By
ERLE STANLEY GARDNER
THE CASE OF THE
P
HOWLING DOG
ERRY MASON looked at the clock, then araso, stratched, yawned, and saun- tered into the chambers of Judge Markham.
The Judge not at his table rending the newspaper ac- count, with eyes that held an expression
puzzled bewilderment.
ΟΣ
was
her?"
the woman granted that Mrs Cartright."
"Then you didn't see
Perry Mason. "NO" she said in a low voice, "I didn't see her."
"Now," sald Perry Mason, "you have identified this letter as being in the handwriting of Mrs Cortright."
"Yes, sir."
Perry Mason produced the photostatic copy of the tele From which hnd been sent
from
I don't like to bother you, Judge," Bald Perry Mason, "but notice that the time alloted for the recess is up, I
anxious to conclude om Midwick. am very
This examination of my
"And," he said, "will you witness prior to the evening identify the photostatic copy of In fact, I think this telegram as also being in adjournment. that it may well be possible the handwriting of Paula Curt- that we can get the case dis- right?" posed of today."
r
Jukige Markham
looked
up
at Perry Mason, his eyes
shrewdly.
glinting
The witness looked telegram, hesitated, bit
"I am wondering," he said, iphey're
Pag to the purpose... His yoice trailed into silence.
"Yes?" said Perry Masen. "Yes" said Judge Markham Hily.
what were you ondering, Judzet" said Perry jason
Judge Markham frowned.
"Just
"I don't know as I should cuss it," he said, "but I arr ndering al the peculiar ture of
request you ke that you be allowed to hpleic your cross-examina-
of the witness today."
the
rry Mason walked back to courtroom. Almost imme- ty Judge Markham enter- from his chambers. The for pounded frantically and pounded for several sus before his admonitions whooded.
948
courtroom was in а
of uproar
buzzing
cocation, exelted com-
motion.
me
scurrying
r, at length, was restor- edle jurors took their seats. "In his Pet Mason
ason alumped cha apparently utterly un- movby the startling events Low minutes.
of
stangor
aminn,
bom.
icel
Benton was on the further cross-ex
most aling and unexpected
develons has taken
place.
In view the elrcumstances,
(CHAPTER
13)
"And you couldn't hold a pen in that hand?"
moment
from his
police dog. He smelled the 'cold corpse. He knew that it was interred in a shallow gravo and he watched by that grave und howled.
This face.
Tot
Follate
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"Yes," said Perry Mason. Forbes strodo out of his bed. "But the fact remains that your roomt into the library to se right hand was bandaged on the who the intruder was; that he 17th day of October of this then became alarmed, ran back year, and remained bandaged to the bathroom, and liberated
"Arthur Cartright had been for several days thereafter, Isn't the police dog which had been watching the house. He didn't that right?"
chained in the bathroom. It realise the
It
significance of the "Yes,*****
Is apparent that when he heard
steady
howling of the dog, someone in the library, Forbes but it did prey upon his over-
the lather from mopped
hia wrought nerves. He took steps face with a towel as he walked to nee that the dog did out to the library. After he be howl any more, thinking at the There Was
of held the Intruder, he ran back time he instituted such steps silence, then the witness sald
dog to the bathroom and unchained that the howling of the 10763. suddenly; And that goes the dog. As he did so, he used was nothing more than EL to chow how false your accusa- both hands to unchain the dog, vagary of the canine mind. tion is that wrote that letter or that telegram. My hand war and dropped the towel contam- But at some time during the night, the frightful crippled so that I couldn't pos- ing the lather which had been next
has just arrived in signlicance wiped
of those howis a pen in it.' sibly have held at bes
towel was dropped near the dawned upon him. His mind America. The buttons are "Were you appe1th edge of the bathtub, in exactly filled with
Arthur on the first world-wide air suspicion, Mason, "in Midwick on the
would Cartright set out to investigate, travel insurance machines where it at the day of October of this year?" the position
"Clinton Forbes and been dropped, logically The witness hesitated.
his installed at New York's hod naturally, under the cir- pseudo-housekeeper "Didn't you," went on Perry Mason without waiting for an cumstances. The dog
sprang barked upon a career of murder. new 5,000-acre Idlewild air- answer, charter an aeroplane toward tho intruder
with They found themselves
con port.
For once, however; the inven- with an accusation of and fly to Midwick on the 17th bared teeth, and as counsel for fronted
of October of this year?** the prosecution has so aptly re- the crime. A man who was tion is not an American one. The "Yes," sald the witness,
marked, and as witnesses for almost as one bereft of reason pioneers are Air France, and air sala thought I might find Mrs Cart- the prosecution have so truth- demanded
con-hostesses
the scheme explain right
in Midwick, and I went fully testified, endeavoured to fronted with Paula Cartright, to all passengers when they there by
save the life of his master, The himself that she was alive and jaro sold by £1, 750 units to a plane."
in order that he might see for arrive at the airport. Policies "And didn't you fle this tele- pasagain shot the dog at close
oelling of £8,750. The minimum gram
the telegraph office in quarters. The power burns are well. at Midwick while you were there?" on the fur of the
premium is 1s. 6d. and costs rise depending on asked Perry Mason.
proportionately "No," she said, "I have told you that I couldn't have written that telegram."
Very
# well,
said Perry Mason, "Let's go back a moment
her
the same hand- writing are they not?" asked Perry Mason "those two do- cuments?"
When she answered, her voice was so low as to be al- most inaudible.
Yca," she said, guess
In the same handwrit
you know?"
said Perry Mason. You unhesitat- ingly identified the letter as being in the handwriting of Paula Cartright. How about this telegram? Is that, or is that not, in the handwriting of Paula Cortright?"
"Yes," said the witness in an almost inaudible voice, "it is Mrs Cartright's handwriting."
sald Perry Mason, Cartright sent this tele- gram from Midwick on the morning of October 177
have and
that
he be
sald
cm-
Perry
"Gentlemen dog. That shows that the dog was actual- Mason, lowering his voice in y altacking the murderer pressively, "there was only one when the shots were fired. thing which the conspirators
to this mangled hand of yours. "After those shots were to take in order to put the Policies, valid from take-off
"And that was on the 17th day of October of this year?"
"Yes,"
never
the journey, although it costs no more to insure for a trip across Resort or ocean than it does ta could do to prcscrvc tacir
fly across the most populated secret. There was one more ghosty step which they had areas, It was so badly mangled you fred, the Intruder grappled seat of silence upon the lips of again in the event of a round- until arrival, become effective couldn't possibly hold a pen in with Clinton Forbes. It will
the be known whether the accusatione
man who wDB your right hand?"
mouthing trip return flight. All the pas- which they knew "Yes.
Intruder came to meet Cilnton would
senger has to do is
to press a be made soon Forbes,
to the button and the machine ejects or whether
Forbes authorities, and would
soon as rushed to meet the Intruder, result in an investigation. They this in he puts it back in the his policy form. Having alled but the shots which killed fell upon him and murdered machine with of Forbes
were fred
necessary him, as they had
murdered
premium. From that moment he his wife, and they burled his is fully insured and ready for "Gentlemen, it
eon body beside hera, knowing that the "take-off." tention of the prosecution that shots were fired by the those
would pour defendant in the ease.
over the place where the shal- AS the rule of Tito's "Iron "There is, gentlemen, one un- low
graves were located, Fist"
spreads through answerable objection to such forever sealing off the ghastly Yugoslavia, correspondent Fred a theory. That is, that if the evidence of the dastardly | Manor gives some idea of what
been the delep- crime. intruder had
happens to anyone found trad- this case, the police dant in
ing on the black market. not haye rushed
Recently the first shipment of
"Also on the 18th day
October
"Yes.
"Also on the 19th?".
"I guess so," said the witness r a low voice.
Judge Markham pounded. with his gavel.
"Mrs
Benton," he said,
"Yes," "you've
"Very got to speak up 30
well,"
said Perry the jury can understand you. Mason, isn't it a fact that you Speak more loudly, please." kept a diary over the period I
She raised her head, stared have mentioned?"
and the judge,
swayed the
shock."
I know at your Honour will Judge
not req me to mention the shook his head.
he
1 very great
Markham slowly
nature that least ide
development, at
range.
dog would
close ált
Is the
upon the defendant; nor would
on
workers
the next day the cement cement
The guilty
the
Iron Fist
it have been necessary for the confronted with the necessity the Yugoslav port of
pair were then American food was unloaded in inspired
ft," said Perry defendant to have shot the dog, of explaining the simultaneous Prospect of its arvival. The
The dog knew the defendant
under
one black marketeer to sell na
slightly.
Claude Drumm Wis on "Yes," she said swiftly, be- his feet, "Your Honour,"
fore she thought, then suddenly said, "it now appears that the caught her breath, bit her lip said Judge Mark-
witness is ill. I again ask for and said, "No." Cla Drumm goi
to his continuance, out of justice "Which Is
to this witness, who has doubt yes or no?" "Yohonour," he said, "a less sustained
she said,
and loved her. The dog would absence of both Arthur Cart-
There was much food as possible to the Perry Mason whipped a torn ever have charged upon the right and his wife. sheet of paper from his pocket, defendant
those clr- only one way they could do it, starving people of Fiume before
American ald put and that was by making it
out of him a matter of fact," he said, cumstances, but would rather
4p- "As a
business. As the pear that husband and wife
manager of isn't that a sheet of paper which have
vent to given
joyous had become reunited
a state coal mine he was receiv- and had st came from a diary which you
of barks
canine gratification run away together,
his Ing special rations Thelma
for his kept on or about that date to that the
minera. two persons whom It Benton
It was not the American was
ambidextrous. aid that put him out of business. wit, the 18th of October of this loved had been reunited.
This fact was known to Clin- "That, gentlemen,
but disposes ton Forbes. He also knew that
Д Yugoslav Court." Arrested on prosecutor who
familiar case can be continued until to- torn
extremely said nothing. "Now, let me point out the anyone would have any spect- black market, he
unlikely charges of sciling rations on the paper, with the s of this case, my morrow, there is some chance.
And
Isn't it," said Perry significant circumstances which
Was found proser,
men of the "a fact that you are indicate that the Maxxon, urgently required it might be dismissed."
hand- nere, id I request
Perry Mason whirled an
about ambidextrous,
murder was writing of Paula Cartright, sh guilty and shot, that you were adornment this ense until and stood with his feet planted keeping the diary during that committed by some other per- wa
estranged from Fraulein Dick Birmly on the floor, spread time, and that you made entries
There is evidence in this her bridges behind her.
the world behind had burne A LUST for adventure among slightly apart; his head thrust in it with a pen that was held forward; his manner belligerent: in your left hand? Isn't it a fact his voice raised until it seem that you have always been able ed to echo in the rafters of the to write with courtroom.
I think the cross-examina- the tion should continue," he said. presence of jury. I feel that
"If," said Claude Drumm in year?"
as an
officer of State, as a deputy pleading desperation, "his The witness stared at the of the case of the prosecution.
tomorrow ning."
Judge Miham looked over his glasses Perry Mason.
"Any oblegns, Counsel?" he asked.
"Yes," said Perry
piece of
son:
תם
end that you left hand, Forbes, on
whenever Do So
Arthur
It ЛУПБ
was a woman
one
genuine
*If the Court pleases," he you wish to disguise your welt- thundered, "that is exactly the Ing. Isn't it a fact that you have inuously during the night, the forged. The name was signed, bart Pfeiffer, chairman of the Mason, situation I wish to avoid. A your
accusation public
has been from which this a torn leaf, and of the defenda demand that made against the defendant in that the handwriting
this this case, and the defendant
getting to his "The rights
possession such a diary, howls being from the back of the bridges
the house and in the on this bourhood of the addition to pair proceeded is torn
torn leaf is exactly identical at this entitled to an acquittal at the with the handwriting
and on the telegram purp been written by Paula Cartright,
shown
מס
a jury. A dismissal the letter purported to have
the cross-exanation cf. witness
be conded session of the grt. I men hands of tioned this mal before started the crossoxamination, leave her with a blot upon her I by the prosecution would still and that was the specific un- name." derstanding which had with
Judge sounded
counsel."
he
to have been fild by herported
the
garage which was duly constructed.
"Gentlemen,
tion
of arm
the
upon
She thousands that case
of frauleins 15 Cartright hed complained of
no friends to whom she providing Germany's a dog howling cared to write to. There was no Detective Association with one Private the premises of Clinton
to come forward with a of its longest queues of would- the night of Octo- gno ber 16. The dog howled con- specimen of the woman's hand-be detectives since before the writing, So the letter was war. In the past year, Her-
were burnt once Association, has received more neigh more, and once more the guilty than 1,500 inquiries from would- upon their be schoolgirl sleuths, not to being career of deception.
mention nearly 7,000 applications "Gentlemen, I need not men- from mystery-minded school-
to you the Inevitable boys. result of such a combination of The girls want to join the wickedness, founded
Association because they believe let us suppose crime, nurtured a deception, it must be "euch an exciting and Markham's voice The witness rose to her feel, that there had been an alter and culminating in murder. romantic life." Firmly and low and "That is correct, said Judge compared with the
Paula even-toned, looked at Judge Markham with cation between
Cart- There were two conspirators, unromantically, Herr Pfeiffer Markham. The retest for a cloquence of Perry Mason.
vehement Riassy eyes, stared at the jury, right and Clinton Forbes. Let each of whom knew that the rejects them al A dotective continuance will bejenied."
then parted her white lips and us suppose that Clinton Forbes, other The motion is once
had the power to send himself, he explains that he is Perry
that more screamed. Mason
during ked
altercation, had the long
for not really being unkind. If they at denied," said. "The case Thelma Benton for moment will continue."
broke loose in the murdered Paula Cortright. Let swooping down in Bedlam
Association righteous worked with the courtroom. Baluffs pounded for us suppose that he and Thelma rep with
long steady she of ac-
reprisal. Thelma Benton
have "Now," said
they would WIE
to trace Perry cusation.
Mason, order. Deputies ran toward the Benton, together, had scooped the fast "will you kindly explain
investigate She lowered her s
to act. She left the anonymous letters, how witness. Cloude Drumm was out a hollow and Paula Cartright could write a on his feet, frantically shouting where the cement floor of the to
grave in the soll house at six o'clock and repaired divorce and paternity cases and fidgeted on the witne stand. letter and a telegram on the
·a ̈rendezvous with a motion for adjournment which new parage building was to be friend. What she said to him, we pilcants are between 14 and 18,
a malo (very
chase car Occasionally) Her face was as whiteas the morning of
thieves. 17
"As most of my op- October of was lost in the turmoil of noise. wall in back of her,
And we might this year, when you know, of
15. poured. "Now,"
Perry Mason walked back to suppose, In view of the terms cerned with what happened.
even need not asks. We are only con the work would obviously not auld Perry Mason slowly, "as I understand your Paula Cartright was murdered
your Own knowledge, that the counsel table and sat down of
the note
Cobe which Thelma And, mind you, I am making no
suitable Deputies reached the side of Benton subsequently wrote, as case against Thelma Benton and however, given
forts are, Paula Cartright
Promising boy left the
the on residence on
evening of October Thelma Benton. They took her Mipas 107" Drive
from the her
a trial at a taxicab on the
elbows and started to pilet her purporting to come
the her accomplice, but
am only special training centre run by Claude
that pointing out to you what might the police. As most of the re- Drumm was morning of October 17:"
on his from the witness stand. She Pen of Paula Cartright,
resulted from the have happened, us a reasonable erults to German private deter- Leot.
quarrel "That is correct," she said
abruptly pitched forward in a "That," he said, "is objected dead faint.
discovery of an intimacy Dou hypothesis upon which the "You saw her leave?""
tween Forbes to as argumentative, calling for
ond Thelma evidence
tion are enrolled from the Police, can be "Yes,"
explained, the Centre gives the schoolboy Voice,
a conclusion of the witness,
Thelma Benton by Paulo Cortright.
Benton and her accom- enthusiast a good idea of the "Mrs Cartright had given up pllce returned to the house. They high standards of efficiency re- not proper cross-examination, sa and assuming Perry Mason, raising his voice evidence."
DERRY MASON approached her social position, her right to entered, by using the key of quired if he is ever to make a a fact not in p
the jurors, stared at that you saw Paula Cortrigh
them be considered a respectable the pecudo-housekeeper. Unon Judge Markham paused for quizzically for a few moments. alive on the morning of Octo& moment, stared at the white,
German Sherlock Holmes, member of society, in order guilty feet, the pair stalked ber 17 of his year?"
"Gentlemen," he said, "a for to run away with Clinton their living prey, na though he drawn face of the witness. tunate break on the part of the
Forbes, where she lived with had been a beast of the jungle. ay am going to sustain the main witness for the prosecu- him under such circunstances But the sensitive cars of the dog objection,"" ha said,
ilan das saved you the
po331- that bility of working an irreparable friendships
she was barred from all heard and interpreted that which
of her past
was happening. won upon in innocent woman, could form no new trendabile, D woman continually
testimony,
"Do
The
sho said
in a
I understand,"
wiincas bit her lip,
the records
show," Perry Mason urbanely, "that the witness hesitates."
hesitated.
said
Let
Claude Drumm jumped
bis
festly
sald, "ig unfair, and
an
the
Not Ordered
to make money at all Nability to act, a determina-, costs and, (in the Middle East) your only stumbling block will be the police.
Writing from Cairo, Margaret "Alarmed by the barking of Cilruth tells of the young followed up
to Perry Mason reached for the purely circumstantial. From the haunted by the fear of
leber which had been identi- circumstances of the case, mani- fel as being in the handwrit- prosecution in entitled to make t And then she found the dog, Clinton Forbes stepped speculator who
is was
the
that
love
diz
had
I object to in of Mrs Cartright, placed it any deductions ft desires; also, made was for nothing; that the out of the bathroom. He saw his "death" notices in local papers.
the question, as argumentative; on the table in front of the the defence is entitled to make an already asked and answer withess, and pounded it with any deductions it desires. ed; as not being proper cross-
examination.”
"The bjection is overruled,"
his at
said Judge Markham. "The re- she
bald.
the sacrisce the
housekeeper standing there, and Discovering a death in a wealthy she thought she had wiped the lather from his face as district
he would visit the Let me, therefore, talte the golned by such a sacrifice was, he started to talk to her. Then address-ask to see the person "Didn't you write that let circumstances of this case and in really, a hollow mockery, he saw the man who was with who had died. When told of ter? he asked of the witness.
outline to you first, the Impor and "N" the flared.
that Clinton Forbes was her, and knew the purpose of her the sad news he would pretend sibility of the crime having no more true to her than ho visit. In a
In a panic, he rushed too be distressed and embarrassed, your bandwriting?"
been committed by
the do- and been true that it is not," know
to the wife the bathroom and liberatext the explaining that a lavishly em- whom he had deserted in Santa dog. The ouder and the man (Islam B fendant, and, second, the
dog sprong
bellshed and inscribed Koran pos. "The
at the cord will show that the witness doesn't resemble mine in the
handwriting ability that it was committed Barbara.
masculina
(Islam Bible) had been
ordered apprealably in ans- least
by some other person.
*Paula
shot. The dog fell falem to by the deceased but Cartright quarrelled the floor: Forbes struggled with previously. The relatives would fow weeks
the -
frat place, the bitterly Octo-
and her lips were Thelma
On the 17th day of Beaten looked up, bor," said Petry Mason, "your evidence shows
that the per- seated forever by the
the woman and then there were bo so touched that they would Her eyes were dark with panic. right hand was in
two two more shots fired at close buy the Bible without hesitation, Cilaton murdered a bandage, 500
assassins who "I can't say that I saw her was it not?"
secretly buried Forbes entered
house tier body.The Chinese coole
and then-ellence."
often paying an extra £1 as the. personally," she said.
Mason
"would "I heard
doceased came to an either with a pasakey or with was asleep. Only the stars of halt.
an abrupt
have wished tops going down the stairs "You had been bitten by
A key which was rightfully in the night and the guilty con- solemnly Ho
it that way." stared periously, it from her room, I saw a taxicab dog?""
at the jury. In a
young spreu drawn up in front of the place; "Yes. Prince
was making Ca to £1 en and I saw a woman getting in poisoned, and when
bebeard, he said, a 12. Koran, hwm the police to the taxicab, then the cab give him an einetle be
heard the
story, became drono · BWU, took it for cidentally bit my hand."
suspicious, and the monker of unordered bibles is now in gnol.
Bring
..
"Yes."
had
A
who
the
the possession of much person, sciences of the murderous pair valdà: that was so low it boué laeventually the same
been I tried to person went to the room, where grave know
ne Forbes was engaged, in shay- on.
The avidence shows that that whio scooped out, the shallów, pastamen, that is "
what was going
But there was one other
fog. The evidence shown that who knew. That was a faithful. (To Be Concluded Tomorrow,)
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