Show M Y au S A nr E A w b by y Josep josephine bine daskam bacon copyright bt by 1 appleton and company service SYNOPSIS in concern over the disappearance of the h youner and beautiful u I 1 wife if or of his wealthy ath arlend da C crandall 1 1 white aion aaron Gla gladner ener gas met Moth motherwell arwell erwall private to find her A note fr from rn the missi nir woman vroman warns her hue hue band not to call in t the ha police saying baying she bh hoped to acme bac back mrs mra white whit a Is IB consid bably younger than her h hue a band hla arts devotion has hai been the tal talk k of vew new york her leaving him Is in un sh she Is known to have hav with her a remarkable jewel the medeas Me duas read head CHAPTER 11 II continued 3 that make sense sir air she did tell him that before you knowl mr glaenzer started for heavens sake I 1 he murmured for heavens sake bakel I 1 theres one you left out but she thought it was the you of the sentence that was coming you see and in her excitement she wrote it nil all down just as she said it at least the way it seems to me you mean that you think somebody really was there why naturally somebody who w waa as hurrying her along too she in must have written like lightning 9 never dotted an L and seared scared to death im afraid you can suggest nothing 1 I can n suggest one or two things ngai I 1 de dont a mean that I 1 think this lady be found I 1 think ashes to too 0 beautiful and too young and has too many perfectly obvious reasons for getting back it if she can not to be found ultimately but it looks to me a as it if she was afraid she see h her e r way to getting back very soon to put it mildly you cant get around that and what staggers me la is the short the terribly short time at our disposal sir mr glaenzer you can cant t lose one of the loveliest and richest young women in the c country 0 in broad daylight in new york and expect to get away with it very long can you people even if they are reducing their weight can still write to their friends now how long will mr white hold out how long can you fool the servants what are you going to say become of her everybody will want to know she should gaii ha thought of that said mr glaenzer Ola enzer in a low voice what can crandall do of course motherwell went on apparently not noticing this bitter reply of course mr white can say that she has been obliged to be put temporarily 1 I suggested that but he turned on me mel and refused point pointblank blank said glaenzer GIa enzer lie said she would never forgive h him M well then what does he want to do ne ile wants you to find her said the jeweler motherwell laughed angrily because im not the police I 1 suppose just so you too dont think rather a quibble we think its a pretty near thing the older man admitted but wo we also think that she ought to be very glad never dotted an 11 1 I 1 and scared to I 1 death im afraid I 1 of that quibble mr motherwell in i case she wants to come back and that she ehe can hardly blame us legally speaking in case la ease casa she so he quite believe in her either is that it he Is only human buman said mr gladen 1 zer and he la Is lifty fifty four and she Is barely thirty do you believe in her mr motherwell 11 1 I dont know said motherwell but ril ill go back tomorrow morning and try to find her 11 I 1 CHAPTER in III bright and early on saturday awra morning a dark distinguished gentleman evidently quite at home in the white household escorted up the old gold velvet of the much photographed stairway a slender blender bearded young man in heavy shell glasses and it a worn soft felt hat in mrs whites little sitting room they were met by her maid a severe E englishwoman of middle age good day Cogges coggeshall ball good news from mrs mra white I 1 hopel hope the friend of the family asked kindly indeed mr air glaenzer ive had just no news at all from mrs white she returned well well I 1 expect mr air white will bring us plenty when he gets back to speak by mr whites voice on the telephone mr glaenzer when last I 1 heard it at eight this very morning hell not be leaving his bed if hes wise the woman retorted triumphantly iles hes sent for hollis already ah ab well a man under the weather needs his valet really more than ever you know cogeshall I 1 and how about a woman sirl well well mr glaenzer looked lookeb drawn and preoccupied 1 I want to take all mrs alra whites jewels and have them gone over thoroughly coggeshall Cogge ahall he said they be left here with both of them away anyway she keeps too much here if you will give me the keys or its a combination it my young man here will list them and give you a receipt meanwhile I 1 will telephone to atlantic city its a key and a combination air and mrs airs white keeps the key always have to get it from her said tho the woman mr white it a key he had sir air but mrs white mis laid her key and was alarmed sortie some on one should find it and had it changed and the combination too there only came back one and she was vexed at the forgetting to order the two but only last wednesday the day she left sir air she mentioned to me that she could not seem to remember about ordering that duplicate key so I 1 am inclined to doubt he has one mr glaenzer then in case of a fire the safe e would have to be taken out bodily no one but mrs white could get at it it looks so sir air said the woman quietly this la Is idiotic the jeweler declared and seizing the telephone he called up his establishment angrily and demanded that the best safe man in the place be sent up to him immediately fuming he paced out into the hall to wait and the young man was left alone with the maid getting out a pencil he began to sharpen it carefully lis his eye on his job im sorry to hear sirs white Is so III he said quietly 1 I dont know that ashes so III the woman returned briefly ali ah im glad to hear bear it he said lightly be the one to know of course V 1 she glanced at him suspiciously but he was evidently barely interested his hig ingenuous flattery came just at the right moment theres more than you thinking 9 that young man she announced bitterly but it seems im not the on one e after all its not that I 1 mind a ladys walking out just as she Is and dressed more tor for what you might call walk ing in the country on IL a rainy day than for new york but to be told to pack a bag with ith simple things pah I 1 what are simple things if a persons III well and good if worried to death well and good but theres a difference in the clothes required the woman announced the young man mumbled something about a little of both maybe and began to write busily with his now sharpened penell to which the english woman replied tartly that all men were alike in her opinion at this moment mr glaenzer hurried back into the room im leaving immediately for atlantic city he h said briefly mr whites got a bronchitis out of trig im afraid coggeshall this Is mr wells one of my young men As soon as the safe Is opened he be will list the various pieces and give you a receipt for them take them directly to ibenthal llen thal the head of the repairs you know wells and be sure to get your receipt from him very good sir said the young man and there are some som 0 things id like to ask you about p in the hall he spoke bloke low and quickly it cant be helped mr glaenzer its just as I 1 felt from the beginning 1 I must have it out with the maid you really feel theres no one else mr glaenzer t why nobody even knows where she started tort why should she have taken a taxi and not her own car for instance sir mr glaenzer sighed tills this woman says that she was dressed as it if for walking on a rainy day in the country the young man fl pretty tough nut eh went on and wednesday was a perfectly clear day no mr glaenzer I 1 must have some help and I 1 think ashes the woman to help me mr glaenzer shrugged one expressive shoulder very well my dear young man whatever you bayl he ha murmured we cant keep this up you know very long A few days perhaps personally I 1 should have long ngo ago well no I 1 cant say that but I 1 doubt if my poor friends scruples at any rate use your own judgment an and d that flair that flair I 1 he repeated with almost a smile in mrs airs whites sea green grben and ivory bedroom a swarthy squat little man was kneeling beside a safe in the wall when mr wells returned coggeshall stood on guard behind him pretty tough nut eh ch suggested mr wells watching him with interest the swarthy one sniffed scornfully not much I 1 he answered there she goes I 1 As the door swung open he picked up his bunches of keys and file and swept them into a shapeless bag hardly what id call a job no ne said and he scuttled out the woman sighed 1 I expect want them out of tho the cases she said ibave you a bag with you they would take up less room he agreed she moved without a word to it a closet and produced a leather bag put them in here she said briefly and taking out a monogrammed morocco case she pressed its spring these are the small pearls she began but the box bos was empty muttering something about an emerald pendant she pulled out an exquisite green case with tooled edges but this also was empty under his keen eyes she turned out every one of the cases and small drawers in the safe but there was nothing in any of the them ner her face was as white as their velvet linings but mr wells was quite unconcerned now what do you think of that he said lightly she took them with her after all aall I 1 good joke on oa us what she stared at him a moment and then dropped her head into her hands and wept ho waited in silence while you could have counted fire alre and then twitched her hands bands away suddenly she go he asked where TO OB BE CONTINUED |