II aiLf v4 synopsis. Hardin Kent caUfclxuU Fairish to rropoBe marriara f nds the houa In reat excitement ' attempted ut- rfde of her sistf Fine. Kent aiarw mn invMtiiriiF Jnda than Kuen Crandall sul fWrf?atharln. who had bpn forblddrt V houae by General Far rteh. had taiy XJth Katharine over the telephone j h shot herself. A torn ple-I .Jllow paper Is found, at sight ot(n" General Farrlsh Is trieken wlilaralysls. Kent discover that CrandaTpifcas left town hurriedly. Andrew Elf A an aged banker, commits uMde aboiirJLhe same time as Katharine attempted herHtfe. A yellow envelope Is found In Riser's room. Post Office In spector Davis, Kent's friend, takes up the o&se. Kent is convinced that Cran 4aii is at the bottom of the mystery. Katharine's strange outcry puzzles the detectives. Kent and Davis search Cran dall's room and find an address. Lock Box 27. Ardway, N. J. Kent Roes to Ard way to Investigate nad becomes suspi cion of a, "Henry Cook." woman commits snlelde at the Ardway Hotel. CHAPTER Vlw (Continued). I was thoroughly disgusted with the drivelling way in -which the proceed ings were being carried on. I could ee little hop of any discovery that would establish, connection with the similar events In New York. I turned from listening to the witness to study ing the face of the man Cook. Could Jt be possible he was Hugh Crandall? I saw that he was watching the testi mony with eager interest. Against xny will I had to confess that his face was on that attracted rather than repelled me. While there was a shrewdness about the eyes, the chin was square .and firm and the skull reU-balanced. I tried to read in the shape of the mouth or the curve of the ears some sign of the criminal, such as I expected to find written on the countenance of Crandall. but it was not there. "She was sitting there crying." A sentence of the maid's testimony suddenly thrust itself forward from my subconsciousness as if demand ing my attention and I listened In tently to what she was saying. "That was the way it happened that X didn't make tip the room the day be fore. When I went In to do It she was sitting there crying and tearing a letter to bits." A letter! It came on me In a flash that here was the clue, that this was the connecting link with the other two cases. I pushed my way forward Into t room, determined to learn all ther; was about this new phase of the ca The proceedings stopped abruptly the bustle my movement made, everybody, coroner. Jurors and tators, gaped at me. -f "I am a lawyer," I sald.y A B lr tV.il WtTC3 AAA All ImA yJ Still the coroner gaped ed no longer for his "Was It a yellow letter? "Now that you speak of remember that it was." "Has the letter been tov "She was tearing it In pi "Where are the pieces ?'J The eyes of everybody jresent be gan roving about the re . as if In answer to my questlor Tho con stable instituted a ha search, in which I myself, the c3 vier and the Jurors Joined. I felt f jf if we could only find those pier the mystery might be solved. W the room was t my eye on being ransacked I Cook. As I asked jl question about oticed that he the letter's color y looked startled. ,11 'aa amazed now to &ee him edging ' .oward the door. I was tempted to and that he be re strained and f- tted. I felt almost sure that if lieoes of the yellow ietter were y would be i pocket. Yet second vlagainst such rash ac ? positive proof that fall. Until I had, sure .liiwlse to accuse him. at there was no train thought ad. tioi, Cook w.. I ly it W I rem Id leave the town un- 'Xfrnnnn fin tho xvtta he could escape w It was a yellow er asKea me sus- suddenly in his r ir awkward question. I J t my impetuosity had fin a predicament. I was V Ans ready to tell him the i -?ry. and yet the fact that I J or suspected the color of the t fer that she was tearing up certain- indicated that I knew something Sout the woman. T didn't know it." "Well, what'd you ask the question about it lorr he repeated, his sus picion of me rapidly Increasing. V It-l-ll ...1.1.1. 1 1 T . . - 1 was uuiiiuug quitu-i wuat i COUia say that would divert his thoughts. I noticed with annoyance that the eyes of every one in the room were on me and that they were curiously await ing an answer. I assumed an air of mystery and drew the coroner to one side. "I am perfectly willing to tell you everything," I said. "I am out here on another matter that is something of a mystery in which a yellow letter figures. The letter has disappeared. I 0Vt saw or heard &f this old woma f i 1 h I cfe Mliam Johnslon before, but when the witness men tioned that she was tearing up a let ter a sudden notion came to me that it mignt be the one of which I was jrn search. A detective who is workg on the case will be out here thl ning and then I can tell you about it." I spoke the laBt sentence In a per so low that it reached only coroner's ear. He pondered oer my statement and then abruptly an nounced that the inquest was ad journed until nine o'clock the next day. I would have escapedhlm If I could, but I saw that bej4i3 deter mined to worm out everyU 3j I knew or sugpected. I decided ILu activity would be the best remfdy for his curiosity. Accordingly I invited the coroner and the constable to come up to my rooms where, without waiting for them to question me, I began fir ing questions hot-shot at them, sug gesting things for them to do, simple things that would have been the first thought of the police of New York or any other large city, but which they had not thought of. Had they tele phoned a description of the woman to the Bridgeport police with her nam to see if she could be identified as any one who was missing from that city? Had they examined her clothing to see If there was any mark on it that might Identify her? Had they studied her writing on the register to see if it gave any indication of being assumed or disguised ? Had they examined her pocketbook to se if it contained any clue to a iotive? Had they consid ered whom she might have come to this town to see? "That idea of calling up the Bridge port police ain't such a bad one," said the coroner. "Suppose you do it now," he said, turning to the con stable. "I'd like to know who's going to pay for It if I do," the constable objected. "There ain't enough fees in this of fice for me to be spending my money that way." "You go ahead and do It and I'll see that you get the money back." "If you're going to pay It out of your own pocket I'll do it, but if you expect me to wait till you put it through as a lawful expense I ain't taking no chances." Their petty wrangling over such a trifling amount exasperated me not a little. "Here," said I, pulling a five-dollar bill from my pocket, "take this and pay for it and tell them to telephone you as soon as they can what they have found out. This ought to cover both the message and the answer and If there is a some cigars The const ding. As s I turned to.! "Did yoj the Inque "I don'f replied, t In the til up witr "D shavei l Chis- the listened closely to the testimony and the minute wo began looking for the scraps of the Utter, didn't you see him slip out of the room?" "Come to think of It," said tho coro ner, "I believe I did notice him, but I can't say as I seen him going out. Maybe 'twas one of the guests of the hotel." "I think he Is, and I'm pretty sure he's registered in the hotel as Mr. Cook, too, but I'd like to know more about him." "Let's go down and ask Mahlon. If there's anybody" in his hotel he don't kilv about It's something unusual." if e found Mahlon Williams in the little boxed-off corner behind the ho tl desk that was labeled "Private Of fice." The curious crowd was still Ufcaping at the ioor of the room where the suicide had taken place, ai least such of them as had not adjourned to the bar to talk It over, so that we were alone in the office. "Mr. Williams," I said, "what do you know about this man Cook, who is stopping here in the hotel?" "No more than I know about you." said he, "and not as much, in fact, for he didn't ask no peculiar questions at the Inquest. Speaking about that let ter" "How long has this man Cook been in the house?" I Interrupted, deter mined not to let either him or the coroner annoy me with questions. The hotel-keeper, plainly provoked at my attitude, stared thoughtfully at me for a minute and finally decided to answer my question as the only hope of getting me to answer his. "He came Just the night before you did got in on the seven-two train." His answer settled everything in my mind. Cook was Crandall. The ar rival of Cook In the village joincided with the departure of Crandall fm New York. The haste in which he had departed was explicable by tie ar rival of the old woman on that'train. Evidently he wanted for some reason to arrive in the village at the same time that she did. What had been his motive was still a mystery to ma. It flashed across my mind that per haps, after all, her death might not have been suicide. A clever criminal might easily arrange things to loot as though she had hung herself. I deter mined to make an investigation to see if there was any evidence to prove this, but I said nothing of my sus picions as yet. I already regretted my precipitancy in asking about tlie yel low letter. The questions of the land lord and the coroner might be deferred for a while, but sooner or later I would have to make some explanation, and I had none to give. "What is Cook's business?" I asked the landlord hastily, anticipating a question I saw forming on nls lips. "I don't know. He kind of looked to me like a traveling-man or a lawyer. WTiat was" " The return of the constable from telephoning saved my answering the question he was about to ask. "There ain't no woman missing from Bridgeport that tae police know anything about," he said sententi ously. "Did ye tell them her name?" asked the coroner. "Yep. They say there's only three families of Tellers In the telephone book and only four In the directory, and they are goirs to look them up and telephone Inside of an hour." "Maybe her name wasn't Teiler," wo Questions?" p. the hotel-keeper. "I recol ing her kind of hesitate as p. to write in the register." just what I was thinking," glad to divert his attention ore. "Let us go and look at glster and then examine her 'I Ion It." pt's a good Idea," cald the coro- Vonder we didn't think of that . '1 register showed us little me "Mary Jane Teller" in J the tremulous old fashioned hand littls uu l nancmng the pen. There was jwiuaps a mtle more space between the last two names than after the first afJ,f 8he hesitated a moment while deciding what name to use or perhaps With an honest Woman' natural aver sion to assuming any other name than uer own. "Let's look at the clothing," I sug gested, eager for an opportunity to see whether there were any indications that would point to anything other than suicide. The four of us hastened to the room again. To my annoyance I noted that the rope had been removed from the rafters, though the woman's outer clothing still lay piled on the chair. There seemed to be nothing about the inexpensive black suit to identify the owner, no mark of any kind except the label of the concern in New York from which it had been purchased. "Where's the black bag she car ried?" asked the coroner. "There was some money In it," Mr. Williams replied. "I put it in the safe." As we left the room to return to th hotel office I gave a hasty glance at In the Corner of the Handkerchief Was a Neatly Embroidered "3." the corpse. From the condition of the face and throat it was all too plain that death had been by strangulation, still, I reasoned, a powerful man might have strangled the woman first and hanged her afterward to conceal his crime. I determined to put the theory up to Davis as soon as he arrived. Twirling the knob of the ancient safe that stood in the corner, the hotel-keeper reached in and drew out a well-worn, hand-bag of black leather and upset the contents on the desk. There were three one-dollar bills, neat ly folded three dimes and eight pen- &leoa meaner amount tbatjB"l the hoarding of pennies 4- tills trip, whatever Its purpose. Tttre was a half-ticket, the return stutbt a ticket from Bridgeport and anothr c ne from New York to Ardway, anl t mt was all, save two neatly folded b ack-bor dered handkerchiefs. 1 "Looks like she came from Bridge port, after all," the constable volun teered. "Maybe she did," said the landlord, unfolding one of the handkerchiefs and holding It up to our gaze. "Maybe she did come from Bridgeport, but her name wasn't Teller not Mary Jane Teller by a long shot." In the corner of each handkerchiel was a neatly embroidered "S." It gave me quite a shock as I looked at that mute evidence of her assumed name, to her effort to mask hei identity. Could her name Have been Elser? Was this the way In which she was connected with the two suicides In New York? But even so, suppose she was the sister or relative, or even the unrecognized wife of old Andred El ser, what possible connection could these two humble people have with Katharine Farrish? The mystery was growing deeper, How I wished that Inspector Davis would come. (TO BE CONTINUED.) "Titanic" a Baby's Name. A baker, on registering the birth 01 his daughter, at Arad, in Hungary, In formed the registrar that he intended to have her christened Titanic, as she was born on the day the White Star liner sank. The official, however, re fused to accept this name, as It la not to be found In the calendar of Ro man Catholic saints' days, and the baker had to content himself with the less topical name of Rosalia. 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