| Show amok HT IL all DA ES Z j e aj charles J dutton t 1 Capy copyright Ight 1922 BA B ond co ira ijohn bartley noted cram teal returned from front ecret bervice work durin the ho war li ic a by the me cov ervio r 0 new w york to investigate a mysterious attempted rob M aery of at the hobert beyke home at circle lake near saratoga Bara tora peculiar ciecura or if ur the caso fin tart barbey and lie accept accepts IL 11 With hie his friend pell pelt barbey goes to ciral lake the tho pair bo corning the ruet eats of bob currie an old friend T atie r three visit the flyke bome wyke apparently recent resents coming ying be he is U ned the two men to priego far ur 0 attempted robbery W wee CIA I 1 a barbey r 1 4 not nol next ma morning alfs fo found und dead aad la in bed apparent ly ahot not himself bime elf CHAPTER all mua potter the blead 1 1 omans man slater fri law baw ur police chief boche roche and ur the family aried phy iolan an doctor king all aree agres killed him kit but bartley insists he tie wae was murdered flartey and finds evidence that beyke after atter a card party he bad had given waa was hot at on the tower of qt ur the hour house un dressed and place in bed bd durler hie his abaca from the room someone oeone or demov the revolver aron fily kea hand i apelt starts out to td interview ur tho members cae rober of the tho card party he lie to bin surprise that apparent rent VV tor wealthy broker bad had offered to apu ell hie lits frieada r whisky wo he find ands evidence that the ake oman la in jail for attempted robbery ef of were framed 1 vt from a ewt 1 ft Bra tofa Dart bartler ler pelt and currle currie up auyon on larce motor r truck without ft milb ats and d off th ur road 1 they are re ds dl covered endeavoring to ascertain the awater and ad fired ared on the truck act away the three come cam upon a long used bura vault Appan apparently nur the look ick ta in BOW now and ad hartley picka I 1 it they find tir ilik vault aard with and ateo th the sty revolver eiver which had boon found in kakea hand A man well with the place viam arrive and they debala him it t Is U gUyl binkee cos missing chauffeur hauff Sour eur A for the revenue department and tak takee cha ce at of the vault chat cha CHAPTER T VIL after con considering au all mysterious ante angl of ur tho cae case aart dartley VY apparently ren ch 1 no conclusion ae as tv mu murderer r 1 he to tIa nied tha that t ra to 1 la hift hom to do with it MI miss firm belief ciol f te in the th buu board and alio booma ta to him cu bartley continues hie his 10 i an I 1 tor for evidence and L Appa aids oae me thief he considers of at value the T DO boquet toquet pena doctor kinf long who I 1 a the 0 coroner po ranar a war w veteran and abe bad had bom abell shocked sh ad it it A beavy boavy un ders torm Is la in props pr orre qa doctor lobster called la in co coa VI n te tee bell benevee blev gy wu an murdered IA ln norm tm sity as a ur the inquest pro lit V ot importance le in elicited sur t aget 69 the surd le 14 called to the tho tan tand stand be before form tee be commences oommen cea his ta the achta the tho room are a strake of f 8 linning broken tb the circuit i S the be contu alm the pirty varty Is I 1 sed by ur ut utterance torce at f a sudden frina isar X with ur tho of the tho lights it le in discovered that baa b been stabbed tab bed he had been seated erectly a in front tran of doctor kinc king no one ud la hia vicinity had any anything a un beual before ur the maae mans totally wounded GUZO r tua manakea to colv convey uie the ittai that wa was ardo murdered arx r re fen ra to the 1 boy 0 or knowledg knowle df of the robbery and ad trice to point out ur tho person who had stabbed him but dice diss before he caa d do eo so the inquest le Is adjourned rw bow griffoul grif four bad had been at blabbed abbod without any one being aws aware a of t I 1 the O 0 movements move mente mtv of the murdo murderer eeme anex DU Unable avar alon am on ur the handle bandle of the knife bartley ond ands a besim drawn in u absentmindedness absent mindedness which la identical with one ceno be he had found on a magine ma raxine in bobbs and seems to attach much importance to it MI potter admit admits knowledg knowle knowl 42 df of ot a d deal in whisker skir saying she ae bad had him to discan Unus them and ur the two had bad had a slight quarrel over the 41 matter bartley tell tells pelt he ho know who wed XU buthe ana boy employed in IA the Ka barace race reveals ur the tact that Brt fleur e in hia his cup cups had told him he had fram framed 0 uy the case the two men nion convicted ut the atts attempted ta rob robbery berr of the giouse tiou and mt he be and another he did not oame name were wore ur the two who had broken into ur tho home house the rho ra reabon m he cave cavo wae was that owed bun hb a enot lot of money and he meant to ret got it it the boy had that in bla big intoxicated con wae was merely talking wildly and paid attle attenson atte nUon to hie statement come some arlous purpose baray in 2 pelt to procure five chool school states 1 lie I 1 e doe eo so and they take them with then thein to the a glyka bom home CHAPTER XUL xulla it turns out that bartley h baa arranged for a bance ulas potter being orm to in ur the be list that she be would receive a in from gram byke the slates ot of course are to be for th the con conveyance verance oz of ur me me offe wess aZes are am received ou on ur me five eye elate employed but they coxen no oc of the rays matery tery the lights are and further curtner nv from the evirtt world awaited AppL apparent rent ly ur the sahit ot at make if its appear rl anc 1 I 1 have come wp back I 1 to via place my band anna on an the man that killed A shriek of t terror from ome some mem mom ber of the party and th ur 0 the atrit pt rit a as ur the lights U re turned ea 4 ead ur the bance CHAPTER birtley bartler announce to ur that be its know known who killed aad and darshaun WAr shaUn ar h hie 1 th the 0 orra be ho call taus attention to th ur d 0 on ta of the knife and on a maa tie bruy uie ui e acer minx 1 of the murder murders unnerved the physician physic ia confesses lie had thrown the knife n bich caused Brif fur dath aa the man waa seated tra raa ing that he knew know the layer slayer of hie his em m and would reveal his hl name the killing or of had been basil unpremeditated and in a measure in belt self defense defenso blake having threatened to hoot shoot the too doctor after a quarrel abrose over ever whisky deal deals in which they had been jointly involved the tho physician phyl hys clan ician to a removed under arrest bartley na ralp or how ow he had arranged for the writing on an the states and the bof appearance earnee of bickes B ykes dartt with the aid of ft a mad medium lum before the gathering break breaks up a ines sage la is received ying that doctor klas king had committed suicide hartley sums um up the tho feeling of the croup group la in the worda Us took wok the bear way out of the affair lets cow consider sider sir air death for a moment hartley bartley continued after the party was wal over naked asked mr lawrence to stay behind and offered to sell him some whisky they had a drink then lawrence went ent home but we found three classes showing that someone besides lawrence had drunk with let us say this third person killed understand me I 1 do not belle bellee e that when he came h he had any intention of killing him that came later wo we will assume that and this third person went vent upon the balcony for ahat reason I 1 cannot say but I 1 am ain sure that was the one that suggested going there no murderer would have selected td lt it voluntarily as us a 11 place in ih which to kill hie his victim he paused for a second then con untied after had bad been killed the thought occurred to the murderer that it was nas possible to maice make his death look like suicide he undressed the body in the room above the bedroom and later carried his clothing down don placing it on an a chair beside the bed but he overlooked a ing that hod had fallen on the floor behind the door of the room above crial nain no matter how shrewd always make some mistake that betrays them this person drew draw the bed clothes up around neck if he had not done that I 1 doubt if we would ever have suspected that was murdered the shot took effect at once it would bavo have boon been impossible for him to have drawn the bedclothes up around his own neck and placed his hands by his side before he died the doctors voice sounded per flexed as ho he aid said but mr bartley this Is all a rather spun theory 1 I expected that someone would say that bartley smiled srol led it Is more than an unsupported theory however ilo e er let us proceed the murderer went down co to the living room and wrought hack back ith him to cards which aich lie threw on the floor of the room when the glasses were ere if its being suicide was questioned then the finding of the cards would throw suspicion on the memmon of toe tha card larty he ue ansa pretty cool hand band black interrupted yea yes he was ivas cool enough rie went doun downstairs stairs into the room where the dog as but M roche commenced bartley did not let him finish yes I 1 know the dog should have barked the reason he did not was because the man was no stranger to him the doctor spoke once more wore but you have not proved praed any of these things are so aou a are just supposing no came tle uie answer 1 I have not but let us consider some of the points that hae been proved 81 ke tried to telephone several times during the evening and failed to tu get got his party each time boche and black were astonished this was wu the first time they had heard anything about the telephone calls when he failed again and again to got get the person he wanted bartley continued laiq h asked central to try and locate him for him all caan from here go through the saratoga exchange and it was very easy to find out whom be he wanted but that Is not on u ft ma fauna un an aha table beside tho the glassed wore wars a dumber number of little circie e s drawn with a pencil circles that ran into each other whitt linn that to do alth naked black voicing hie hia wonder wo A grout creat dl deal those sunia circle circles wore on in the liandro of the knife with which illich une uns fillod I 1 huo hue aleo also a little piece of palm r with similar 11 down on it and I 1 know the cormon who ulice drew thein it hue hum hoen been proved scientifically that if a person in fth a ix incel nell and begins to make unthinkingly on anything hix mind aill trick him filin into the anine de do dign I 1 found the circle circles on the maga aln in lit flyke Hl yke room on tho the knife that killed BrIf fear and again on tho the piece of intihar r I 1 know tf to whom 81 ke telephoned and I 1 know aleo also a person ulio saw the murderer enter the houe house to mil call on the night ho he woe was killed we leaned for fird breathlessly to his onar 1 which aich came with a cold curtins cut tIns edge an h hv added crimp 1 ly no knowing all this dont you think the person that drew the cir circle clem that was telephoned 41 to that un going into hax some thins thing to explain dont you think go 0 o doctor kiner king there am no knower and bartley dein demanded sternly doctor king kingi you arc are not going to deny are tire you that you killed those two men nien tho the question as so unexpected that I 1 sut sat stunned he was the last ninn man I 1 should have suspected currie cried my G d john and fell silent tho the doctors face had gone a dead white and he lie sank limply back in his chair without raising his ees he scarcely above a whisper the words drawn aroln him against hie his will III noo no o no I 1 killed them both tho the next instant he lie realized what he had said and half halt rose from his chair then fell back clasping his head in lils his hands I 1 could not be u diee luo my eury ears that hartley bartley should suspect the doctor of the murders seemed incredible eno enough tigh but that the doctor himself should admit that it was true rue was beyond belief roche looked first at the doctor then at burtley bartley his ees bulging alth alth astonishment ish ment black alone seemed to realize all that the doctors admi admission salon entailed tailed currie was still too dazed to understand for king lung had bad been a good friend of hie hla hartley bartley broke the silence with we have proved that the doctor in 16 the guilty party lie himself has admitted it I 1 hae liue suspected him for some time but when hen he lie gave guve that cry us as figure appeared appe ored I 1 knew that I 1 was right the doctor was still sitting with his head in his hands and bartley glanced down at him pityingly before he tie continued to the r rest es t of us F from rom uie the first I 1 suspected that whoever hoever bad killed had some knowl knowledge edV of medicine the average layman would not hove have known how to place the revolver in hand in such a way that it would appear to be suicide the point that puzzled me was ivas that the eyes were almost closed if the guilty person knew enough to place the revolver in hand before it stiffened he should have known that the eyes ought to be open miss potter explained this thin discrepancy by ray ay ing that she had closed the eyes herself frightened by their stare then r was baft baffled led true there bere ere the circles on tho magazine but I 1 did oot not know who made them and there seemed no way of finding out then one day while I 1 was in the doctors office ho he kept drawing little figures on a pad before him as an he be talked when he was called to the phone I 1 took out the piece of paper on which oe ne had been drawing and had care essly lessly thrown it into a paper casket as lie passed on it were the same figures that I 1 bad had found on the wag azine cover even then I 1 was slow 0 to o believe bo ho could be the murd murderer erver though science had proved that a per aon a draws the same design I 1 I 1 aund cound tha same symbols on the knife bandle there was but one way nay ho he could have been killed my gd G d roche gaped go sped out the knife blow came canie from the ral you who nho sat next to the chauffeur heard nothing no one could nave crept up on him lt lout iome sound therefore Tte the knife tad ro to be thrown thrown ue e gasped j yes that aas as the inh onh ian n it i could hae reached blut 11 t blow came cante from froin alit ir 11 ii fatur it could kiil in lit it i i I 1 pon the knife handle were ere the carl it si as I 1 hod had found else elsewhere here dmn ort had scratched them on oil it in ii 11 ni titi ment of idleness it una aa at knife doctor king had been tit r the front he was the only one otie directly in front of and anti the HI oni one who nho could ha bae hae e thrown it ae v had find all agreed that aam killed because he lie gnei who alto had bad and that the some same anun murdered them both there Is another proof olao also the only person outside of the family that the dog log liked aas doctor king the tte day we found dead the dog came in growled at the reet mt of us but let king pat him the doctor raised nia his head his face white u bite sae for two tao rod red spots la in either cheek hia his eyes were pools of blazing light he looked at us wildly for or a second then threw out his hands and in a olce olee low at first but growing louder as he continued he admit tod ted yes tes I 1 killed them I 1 intended to do so god knows I 1 it all goes back some time w bartley interrupted him hinl to the time when you got mixed up with 81 ke and selling whisky yam iams isms that wea ft it it mom 1 I never intended to dd so 60 god know I 1 it all goes back some alm bock to that ins voice faltered then he hj recovered 1 I came back from the wr broke suggested that I 1 KO go in alth him on running whisky I 1 had find a it camp and anti fast |
