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(Continual frim an Extra) "Got a door!” be, rorepmed. "Don't you re she a dead But perhaps she's not dead, after all. If you're quick, perhaps she can be saved. Run for a doctor
quick!"
Geofray knocked there in |pióture gallery Inst night! '
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY: JANUARY 24” 1914.
the rapacity for money had driven
countless men to crime...
Fanny - nodded. But how "At the same time, I found that many nights had bo mud his the woman who had obtained accomplice knocked, in other admittance to the household as Parts of the house, before they chambermaid, and who had oon- heard that answering inkle from trived to get herself discharged beneath the wall to assure them on the very night of the crime, that the hiding place of tradition answered to the same physical was found? All it was not a description na Mademoisolle dull ides, to utilize the anciens d'Artigny-to the very fet of the So intense was his emotion, he legend of the three death ku cke, downy strip on the back of the seemed not even conscious of the walls but also to lend a superna which Rose, it appeared, was not only in order to sound the neck, a bizarre distinction of interruption of.... armed atural air to the murder which inordinately vain and would not traders. Bis face, distorted later would be necessary to clear have removed even to escape pos like A misk. by thehe house and make the removal sible colection. Besides, what de- intensity of his passion, was bent of the treasure possible." 'ection did she have to fear? Tak- over the woming, who lay motion- "The murder!" said the Chiefing, no doubt, alternate nights, les in her black and white ser excitedly. "Now, young lady, they thumped the walls of the old vant's unform, with the candle since your wit has fathomod a huse at their leisure, till at light shining on hor red-brown scerct wh oh, for the first time in Inat in the picture gallery thoir bair and on the piled-up heaps twenty-two years, has left me perseverance was rewarded by the of golden louis thus, surrounded bild, I await your explanation. arewering bell that they had ber on every side.
If not by supernatural menne, hoped to hear." Stooping, the Chief up one on how did the murderers waxen band and laid it ever his fo cipe from the sealed chamber electric torch., Between the after dealing the death-blow to fingers shone faint lines of the Duc de Vauraire ?" yeik wish gray. Be turned back the lits from the storing dark eyes, lifted the beautiful heavy bead. There on the back of the limp white neck, fullowing their e of the spins, the hair continued in a thin dark line of 'down.
"Rose D'artigny!" exclaimed One of the detectives below his brenth.
"He did not cecafé, monsieur!" "But you are mad-that room was empty!
**
"Because, messieurs, the Duc de Vaucaire was alone when he died."
"The Chief acdded solemnly, die a suicide." while the crouching creature in the brocade dressing-grown, strip- 1 ed of " 'oli
Ligain! Jordly xorcha lenee, watched him as a wolfhound glares at the intruder who handles her pups.
The Chief said:
"This time, however, she has paid for her devilish trick with her life. She has been dead two
ays, at the least.""
"But, mademoiselle-the mar der, the murder!"
"Yes! but, even so **
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"The simplest business in the world! You noticed that little shred of black and soarlet flosa attached to the bandle of the knife? Yes, but I think you did not notice the gray camel's-hair dressing-gown, present by Sir Gacffrey Flyles to the Abbe The two men spring to their Fornarini on the very night of feet. But it has already been the ball, so the bonsekeeper demonstrated that suicid was informed me though, as I told mpossible!
yon, Sir Geoffrey himself denied "The Due de Vancaire did out ever having seen such a garment. That wrapper, messieurs, was "Mademoiselle, explain-ex-secured about the waist by a cord ef black and scarlat silk-which "Messieurs," returned. Fanny the housekeeper, when I saw her, solemnly, "I will ask you now was changing for black. I carried to combine in your minds several off a tassel. Eren under the detached circumstances, of which miorcscope, that red and black revealed to me and not to you. cal with the scrap that remained the significance, it seemed, was floss proved to be precisely ident- These knockinge, which, if we upon the knife." accepted them as an attempt to profit by the secret of the ancient "Even so, we might deduce Again bir Geffery, in anbyme, showed so intimate a merely a detail of the dastardly adandonment explained not only knowledge of family secrets, so attempt to faat on the crime on the by his grief but by the fumes of close a knowledge also of the ble-like jostling him so that it whisky that rose from bim, flung Duke's character, who, in his hould be he, and not Sir Geof- him-elf upon the body,
devont attachment to tradition,frey, whose head broke the win- "Rose! Sweetheart! Sweet-night well be expected to conceal low and destroyed the legendary heart! Why did you steal a march is treasure Lowhere else but in verse; like stealing the very knife on me? Didn't you know it ware hereditary hiding-place of from tho collection of the returu- for I did it? And now it's no use!
his race. Then also, there was od missionary that Atrange any more. You are dead, my little the question of the opportunityavage weapon, half knife and Rose Dead!"
to knock on the walls. All of half javelin, weighted at its tip which circumstances narrowed toessure greater accuracy of aim." From his wild lamentations down an inquiry to members of "Mademoiselle, I begin to see--" Fanny's keen ear picked out one ile Duke's immediate household. "Which you will do entirely phrase: "It was for you I dul it."
Summoning the whole force of ed to possess eufficient intelligence withthe ladder revealed to me the HOW YOU'LL LAUGH IN YOUR BATH Of the two who might be suppos when I tell you that may searches her will power, she stooped and for such an attempt, secret in-presence of that some, silk in yo trade fixed the wreched man's goiry proved one nephew to posthird place." She paused a eyes with her own,
eas the spotless character of a moment, lifting hor hand in an "Listen to me, Sir Geoffrey model priest; the other-” Ffylee," she said sternly, "It" But Sir Geoffrey possereed crossbar of that old-fashioned bed impressive gesture. "In the iron was you, with the aid of this an excellent character!" aried canopy, immediately above the woman, who murdered your uncle the Chief, aggrieved. "His bills,sce marked X to indicate the the Duo de Vaucaire-then tried his olub dues, his gambling debts, wound, there clung a shred of to fasten the crime on the Abbe all were promptly paid. His block and scarlet floss. Do Fornarini. The whole clain of reputation":
yon see now? proof is in my hands. Look into Was above susirion, Chief, Almost! Ah mon Dieu! But-" my eyes and deny it if you can in his relations with other men!"Do you remember, messieurs, |
ideoy it if you dare!"
But, American though I am, that loop of gray twine-not an The detectives crowded around, something told me that when a cient, as we thought, hat ordinary With a visible effort, Sir Geoffrey men embarks on a secret and string of modern commerce- raised his bloodshot blue eyes. perilous enterprise, not only the that hung attached to this old- With a ghastly imitation of his springs of his action but the fashioned bell-pull where it en: reual manner, he addressed her confidante of his crime must be tored the wall? That loop of in English:
sought rather in a member of my twine, when tested, pr. ved exr etly "By George, I don't know own sex. My inquiries, therefore, of the length to reach the roint what you come rottin's me like were limited to Sir Geoffrey in the bed's canopy where the be this for! And, anyway, if my. Ffyles relations with women;
(Continued on Puge 5.) ancle went cuttin' off his own and found that for the past three flesh and blood to leave every of the notorious Ro o d'Artigny
years be had been the lover thin' to that snob of an Alfonso, famed as a sort of female Apache. what the doose did he expect? who by her Leanty and fierce dainty dishes at the ALEXAN malèted in fines aggregating over
And as for Bosa-
His eyes wavered. He collapsed
upon the floor..
"I don't know how you found it all oar, but, after all, what difference does it make? Take me away to the guillotine, if you like! I wanted money, it' was only for her. And now she's gone, why shouldn't I go too? Hose! Rose ! Rose !"
Next morning Fanny Gordon, palor than usual, satin her little alon, facing the Vicomte de Chatellerault and the Chief of the Secret Service.
After all," she observed, al- mostrapologetically, it was only a question of getting the right idea at the beginning-woman's intuition, as you very justly say, Chief! As, for instance, those lines of ancient doggerel that I copied from the window-it's merely an acrostic. Head down- ward; Vicomte, the first letter of each line !!"
como, read the Vi
thon, in a burst of admiration," Bravo!"
Cloche bell! repeated the Ham very Chief slowly
simple, as you say.
a bell that we heard beneath the
For it was
wall, was it not, when Sif
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