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I TWELFTH INSTALMENT "Shall I explain to you, Hen derson, wherein your plot failed, and at the same time explain to inspector Flaherty and Assistant District Attorney Frazler the mo dus operandi of your crime? How much time have we?" Henderson glanced at his wrist watch. "I shall be able to check you up, If you have gone wrong in any of your deductions, for about another half hour," he said. "Afterwards —who can tell? Again, Mr. Michaelis, I bow to your su perior institution and reasoning powers. I confess I am curious to learn how your suspicions were first directed in my direction." He shrugged his shoulders ex pressively, with a courteous smile. "What's all this about?" de manded Inspector Flaherty, im patiently. "Henderson, did you kill Fitzgerald?" "Not only that," said Max Mi chaelis, "but he administered to himself a dose of slow-acting poi son—hypodermic ally, I presume, Henderson? —which gives him an other half hour of consciousness before he lapses into the sleep irom which there Is no awaken ing. Am I right, Henderson?" "Suicide?" exclaimed Martin Frazier, as Henderson nodded in confirmation of Michaelis' state ment. "We can't allow that.' ' "Suicide, I understand, is not a crime," Henderson suggested. It is much preferable to death by electricity." "No, but attempted suicide is a crime and connivance at suicide is also a crime," said Frazier. "We would all be guilty. I shall tele phone at once for a physician." "As you please," Henderson as sented. "It will be quite useless, I assure you. The deed is already done. It is as irrevocable ... as irrevocable as Stephen Fitzger ald's death. There is no antidote known to science for the virus which is already coursing through my veins. However, if it will sat isfy the law to send for a doctor, I have no qbjection. You will find the telephone in the foyer, Fra zier." The Assistant District Attorney Mattie Mae Powell NOTARY PUBLIC Building ie Lout Offloe Main Street PI 13 with a NEW 1938 AGAIN A YEAR AHEAD with Features Like Robot Dial Electric Automatic Tuning Personalized Acoustic Adapter Electric Target Tuning Local Station Indicator* Between-Stations Silencer \IIM* SHORT wm ait / '*•» at. o *o - / CIIVERS Of J SAMO3 Oft I 9410.11 **> K. C / MOII ftftl *OIO WITH *" " f U ~7* I ■' aWTHOOOMtTAMUM>M " h / Hinshaw Cash Hardware Co. Elkin, N. C. hurried to the telephone, while Dan Flaherty looked at the un perturbed countenance of Elmer Henderson with an expression in which amazement was mingled with admiration. "I owe you an apology, Hender son," he said, after a moment's steady scrutiny. "Last night I said you were a great poker play ed and a good winner, but that I thought you'd show a yellow streak if the game went against you. I take that all back. You're 9 rat, but you're a game little rat, at that." "Thank you, Inspector," replied Henderson politely. "I am a sol dier of fortune—a gambler with life, if you like—and when I lose I pay without grumbling." 'There"U be an ambulance from Bellevue here in a few min uates," reported Frazier, return ing from the telephone. "I'll make my recital brief, then," said Michaelis. "Martin, am I right in the belief that it was Henderson who suggested to you the idea that the revolver might be found at the bottom of the chimney?" "Yes; that was a suggestion casually dropped by him when I called him up last night and re ported that Miss Lane was still alive," agreed Frazier. "We nat urally talked about all the details, r o far as we knew them at that time. I told him, I remember, that the weapon had not been iound, but that we had not looked outside of the apartment for it as yet. He said something to the effect that it might easily have been thrown off the roof into the street, down the chimney or into the elevator shaft. I attached no special significance to what he said then. It was merely follow ing out my own line of thought." "But it was said with a pur pose," Max Michaelis resumed. The purpose was to pin the crime irrevocably on Archie Doane, which the discovery of the gun In the chimney would have done, had the evidence of the snow not proved that he could not have put it there. "The snow ruined your plot, Henderson," he went on. "It was obvious after the first minutes, gentlemen to me, at least that both Miss Lane and Fitz had teen shot before the snow fell. Regardless of what the Medical Examiner said as to the time Fitz could have lived with a bullet through his heart, I was convinc ed that he had lived for three hours, possibly longer, after be ing shot. A vague memory of a -imilar case stirred in my mind. While we were hunting for clues end discussing those we had found, the memory came clear. "It was a case which was wide ly reported in the newspapers, of a man, shot through the heart, who had been kept alive for sev eral hours thereafter by the nrompt administration of a hy podermic injection of adrenalin, ihe drug extracted from the su pra-renal glands,, which control the pressure of blood in the ar t cries "As soon as I remembered that I asked the medical examiner to look for any abrasion of the skin on Fitzgerald's body. You know what he reported a puncture that could have ben made by a hypodermic needle. "That did not connect anyone specifically with the crime, but the finding of that revolver at the bottom of the chimney did. "It was the ideal weapon for the crime. Access to it could be attribued to Doane. And it was equipped with a silencer. "Only five persons concerned, so far as we know, had an op oortunity to abstract that partic ular 'weapon from the Hlghart studio. Those five persons were Fitz himself, Miss Lane, Adele Marceau, Archie Doane and El mer Henderson. "The circumstances eliminated both Fitz and Miss Lane. They also eliminated Doane, because of the absence of any way in which he could have thrown the pistol down the chimney without leav ing tracks in the snow. We did not know then whether the maid was involved or not, but I drop ped her from consideration for the time being, after hearing the janitor's story. "I decided to concentrate first on Henderson, and the more I reviewed the situation, the more flearly It all pointed to him. Yet there was nothing conclusive. "If my theory was right, then Miss Lane did not telephone to Archie Doane. She was lying there, unconscious, with Fitz's dead body on the floor. Who did telephone Doane then? And why? "Miss Lane had been making voice tests in Henderson's studio —recording her voice on film by his new method. Archie Doane confirmed my suspicion that the words he heard over the 'phone were the exact words from a part she had been taking in a sound picture. What would have been easier than for Henderson to have called up Doane's rooms, switched on the film In his soundproof laboratory here, and let Archie hear the frantic call for help in his fiancee's own voice?" "But we were all playing pok er right here, at the time," Dan Flaherty objected. "A perfect alibi," Michaelis ad mitted. 'except that you may re call that at just about eleven o'clock Henderson called atten tion to the time and went into the other room on the pretext of THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA hunting for the whiskey, saying his man had gone out. 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