Show 1 TE KING ve Dr it i us VE Copyright 1924 by Alfred A. A Knopf pf Inc B By y j J S FLETCHER Published January 1924 Second printing February 1924 Continued from yesterday You want to know how mine got here said Well Welt maybe we ve are aro come to the same sam point s You are here of course after Ottilia Morro Lets Let's be plain ana and brief to start with You first Youve You've found out where Ottilia Morro Is I I have She is a nun nun she she lives in a n. convent here herel in Rome It Is Isa Isa a n. convent of one of the very ery strictest strictest strictest strict strict- est of the enclosed orders All AU the same I have letters of 01 introduction I in my pocket that I believe will bring her to light even If she were burled buried a a. hundred feet deep beneath the floor of the Catacombs Listen Listen Listen Lis Lis- ten And he gave the detective a brief resume of all he h had d done and heard and laid special emphasis on the fact that the old priest had said three times over that the In Innocent innocent innocent in- in mast must not suffer It struck me then and it has been striking me more than ever everall everall ever all the way in the train between n ana and n tome 11 t mat h Vint nt at the thA me p nM nUl om ld B gen liU Sen en I n ana and n tome t mat h at the me p om ld B gen liU Sen en Naples Home gentleman knows more of this matter than he has told me concluded ded Graye I think that Ottilia Morro told him a great deal under the seal of confession for he was obviously obviously ob ob- ob- ob startled and shocked not notto notto to say greatly upset when I 1 said that Lady Wargrave argrave S argrave was accused murder of f her grandfathers grandfather's Yes but you'll get no more out of him than out of this table said The only hope for Lady Wargrave is that Ottilia may maybe maybe maybe be moved to public what she has probably told to this old priest And that leads me to think that you and I 1 are coming to a more definite point than I had fancied Haven't I 1 said all along that I 1 was Wal sure that If it f we could find the murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer of ot th the unknown man wo should find the murderer of Marco Graffi Well Veil Well I I have at any rate found out who the unknown man was Or at any rate I 1 Iam am morally certain cerI tain who he ha was His na name e was I r Carlo Cafferata and he had some connection with witha a a. residence numbered numbered num- num 3 2003 in the tiie Via here In ing Rome HoW did yoU you find out that You have told me your tale tale tale- now I will t tell ll mine said combe And he proceeded to unfold unfold unfold un un- fold the story of the pocketbook and of what he had found In it As last he concluded I believe I am on the right track It seems to me that this Cafferata went from here Paris and London Londen seeing Stefano di Spada in one place seeing seeing and and probably findIng findIng find find- fina- fina Ing without LucIen Lucen difficulty dl Spada in the other ether th r. r He certainly saw old Marco Graffi on the night nighton on which Marco met his pis ls death According Ac Ac- According cording to your account during the Interview which took place between Marco and Cafferata Cafferata Caffer Carter ata while white you were in the flat Marco fetched papers from his bedroom and and there ere Is strong presumption from what I 1 remember remember re remember re- re member of 01 my examination of ot the grate fire grate in the sitting g room In which the interview took took place place t that at those papers were burnt by the two men Now this man C Cafferata then left and during the night Marco Mar Mar- co Graffi was murdered And the whole problem seems to me to lie In an answer to the question what question what was the connection between Cat Cafera- Cafera era ta to the Di Dl and Graffi and were the Di and Cafferata In league together to o get rid of Grim Griff 1 and why surely not one question but three questions which seem to tobe tobe tobe be only a part of a series of rines- rines tl ns said Graye And I 1 dont don't see how youre you're going to get answers answers answers ans ans- to any of th the particular three Now let me suggest something So far Cal as my remembrance goes goes and and Its It's pretty keen there keen there was not much doubt that the weapon produced produced produced pro pro- by the workman at the coroners coroner's coroners coroner's coroners coroner's cor cor- oner's Inquest was the one used on the old man the stiletto that was certainly Gemma's Lady Gemma's Lady Wargrave's Wargrave's War- War graves grave's T N No not No not not much doubt about that that agreed having thought for a moment No I 1 remember that now And the caretakers caretaker's wife Acock Visa Mrs fi Acock Acock yes yes didn't she say that the had disappeared for some time previous to the murder murder murder mur mur- der She said that she ehe hadn't seen It lying on Miss Gemma's dressing dressing dress dress- ing table where she had usually observed ob ob- served it lt Well Well how how come the murderer whoever he or she was for was for It might Just as well wall have been been a a. woman as asa asa asa a man man to to get Jet possession of this stiletto Theres There's a lot in that lescombe The detective meditated for tor a time At last he shook his head I dont don't attach much importance to that he remarked Mrs Acock said that she hadn't seen lIeen the stiletto stiletto stiletto stil stil- etto for some time but what does that amount to You know and I 1 know that the room which old Griff Grit Grit- f fi used as a study the study the one one you had supper In and In-and and his bedroom were littered with books papers instruments Instruments m ments and all sorts of ot odds and ends The stiletto might have havo been placed or misplaced amongst these matters and tho the murderer might snatch It up at the critical moment But Graye In his turn his head and he smiled No o ho he said with decision You are aro wrong there l bb- bb t cause that would prove provo that the murder was done as ae a sudden thing on tho the spur of the moment But it It was surely the WOrk wont of ot careful arrangement of ot premed premed- Whoever killed Marco Graff Graffi carried that stiletto with him or her Yes Yea said I r think youre you're right I 1 hadn't quite considered considered considered con con- that point But you But you say him or her You think a woman might be the guilty party Why not I have always believed that the murder of Marco I Graff GraUl was the work of some secret soci soci- ety Why should they not employ tho the hand of a woman A woman con can move about more noiselessly than a II man You never went Into the history of the various tenants of Mansions you know There may have been some Italian woman there who had reason for killing Marco arco Graffi for anything know We to the contrary paid no apparent heed to this suggestion He sat thinking for a a. time Well Vell theres there's one thing we can cando cando cando do at once In reference to all that he said Ill ll wire Just now to Kenrick Kenrick Ken Ken- rick and get him to find out first thing tomorrow morning from Lady Wargrave what she did with that stiletto Ill I'll send the wire V in the meantime consider how v we ca can work together and what we ve can cnn do When he returned from dispatchIng dispatching dispatch dispatch- dispatch dispatch- ing the telegram found Graye evidently determined on a a. course of action lIe He looked at the detective with the the eyes of ot ofa ofa ota a man who sees an object and is resolved to make for it It Theres only one thing that ought to be done at fl first st he said and I 1 must do It whatever you may y do I must see Ottilia Ottilla Morro Yes HYes said aid I I 1 suppOse suppose sup sup- pose so But Du she But she t-she she wont won't tell you anything Dont Don't flatter yourself that tha she will because she wont won't If It all i as I T suspect Ottilia Morro wont won't tell anything except In a a. wit witness ness box and on oath Graye Grays g-a g gave ve his companion a sharp look Suspect Suspect hs Us you suspect he said Why what Why what do you suspect Nothing definite But when a ayoung ayoung ayoung young woman who is is' is enjoying u a u. public career as a who is in the heyday of youth who is flourishing at nt the height of her beauty forsakes the world and burIes buries burlea bur bur- ies lea herself herselt In the living tomb of a strictly en enclosed religious order she doesn't do it for nothing Dr Graye Grafel She has a a. reason And Ottilia Morro Mor Mor- ro Is Italian Graye looked at the detective wonderingly doubtfully I I believe bellee you are beginning to believe that Ottilia Ottilla Morro had something to do with the tho murder of old he ho exclaimed Do you your laughed Its conceivable that 1 T might he Answered Perhaps I can tell tel you more definitely In the mo mor Now Im I'm going to bed beC bed M But next morning when G Gr proceeded from his bedroom lescombe was not to be found found forenoon was half halt way through the tle young doctor was ly when the detective i As he approached Ghe G Ghe he waved a telegram 0 Well Vell heres here's news that see sea pertinent he said This i is fm KenrIck Ho He evidently post posted d. d to see seel Lady Wargrave as soon he ho reached his office Read fit It Graye ran his eyes over overt the x message I Lady Wargrave perfect J members the stiletto and also Ushe U she made madea a a. present of it to Morro who had taken a fancy it it t What do you think of ot Jha that i asked Graye shook his head The d d. tive stifled a yawn ya Continued tomorrow |