Show THE GARLAND TIMES THE GARDEN MURDER CASE CHAPTER XIV —19— I wandered into the den the door which was ajar and walked aimabout lessly the room looking at the various pictures and etchings Just then Vance entered As he came in he threw the door open wider half pocketing me in the corbehind it where I was not imner I was about mediately noticeable to speak to him when Zalia Graem 'f came in Vance” She called his in a low tremulous voice He turned and looked at the girl with a quizzical frown “I’ve been waiting in the diningroom” she said "I wanted to see you before you spoke to the oth"Philo name ers I realized immediately from the tone of her voice that my presence had not been noticed Vance continued to look squarely at the girl but did not speak She came very close to him now "Tell me why you have made me suffer so much” she said "I know I have hurt you” Vance ‘‘But the circumstances returned made it imperative Please believe that I understand more of this case than you imagine I do ” “I am not sure that I understand” The girl spoke hesitantly "But I want you to know that trust you” She looked up at him and I could see that her eyes weie glistening Slowly she bowed her “I have never been interhead ested in any man” she went on — and there was a quaver in her “The men I have known voice have all made me unhappy and seemed always to lead me away ” from the things I longed for She caught her breath "You are the one man I have ever known — whom I could care for” So suddenly had this startling confession come that I did not have time to make my presence known and after Miss Graem finished speaking I remained where I was lest I cause her embarrassment Vance placed his hands on the girl’s shoulders and held her away from him "My dear” he said with a curiously suppressed quality in his voice "I am the one man for whom you should not care” There was no mistaking the finality of his words Vance smiled wistfully at the girl "Would you mind waiting In the ” a little while? drawing-rooShe gave him a searching look and without speaking turned and went from the den Vance stood for some time gazing at the floor with a frown of indecision as if loath to proceed with whatever plans he had formulated I took this opportunity to come out from my corner and just as I did so Floyd Garden appeared at the hall door "Oh hello Vance” hp said “I didn’t know you had returned until Zalia just told me you were in here Anything I can do for you?” Vance swung around quickly "I was just going to send for you Everyone here?” Garden nodded gravely “Yes and they’re all frightened to death — He takes the all except Hammle whole thing as a lark I wish somebody had shot him instead of Woody” “Will you send him in here” Vance asked "I want to talk to him I’ll see the others presently” Garden walked up the hall and at that moment I heard Burke speaking to Markham at the front door Markham immediately joined us in the denL "Hope I haven’t kept you waiting” he greeted Vance "NorOhrno" Vancein leaned "Just time” against the desk Markham had barely seated himself when Hammle strutted into the den with a jovial air Vance nodded to him brusquely “Mr Hammle” he said “we’re wholly familiar with your philosophy of minding your own business and keeping silent in order to avoid all involvements A defensible attitude —but not in the present circumstances This is a criminal case and in the interest of justice we must to everyone concerned have the whole truth Yesterday afternoon you were the only one who had even in the drawing-rooa partial view down the hallway And we must know everything you saw no matter how trivial it may seem to you" Hammle gave in "First of all then" said Vance without relaxing his stern gaze “when Miss Graem left the room ostensibly to answer a telephone call did you notice exactly where she went?” “Not exactly” Hammle returned “but she turned to the left toward the den You understand of course that it was impossible for me to see very far down the hall even from where I sat” “And Vance nodded “Quite" when she came back to the “I saw her first opposite the den She wen hall "closet ttdlhs door where the hats and wraps are kept and then came back to stand in the archway until the race was over After that I didn’t notice her either coming or going” “And what about Floyd Garden?” “You remember he asked Vance Did followed Swift out of the room you notice which way they went or what they did?” by S S VAN DINE - GARLAND UTAH AND HOW ter the den She glanced at Vance S S Van Din Copyright IT WORKS appealingly and seated herself withWNU Servic She was foUowred by out a word Miss Weatherby and Kroon who sat Shield of Protection down uneasily beside her on the “As I remember his Floyd put Floyd Garden and his By ROBERT MERRILL arm around Swift and led him into davenport n Miss HE Constitution of the the After a few mo- father came in together was just behind them and JL ments they came out Swift seemed United States is a law for stopped hesitantly in the doorway to be pushing Floyd away from rulers and people equally in him and then he disappeared down looking uncertainly at Vance In peace and covers she too?” and “Did war me want you the hall toward the stairs Floyd asked diffidently stood outside the with the shield of its protection door “I think it might be best Miss all classes of men at all times for several minutes looking after said Vance "We may his cousin and then went down the Beeton” and under all circumstances” hall after him but he must have need your help” That quotation is from an opinion At that moment the front door changed his mind for he came back rendered by the Supreme court of bell rang and Burke ushered Docinto the drawing room in short orthe United States in one of its most tor Siefert into the den der” Mr famous decisions The facts in the "I just got your message “And you saw no one else in the Vance and came right over” He case are these: hall?” In October 1864 Lambdm P Millooked ” room about the questioning- ‘‘No No one else ligan was sentenced to death on the “Very good” Vance took a deep iy"I thought you might care to be gallows “And inhalation on his cigarette The sentence was declared void now let’s go to the present" Vance said "in case we figWhy? Because he had been denied You were in can reach some conclusion about uratively speaking right of trial by the garden for a train the situation here I know you are his constitutional waiting Otherwise I Jury in a civil court when the nurse was almost suffopersonally interested The Supreme court of the United have’ telephoned you” cated with bromin gas in the wouldn’t States to which he appealed made ‘‘I’m glad you did" said Siefert vault The door into the passageand walked across to a that ruling blandly way was open and if you had been Tried In Military Court chair before the desk looking in the direction you could Vance easily have seen who passed up and Milligan a citizen of the state of lighted a cigarette with down the corridor ” Vance looked slow deliberation his eyes moving Indiana was arrested on charges There of disloyalty to the Union cause Alat the man significantly "And I aimlessly about the room a feehn' you were have was a tension over the assembled though not a member of the army looking he was tried and sentenced before through that door Mr Hammle group Your reaction of astonishment when The taut silence was broken by a military commission despite the He spoke casually we came out on the roof was a bit Vance’s voice fact that in the city of Indianapolis with a curious emphasis overdone And you couldn’t have but where the trial was held the civil seen much of the city from where "I have asked you all to come courts were open don’t y’ here this afternoon in the hope that you had been standing Citing these circumstances and know ” the fact that no indictment had been we could clear up the very tragic found against him Milligan filed a Hammle cleared his throat and situation that exists” to be discharged The case grinned He was by tha petition interrupted “You have me there Vance" he eventuaUy reached the Supreme startling sound of a shot ominously court at admitted with familiar Washington like that of the day before EveryLearned and eloquent argument “Since I couldn’t make my train I one in the room stood up quickly was heard on both sides But the thought I’d satisfy my curiosity and aghast at the sudden detonation court based the decision on the Constick around for a while to see And beEveryone except Vance held that one of its fore anyone could speak his calm stitution and guarantees was broken when Milliauthoritative voice was saying: gan was denied a trial by jury “There is no need for alarm “The great minds of the country Please sit down I expressly arexplained the formal opinion of the ranged that shot for all of you to court "have differed on the correct hear— it will have an important Interpretation to be given to various ” bearing on the case provisions of the Federal ConstituBurke appeared at the door tion and judicial decision has been "Was that all right Mr Vance?” often invoked to settle their true "Quite all right” Vance told him but until recently no one “The same revolver and blanks?” meaning ever doubted that the right of trial "Sure Just like you told me by fury was fortified in the organic And from where you said Wasn’t law against the power of attack it like you wanted it?” Calls It Grave Question “Yes precisely” nodded Vance "It is now assailed but if ideas “Thanks Burke” lanThe detectiye grinned broadly can be expressed in wordsthisand — right guage has any meaning and moved away down the hall most valuable in a free "That shot I believe” resumed one of the — to is every one preserved Vance sweeping his eyes lazily country crime who is not atover those present “was similar to accused toof the tached army or navy or the one we heard yesterday afterin actual service” noon— the one that summoned us to militia The opinion pointed out that MilSwift’s dead body It may interest ligan when arrested and convicted you to lyiow that the shot just fired by a military commission was not by Detective Burke was fired from a rebellious state or a the same revolver with the same a resident ofof war but a citizen of prisoner cartridges that the murderer used Indiana who had never been in the yesterday — and from about the military or naval service same spot” graver question” it contin"But this shot sounded as if it ued"No“was ever considered by this were fired down here somewhere” nor one which more nearly court Look She Gave Ilim a Searching cut in Siefert the rights of the whole concerns satVance with said "Exactly” what happened I went out on the for it is the birthright of people isfaction "It was fired from one every roof and stood where I could look Citizen when American of the windows on this floor” with crime to be tried and through the door into the passagecharged "But I understand that the shot way — I wanted to see who was gopunished according to law came from upstairs” Sieyesterday what to next hell and the ing get protection of the law "By fert looked perplexed would come of it all” human rights are secured withdraw "That was the general but er- that protection and they are at the “Thanks for your honest y” roneous assumption” explained mercy of wicked rulers or the clamVance’s face was coldly formal Vance "Actually it did not Yes- or of an excited people “Please tell us now exactly what terday because of the open roof "If there was law to Justify this you saw through that doorway while door and the stairway and the military trial it is not our province you were waiting as you’ve conclosed door of the room from which to interfere if there was not it is fessed for something to happen” the shot was fired and mainly be- our duty to declare the nullity of the Again Hammle cleared his throat were psychologically whole proceedings” "Well Vance to tell you the cause towe of a idea shot from the Again the opinion cited the conJust keyedroof truth it wasn’t very much it gave us all the im- stitutional rights established for the First I the people coming and going pression of coming from the gar- American citizen and declared: saw Garden go up the passageway Constitution Is Yardstick toward the study and almost im- den” Zalia Graem turned quickly to mediately he went back downstairs “The decision of this question does Vance Then Zalia Graem passed the door not on argument or judicial depend shot yesterday didn’t sound on her way to the study Five or ten to "The precedents numerous and highly me as if it came from the minutes later the detective — Heath When I came out of the den garden lustrative as they are These precI wonI think his name is— went by the dered why you were all hurrying edents inform us of the extent of door carrying a coat over his arm the struggle to preserve liberty and upstairs" A little later — two or three minutes to relieve those in civil life from Vance returned her gaze squarelI should say — Zalia Graem and the ymilitary trials The founders of our nurse passed each other in the pas“No it must have sounded much Government were familiar with the of sageway Zalia going toward the closer to struggle and secured history he said "But why in a writtenthat you” stairs and the nurse toward the didn’t Constitution every right you mention that important study A couple of minutes after fact yesterday when I talked with which the people had wrested from that Floyd Garden passed the door you about power during a contest of ages the crime?” on his way to the study again—” "By that Constitution and laws "I— don’t know” the girl stam“Just a minute” Vance interrupt- mered "When I saw Woody dead authorized by it this question must ed “You didn’t see the nurse re- up there I naturally thought I'd be determined” This was not the only death senturn downstairs after she passed been mistaken” by the Supreme Miss Graem in the passageway?” "But you couldn’t have been mis- tence set aside found that constiit Hammle shook his head emphattaken” returned Vance half under court because had been violated ically “No Absolutely not” “And after the revolver tutional rights his breath It had also ruled against the Vance took another deep puff on had been fired yesterday from a of oba as method "Third his cigarette Degree” downstairs window it was surrep“One more thing Mr Hammle: titiously placed in the pocket of taining evidence on which convicwhile you were out there in the Miss Beeton’s in the hall tions were based "The rack and torture chamber” garden did anyone come out on the closet Had it been fired from upnot be subroof from the terrace gate?” stairs it could have been hidden to it pronounced "may “Absolutely not I didn’t see any- far better advantage somewhere on stitutedC for the witness stand” Western Newspaper Union body at all on the roof” the roof or in the study” He turned "And when Garden had returned again to the girl "By the by Miss 127 Weds Wife No 7 Man downstairs what then?” Graem didn’t you go to' that closet his one hundred To celebrate "I saw you come to the window after answering your telephone call birthday Hassan a I here in the den?” and look out into the garden peasant living near Bigha in the was afraid I might be seen and the The girl gasped Dardanelles Straits married for the minute you turned away I went over "How— how did you know?” His bride is only to the far corner of the garden by “You were seen there” explained seventh time Hassan declares that the gate The next thing I knew Vance a man is never too old to marry The girl turned back to Vance you gentlemen were coming out on Enjoying perfect health a good ap- the roof with thre nurse” with flashing eyes and the use of a new set of Vance moved forward from the "I’ll teU you why I went to the petite teeth which first started desk against which he had been hall closet I went to get a hand- natural to grow 10 years ago he does not kerchief I had left in my handbag resting look older than seventy He walks Mr “Thank Does that make me a murderer?” Hammle you a week from his vilYou’ve told me exactly what I want"No Oh no” Vance shook his severalto times town of ed to know It may interest you head and sighed "Thank you for lage to the neighboring his groceries HasBigha buy to learn that the nurse informed us the explanation And will you san live at least another she was struck over the head in be so good as to tell me exactly 20 hopes to years and attributes his fitness on leaving the passageway the what you did last night when you to his life in the open and his total sumGarden’s Mrs study and forced into the vault answered abstentation from liquor and tohac which was full of bromin fumes” mons?” co Zalia Graem was the first to en (TO BE CONTINUED ) ' L Frocks' Made Gay With Stitch Flowers ' The SUPREME COURT ! 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