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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE t the property, and In making repairs the old passage wus discovered. Although she denied using it for fraudulent purposes, neither llulllday nor I doubt that she did so. Sue points to the plastered wall us her defense, but llulllday assures me that a portion of the hasebourd, hinged to swing out, but locked from within, would have allowed eusy access to the cabinet. I'.ut llulllday hud nt the beginning no knowledge of this passage, with lis ladder to the upper floor. He reached It by tmre deduction. "ll hud to be there," he suys mod eslly. "And ll was." . . . Up to the time young Gordon was attacked at the kitchen door, how ever, llulllday wus frunkly at sea. Thut Is, he hud certain suspicious, bin thut was all. IK hud discovered, for Instance, thai the cipher found In my garage wus written on the snttie soit of bond paper ns thut used by Gordon, by the simple expedient of havlow lone. "Mrs. Porter," llulllday said. "Quiet, ing Annie Cochran gel him u sheet of It, on some excuse or other. everybody I" But his nctual cuse begun, I believe-witTIip room was completely dark, and save for Jane's heavy breathing, en that attack on Gordon. At least Strangely enough, for he begun nt that time definitely to tlrdy quiet. the moment 1 forgot our purpose criminal with the house 'There wus something fishy about there; forgot Greencugh and his men scattered through the house; I had a It." Is Ihe way he puts It, premonition. If I may call it that, that And with ttetbel's story tome, forced we were on the verge of some tre by his fear that Ihe boy kuew It was I can meiidous psychic experience. he who had attacked him, the belief not explain It; I do not know now thut It was "fishy" gained ground what unseen forces were gathered "Gordon was knocked out," he says. I even admlf that there together. "And thnt ought to have beeu enough. like had too, hypo June, probably I!ut it was not He wus tied, too, tied tlzed myself. while he was still unconscious. SomeAnd then two things were happen body wasn't taking a chance that he'd lng, and at the sume time. get buck Into the house very soon." There was something moving In the It was thut "play for time," as he library, a soft footfall with, It seemed terms It, thut made hltn suspicious Tor all tin to me, an Irregularity All this time, of course, he wus world like the dragging of a pari tally of any underlying motive; lie was Useless foot, aud Livingstone makes It cleat thut he simply begun, of Ills hand my quietly releasing grip first to associate the crimes with Ihe i made a clutch at him, and he house, and then with Helhel. He kept whispered savagely: going hack to Ids copy of the unfin"Let go, you fool." ished letter, but: The next momtnt he had drawn his "It didn't help much," be suys quietrevolver, and was stealthily getting t ly. "Only, there was murder Indihis feet Id IL And we were having cated The dragging foot moved out luu murder." the hall. Livingstone, revolver in lie had three clews, two of them hand, was stundiug beside me. uun one doubtful. The certain ones certain, u there wus quiet movement across tin were the linen from the oarlock of the table. t'unieron was apparently listen bnut, torn from a sheet belonging to lug also; he made no comment, how the muln house, nnd the small portion ever, aud In the darkness and the si of the cipher. The one he wus not leniK the footsteps went into the ball certain ubout was the lens from on and there ceased. the culvert. I had uu idea ol the passage of eyeglass, outside He began to watch the house; tie time; ten seconds oi an hour Living Gordon in the situation stone may have Stood beside me. Ten "didn't get" was no situation there, at there oil; second!) or an hour, uud then Grecu that Is, Hint he could nothing, really; at voice thfl of the stair utigh's top on. But on the night I his band lay case: called htm and he started toward "All right. Careful below." point, as he came back toward He made Livingstone- moved then. he saw the figure of a man, house the u wild dash for the red lamp and not Gordon, enter the house certnlnly turned li on. ilaywurd was not lo he window. When he got the gunroom by seen, and llulllday, revolver in hand there the window was closed and was starting for the cabinet, locked. "More light," he called. "Light He was puzzled. He looked around I" Quick for me, but I wus not In sight. Still I had a confused Impression of Hal for me, he made a round ol searching Ihlay, jerking the curtulns of the cab and so wos on the terrace the house, liiel aside; of somebody else there From that time I tired the shot. with him, both on guard, as It were, when on he saw Hcthcl somehow connected at (he null ; of sume sort of rapid with the mystery, but only as the movement upstairs; of the door from bruins. the den Into ihe hall being open where "There wus some devil's work afoot," It had been closed before, and of a "But always 1 came up he said. crash somewhere not far away, ns of thnt paralysis of his. He had a falling body, followed by a sort of against to have outside help." dreadful pause. On the night la question, then, he And all this Is In the time It took was certain lhat this accomplice wus me to gel around the chairs and to the wall switch near the door. And still In the house through all thut fol lowed; through HaywarJ'a arrival and It was then In the shocked silence Starr's, lie was so certuin by thut which followed the sound of that fall time of Gordon's Innocence thnt he In the Instant between my flndiiiK the confiswitch und turning It on, that I will very nearly took him Into his was be I'ut next Ihe dence day. I swear that saw i nee more by the not was he the of afraid dcnd boy; glow of the red lump the figure si able; llnlllduy had an Idea thai "he the foot of Ihe stairs, looking up. was ploying Ids own game." Saw It ami recognized It, Watched Hut If this man wus In the house It turn toward me with fixed und star thnt night, where was he? lng eyes felt the cold wind hh h sud lie grew suspicious if the den, nftet doiily eddied about me, and frnmleul he found out through Starr nnd thut, ly turning on the tight, saw It fade of the builder who bnd put name the like smol.e Into the empty ulr . In the paneling In the den, for t'n-lPehlnd the curtains of the cabinet 11. .nice. It was a long story, hut In somebody was working ut Ihe wall the end be learned something. Kdilh, very pale, was supporting June, Tearing the old baseboard prior to who still remained In her strange auto putting lip the panels, the builder hud hypotle condition. Livingstone's orm happened on the old passage to the was about bis wife. room overhead, and he hud called I lor Ami tin- - was Ihe phluie when ace Porter's attention to It ll UreetiouKh came running triumphant!) to have appealed to the poor old chap; down the stairs, the reward nppan'M It belonged, somehow, to the riMnn ly III Ills pocket, ami saw us there lie tih the antique stuff te wus putting paid no n Mention to ihe rest of us Into it. He built In a sliding punt I; It hut stared lit Livingstone with ees was tiH a particularly skill fill piece w hich could not believe what I he) of work, but ll answered. Ami lie saw. kept bis secret, at lent from me. "C.m.iI (I d!" he said. "Then win. I douM If he ever used It, until prois there!" hibition came In. Then, no drinker He pointed to the wall behind the himself, he put Uu re a small and Cublliet choice supply of liquor, stiie of wh!i h we found Inter on And one bottle of which placed llullidiiy in peril of bis Chapter III life, a day or so after the night I hud The slips by which H.illld.iy solved fired H e shot Into tin! hull. the murder at the main hotiee, und He bad borrowed Annie Cochran t with It the mystery which bad pre key to the kitchen door, and after ceded It, constitute an Interesting sti r) midnight entered ll.o house and went In themselves. So certain whs he that lo the dm. Although he Is reticent by the lime we were ready foi the about this porlh .li of If, I gather thut third seance, his material was already (he bouse w ns not all It should be Unit In the hands of Ihe night. altorne) And It wn not (he material be had "You know the sort of thing," he ays. givro lo Greetioijg'i. For Ihe solution of Put, pressed as lo that, be admits portion o tlx mystery, then, one musl go back to the that be was hearing until! and Inexmain house, and consider the ohht plicable sounds from the library (."hairs seemed to move, an I on re be part of It. It Is well known thai mnn houses ol thnl period were provided was certain that the curtain In the with hidden passages, by which II. doorway behind him Mew out Into the owners bosd to escnpe Ihe eJele room. When he lin ked bark over his Sucb so ot tempt, tunny years ago, tin'1 shoulder, however, It was banging as cost George Pleree Ms life. before. But the pnsMge leading from (In He bnd no trouble In finding the old kitchen, now tl.e den lo cio panel, and as carefully as be could he Id 'he roorr above it, i.nd tmen Mmkee sfepprd Ihfddo. Put hfl bad loin bed flie bulMei up for many years i one of the bolt lea and It fell over. "It didn't mnke much note," lie dead; by all the laws ol elmnoe tlin ndglif hnv gone n and the pfis-tu- i says, "but It wn eiine.sh. He wns remained undiscovered awake, and pnniiy is or no pnratisla la 1SW, however, fcugeiils iti t ksd.i'1 time lo tuuv before t wis In experiment with the lnmp on, result lug only In u creaking, and knocking on the table, again extinguished It. On a repetition of the blowing out of the curtain, however, he left his chair for the first time, and with a pocket flash examined the cabinet thoroughly, even the. wall coining In for close Inspection. When he hud finished with that however, I sensed a change in hltn. I believe now thut he suspected fraud but am not certain. 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