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Show v' TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUTE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1924. i he Affair at Othmans Phillip cam later to tall bar OUtmaa had been shat. Than too detectives cam and tha woman whom questioned her. Sha tbs nawapapara mentioned aa having visited Othman just before ha waa killed. Nelson Barlow waa tha man who waa In tha house at tha tithe; evidently Nelson had gone up there aeon after leaving her. I suppose they may oome for mi again -any time. I think Phillip la working all the white, trying to And out who did it I know nothing about tha shooting itself. Thats tha way It stands, father. What Marsden chiefly felt was a frightful helplessness, as though he had received a Were coming In a little while to message: drag your daughter through the streets at a cart's tail." and waa powerless to prevent It. He believed Floras account, aa a matter of course, hut ha saw in bow dangerous a situation It left her. With aief a father's pride had sensitiveness, ha shrank in every fiber from tha ruthless publicity that impended soiling her name la this muddy water, like setting bar up In a cage to be gaped at rfbaldly. But what could, a pan do? Of oouree, he oould engage a lawyer, set some private detectives at work; but meanwhile they might be after her at any moment. He felt baffled, like a strong man immersed la an element against which bla strength la useleaa Add ha wad reluctant to make any move, as though, by making a move he hie daughter- tacitly acknowledged that needed protection- - Besides, it waa Saturday afternoon; law offloee would be closed. At a lose, with a demoralising Sends of helplessness, he eat speculating about the murder. The conversation fell Into a point-lea- s drift, disjointed, half absent, until Jennie came la to any that Hr. Kendall wished to peak with Flqga on the telephone The message was brief: Theyre taken Nelson Barlow late custody. They bare some new evidence against him. They're bolding him without bail aa a material witness at present. Its bound to come out right for , you." She went beck to her paresis with the TEE STORY THUS FAR fu FREDERIC OTBMAN.t man of some mystery, Upetin New York in a house of forbidding aspect, surrounded by ana otha evidences of tcetlth. To ban, 004 night, coma NELSOS B4SLOF, young today watuei who hot fated aid under circumstances that put him in Oth-mFrom Baloh Othman potior. worm a ttory Concerning STAMFORD MARSDEN, a business tan of reputed probity. Tho tale hot to do aatk a girl, abandoned years before in a Memo milage, end a child, supposedly M widen'. Othman it in loot with FLORA MARSDEN, Stanford Masdans daughter, aid off ere to Kelp Baloa out of tut difficulties if ka mill tut hit tocud position to bring about the match. That it a shillfully conducted courtship, in the course of which Othman extends much needed finances! aid to Magdui. Met while Othman hat acquired control of a papa in which PHILLIP KENDALL, ! distant cousin of tho Maiden, it working et a ropaqta, Kendall, hopelessly in lone with Flore, it not el all pleased when Othman threat hun to investigate the ttory about ha father's past. Ho find Martian child in Mehta, however, and pram antly this girl turns up in Nat Yam in lhe care of a certain Mr. Smith, who teem to have inclinations toward blackmail. Kendall suspects that Othman it manipulating the threatened toandal to increase hit influence ova tho Mar liens. He it sure tif it when ha rpaagniset JERKS, Othman's valet, et a man ha ante taw leaving Mrs. Smiths tpatmani. He eccuset Othman at perpetrating a fake, that u a fight, and Kendall it ejected from Ihe house by Jenht, murderetuly Nourishing a revolver. Flore hat promised to marry Othman, but change ha mind when Raided, in desperation, reveals to tha ha ctrtein things ha ha leaned about Oth-maman. On the night when she gees la haute la break ha engagement Othman it found murdaed in the room in which hit greater! treasure, Tilton' i Daphne, is hung. Flore edmiu having guartlad and struggled wuh Othman, hut ItUi CAPTAIN WELBASKT of tho. police that the left before anything mat serious occurred. Balcnd see in the house, and hie automatic it found hidden us the library, but the weapon prove not to have haul dischsrged. Jenks, the valet, effort an alibi, substantiated by witnesses, to the effect the he had been sent out on an errand. Ksndell it puttied by encountering a myttaious" stocky men loitering outside the house at daim. Determined to protect Flat from arrest end notoriety, he enlistt the aid of a political boat arid undertakes to work night end day an the esse if she be left unmolested. He lunki that hot' been a jewel robbery, arid that Jerikt he bed a port in U. Barlow etkt him, when he searches the house, to certain voucher!, incriminating Bar-lowhich Othman had in hu possession. The learch yield no claw. A newspaper personal however, point la a solution of the mystery. at lrrH t akhsU tup-pose- , . By Will Payne brisk stride. Without bothering to look around,' the valet struck west, moving rap. Idly an'd confidently, aa though without a notion of being watched or followed. At the corner of Lexington avenue Kendall waa "near enough to see plainly that the object la Jenks right hand waa aa ordinary black folding typewriter case. With no difficulty he trailed Jenks back to Othmans house. fled in taking him for a blockhead who mnliably ignored positive evidence end stuck to the irrational point that one man named Jenks looked the part while another man named Barlow didnt. Six o'clock and darkness found him opposite Othman's house. Jenks Jewels tbs block y man. Aa methodically as though he were procedlng upon the most exact reason: lag, he began petroling the block. It waa rather difficult, especially to a fliovlce, because In this short and eminently respectable residence block between Hadiaon 'avenue and Fifth there waa almost no cover, no hop to loiter in, nothing to get behind; and one couldnt stand gtill long without attracting undesirable attention. He made the beat shift he oould strolling, stopping, moving on. turning back. Shortly before six ke had fortified himself with toed, so aa to be on guard promptly at aix. for Welbaik had told him that any of the servants who wished to leave tha house on parole after six o'clock would he permitted to do so. Tea, be said, Jenks would be searched If he weat out; but he said it with eo much derision, that Kendall was ashamed to ask him to' have Jenks shadowed also. Ha proposed to do the shadowing himself. Working under disadvantages and having Walbasky had said, yet practically invisible unless one stooped and looked carefully, tecs use that little corner, of irregular shape and behind tha column, waa dark oven when tha electrice were turned on in the driveway. With three strokes of a pencil Welbasky made a ground plan of the corner so that Kendall, who bad never particularly noticed that architectural detail of the house, would alike. Be hare He glowered at tha reporter; Kendall. Im square with yon and youre to bo exactly square with Do you know anything about that ad la th Foram last night? Did you put It in. or hav anybody put It la. or do, you know wbar it cam from? On my word, no, Kendall replied. I know nothing whatever about It. Tho detective eyed him a minute and eoaafl matted simply: Well. I believe you. I thought maybe with that bug In your bead about Jewels you'd tried to start something on your own hook. But if you aay you Now, forget that, didnt, that goes with and com back to this gun. She ahof him. son, or stood by. 6be wont do herself any good by denying it. Understand now. I'm. taking yon right Insfde, giving you th squar eat deal I know how. Keep that in mind. But abea doing herself no good. I know how she feels about it, and her people. They cant endure the Idea of her name In the newspapers; held by the police, charged with murder, a triaL . But thats piffle. Shed a lot better have her nam la th newspaper than gat stuck to Ossining for ten yean. Listen, now: Othman waa a hog with women. No trouble to show that. H footed her late aooeptlng him. Than ah weat up there to break tha engagement. He grabbed her. She hot him. Why. boy, any shoestring peddler that cant apeak five words Of English oould take her ease and clear her hands down! AH shes gpt to do la to shew herself to th jury and tell her story; show np Othman n bit. An attack; ah shot to any jury would hand her a bouquet But If aha denies It and makes, ns nail It to bar aha teas that Bee? 6h loses sympathy sympathy. throws away hef trump. "Tons got the password hero and Im taking you into tho lodge: I'm no Romeo myself, but that girl struck th soft spot to th top of my head. I hats to see her throw away her chance. If ah keeps on denying it and makes us nail It to her she will throw away her chance th jurys sympathy. Im keeping this gun under my hat for the present, and youre to keep it tinder your hat till I say when. The next step la to identify it as hers or her father's. Im working on a lead to that now. But I wish she'd com here and confess save us th trouble and aava herself, too. After th young man. left Welbasky rail acted; If ha'fl in love with bar hall probably poet down there and warn her that Tva got th gun which, after all, may scar her into confessing. Well, I got th word from high up to taka him to ea th ground floor. It's their responsibility, not mine And In a moment he perceived a great truth to wit: Girls with eyes and lips like hers shouldnt shoot people; it fluxes things up too much. Kendall waa under a tacit bond not ts th discovery ef th pistol. Youre to keep It under your hat, Welbasky had said. That was to the foreground of the reporters thoughts as he left headquarters. But this business of tha pistol agitated him, such a ladylike sort of gun, peart handled, nicks! plated, and found at tha spot wher a persoa fleeing from tha bona would naturally hav dropped It. When Flora Marsden, th image of truth, said, Truly, Phil, every shadow of doubt fled from his mind. But whsn Welbasky marshal ad- the facta they looked formidable. Sha had quarreled with Othman, struck him, and fled; somebody had shot Othman at that Instant; everybody (bout the place, exoept herself and Nelson Barlow, waa accounted for; now theyd found this ladylike pistol at th corner of th drive. The facta looked formidable. Suppose, after all, she was trying to shield Nelson Barlow, or bad denied It to a panto and was fatuously sticking to tha denial? Suppose Welbasky discovered that this peart handled revolver had been to her fathers house? That would be conclusive proof against her. Kendall suddenly saw It 1a Miss Marsden denied newspaper headlines: all knowledge of the shooting, but th polios had found th weapon wher she hid It and oould prove it cam out ef her father's Thus they oould chow, not only house. that she shot Othman or waa aa accessary to th shooting bat that ah repeatedly lied about It. That would loss bar th sympathy -which, as Walbasky said, was bar trump: If it waa her pistol ah must oonfess and save the sympathy. As the situation thus shaped jteelf to his thoughts her Image earn before him, as when. In these early cousinly days, sha had straightened hla tie. But If a certain pearl handled revolver was hers she stood In a great and imminent danger; the living death of prison loomed to front of her unless she was warned to time. Than Why' was h mooning along tha atreeta miles away from her? He found a drug store with a pubtto telephone to It and called np Marsden' s house. Mounting the steps to that house on this crisp, sun flooded Sunday morning, whan untormented folk were .gtSng to church. gave him an oddly poignant amotion. Onoe upon a time they had bean familiar to hiny After that came a long, self Imposed axils. Than he saw har one to blurt tha tnsnlt about Othman. A little later aha and Nelson Barlow sent for him at th French hotel to ask some exigent questions, and ba had sees her Friday evening after Othman was kfllad. But these later meetings had been forced. This coming encounter was forced, too, a matter of necessity on her pert rather of choice. In telephonlng h had asked to tea her alone for a few minutes, and ah herself answered hla ring. Afterward he dldnt know what sort of dress ah had on; It was only her pal face, dark aye, and crown of glossy hair. She had looked so tha Friday night after 'Welbasky left her. But now her eyes seemed to question htm with a puzzled submission as though she were ask. tog, "What art they going to do to me? What are you going to do to me? They had th small downstairs 'hall to thqmselvsa, and It waa as good a place ts any other for a brief, confidential talk. Seeing har thus near made his senses acha, and her pal face only heightened th power of her grace. Bat they might ha eoming to put har to prison. H tossed all equivocations to th winds and wsat at It head down, asking without a preface: Did you ever hav a pearl handled, nickel plated revolver? Was there ever such a revolver to th house? "Why, no; not that I ever saw," aha replied, wondering; and tgaih this was th image of truth. Wall. theFv found such a gun," h aid. at , Othman's bouts; on chamber discharged. It tha right caliber. It'a th gun h was shot 'with. I wanted to ask you." CtpjrlrM: 1994; Br Will Ptra. To be continued. j m understand it. Tha weapon waa a light, pearl handled, nickel plated, ala chambered revolver of At caliber. One chamber had been discharged, containing aa empty cartridge. Its caliber was the same a a that of tha bullet which killed Othman. Beyond all reason able doubt this waa the murder gun. For one thing, it waa a ladylike sort of weapon. For another thing. It was almost out of the question that Nelson Barlow had put it there.- - He waa In tha house and od the stain a few minutes after the murder. To ns e; n at die-clo- re-co- - INSTALLMENT Xtt The New Witness, f ID AFTERNOON of that Saturday fol, lowing the murder et Frederick Marsden wag called home by a telephone message. Oftener than not, on week days, be breakfasted alone, his wife and daughter having breakfast In their rooms. This morning he waa alone at tha table when he unfolded the newspaper and saw Othmans name In big black letters. There had been a tosihnesa la hie mind from the moment he heard of Flocas engagement. Bhe must be free to make her own choice, and the money wag mighty welcome; yet there had been a secret shock and recoil. Now, aa he read tha newspaper, a sort of mask fell off; the fellow , stood revealed. On the day before, the eo, n gagemeat having been definitely fixed, had put a gum of money at the disposal of the shipping Concern gad said the word for a bond Issue; tot the present, at least, tha concern would float Marsdta thought of that business aspect of the matter almost gt ones. And he wondered how Tops really felt; how much aha had Arad for the mas and how much tor the money. Well, it waa dona bow; (he and her mother might aa well have their morning gleep out. The notion fhal Tops might already know of this mur-de- r never occurred to him. He told thf maid to send the newspaper up to her when aba called for her breakfast, and eo left the Did you ever have at peal handled rooolverT Oth-man- no experience at the trade, he almost last shock ef that in bar mind and a quits natural selfish relief, too. "Poor Nelly. she the valet. At the couth Fifth avenue corner be paused aa though he might be waitadded, after giving them the message; and la sudden confidence: 1 was afraid of It. He ing for somebody, and to help on that he looked down the avenue a long (eally hptad Othman. moment. Then he turned north to cross Her father add mother could repeat Poor the Intersecting street and onoe more raised Kelly with a perfectly natural selfish relief, his eyes to the odd yellow brick facade upon because it seemed Ho withdraw the sword which, it seemed to him, his vision had been from over Floras head. The police must fairly glued for almost an hour. It gave have evidence agaiaat Nelson and that would back the same Immobile yellow image. Then divert them from bar. hla heart bounded, for a rod east of the Welbasky, in fact, had sent those 'four house a tali figure was moving rapidly away pieces of pale blua paper to the president of toward Madison avenue. This waa a few tho cartridge company. When the president minutes past seven. On Fifth avenue a foot beard that Nelson Bartow, for whom ho had passenger, or- eeverai. went by every few little regard, waa the man who was .in Othseconds, and there must have been a dozen man a bouea at the time of the murder and more people moving afoot in the croes that he had attempted to get possession of or street. But he thought that tall figure waa these pieces et paper when Othman lay dead, Jenks, who had com out of the house while he explained candidly that they were evi-back was turned, now striding briskly .hla dtnee ef forgery committed by Barlow. ' east, already near half the short block Here, then, waa a perfectly elear cut. away. plausible motive for murder. These pieces of Running wouldn't do. Be hurried, hut That pe per meant penitentiary tor Bartow. Jenka moved about aa fast as be oould witha man ta bin position might kill in order to to out actually running. Two leisurely pedes- get possession of them would look ered.b! trians, a man and a woman, got in the way. any jury. After a consultation at headquarWhen Kendall passed them he saw' that ters, therefore,' Wetbagky ordered Barlow something had happened. Jenks had halted. taken in custody and cut off from all outTwo other figures were close beside him; matter. side communication. The official statement one of the figures was broad and squat Kente the newspaper mid merely that new eviFlora waa already wide awake, a dall had te moderate his pace, for he did not seed oowanL Tha sleepless flight had not dence had been discovered and Barlow waa wish Jenks to recognize him. Thd three fig-- , - helped her to face it, eo (ha lay (till, like held for the present as a material witness; tires stood close together. Jenks seemed to hut formal arrest of on or more person hunted game In a thin cover. The newspaper be talking. Then they movbd slowly toward on a charge of murder might be expected wag taken up to her, and she sent it an to MAdlsoiraverrua At the corner Iheyhalted peon. her mether. Mra. Maradenread' it, and again for a moment Surely' Jenks was Kendall also felt relief. Aa on might (ay, understood why Flora wag keeping to her talking. The group separated, jenks stridthe wolves had got their victim. The eenea-tlo- u room that morning a great shock to her, ing south is Madison avenue without a rewould detention Barlows of Nelson But courset Thus the morning passed. backward look; the other two standing on on for he dam a the cowardice lieve day, pressure this hiding Jn fled waa the sheerest the corner looking after him. One of them, especially aa tomorrow was Sunday. But he and childish, for the thing bed to be seed. beyond question, was tha short, broad mVn lunch-eoa In was hie bones that it felt came home to only temporary Sometimes her father whom Kendall had encountered in this street was stiU tn Marsden th relief. Flora and trap, on Saturday. Flora got up dratted, early that morning. They turned north In It eo t close been it, fairly herself. brushing flbed This Saturday, however, Madison. preparing In be eh would with that skirt, her oome home she not danger and, presently, ha did Kendall took hla Ufa In his hands. In - the puzzle wsa solved. untilfinally him. telephoned for of rushing cars and taxis, and struck respect to when he turned Jenka the And solving. Only then Sid sha try ta prepare her screes to the south Madison avediagonally Ail head. In hi obstinate up bobbing kept Mother, dear. I've sent for mother, flaying: nue corner. Reaching it and looking down been had a checked In servants up. the " father. I want to (ell you both, I wag at the aVenue.i h caught a gUmpae of Jenka Judgment about the Ur. Othmans last night Just before he was general wayatWelbaeky'i and followed. Psopi and vehicles at tha them in tha to avldanc regard sufficiency shot. Don't be afraid, mother; I had nothing cross atreeta got In the way; he soon lost of three them be must trustworthy. Only to do with tha shooting. It will all tom out sight of the valet But this waa the way or ea so to the within were, stage, speak, to right In tha end. hut you and father ought to Mrs. Josephine Smith's modest apartment of Tw the ef affair. the three the scope tew minutes until he know. Well wait a on Forty fifth street namely; WtUjiu, the respectable butler, and oomea. then IH toll you both. Of course, Jenka might he going anywhere; young Frlta, the footman fairly diparmed Bhe hs4 put it off martly because there wee hut Mrs. Smith's waa tha only objective Kena Besides, their where-- a glaiiceat susptelen something In the story that the oould net dall ceuld think of, so he went to Forty-fiftbouts and meflemants ware accounted for. tell her permits; something she had not told street There he paced, loitered, left Jenks of the lank daw and narrThat FhilUp Kendall, and would not disclose ta watched. Imposed ppoa the hospitality of a eyes- - By a sort ef chemical affinity owed anybody. And la thinking of tho matter delicatessen shop and a tobaeoo shop aa long Suspicion attached ta him as naturally aa It that forbidden pert kept Intruding; it was aa ha dared. Tha cold strengthened. He slid Off from the ether two. But Jerks wasnt alwayfl weaving Itself hack Into the drama huddled ta hla coat, hands in pockets, kicked in the house, et all; be was outside coming in spite of bar effort to keep It out. In her bis feet Against the Icy pavement to keep from the florists or falling down on the thinking about it, that nuppreeeed Part cast them warm. It waa dull work, loitering, snowy sidewalk. Again. Welbasky , had a ting of talaeheod on what eka wag going checked pacing, standing still awhile and moviagbn. that up end bin judgment aa to the ta tall. But what aha could disclose she told, A dozen times he passed tha dingy oak sufficiency of the evidence must he given with clearly, beginning Ktadell'g letter, street door with its small panel of glass near great weight. which (he h4 hurried. tbs top. Jenks might not be up there at Wen. that cleared everybody from tha That letter, she said, east her into a greet all: might ba snugly back In Othman's house, exoept Flora and Nelson Barlow. To Stag or anywhere. Tha little clock In tha deli- doubt and dismay, ee she (ant fop Nelson Kendall's mind Flora waa out et the qua, Bartow anf showed it to blip. Ha told bar catasaen shop a ha drifted past tha window tlon. Truly, Phil, that's all I knew about Seemed to have stopped, or at least to move (he should sot marry Othman. Then (he It." Ik bad mid. Bo there waa only Nelson telephoned Othmans house and went up Barlow left, and he Waa already in custody, only a quarter aa fast as a clock should. to there Ha had four hours of It. with sufficient evidence to warrant locking get the engagement announcement-Othmaseised her, she struck hire, and ran him up. And yet, somehow. Nelson Barlow Then, aa ba was across tha street, a lank out. Thera was a sound; aha didnt identify didnt look the part; it didn't teem in his figure earns out of tha dingy oak door, carryIt aa a piste!; it Seemed too dull a sound for character. ing something In his right hand. Jenks, ung shot; more ilka a door slamming. She With a lugubrious little laugh at himself, doubtedly; by that time tha watcher would burned on out of the house snd came horns. ' Kendall admitted that We'hasky was Juati- fairly have known hla by hla loflg legged. into which the valet disappeared. By that time the watcher was thoroughly refrigerated and weary with standing and pacing. Ha took a bus down tha avenue, got some warm food and coffee, and reached his lodging a couple of minutes before midnight. Thera wka atilj a little chUl in hla back as ha dropped into the most comfortable chair of tha two m tha room and lighted a pips. A threadbare sort of room, with some cracks in the faded old wall paper; the varnish blistered on tha side of tha bureau pear tha steam radiator a radiator that sometimee thumped ilka tha devil early in tha morning. A tired young man, puffing hla pips in tha chair, for h'a had been on the t four that morning. . go since A long atona'a throw to tha south Flora Marsden waa probably asleep, or. If awake, thinking of anybody rather than of an unplaced, moneyless, unmannerly reporter who happened to be a distant relative Doubtless she'd never know what ha was doing. O, If she did know she would Vy him with a smile and a gracious word, sad ask fltm to y congratulate her when she married with moqey. fehsd said, " Truly, Phil, looking at him in .that way, all gentleness, and so sent him off to strive for her till his hones and heart cracked. But that waa beautys right of eminent domain to throw the squire a rose and so send him off to break hla neck for her. There Waa no helping It, . Oth-ma- - half-pan- some-bod- self-eon-- ft . n h n -- discovered that two men stopped Jenka In tha street, talking with him a couple of minutes; that the valet then went to Mrs. Josephine Smith's, where he stayed four hours and borrowed a typewriter. He oould bear Welbasky laugh over that haul. ' But the captain. In fact, did not laugh. Sunday morning all tha world lay abed an hour later, and Keadall followed tha custom. Ha looked Over tha morning newspapers and found, aa ba bad expected, that Nelson Bar-looccupied tha limelight; also, as ha had expected, that scandals concerning Othman were at a premium.mor mud to Ihs torrent. It was half past nine when ha presented himself at police headquarters and a half hour later when ha was admittel to tha small, plain office which waa tha real nerve center of tba police department in a baffling murder case like this one. Welbasky greeted him with a glum nod, and let him have It bluntly: Bad news for you. Weve found tha Ha frowned. It was under their gun. nosea all tha while. Only an hour and a half after tha murder, when an automatic pistol was discovered behind soma books in th library where Kelsoa Barlow had sat, Welbasky thought ha had th murder solved. Then, aaaoylngly. It turned out that this automatic pistol was not tha weapon with which Othraaa had bees killed. Ia such a case aa this tha weapon waa almost aa necessary aa th corpse. All Saturday tha police had looked tor li' lzT vale. But this bright, crisp Sunday morning they began looking more systematically outside the house end found it almost at ones. A tunnellik driveway lined with tflea, pierced the lower story of tba house at the west side. A steel column. Inside the brick face, supported the overhanging southwest corner of the second story. Th tiles, folding around this column, maae a triangular niche Tha pistol waa found at tha bottom of this niohe, fairly under their noses, as Imagine a max who had jnat committed a murder, In a house full of servants, running out of doors and fairly Into a public street g In order to hide th weapon and then back again was to abuse imagination. . On tha other hand Welbasky extended hi little diagram to aa to include tha front Una of tha house, half tha driveway, and the recessed mala door. Suppose a parson left tha main door of tha house on foot and in haste, bound for Fifth avenue. It would be rather natural for such a person to cut diagonally down tba driveway and reach the public sidewalk at that oorner where the pistol was found. Suppose the fleeing person, being In hast and terror, had a weapon to conceal What would be more natural than for her to drop, or tuck. It down into that dark corner? It wasnt necessary to suppose that aha had ever par. ticularly noted that corner before. Bhe ia running away, her agitated mind occupied with tha necessity of getting rid of tha postoL Her is a dark spot. 6b drops thfl pistol Sad hurries on. In short, th place and position la which th gnu waa found by plainly suggested that it wqa pnt-thssomebody who was fleeing from tho house not run oat of and by somebody who had doors for that purpose and was going back into tha house. Walbasky expounded ft grumpily, with a clouded face, for ha bad a bad conscience. When fa stepped Into Marsden' sitting . roam and saw a slender young woman stand- tog to receive him h bad experienced a surprising reaction. It wasn't only beauty and' grace ' but a freshness as of the flower at Its first. finest bloom, ururumpled as yet. Hed been at this trad from his' youth, laying people by tha heels, breaking them, tripping them to jump on them; mostly people quit sufficiently beamudgsd and bemired to on way or another long before he laid hands on them. Tha devil, wareat there plenty of the bestgudged and bemired ones for him to trip and Jump on rolling this gracious en to the mud? An extraordinary and surprising reaction, for ha had quite suddenly wanted har to f run-rin- r . -- thi tree sad dean. Ha had long known well enough that with hla beanpole figure, funny and purple complexion h was an uncurrant coin with female youth and beauty, a counterfeit bill which they naturally Inclined to ignore. Perhaps it was net so much th nos as th temperament, for h was a grumpy, unsociable person, tatting ea by sheer industry and ability rather thaa by slapping men on tha back. Divert him of hla Invisible uniform. and this present dark-- ' eyed beeuty would probably (peek to him quite kindly and tU th cook to give him a bon. H was not romancing to th way of expecting wanted har ta go anything from her. softening te a fresh, 'fra, with a sudden lovely, trapped creature. And no such softening had any proper place fn hla profession, which aught to tea impersonal. . Thanks to Kendall' Intervention, b waa backed up new by n powerful word from above. All the asm. -- he wasnt doing hla Jcb; he wasn't four square with his calling. Flora Marsdsn ought to b locked up this minute. H had a dissatisfaction wlth him-l-f which amounted to a bad conscience. He was making Barlow th goat, and ha didnt believe in dividing em into sheep and goats; to a policeman they should all look no, . . |