Show thu ad oa by YORKE DA DAVIS VIS rv lc copyright Copy rh 1121 1926 CHAPTER II if continued 3 her was very dark it n brownish olive tier her hair blue black lery cry abtin daut dant nod and wavy mid arid tile surrounding white of pillowcase sheet and nightdress N set of ort off the richness and depth 0 of tier coloring to the greatest ud ad 1 the quality quit lity lo in her ter face lay jay that gme gave it that strange weird unearthly look even now in quiet alum her I 1 could not decide tile the features we re bold rather than tine fine the lie brows end and lashes very heavy and the nose arond at the hase base the lips full and 0 rather wide though not protruding the cheekbones cheek bones high and prominent but tills this analysis left me no wiser than before it failed utterly to account for that strange different look her face wore there was wag no negro mood blood in tier veltis veins even een in ili it a remote staw of illation dilution the file fart fact was its as as it ans eliat tl it slip site was not a 11 caucasian there will be no trouble about identifying her doctor reinhardt re marked arid t L agreed with him film thinking that lie referred to tile strange quality of distinction I 1 hud had noted nhoun tier her face it was evident el dent file next moment that lip lie had soine inore tilte mark in ili mind for lie he enfil ril up one olie of til lie aissie hands dS that lay fly upon the co verIld and started to crip bick back b ick the sleeve of tier her 4 night liehs dress lint hut the lie movement wils was III arrested by an gesture from doctor ile Allster looking up lit at film for the lie first aline once we G ila lind stol stopped ped beside the lie girls lied bed I 1 saw that lit ills ees were shining etli all unaccountable excitement ile he bent down over the pillow tits ills ear not away froidl the liala parted 1 ps then we saw that tile the lips were in nun oving ing arid and in lite sud suddenly dvid y enforced ki tile lence mc cau caught ht the hie sound of a queer droning chant it only lusted a minute TIM then with the lie sudden lazy motion of one fine deep asleep slie she s lie turned on oil tier lier s atle lulf cuddled tier cheek check on tier her lalin nud and the chaut cli iut died out in a ahli t J boctor Mc mcailster Allster straightened up mili su detilly t n ly walked uway alvay three or four vac then wheeled an und curne came back aaion Ali ion und and I 1 watched him curiously you iii started to show we uie tier firm arm he bald to doctor reinhardt Is there a there IVI 11 a 11 nod he pulled uv up alm lit sleeve enil anil lioves us on oil tile for forearm earin a little bitof bit of tattooing lit ill red und and mue 1 if I know something of tattooing ik he w mild but that mark ellid the lie way r Ws its puzzle tile nie its as ila as lier her hin guage does doctor Mr Mc AlIster Allster merely nodded ile had understood the hin guage I 1 would almost have taken my anth to bluit from froin the expression tits his face q wore wu us its lie bent over tier listening I 1 Min dured if lie understood thc jhc kiark loo r I 1 you iou say kiy youve been trying tu to wake tier her will nent ii succeeded vit arid I 1 confess im puzzled IP ie claise rhems nothing trancelike about tier puls pulse e or her respiration doctor mcalister made inside nit an examina ll 11 floii 1 n I ills ids own account but eliut it was lery arv swift and I 1 should tune have culled called it li yet it was clear enough alii queer patient pink lit lind had only a litant nt before excited ills keenest l ilar t lie he did one tiling thing it t H must have surprised doctor 0 ardt fit wi as much as it did asleton aul up turned bail the lie bed find liller Il ly th eirls Lir ls cepl 11 pill ini much obliged to you von for ii W ii nip lite out for it look at it tier her lie fd i to ii doctor its as lie E bui ul up tind pre prepared parA to leave VIP lip rd ini shies ile s been th eliat it way any you von T vr cr billee slid was brought brou glit in ili s s in a hypnotic or subjective kli ain of if some sort id be ver very aiu if i keep nie me informed over e ilcin il nin concerning her condition 1 any radical cl change iange id like 1 une U uini ne out anil an toe see tier lier again MU 1 dont I ont mind rny my suggesting ug gesting it klefve klif ve it would be it a good tiling thing to 1 1411 ke her out of tile the ward arid and put tier her la a 8 room where slie site could be under constant cono tant if slie site is anything in auy any intelligible inn ian abc it might be well to ninke 1 a I note A s 0 ii alti that aud and a brief word of good V slit he ho strode odway and ashton and aad d J I 1 followed bilin he fie looking completely mystified und arid I 1 feeling scarcely less so we drove buck back to the meredith with hardly it a wort word but ns as we crossed tile lobby on oil our way to tile lie of eva tors doctor mcailster Mc AUster Allster paused Asli toll lie fat feild 1 I will be glad 0 to o help you nil all I 1 cau can I 1 mean lit in the lie matter of tracing Alor guns new zealand connections hut but im going to ash it 11 favor of you give phelps and ina m liere here a chance to male a little am invests catt of this case on our own account any tiling thing you like said buld ashton heartily go out to ouk and hunt about nil all you sou like ill ever even ilij my impressionable mr over to you after ive finished with him dill tomorrow morning though I 1 cant i therell be enuch left of him we went up in the elevator to gether get lier arid and my cliplef with a norl nod indicated lint lie be wanted nit mea to conic come to its his sitting frit ting room when the door was closed behind us he filled lilg ills pape and began biegun striding slowly up and down the room hilt but a 04 ho fla dent bent down over the pillow his ear not six inches away from the half parted lips lie fie stopped before me at lust fast arid with it u preliminary 11 und and a grasp of it muscular hand upon my shoulder lie said 1 I 1 suppose some people would call that a coincidence some connection you wean mean between the woman will haney testified lie saw rind and the one we saw lying there in the hosp hospital itil morgan lived in ili new zealand lie and asleton says lie had maps ast numbers of maps of the southern large scale maps of tile groups of islands eliat tire are scattered nit nil through throng it it its fair to suppose then that alint lie he had find some dellson for interest in those farot far ot south sea islands the girl I 1 I 1 exclaimed tile girl in the hospital 17 did you mean that bhe ache comes from that part of tile the world from one of those islands lit in the south sens sells tile mark on n tier her arin Is enough to prove that flint lin fit answered nn tie he paused there but I 1 knew that was not all that queer mumbled sony song of here I 1 hazarded ile he took another turn neross lite room before lie answered that question yes I 1 understood it lie said at last that sons song as you vail call it was an old maori death chant doctor mcailster Allster SIc Mc had resumed tits his thoughtful patrol of the room of course tie he sald said half under tinder ills breath it may be a coincidence just eliat tit anil nothing more no said 1 I no I 1 cant bellev Ie llev that flint there must imson some ic stronger connection blinn mere chance between the murdered body of that man mail in tile the house out at oak ludge and the death chant of girl nt at whose bedside wo stood tonight it must be more than cli chance allee t lint but my cl chief tier turned upon me sharply dont ninke make the mistake of thinking that lie ho said there Is 3 tio no greater source bourt v of error in the world than tile the belief that unlikely things cant happen they happen every day any coincidences against which the chances me are a thousand to one still lie paused in ills his stride and plowed tits his hands bonds through tits his thick gra gray hair still to put it conservatively conse its estly vastly more likely than not that there is a connection that this girl hat some seme place lo in that unknown past of ills his which lie thought thou glit lie he had sponged out so completely well said 1 I if she was any place tit at all it likely that lint slip Is thu person who committed tile lie minder and if so well what n hat are we going to do about it tell ashton ile he wheeled round nt at that and smote a near nearly nearby by door panel with ft ath ills great ast fist 1st no by thunder not nol not that not at least until weve wee solved tills this mystery for ourselves ourse hes until we are sure we understand it and k menn ly kiy that ile he went on looking tit at me fixedly 1 I mean a good deal more lhnn merely proving she was vas tile the woman whom will VIII nancy harvey swore lie ho saw in III silhouette upon the shade until weve proved more than that it was tier her hands that pulled taut tile the catgut string around the lie old mans mana neck what more than that I 1 asked unsteadily adly can you jou hope to prove or want to prove proe this lie he said stopping before me and looking straight glit into my face this that it was lier her will which directed tile the hands and not her soul that alint was responsible for tile the crime you mean I 1 gasped with sudden liala perception of ills menning meaning that there may nui be another will concerned in the business 1 lacob I cacti y that lie answered 1 I menti mean tint that judging from that girls condition tonight at way may very eri well he be that the lie real murderer or of tint old man mail was wag tio no nearer to the house in oak blidge the lite night the murder was waa com coin knitted than we me now CHAPTER III the next day doctor mcalister Mc Allster and I 1 each packed it 11 handling handbag enough to keep us going for two or thru days and about noon set out for oak ridge the weather had been ine fine arid and rather mild for fir november Nove niber but shortly after our return from the hospital pital the lie night before tile lie wind lind whipped round into the lie north uy ly i morning it had developed into it a lusty ga pale I 1 e which drove the fine stinging maln and sleet slantwise ae flown down from a leaden sky ry dy the lie time we were ready to start the rain lain was already turning to snow we rode in tile lie li half alf tilled filled smoking L car arid and hardly exchanged a word until after we hit had pulled out from it i tiny station and the I 1 brakeman opening tile door amid a hull hall of cinders had cried out oak blidge next then doctor mcalister Mc Allster who sat facing me inc leaned fo nvard our friend ashton tins lias a considerable power of vivid description 11 he sald said unless im altogether mistaken the young roan mail who is setting three seats behind you on tile other side of tile the aisle Is the lie witness of if choin ho hi told us yesterday I 1 felt fib v surp sure of it when my iny eye first lighted on him film going to got get off at oak blidge ond and I 1 think that settles it onn one small town could hardly boast another nil 0 ther like him illow how do you know hes bels going to got get orr oft nt at alid midget 0 I 1 list naked ile he straightened up a little in lila hl seat lind began to lo readjust its his when tile brakeman called the name of the lie town when I 1 lint made a pretext for fir chan changing glug over find and bitting with the lip doctor it I 1 quite agreed with tits his identification there to the lie life was the youn man whom aplaton had described to us Is I 1 thought I 1 could see traces upon him film of the lie grilling to which ashton must have subJect ol d ailin this morning ills his eyes es were sullen ills his color unstable and ills hands fidgety I 1 was half inclined to think thin there might hp be something lit in the theory of mallory the after nil all TO ne BO CONTINUED |