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Show Thursday, December LIw THE 19. 1940 NKPHI. ITTAI1 TIMES-NEW- PACE SEVEN niddenWavs PI mIliouseholdNeius . . By , CHAPTER XVII Continued. 18 ry." "Miss Paget," I told her, "I misjudged you and am even sorrier." "I came in here," she told me, "to apologize because Agatha thought I should." She might have been talking to the butler. There was no call for her to put me in my place. I was there already and had sworn not to leave it again. I said: "That seems to me about the worst reason in the world." Again she apparently hoped for something in my face that was not there. She muttered: "You make it very hard." She was just a kid after all. Which was still another reason why things should stay as they were. So I said: which "You said that before leaves us just where we started." "Do you want to leave it there?" she asked directly, and I forced myself to answer: "Why not?" There was a stir In the hall and the sound of voices. I did not know whether I was relieved or desolate when she left Senator Groesbeck, now sleek and pompous, passed the doorway. Miss Agatha trundled herself into the room. "What was Allegra doing in here?" she asked. , "Apologizing," I said. She gave me one of the looks that made me feel she was counting my vertebrae and then said, "Hah!" in an odd tone. Thereafter, her mind dwelt on other matters. "I wish," she complained, "that I hadn't so respectable an attorney. I need a scoundrel who'll help an idiot who won't help himself." "As bad as that?" I asked. She nodded and lighted a ciga- rette. "Grove," she said, "is being held as a material witness. He still won't talk, so they're going to take him before the grand Jury presently. If he doesn't talk then, he'll be in- dicted." Her brisk voice was armor that She I know, hid great distress. brooded a minute, while I groped for words and then asked: the typewriter?" "You said," I told her. "that it was in the storeroom." "Why didn't you get it?" "Miss Agatha," I asked, "can you Imagine Higgins letting me rummage through a basement storeroom hawithout a writ of mandamus, beas corpus and a strong-ar- squad?" The lines of worry in her face slackened and she chuckled. "No." she admitted. "I'm an old fool. David, but just the least bit bedeviled today. We'll go down to- gether." I trundled her Into the hall and rang for the elevator. She said noth- ing till the car appeared, but the grim lines had deepened again on her face and I knew she was eating her heart out for her nephew. Hoyt took us down. I could see his ears pricked for tidings, but we did not speak. 1 had propelled Miss Agatha into the basement hall. A wan light burned there and the air was heavy with the familiar smell of lime and coal gas and cabbage for the Higgins' dinners, past and present Miss Agatha dug in her handbag and chose a key from a ring. Along one side of the basement hall was a strict of Iron doors, with gaps at lintel and threshold for ventilation. They guarded the cubbies that served as attics for tenants cf the Morello. It was against one of these that I had reeled during my dark struggle with the intruder. I thought as I fumbled with the lock, how brief a space by actual measurement, yet how lorg aei, that had been. Perhaps tf I had been less clumsy that night. I might have ended the mystery. I might have saved innocent f Ik much danger and d The smell and gloom cf the 'th basement all:ed themselves memory to tighten my nerve so that w'Z"Z F. VAN DE WATEJl I flinched when Miss Agatha said fiat I object less to that David, than to the knowledge that ha is impatiently: "Can't you do it?" laughing at us now. I never have She rolled forward to take the liked to be laughed at It's been my key. It turned as she moved and legs, I suppose. Heavens, our asI pulled the door open before her sembled brains should be as good as his. If only we could find a flaw, advancing chair. "There it is," Miss Agatha said, a weakness." She drank again and then went "over " Her voice died. The harsh sound on: "Everything radiates from Lyon of her indrawn breath set my neck to prickling. The light of the ceil- Ferriter, but none of it reaches back ing bulb poured into the maw of the to him." A thought pricked me and some storeroom. It shone upon something at Miss Agatha's feet at which she of the jumble of fact fell into costared, at which I gaped, first stu- herent pattern "That's why." I blurted, "Lyon pidly, then in frantic disbelief. I tried to kill me; that's why my bent forward. "Careful," Miss Agatha warned in room was searched. He thought I had found that knife. His own fina dry whisper. "Don't touch it" gerprints must be on it" CHAPTER XVIII "They won't be." Miss Agatha promised grimly. We were still for Then she said: Wind boomed in the elevator shaft a moment and I heard the whine and catch of "Day after tomorrow is Grove's a car shifting gears in the street birthday." The rest of my mind had stalled unHer voice was so bare of sentider its sudden load. Close to my ment that it was piteous. The day ear Miss Agatha's breath came and when Grove attained his inheritance, went quickly. So we remained for the day toward which, all his life, a palsied instant watching the ob- she had steered her foster son, would find him in disgrace and danject on the storeroom floor. It lay just within the ventilation ger, unless I jumped at the telephone's ring. space at the iron door's base a bizarre item for a spinster's store- Could Shannon have arrived so room, yet in itself, nothing to wake soon? dread. It was a knife with a black "Answer it," Miss Agatha bade leather handle and a worn gray and her voice quavered a little. what with streaked blade, might I obeyed and was ashamed of my own agitation. Jerry Cochrane drawled: "Dave, I want to see you. I've got hold of'something a bit interesting, my laddie. Where can you meet me?" He slipped away from further questions. It was too important to discuss over the house telephone, he said, and for like reason I fore-boto tell what we had found. At last I clapped my hand over the mouthpiece and said to Miss Agatha: "It's Cochrane. He sounds so sleepy, I know he's excited. May he come here?" At once she refused and then, to my amazement, gave way before my arguments. I pleaded that it might be important before Shannon came, to learn what Cochrane had discovered. I said we needed the alliance of Jerry's quick mind. Miss Agatha consented at last: "Have him come, David. You're very stubborn and I I imagine I'm getting old." I bade Cochrane hasten and hung ip as Miss Agatha said: "Allegra, my dear, will you tell hall force that Mr. Cochrane is "I came In here," she fold me, the to be admitted?" "to apologize." The fur collar of the girl's cloak We both knew softened her face and the February have been rust wind bad lent it color. Her aunt whence it had come. It was the knife that had hung in told her dryly and briefly of our the sheath they had found on Black- -' discovery. Allegra glanced past me beard's murdered body. It had been at the swathed weapon on the desk. driven into its owner's heart It Then a thought startled her. had uttered the flat sound of smit"Agatha. You've sent for the poten metal when it had fallen dur- lice. And no one knows whose fining my struggle in the basement to gerprints may be on that knife. lodge inside the door of the Paget Even" storeroom. "Even Grove's," her aunt comI bent over it again. Miss Aga- pleted in a level voice. "Yes. my tha made no further protest as I dear. I'm not a Roman matron, but picked it up by its point swathed it I have a respect for law. If they loosely in my handkerchief, and are there " rose. Her eyes met mine and asked Allegra had stepped quickly toa question. I feared to answer. I ward the desk. I knew her purheard myself say: pose and moved between her and "We had better go upstairs." the knife. She nodded. I placed the handker"They aren't your brother's." I chief-wrapped knife in her lap told her. "He was here when that to her the elevator knife was lost." and trundled shaft We were silent on our upAnger lighted her eyes but her work-rooI face ward Journey. In the went white. picked up the muffled weapon care"If you think." she said in a taut fully and laid it on the desk. Then voice, "I'm going to let my brother's I faced Miss Agatha. life be Juggled about because a spy It was bard to ask the question. has hoodwinked an old woman " The knife had killed; it might kill Miss Agatha's quiet speech stilled was link between the the again. It murdered and the murderer. My her. "I'm not too old, Allegra," she voice was hoarse: said, "to be obeyed in my own 'What shall we do, now?"' She blinked. Her speech was calm house. Will you tell the hall force to admit Mr. Cochrane, or shall I?" as her face: I saw what was coming. The girl's "I think we had better telephone face seemed to break apart into Captain Shannon." Her voice quivering fragments. I said: "There may be no one's finger- shook with ghastly mirth. "I won't It can't be happening. prints on that knife. There may be It's a funny, hideous " anybody's." I said sharply. I could not speak her nephew's "Get hold of yourself. You aren't name, but she understood. "Call Captain Shannon," she said, lone Paget" and there was a lump in my throat She looked at me like someone as I obeyed. I spoke only briefly, Just waked. Then she drew a deep asking the Homicide Bureau chief unsteady breath and went to the to come at once with a fingerprint telephone to do her aunt's bidding. man; then bung up on his further Thereafter, she turned and looked questioning. The receiver clattered at me again. as my shaking band restored it "Thank you," she said. "That's Miss Agatha said: the first time" "We both need a drink," and rang "Forget it" I told her. She drew up a chair beside Miss for Annie. I nursed the liquor I would willing- Agatha. Their hands joined. The ly have gulped. Miss Agatha sipped girl bent over and kissed the still hers and at last spoke part of her old face. So we waited for Shannon while the crumpled mound of handthought aloud: This was what you heard fall, kerchief on the desk kept us still. that night in the basement but bow It was Cochrane who arrived first His chubby face, bis mild prosaie why I don't see" Her voice ran down. I said fee- air loosened the atmosphere. He bowed and acknowledged Miss Agably: "Unless it is a maniac" tha's Introduction to her niece so Uncertainty left her. She, gave a easily that I think the girl was partly crooked smile. reassured. Then he beamed at me. "Who had designs cn Higgins?" This is In confluence." be said. she scofTed. "David. Lyon Ferri-te- r Including the hole room in bis is no maniac. He is amazingly smile. "This, my lad, is banner-linclever. I told you that this morn- stu.T, if we can get to use it Did ing." you see the Sphere this mornir. 'But Lynn," I pointed out "was any of you?" in your fiat when' I shook tt? head. I ft It the sir.g She d d not let me finish. in Allrgra's vcicp as she answered"I knpw. I know, she said. "But "We read the Pre??." he it He k.'.U-- i the visitor to his no he com tm re I . e - d-- u Rooms as lov; as 52.25 J eonYea'rnce of dirt low m you'd prices A innovation program completed pay elsewhere. November It make these accommodation mm mutual value. Park your ear in our new, modcx garage at extremely low ralea. En joy FREDERIC Annie returned and announced Senator Groesbeck. Alrie?" Miss Agatha asked and the wistlulness in her voice hurt me. 'Then I'll see him in the living room. Annie." The maid pushed the wheel chair down the halL I sat at the desk and strove to set down on paper, after Miss Agatha's prescription, my own outline of the Morello mystery. I found it hard, for each item bore innumerable streamers of surmise and suspicion. I do not know bow long Allegra had been standing in the doorway when I looked up. I rose clumsily. She was still pale but she seemed more tired now than angry. There was a droop to her shoulders and I cursed myself for feeling pitifuL She said at last: "You make it just' as hard as possible, don't you?" A few hours earlier she had pointed out the abyss that lay between her and me. I had sworn then never to strive to rebridge it Sense still assured me that it was best for her to remain on her side and I on mine. Hunger for her, desire to aid her were checked by memory of my recent, adolescent idiocy. It hurts to have even a silly dream kicked apart I said: "I beg your pardon." "You heard me." I made no reply. She went on, like a child reciting a lesson: "If I've misjudged you, I'm sor- "Where's NO W. . . world-famr- com ford n Hotel d u ml The HOTEL UTAH Salt SSSW-vv:.- IVSjasmftsyjajg i -w (S- VV COFFEE SHOPi i A 'Tis the night before Christmas and all through the house everybody's stirring except the wee people who are wandering in dreamland with Santa Claus. 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