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Thursday, September 23, 1937 ELEVENTH INSTALMENT "You think you can clear him, Max?" k "I know it, Dan." "Well, you haVe never let me down yet. I'll take a chance on your say-so." "Then let me have ft word with the house physlcain, before we start," said Michaelis. "Doctor," he asked, as the medical man came in, "you observed the symp toms which Miss Lane exhibited when she recovered consciousness after her blood transfusion?" "Yes." "Do you know of any drug, which could be administered in a small dose, hypodermically, which would produce a profound sleep for a period of five or six hours and cause the after-symptoms such as you suggest?" "Yes. Hyoscin might do it if the patient were especially sus ceptible." "That's what is used in the so called 'twilight sleep' is it not?" "Precisely. It induces a profound sleep which does not amount to pleasure you get out of a ciga- | rette depends on the quality of the \/ jkdfh X jHHaa tobaccos put in it. 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"They've been known to make mistakes," observed Frazier. 'Max has something up his sleeve, tle'll tell us when he gets good THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA and ready. Meantime I'm trying to figure it out. "What about thought transfer ence? Telepathy? You think she might have got her call across to him that way?" "No, I won't stand for that," said Dan Flaherty. "There may be something in telepathy, but you can't prove it by the police nor to a Jury. Let me give a guess at what Max is driving at. Will you tell me if I get your theory right, Max?" "Perhaps," replied Michaelis, smiling. "Well, then it would work this way," the Inspector went on. "The Lane dame could have taken that gun from the studio. We haven't given much thought to that. Say she was afraid of Fitz —that's rea sonable. He might have threaten ed her, if she took Archie instead of him. "Now, there's been cases where nuts have gone around with hy podermics jabbing girls on the street. We sent a dope up for that last year. Now one of them bumps into her, see?" In his eagerness Dan Flaherty was lapsing back into the vernac ular of his native Ninth Ward. "No use asking why;, there ain't no reason in what ai / nut like that does. Anyway, st js's all dop ed up when she getf into her apartment. Thinks a pin stuck into her, and there's a pin in her dress —probably picked up in the taxi. Her maid goes out and she lies down and goes to sleep. I've heard of this twilight sleep. They know what's going on but they can't remember any of it after wards, see? "Now, she's dead to the world, but she isn't. Get me? Fitz comes along an' she lets him in. They get into a scrap an' she pulls the Run on him. He grabs for it an' it goes off and gets her in the arm, in the tussle. The gun drops an' she grabs it an' lets him have it through the heart. "Then she drops the gun down the chimney, drags Fitz over to try to put him on the couch, finds she can't lift him an' then gets faint from her own wound an' flops where we found her. How's that, Max?" "A good theory if it wasn't for the snow, Dan," smiled Max Mi chaelis. "You mustn't leave the snow out of your calculations. The persons who planned and committed this crime overlooked the snow. If the gun was dropped down the chimney it was done before the snow fell." "Fitz might have lingered alive for hours," suggested Frazier. "With, a bullet through his heart? You heard what the Med ical Examiner said," objected Dan Flaherty. But Max Mlchaelis smil ed in assent. "You're getting warm, Martin," he said. 'TThat would explain why there were no tracks in the snow." "Fitz could have done it!" ex claimed Frazier. "What? Dropped the gun down the chimney after he was shot through the heart?" demanded the Inspector, incredously. "Doped the girl, I mean," ex plained Frazier. "That what you wanted to ask Henderson, Max? If he saw Fitz when they got out of the taxi? I'd almost forgotten it, but someone told me that Fitz had taken the dope cure—used to be an addict. He'd be familiar with hypodermics." "You'll have a hard time con vincing me that he could have lived more than a few minutes with that hole in him," said Fla herty, "but say he could. It all comes clear. He dopes the girl— jabs her on the sidewalk. Waits until Henderson and the maid have come out, then goes in, like I said. Now, maybe the girl didn't shoot him after all. He shoots her , in the fight for the gun—she isn't . as dopy as he expected to find her. Then she bleeds all over the • place and he thinks she's dead. Shoots himself—he could have ■ done it. If he was thinking quick . he could have dropped the gun j down the flue, got back to the i apartment, all before he collaps ed. Then she comes to, sees him r there, calls up Archie, flops again and doesn't remember a thing when she wakes up." The car drew up in front of the i entrance of the Highart building. i "One thing I meant to ask you, ! Martin, though I think I know the ' answer," said Mlchaelis, as they s went up in the elevator. "Do you i remember how we happened to > think the gun might be down the chimney?" t "That was Tony , Martinelli's > hunch," said Inspector Flaherty. 5 "No; Tony heard me suggest it," j Frazier contradicted. I remember ' saying it might be there, but i dropped that idea as soon as we saw how the top of the chimney was covered." Max! You don't mean . . . "Remembered where you got the chimney suggestion, have you?" smiled Mlchaelis. "I don't know what you both are talking about," growled Dan Flaherty, as he pressed the but ton at the door of Henderson's quarters. ■ "You will be in a few minutes, Dan," Max Mlchaelis reassured i him. Through a perforated disk cov ! ering a house telephone at the I | side of the door the voice of El- I mer Henderson answered the ring. "Who's there?" he asked. "Martin Frazier," responded the Assistant District Attorney. "Dan Flaherty and Max Michael is are with me." "Pardon me a moment," said the voice. "I hadn't expected you quite so soon." Frazier and Flaherty looked at each other wonderingly, then at Max Mlchaelis, whose face was sphinxlike. Presently the door was opened by Henderson him self attired as for a wedding or a church. "I've dismissed my man," he apologized. "Come right in, gen tlement." "Expecting us, were you?" ask ed Dan Flaherty, in a puzzled tone. "Oh, yes; ever since you posted your men all around the build ing about four o'clock this morn ing," was the amazing reply. Henderson smiled at the three of them as cool and self-possessed as he had been in the poker game the night before. "Shall we sit down at the same table?" he inquired, as the visit ors shed their wraps. "Excuse me just a moment," he went on, as the four seated themselves. "I just want to date and sign some papers." He picked up two long sheets of paper which were lying on the table around which they had played poker the night before. At the bottom of each sheet he af fixed his signature. "These might as well be wit nessed," he said, turning one sheet face down over the other so that only the name he had writ ten and a blank space beside it showed. "Will each of you gen i tlemen be good enough to sign as i a witness to my signature. He passed his fountain pen i across the table and each signed in turn. Then Henderson reversed ■ the sheets and again witnessed his signature. He took the papers back into ; his own hands and folded each of them. One of them he passed across to Max Michaelis. "Will you be good enough to take charge of this for me?" he asked. "Don't bother to read it now." The other document he held in his own hands, looking from Mi chaelis to Frazier and Flaherty, as if uncertain as to into whose hands to place it. Inspector Flaherty took advan tage of the pause for a question which he had been fairly burst ing to ask. "What do you mean about posting my men around this building?" he demanded. "I haven't posted any men here." "No, Dan, they were my men," interposed Michaelis. "You see, I wasn't sure until I got this tele gram that it was a case for the police." He drew from his pocket the yellow envelope which had been delivered to him at the hospital, and glanced significantly from it to Henderson. "I had a message, too," said Henderson. "A long distance call from Pasadena. I still have friends there. I take it your tele gram is from the same place?" "Precisely," replied Max Mi chaelis. "And I take it that one of the documents you have just signed is a confession." * Henderson's eyes indicated sur prise by the slightest of flutters, then looked full at Max Michaelis with unconcealed admiration, while the other two stared from one to the other, perplexed and amazed. "Yes," was Henderson's cool re ply and the other is my last will and testament. It is a pleasure, when one is beaten, to realize that one has yielded to superior brains and not merely to superior force." "Suppose you let it lie there a minute, Henderson," said Mi chaelis, as the inventor proffered the second document to Inspec tor Flaherty. "I appreciate your intended compliment, but you have been beaten neither by su perior brains nor by superior force, unless yoU count the forces of Nature. "It was not the Czar's armies but the snow that defeated Na poleon in Russia; it is not the po lice nor myself that has beaten you, Henderson, put the snow. 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