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‘There was the click of an openâ€" ing doorâ€"the noise of a little scufâ€" fleâ€"then men‘s voices raised in an angry dispute. "What do I know about a flashâ€"light?" cried an irri tated voice, "I haven‘t got a pocketâ€" flashâ€"take your hands off me!" Bailey‘s voice answered the other voice, grim, threatening. The scuffle resumed. Then Doctor Wells burst suddenâ€" ly into the room, closely followed by Bailey. The Doctor‘s tie was askew â€"he looked rufled and enraged. Bailey _ followed him, viligantly, seeming not quite sure whether to al Jw him to ent*r not. â€" ‘My dear Miss Van Gorder," be gan the Doctor in tones of high dudâ€" geon. "Won‘t you instruct your serâ€" vants that even if ! do make a late call, I am not to be received with violence?" "I asked you if you had a pocketâ€" flash about you‘" answered Bailey, indignantly. "If you call a question like that, violenceâ€"" He seemed about to «restrain the Doctor by physical force. Miss Cornelia quelled the teacupâ€" tempest. 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He turned to do so. ‘Then he caught sight of the raincoatâ€"covered I huddle on the floor. \ _ ‘"Why . . ." he said, in a voice , that mingled astonishment with horâ€" § ror. He paused. His glance slowly traversed the circle of silent faces. CHAPDER ELEVEN j Billy Practices Jiuâ€"Jitsu .‘ We have had a very sad occurr , ence here, Doctor," said Miss Corâ€" n nelia, gently. ; The Doctor braced himself. . __ "Who?" t "Richard Fleming." e ."Richard Fleming?" gasped the Doctor, in tones of incredulous horror. "You see, Doctor Wells," she exâ€" plained, "just a moment before you rang the doorâ€"bell, a circle of â€"white light was thrown on those windowâ€" shades." % "Why, that was probably the searchlight from my car‘" he said, "I noticed as I drove up that it fell directly on that window." His explanation seemed to satisfy all present but Lizzie. She regarded him with a deep suspicion. " ‘He may be a lawyer, a merchant, a do¢â€" tor . . .‘" she chanted ominously to herself. Miss Cornelia, too, was_not entire Ir at ease. * "In the center of this ring of light," she proceeded, her eyes on the Doctor‘s calm countenance, "was an almost perfect silhouétte of a bat." The Doctor laughed, with a cer tain relief. . "A bat!" sea. "Ah, I criminal of again. "I thing I can explain what you saw. Quite often my lamps collect insects at nightâ€"and a large moth, spread on the glass, would give preâ€" cisely the effect you speak of. Just to satisfy you, I‘lH go out and take a look." case The detective demurred. "Shot and killed, anyhow," he said in accents of significant omission. The Doctor knelt beside the huddle on the floor. He removed the fold of the raincoat that covered the face of the corpse and stared at the dead, blank mask. Till a momâ€" ent ago, even at the height of his Shot and killed from that stair e," said Miss Cornelia, toneless The Doctor seemed at seeâ€"the symbol of the that name." He laughed on him, suddenly, like a gray, cling: }mwumu&ub expected shock. * way," he repeated, dully. He rose h-lbbo-»nu;h\uuntn latal stairs. ‘Theén, *That‘s. what TT trying to find out," he said, with a saturnine smile. The Doctof gave him a look. of astonished "inquiry. Miss Cornelia remembered her manners. "What was Richard Fieming do ing in this house at this hour?" he He spoke to Miss Cornelia but Anderson answered the question. It was Liszte‘s turn to play her part in the tangled game of mutus‘ suspicion that by now made each member of the party at Cedarcres: watch every other member with nervous distrust. She crossed to he: mistress on tiptoe. "Doctorâ€"this is" Mr. Anderson." . "Meadquarters," said Anderson, tersely, shaking hands. "Don‘t you let him fool you with any of that moth business!" she said in a thrilling whisper, jerking â€"her thumb in the direction of the Docâ€" tor. "He‘s the Bat." O:rdinarily. Miss Cornelia would have dismissed her words with ¢ smile. But by now her brain felt as if it had begun to revolve like a pinâ€" wheel, in her efforts to fathom the uncanny mystery of the various events of the :I‘l‘h!. She addressed Dr. Wells. "I didn‘t tell you, Doctor==] sent lor a detective this | afternoon." Then, with mounting suspicion, "You Aippened in very opportunely!" The Doctor pulled himself toâ€" gether. "After 1 left the Johnsons‘ I felt ery uneasy," he explained. "I de termined to make one more effort The Docwz removed muffler and »vercoatâ€"staffed the former in his wercoat pocketâ€"and threw the latâ€" er on the settee. He took out his randkerchief and began to mop his face, as if to wipe away some.stnin { mental excitement under which ie was laboring. His breath came quicklyâ€"the muscles of his jaw stood out. ‘o get you away from this house \s this showsâ€"my fears were justiâ€" led!" He shook his head, sadly. Miss "ornelia sat down. His last words 1ad given her food for thought. She vanted to mull them over for a moment. The Doctor gave Dale a feverish glance of inquiry. "He just fell over," said the latter, pitifulty. Her answer seemed to reâ€" lieve the Doctor of some unseen weight on his mind. He drew a long breath, and turned back toward Tleming‘s body with comparative "Poor Dick has proved my case ‘or me better than I expected," he said, regarding the still, unbreathing heap beneath the raincoat. He swerved toward the detective. "Ask the young lady," said Anderâ€" :on, with a jerk of his head. "She was here when it happened." "Mr. Anderson," he said, with digâ€" nified pleading, "I ask you to use your influence to see. that these two ladies find some safer spot than this for the night." ‘"Died instantly, I suppose?" he said," looking over at the body. ‘"Didn‘t have time to say anything?" Lizzie bounced up from her chair, instanter. "Two?" she walled. "If you know any safe spot, lead me to it!" The Doctor overlooked her sudâ€" den eduption into the scene. He wandered back again toward the huddle under the raincoat, as if still unable to believe that â€" it wasâ€"or rather had beenâ€"Richard Fleming. Misa Cornelia spoke suddenly, in a low voice, without ~moving a muscle of her body. "I have a strange feeling that I‘m being watched by unfriendly eyes," she said. Lizzle clutched at her across the table. â€" "I wish the lights would go out again‘" she pattered. "No, 1 don‘t neither!" as Miss Cornelia gave the clutching hand a nervous little slap. During the interlude of comedy, Billy, the Japanese, unwatched by the others,â€"had stolen to the French windows, pulled aside a blind, lookâ€" ed out. When he turned back to the room, his face had lost a portion of its Oriental calmâ€"there was susâ€" picion in his éyes. Softly, under cover of pretending to arrange the tray of food that lay untouched on al a im a . manâ€" who young for his| 1 â€"__ g Mqu.”‘“'. The Accusedâ€"Stmple! I‘d Hke see you do it!â€"Wit and Humor First Irishmanâ€"Which would yee rather be in, Patâ€"an explosion or a collision ? but in an explosion where are yers?* â€"Yorkshire Post. Unique "Come and see: my car: it‘s unique," said Jones. I went. I must admit it seemed â€"to me a perfectly ordinary fourâ€"seator. a "What is there unique about {t? i aaked Jones. "It‘s paid for."â€"Pearson‘s. "Ah," replied the other, examining a volume from a shelf, "I see you never ‘cut‘ your friends!‘"â€"Answers Daddy Forgot Something The little boy had gone to the railway station to see his father off n a visit. Amid the usual farewells, ‘tsses, and waving of handkerchiefs he train pulled out, and the youngâ€" ster gazed after it until it had disâ€" appeared. Presently a locomotive came in sigzht pulling a train the same length as.the one that had taken his father away, and as it ontered the station he clapped his hands excitedly. "Mummy!" he shouted. "Here comes he ‘train back again‘ Daddy forgot something."â€"Titâ€"Bits. the table, he possessed himself of the key of the frontâ€"door, unperâ€" ceived by theâ€"rest, and slipped out of the room like a ghost. ‘Méanwhile the detective confrontâ€" ed Dr. Wells. ; ‘"You say, Doctor, that you came back to take these women away from the house. Why?" * His Library A pompous rich man, who belierâ€" »xd in having everything "just so," vas showing_his womderful library ‘o a genuine bookâ€"lover. > The Doctor gave him a dignified stare. "Miss Van Gorder has already exâ€" plained." Miss Cornelia elucidated. "Mr. Anderson has already formed a theory of the crime," she said with a trace of sarcasm in her tones. It had come againâ€"tinklingâ€"perâ€" sistentâ€"the phoneâ€"call from â€" noâ€" whereâ€"the ringing of the bell of the houseâ€"telephone! "The houseâ€"telephone â€" again!" breathed Dale. Miss Cornelia made a movement to answer the tinkling inexplicable bell. But Anderson was before her. The detective turned on her quick: ly. "I haven‘t said that." He started. "They are my friends!" exclaimed he wealthy one, waving his hand oward his books. 5 "I‘ll answer that!" he barked. He sprang to the phone. , "Helloâ€"helloâ€"* All eyes were bent on him, nerâ€" vouslyâ€"the Doctor‘s face, in parâ€" ticular, seemed a very study in fear and amazement. He clutched the back of a chair to support himselfâ€" his hand was the trembling hand of a sick, lod man. "Helloâ€"helloâ€"" Anderson swore impatiently." He hung up the phone. ‘‘There‘s nobodyâ€"there!" Again a chill breath from anâ€" other world than ours seemed to brush across the faces of the little group in the lMvingâ€"room. > Dale, sensitive, impressionable, felt a cold, uncanny prickling at the roots of her hain _ A light came into Anderson‘s eyes. ‘"‘Where‘s that Jap?" he almost shouted. "He just went out," said Miss Corâ€" nelia. 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