Show J I f The Crime Doctor octor i ERNEST W. W HORNUNG By r. r COPYRIGHT 1914 Company Publishers The Merrill Bobbs-Merrill L 0 F SYNOPSIS CHA T ERS caI calls himself i DOuat ft n n n who yO has some somo C Doctor Ideas about nd or an poten- poten Is and Od rl Ot of C Cr d with Qu nal incomeS oC Jn I r I rn home me ster about about b Dr om watch t C I t g hO tak n It itI po ket vho The Thet II BUt I 1 t the and d In f go tM doing I t. t tf 80 worl and In hIs hise h 1 5 In rY crImInals secre potential e r hOme for forI hl himself had crimInal crimInale bOft 0 result ot Of the I e time as 15 U a for tor 1 n tr wound d I t r that th It was the thc l finds 1 etC lo the watch his who hO t to gain the secretary's 4 eln eJ to promiseS to help the tnt I on inter inter- ark uk militantlY v o I lc I Is lady and I in her zeal al smashes ashes ted td In CS ut In prison and Is put C e U 1 finds that she has I on en ter er release ff ehe police officer while dentallY a has hasen that a man and to 10 Ite get t a awaY nag d of oC the mur murder er en Dr Donar for tor assistance be goes tO the latter th the we the n and the release 0 of 1 at getting ot of the mur- mur accused the roan nn Lady Vera oy url url- e I tact fact that th deed Is 1 kept ept secret React even Jen C but lie he tr tries es esthe secretarY the h home mo through a life lite liter t the o criminal trace concealed knife In It H with a I jene i mr r done murder was L bleh the tho Croucher to his hii home Dt 1 takes hIm g getting him w fads and clothes 1 remain rem for tor a 1 while to JI b JId his room by d dd dD d tal I enters murderess Is isI the real D him who Crouch- Crouch 1 blackmail her rr to I of a Plan pl homo home and attempts s from the spes apu s rom she Is travel travel- Lady era Vcra as aa d lip Up The Thea hu her mother molher I Romo to JoIn r t W traveling CUn learns ui or of the mo plan and a K i same mc t i prevents tho the robbery r U Ji Lady Vera Vcra to mar- mar h a young joung oun II to I U married shortly is sent the tte home homo s secretary to Dr Dollar to 11 be bt Co can help him to net get some I It t because ue ho has been unable to toLor toYo I Yo 11 1 rut Ltd Lor ellyn seems to be p-ea p great l MA ls with Rocchi a Q young oung nobleman IM is a a splendid skater The Tho doctor j ri is however Tc that he is a spy epy that t I 21 lue who has been letting out outa it a laM dans which E Edenborough Is sus- sus of selling and that tho they thoy arc are r feared plans platis giving false B. B Lucy Lcy anti and arc are marjel mar- mar jel ping joins to Switzerland for tor the thet t I a 8 Here they are ty tT Doctor Dollar bollar to whom thoy they tIe be story about a loc local doctor Alt Mt fr tr re me suing giving young oun Jack Laverick AI f of oC strychnine by mistake Jt arth is his tutor H n. n chemist to whom the tho prescription and who Is 18 supposed ed have to-have I sTi young oung La lire life by r sg the mistake is tho the one orvn who has cut cot nt the information about it Dr Nil r nod finds that the prescription he has vs ils Is a forgery find and obtains tho the origL L Dr Alt Is the thc man who cured him 1 I beUS bs be was US Injured by a shot and left lert mental rouble Ce e morning Edenborough discovers ers Laverick tampering with the tho baai DI which ore are r rd ready d for tor the tho s 's run ruti H Ho He IB Is knocked out by i 1 t tor from rom th the r follow lIow and when he I 1 to himself goes Coes Immediately to Pr It with tho Information They iLi i tt ln Ing to tho the slide when the they t Ll Laverick has b been cn hurt by byn n nt dent to his own toboggan rue Doctor Dollar Ioliar Is setting I La- La i- i Tatti broken log leg he ht performs an I oa on his Ills heart to see Ete If It ho can I IlaW laW eb lb it young oun mans man's character as ns it WU hl his W was R injured in an tnt Tho The operation Is successful Hi ill ts doctor suspects Scarth the tutor to kill his pupil Cm Gen Neville was as tho the Let ht eminent person to consult theet tho the cr et t d doctor lor b by regular appointment f that his hill wife after their 11 from rom India had bad suddenly be- be to terrible Illusions and 4 ru fraed she was losing her mind The date crime doctor UTa arranged ed to KO go o do down n to lr tome hom for a 1 week end to study the thc fl at o. o I WIlen tho the doctor go JO goes s fI down to tho the estate he Is informed first thing p 7 LI tM the lieutenant that the night before p j rite fIfe shot her favorite do log dog Ho He IB Is entertained when ho Is Ie on J f point of retiring receives a visit vIlt row young Paler Paley nephew o of oC the lIeu lIeu- I t who L Is his secretary I know said taid Paler Paley nodding I they must have hO laid th themselves f for lor visitors sItars at tho the start But ee e. e come now I wish they thoy did t a that wants them 7 ou 1 are rather a 0 small mall party 1 rOIl U UVe i Ve rather a n grim srim im party And imy timy old uncle is absolutely the a tt eest t man an I ever struck J 1 l Cont dont wonder er that you OU admire rn sin OU f dont don't know what vhal lie Is la Capsin Cap- Cap D Dollar He lie got Kot ot the V. V C C. when e was Wa my ng ago in lii Burmah Dunnah but he ho E w one ne for tor almost da day M every bomo home life lite r made mado no remark the young youn ow offered him hire a cigarette and gs r f to light another him him- elf He e required no 0 talk tal encouragement e funny thing is that hes he's not noty Sd d hy y y uncle Jm rm her nephew t I Irl U a wonderful woman too in r rl ay Bh She runs rues the thc place it-i it eIb bOO t. sItes sIte's 3 thrown awn away hero haro eh cant can't t help sip saying it it-I it I should fr b tt ter-tt if I 1 didn't lovo love him P I In lie ot of 1 bool books said Dollar i told me he was writing and that l you OU were wera helping Re dIdn't tell you ou what it was O I. men Tbt i 1 In UI t n t I wish J I could to b bathe t th last word on a but Ul j wout l ha c et to That's l lbook It spoken tUn one reason why Its Us Ii on his S Ii his book hook hH ft IM You everything e Doesn't Doesn t ho re- re 0 of a ade ba imin man sitting on n a athern el ei If he Is weren't what thern there'd l t t. hd theio h ho be nn an explosion sion eve every tr hele never Is one one-no What a II lIar watched tho Ilo WIng the pale youth his smoke th C o often n talk about hay Alway hn crime crimo I 1 Aunt EA EsIo They i Cant keep off oCt it ll- ll I a always t a chAnges tho the thon I though she 8 hadn't hadn t bit bad as n been bee I Ves e had n Uncle Of cor courle coure e- e bid I Id a god lot to make mako ake them them r t 01 Vo You ou U I heard leard a about out C th tho he H 0 I last allt I Only j gardener c-ardener lb r IQ 10 t m the h 1 last s' s man Jin an you OU would i In those of 01 such l a i thins thing trees e cr Just outside paused made extra m merry rry as aR 0 tI y ICY didn't find him look h flad a night nights ere L about I m not O J going KolnE I n to let hu It It Saul ia I d Dollar But tL t flOi old lie cost him an t Wanted bt teil to hear nil all about not from this worn lad with an old mans man's smile He Ill know knew w and anel the t type pe too wellIm wellIm well Im sorry Captain Dollar Jim Pale Paley looked sor sorry Yet Its It's all Yer very er erwell well wll I dont don't suppose the thc general tOll told you ou what happened last night W Well SSell II yes es he hC did hl hut without going into an any particulars Anti And now flOW the doctor made mado no se secret so- so cr cret t of his curiosity this was a matter mattot mat mat- tot ter on which he could not afford aCford to forego 00 enlightenment Nor wa WOH It like raking up an old horror it would do tho boy hoy more moro good than harm to speak k of ot this last affair I 1 CAnt CAn't tell toll you ou much about It myself myself my my- self said he I was wondering it If I r I could Just now on the lawn That's where It happened you OU know ku I didn't knowell know Well ell it wa was ntH and the funn funny thing is that I was there at the tho time I used to go out with the thc dog for tor a cigarette when the they turned in last nl night ht I was wa foolish enough to fall asleep In IC a chair on the lawn I had been leen playing tennis all tho the afternoon I and had a long bike rIde both ways I Well all an I J know Is that I oko up UI I thinking Id I'd been shot and there thero thereas a as as m my aunt with a revolver she In Insists Insists Insl In- In sl on carrying carrying and and poor Muggins as as a door nail Did she sa say it was an accident She behaved as if it It had been sho aim was all over o the thc poor dead brute Rather Ruther a savage dog wasn't it I II never thought so But tho the general gen hen ern oral eral I had no us use ue for fOl him hIm and and no wonder wonder wonder won won- der Did ho he tell you ho had bitten him in the shoulder No Yell Well he did lid only the tho other da day But that's the general all over O He Heney ney never r told me till tho the dog was dead I shouldn't be he surprised if it- it Yes it if if my mr aunt hadn't been in it somehow Poor old Muggins lu was such a bono bone bet between them You dont don't suppose hed he'd ended b by turning on her Hardly Ho He was a a kitten with her poor brute Another cigarette was lighted more Inhaling went on unchecked Was Vas Mrs by her herself cl out there there but but for you OU 7 Well yes Yell yes Does that mean she she- wasn't Upon my word I dont don't know said young oung frankly It sounds most awful rot but hut Just for fora a mom moment nt I thought I saw w somebody in a sort of surplice affair BuL Dut Ican Ican I J can only sweat swear to Aunt Essie Essle and she was in her dressing gown and It wasn't white Dollar did not go to bed hed at all He sat sal first at one window watching matching the thc i black trees turn blue and eventually e I a 1 variety of or sunny greens then at atthe tho the other staring down at the pr pretty tty I scene of a a. deed ugly in itself but uglier in tho the peculiar quality of its m mystery A dog only onh a t do dog this thiR time but the womans woman's own dog There were two new now sods on the place where he sup supposed pORed It had hurl lain withering But who or what was it that the these e young oung men had seen seen the tho one tho the general had bad told him about and this obviously ly truthful lad whom he himself himself him him- self had questioned Brown Drown devils do In flowing robes was vas perhaps only the old soldiers soldier's picturesque phrase the they might have turned brown in his Indian mind hut what of or Jim Paley's PaleR Pa- Pa ley's leys somebody In a sort of surplice affair Was Vas that bod body brown as aswell aswell well In the tho woods of or worse omen the gay little birds tuned up to deaf ears at the open window And a cynical i soloist went to so o far as to start saying Ina in ina ina Pretty pretty pretty pretty a liquid contralto But a little sharp Shari shot fired two nl ht and a day before be before h- h fore was tho the only sound Bound to get across the tho spare room window sill The bathroom was next door In that physically admirable house thore was boiling hot liot water at six o'clock In the morn morning InS InS' the servants made mado tea when ben they heard it running and the garden arden before breakfast was al almost almost almost al- al most a delight It might have havo been ben i an E Eden len lert it was as with I tho the serpent still in the grass Blinds went up like eyelids under bushy brows bro of ot Iv Ivy The grass re remained remained rt- rt gray with dew there thero was not enough sun aun an anywhere where though the whole sky eky beamed Dollar wandered Indoors the tho way the general had taken talC tak en him the tho da day before It was the wa way through h tho the library Libraries s sare are always interesting a 0 mans man's bookcase bookcase bookcase book book- case is h sometimes more mOle interesting than the man himself sometimes theone theone the theone one existing portrait of ot his mind Dellar Dollar Dol Del lar spent the best part of ot an absorb absorb- In log ing hour without taking a 1 single volume vol 01 ume from Its place pIneo But this was partly b because cause those ho he would have dipped into were under glass and lock and antl kc key And partly It was to duo to more accessible d distractions crown crown- In ing that very cry piece of or ostensible an antiquity an- an which contained the tho books and of ot which the top drawer drew drew diew out into the generals general's desk The Tho distractions were a peculiarly repulsive gilled gilded idol squatting with its tongue out as If if at nt the amateur author and a heathen sword on the wall behind it Nothing more but Dollar also had bad served in India in his day and anti liI his natural interest was vaa whetted by hy a certain smattering of ot lore loro lIe He was still sUll standing on a newspaper and a chair chait when a voice hailed him in no nu hospitable tone Reull Really Captain Dollar I should have ha a asked ked the servants ants for tor a ladder while I was about tt it it Of ot course courso it was Mrs and she was not even o pretending to look pleased He lie jump Jumped d down own with an apology y which softened not a n line lino of ot her sallow face faco and anti hon bony figure fIure It was an outrage ho lie owned But r I did stand on a paper to save sa the chair 1 say though I never ne noticed it was this weeks week's Field Really horrified at his own behavior beha beha- vior nor he did his Ills best to smooth and wipe away avay his footmarks on the thc wrapper of ot the tho paper But those subtle eyes like Uke blots of ot ink on old parchment wore no longer long trained Ion on tho the offender who mh missed misled led yet another an- an other ther look that might have ha hel helped tl him My Jy husbands husband's stud study Is rath rather rather- r holy ground was tho the ladys lady's last word I Ionly Ionly only came In myself because I thought he was here Mercifully d days dabs do not always JOon go JO goon goon on as badly as us the they begin more strangely this one developed loped into the dullest and most conventional of ot count country house Sundays General was as himself no not only dull hut but oven a 1 little stiff sUrf as became a good gOOi Briton who had said too much to too great a stranger overnight o His Ilis natural courtesy had become conspicuous he played punctilious punctilious host all da day and Dollar vas allowed to feel that If it he had come comedown down ns s a doctor he was staying on onas onas onas as an ordinary guest and In a house whore where guests were wele expected to ob observe oh- oh serve ser the sabbath abbath So the they all marched oC off together to the village o church where tho the general trumpeted tho the tune in his hla own octave read the tho lessons and kept waking up during the tho sermon There were Vero the re regulation regulation regula regula- ula- ula tion lion amenities with other devout de gentry gentry gen gen- try of tho the neighborhood there thero was the national Sunday sirloin at the midday meal and no more moro untoward topics to make lh the hosts host's forehead glisten or tho the hostess gleam and lower In the afternoon the tho whole party inspected every pry animal and vegetable on the thc premises and ond after tea the visitors visitor's car r came camo round Originally thero there had been much talk of or his hili staying until Monday Monda the tho general went through the form of ot pressing sing him once more but was not backed hacked up by his wife who had shadowed shadowed shad shad- owed them suspiciously ly all da tiny day Nor did tild he comment on this by hy so MO much muchas ns us a sidelong glance lanco at Dollar or contrive con con- trivo to get another mother word vord with him alone And the crime doctor Instead of or making any excuse to remain and penetrate these ne new m mysteries sterle showed a |