sui-cide, I pondered on this a while; then a thought struck me, .. "Suppose, after all, he did kill himself, him-self, Bartley. Tou base your theory of murder wi the position of the bedclothes bed-clothes and the wny the gun Was held. Suppose be,f1!i kill hlnisclf. and Bome other per- n iv the iimrcVrer, enme tutu t '. "iii't'il the bed More Than Happy Homes Last March MARE YOURS HAPPY NOW! 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It wont do. ' Then Is no doubt of It. Hs wss killed." , . ..' J I Interrupted to ask It as Miss Potter Pot-ter admitted, she had closed hia ayea, why she might not have been also ths so - who pulled the -beddothea : np around his neck. . . ; Bartley replied, "It la true that aha did dose his eyes, hot she Insists she touched nothing also." : : '-', -But,- I broke la, "what was hsr real reason for doing Itf ... "She said, you remember, that the eyes frightened hsr. Let a nervous woman come suddenly , upon a dead body and It la very possible that ths ayes staring at her might so frights her that she would close them. Her confession cleared np a point that bothered ma The accounting for the eyes being dosed does sot prove that hs committed suicide, however. Than Is little enough evidence ene way or another, but what then Is points ts murder snd to nothing else." "There Is another thing," I said. "Why was the revolver takes from him while we wen upstairs! It seems s very foolish thing to have dons. Who did let Waa it the butler or alias Potterr Both the butler and Miss Potter had been out of the tower room, Bartley Bart-ley reminded me.-for some time before be-fore we suspected Slyke's desth was ' murder and not auldde. Aa to who had taken the revolver. It was Impos-slble Impos-slble to say as yet. If we believed that the butler bad seen Bilffror on the stairs while weere on -the-hal cony, then he might be the one. The finding, of the gun in the vault and his ' appearance almost immediately afterward seemed to point ' to him. Whoever hsd done if had been very foolish. : The next matter that ha spoke about did hot seem to have any relation rela-tion with what had preceded It It waa the robbery of the year before. Be -had learned from the step-daughter Ruth that she had hot positively Identified the men now In Jail, but bad thought that one of the men was similar In height and build to one of the men she had, aeen in the room. The room had been too dark for her to see very clearly. Nor was that all that aha had told him which had disagreed disa-greed with the accounts of tha burglary bur-glary that Rogen had giren us. Be had said that she had aroused-Slyka and told him that burglan wen down-stain down-stain t while In her atory to Bartley she ststed thst, after ahe heard tha noise In the living room, she went to the door of Slyke's room to call him. but found it empty.. When she saw blm;he was standing on the lower step of the stain leading to the living room. Then had. evidently been a struggle, snd a gun went off Just before be-fore she reached htm. It was she who had called the police, and S!yke had opposed her doing' so "as nothing had been taken.,"- '' ,'-';; ".'"' 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