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Show Ok RED HOUSE 0.r3?r MYSTERY , Ihaps It wasn't a pltot ihot aftr all. I After a moment or two he eoea to th' library door assist. The profound sl-lenee sl-lenee make him uneasy bow. No harm lit sotnc Into the office Just to reaa-ure reaa-ure himself. Bo be trlea the door and flndi It locked! What are his emotlone now? Alarm, uncertainty. Something la happening. Incredible though It seem. It must have been a pistol hot. He la banging bang-ing at the door and calling out to Mark, and there la no anawer Alarm-yea Alarm-yea But alarm for whoee safety! Mark's, obviously. Robert la a atrang-er; atrang-er; Mark ! an Intimate friend. Robert haa written a letter that morning, the letter of a man In a dangeroua temper. Robert la the tough customer; Mark the highly civilised gentleman. If there haa been a quarrel. It Is Robert who haa shot Mark. He bangs at the door "Jcourse, to Antony, coming suddenly sudden-ly upon this scene, Caylsys conduct had seemed rather absurd, but then. Just for the moment, Cayley had lost his head. But. aa soon as Antony suggested sug-gested trying the windows, Cayley saw that that was the obvious thing to do. I Ho he leads the way to the windows the longest wsy. , w! Te trie the murderer time to eeraneT If he had thought then that Mark was ths murderer, perhaps, yes. But he thinks that Robert Is. the I murderer. If he Is not hiding any- thing, he must think so. Indeed, he saya so, when he sees the body: "I might be aa well to keep an eye on him. CHAPTER VI The guests had aald goodhy to Cay-ley. Cay-ley. according to their different manner. man-ner. Rill hsd -oooah-4hevwtivc9 the Twhail" taken his own farewells (with a special spe-cial aqueexe of the hand for Betty), and had wandered out to Join Antony on hla garden aeat. !"W'ell. this Is a rum show," said Bill aa he sat down. "Very rum, Willlsm." "And you actually walked right Into it r "RlRht Into It," said Antony, and proceeded to tell all that he had already al-ready told the Inspector, Bill Interrupting Inter-rupting him here and there with appropriate ap-propriate "Oood Lords" and whistles. . "I say. It's a bit of a business. Isn't ItT Where do I come In. exactly?" Antony smiled at him. "Well, there's nothing to worry about, you know. Besides. I need you. Things are going to happen here soon." (Continued In our next Issue.) mM HRBB TODAT. I Within two uilnst.s sft.r RODKKT ABI.ETT. l.'er-S-w.ll Srotaeref MARK ABl.tTT. karb.lor proprietor t the R.d Hone, hsd arrived sad Waa aaharad Into Mark'a ofri . a shot was hterd. AN TUNY Ull.LINUHAM. a frl.ad of Ull.l. KEVKK1.KT. one et MerH'e oats, arrived at that momeat te flea Mark s companion, , MATT CAtI.T. possdlag the locked door oC lh i.rcice and d.mandms i'"t-l.nc. i'"t-l.nc. The two mas ant.r.d the '? by a wlsdow OS the floor found lha hodr ol ob.rt Mlk a ballet tnroush th. bead. Mark was a..h.ra loand ln.ensatt" br alio.d thai M.rh had learned, with coa-aid.rahla coa-aid.rahla eX aad ananeo. sf ."a cumiar of ob.rt. Cayley r.ld te ba-li.va ba-li.va thai Mark kad d.llbaralaly sr- """J'uV'.nTM TH STOBT. CHAPTER V. The housekeeper's room had heard something of the news by this time, and Audrey had had a busy time explaining ex-plaining to other members of the staff exactly what ha hsd said, and what shs hsd said. The details were not quite 'estsbllshed yet. but this much at least 'wss certain: that Mr. Marks brother i had shot himself snd spirited Mr. I I Mark away, and that Audrey had seen at once that he was that aort of man irhin shs spmtil lh- door la him. Lime had a contribution of her own to make. 8he hsd actually heard Mr. Mark In the office, threatening his brother. "He aald, I heard him aay It with my own eara. 'It's my turn now.1 he aald. trlumphant-llke." "Well. If you think that's a threat, dear, you're very particular. I gsuet say." But Audrey remembered Elsie's words when she was In front of In-Doctor In-Doctor Birch. She gsve her own evidence evi-dence with the readiness of one who hsd already repeated It sevsral tlmee. "Then you didn't see Mr. Mark at all?" , "No. sir: hs must have come In be-fore be-fore and gone up to his room." "Well. 1 think that's all that I want to know. Now what about the other servants?" "Klals heard the master and Mr. Robert talking together," said Audrey eagerly. He was saying Mr. Mark. I mean " "Ah! Who Is Elsie, by the wsyr "Ons of the housemaids Shall I send for her, sir?" "Please." am that InterestednsnectttrUlrch was that Klsie was passing through ths hall, and heard voices in the office. "And stopped to listen?" "Certainly not." said Elsie with dignity. dig-nity. "I was Just passing through the hall. Just as you might have been yourself, your-self, and not supposing they was talking talk-ing secrets, didn't think to stop my ears, as no doubt I ought to have done." And she sniffed slightly. "Come, come." said the Inspector soothingly. "Now then, what waa It yoi heard? Try to remember th exact words." Something about working In a Passu Pas-su re, thought Elsie. "H'm. Working a passage oyer could that have been Itt" "That's right, sir." said Elsie eagerly. eager-ly. "Hi d worked hi passage over." 'Well?" !,. hn Vp Mark aald loudly looked at. For th moment h left I them undisturbed. They would onme ; back to him later when he wanted ; them. He laurhed suddenly, and lit hla pipe. "I Waa wanting a new profession," he thought, "and now I've lound It., Antony Gllllhfham, our own private sleuthhound. I shall berln today." Whatever Antony OlIllnRham s other qualifications for his new profeeelon, he had at any rate a brain which worked clearly and quickly. And this clear brain of his had already told him that he waa the only pfron In the houee at that moment who was unhand. un-hand. capped In the search for truth. The Inspector had arrived In It to find a man dead and a man ml twin a;. It waa extremely probable, no doubt, that th missing man had shot the dead man. But It was more than extremely pro-able. pro-able. It was almost certain that the Inspector In-spector would start with the Idea that this extremely probable solution was the one true solution, and that. In consequence, con-sequence, he would be leas dlspoeed to consider without prejudice any other solution. Inspector Birch waa certainly pre-1 pared to believe that Mark had shot his brother. Robert had been shown Into the offloe (witness Audrey); .Mark had gone In to Robert (witness Cayley); Cay-ley); Mark and Robert had been heard talking (witness Klale) ; there was a shot (witness everybody) ; the room had been entered and Robert's body had been found (witness Cayley and, Gllllngham). And Mark was missing. I Obviously, then, Mark had killed his brother; accidentally, as Cayley be-1 lleved or deliberately, aa Elsie's evl- I dene aeemed to suggest. j But there were other possibilities. It would have Interested Aintony to know I that, J u at at the lime when he waa feeling rather euperlor to th pred-1 ju diced Inspector, th Inspector himself him-self waa letting his mind dwell lovingly lov-ingly upon th poanlblHtles In eonnec- Uon with Mr. Gill in bam. Waa It only a coincidence that Mr. Gllllngham had turned up Just when he did? And Mr. Beverley's curious answers when aaked for soma account of, his friend. An j assistant In a tobacconist's! An odd man, Mr. QIIHngham, vldently. It I -And that's all you heard V waa afraid It waa Mark." he says when he finds that It Is Robert who Is killed. No reeaon. then, for wishing to gain time. On the contrary, every Instinct would urge him to get into th room aa quickly aa possible, and sets the wild Robert. Yt h goes the longest way round. Why? And then, why run? "That's th question." aald Antony to hlmeelf, aa he filled hia pip, "and bless me If I know the answer." He sat there with his unlit plpo In his hand, thinking. There were one or two other things In th back of hts brain, waiting to be taken out and ort of trlumphant-llke 'If my turn now" You wait.' " "Trlumphantlyf "As much aa to aay hi chanc had com." And that' all'you heard?" "That's all. sir not standing ther llstenlnr. but Just paaslng through ths hall, aa It might b any time." "Ye. Well, that' really very Important. Im-portant. Elsl. Thank you." Klale gave Mm a amlle, and returned re-turned eagerly-to the kitchen. Meanwhile Antony had been exploring explor-ing a little on hi own. Ther waa a point which sn puisllng him. H want through th hsll to ths front of ths house snd stood at the open door. He and Cayley had run round the house to the lefj. Surely It would have been quicker to have run round to the right t Undoubtedly they went the longest way round. "WhyT" he asked himself. "Waa It to give Mark more time In which to escape? Only. In that caae why run? l Aleo, hjav Hit Career know rRr'fl that If ! was Mark who was trying to eecape? If he had guessed thst one had ahot the other, it waa much mora likely that Robert had shot Mark. Indeed, he had admitted that this wss what he thought. The first thing he had aald when he turned the body over waa 'Thank God! I was afraid It was Mark.' But Why should hs want to give Robert I time In which to get away? And again why run. It he did want to give blm timer I Antony went out of the houss again to the lawns at the bark, and sat down Ion a bench In view of the office win 'dowa "Now then." b aald. "let" go through Cayley' mind caiafully, and see what we get." . Cayley had been In the hall when Robert waa shown Into ths office. The serve nt goes off to look for Mark, and Cayley goes on with his book. Mark comes down the etaira, warna Cayley to atand by In caae he la wanted, and goes to meet his brother. What doe Cavley expect? Possibly thst hs won't be wanted after ail; possibly thst his advice may I be wanted In the matter, aay, of paying pay-ing Kobert'a debts, or getting him a passage back to Australia: possibly thst his physical, assistance msy b wsnted to get an obstreperous Robrt out of th house. Well, he sits there for a moment, and then goea Into the library. Suddenly he bears a pistol shot. For the moment he would hardly realise what It waa. He ll'sens. 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