Show The e Green Cloak a asB By Y YORKE DAVIS DAVISt b t E Q Service Copyright 1926 1928 IV I Vo JV STORY FROM THE START Dr Ronald McAlister psychologist psychologist ogist undertakes to solve sol tho the thoI mystery of ot tho the murder of a are recluse recluse re re- I cluse Henry Morgan The deadmans deadman's dead deal deadman's deadmans mans man's mans man's papers reveal ro that he had been In Now Zealand where McAlister Mc Mc- Alister had lived In his youth Will VIll Harvey testifies to seeing u a J woman In a green cloak at the Morgan home tho the night of ot the murder Doctor McAlIster Is asked to see a young woman pa patient patient pa- pa tient In a hospital In her delirium delirium de de- de- de she mutters In a n strange strang-e language which only McAlister understands He lie suspects sh may know something of the mur mur- der A carefully hidden ma map Is 18 discovered by McAlIster an and Assistant Assistant As As- District Attorney Ashton In Morgans Morgan's home While they are searching a young woman enters the house In the darkness and escapes leaving behind n a agreen green cloak clank In response to an advertisement of the finding of or ofa ora a green cloak a young oung woman giving her name as Jano Jane Perkins housemaid at The Meredith claims It IL McAlIster takes two laboratory Instruments to The Meredith for tor an nn undisclosed purpose purpose pur pur- pose Tho The head waiter walter Wilkins VH Id 11 11 admits Jane Perkins Is employed at the hotel CHAPTER VI Continued VI-Continued Continued I 10 I I was sent up here to do up the Bedrooms sir she sal said Was Vas there t finy ny fly mistake e about It It sir t realized now how face and anet j had hn suggested a 1 rh rhyme me to liar Ilar- rey She pronounced pronounce the thc word mis tike Ul e. e in the vilest cockney BNo INo Its It's quite rl right ht said I I. I Come ComeIn In lIC If Doctor McAlIster let her go straight Ii trough rough Into the bedrooms with no nomore nomore gore more more than a glance at her and a D nod W Iii her general direction Well he lie said how about It Does oes es the resemblance strike you ou I uI dont don't think It would have struck ne had 1 I not been lookin looking for It It But Imagine ne If we wc could coul get et silhouettes f those two faces and put them side sidey y side the they'd d look a good boot deal alike lie looked at nt me rather o oddly away nn and pace paced the length of re room a couple of times It was Tie ne of his Incon Incongruous and unexpected that he lie liked ed to whistle Q hum popular tunes to himself when to was thinking In an abstracted wa way lie Ie he began hegan to do O It now though It was waso K o popular tune tane which his fancy lighted on Indeed It took me a n minte mirite min miri- te or two to 0 o identify the queer chant chant- ipg I g cadence which he hummed humme over nd pd d over again I did not Identify It It fact until he left off oIT humming humming and gan gan to sing and then the guttural r s he used gave gate me the clue It Iras as that ghastly death eath chant we the had eard the girl In the hospital droning nd mumbling to herself presently Presently he strode e over to the man man- There was n a large ornament pi 1 rut throated narrow n vase e at nt the end f I it and the doc doctor or began tapping r y enough upon he the side sille of it with a 1 pearl handed ed pocket Ct knife I J rued ned round IP Ir some surprise Jj That sounds as If It It were full of d dater ater said fald 1 1 pit It It is Ia I Well who 1110 In the world can ever evertte eve thought of putting water In that thatis I rt re is e Who In Indeed ee he said Oh Oh 10 roc loo me jre will you Phelps Ive I've dropped t l knife Into It t if tIt was curiously unlike c him him to do eto r. r il Idle clumsy thin thing like e that quite re Ia unnatural as that the vase nse which j td d never hel held a 0 flower should he 0 orl r ra tl ll of water But Hut su suddenly denly something a mils face tol told me that the thing he oi d done was part of a n carefully cal cal- plated plated trick i The he next moment t he tie called out Yes sir came the tho chambermaids chambermaid's Ice from the next nest room Coming Corning rAs AS she entered the room he turned her ber and In Indicated I he the nt vase e rye Ive h dropped m my 1113 penknife In there L said und anti my mv hand Is loo ht big hig tn to S' S I 1 In t through rou h tJ the e th throat nut of It Do no you von pK pk you can II islet II It ir out for me D t lUy Jy y hand Isn't as small as some Eom fi she said with fat good humor u t t. t an anyway wa I can try Bold Bol on on the doctor cried as she O ve red ved her hand toward the theae vase ae Time The 56 tig r Is full of oC water You'll get et your f li ivo sae e wet Its It s std t was standing close clog e by hy waiting to tor r what would happen still utterly mere Sloss rea A loss for a n guess n as to the doctors doctor's tle ti e. e pose We he girl slipped shipped back her sleeve anti and d her arm Into Inlo the vase t tt tJ nd id d I unable to believe bellee tt what h tt my 8 1 N had seen clutched the time doctors doctor's I ilder Ider and stared astounded Into iOd oat thoughtful face For hl high h up lip on ou one e eCO girls girl's forearm Just Inside the el eland el el- ld and to w was a n tattoo murk mark In red and tl a mark th that I 1 had ld not nol v-g-n v forgotten t of CHAPTER VII Old n I-n v o was vos fortunate that one ene ell did d not got j tn ni look hook Int Into my astonished face bee beUle be- be Ule e for tor the fr first st few moments I had P II 11 no control of It at nt ah nit and to any cue eje t e even a It stupid OI one It would have betrayed betrayed be he- ed strange e matters At first I 1 simply stared at that m mysterious tattoo mark marl In red and blue It seemed as If It I could coul not pull my e eyes es away from It But nut at last rubbing m my hands over oyer them I 1001 looked up at nt the doctor astonished questioning Incredulous and mind yet et convinced Of Ot any such momentary turmoil his own face showed absolutely no sign It a was calm almost to the edge ede of or Indifference but his height bright ol old eyes es met mine for lust just an nn Instant with n a lashing flashing look that a admonished me of the time nece necessity for self I 1 pulled m mel myself el together turned away for Just the space of one deeply Indrawn breath then turned back bac again for a n look at Ht the gir girl She was hen bending over the vase her hand plunged ed clown down to the time bottom of it It where she was ns fishing about for the doctors doctor's knife Sire She was evidently a ft humored good sort of person easily pleased The fire doctors doctor's pretended mishap mishap mis mis- hap and md her o own n efforts to retrieve It It seemed scorned c mcd to he be providing her with genuine genuIne genuine ine amusement She smiled and giggled and chattered all the while she was groping around for 01 the knife and uttered a n triumphant exclamation when she sire found It It All of that I barely saw for I was teas searching too searching her face with witha withla a 1 concentrate l J gaze that would have astonished her had she encountered It As I looked In the light of m my new knowledge of her the ph physical Identity Iden Iden- Identity tit of her features with of th the tho wild girl became steadily more atone apparent apparent ent until I was forced to marvel at my previous blindness to It Ph Phys s 's the face was the same Salle but eer everything everything ev ev- er thing of bone and flesh every Infinitely InfInitely Infinitely subtle muscular strain or relaxation relaxation relax relax- about lip eyelid and brow everything everything every every- thing which makes males of the human face facea a window through which the soul looks s out out all all of that was different Tier Del movements were different Sensory and motor oer nerves cs must be keyed t tan to tJ toan an nn altogether different pitch The deep stable color In her cheeks tol tollof toll told i of a pulse that beat beal at an entirely different different different dif dif- ferent rh rhythm I remembered the poise of her body the last time we had stood face to face with her there therein in Henry Morgans Morgan's stud study her attitude of frozen alertness the deep breath drawn In through the dilated nostrils She hail Kati caught ht our scent the then t and recognizing It as ns something strange an and ad perilous had hind fled neel like e a shadow I IThe The doctor octor was standing close chose beside her and now n again aln he lie began humming the weird weIr cadence of f the death chant which I had hind heard for the first time timer timet r ir III y 1 I i ir it r i t I 1 It i T p i i 11 r t I M Was Sent Up Here to Do Up the Bedrooms Sir She Said from Crom the time girls girl's own lips lie hummed It through once In a n reminiscent cent sort of wu way and then began singing the words The girl looked up at nt him and burst into a u peal of ot laughter lie f stopped Mopped e abruptly the time matter he asked I 1 hC beg Im I'm sure fure she II saidi saidI said alii I couldn't help heln That was wa such a n funny lot 0 of noises Is my singing ln as us ha had bad as ns that he asked good Not time tile sir the noises that went with it itOh it Oh you ou mean the tile language Didn't you ever hear henr that lun language lIage before Do you ou call that a language e sir sr Does It mean anything Do Io people talk like e that Then she went on without n a pause I i be beg your for hem heln such a 8 rattle sir And heres here's your our knife She wiped it on 00 her apron and ond lain ln I It on the time center table tahle then wiped I her hand and started to pull down her sleeve I a n curious bit of or tattooing on your our arm the doctor commented How did you come by It I dont don't know she sloe replied I Its always s 's been there T I fancy fanc- ever eer since I was too small to remember anyway 1 I hope hOlle your our knife wont won't get bet rusty sir And I hope you dont don't mind my laughin at nt that bit of ot song you ou sang Not a B hit bit said the doctor 1 dont don't wonder wander the language struck strud you as us queer Yet It was common enough down own In the quarter of the time world where 1 was horn And where might that be ue sir she asked Oh I meant the South gen gen- genel el crony II Where I lived was In New Zeal Zealand ani Fancy now I she said obviously pleased where I 1 come fromI from fromI I I It t tI tI I I I I y- y I ts t.'s l r. r i J. J i iI I Dont Don't See Anything but a Spot of Yellow Light Wellington myself-Wellington myself Wellington New Zealand Zealan but butI I never heard hear that language No he lie sal said have to go a n matter of a thousand miles or two from Wellington to hear bear that its it's Maori Mann I never heard of him Is that all sir sll Shall I do O up the rooms lIe He nodded but hut as she turned to leave the room he lie called her back Youre rather sighted near-sighted arent aren't you ou Perkins he hc said Oh no sir quite to the contrary In fact I can see farther than most people Did Dill you OU ever have your Jour e eyes es tested Measured u for glasses do O you OU mean sir sh she asked No sir 1 J shant never come conic to them Sit down In that chair a minute said the doctor with an easy assumption assumption tion of authority No 1 not that one this big Gig chair here liere I want to see It your our eyes es are as ns good as os you ou think they are The Time chair he In Indicated an and In which she rather reluctantly seated herself herselt was deep and soft and heavily Neither the doctor nor I enjoyed en enJoyed jo joyed cd sitting In It however because the time curve at nt the hack back thrust ones one's head forward at an unnatural angle Lean hack back commented the doctor all the time way way way-so so When she was seated to his iris satisfaction satisfaction tion he lie wheeled the chair around with Its back to the time table tahle and then adjusted adjust adjust- e ed the powerful electric reading lamp I so that It shed a n beam benm horizontally head above nuO the girls girl's She surveyed ed these preparations a 8 little uneasily Its like e having a n tooth pulled she said Not a t lilt hit said the doctor cheer cheer- full fully Its not going to hurt I only want you ou to look 1001 Into this little mirror nn and tell HII me loe what you ou see lie He held It up before her e eyes es as ho hum spoke It was circular slightly concave concave con con- cave cn ami and was teas adjusted upon a long lon I Ivory handle lie held It above her head hend so that she had to strain her eyes upward to see It at nt nil all nil and at a such an angle that It r reflected the time light of the rending reading lamp straight Into her eyes ees I I dont don't see nn anything at ot nil all but hut a n aspot aspot spot of yellow lI light ht Yo Tor only see one questioned the doctor lie pulled palled out his watch and amid glanced at ut It Dont mind what Im I'm doln doing f he admonished her Look steadily at nt atthe the time little mirror minor Let me rue know how lints howlong long it Is before you ou begin to s see ee twit of those spots TO BE nE CONTINUED 1 |