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hn bMrt J4k 2 &8 A. private. suspicion grow . in Bailey‘s mind as to whether Miss Cornelia‘s fine but . eccentric brain had not suffered too sorely under the shocks of the night. But he did not dare disobey. He blackened the handle of the Do¢â€" tor‘s bag with painstaking thoroughâ€" ness and awaited furthor instruc tions. "Somebody‘s coming!" Dale whis pered, warning from her post by the . Bailey quickly went to the fire place and resumed his pretended labors with the fire. Miss Cornelia moved away from tgo Doctor‘s bag and spoke for the benefit of whoever might be comring "We all need sleep," she began, as if ending a conversation with ‘The door opened, admitting Billy. "Doctor just go upstairs," he said, and went out again leaving the door cpen. ‘Doctor! O Doctor!" "Yes?" answered the Doctor‘s voice from the main staircase. His steps clattered down the stairsâ€"he entered the room. Perhaps he read â€"something in Miss Cornelia‘s manâ€" mner that demanded an explanation of his action. At any rate, he fore stalled her, just as she was about to question him. A flash passed across Miss Corâ€" nelia‘s face. She stepped to the door. She called. _"I was about to look ar mbove," he said. "I don‘t lik leave if there is the possibilit someâ€"aseassin still hidden in *That‘ls ‘very considerate of you. But we are ‘well protected now. And besides, why should this person teâ€" main in the house? The murder is done, the police are here." But a knocking at the terraceâ€"door interrupted him. While the attenâ€" tion of the others was turned in that direction Dale, less cynical than her aunt, made a small plea to him and realized before she had finâ€" ished that the Doctor too had his price. "Doctorâ€"did you get it?" she re peated, drawing the Doctor aside, ‘The Doctor gave her a look of #pparent bewilderment. "My dear child," he said softly, ts the outstanding leader tn "True," he said. "I only thought Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds _ Headache _ Neuritis Lumbago Pain Neuralgia Toothache _ Rheumatism | DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART | The Bat A Novel from the Play * by MARY ROBERTSâ€"RINEHART and AVERY HOPWOOD § °* P @ . to look around "I don‘t like to the possibility of MOouve MBE _ = °& "UrT old o "are you sure that you putâ€"it there?" Dale felt as if she had received a blow in the face. a "Why, yesâ€"iâ€"â€"" she began, in tones of utter dismay. Then she stapped. The Doctor‘s seeming beâ€" wilderment was too pstâ€"too plaus epedacthy. Handy «Baye®® boses of 1 taklats though possible, it _ seemed exâ€" tremely unmlikely that anyone else could have discovered the hidingâ€" place of the blueâ€"print in the few moments that had elapsed gwm the time when Billy took the tray from the room and the time when the Doctor ostensibly went to find it. A cold wace of distrust. swept over herâ€"she turned away from the Doctor silently. * "I couldn‘t find anybody!" he said in an irritated voice. "I think that Jup‘s crazy." Meanwhile Anderson had entered, slamming the terrace door behind ‘The Doctor began to struggle into his overcoat, avoiding amy look at Dale. â€"â€" "Well," he said, "I believe I‘ve fulâ€" filled all the legal requirementsâ€"I think I must be going." ‘He turned toward the door, but the detective halted him. "Doctor," he said, "did you ever hear Courtldigh Fleming mention a Hidden Room in this house?" If the Doctor started, the moveâ€" ment passed Apparently unnoted by Anderson. And his reply»was coolly made. "You don‘t think then," persisted the detective, "that such a room and the money inâ€"it could be the motive for this erime?" "I don‘t believe Courtleight Flemâ€" ing robbed his own bank, if that‘s what you mean," he said with nicely calculated emphasis, real or feignâ€" ed. He crossed over to get his bag and spoke to Miss Cornela. m "Well, Miss Van Gorder," he said, picking up the bag by its blackâ€" ened handle, "I can‘t wish you a comfortable night, but I can â€"wish you a quiet one." _ Miss Cornelia watched him silentâ€" ly. As he turned to go, she apoke. "We‘re all â€"of us a little upset, naturally," she confessed. Perhaps you could write a prescriptionâ€"a "Noâ€"and I knew him rather The Doctor‘s voice grow a little 797A yeeâ€"here‘s paperâ€"and a poncil, ~~as the Doctor fumbled in a pocket. _ The Doctor took the sheot "of paper she proffered und, using the write out the prescription. "I don‘t generally advise these drugs," he said, looking up for a fn.-n.wd-unml Walk the Rest I shall have to make them up my>| . _ c4 To s aBQv â€"."Nothing . is any. trouble .if 1 ..can um*»m;-.m ly. And Miss Cornelia also smiled, took the piece of paper from his hand, glanced at it once, as if out of idle curiosity about the unfinished prescription and then laid it down on <the table with a careless little gesturesDale gave her aunt a glance of_dumb entreaty. . Miss â€" Cornelia read her wish for another moment alone with the Doctor. "I‘ve been discreet for sixtyfive years," she said, with a sniff, "and sometimes I think it was a mistake!" The Doctor Iaughed easily and folâ€" lowed Dale out of the room with a nod of farewell to the others in passâ€" ing. The detective, seeking for some object upon whom to vent the growâ€" ing irritation which seemed to posâ€" sess him, made Bailey the scapeâ€" goat of his wrath. \ said she, giving the girl the key of the ~frontâ€"door. Ts us um The Doctor approved her watchâ€" fulness. . S "That‘s right," he said, smilingâ€" ly. "Keep things locked up. Disâ€" cretion is the better part of valor!‘* But_Miss Cornelia falled to agree with him. "I guess we can do withopt you, for the present‘" he said, with an angry frown at the latter. Bailey flushed, then remembered himself, and left the room submissively, with the air of a welltrained servant acâ€" cepting an unmerited rebuke. The detective turned at once to Miss "Now I want a few â€"words with you!" he said in a surly volce. The failure of his search of the terrace and grounds seemed to irk him do all the talking!" said Miss Corâ€" nelia acidly. He followed her unwillingly, up the stairs, his whole manner seemâ€" ing to betray a complete lack of confidence in the theories of â€" all amateur sleuths in.general and spinâ€" ster detectives of sixtyâ€"five in parâ€" ticular. Their footsteps died away up the alcovestairs. The living room was left vacant for an instant.‘ Vacant? Only in seeming. The moment that Miss Cornelia and the detective had passed up the stairs, the crouching, mysterious Unknown.{ |behhd the settee, began to move. :'l"h- door of the French windows | openedâ€"a stealithy figure passed lthronuh it silently to be swallowed up _in the darkness of the terrace. I And . poor Lizzie, entering the room at that moment, saw a hand Icovered with blood reach back and |mly. horrfbly, through the broken pane, refasten the lock. | She shrieked madly. "Very well! But first I want to show you something. Will you come here, please*" She started for the alcove. "I‘ve examined that staircase," said the detective, ungraciousty. He paused, What time is it?" Miss Cornelia glanced at the clock. lalf past cloven." " *Then I‘d better bring you the Dale had failed with the Doctor. When Lissie‘s screams once more had called the startled household to the Hvingâ€"room, she knew :c had failed. She followed in i¢â€" ally, watched an irritated Anderson send the Pride of Kerry to bed and threaten to lock herâ€" up, and Mstened vaguely to the conversation between her aunt and the detective that fol lowed it, without more than casual | interest. Nevertheless, that â€"conversation was to have vital results later on. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Handouttfs "Let me kiss those tears away, sweetheart," he begged tonderly. Bhe foll into his arms and he was very busy for a few moments. But the tears flowed on. | _ â€""Will nothing stop them?‘ he askâ€" manker, he yelled, Waiter, Waiter! C more quick, sond for theâ€"manager; thersh been a torrible mistake made, % terrible mistake!" "What js (t, sirt" gravely de "Jus‘ look at ‘this," shouted the he gravely inspected it for goveral "those darn fool printers have printed thishâ€"thing upside down!" > Tavish, Sandy?" _ _ cetis . "Losh, mon, ‘twas awfu‘! 1‘d eworn I‘d do it come Monday nicht. so 1 took her for a ride in a taxicab, and wi‘ one eye on. the.. moter tickin® awa‘, I had her won at the end o‘ hal a crown." . Dugald was ill, and his friend Donald took a bottle of whiskey to him. Donald gave the invalid one glass and sald: _ & About five minutes elapsed, and then Dugald suddenty exciaimed:â€" ~"Yo‘d better let me hae the ither sudden dedths nocadays." the hired man for carrying a lighted lantern to call on his best girl. "The idea," he exciaimed, ‘"When lantern, 1 went in the dark." *Yes," said the hired man sadly, "and look what you got." "Your point about that thumbâ€" print on the stairâ€"rail is very inter tain respect._"But just what does it "It points down," said Miss Corâ€" nelia, still} glowing with the mem ory of the whistle of surprise the detective had given when she had shown him the strange thumbâ€"print on the rail of the adcoveâ€"stairs. prove?" "It does," he admitted. But what then?" Miss Cornelia tried to put her case ar clearly and tersely as possible. there for some time, listening to my niece and Richard Fleming, in this room bejlow," she said. "All rightâ€"I‘ll grant that to save time," retorted the detective. "But the moment that shot was fired, the lights came on. If sontebody on that staircase shot him, and then came down and took the blueâ€"print, Miss Ogden would have seen him." \ He turned upon Dale. "Did you?!" \ She hesitated. Why hadn‘t she thought of such an explanation beâ€" fore? But nowâ€"it would sound too ; flimay! a v’,””“' “" .1 irched into s cafe late one j l'-'l‘h-.-"-l'&u-a ad sat down at one of the George L. Bwick. R. R. No. & 306 T T M nA nanldx A...., | londOunt. "My frst experionce with "No, â€"mabody came down," she adâ€" mitted, candidly. ~ ‘The detective‘s face alteredâ€"grow menacingly. Miss Cornelia once more had put herself ‘between him and Dale. ~ "Now, Mr. Andersonâ€"â€"" she warned. ‘The detective was obviously tryâ€" ing to keep his temper. "I‘m not hounding this girl!" he said, doggedly. "I haven‘t said yet that she committed the murderâ€" ‘but she took that ‘blueâ€"print and 1 "Ye‘ll git anither ane in the mornâ€" want &t!" the added doubtfully. tunds to the Unlon Bank, isn‘t it?" "You want it to connect her with e murder," parried.Miss Cornelia. ‘The detective thew up his hands. "It‘s rather reasonable to suppose Where Light Was Needed does," he admitted. But what A Good Doctor (To be continued) It‘s °WA o s lsnd,; Ont. 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