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Show Magazine Section Sunday, September 14, 1924 Not In the TeMimoey One chief Inspector of police,1 One A attorney and assistants. expert reporters of blotter news. Twelve good men and true, serving on a Jury. A Irirdened judge. .vho uij Thl Is a partial list of U-a hand in a uccsf ul prosecution and yet would nwer be able to ray district d"n what happened. Not one of them will knuw, until they read It, the explanation of the most mysterious behavior on the part of one person pronounced guilty, which ever came to 'their notice. Evidence is a curious thin,; Testimony is not always complete. Justice rune In strange courses, On August fifth of year the Ilghu'tn the house of Mr Christopher Mace, the banker, apparently were all xtinguiAhed except one. which burns low all nisht in the front hail. Behind the dark curtain of the cellar window the lights In the negro maids' rooms were still going full flare, but were not to be observed from, the street. Mr. Christopher Mace after sixty-fiv- e had retired from active Interest in the bank. He dropped out of the presidency and into the chairmanship of the board of directors; he maintained a visiting relationship with the offices, including visit to his safety deposit box. Nothing in his life promised that he would be murdered unless it were the fact that he, with years, had grown eccentric, and one of his eccentricities was to- sleep In the same room he had shared with hie wife ever since he had come east from Ohio, eighteen or twenty years ago, and bought this brown stone front edifice in the park. It is necessary to add when speaking of hia expectancy of being murdered that after his wife's death he insisted on leaving every article she had ever owned In the place she had left it. This, without his knowledge, Included a rope of pearls, valued In several tens of thousands, which for some reason she never put with her other Jewelry in her lock box at the bank. On August fifth the prospect that Mr. Christopher Mace would be murdered was not within the scope of any His reasonable person's thought. house had a sleepy appearance, like that of smug, homes, where yawns begin at nine and eccentric old trusty persons It was extire snoring at that a actly at man of cadaverous figure, but graceful carriage, walked up onexof those long brown flights of steps which nude the houses built In the seventies and eighties so inviting. He rang the bell as if he had legitimate business more in keepin perhaps, with of the morning. the hour of The visitor did not ask for Mr. Mace: the visitor told the negro maid, who finally appeared, tying on a white apron, that he wished to see a Mr. Thornton Fellowes. Mr. Thornton Fellowes, as the maid knew, was that silent, patient man who for many years had acted for the old gentleman banker a housekeeper, accountant, assistant, secretary, and whose attentions were sometimes even in that class 'of services called, when given with less devotion and affection, valet, attendance. Thornton Fellowes, who was not young himself and had a curious restrained, almost saddened dignity, on certain occasions had been seen helping old Christopher Mace to maintain his lifelong reputation for foppishness. He had helped him U tie his whtte evening dress cravats. The maid, glancing up at the old hall clock which ticked austerely like an Inexorable personality, said that Mr. Thornton Fellowes was out. The other now showed the first sign of feeling that he was master of the situation. He said, "He is not out He is In. I.have.full information. 1 must see him." What mm!" said the two white rows of frightened teeth. ' Say it's Mr. Reckoning." If the maid considered this a strange She name, she made no comment. allowed the late visitor to put His hat on the table, and pulled back the portieres into the library, so that the gentleman could enter its warm smelling interior, still redolent with the odors of living rooms Just vacated by those who have gone to bed. When the light had been switched on. she left him blinking about curiously at his surroundings. She said afterward that he appeared to her & good deal like a corpse which had learned to walk and talk again. She said he had strong muscles In his jaws always chewing imaginary articles. from When the maid descended above she said, "Mr. Fellowes will be right down." She then opened a stair door which led to the kitchen and servants' basement, and descended heavily. The stranger, who had slid silently to the top of these steps, listened as If weighing the question of sound penetration In this house. .He was satisfied. He nodded. He locked the door which cloeed off the cellar stairs, and returned . to the library. When Mr. Fellowes came through the portieres, the stranger stepped back so that the light from the ceiling f'xture would fall upon his own face. He was fixing the gaze of his deep-re- t, tntense eyes upon the countenance of his host. "Mr. Reckoning?" began Mr. Fellowes. The other "Tou don't know me man had a voice strangely incongruous. Looking at the man, one would say that he should have a bass voice. It was almost feminine. It had a llind of piping quality, but there was sn ugly vigor In the piping: it bored like an auger: it was like a thin surgical probing instrument. "I am sorry." said Fellowes In a stilted tone, "1 cannot say that I do. I was about to retire, hut If you will ttsfe your business no" answer He The visitor made was leisurely. He was contemplating the man befors him. He scrutinized the other man's face with it sad and if to discover whether patient mien as was bitterness and that sadness whether that patienc was the result of of some kind triumph or some kind Fellowes had a smaller of failure. frame than the vt!tor. but It still retained a stocky, sturdy quality and lines at the corner of hl the were still well remembered, thre. The visitor evidently reached conhe said outright, clusion because "Happv eh. Thorny?" At thl nickname Mr. Fellowes' eves suddenly started forward.. out. '"Who are mi!" he hurst dear. old Phil " He "I'm Ju reused. "That' right. Thorny rum white, damn you! It's been nearly twentv year. Turn yellow, blast you Tve lost my hair and I am thinner and look at my age compared with vour an old. old man, eh? Old! I'm hut you'd say I was sixty that I'm eight hunand the truth Shake dred and You're right! dear, old Phil here I am!" and Pitting The first words the other mm eoold summon were word of come to wreck H said. "If yon'v rrv toh for you've com too late.' O. I know. True'-- r Oiling frf.d-- d emp'oyee. , WM esth'1hed and aW that. Tt was all hushed no for you. ? JCohodv knows but that crankw eh mge yours? T''lr a shin to vou? Let you out? Tou honet?4'Were youf Better than wr at ten-thirt- y d y I v,luh fnrfv-elgh- t. four-scor- e. !' e. r. .: the other two of us? Better than me! Better than Goodwin, who shot himself in Paris betore they could get hi extradition?" Fellowes. stared at the other and then .looked down at hi hands held palm upward as If holding an Imaginary saucer. "No," he said painfully "l never pretended that, lou mii tu say 1 had two personalities in me. Do you remember? One good and stupid- - a wheel horse? And the othei bad and clever devilishly clever? Remember what you saidi It was true then, it' true, now." He spoke of it sadly, as one' speak of some chronic disease which has caused endless suffering and grown tou old a subje t to be Interesting. Then he looked up quickly "What do you want. Phil? What are, you , here?" , tolrg "1 came for you,' said Dining in his surgical voice. "That s the first tiling 1 did when 1 got outside. A crazy thing to do! Certainly. I'm no fooL I'm not fool enough not to know how the hour make a man craxy. I'm craxy. Therny, old man. You Oon'f know about the hours the hour the hours! You've never been were You there. clever .smart. Tou tfl'ilrmed out. You don't know what it, is to work on account book aU f'ny long until the figure dance like little devil. And in the night when there is insomnia ha! ha! Sitting on the side of the little cot! Thinking and thinking. Little ideas grow and stow on the flat side of the dark and then you fall In love with on of them as you would with a woman. The idea become your dear, dear w lfe. you live with her day and night!" smiled Fellow painfully. "Well?" lie asked. "What wa it, Phil?" "To get square with you, Thorny." He put a revolver down on the taol in front of him. "To kill me?" the other said almost cheerfully. Diliing shook hi head. "O. no! That would be silly unless I had to. It back there " He m send v.cuid shuddered a if suddenly expoeed, nuked to a cold, damp blast of "No. what I had in my Imagery. mind was that. If either of us went if there, why it would be you." He smiled an ugly smile. "Or else might go together." troubled look The first exposed He csme into Fellowes' eyes. smoothed his rather thin hair down Hip gray patches over the temples. "0, I know," said the seeing this flittering ghost of fear. "I know all about you, Thorny. I had a report made on you. I know how ou restored the stolen money and j.ot your job. That wa a good many years ago. Then you married. I hear you've got a daughter, seventeen already. Nice wife, eh? And all the time" I was up there? Well'" "Well, what?" asked the other partothing you've tient man. "There ot against me." "Haven't I? When wet got away that the bank, night with the money-fronwere the one who had it. What jou vou it back, eh?" do? You gave did Thornton Fellowes' thin lips curled a little a he Bald, "Are you charg. ing me with dishonesty?" "I'm charging you with the convict exploded. "Are you?" replied Fellowes. "What about your promise not to shoot whatever happened. You Goodwin and me. w; never frr manwith you tiirsatneri slaughter." of you said. "Neither "Pah!" Phil two had any experience. I did what I Lad to do." "And that's where I parted com-- , pany with you, Phil. I wa too clever for that. I was the one who had the It should hay idea. It was mine. been carried out a you agreed. sny case what the use of arguing. We would be at it all night. I see it my way and you see It yours. I'm not afraid of you." Dllllng laughed. "No man who ' IsnHet afraid ever hai to say so. gosneered. "You asked me If. I was Not ing to kill you. And 1 said no.taktn ) you do what I tell you. I've all the pain; I want my reward. I want my share of" what was coming to me. I'm going to get it. You're it for me!" toing to get stared at Wetting hi Hps, Fellowe He might tupd!ly. almost Billing have been a man tempted to voice his curiosity as to the definite Inwith a tention of this cell bred monomania for revenge, but ha restrained himself from asking unv questions. At last he reached across the library table, pushing a box of cigars toward the other. "Smoke?" he said. "Are you going to talk?" asked double-crossing- double-ciosBe- tl Diliing. For a minute, the other said with a nod. "Not to gsln time. There are the matches." He laughed. "I see you used to, Inhale as deeply as you ' Phil." to wa I "HI tell vou what going man-i-In the on went rather he say." an to of a bank officer talking going to replicant for a loan. "I'm talk straight to you. If I hadn t lived these lived all years. I the life I've would want to meet, your challenge. of I am afraid you. Phil. Now I don't. You've sat too long on the edge of the cot In the night time thinking about me. I'm no fool. You'd kill me. I know it. And I don't want to die. 1 v built a whole structure of life. I have those I love. I have mads a home . for them, and whenever I'm not needed here because of some special work. I go to that home and no joy no fierce joy of love tnere r.nd passion, no love of gain or fame, hold a candle to the Jov of can which being needed by those I love. No11 ever hear of me. but Tv atbody tained .that I live In that Jov." The snarl from the other man may huve been loosed for dramatic effect, hate. it. may have been sincere dded. off. eh?" he "Eegglng 'No! ' Thornton Fellowes replied, suddenly sitting upright in the big leather .chair. "You've got me wrong. I'm "not begging off: I'm threatening you "Threatening me"" inquired Pilling, touching th revolver "What chance I've got another one, too here In mv side pocket." this Fellowes was Impressed by news; he appeared to be weighing the reasons which might have led a man like Diliing to bring two revolvers. His heavy brows drew down nd the.i suddenly a blnd. s'upid look cs.no mt" his face. "I shouldn't have said I was three, enlng you." he went on. "I wants I to picture my life. I wanted to tell vou about my daughter a beautiful 01 young thing and my little son course. I want you to let Up on me. nd I don't wnt I don't want to die to go through any develish business you might want to fore on me.'' Pllllm,'. "tevllih business?" mocked a snob ab"ut "You've become quit the devil since last we met!" "Maybe." admitted the other. "I thought o. I'm just baring my Inner self to you. Phil. I thought after tru,-good many year of going that going straight was a dull business, but that it had more than adequate rewards. Tou know my temI've craved excitement perament.even! More and mor since I wa of It! Well, it's laughable that man like that should be a regular old wheel horse like me." "With titrate end brigand end locked artist rof'dnce saidFmil I "O. know you hire?" Ttcm t prot est me tell you. About d Fellowe., "Lt four years ago Mrs. Mac, died. When un-in- imww-mYseT- she died she had a of pearls a good one thirty orrope fortv dollars. It wa missing from her iiti--tdeposit box. She died on,' niiint In her carriage coming back thv opera. They thought no o,t t..'u'd remember but they thought sic hurt worn the pearls. But she hidn t. found 'em. I haven't touched vm vet But. by heaven. Phil, after all thef. " ' ytars "You'v been tempted."' Dll, wriggling with delight There was no delight In i Mher man: he was gray, a if th "f Cear he had of himself had conii- - ngnin to rub Its cheek with his. "Don't be so bloody serious." Dill! said. "We can use that rope jT iarls It will come in handy. It iv( The' Man with a Revenge Gomes Back to Pemand a a whispet. "They- can't be now tnnlvht:" "O, yes, they can!" growled tilling. "You low your life tou miK-iu go." He picked up the. revolver "Id kill you like a dog if you. turned me down. Why wouldn't 1? I've lived I mv life, haven't I? I'm a wreck cam to 'make you perform, dear old I came to Thorny, and get you tnM trouble, and If you don't d as I i.a.v Some flick of memory and perhaps, the softness of the voice and benevolent grinning face brought, for snv nd, a look uf fright into passing s sunken, evil eyes. Diliing ' Bunk' ' he said finally, exhaling a long breath. "Cheap bluff and bunk; 1 You're ioever. But I' ve got Thorny. th two guns!" The other man body suddenly lost iis stiffening, as if Indeed his la$t appeal to Diliing having failed all I'll wipe youout!' vourage and nerve hsd leaded out on tl-Fellowes srared again stupidly a; the floor. the contorted face of the 'Good God' Pilling' What do you man He did not g'.anc about him like the want me to do? Do you want me to proverbial rat .aught in a trap. In- go Into my chief s room? " Well. Ii stead he allowed the corner of his will Just mean that if "Yes." finished the other, "that If mouth and eyes, where the wrinkles of a-- e were beginning to he wakes up you'll make some excuse c to your life. I know how she e,n into a kind of sill' grin and come out. That would be poor valuable aTound and I know h a iter While he this san-- silly grin one-ac- t p'ay. sure! He'd recognize husband leaves everything 1u: xr s!, remained onspoke face and in his voi"e vou and. of course, you d make sotp his left it. O, 1 knov all tha!. ;ight there was a peculiar note suggestive excuse and come out and the fer res.-he- rl ,thr for Reckoning Monomania Celt-Bre- d '' t you going to do? By RICHARD If the U tile picture was goi.e now-.Hi voice shook: his posiur-wa- s thai of a begging mouse. "Tell you presentb." billing said. Waih "We re going Walk; Keel that in your back.'. ahead of me. upstair. It's cold muzzle metal. Thorny, curst vou for a yellow quitter' Clever, ar ou" Well, walk' Tread easy. One I 11 b.ow vou open In the sound an! middle " "I. thought tt was r coming to this." Fellowes "Heawu help me' I ou brought know th two and,, threats guns" Walk'" repeated Dining grimly "Vp you go. Into the study into the front room Quift. now1" Fellowes had Ifft the light burnlnn !n Mr Mace s studv. Papers out over the desk as If had been at work there after a WASHBURN roll of black elc- He dangled triclan' tape. ithe other. What for?' ' Better than gasped a mask." Dl, ling In formed him. : A "black silk handkerchief might fall of ' your face. Then Mr. Mace would know. you. Just wind this around your uiper lip: Here's the firet piece." "You aren't golr.g to send me in so I wont be recognized!" whimpered Fellowes. M! "That "Yes.'' said Diliing a Not even Here' by your' voice. mouthful of cotton. Thorny. Stuff it I in yourse f before put this sticky piaster around vour mouth and chin." and Diliing The other cringed, raised his gun "1 mean it!" said the with the maniac look In his eyes. "I d rather kill you io but I'll give you a chance. In and bring back something to keep the wolf from mv door." "You'v been taking a drug." accused Fellowes. ' None Do what of your businesa I ay. Put that cotton In " tremhi l'eilowes obeyed, using bling hands When he had closed his mouth over the gag. Diliing" unwound a vard of the adhesive tape and bound its clinging contact twice around th Up and chin of his victim. Then h laughed softly. "Don t you look funny?" he aaked. Your own mother would think you were a stranger." He examined ht llencd prey criti- cal', "Sow, then, Thorny, let me tll you what I've fixed up for you. Perhaps boss If your you know already. oakes up and sees you' he'll shoot. Hell Weep on shooting. When th morning comes, you II be trelched out and your fmily will know your tru to nature a thief, a man who tri rob hi own master! And whef will I be? Far. far away!" Diliing lauglied triumphantly. "But listen. Thorny!' he went on. "Of oouree. tf he wake up nd you are quick, you might hoot flrt. or Then his life yours. Maybe it' eh? you might shoot. a won t have gun Now, you say you I O yea you will. Thorny. brought one for you. And If you us It. well, then, you and 1 are good old pal if And tomorrow morning, again. luck ia good, dear old Mr Mace will I wi3 be stretched out and you and be far. far away, eh?" The victim raised his hands as li to shut out th horrors of what he hi had been made to te. it wa !ast protest. "1 "Come on, now." said Diliing. don't hear anv noise The old man's If you r quiet as you dl asleep your work, he mav not wake up. Tvirt our back. That good. Now Uke this gun. Keep It pointed at th flool until you get lnnide the bedroom Keep your hack turned toward me. Whn you come out back out. If i eee nvthlng but your back Ml fir for He regarded hi arrangement with fellow began painstaking labor of turning tha brats knob an tha thick oak ioo CHILD. white. Th man" fac had fall Into th ghastly lines of a fac of s Hia body drooped and hiv corpse. r2. tt!" "I had to." said Fellow. "You 4Jk "H missed you!" "book!" be whlmpred "Open thai door and look! See what I did! What will I ever Just look. Phil! Do It for me! See what I ve done! It's in th full blaze of light!" "No.' said billing with a revulsion of feeling. "Not for m! Did you get anything?" "All locked up!" aaid Fellow. "His wlf had a tittle af In the wall. Do you want to ee? Well It our luck. Phil If locked to- -, night. You haven t got any tool!'' billing shook his bend. "t ome on. then." begged Fellow. "Let s go. You'v .got to help m now. Phil. Say you'll' help m now!" The other picked up the fallen revolver and began to examine It; h wa taking hi time. He enjoyed seeing Fellowe qulrm In hi agony. "Throw it away! Hide it!" chattered the victim. "Not me," said Dllllng with leer. I'm not through with you, old I If own neck. break my Thorny. . I'll make you pay! I sat on my cot slt-eI touldn t when and night planted a seed and It grew and It. grew and by heavens, now I gather . my peach crop." Th other stared at Dllllng. "Yen sren t going to desert me now!" he "You wouldn't. Phil? What gibbered. would my wife say? What would my little daughter sy? Can't you see, Phil? We tntiit stick tother!" Dllllng motioned with the point of hi revolver. "Sit down!" he commanded. "Sit down here in th desk chair. I am a respectable citizen now, Thorny. You r only a murderer. Huw do you like the sound of (he word?" Murderer! Why, I could kill you now and be quite a hero." The (ther man had sunk Into th chair: Dllllng looked about th room of with hi oulck. nervous glanc " ' lnpctio "All right." h said at last. In a tone of satisfaction. "I see It." "See what?" The other body leaped and twitched In far. "Never mind." billing. Here "Take off my co t. rplid your. Now That right He stepped to the window and with a turn of hi wrist (bout th curtam tord he Jerked several yrl of It down. "Hold out vour hands." ha then" "I won't!" Fellowe wailed. "No, I won't! You're to double going cro roe. Ycu'r going to utteal. You're going to .nak me pay for even-thing.- "I could do that now." said Dllllng coldly. "If you're smarter than I am. are you? Well. I .could kill you now ou, the clevtr fellow who threatened me and then I could make my getaway or stay by and say tha; yo'i n filed m und I vtouKn t stand for murder and I killed rou trying to defend that that poor old bankH er In there." "No. pointed. Id" kill you for you better behave. the eccentric banker had retired the niglit In the bedroom beond that satisfaction. Then suddenly h per closed door ceived that hi victim was looking ' hear the old boy always of hi own cual leP"rtown sleeve the at with a gun under his pillow." whu- understand" ! said Dllllng. peerd billing with h crln. "So that' It, "Ha!" "A dead shot!" said the victim In a js It? You hope dear old Mr. Mc "O Phil, listen now! : wl coat. trembling yol-- . ecornl yurvou are. n?GiveWell, in sunarter than you are Thl my rm mHrter than m a pin!" , us: mean th of finish of Now that take off your coat". Fellowes shut hi eyes M man at gun! In th room where he tlecps! Tt aa of one who spologizes In a good- - forma nee No. t don't be over let made no other reply Here The Your dark and plain; the end of hi rop. HI Hp twitched. all reported to me, old man." natured way for his existence. tee It that waj." than a clf u Hmtimri smile he was mln' mine. O, you'll He extended hi limp wrlts. gray and checked. listen"Now listen. Phil." he said. Fellowe did not appear to "I Diliing took a pieve of paper out taking account now of his surround er be It fn. a etranger! Put Nbv complete H a billing mad Ha skillful job of was his see to be his of coat Inelde want this. reasonable about ng ing. pulling pocket, 'you With an Inborn Instinct for th lugs. Jn Now him un. the tiond his wrist gua. her' Vnu remember how you used to sav he muttered. "Yes. this Is the plan. dramatic he had put his cadaveroua your left hand. fingers. He uttered exclamia ns un was cross pack a to of behind bar your back th at Ktep I one man like You with j two busisee. personall-Jtieder hi breath. Thorny. had the whole shoulder, angular body Into turned." th chair seat. Th chair -- was mas-tl- v was stupid ness before I came cast. I dtdn t asloping half Finally he said: "Do you n nv that and You said one tit them posture. Ilk some Hee surveyed hi work a If h Had and without rollera Th workr rather good, eh' And the other have to make any incriminating iv sneakingcrouching oi prey. .us animal any day for these last four had wha been some great sculptor bound Fellowe' ankle to It leg. was bad and devilishly clever. Now. quiries around here. I Just landed this trialmost have given my he said with notof Ftaalf . a Thornton finished hi labor. Thn 'Again h urvyd hand to have had Mr. Mace find those don t awake mye bad side. Phil! I pre- afternoon, and came right up. Pler.n umph, "I paid through thos yfara Fellowe ws masterpiece. revorver Into a distant comoletely changed," H Jhe dropped the to you after of the "bouse a.nd everything! The Thornv. I guess you'll pay now." ted fer to say good-byagain pearls? Good God. Phil, t! y i huu. m of a was masked th corner and picture ll laughed aloud. m like a ftend! I could you all these years. I could let you have man who brought the report to me "What are you going to do?" coat who ad good-Ph- iK" "Phil for all that es. Right I ru going to send you In there. rauder with out bout them, of course, but the . ice a little monev. too. I'd like to. help last year old a good Job. climbed of In th weapon I begged Fellowe. night, But .' anj I thought 'you. beg you to go away and over this room Is Mace's study. TJvjt'" jt;o ahead Into the bedroom' and bring said. 'No, perhaps "Don't leave w heel ald th other. "I'm I am mov." w e go next, as ready. an old or wnerr nie Just 'of the money involved. aiio, just oacK mf out something that will keep th cojlJ :;..) horse. I'd ev en out!" whispered Tilling. going to how you omthlng pretty. "l.lghta moon had agree to fight out It Is the bedroom where the old crank wolf from th door." Grace to .college. And r.obo-i.- ' te A tee like b you. man "There will clever enough j of you glad ever been very liberal wi i me! nut my tcnmtatlon shout the rope Fellowes' lower Jaw fell; It waa sleep." Keep You better go. your back turned and gun to learn th trick I'm going to play." He was glancing down at the P. .r f he had been shot' alreadv.x H if the pearls had disap t.;ard. ( ithout pearls, ail by myself. door after Close down. the on hi Fellowe' sank head Phil. breast; Just don't awaken my bad and when ho saw Fellowes' trembling rlaui ed his hands to hi eves, and pointed and gon out of any act on my part, It almost rolled about ther ik a you." the tahi- - In a low tone, fingers come creeping to ht my life forever. 1 wiwll hove felt like clever side." Fellowes began a painstaking labor heavy bloom on a broken tem, "You talk like a toward the revolver. He snatched It begged for mercy.unpleasant a man cured of leprosy! D m t ou Dllllng snorted on th th knob of bras wa But all and, Diliing turning up and swung Its muzzle pointing activity cf sore foot." No! doubt It! Like a i.iin "No! No!" thick cak door. Once It gave forth briskness. On th bthr id of th "No. no, no!" the soft voice went between the other man s staring "Listen." said Pilling. "I'm not an leprosy!" InTh he almost savdesk, on. th eves. squeak. up imperceptible picked "Don't that. writhwa telephone ail His face rere to argue, Suppose you frightened lie mougnt tne wnoie twisting ai.u When strument, and said in a vo'c suffibreath. awakened my clever side. Phil?' He "Don't! For God s caught hi ing In agony. thing out. Nice respectable, honestI victim h th latch turn m in "Gh In was was dramatic, again, Fellowes on this began ciently saw "No. almost color. police the saffron the perspiration Better than silly way. Thornton Fellowes? grinning Diliing having slipped hack far enough, th headquarter." other man's brow, and said brutally. don t do it. Phil. It would he the He shook and had to hold on to the am? Going straight? Wei, tonight door suddenly yielded and ung cut he "t tne nignt you .mm me again. Apparently Ftllowas did not even "I guesa I'll decide this question for worse for you Don't drive me back desk from th bedroom until tne crack hear him. no. know you. You're mad. You'd kill. ir.iiu.. My conscience is In Into the old thing. Don t make m you. Thorny. .M.r,i man. a to .admit WM wld ."Hello." said Diliing. "Thi la th nough co all wrong You're not like ma. You haven t It might better tune than yours if you know i e'ever again. into the upturned muszi of Pliling eam from this bdroom house of for you. I think tt would. I tell you. anything tolose!" Fellowes was revolver. Once be glanred at the ,No Christopher Mce tha what I mean." ' Ther-llence of the w be?i a murder here. a man ith some terrible door. Perhap he wa thinking that night, except banker. "You want me to go get (hose Phil, leave me to my wife and daughpanting murder. Bring a couple of let It go at disorder of the heart. tt h. ennwi h.vonrf ih.t done h. 1 the hysterical ticking of a watch Yea- -a pearls?" Fellowes asked in sudden ter and my bov. Just "'Behave on't make me clever again. that. vourself you crlnger!" could lock Piling outside and ral evidently placed on some little table Inspectors and some men. I can't horror. srrowled Pilling. "I'm going to rive a hue and cry from the banker' win which acted a a sounding board. leave this. room. I'm guarding tho "Get 'em and other things," Diliing If you do. Phil, you'll be sorry!" A shaft of moonlight fell upon th man. I "I'll be sorry?" in servant are locked into never tiow, you a sporting chance. asserted evilly, back of th man w ho slowly and on th basemen!. Just break the front "Do you know where they are?" "Yes. you'll be sorrv. I don't know thought when 1 used to think of you to read thes appeared billing no othr way. "You have said." lust how, hut somehow I II get the during those hour that I ever would, thoughts. "O, no," he said. "It not cautious tiptoe advanced through th door lock. There th house of Christopher Mace, "They are In Mr. Mace's bedroom." better of you. Phil. I'm loo clever but I'm going to I'm going to " make so easy as that. Thorny. Did you ever opening. thl th banker. Come iup to th second it a game moonlight Fellowes said, his voice dropping to for you. I warn vou " Dllllng. watching see this stuff?" sporting chance back, was seised suddenly with a tory" tremendous surge of th old hat. AH ' Still Fellowe did not move hi th .hour he had spent contrasting ye wer rolled elighUy upward, a his own hideou sufferings with the are a man's who is coming out of freedom and th progress of th mn ether. In the ten minuteii of waitwho had reformed erd made restiing h apparently heard nothing tution and built his own life anew, clearly. A blanket of fog had come H over hi sense. came pouring . Into his vein. To th contnt, knew hlmeelf. no doubt, that hi' low. ugly abuse heaped upon him hv By JACQUE& rUTK.ET.iIiE a man of were no nerves he made those abused response. Only Diliing. (Copyright. 19??, by the Whaeier Newspaper Syndlcat) half imad. but In this Irresponsibility once did he speak; thn he said with ctlon hs felt a savage panting breath: "I'm sick, Phil; send to normal In the for my wife." He could hoot Fellow I never do use-lee- s tournament. a noted ly he rose and grasped th It wa absolutely impoestbl. Twen- - i know chess, because Hlllsbury, lender Joy no need fjj L The other man laughed. He mum back! But ther ty-fiAmerican master. Spent, a morning hand of his conqueror. cheea masters from the world j things, but I could uke a half the The of bled on a kind of low, thick cur. that. opened edge lat-terof competent instruction and with Professor Van Dusen in th never "Vou have at large, iorea,uierea tu j?weiun iv, chess door wa In hi finger. played . ,. rent of hate just as if a mere f1defeat a man who has devoted his modest apartments- on Beacon before?" he asked. the annual championship, unanimousloud, H word of could clean out the trrl-b- l a snarl ugly, uttcrd unalife to it His mind is cramped; Hill. He left there with a sdly puz"'Never'" ly declared it impossible, 1 and incoherent xclamatlon of hat; the an unperversion which had encmtd bound down to the logic of chess zled face. That afternoon .Professor "Mon Dleu! You are not a mn; with nimity on any given point U th cells of hia brain. He talked an oath h slammed th door Mine is not; mine employs logic in Van Dusen met sou are a brain a machine chamusual condition for chess masters. . mahi with all Inai.d, a he talked, he might! automatically an its widest for would concede The newspaper had said a chine a thinking machine." scope," pion. Not one of He with had .tht? thought and planned and rehearsed. joy Dr. Elbort shook his head Vigor"It Is a child stant that it waa within the range great deal about th affair, and hunsaid the crash. Nowthought game." It ear truc.k his drums heard th burr of when Only Is asthey "It he dreds wer present to witness the scientist abruptly. Impossible." of. human achievement. Some grew ously. There waa no like the message of a pleasure for th electric patrol wagon and the note of exultation In his vol- -: red in the face a they argued si-it. serted. game. was it of which waited the did Fellow its gongs, hd sppetft Is warning Ther waa a little murmur of as- still the Irrltsble. impersonal tone whol lifetime. What other smiled loftily and were Impossible'" snapped "Nothing , happened to rcovr hi sensitiveness. "The human mind can tonishment when Professor Van Pu-se- w hich w as habitual lent, still others dismissed th mat- th scientist in he he had himself. cared He said a horrible then not; do anything It is all we have to vole, He was slight to the This then was Professor ter in a word as wholly absurd appeared th portal upon Thornton "It the wagon. Phil!" !mmcd A casual remark by the distin- - lift us above the brute cTeation point of childishness. nd his thin ? F. X Vau Pusen. Ph. U Augustus LL. U . Fellowe' destiny. he eat up straight Diliing nodd-- d Pro- - For Heaven s sake, leave us that!" hhoulders seemed to droop beneath F. R. 8.. M. P.. etc, etc. tc, Thl tlngulshed scientist and logician. He put his knee and ,htu!dt and Ironed out hi fac a on doe The aggresshe tone, th uncomprothe weight of his enormous head He i how he came to be known to the Augustus S. F. X Van Diith panel waiting, in th who prepared for a good appearthe discussion. He mising egotism, brought a flush to wore a number eight hat. His brow world at large as Th Thinking Ma- against that sen. provoked follow a trrtbl shock ance. pause disface. Dr. roee Elbert's Professor Van had in th past caused bitter been straight and domelike, and a chine The Russian v phrase th nd enea Then he heard th "They're ringing th doorbell chanoe remark; in Dusen affected many persons that heavy shock of long yellow hair gave applied to the scientist us a title by to putes by som once n And cat sound of exclamation lock. Phil'. ' they're breaking th a aort of way. particularly men of distinction, him a' most a grotesque appearance. a newspaper fact, had been Hutchinson th light pring up m th thin crack came Fellowe' vole. "Listen. tby center of the c!nce. It who had ideas of their onnr "DO The evea were narrow slits of blue, Hatch. It had reporter, stuck. under th door. The two men within ar on th talrs now. O. Phil, let you know the pjrposvs of chess its squinting had been due 'to his modest anThat strange, seemingly inexplicaeternally through thick th room were looking t each other me looee'" d combinations?" Dr. glAssea: the face was small, clean ble chain of fire jmstr.nces nouncement of a startling and un- countlet-which hsd before moment of that hesitancy "Keep your mouth hut." orthodox hyjjothssis 'hat he had been Elbrt shaven, and white with the pallor of to do with the mysterious d'sappenr-anr- e action' The door from th hall wa awning "No," wa the crabbed teplv. "I the student His lips made a perof a famous Invited to vacate the chair of philosoIrene wa). DilWhen sounded first th shot open and a.hort, dock man. who later that know nothing whatever of the game fectly straight line His hands were lack, from ber dring-rooin a iing stood back. phy in a great university: own nerve His had 'the appearance of dresslftg hasbevond been honored when the geneisl purpose, which. Ii remarkable for their whiteness, their Springfield theater in the wirse of a went university hd into a horrible discord. tily after being In bd. jumped In understand. Is o make certain pieces flexibility, and for the length of th performs. e while the echo be accepted Its degree of LL. D. of tuHI he "Mace!" first. gaspeo In quick blue eyes swerved certain directions, to stop an op- slender fingers. sat. ill For a score of years educational Physical develop, multuous appreciation rang in Before he could take another bout like a searchlight en a baui-shi- p. Is inent had never entered into the her ears. wa nd scientific instution of the world ponent from moving his king tht first prob- breath ther perhaps the fo'lowed second i schedule of his fifty vear of life lem which wa not purely i.clentiflc bad amusedA themselves by crowding that correct?" on here?" "What thudding mash of a revolver going he., He had. Initials Th Russian smiled a he sat down flat The Thinking Machine "Yes." said Dr. Elbert, slowlv: "hut wa ever degrees upon forhim th "Tm growled. Inspector." that stood things he couldn t 1 never heard It stated Just that way at the ches table. He felt that he asked to solve. The scientist" a'd Both were hot In ; plain clothes men of these Two muffled other n from wa before.' Th craiik enlisted in this case by Hutoh'n-soother England. humoring pronounce: degree behind th havy door. Dllllng wait- and a uniform strolled in. after him. Russia Germany. Italy. Sweden and mters wire grouped ner by, curiHtch. reporter "The, if that Is correct, I maintain ed listening, Th night wa deadly ulaten, inspector, began the ously expectant. that the true logician carr recogProfessor Van DuBut Spain. These were expressed scientist, logician." He could imll the aromatic Nt? hes expert, by the mechsnicl rules sen began the game, opening with a The Thluklhg Machine protested. "I Btlll. of" nition of the fact that hi waa th beodors smok th to t "Don him, Everything you Diliing; a few hour some queen s gambit. At his fifth move, know nothing whatever of crime "' foremost oram in xne sciences, i ne i of logic. I'll take the noncommittal door was si- exclaimed. "H th on who did it. made without the slightest hesita"No on knows that a crime ha hind Imprint of hi crabbed personality! time, acquaint mvself with the moves lent. He his him." kilhd pressed He weight against the pieces-- and defeat you to con tion, the smile Wf th been committed." tha reporter ha, tt Russian lay. heavily on half a dosen of Its of "Killed who?" asked the police wondering what on would Van Dusen face. vine At the tenth move the mastened to say. you." Prof,sor branche. FinHy ther came time "There is something havagain, tu ae it If he w ere 4ln that wipingd hi mouth with the Into the, eyes of Dr. ter' fsoe grew Intensely Th far the when argument wa respectfully si- rtared savagely in tht beyond affair. ordinary room. flt- of a brightly lighted back conon wa of his In of Ruisian A Elbert. woman ha disappeared, evaporated the for lent champion playing to lick He ht waited " "Mace the banker'" trying dry id Dr. Elhert. "Ton honor now. . "Not me!" Into thin lr In th hearing, almost clusions to dethink men utter d cloth and other The clearly lip, trying plain said for Van had which Professor Dusen' fourteenth In sight, of her frlenda The police cide, without Instance, might anyone; you. The remark arrayed the what the an- exclamation. to queen's can make nothing of It tt Is a prob- swer to th evidence, call chess masters of the world Into so defeat th greatest chess player. move wa king of room riddl said that tilL" their superior, Would be "Keep lem for a greater mind thsn their." w ould you formidable and unanimous a dissent willing to meet the four. "'Check'" h announced. gruffly. He was staring at Dllllng After a long tudy of the board wa mad by Professor Van Dusen greatest ches player fter you 'acVan Dusen wsved th now wa scowl fee v a scuwl last the a at Thr tie with gtven In th prenc of three other men quaint' yourself with the game?" the Russian protected his king with newspaper man to a at and htmslf door. all those. Innocent or guilty, who era! said the scientist. a knight. Professor Van Duen sink back into a great cushioned tapping on the of standing. On of these. Dr Charles "Certainly," don Fellowe had "Go 1t! crime Fellow! on, Involved jroul't hy Elbert, happened to be a chess en- "I have frequently found It neceasary noted the play, then leaned bck In chair in which hi dimlnuHv , fig. Dllllng opened the door cautiously. He pointed at Dlili. "what do yeet, to make a fool of mylf to convince hi chir with finger tip pressed to- ire emed even, mor childlike thsn thusiast. , "Back out!" h said. "If you turn know?". eve I'll HI do It left was the board I and people. it again." gether. really a shameless "Chess perversion your face, I II kill" dreamilv studied th celling. For at 'Tm n "Tell m the story,' h Inspector " (aid Id. ptu-lantlof th brain." wa Thl. then. w th acrlmonlou of th fum-tlo- n Again th moonlight fl) upon th "all of tt" th otbr. "I cm fcer tonight o of th discussion which leant fifteen minute there was no Prefcuor Van Duaan'a declaration in of blade th houldr bent trembling nw atart from n then: Th enormous yellow head rested get hlp and a man. hi perpetually Irritated voice. "It aroused ches master and brought sound, figure and. a If It were an accuser, old He ald for "Mat In friend thl moves'" he said against th chair back, th blue eye upon of effort, greater open dissent from eminent men vho la a sheer want a revolver In a limply hanging me to come up and talk to Mr Mare, ln-de- r squinted Meadily upward, th tecaut It I posalhly the mot dif- bad. not dared for. year to dispute quietly. w-hand. limp I did. Mr. Well. charitable. who were wis finger Ther of astonnulok pressed tip to tip. ficult of alt fixed btract problem. sny by th distinguished "Dropw th gun' Mace hd gon to bed. but he got ur Th Thinking Machlna was In a reDuen. It wa ar- ishment. It took th practiced y Of cour logic will solve it. . Logic professor Van slid on Th down th eapon rug. In door tood that ther and and mood Hitch was trlumph-snt- ; Dllllng closed the door and switched of ranged that at the conclusion of th of th will solve several minusjss to ceptive ny problem: not mo talked to m and ha refuted to help he had had enly vague hone Kut th them, but ny problem. A thorough- rhamoiprfWip PVofeor Vn Dusen verity inn nnmincerxveni. --l thU H told ht ' thellgbt. manwhotua Tht saw and leaned L.,n1i he could interest tht man In bap- - Russian champion understanding of It rule would en- should meet the winner Take rrr-rhti- vrraif men was bixsrr a it commanded. "Stickoff hard, doesn't secretary and used to be my frlnd little white and gTes.test ableanyonetoilefeatyoiir a good many year ago, that he had ches player. It would he Inevitable nan, who had been ches champion dazed He wss not atontshd; h w" Incomprehensible out that cotton!" "Mi waking him vp for anv. .Wallaok I thirty year did it?H Spit a tfiat two and two make four; not for half a dosen year-Afte- r wa helplessly flotmd-rln- g in a mu e fared at Fellowe' countenance. no busin I don t but alway. thi expected result of Oi of Incomprehensible things, Bitdden- pometimea, It had grown dead, oyster shell VUBt!a ToUewlag Face CoetiBud Tkne hr "li rlit tk'"" glhht. Y, The Thinking Machine Problem for Dressing Room A feor hd ctrs. dfat Im litn egr. fc b. Profor flftn artion mters gp ln a Thrtuff y6urTc7h. Tt |