Show RED HUlTON STORY Of NEW YORK Py y WILL Y r Copyright The he IRWIN Comp T of Preceding Chapters Harding and Jones Jone living J Mr jM I m Uri Mra 1 00 Moore's Moores OOT boarding house in liz Now r-cw Kith are entertaining me men friends In Ini Ini house houpo parlor pallor Professor Oi i i bo boarding them Cas Cap Cal u dt dI diet t delu Joins w 4 5 years fars ot of ago I of oC moo moody y ti lives on the third floor aero across e hall hail lIdl fro from Noll NoB Mrs Mn Moore S goes to III ill MI 8 room Oom of or Estrillo Estrilla who ho is brother er la is reading to her hir Mrs Hanska as he ho ascends th the tho We Mrs Irs He does not fI tp ak la ronet KW ace de culls cant and ks for Cor Hanska a. a Tho bcd to send Wad itter tt r r par Y i Js in bed bcd to tho descends s the stairs nor ir looks in and leaves tho house flis Harding goes Joes upstairs n ave minutes words In f ter ter She hears high wor s room w in i and believes sho lio rOCo recognizes ados a aSee See pIce ee and that of or Hanska Wade Wado leaves le hou e. e Tommy d drunk North nV a at 2 22 2 years cars of oC are F ge staggerS Moore hears him Mrs I He the h stumbles Hi HiHi morning on the thc third landing Hi strike a at aI the floor noor Ills ilIn to t I ot of M. M blood which he h. wipes on W shirt lie Ho turns on the In his room oft nt alarm En- En the the blood and tl gives Give seea room and sees tho bod body Hanka's 33 rs nl to bloc 5 the door Noll rushes ruehe and a knife In breut the tho room enters entera lie Ho sa saYS his Ma- Ma tim or of the tho murder r has hall telephoned the mur- mur North a rL r. MOOT foore denounce bloodstained his when she sees darer e. e who has a clothing treet is b at- at house across tho the tho commotion She She notifies by To telephone by and coroner the police he Mows an order signed b by McGee that all matters eon con hIm Suspicion her be referred to Tommy North Ito becomes be- be la Is- iVy upon defiant and Is bullied b by the comes omes she to make M MrS Moore saY a They heY try house rho fhe Id not hear him enter the I sergeant then asks Mrs Moore sneering ai question t t who else could have ha done lono lo o it f Who cho else else elso has bas been bren hero r rAnd Mia And d the inrush of or memory brought a a a. a little shriek from Mrs l Moore K Z Mr MT Wade the th the who wha Tailed she sho cried erid d. d All at fonce n e her suspicions s left loft the branded Mr North Mr Wade Vade haq bad come late latem in iii m the evening evening and v ning-an ning and that in in the loc doe oc tors tor's opinion was Just lust about the t timo mo when Captain Hanska must have died Yr r. r Wade had bad called two hyo or three times before always at night Trembling Trem Trent bling she f found und his card 1 Lawrence Wad Wade Curfew club club in club in the plated tray at th the han hall door Suddenly Miss iss lI Hardine Hard Hard- in jag ine who had been refusing all light lighton on the events of ai the c evening gave Stave a a little shriek brlek r k Why they wore were quarreling when 1 I 1 w went t t- t dhe cried Then she stopped topped as though fearful of her own owa words The The police turned turne on OD her hor In Tu tc i tumble of words and emotions she told what she he know knew Mr Wades Wade's late call ii the hi high h words the fact faut aut th that t none had heard beard a sound from Captain Hanska's room after Wade left the that house house that was enough for the coroner coroner coro coro- ner ner ver and the detectives They packed Tommy North sober North sober pale but ut now no thoroughly Iy collected into into into the patrol i wagon wa on sent Bont the hue huc and cry to the club dub after Mr Wade put the bouye e under guard and called their t days day's work Tork done r And the rest of the Moore having first received dreadful dreadful dread dread- ful warning concerning the fate of ot ab ab- witnesses finished that uneasy uneasy un un- easy eay night under the ministrations of osalie Lb Ui Gran Grange e at t i CHAPTER IL ILI t The Tho Chief j t Inspector Martin n McG McGee e the middle I a ged cd solid executive of the New Ness NewYork York sat at in his business like of of- fice running over the r reports ports on tho Han Hanska ka murder now less than a cal cal- day old but already the sub sub- it t of those innumerable extras which the newsboys were shouting under his windows Nothing othin in the formal docu docu- before him served to give gise him ny new pew light Thomas North ad ad- agent nt at present locked up to await examination had han announced Ithe the discovery try of the murder When l made the announcement ho was spotted potted and daubed with blood Cap Cap- tain Hanska had then been dead at l east an hour For the period in which I f f llan Hanska ka must have have died North proved I fa Fa perfect alibi unless alibi unless tho the landlady or r. r orth's companions at the annual of the had lied to tor r the detectives Lawrence Wade Wade that that looked like the man wan Wade was miss miss- in from froni the Curfew club when the arrived however through the F memories of a taxicab driver and ra a ticket seller he had been traced to Boston and there arrested in the tho very cry a. a act ct t of engaging D a in European passage Wado Wade had visited Hanska Kanaka at about the ie time of the murder as as C shown bv the condition of the body Wade I that fact fad I 11 1 was there thero on business for a friend he ho said Pressed to explain why he bad had marie made ft uc i- i a sudden trip out of town ho he j to answer anS He lie knew his le lecal al rights rl rights rights-be he he was waI a it lawyer it appeared appeared- and he would give no no further t Lawrence Wade Vado it must be he un- un ets this Hus proved an flu insi inside e job iob The windows of Captain Hanska's room ere pj-ere rc ore e both fastened when North dis dis- fe covered eed the murder but hut his outer door adint into the hall hail was unlocked There were Tere no signs j ns of au any enhance entrance by tho the front door or the tho basement door dor B By ni night ht Wide Wade and North mus must go goon goon 0 on the thc carpet for a little touch of tho the third degree Tn Inspector McGee was a firm believer belie In Iii that same nm ime third doie de do do- gree grec ie LecoQ tactics tactic ho distrusted with the distrust of f a narrow man for foe too tho other n mans man's J weapons But th the formal documents in in the tho Hanska Hauska case interested Inspector McGee Mc Me- Gee Geo less a great rat deal les Ies than an informal informal in in in- formal verbal report made marle that morning morn inc ing by thc the sergeant in command of tho the thore re reserves ene Wo Vo didn't know nothing A about out her chief ho he said II except that she bo hal had had an order from you OU telling a us to keep our hooks off her Forgot tho the name numo something French with a L L- L Le e c behind it It was all right wasn't it Inspector 1 McGee Goe understood at on once audi antI tho the information brought a a little thrill Ho had given only two such papers in his career and the tho other was wa held b bv by a man inan So Ro Rosalie aJie I Lo Gran Grange o ohad had bobbed up again again Rosalie Rosalie Le Lc LeGran LeGrange Gran Grange e trance test and clairvoyant medium follower of a n small half crim criminal crim- crim inal trade trad but hut friend of society a against larger criminals How JIow curiously that woman had bad glanced in iii and out of of his life and what luck sho she had brought ht I His first success for example the example tho solution so so- lution of or the Heywood murder which had raised him him from front plain detective to detective sergeant None but him and her knew how Ro Rosalie Le Ie Grange had cleared up that important case b by her knowledge and shrewdness and had slipped out of it in tho the dramatic moment mo ino ment meat leaving to him the credit Then tho the Martin ease case which had helped make e al him hun a captain the captain the McGregor diamond case hall half a dozen n smaller ca cases es all successes and all redounding greatly to his reputation For years yearn now she sho had been completely complete out of his world Once a vague rumor that she was very ery prosperous had set him wondering with th a little regret t whether she had fallen to tricking big bis dupes In old years ears she always f affected to despise that process Hero lIero she sho was was a again ain mysterious and dramatic still at tho the vcr very focus of ot another bi big case The Tho heavy y lips of Martin McGee r iu in a a. snub of unaccustomed sweetness as be he thou thought ht on oIl her and less on her talents and her beneficent influence over his career than on her look and move mo and joy in in life He Ho her a aa as she sho stepped into his career ten years rears ago plump ago plump but shapely dimpled brown haired marvelous in tho the compelling expression expression expression sion of her gray grav eyes He lIe recalled the Rosalie of three years vears a ago still ago o still shapely but now touched ed with age ae and powdered with gray Tay From amon among the half forgotten or otten memories of a busy bUllY and rather brutal life jfe she stirred into full fun vision Inspector McGee was 48 years cars carsola old ola and aud that period is the tho Indian summer sum summer mer of romance Ho ITo found himself elf lookin looking forward to their next meet meet- in ing And as he bent over his desk in unaccustomed unaccustomed un un- un accustomed meditation the tho hour of that meeting wag wan come The doorman brought n a card card card- Mrs card Mrs Rosalie Lo Grange Grange and anel and behind him she ap ap- ap Any woman who ho had known the Rosalie Lc Ic Grange of Inspector McGees McGees Mc Me- Gees Gee's recollections would have nave read I new prosperity into her at first glance lanco Then rhen her ber shirt shut waists always immaculately immaculately neat were of cheap lawn Jawn now her waist was and cluny hung hun over a figured silk Her suit had that perfect tailored simplicity which only genius cenius achieves Her hat was waa unobtrusive un obtrusive but any discriminating feminine fem fern I mine eye would have nave seen that Verre i made it it and V Verre cne comes high hib These signs of wealth escaped ped Martin McGee McGoe The proof to him was more moro tangible tangible- the diamond pendant at her throat the rings on her fin fingers er He noted these those little brothers of prosperity before he perceived how bow much younger oun er she appeared ap ap- ap in faco face and figure than when he saw her last Being mere male malo man man he could not understand that this false falso youth was born and bred of tho the modiste the milliner and the mas mae sense H Well wen well exclaimed Martin Mc Mc- McGee Gec Gee rising as though to some great personage back back a again ain Sa Say Sav you just fust couldn't keep out of b big g doings could you OU And how pretty you look prettier and prettier all the die time I What bat hauled you into the Hanska Honska ca case e I aint in the Hanska Hanaka case at all all responded Rosalie Rosalio Le Lc Gran Orange Grange c answering answering answer answer- ing int his second question first 1 at at least not d deep ep Martin McGee She flashed upon him her dimples snapped at him her great reat gray eyes ees When a person per port son is HI comin homo home late from a sup per with ith an actress friend an sees a door open and hears people talking on the inside with remarks about murder murder mur mur- der and police sho she investigates Which I done An when she sho finds a lot of human hens around like liko their heads was cut off she helps straighten things out I was never ri right ht up close to I a murder before She paused a minute her dimples faded laded and the lines Jines of her face fell Ugh she shu I dered with the memory That said Mid Martin McGee is what Id I'd call caB a coincidence II Coincidence repeated Rosalie Lo Le Gran Grange o with fine scorn II now now vou you look here Inspector McGee there thero a aint n t Vy y such thing as aa coincidences nn any more than theres there's such a athing thing as BS luck No Martin McGee McGeo Nearl Nearly everybody that's lived lon long enough h in New Now York has had bad a murder or a burglary or something in tho the same sanie block It was fiS bound to happen to me in in in time It happened and ana instead of ot minding m my myown own business lik liko the rest I butted straight in When the reasons for a athing athing thing gets too tangled up for you ou and me to follow we stick a label Jabol on it an nn call it luck But lint there sho lio checked herself this is Js just one ono of my plat Ia lat t- t form inspirational talks liko I used to give ive the sitters in my test Only then I laid it to the tho spirits Now I lay it to Rosalie Rosalio Lo Le Grange Used tot echoed InsI Inspector Mc Mc- Gee Does Doell that mean youve you've cut it out f Well do these clothes and thia five five- hour dollar massage o on my poor old face look like I 1 got em om from sitters at two dollars a throw throws inquired Rosalie Le Lo G Grange GranEn rang a. a Say asK me about it please Im I'm dying to tell All An right ht Ive I've asked responded Martin McGee a kind of dull fire lire il iI II- laminating his biB clean shaven jowly po lice countenance Now said Rosalie Le Lo Gran Grange e Im C I m going to astonish you f 1 Marty McGee I i got ot it f from Robert H. H Norcross Nor Nor- cross cross the tho railroad king McGees McGee's face fell feU This mascot of his this curious good fairy who had skipped in and out of his career scat golden successes was a kind of an Ideal idel That sho should lI rork ork a n doddering millionaire millionaire-as millionaire millionaire-as as Norcross had bad been in his last years years for for the tainted coin of aged folly was a blow to what idealism an un inspector of detectives ma may I hope still to cherish Rosalie skilled from youth to catch and interpret tho the unconsidered expression of the tho human countenance read his emotion at nt once II No No I dont don't mean at all aU what you mean Martin McGee she sho said aid Listen It dont don't m matter er what I did or how I 1 did it but it-but but I saved this Robert Rob Rob- ert H. H Norcross from makin about the biggest kind of a n. fool out of himself Theres There's 8 more things get by the police than get to em em Inspector Martin Mc Mc- Goe Gee Especially in tho the medium game Norcross was caught I te tell you ou Ever ver hear of Mrs Paula Paulo larkham Tho The woman who skipped skip to Paris tho the Warfield affair asked Mc Gee Rosalie nodded And And a great medium too she said but also a great rent crook Well she had Robert Hobert Norcross I 1 tell teU you 1 Rosalie extended one ono of 01 of her creamed and polished hands Sho She closed tho fingers gradually into one ono pink adorable ador able ti tight ht fist cc Just rust like liko that she sho eaid said Ho I He was the right age ose to bo be worked by a medium And think of the tho stake Tho The newspapers said when ho died that his est estate to was smaller than anbo anybody y thought But it was five seventy millions Mrs bam Ial had bad him him and and them An I broko broke that grip rip It aint necessary for mo me to say eav how bow Funny thing was I didn't do 10 ft for at al all but just for a lL little blue eyed fool of a girl sirl in love Well Vell anyhow when ho he woke up find and realized the narrow shave share he had Mr Norcross I b began an to investigate ate an found what Id I'd done Do Dp you remember er sho she I asked suddenly that the they probated thO the Norcross Will Nt hn nu knew wh what o. Ch-o. ho did with ith hIs his money except his hill nephew got trot most of it i I remember said Inspector Mc Mc- Gee And then on a su sudden den burst of lau laughter cc Gee Gee Wouldn't the tho news papers give a heap to get this story you |