Romance and Mystery.
Zora, the Invisible
By J. R. WILMOT.
(Author of "The Moorcraft Mapor Mystery.")
(SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS
CHAPTERS.)
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The stationmaster looked up from his perusal of an imposing sheaf of documents that had MONTGOMERY GAYNOR, a arrived that morning from the wealthy diamond merchant, s head office. found dead in his office chair "The three-forty's been taken under mysterious circumstances. off these last six weeks, sir," he INSPECTOR WEBSTER, of Scot-replied. "Don't ask me why they land Yard, calls in to his assis took it off, sir. That's not, my Lance DR. PETER BLAYNE, 4 business. The next train to town, young medical criminologist, who makes a blood test of the dead man, and also finds sonte curious ash and a piece of paper contain- Blayne regarded the little man ing the name ZORA! under the shrewdly before replying.
He firegrate in the offfee. He finds was nearing sixty with almost himself baffled, and though the white hair and rather delicate and Home Office pathologist declares kindly eyes. There was very that death is due to natural causes, little of the oficial about him and Blayne believes that Gaynor was Blayne realised that he har murdered. This view is shared by monised with the wayside station Scotland Yard, and inquiries are admirably. Anywhere else be made. It is discovered that on the would have been woefully out of afternoon of his death Gaynor replace, an anchorite among the ceived a visit from an unknown chaos of crowds. young man, who left the office after having had high words with the merchant. The police try to find him, but fall. Meanwhile Blayne goes down to Oaktree to interview SONIA GAYNOR, the dead man's daughter, and he is convinced that the girl knows more about her father's death than she cares to divulge. This distrusses Blayne, because he find himself secretly in love with this charm- ing' girl.
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CHAPTER IX.
The Attock on the Road. Peter Blayne walked briskly, in the direction of the little, un obstrusive railway station at Oak- tree after his verbal battle with Sonia Gaynor in the summerhouse, and though he felt that he had excited her suspfelon against him and he was not at all sure that that was what he want to do be realised that Sonta was no fool, She had probably inherited from her father a good measure of that subtlely without which fortunes, even in diamonds, cannot be made to the same extent as Montgomery Gaynor's had been.
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The allusion gave him a new line of thought.
Was Montgomery Gayner during his life-time a good citizen? It was quite possible that superficial.
"I suppose I shall have to wait," admitted Blayne, cheerfully, "but perhaps the two hours will ass quickly enough. Is there any thing really worth seeing in these parts?" he asked. "Anything of particular antiquity... ruins, or that sort of thing?"
The stationmaster láid aside his Shear of documents and turned to Blayne..
"There's the old church," he surrested, "only a mile and a hair Nice old place alor the road. with the only truly Norman tower for forty-five miles. Chessington's the next, but I prefer "Oaktrec. Much better state of preservation, thanks 10 Mr. Montgomery Gaynor," he added, and paused, Then: "You know,.sir, his death will be a big loss to Oaktree. a very big loss."
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turning round as though he ex- pected to ace suinebody he didn't But that's how he want to meet. struck me, sir, and I was only Wondering when I read in the papers this morning about the in- quest whether I ought to write to Scotland Yard about it. would you advise, sir?"
moment.
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Blayne stood thoughtful for a He was telling himself that it was indeed fortunate that the three-forty train to London had been taken off. Here was a utterly unexpected and new clue, and though there was nothing particularly definite about 1, confirmed his own theory that Blayne tried to conceal the sur-Montgomer Gaynor had not died prise he felt at this unexpected a natural death in spite of the introduction of a tople which had hopeless lack of medical evidence already caused him considerable to the contrary. perturbation.
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Based on actual history, "The Frontiersman,"_a new picture which will be shown at the Star Theatre to-day and to-morrow, is a thrilling tale of the days of General Andrew Jackson and of the events which occurred during
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on the station police, a matter of this kind,"capture and rescue of
Andrew church," went
"Without him it's no said Blayne. "A little mutter Jackson's ward. The popular new master. secret to say that Oaktree church such as you have mentioned may Western star, Colonel Tim McCoy, would almost have tumbled down. be of paramount importance to and Claire Windsor are leading Part dates back to 1176, sir, and them in directing their inquiries players. Russell Simpon is cast as Andrew Jackson, while Tom though they knew how to build in into quite another channel. I those days better than we do should most certainly write to O'Brien of "The Big Parade" fame, to-day, they won't stand for ever. Scotland Yard and tell them fully relieves the more serious side of the picture with his qüáint.antics. No, Mr. Gaynor saved Oaktree all you know about the matter." church. Terrible
"It's not really as bad as all The Frontiersman" was directed wasn't it? That is, I suppose that, sir. I might easily be mis-by Reginald Barker, who made
Besides it doesn't prove The Flaming Forest." you've heard about it-It's been in taken.
anything it merely suggests all the London papers."
Blayne nodded.
that he was not quite himself. It "I suppose you knew Mr. Gaynor,might not be anything at all, sir." then?"
"I think you ought to write, all "Yes, air, I did, and a finer man the same," Blayne told him
No side, if you "Little things like that are often 1 never knew.
affair, sir.
"Thank you, sir," answered the relieved, "I'll station-master,
write to-night."
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Ile felt, too, that Sonia as an ally would be an extremely useful person, but Sonia on, the other side of the fence might do incalculable harm to whatever plans he might have to lay in the near future.
Why, he thought, should he have taken such pains to attempt to discredit his theories as to the actual cause of her father's death? It seemed to Blayne that the girl actually wanted to believe that Montgomery Gaynor died in "thê same natural fashion as most other good citizens do, even, though understand the expression, sir. A the turning point in criminal in few hours before his death he was hundred per cent, a gentleman.vestigations-at least so I have WOMEN ANNOYED IN LONDON apparently in the very best of Not that he came down here very read," he added, guardedly.
much, sir-the service being per haps not frequent enough for him
John Herbert Barlow, aged 51, a he had his car and preferred the drive to the city, and I don't blame "Well, I think I'll trot along and clerk in Holy Orders, who him, sir. If I had a car I shouldn't look at the church," said Blayne, stated by the police to have given Be troubling about trains. But I and I hope I'm back again in a wrong address, was fined £2, with ly he was as other men are. Lots met him frequently at the church. time for the five-twenty. There's £5 5s. costs, at Westminster Police of men, Blayne argued, looked all Took a grent interest in it he did, no chance of that not running, I Court recently for insulting be- haviour in a cinema in Wilton-road, the hope." Mr. Crompton-he's right on paper. To all intents and and purposes they bore unblemished rector, sir-was often up at the
"I can give you my word for S. W. reputations. Nearly all of them house in the evenings. By the that," smiled the stationmaster. Olive Shepherd. an attendant, were model husbands. Even some way, sir, do you think he died Leaving the station, Blayne took said that while she was showing. The station the road that branched off at right-Barlow to his seat he put his arm of the greatest of the world's gal-natural, or " lery of criminals had been domes-master paused, meaningly.
angles from the old stone cross in around her waist and said, "Hullo, tically paragons. Some of them "I was reading that there was the centre of the village. About my old fair and square." She had been good fathers, too; sincere some conflict of medical opinion a quarter of a mile further along shook him off, and flagrantly honest in their in-over the matter," said Blayne, non-a small wood skirted the side of
Mrs. Ethel Reynolds, of Hugh- tentions, and yet-there was commitally, "Of course, know the white, winding rond. On the always that other side to them that ing him. as you did you ought to onnosite side were a number of street, Pimlico, said Barlow sat be- had lain hidden from the feverish be in a better position to know solitary oaks set at varying dis- side her, and his coat fell over her
there Wit eyes of the public until some little whether
anyone tances as far as the eye could see. knees. She moved away again and mistake had caused their undoing likely to wish him dead." "
Whether they had onee formed again, but he followed, and touched and revealed the duplicity con- "That's what has been puzzling part of the wooded estate on his her on the arm. She tried to get: trived by the natural cunning of me, sir. Why should anyone want feft, Blayne did not know, but it past another girl, but could not, to kill a friend? I'm sure Mr. was just possible that this wood- and then she screamed and fainted. Ruby McGowan, a servant, said By the time Blayne arrived at Gaynor did a great deal of good land belt had, at one time, extend- Barlow moved into acat next to the station he had categorically in his lifetime." placed Montgomery Gaynor with "True enough, but a man can but when the land on his right had her, and made a remark about a Crippen, Peace, Smith,
and have enemies for all that," Blayne heen cleared for agricultural per- troup of women dancers on the probably Friederich Voigt. It told him. "Perhaps not here, but poses, the frince of trees had been screen, and she moved away. might reasonably be unjust. He elsewhere. Oaktree, you must re- left by someone with a sense of realised that perfectly well, but member, was only one part of his the artistic to border the road. he knew also that up to the present life."
This rather rural speculation on he had only Webster'a somewhat Blayne could not quite get out Blayne's part was intentionally The Magistrate said it was a prosaic history of the man, and of his mind the category into deliberate. He felt that if he were most criminals he had known had which, a few moments before, he to view what the stationmaster had quite uninterestingly, almost had unconsciously consigned told him about Gaynor in its true man to be in. suburban recorda. It was the un-Montgomery Gaynor for the pur merspective he must first empty known quantity in crime that made pose of providing a new chain of his mind of its previous thoughts, the game so damnably, alluring thought in his Inquiry.
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and equally elusive, yet so intri- The stationmaster was silent for changing face of the countryside guingly fascinating.
a moment, and Blayne, watching achieved its purnose and he would Oaktree station was deserted him carefully, was conscious that soon be able to view his inquiry when Blayne wandered on to the there was something passing with that dispassionate detach platform, except for the station cat through the man's mind that was ment criminal investigation in-puzzle on another page. which was busily performing her worrying him.
variably demanded. "I don't know whether I ought afternoon ablutions in the narrow
Then, switching shade of an empty milk churn to mention it, air, but I've noticed thoughts, much in the same man- which, beside himself, was wait-a change in Mr. Gaynor these past ner as an electrician changes one ing for the London train.
few months. I can't quite ex-dynamo over to another. Blayne Finding that no preparations plain it, and I don't know whether brought his brain to dwell upon were being made to receive the I'm right or not, but when I've the fact that Montgomery Gaynor locomotive, Blayne sought the scen him down in the village, and had been perturbed in mind for The station- stationmaster in his airy little sometimes up at the church, he
Bome little time.
the hinted that office, which had a vivid scarlet hasn't looked quite, himself.
master had geranium in a 'pot on the window may have been business worries diamond merchant seemed as if he ledge.
for all I know, but somehow I expected to see someone near him "suppose the three-forty's all don't think that that was the ex-whom he not particularly want Matters of business to see. What did that mean? It right?" said Blayne, in that polite-planation.
one thing. ly human way one generally deals don't make a man seem uneasy could only mean with station officials who have a when he's miles away from Lan Montgomery Gaynor had been modicum of gold ornament on their! don; they don't make him keep afraid. peaked caps..
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