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It was too late.. Already Daliey had read the truth in Boresford‘s COs *I came this evening," he admit ted aphm-wwwfiau eringing posture of the servitof might give Boresford pause for the moment. . # But the promptness of his answer only crystallized Beresford‘s suspiâ€" clons. "Rxactly," he said, with terse finality. He turned to the detective. "I‘ve been trying to recall . this man‘s face over since I tame in toâ€" nightâ€"" he said with grim triumhph. "Now I know who he is." "Who is he?" Bailey straightened up." He had lost his game with Chanceâ€"and the loss, coming when it did, seemed bittérer than even he had thought it could beâ€"but before ‘theyâ€" took him away, he would speak his mind. "It‘s all right, Beresford," he said, with a fatigue so deep hat it colored his voice like flakes of ironâ€"rust. "I know you think you‘re doing your dutyâ€"but I wish to God you could have restrained your sense of duty for about three hours more!" ~â€""To let you get away?" the young lawyer sneered, unconvinced. "No," said Bailey with quiet deâ€" fiance. ~"To let me finish what I came here to do." "Don‘t you think you have done enough?" Beresford‘s voice flicked him with righteous scorn, no less telling because of its youthfumess. He turned back to the detective soberly enough. "This man has imposed upon the credulity of these women, I am quite sure without their knowledge," he said, with a trace of his former galâ€" lantry. "He is Bailey of the Union Bank, the missing cashier." ‘The detective slowly put down his cigar on an ashâ€"tray. "That the truth, is it?" he deâ€" manded. Dale‘s hand flew to her breast. It Jack would only deny itâ€"even now! 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Waile it in wall Anorn «mmfl'&mm&.â€"u\%m' | DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART | A Novel from the Play by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART and AVERY HOPWOOD Lssenm you ° arotiam, w‘rfi@m% 7 i +> 4+ , fR.AcN)) n J caH oX & s *‘ D Ys _ _2A x ["& 731‘ Â¥ 4 (K &> ASPInin But even as she thought this, “l mrer, to Balley Bailey realized it too. ."It‘s true, all right" he admitted hopelessly. He closed his eyes for a moment. Let them come with the handcuffs now and get it overâ€"every moment the scene dragged out was a moment of unnecessary torture for realized the usélessness of any such "I accuse him «not only© of the thing he is wantbd for, but ofâ€" the murder of Richard Fleming!". he said, flercely, glaring at. Bailoy, as if only a youthfulâ€"horror df making_a scene before Dale and Miss Cornelia held bim back from striking â€"the latter down where he stood. But Beresford had not ‘ finished with his indictment. Bailey‘s eyes snapped open. He took a threatening step toward his fiuor. “Y"”_:x he said in a ree, vielent & Anderson crossed between them, just as conflict seemed inâ€"vitable. "You knew this?" he queried, sharply, in Dale‘s direction. © Dale set herâ€"lips in a line. She did not answer. He turned to Miss Cornelia. "Did you?" * "Yes," admitted the latter quietly, her knittingâ€"needles at last at rest. "Ifknew he was Mr. Bailed, if that is what you mean." The quietness of her answer seemâ€" ed to infuriate the detective: "Quite a pretty little comspiracy," he said. "How in the name of God do you expect meâ€"to do anything, with the entire household united against me? Tell me that." "Rxactly," said Miss Cornelia. "And if we are united against you, why should I have sent for you* You might tell me that, too." He turned on Bailey savagely. "What did you mean by that ‘three hours more‘?" he demanded. Accept only "Bayer" package whEg con_!h!v'ns proven directions. HML;.B:yn" boxes of 12 tablets Also of 24 and 100 â€"Druggiste. "I could have cleared myself in three hours," said ‘Bailey, with calm despair. Beresford laughed, mockingly â€"@ laugh that seemed to sear into Bailey‘s consciousness . like . the touch of a hot iron. Again he turned frenziedly upon the young lawyerâ€" and Anderson was just preparing to hold them away from each other by force if necessary when the doorâ€"bell rang. § For an instant the ringing of the bell held the various figures of the‘ little scene in the rigid postures of a waxworks tableauâ€"Bailey, one one foot advanced toward Bomtord,‘ his hands balled up into flltaâ€"Bore&‘ ford already in an attitude of de fenseâ€"the detective about to step in between themâ€"Miss Cornelia stiff in her chairâ€"Dale over by the fire place, her hand at her heart. Then ‘they relaxed, but not, at least on the part of Bailey and Beresford, to reâ€" sume their interrupted Conflict. Too many nerveshaking things had alâ€" ready happened that night for either of the young men not to drop their mutual squabble in the face of a common danger. ‘ S Hifsedt AAH, BIAJTNTVL , suppost *!? â€" "If that‘s "Doctor . Wells," warned the detective, "admit him. I it‘s Billy grinned acquiescently and departed. The detective . moved "Have you got a gun on you*t" "No." Balley bowed his head. "Well, I‘ll just make sure of that." The detective‘s hands ran sw/ftly and expertly over Bailey‘s form, through ‘his ~pockets, probing for concealed weapons. Then, slowly urawing a pair of handcuffs from his pocket, he prepared to put them on his wrists. The Sign of the Bat But Dale could bear it no longer. The sight of her lover, beaten, subâ€" missive, his head bowed, waiting obediently like a comnion criminal for the detective to lock his wrists in stee} broke down her last deâ€" tenses. She rushed into the center of the room, between Bailey and the detective, her eyes with with terror, her words stumbling over each other in her eagerness to get them out. "Oh, no! I can‘t stand it! I‘ll tell you everything!" she bxhd. frenziedâ€" ly.. "He got to the of the stairs caseâ€"Richard Fleming, I mean," she was facing the detective, now, "and he had the blueâ€"print you‘vé been talking about. I had told him Jack Bailey was here as the :nd\onor and he said if I screamed he would tell that. I was desperate. I threatened him with the revolver but he took it from me. Then when i tore the blueâ€"print for himâ€"he was shotâ€" from the stairsâ€"â€"" "By Bailey!" interjected Beresford angrily. â€" "I didn‘t even know he was in the house!" Bafley‘s answer was an inâ€" tant as it was hot. Meanwhile, the Doctor had entered the room, hardly noticed, in the middle of Dale‘s conâ€" fession, and now stood watching the scene intently from a post by the door. Billy appeared for the key of "What did you do with the ‘u.â€" print?" the detective‘s voice beat at Dale like a whip. "I put it first in the neck of my dressâ€"â€"" she faltered. "Then, when I found you were watching me, J hid it, somewhere else." Her eyes fell on the Doctor. She saw his hand steal out toward the knob of the doorâ€"was he going to run away, on some pretext, before she could finish her story? She gave a sigh of relief, when Billy, reâ€"enterâ€" ing with the key of the frontâ€"door, blocked any such attempt at escape. Mechanically she watched Billy cross to the table, lay.the key uwpon it and return to the hall, without so much as a glance at the tense, suspiciods circle of faces focused upon herself and her lover. "I put itâ€"somewhere else," she repeated, her eyes going back to the Doctor. "Did you give it to‘ Bailey?" "Noâ€"I hid itâ€"and then I told where it wasâ€"to the Doctorâ€"â€"" Dale swayed on her feet. All turned surprisedly toward the Doctor. Miss Cornelia rose from her chair. ‘The Doctor bore the battery of eyes unflinchingly. "That rather inaccurate," he said, with a tight little smile. "You told me where you had placed it, but when I went to look for it, it was gone." "Are you quite sure of that?" queried Miss Cornelia acidly. The Doctor‘s voice gained strength. "Absolutely," he said. He ignored the rest of the party, addressing himâ€" self directly to Anderson. "She had hidden it inside one of the rolls that were on the tray on that table," he continued, in tones of easy explanation, approaching the tabe as he did so, and tapping it with the box of sleepingâ€"powders he had brought for Miss Cornglia. "She was in such distress that I finally went to look for it. It wasn‘t there." "Do you realize the significance of this paper?" Anderson boomed, at once. P S ‘"Nothing, beyond the fact that Miss Ogden was afraid it linked her with the crime." The Doctor‘s voice was veryclear and firm. "I‘d. like to have a few minutes with the Doctor alone," he said, somberly. The group about him dissolved at once. Miss Cornelia, her armâ€"around Anderson pondered an instant l mag again. "He was i back with some slooping CHAPTER FIPTEEN $% HYMâ€"PH! #1L her niece‘s waist, led the latter gently to the door. As the twa lovers passed each other a glance flashed between them â€"a glance, patheticâ€" ally brief, of longing and love,. Dale‘s fingerâ€"tips brushed Bailey‘s \/nd. gently, in passing. * _ ‘""Beresford," commanded the de pective, "take Bailey to the library and see that he stays there;,", ~ ° Beresford tapped his pocket ‘with a significant gesture and motioned Bailey to the deor, Then they, too, left the room. The door closed. The Doctor and the detective were alone. The detective spoke at onceâ€"and surprisingly. ~"Doctor, I‘ll have that blueâ€"print!" he said sternly, his eyes the color of steel. * The Doctor gave him a wary little glance. ‘"But I‘ve just made the statement that I didn‘t find the blueâ€"print," he affirmed flatly. M "I heard you!" Anderson‘s voice was very dry. "Now this situation is between you and me, Doctor Wells." His forefinger sought the Doctor‘s chest. "It has nothing to do with that poor roolfiia cashier. He hasn‘t got either th securities or the money from them and yoy know it. It‘s in this house, and you know that too!" + "In this house?" repeated the Doc tor, as if stalling for time. "In this house! Toâ€"night, when you claimed to be making a proâ€" fessional call, you were in this house â€"and I think you were on that stairâ€" case when Richard Fleming was killed!" / Clean Kidneys By Drinking _Lots Of Water "No, Anderson, I‘ll swear I was not!" 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M Judges of What Another raid Monday night by the same officers, at the home of Henry Kischenmocker on the river bank, resulted in his arrest. . Judges, bottles and a small . quantity of liquor were found. I am too small to buy a quart of acting. The terror in his voice seemed too real to be feigned. But Anderson was remorseless. "I‘ll tell you this," he continued. "Miss Van Gorder very cleverly got a thumbâ€"print of yours toâ€"night. Does that mean anything to you?" His eyes bored into the Doctorâ€" the eyes of a pokerâ€"player, bluffing on a hidden card. But the Doctor did not flinch. "Nothing," he said, firmly. "I have not been upstairs in this house in three months." The accent of truth in his voice seemed so unmistakable that even Anderson‘s shrewd brain was puzzled by it. But he persisted in his attempt to wring a confession from this latâ€" est suspect. â€" ~ ‘"Before Courtleight Fleming died â€"did he tell you anything about a Hidden Room in this house?" he queried cannily. The Doctor‘s confident air of honesty lessenedâ€"a furtive look apâ€" peared in his eyes. â€" The detective hammered at the point again. "No," he insisted, but not as conâ€" vincingly as he had made his pre vious denial. _ Smmtitles "You haven‘t been trying to frightâ€" en these women out of here with anonymous letters so you could get in ?" _ "No. Certainly not{( But again the Doctor‘s air hadâ€"that odd mixâ€" ture_of truth and falsehood in it. The detective paused for an in stant. "Let me see your keyâ€"ring!" he ordered. The doctor passed it over sllently. The detective glanced at the keysâ€"then, suddenly, his re volver glittered in his other hand. > The Doctor watched him, mxlou--i ly. A puff of wind rattled the panes of the IPMQ wlna?ws. The storm quieted for a whi was nthorlnz' its strongth for a fresh unleashing of its dogs of thunder. | (To be continued) o9 â€"â€" in omer promts *Â¥ mswtss\FP Officers and Directors ... L. W. SHUH ............ President W. G. WEICHEL ... 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