Show 1 r r The Student y Murde by MILTON 1132 1912 by Hilton Pr PP r S CHAPTER XIV Continued XIV Continued 23 2301 23 Or 01 course she he went sent ent through the formality of arranging her ber schedule of courses for the and select select- selecting select ing her ber particular with par parr particular teachers Hut flat no one was the wiser when she the Just didn't show UI ai Ill I'll either elther her In October for a few weeks eks or again In February and part ot of Yes Yea that Is true of the college department the supervisor nod der ded where Randall that Is l she she re registered Other departments do dC give ghe each Instructor the names of his students Gymnastics of some tort sort sort for Instance are re- re required re- re re required of every cry boy twice a 8 week bow did she the evade She She might have haTe been excused by easily obtaining a certificate of III Bl health from Doctor Prince nan tan nankin kin reminded him Instead for two r reasons she took up military train trainIng Ing In which Is 1 allowed ns as a substitute substitute tute ture She never n needed to dress dressor dressor dressor or disrobe In the gymnasium locker room which would he be necessary u for track swimming or other exercise she the could don her uniform In the dorm and then lien join the t training corps And It was an nn additional dis- dis disguise dis disguise I guise Juhe In Itself Increasing the mas of her appearance and car car- carriage carriage The hat especially concealed I her hair E Even En n so she cut cut the class as aR often as ns possible In the first place It did not begin this tills year un un- until til lIl November ember after she left lert and when she Rhe returned d and Joined It In February I she he expected to leave again the murder committed by bythe bythe bythe the nl end of Initiation season So she stayed away awny practically nil all the time these last six sir weeks nut tut the one thing she had to undergo was a n physical e ex- ex ex Every student entering the university must even when he brings s an nn acceptable health record from another school he has hs to tos s stand fresh Inspection I 1 realize that nankin admit admit- admitted admitted ted slowly and It puzzled me for fora fora a while Rut Hut I believe belle I 1 hn have e fig figured tired urd It out When a student pre pre- presents presents present sent himself for the examination only his own word Identities identifies him h be does docs not bring brine along a n verifying picture Anyone therefore would ha have e b been Co accepted by Doctor Thompson as Walter Waller Handall It for probable that Mrs Mra Jordan CI i hired some ome youth from the streets presentable enough to pass as a college man roan to take the test for her As a boy she could give any plausible excuse lots of fair fair- fairly fairly ly respectable looking men In need Deed would be willing to earn a n few dol- dol dollars dol dollars lars for such a n trifling task Mr Warwick's broad brond brow wrinkled obvious dismay and be be- bewilderment wilderment That could be done 1 I suppose lie he agreed with a penetrating in- in inquiring In Inquiring quiring glance at nankin Rankin Does that mean menn though that entire record at nt Aberdeen was wasI I faked That no such person ever er existed and she adopted the name to a n for forged ed account of a n scholastic corer career Just to enter Philadelphia Oh no you were bound bounri to com corn communicate with Aberdeen and uncover uncover er any such complete fraud rand Wal Walter Wal- Wal Walter ter was genuine n genuine a Chicago boy who ho attended Aberdeen last year yar but quit school for good at atthe atthe the end of the term Through the Chicago police pollee I 1 learned yesterday he Is now at nt home working What happened Is simple It was last May lay that Stuart discovered ered his wife's Infidelity and Inter the same month that he notified her he would get away awny to Philadelphia and event event- eventually eventually divorce her Immediately ly she and Prince schemed to fol- fol follow fol follow low him there thre and murder him If he refused to relent And Randall fitted their needs for exactly exactly for some university student successful In his studies who Intended to drop out of school In III June June either elther because of financial stress or ill III h health lie would have no furl further her use for his scholastic record they proposed to pay hIm hem several hundred dollars to for admission to i ii- ii and th then n allow some sonic one else Ise to en enter enter ter In his bla place on on his application and standing out west lie He would nev never r know of course the purpose of the deception I 1 Imagine It was Doctor Prince who soll sought ht for I such uh a n student stuMm in 10 those In the vicinity of SL Louis Ck fib n a former college mar mat himself he could coull do so M better hetter than she fhe I l have ve no Id Idea how v he lie finally located Ran Randal dal Mil hilt when he hp did did- the boy hoy agreed to go JO through the tile formali formalities ties titS Of of entering Philadelphia for i him I that running the grave rl e rIsk the supervisor queried that you IOU Inquire at nt Randalls Randall's home about him mach earlier than this And easily hear bear that the real one was In Chicago all the time Instead Rankin nodded n negatively Ai A AA long as I didn't suspect u 8 1111 p cl his Iden- Iden Identity he explained I was war not like like- likes Pf borne lU lUto to Investigate ln him hini at ai his borne fd rd even If I did rill I 1 could hardly fr fer forr rot rl t our fh the he discrepancy I hI his bli supposed absences at nt the uni o university were Wen coin para lively Ely brief two weeks weds In the fall and the last six aus weeks For the rest of the year as 1 I would find be he was supposed to be home any anyhow bow He lie paused to light II another ciga cigarette rette and take several putTs puffs Mr Warwick walled wailed silently with with- without without out any comment be continued his account The disadvantage of It using tan- tan name for the trick was that he bad gone cone to the same college as And much worse before his ostensible transfer he once lived In 10 the dorm nt at Aberdeen of which Jordan was as monitor After the crime that was bound to at- at attract at attract tract my attention to him as him as In tn Indeed In- In Indeed deed happened happened- On the other hand It enabled Mrs Airs Jordan when I 1 In- In In Interviewed her to volunteer the story of Ralph Duckley's Buckleys grudge grude against Stuart and the cause of their feud That falsely set me meon meon meon on Buckleys Buckley's trail and nod Involved me meIn meIn In a tangle of circumstantial evl evi evidence deuce dence She also suggested Mr Warwick how bow he must ha have e defrauded de de- defrauded your officials here to be admitted after his disgraceful dis dismissal dis- dis dismissal I missal from Aberdeen Aberdeen- The fact that she knew far more ran Inn any ordinary student about how to falsify records and enter the uni university I through them ought to have placed me upon my c giard and made me doubt her own bona bonn fides Still she was scarcely at Phila Philadelphia I delphia lon long enough to discover er I Buckley Duckley had also registered espe espe- especially especially canny since she couldn't have bave been I acquainted with him And that I would be Le her only cause for or re I reveal reveal- Ini Ii his hi enmity As Aa a 8 matter of fact staled I told her of his presence m myself At our first meeting as ns I recall she casually mentioned his quarrel with Stuart then I Ilet Ilet let the fact slip she was shrewd d enough to turn It to tier her own advantage advantage tage tier lIer story supplied him with witha a motive for the murder and cast suspicIon on him lIe Ie le hesitated reflectively Looking back I real realIze Ize now why she extracted my prom prom- promise promise ise that she would never need to confront Buckley uc dey personally and testify against him It was barely possible he knew the real Walter Randall by sight from Aberdeen 1 and would Immediately recognize I her as ns an Impostor Why didn't she and this doctor Prince merely obtain the record ot of I II some sODie high graduate who I never ne Intended to go to college Re lle would have hn been Just as ns eJ eligible and easier etsler to find and also safer HIs n 11 would have served sen the same purpose The detective shrugged 1 hardly Mr Warwick he pointed out out since Mrs Jordan would then be com com- compelled compelled to begin as ns a freshman That would have bave necessitated entrance examinations whereas upper class class- classmen classmen classmen men were accepted without them If I they had marks as creditable as I Handall's Too Jordan was an nn up up- upper upper upper per classman clossman and the dormitories for the two classes were widely sep seu- SE separated That meant she could not secure room rooms close enough to his histo histo histo to complete the essential steps ot of other her design She had to learn his schedule to ascertain when she could ly search his quarters and belongings She had to place thumb tacks thum l tacks In all his bis shoes to identify him iii si the Initiation The letters she wrote him and the canceled checks of the monthly payments he be made malle her had to be discovered and destroyed to conceal her very ery ox- ox ex existence until she was prepared to appear on Friday with an nn tight air ht alibi All these details she accomplished pushed successfully by means of the dormitory ledge lede Ledge What ledge are you talk talking ing about The coping that extends alon along the te e wall under the windows of the third floor o 0 Pelham and Croft halls hails Rankin Hankin elaborated It Is about a foot wide and continuous and since Stuarts Stuart's windows were usually open gave her easy access to his quarters Randalls Randall's charwoman an said It was not unusual for stu sin students students dents to use It to pass from room to room or for flight during durin clas class scraps And It explains all ail the evl- evl Bence Incriminating Mr Ir Edward Fletcher that baffled me so lIe Ie le had the motive of Jealousy and It II ap zip- appeared geared It was he who entered Jor Jordan's Jordans Jordan's dnn's dans rooms Tuesday morning after the charwoman straightened It out an and tampered with his shoes 1 found the hypodermic needle with while the poison polson vas admin admin- administered I In his roadster Mr Ir Warwick pursed his lips and placed together the tips of the fin fingers gers of both hands I must confess it II Isn't clear clar to me how the ledge solves those problems You'll have ho havet t be a bit more explicit Hankin The detective bent toward hl his listener as ns though to 10 Impress him more strongly It Is wholly bolly a n matter of the se Sl- sequence sequence quence of events At ten ten fifty the morning of the murder Stuart went to class and Sirs Mrs Irs nl his suite to clean denn up She was tin fin finished shed by eleven eleun o'clock Less Iss than five minutes later inter Sirs Mrs Irs Jordan as Randall climbed In the window to put thumb tacks In all nil his sho shoes s s1 At 1 Mr Ir Fletcher ar- ar arrived ar arrived rived to t see sec the boy and claiming to be his bis uncle persuaded Mrs Irs slogan llo gan to Id let him In Ton late to es escape cape lare she hr overheard rd the conversa a atlon alion In to the hall as ns the key rattled In the door sh she could only drop I the th shoos shoes hastily In Stuarts Stuart's vesti vestibule I bole bule where the lip later Inter noticed them and conceal herself In hi his bedroom closet Ills closet r Mr Warwick spoke In surprise Then rhen she was hidden there the entire time fro Mr Fletcher searched the study and abstracted nil all his mam mall res she was although from the bedroom she could not see him pocket It It She did not dare open the closet door too wide to watch him She did however howe catch sec sev sev-crol sev oral glimpses of him ns as he moved mond about stealthily and hunted net net- ne ncr through Jordans Jordan's property talked deliberately to em- em emphasize his statements still further And that Is I the most Important poInt Mr Warwick he went on Mrs Jordan had never neer even heard of Edward Fletcher nor had she the least Information of the un unpleasantness pleasantness between him and her husband But Dut at nt some time or oth other er or Stuart had either cither shown her a photograph photo of Mr Merrick or point point- pointed pointed ed him out to her She knew therefore lint the Intruder was an Impostor Th re was something un- un underhanded un underhanded about his lies his su sur- sur surreptitious sur surreptitious hunt and an his guilty con con- conduct duct dueL Obviously he be had no more business there than she he too was up to some nefarious scheme for or Stuarts Stuart's detriment Naturally more than mere merc curi curl curiosity curiosity Impelled her to spy jpy on him The Instant of his departure Mrs Jordan climbed out the window and swIftly reached her own room with with- without without without out attracting much attention She I got down downstairs Just behind him and like Mrs Irs logan saw v him hirr enter his yellow roadster on the he street and drive off orr she six even noted down his license number And that lint very ery night at forty five five as she en- en entered en entered the fraternity to poison polson her husband she discovered the same me car parked outside 1 I The owner also apparently his enemy was In- In inside In Inside side the housel house 1 I Once more she seized on a hen sent heaven Yen sent opportunity I ty to deflect suspicion The murder committed she escaped during the I excitement of Jordans Jordan's collapse i without expecting to Incriminate Mr lr Fletcher ns as deeply as he even even- eventually eventually I became Involved ed she stopped long enough h to drop the hypodermic hypodermic mic Into the pouch of his machine The supervisor nodded his under under- understanding understanding standing now How low did she open the front door of ot the fraternity In the first place Where did she secure a key I 1 cant can't be bo quite positive about that the detective e replied slight slight- slightly I Iy ly dubious Doctor Prince might 41 II ii iiI I I 1 G Then Much After Midnight the Night of the Crime She Sir Went Back to Stuarts Stuart's Quarters to Steal Her Letters and the th Can Can- Canceled Can Canceled Checks Cheeks have ha got It for her Just ns as he lie bl- bl betrayed be betrayed to her ber all nil the necessary ceremonial secrets He lIe probably didn't though Stanton tanton said noth- noth nothIng noth nothing ing about his Ills ever sending for one More likely Mrs Jor Jordan nn spent sev se several oral eral mornings Just before dawn outside the house when the street was most deserted obtaining an im- im impression Im Impression of the lock If It challenged she could easily get away with It by pretending to be a n drunken member of the chapter attempting to locate l cate tile lire keyhole key Much Much after neter midnight the night of the crime she slie went back to Stuarts Stuart's quarters to steal her let letters and the canceled checks She hind to wall wait until after atler his death to take them lest he discover they were missing and suspect something amiss The she checks she remO removed which explains es why I coul couldn't nt find them Wednesday Y morning but the letters wEre wE're No won won- der dor she hesitated about telling astory n a astory story which they contradicted when she first arrived at nt headquarters headquarters on Friday evening e I She more than half surmised the Intruder had them though why he wanted them she could not Dot tell In that case It seemed very ery unlikely he would ever er return them to tr me me and she could safely and freely speak of her tier hap hap 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