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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
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not to be found In the calendar of Ro
man Catholic saints' days, and the
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