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Immortality k) CailT on wav in r Immortality, and that is mil Me and hvt it as nd faithfully and chetr-W chetr-W can. Van Dyke. KILLS INSECTS oi nowiu o rtoiTS nsnAius t skiuis .iroal J TOIEWEST HOSTELRY aabbr la dn.i.n IaWi...r ""u"7 air tiwaaiiiierBwtlu 13 !i t HOTEL pple Square 11 d'Mlh r I &2 ft 1 rawroMaior 20-37 l MMaj HM 1THETL. ftp Nfc CHAPTER VI Continued He was a tall man, despite his itooped shoulders; and, though he was very thin, he possessed a firmness firm-ness of bearing which made one feel that he had retained a great measure meas-ure of the physical power that had obviously been his in youth. There was benevolence in the somewhat haggard face, but there was also shrewdness in his gaze; and the contour con-tour of his mouth Indicated a latent hardness. He bowed to us with an old-fashioned graciousness and took a few steps into the study. "My-son has Just Informed meT he said in a slightly querulous voice, "of the tragedy that has occurred here this afternoon. I'm sorry that I did not return home earlier, as is my wont on Saturdays, for in that event the tragedy might have been averted. I myself would have been in the study here and would probab-ly probab-ly have kept an eye on my nephew. In any event, no one could then have got possession of my revolver." "I am not at all sure. Doctor Garden," Gar-den," Vance retifrned grimly, "that your presence here this afternoon would have averted the: tragedy; "It is not nearly so simple a matter as it appears at first glance." " ;Tr6f eWortf&fbNsh' ;s1rt" dtfh T chair of antique workmanship near the door and. clasping his hands tightly, leaned forward, .. .. "Yes,' yes. So I understand. Aha" I want to hear more about this affair." af-fair." The tension in his voice was patent "Floyd told me that Woode's death had all the appearance of sui cide, but that you do not accept that conclusion. Would it be asking too much if I requested further details de-tails with regard to your attitude in this respect?" "There can be no doubt. Sir, Vance returned quietly, "that your nephew was murdered. There are too many indications that contradict contra-dict the theory of suicide. But it would be inadvisable, as well as unnecess'ry, to go" into details at the moment Our investrgatlon has just begun. By the by, doctor, may I ask what detained you this afternoon? after-noon? I gathered from your son that you usually return home long before this time on Saturdays.'' "Of course, you may," the man replied with seeming frankness; but there was a startled look in his eyes as he gazed at Vance. "I had some obscure data to look up before I could continue with an experiment ex-periment I'm making; and I thought today would be an excellent time to do it since I close the 'aboratory and let my assistants go on Saturday Satur-day afternoons." "And whore were you, doctor," Vance went on, "between the time you left the laborat'ry and the time of your arrival here?" "To be quite specific," Professor Garden answered, "I left the university uni-versity at about two and went to the public library where I remained until half an hour ago. Then I took a cab and came directly home." "You went to the library alone?" asked Vance. "Naturally I went alone," the pro fessor answered tartly. "I don't take assistants with me when I have research work to do " "My dear doctor!" said Vance placatingly. "A serious crime has been committed in your home, and it is essential that we know as a matter of routine the whereabouts of the various persons in any way connected with the unfortunate situation." situ-ation." "I see what you mean." "I am glad you appreciate our difficulties," Vance said, "and I trust you will be equally considerate consid-erate when I ask you just what was the relationship between you and your nephew?" The man.turned slowly andjeaned against the broad sill. 1 'We were very close," he answered an-swered without hesitation or resentment. resent-ment. "Both my wife and I have regarded Woode almost as a son, since his parents died. He was not a strong person morally, and he needed both spiritual and material assistance. Perhaps because of this fundamental weakness in his nature, na-ture, we have been more lenient with him than with our own son." CHAPTER VII ! Vance nodded with understanding. "That being the case, I presume that you and Mrs. Garden have provided pro-vided for young Swift in your wills." "That is true," Professor Garden Gar-den answered after a slight pause. "We have, as a matter of fact, made Woode and our son equal beneficiaries." "Has your son," asked Vance, "any Income of his own?" "None whatever," the professor told him "He hat made a little money here and there, on various enterprises largely connected with V .V. S.S.VAN PlttE COPYRIGHT V- sports but he is entirely dependent on the allowance my wife and I give him. Its a very liberal one too liberal, perhaps, Judged by conventional con-ventional standards. But I see no reason not to indulge the boy. It isn't his fault that tie. hasn't the temperament for a professional career, ca-reer, and has no flair for business." "A very liberal attitude, Doctor," Vance murmured: "especially for one who is himself so wholeheartedly wholehearted-ly devoted to the more serious things of life as you ate . . . But what of Swift: did he have an in dependent Income?" - "His father." the professor ex plained. "left him a very comfort- able amount; tut I imagine he squandered it or gambled most of it away." "There's . one more question,1 Vance continued, "that I'd like to ask you in connection with your will and Mrs. Garden's: were your son and nephew aware of the dispo sition of the estate? "I couldn't say. It's quite possi ble they wqre. Neither Mrs. Gar den nor I have regarded the subject as a secret . . . But what may I ask," Professor Garden gave "Vance "plizzted'i6olt:has this to do with the present terrible situa tlon?" idea .... Vanco admitted frankly, "I'm merely probin' round in the dark, in the hope of findin' some small ray' of light." Hennessey, the detective whom Heath had ordered to remain on guard below, came lumbering up the passageway to the study "There's a guy downstairs, Scr geant" he reported, "who says he's from the telephone company and has got to fix a bell or somethin' He's: fussed around downstairs and couldn't find anything wronff there.1 Heath shrugged and looked in quiringly at Vance. "It's quite ,all right Hennessey," Vance told the detective. "Let him come up.." .. , , .Hennessey saluted halfrheartedly and went out "You know, Markham," Vance said, "I wish this infernal buzzer hadn't gone out of order at Just this time. I abominate coinci dences " "Do you mean," Professor Gar den interrupted, "that inter-commu nicating buzzer between here and the den downstairs? ... It was working all right this morning Sneed summoned me to breakfast with it as usuaL" "Yes, yes," nodded Vance "That's Just it It evidently ceased functioning after you had gone out The nurse discovered it and report ed it to Sneed who called up the telephone company." "It's not of any importance," the professor returned with a lacka daisical gesture of his hand. "It's a convenience, however, and saves many trips up and down the stairs.' "We may as well let the man attend to it, since he's here. It won't disturb js." Vance stood up, "And I say, doctor, would you mind Joining the others downstairs? We'll be down presently, too. The professor inclined his head in silent acquiescence and, without word, went from the room. Presently a tall, pale, youthful man appeared at the door to the study. He carried a small black tool kit. "I was sent here to look over buzzer," he announced with surly indifference. "I didn't Ind the trou ble downstairs "Maybe the difficult, is at this end," suggested Vance. "There's the buzzer behind the desk, The man went over to it opened his case of tools and, taking out a flashlight and a small screw-driver, removed the outer shell of the box Fingering the connecting wires for a moment, he looked up at Vance with an expression of contempt. "You can't expect iie buzzer to work when the wires ain't connect ed." he commented. ' Vance became suJdenly interest ed. Adjusting his monocle, he knelt down and looked at the box. "They're both disconnected eh. what?" he remarked. "Sure they are," the man grumbled. grum-bled. "And it don't look to me like they worked themselves loose, either." "You think they were deliberately disconnected?" asked Vance. "Well, it looks that way." The man was busy reconnecting the wires. "Both screws are loose-, an the wires aren't bent they look hh they been pulled out." Thafs "fftosf Irrteresttw,:"--Yanws stood up, and returned the monocle to his pocket meditatively. "It might be, of course. But I can't see why anyone should have done it . . . Sorry Sor-ry for your trouble." "Oh. that's all in the day's work," the man muttered, readjusting the cover of the box. "I wish all my obi were as easy as thto Aft- L iAAri airs er a lew momenw am uF. Let's see If "the buzzer win wortc now. Any one oownui wuUU answer if I press this?" "I'll take care of that," neam in terposed, and turned w niuun. "Hop down to the den, ana u you hear the buzzer down mere, ring back." : Snitkln hurried out. and a few moments later, when we ouuon was pressed, there came two short answering signals. It's all right now," tne repair man said, packing up his tools and going toward the door. "So long." And he disappeared down the passageway. pas-sageway. " Vance smoked for a moment in silence, looking down at the floor. "I don't know, Markham. its dashed mystifyin'. But I have a notion that the same person wno fired the shot we heard disconnected those wires ..." Suddenly he stepped to one side behind the draperies and crouched down, his eyes peering out cautious ly into the garden. He raised a warning hand to us to keep back out of sight Deuced queer," he said tensely. That gate in the far end of the fence is slowly opening ... Oh. my aunt!" And he swung swiftly into the passageway leading to the garden, gar-den, Reckoning to us to follow. Vance ran past the cowed body of Swift on the settee, and crossed to the garden gate. As he reached it he was confronted by the haughty and majestic figure ef Madge Weath-erby. Weath-erby. Evidently her intention was to step into the garden, but she drew back abruptly when she saw us. Our presence, however, seemed neither to surprise nor to embarrass her. "Charmin' of you to come up. Miss Weatherby," said Vance. "But XT- v.? : . .-a .vm j tf- Ji'?M His Eyes Peering Cautiously Into In-to the Garden. I gave orders that everyone was to remain downstairs." "I had a right to come here!" she returned, drawing herself up with almost regal dignity. "Ah!" murmured Vance. "Yes, of course. It might be, don't y know. But would you mind explainin'?" "Not at alL I wished to ascertain if he could have done it." "And who," asked Vance, "is this mysterious Tie'?" "Who?" she repeated, throwing her head back sarcastically. "Why, CecU Kroon!" - Vance's eyelids drooped, and he studied the woman narrowly for a brief moment Then he said lightly: "Most interestin'. But let that wait a moment How did you get up here?" ' " "That was very simple. I pretended pre-tended to be faint and told your minion min-ion I was going into the butler's pantry to get a drink of water. I went out through the pantry door into the public hallway, came up the main stairs, and out on this terrace." "But how did you know that you could reach the gar ion by this route?" "I didn't know." Shu smiled enigmatically. enig-matically. "I was mf rely recon-noltering. recon-noltering. I was anxious to prove to myself that Cecil Kroon could have shot poor Woody " "And are you satisfied that he could have?" asked Vance quietly. "Oh, yes," the woman replied with bitterness. "Beyond doubt. I've known for a Ioi.k lime that Cecil would kill him sooner or later. And. I was quite certain when you said that Woody had been murdered that Cecil had done it. But I did not understand how he coulJ have gotten got-ten up here, after le;,vmg us this afternoon. So 1 endeavored to find out." "And why, may 1 ask," said Vance, "would Mr. Kro n desire to dispose of Swift?" The woman clasped her hands theatrically the-atrically against her breast. "Cecil was Jealous frightfully jealous. He's madly in love with me. He has tortured me with his attentions . . ." One of her hands went to her forehead ir a gesture of desperation. "There has been nothing noth-ing I could do. And when he learned that I cared for Woody, he became desperate. He threatened me." - -vance' s keen regard -showed" net-ther net-ther the sympathy her pompous re-.cital re-.cital called for, nor the cynicism which I knew he felt. "Sad very sad." he mumbled. Miss Weatherby jerked her head up and her eyes flashed. "I came up here to see if It were possible that Cecil could have done OT? Ml ft 1Wkr this thing. I came up In the cause of Justicel" ,, "Very accommodatln'." Vance's manner bad suddenly chanced. We're most appreciative, and all that sort of thing. But I must insist in-sist don't y know, that you return downstairs and wait there with the others. And you will beso good as to come through the garden and go down the apartment stairs." He was brutally matter-of-fact as he drew the gate shut and directed the woman to the passageway door. She hesitated a moment and then followed his indicating finger. When we were back in the study Vance sank Into a chair and yawned. "My wordl" he complained. "The case is difficult enough without these amateur theatricals." Markham, 1 could see, had been both impressed and puzzled by the incident. "Maybe it's not all dramatics," he suggested "The woman made some very definite statements." "Oh, yes. She would. She's the type." Vance took out his cigarette ciga-rette case. "Definite statements, yes. And.misleadin'. Really, y'know, I don't for a moment believe she regards re-gards Kroon as the culprit" "But she certainly has something on her mind," protested Markham. "Oh, Markham my dear Markham!" Mark-ham!" Vance shook his head Sadly. "However ... As you say. There is something back of the lady's histrionics. his-trionics. She has ideas. But she's' circuitous. And she wants us to be like those Chinese gods who can't proceed except in a straight line. Sad. But let's try makin' a turn. The situation is something like this: An unhappy lady slips out through the butler's pantry and presents herself on the roof-garden, hopin' to attract our attention. . Having succeeded, she Informs us that she has proved conclusively that a certain Mr. Kroon has done away with Swift because be-cause of amorous jealousy. The lady la-dy herself, let us assume, is the spurned and not the spurncr. She resents it. She has a temper and Is vengeful and she comes to the roof here for ' the sole' purpose of convincing us that Kroon is guilty." enough," said Markham aggressive-" ly. ' "Why try to find hidden meanings mean-ings in obvious facts? Kroon could ba.v done lU. M4 ypur.psycholpgi; cal theory regarding the woman's motives eliminates him entirely." "It doesn't eliminate him at all. It merely tends to involve the lady In a rather unpleasant bit of chicanery. chican-ery. The fact is, he little drama here on the roof may prove most iUuminatin'." Vance stretched his legs out before be-fore him and, sank deeper into bis chair. "Curious situation. Y know, Markham, Kroon deserted the party about fifteen or twenty minutes before be-fore the big ,race legal matters to attend to tor a maiden aunt he explained ex-plained and hedidn't appear again until after I had phoned you. Assumed As-sumed immediately that Swift had shot himself. Doubt inspired me to converse with the elevator boy. I learned that Kroon had not gone down or up in the elevator sinee his arrival here early in the afternoon "What's that!" Markham exclaimed. ex-claimed. "That's more than sus-picious sus-picious taken with what we have just heard from this Miss Weatherby." Weather-by." "I dare say." Vance was unimpressed. unim-pressed. "The legal mind at work. But from my gropin' amateur point of view, I'd want more oh, much more. However," Vance rose and meditated a moment "I'll admit that a bit of lovin' communion with Mr. Kroon is definitely indicated." .He turned to Heath. "Send the chap pie up, will you, Sergeant?" Heath nodded and started toward the door. "And Sergeant," Vance halted him; "you might question The elevator ele-vator boy and find out if there is any one else In the building whom Kroon is in the habit of calling on. If so, follow it up with a few discreet inquiries." Heath vanished down the stairs, and a minute or so later Kroon sauntered saun-tered into the study with the air of a man who is bored and not a little annoyed. "I suppose I'm in for some more tricky questions," he commented. After glancing about him, Kroon sat down leisurely at one end of the davenport The man's manner, I could see, infuriated Markham, who leaned forward and asked in cold anger: "Have you any urgent reasons for "objecting to give us what assistance you can in our investigation of thi3 murder?" Kroon raised his eyebrows. "None whatever," he said with calm superiority. "I might even bo able to tell you who shot Woody." "That's most interestin'," murmured mur-mured Vance, studying the man indifferently. in-differently. "But we'd much rather rath-er Cnd out for ourselves, don't y' know." Kroon shrugged maliciously and said nothing. (TO UE COSTIMED) Earliest Paints It is unknown who first mixed and used paints since paint has been employed from a very early period. White lead was mentioned by The-opnrastus, The-opnrastus, Pliny and Vltruvius, who described its manufacture from lead ltt"d'vui"egaY.'Xellow'o'chife"as''uicd' b. the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Pots of it were found in Pompeii. Naples yellow has been found in the yellow enamel of Babylonian Baby-lonian bricks. Verdigris was familiar famil-iar to the Romans. Indigo has been employed by the East Indians and Egyptians from an ancient time AROUND th. 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