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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, APRIL 10. 1911 3 MAKE THIS A CRADDOCK EASTER 7 Never before in the history of this store have we sold so many CRADDOCK Shoes, as at this Easter time. Never before has the CRADDOCK Shoe been the choice of so many men in all the walks of life. Never before lave we seen such an ideal combination of styles, good leather, good workmanship, durability, comfort and price. 1 HE CRADDOCK SHOE is easily the best value in shoe leather and shoe making to be found in all America today. All Leathers — All Styles NO MORE $3.50 \ Heie is a style for every taste—the swagger—the extreme—the conservative—the common sense. All of these are represented in "^j'l the good leathers. Here is every choice. Patent leather, dull gun metal calf, wax calf, russia, copper tan, willow calf in broad tot s, narrow toes, button, silk ties, straight lasts, swing lasts, flat toes, knob toes, an inexhaustible profusion of fine foot wear. Craddock Oxfords are the Oxford hit of the year, snug ankle fits that hug the heel without raising blisters or gaping at the throat. Last minute buyers who see this line will congratulate themselves that they have not bought elsewhere. Our immense stocks are not broken or depleted. \Ve can give you a full choice of splendid Craddock Values. mi NO LESS DeLane Shoe p - M 36 East Trade Street TAT MYSTERY 5ERLM. | V/INDOW WHITE CAT 7 XL STOPY BY Y K0BERT5 RINEHART . i hr MAW IN LOVER TEN, SEVEiN DAYS, ;kC STAU»CASE,WHF.N a man NVJRRIES.^a- I He '^ent to each of the windows and ^^^■amined the closed shutters ’Detore ho answered me. haven't. Yon wouldn't ?:o to bod either, if you thought you would UP er wake up." ■■yon!?ense." "Well, it's truo enough. Knox, there are people fo!lo\Nin?’ me whpre^er 1 ^o; they cai where I eat; if I doze ill my cliair they come into my dreams!" Ho stopped (here, then he lauj:hod a little wildly. "Tliat last isn't sane, but it's true. 'I'liere's a man across the street now, eating an apple under a lamp post.” "Suppose you are under surveil own a seveniy-two calibre revolver?' •• Ves." 1 was startled beyond my necessity, iiudtr the ciicumstaiux s. Many i-'eople have thiriy-twos. ••That is. i had.” he corrected him self. "li was in the ieatner bag iiiai was stolen at i.?ellwood." "I can relieve your niiad of one ihiiig," 1 said. •’If your revolver was stolen wiih the leaihe^- bag. .>)tt had nothing to do \\iih the nnirdcf, l iem- ing was s^hot with a ihirty-r vvo." iit; looked fii'si incredulous and iheii re lieved. "Now, then,'’ 1 jiursued, ••suppose Mr. Fleming had an enemy, a relent less one who would stoop to auyihiiig f I ifJiU )i m. h m W...AW . lance," I said. "It’s annoying to have j to compass his ruin, in his po'sic^oii a detective followiiig you around, but it's h.'^rdl:' serious. 'I'he ixjllce say :\')w that Mr. Memiug killed himself; tl av was your own contention.” - .6^ he would be likely to have ene^nies. This ]>erson. ljt us sa.\, kiiows \\hit i on carry in your g;ip. and steals it, :akiiig away the I'uuds ihai would iiavc He leaned forw'ard in his chair and I helped to keep the lid oii l leiuiug& resting his hands on his knees, gazed ; niismanagement for a time. lu tie at me somberly. | "Suppose 1 say he didn't ,kill him-j it again, self?" slowly. "Suppose 1 say he '.\as! nodded afFn matnel\. murdered? Supj)ose—good (lod—sup-1 "Ihis person this encm.\ fiads tnt diiiu'^r Wi- :ig'i ■ I '•■■a- 1 ix Ti' i I '■ 1 I • Tiiu:'. ' ':') i I r ■ . ■ ^ irmPr i ; ■ ; ; e> e- = K; !-U.li:S . il ;T raiie 1 r diniif^r. s |:: ;o r-j! . ,| witli . . i IM Hi ‘ ,1 l-'.'liMi I'Uiy ■I-' I- to ..I 111 I r. Kd- I . r.- !lln'--. . S : .it Ol ' (■ Cl. iWl . sa;> -■ IM cr-rtain- .\,-i iaugli- i';! ‘.•ravcly. train th'’' ■Ml V,,. MU'' ■ . . (11.." ,iii' a:*riev- irsf* ff*ed I' tliai) 1 i ■ ’ * . * ■ 1 me and i uth r had ■ i ; ^.ud- ;t ifi hf'ii 1 . ; . she - . d 1.^ ii:is bf'cti ■ iiii,,;.', a sill- • I Kvor to I ' .it f:iiut- ■ i lii g’ad." slu' s^id. Then she . w.':;iv and s;’ul-h> sterical. laugh- _ ahd f-rying in the same breath. '■ il .-111 1 ad been lidpeil ui> stairs, t.-r in h.'r \Mak(ncd .- ate ii had beeji i;f ,'i shock than we reali/.ed. Mar- . .■ ' d')\v!i and wo tri*d to forget i ■ s \v(. had ,ii.-i gone through. -I t:lad I're 1 ' as r.oi here.” Ed- i'h >^iuii''t t') me. "(''Ilea is a loveb' wiiiiiai . it. (i a-; k nd as sh*- is mild; i, i i'i np; ol hiM at'ycks, she i-s a liti!'- iii' 'lyiiiL;." I, wa.-. strange 'o oorstrast the way il; wliicli ilu tw ,* women took their similar brriaven'- is. Marger> repre- r. uti’d the best tviie of nornuil Amer ican womanhooil; lUlen liutier the i;i ura.-tl'( Iiic; .she demandc-1 evt;\v- thing by her way of heli)l‘'ssness and liiiiidity. Siie was a if)us;ni.t drain on IHirli's ready symparhy. 'I'hat Jtight, >vliile I closed the hoit-e -Fred had • it con^e in - I advised her to let Mrs. Ituller go back to lier sanatorium. At I wel'-c-lhirty 1 v,-as still down s;ai'.'; i'i'cd was out, and i waited f»n- liim, I'cing curious to ’-.now ilie verdict on tlie I'ia.v. 'I'he 1'pU rang in a lew minutes before one, and went to ihf door; some one in tl’'^' vestibule wa.s tapping tiie floor impatientiy with l is f'li.i. WIh-u opened the door 1 j '.'.as surprised to liud that the late ' visitor w as Wardrop. I He came in ([ui^tly. and I had a lihaiice to see him well, under the hall |]i_^ I; 1 j)(' change three da\s had '\\;i. shocking. His eyes were ^;uuk ,! ; |i ill |.i^ head, his r''dd. nc-d lids ■.ii.d twiK iiing mouth told »f li'tio ;!ci-p ot U(>r\es ready to siiaj). He was ii.jitirly, loo, and a three days’ beard 'liardi'. improved him. ••I'll! glad it's you," he said, by way |,;l . till-, was afiuid you'd have j 1111‘ 111 1J C d. ,, • it'.s. the toi» of the evening yet. !| perfunctorily, as 1 led the wav'to tlK' library. Once inside, U ar- droV closed the door and looked aiound him like an animal at bav. -I ,.;une h>re." lie sai.l nervously, looking at the windows, because 1 lu.d an idea you'd keep your head. Mine’s gone; Fm either cra/..\. oi I m on my uav there. i •■^il down, man.” I p’tshed a chan to him “Vou don’t look as it you i,;,vc been in brd for a c .ui.Ip of lligllt s.'’ .'ose I ki'icd him myself';" I drew back in stupefaction, but he hurried on. ■‘For the last two days I’ve been wondering—if 1 did ill He hadn't an;v weapon; ] had one. his. 1 hated him iaht day; I iiad tried to tame him, and couldii't. My C.c'd. Knox, 1 miglit have gone off my head and done it—and not r. number it. There have been cases j like that." I His condition was idtiable. I looked 'around for some wliiskey, but the hest ; alter a moment. ue.t revolver, jiockcrs ii ar.d at the fi’’st opportunity, having ruined !■ leming, l>roceeds humanely to put hiai out ot iiis suttering. it is far-felched?’ "There were a dozen—a hundred — l)eople who woaid have been glad to ruin him." His gnze waveied sud- denl.\. It was evident that I had renewtd an old traiii of Uiought. ••For instance?" i sugested, but he was on guard again. •'You forget one thing. Knox," he said was nobody I could do was a little port on the side-h Ise who could ba»e board. When I came back he was sir- room was empty. ’ siiOi iiwU; the i ting with beui head, his iorehead oa i'is palms. I •■l'\e thouglit it all out," he said painfully. ".My mother had spells of en\otional insanity. Perhaps I wen “Nonsense,' 1 reidied. “Don't for get tlie warehouse." ••The warehouse?’’ “There is no douut in my mind he was shot from there. He was faciU; ihere without knowing it, and killed ' the open wimlow, silling (lirecily under him. I can see him, in the night, whcu i the liglit, writing. A shot fued thiouga I daren't sleep, toppling over on to | a broken pane ot one of Lue w aic- that table with a bullet wound in his, house windows ^^ou.d meet everj re head, and I am in the room, and I have quirement of the case; the empty his revolver in my pocket:’ “You give me your word you have no conscious recollection of hearing a shot fired?’’ “My word before heaven.” ho said fervently. "But I tell you. Knox, ho Imd no weapon. No one came our of that room as 1 went in and yet he was only s'vaying forward, as if 1 had shot him one moment, and caught him as he fell, the next. I was dazed; 1 don't remember yet what I told the police.' The expression of fear in his eyes was teriible to see. A gust ot wind shook the shutters, and he jumped almost out of his chair. "You will have to be careful,” 1 said. “There have been cases where men confessed murders they never committed driven by Heaven know's what metl'.od of undei mining their inertal imagination to ‘third degree torture of your own invention, and in two da,vs more you will be able to acid full details of the crime.” “I knew vou would think me cra zy.” he i)ut in, a little less somberly, ■but just tr.\ it once; sit in a room by yourself all day and all night, with detectives watching you; sit there and puz;jlo over the murder of a man you are sus-pected of killing; you know- yon felt like killing him. and you have a revolver and he has sho^. \\ ouldn t you betrin to think as I do?” • Wardrop." 1 asked, trying to fix his waverinr with mine, "tlo you room, the absence of powder marks —even the fact that no shot was heard. There was a report, of coursr;. but the noise in the club house and the thunder storm outside covered it. "By George, he exclaimed. “Tlio warehouse, of coarse. 1 never thougiit of it.’’ He was relieved, for somt reason, “It's a question now of how many people knevv' he was at the club, aiic which of them haied him enough to kil| him.” “Clarkson knew it.” Wardrop said "but he didn’t do it. ’ “Why?’’ “Because it was he who came to ti:. door of the room while the detective and you and I were inside, and called Fleming.” I pulled out my pocket book an'' took out the scrap nf paper whici iiargery had found iiinned to the pil low' in her father's bed room, "po yo know what that means?” 1 asked watching Wardroj) s face. “That wa; found in IMr. Fleming’s room two day, after he left home. A similar scra> was found in Aliss .lane Alaitland: room when she disappeared. Whe.i I'leming was murdered, he was writini a letter; he said; ‘The figures hav( followed me here.' When we kno\. what those tigm'es mean, Wardrop w-e know why he was killed and wh did it.” He shook his head hopelessly. “i do not know, " he said, and I be lieved him. He had got up and taken i'.is I’.av, bat I slopped him inside the do(n'. ••You can lielp this thing in two wa\s," 1 told him. "I am going to give you something to do; you will have less lime to be morbid. I'ind our, if yf)u can, all about Fleming's lui'.ate lii'e in the last dozen years, especially ihe last three. See if there ai'e any women mixed tip in it. and t"y u« find out so'netliing about this eleven iwenty r^vo." •I’iieN cn t went.'; wo.' lie repeated, but I had iiUL ii.i^^sed i'is change ot eX))ressiou when 1 said women. ••Also.” I went on, “I want you to tell me who was with you the night you tried to break into the house at Beilwood." He was taken complet'^Iy by sur- p;’^;e: w'hen he had gaUiei'ed himselt together his iieridexity was over done. “With me’.” he repeated. “I was alone, of ccuirse.'' “I mean—the woman at the gate.” He lost his composure altogether then. I put m.v back aga'inst the door and waited for him to get himself in hand. ••There was a woman,'' I persisted, "and what is more. Wardrojj, at this minute you believe she took your Rus- ^,ia leat'ier bag and left a substitute.’ He fell into the trap. “But she couldn't." he quavered. •Tve thought .uni il my bra''n is going, and I don't see iiow she could have done it.' H? 1)0C11T10 SUlloTl AViiGTl ll6 ^nB-l he I sad done, refused any more ini or uiafi('n. and left almost immediately. Fred came soon after, a»jid in the meantime I had made some notes like this; 1. Examine warehouse and yard. 2. Attempt to trace Carter. ;j. See station agent at Bellw'ood. 4. Imiuire Wardrop’s immediate past. 5. Take Wardrop to Dr. Anderson, the speciali:5t. ti. 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