Show 11 E I 1 bess I 1 I 1 I 1 ial A chavolos cha J L V N lit mc ow poja and co I 1 na di opale L l john bartley Brt ly doud crim crt recently turned from front ecret service woric during the th war Is 1 ka ea by cho th governor of New Tark to estI cato a mysto us attempted rob bry of the th robrt bo at circle lake near haranaga iam tora peculiar circuns ho 1 I aces of the case ca Int lafort orest garuey Brt ly and to acce accetta pta martran IL with bis fread pel pelt bartler coos co to circle laka the th pair boohm tho th rut of bob curria burrt aa old friend the mr three visit ta the homa luyk lurke apparently resen tsi Brt leye C a M ifton C hinr yin be no to led the tw two aa men in for th the 0 attempted robbers wr 9 rulley U naru 14 met next mern ins aw 8 1 y k 0 i found f 0 jn d la ad in 1 bed bad apparently h ba hot t CHAPTER R th the dd man alt sistar lh lb law ur the village volle chief roche and thi f family a ajr doctor king kin ajl all agrio CT 61 aiyu 4 k ned biro him mif it but bartley he h WJ murde murdered redL bartly finda rodnee that dolyk af t 4 r a card party b h had ian given wu was abot ht on 13 C tb a tow tower n 0 tr 0 ur li P house un amad and placed la in bl 6 durley hie his abnee froin min tim room omoa removes ur me revolver from Li lykas band hd V pelt velt starts out to interview ur the ine robers of ot the ta card party its tad as to his hi surprise that birk apu bt ay iy wealthy broiler bro iier hd bad offered to moll U his anade whisky whisky ai io ands evidence that the 8 mm men in aa jail for ir tempted attempted robbery of t wk yke wr were fr emHt I 1 from a viril to 84 toga jD hartley amler ind and qu curri arlo come upon uvon s tare large motor tack rack without and off ur the road vr they r df evrod bvrd to the ease number u and bd fired on ato trudi truck wy ar the mr conr upon a ions burtea vault apparently tho look ta 14 nr now and bartley beks kcjr tc it thy they and nna the th vault stared with whisky aad and also wr the revolver 1 abich hud had ba boan found I 1 la myk nykola moo A maa well acquainted with tb arrive an and they dentals him L it to is a M 9 A deto de curs borkine for tu 0 revenue do arrives and tak charce of t thu r mont vault ull acain be he chuckled chud ded then became serious sure I 1 have but not in the way you think the people cose come from another world yarn come from fro the clous 1 1 of the persons who are ferlinc wita the board boam co a not they e atre 11 street tug ite its movements ana lisi oat out their own o 0 now that bom wrote for ates potter trouble ta to at 9 once bt but ausy atee what I 1 want to imea la this what w WM the that deep la 12 her sated mw told tom her that trouble w ift what was the camle of ht kw feard be ile lighted dear before tee be cussed CUn sed there nem te in tul still another thing that shown hw she kiew ome some das aa ger ew wu wag gamt tA Mt 1 ya remember she he alm tead t ahe laid dreamed that bad had bem emed I 1 kaew what he was dr driving fring at now freed theory of abaly his w waa aeu kotwa to bartley worked oat the ot of dreape the theory of abaly sh te in that la in our ale 1 the sabrea nedom co islah bae rail full play our r re come to the and theae elvee la in dreams the la thua thus often able to explore the ecret place of ow our minds and tell the caig cause of or trouble tr Shake earo wag wars when he MW aid we are fach such staff stuff as an dreama are made bartley added la U a quizzical tefle as a he paused to relight hie lite ackar potter dreamed reamed ft more than oace hat mat bad had been killed we are told a dream la Is a and that in our dreams our wishes are often hidden bidden by thia this woman probably did not wish etke actually act sally dead she had blid no fla quarrel arrel with him aa an far its I 1 know what ehe she did md wish was entirely duter mer att she wished that he might be away so that he would be out of mina nd hor ich uenh caused her to drenel that he fie WAR wait dead the renzon why I 1 bo eve that ashe he knows known more than sh he a ani deiv toll what can it bal I 1 I 1 AlIkE 41 41 dont know but it la sm something that wai was wining a groat great deal of trouble to perhaps to all au of them it rt might even be something that will briny bring dishonor anyway it was wait no seri ier lufi soup that slee sleeping pint or wak lug it wae was en an her bor mind I 1 wish she be would talk we aeed need at all the light we can ret get M hut the that do dobeis not actually prove j that ahe she know anything about hij his death 1 1 suggested ila hartley ruey tu turned rud quickly and glanced at me to oft if I 1 were serious get I 1 thai that I 1 was wax he explained 1 I dona say any that it doea the no gulja board performances and tho the dreams w before hie his death not after it 11 of course th the fact that the dog did not bark ahrews thaw suspicion on everyone eve ever yoDe that was la in the house at the urae ue was silent forn for a while glands glancing thoughtfully butof the window and then hie his story after I 1 mt tilia him hd had locked iltz self in the tower for over an hour and cone over the two rooms and the bal cony almost inch by inch the only thine thing that had escaped us in our firt earce search be eald said anns ft emall the ead end covered with red wax he ers wa was aoi not the oe of ot the anything or not ills ul second had mude him more pas itlie than ever that had lift n murdered and that the murderer lulled bis his death to appear to be 60 9 91 cide it would be almost impossible to aake make a jury believe that it was murder on azz the slight evidence that we bad rad and I 1 said as an much to hartley bartley ile agreed alth me and admitted be he would not be surprised if king as coroner brought in a verdict of suicide I 1 pondered on this a while thea then a thought truck struck me 0 suppose after all hj h did kilt kill hlin elf hartley bartley you base your theory of murder on the position of the bed clothes and the way the gun was held I 1 suppose be did kill himself film self and some 1 other person not the murderer ca came e into the room and pulled the bed 1 clothes up around his big neck he shook his head in denial we wi 1 would still have POW pelt he be eald said with a rather rawer sarcastic i smile the other othera questions to beitans be answered first FIrs firstie twe adi would ask how the ibe bloodstains blood stains cot got oa on the balcony of the tower we i would also want to know why the hand did not grasp the g gun as tightly as it should then we would demand to know way there was wax no blood on the pillow where his head bead rested it wont do there Is ao no doubt ot if it he was killed 0 I 1 interrupted to ask W afas is miss rbt ter admitted she had clo closed his eyes why she might not have ben been also the one who pulled the bedclothes up around his neck hartley bartley replied it in s true that she did close his bis eyes but she insists she touched nothing else cuvi but I 1 broke in what was her real reason for doing it she bald said ou remember that the eyes frightened her let ut ft a nervous woman come suddenly erdy upon a dead body and it Is very possible that thab th eyce stating afner at nr eo so her thai that othe would clone clome them her nor cleared up a point that bothered ine tho ilie accounting for foi the rolex 1 dol 1 not prove thai that lie 0 o 41 however there to little enough evidence one way or another lut mit ie to point points to murder and to else elite there lit 1 another thing thin I 1 sala ald won was the revolver taken from him while up P urro vrr it fleecs a very foolish thine thing to have done who did it 7 wag it the butler butter or MIM MPR pot 1 terr iloth the hutler butler and ming potter anil been out of the tomer ower room bartley reminded me for bonio time before betom death van wap murder and not dulcide Mil Pul clde cide an to vho aho ho and token the revolver it was imps isible 1 to no yet if ir wt w bel believed levied that flip hutler butler hall neen on the lille 1 we were on the bal cony then lie might be h he the one tha of the inin in the and his himot immediately afterward amed to point to him whoever had done it had hoon been very fool I 1 eh the next matter that he lie spoke about did not so em to have any rela flo tl what had preceded prec edd d it it ux the robbery of the before U ue had from froin the step ter kuth that she he had hot but positively identified the men now in jail but had thought that on one of the men was similar nillar I in and build to one of the men mn elio she lind seen in the room the room had been too daric dark for her to see very clearly nor uno that all that elie she had told him which had disa greed with tho the accounts recounts of the burglary that rogera rogers had find civen given uit ale had eald said that ehe she had aroused and told him film that burglars were downstairs while in her etory story to hartley bartley ehe she stated that after elie she heard the noise in the living room she went to the door of room to call him but found it empty when abe sibe an baw him he WOR was standing stand lne on the lower step of the stain leading to the living room there had evidently been a struggle and a gun went off juet just before sho abo reached him it was she he who had colled called tho the police pollee and bad had opposed her doing so as nothing had been taken you see how it look looks pelt he eald said with a grin did not want the police in at all he did not wish any action taken either then or later ho he aas ns nearer the men than anyone else yet he lie swore he could not identify them that snakes makes me believe that he know who rho they were and did not want ant the matter looked into did the birt girl tell yon you who found that piece of I 1 newspaper I 1 asked she said atas it aas the chauffeur who bad called their attention to it the police potice do not to have made any search arch that night or in fact until noon tb the next clay then with the help of the chauffeur and the butler they scorched searched the alving room and the dire directed cred their attention to a piece of paper lying n the floor half under 4 n abue qt of course cop arse you see ee what that lead co 0 o for hours that room had been un unguarded guarde and any one tho wished gone tn in there even the piece e of cloth wae was not f found for several days daya strangely enough nor did the police find the footprints under the window until three days later although they claimed they had searched the spot before I 1 I 1 broke in with that looks in other words as an if MA AA it if some one wished to send those men to jav jail he finished for me he gave a little laugh and remarked there are at least three thear I 1 would like to know first vas uns the robbery a plant A planar I 1 asked looking nt itt him ft t vv or teel yen I 1 there may way have been no at an RM what mat do you mean by that he threw out his hands 1 I dont quite know myself but let that pass there is another thing that puzzles ine and that in 1 the tha I 1 tell by uie the way ml potter acted actea when va w mentioned his hi name that she he does not like him ile I 1 it vim who took tou from the library the book with the account oi ot the EnjI lith crime ia in it he ue had words with the day before the murder and nd wits wu miming when we wanted to question him A few fea minutes after he was wo seen near the boer room the revolver was in 1 I 1 believe he is well worth watching and hautly what wae wax the motive for filoi murder A wild thought struck roe me I 1 knew ft nt t the time how absurd it was an yet a dedire leali o to hear what hartley bartley would reply anade roe me voice votes IL it perhaps the girl sirl killed film Il hartley artley cave gave me a took look started to speak then decided to watt wait and rind liehr what I 1 had to eay any you eay say I 1 suggested ahat alyks wae was killed about two in the in orning the girl might have come to the house and killed hiro him then bune B une back to her uncle and told the 01 K 11 t Per hap the girl 1 killed him atory about being afraid to go through the woods alone she bald said it wae was three when hen he came with her heri to the house a good alibi of ot course but suppose she had been io to the hoube house once before the dog hark bark because he knew her she was nas niso also in the house when the re voler vol er disappeared if you claim the taking of the dmn was foolish why can it not he be said to be the tind of an illogical thing a woman would do the average man would know it was no use to remove the gun yon you re how 11 thu tha aunt was anen she BOW saw lae bartley haa with aa arwed smile that crew grew broader as 11 talked though I 1 bad not been rious when I 1 began begun the more I 1 thought of the idea the more plausible my suggestion roundel oun ded bartley had id that in the case we must build up a IL theory first aad and then a if the facts would lit it when I 1 had ended he be bald said that he himself hinie elf had at first considered con eldered the possibility of the ririe havIn edone it but had decided against it de reminded i me that had been killed on the balcony and carried down two flights of tain stairs and that one hundred and fafty pound pounds tho the girl not a hundred re mem bering that and the task it wai was to carry uch such a it heavy weight down so 0 o many stairs didi till still think the girl could have done it my face turned red with chabria cha clis cria critt a and nd seeing that I 1 wae was hurt be he smiled n at ly ind adolp lead CONTINUED WE WEEK marriage Marr lago la Is a emred institution aud thavis probably the adason reason why so many goopio soon tire oi 0 it |