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Show r eharming candid amusement with a warm Irish appreciation. What time was this? I should say about half-paten certainly not much before and certainly not much later. By what door did you go out? Through the kitchen and out the little door in Mrs. Stow's garage. Why did you go out so secretly? "In order to be alone. My head was buzzing a little with the warm air and I didn't want anybody to come with me. "Did you put on your outer clothes? "Yes. I retrieved my long cape and beret from the garage where I left them when I came in "Did anybody see you go out? Doctor Marden reNo! Yes! considered; smiled reminiscently; smiled with that tender gentleness which I might describe as my favorite of his many charming exMrs. Avery's little pressions. niece, Sylvia. She had gone out into the kitchen. For some reason, none of the maids was there. "Did she recognize you? "Yes. I lifted my mask. "Did she speak? Before she could say anything I put my fingers to my lips and she kept perfect silence. Patrick Where did you go? asked next. I took a little stroll, Doctor Marden answered, through the meadow which stretches between Mrs. Stow's and Mrs. Avery's house. "You were in costume, Doctor Marden. Did your walk injure it I mean, dew, vines, weeds, etc.? Theres a very pleasant little path between the two places, Doctor Marden informed Patrick politely. I had a feeling that I was watching the preliminaries to a duel of two skilled fencers. I went through the opening in the hedge, across Mrs. Averys drive, across the lawn in front of her gardens and onto the path leading to what Mrs. Avery calls the Spinney. "Did you see anybody on the place or on the road? "Nobody." Go on!" I walked into the Spinney. As I entered I heard voices. He paused Does this interest you, politely. Mr. OBrien? "Very much. Whose voices were they? There were two voices. One was a woman's. I did not recognize it. The other was a mans Doctor Blaikies. Did you hear what they said? "I heard nothing! But as you got nearer When I realized that there was a tete-a-tegoing on In the Spinney, I stopped, started to turn back but the voices stopped and I heard footsteps retreating. I waited a minute and kept on until I came across Doctor Blaikie. You did not see the lady at all? st Murder Masquerade BY- - Inez Haynes Irwin Coijrrlht Inn Uarnci Irwin WKU Scrriot. THURSDAY Continued 17 myself that knew of my own knowledgeabout Myron Marden -nothing and his granddaughter. I had accepted them on their face value. I had accepted them on the acceptance of Ace Blaikie and Bruce llexson. But now I recalled to myself how easily friendships were made between men who were in the World war . . . out of nothing . . . out of anything . . . fleeting as a whisper . . . strong as iron cables . . . Yet every instinct I had, every intuition, every ounce of that judgment which comes from experience of the world kept telling me, kept shouting to me that these two were everyting I thought they were. That last feeling arose so strongly in me when Myron Marden soon entered the room that again the tears pricked for a salty instant in my eyes. He came immediately over to iny chair, bowed in his courtly continental way over my hand, turned with a "Good morning, Mr. OBrien! to Patrick. I had not seen him since the funeral. 1 noted how pale and tired he was then. This day he looked 1 kept reminding I really ravaged. Wont you sit down? 1 asked. Doctor Marden did. not sit down. He stood his whole graceful easy length subtly emanating question and looked at Patrick. Patrick, who had risen as he entered and was still standing, steadily returned that gaze. Rarely have Z seen a greater contrast in men. Marden exuded that unanalysable suggestion, alien in manner and clothes, which expatriates so often acquire unconsciously; his deep dark coloring; his distinguished, irregular aquilinity; Patrick with his perfect athletes figure, so light in pose, so perfect in poise and balIrish coloring, ance, his his regular Celtic features. Patrick explained, I want to ask you some questions. Doctor Marden. I ventured to suggest that you come here as I have been using Mrs. Avery's home as a sort of It annex to the police station. makes the whole business a little less unpleasant and we have no kibitzers. You realize that more evidence in this Blaikie case comes in from time to time. Then we have to go over what everybody else has said and check up. I wanted to ask you a few more questions in regard to Mrs. Stows masquerade. Quite! Doctor Marden assented. He sat down. I must tell you, Doctor Marden, Patrick added, thrusting his keenest glance across the space between them, that in case of suspicion being turned upon you, anything you say here may be held c gainst you and that there is a witness present. Doctor Marden made a deprecatory gesture outward of his long, slender hands. Ask me anything you want, Mr. O'Brien. I shall avail myself of your suggestion and answer only the questions I wish to answer. I became conscious of mounting excitement Everybody else who had submitted to Patrick's interrogatories under my roof Sarah Darbe, Bessie Williams, Molly Eames, Walter Treadway, Margaret Fairweathcr had said in effect: Ask me anything you want. I shall tell the whole truth. Perhaps Doctor Marden felt that he had made a false step; for he Immediately added, I have no anticipation that you will ask me any question that I shall not prefer to answer fully. Doctor Marden, Patrick began, at what time did you go to the masquerade?" sun-sh- ot between half-paDoctor Marden Somewhere nine and ten, swered. How did you get there? car? st an- By No. It was such a beautiful night and as there is only concrete road between our house and the Stow house, my granddaughter suggested that we walk. Besides she thought that there might be some difficulty In parking. What time did you get home? I left earlier than my grandtwelve I should daughter. Half-pasay. Doctor Marden, between the time you arrived and the time you went home, did you leave the Stow st bouse? Doctor Marden answered instant- ly, Yes." Why did you leave it? Well, for no reason or several, just as you choose. Mr.I am not much OBrien, and of a dancing man, after I'd been there about an hour, I began to find it "ery hot and also X wanted a smoke. lie smiled and Patrick met his About half-pa- st twelve." Yes." Did you go straight up the Head? Yes exactly the way I came. When you were in the Spinney, did you hear any noise in the bushes, let us say, or among tne UNCOMMON I i trees?" I heard nothing. Don't you yourself think. Doctor Marden, that it's a little strange that you did not volunteer this information the first time I talked with you?" Doctor Marden smiled. I think it might seem so. But what would you have done, Mr. O'Brien? There was a woman involved. I didn't know what sort of trouble I might get her into. Well, of course you realize, Patrick advanced, that some people might say that you invented the woman to save yourself. Doctor Marden bowed in a polite He made no comacquiescence. ment. What to your best knowledge and belief was Doctor Blaikies frame of mind while you talked with him? Did you get any impression? He gave me the impression that he was extremely happy triumphant, definitely triumphant. I might say, he breathed, he emanated tri- umph." Patrick's thick - lashed eyelids dropped. He seemed to reflect deepWell, I guess that will be ly. Wait a moment all, he said. though. Im the poorest hand in the world at remembering figures. He reached into his waistcoat pocket, brought out the little red leather notebook. Id like to take down the hours as you remember them of your arrival and departures from the Stow house. He reached into one pocket and then another, another and another. I cannot keep a pencil! he muttered. I moved in the direction of my desk. Before I could reach it however, Doctor Marden had offered Patrick a fountain pen. Patrick busied himself a moment or two writing, handed the pen back. Thank you very much, Doctor Marden. I wont detain you any longer. Oh by the way, Doctor MarPatrick reached into his den te "No." You spoke with Doctor Blaikie of course. Yes for several minutes. And then you went on? "Yes. Was your conversation a long one? "A very brief one. What was the nature of your talk? Its one of those talks that you cant reproduce because really at Little Cost Well-Dress- ed You walked home nothing was said. I knew that a lady had just left the Spinney. I Do Yon Recognize That? think he knew I knew that I dont know whether he was embarrassed do you recognize or not. I was a little conscious of pocket again the situation. I think I told him that? Doctor Marden answered instantthat I'd come out because the house was so warm and that I wanted to ly, Yes. Does it belong to you? smoke Yes Had you lighted a cigar yet? When did you last see it? No. But I told Doctor Blaikie The last time I noticed it was that I was going back to the house and I asked him to join me when I put on my slippers to go to the masquerade. It's one of a in a smoke. pair of old paste buckles that I What did he say to that? He said no; that he was re- bought some years ago in Paris. I lost it that night. turning at once to the dance. Had you any idea where you Did you go after that? As I remember, that was my lost it?" I thought it must have dropped last remark. You left Doctor Blaikie in the off in that walk I took. It seems to me that had it been lost in the Spinney? house, I would have noticed it. Yes. Did you make any attempt to Had he turned had he started find it?" to leave the Spinney? Yes. I got up very early SunNo." By what path did you go out day morning and went over the road I took, to see if I could find from the Spinney?" I continued along the path that it Dont you think that that might runs beside Mrs. Averys Little House; then up onto the road and look suspicious? "Perhaps. But I suppose I would then back to the Stows'. Did you smoke on the way also think that whether it looked suspicious or not would depend on back?" my standing in the community "Yes one cigarette. Did you meet anybody else on my reputation for decency and honor. I am perfectly willing to adthe way back? mit that I didn't want to be inNo. volved as a witness in this case. How did you enter the house? By the garage door as I left Naturally I did not want to get into it Moreover, the buckle is an exit. Did you leave your cape and tremely valuable one. It is part of a set and although that was cap there? Yes." not, in view of the great tragedy, of momentous importance, it was Did anybody see you come in? I think nobody noticed it; for of some importance. "Well, Patrick decided, I guess the reason that the kitchen was full of masks. They had come out, that will be alL Doctor Marden arose. He bowed I think, for water. There had been plenty of punch about, but no wa- to Patrick; came over to my side; ter and apparently a big group bent low over my hand. Dear had suddenly invaded the kitchen. lady, he said, I cannot tell you Nobody paid any attention to me how much I think of you in these and I went back to the dance. distressing days. You were there then at the unSomething in his voice brought the tears to my eyes again. Then masking? with his quick, light step, he started Yes. And what time did you say you to go. (TO BE COSTIXLLUi went borne? AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson e mn Ncwapapor umoo Pathfinder of the Seas part in a battle deserves rank with those other American naval heroes Jones, Decatur, Lawrence, Perry, Farragut and Dewey. His career was a perfect example of the saying that peace hath its war." For Matthew Fontune Maury was one of the greatest benefactors of all those who sailed the seas in his day and mariners still honor his name today. Bom in Virginia in 1806, Maury joined the navy as a midshipman at the age of nineteen. During his long voyages he became impressed with the scanty information that was available about prevailing winds and ocean currents Strangely enough, an accident on land gave him his opportunity to do something about it. He was in a stagecoach smash-u- p in Ohio which made him a cripple for life. 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