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the third of their series of pro- Bangkok imagined to bo maniacal fury in A sweet dilemmal Ho realized, of the strangler's eyes; and tho
and representative audience, calentia strangler must have been a fairly course, that if he could get out and
the Calem Including His Excellency leave that aide door bolted on the powerful creature, whereas Skeel was slender and almost undersized. inside, he'd be comparatively safe. Officer Administering the Govern-b
"No one could then explain howmont (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Hongkong .. No, merci, Skeel wasn't hay he had come in or gone out. It Southorn, C.M.G.), ing any. He lay doggo. And I would" establish his only possible The high standard of can't say that I blame the beggar, alibia negative one, to be sure; previous concerts was well main- what 7"
He made a gesture of interroga- but with a good lawyer, he could taimed, by the Band, while the Fixed Depositat Ratos that may be as
probably make it hold. Doubtless civilinn - contributions DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, a
What did the strangler do next?e searched for other means of enthusiastically received by an fashionable neurologist
nudienco. The TONY SKELL, a professional bur-Well, weil; we'll probably nuver escape, but found himself con-appreciative
fronted with obstacles giar
on every feature of the programme was know, now that Skeel, the horrifed WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP witness, has gone to his Binker.and. The side door was his only probably the cornet solo by Band-
hope. telephone operator
How could it be worked? Sergeant E. Manley whose contri- has gained a well earned reputa |But 1 rather image he got out HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op- that black document box, opened
Vance rose and yawned.
bution, "The Outpost," in the tion as stringed instrumentalists crator
It with a key he had taken from the
"That's my theory. Skeel was second lialf, was both harmonious and added a pleasing diversion to EARNEST HEATH, Sergeant of
lady's hand-bag, and extracted a caught in a trap, and with his ly and sympathetically rendered. the full band of the Queen's the Homicide Bureau
goodly number of incriminating shrewd, tricky brain he figured his Demands for an encore wore Regiment.
The Alolins made another acceded to. way out, le may have roamed up Then, I fancy, the fireworks be- and down these two rooms for
The Band opened the pro-"ppearance in the second half and gan. The gentleman proceeded to hours before he hit on his plan; gramme with
Viviani's march, again delighted the audience with their selections. Following Margaret Odell is found stran- wreck the apartment in order to and it's not unlikely that he ap-"Silver Trumpets," which was Beethoven's Minuet In A Fint, gled. Skeel's Anger prints aro give the effect of a professional bur-pealed to the Deity with ari ocen- followed by "Lusiple)" and Band Sergeant Manley.gave his found in the apartment, but Vance glary. He fure the face on the tonal, 'Oh, my God!'
Boccherini's Minuet. "The Mid-cornet solo. The Male Voice belleves Skeel tud been hiding in lady's gown und suvered the.
Octetto again received a closet while the strangler did shoulder-strap; snatched her orchid "As for his using the tweezers, night Guard" by the Male Voice his work. The thing that bales corsage, and threw it in her lup; I'm inclined to think the mucian Oetette received the applause that citrusiastic greeting on rendering the police is the side door to the al-stripped off her rings and bracelets; ism of the idea came to liimi almost it deserved and an acore had to "Arabella." Two selections and the ley, which had been bulled on the and lore- the pendant from its immediately.-Y know, Sergeant, be given before the audience were Inside the night before' und was chain.
this locking of a door on the in satisfied. Selections from Suill-Spanish Serenade, "La Paloma" found the sanie way in the morn "After that he upset the lamp, alde is an old trick. There are any van's "Patience" concluded the by the Band were followed by the ing. Mannix, Dr. Lindquist and rifled the escritoire, ransacked the number of recorded cases of it in Band's efforts in the first half, the Regimental March as a grand Cleaver all lie about their where Boule cabinet, broke the mirror, the criminal literature of Europe. Aloha Serenaders contributing the finale, the concert drawing to abouts the night of the murder.verturned the chairs, tore the Jadeed, in Professor Hans Gross's last item. This band of muscians close with, "God Save the King." Spotswoode, who had called on the draperies.... And all the time handbook of criminology there's a girl, had rushed to her door at the Skeel kept his eye glued to the key-whole chapter on the devices used Bound of scream, but ind been hole with fascinated horror, afraid by burglars for illegal entries and
eassured that everything was all to move, terrified lest he be dis-exits.
Skeel i right. Then
found covered and sent to join his erst- strangled, after promising to tell who murdered the girl. Heath ur- rests Jessup, belleving him the only one able to manipulate the side door; but Vance demonstrates how Skeel could have done it.
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THE STORY TIIUS FAR
CHAPTER XLV
documents.
"But all such devices have had to i
ing of doors.
while inamorala, for by now he was do with the locking-not the bolt- no doubt thoroughly convinced that
eutside the man
Was raving lunatic-1 can't any that I envy "The principle, of course, is the Skeel his predicament: it was tick-same, but the techule is different. lish, y know. Rather! And the To lock a door on the inside, a devastation went on. He could needle, or strong slender pin, is in- hear it even when the operations serted through the bow of the key, hud passed from out his radius of and pulled downward with a string. vision. And he himself was caught But on the side door of this house like a rat in a trap, with no means there is no lock and key; nor is of escape. A hafrowin' situation there a bow in the bolt-handle.
Now, the resourceful Skeel, witile a moment, and pacin nervously about, looking for "y know, Markham, I imagine gestion, probably espied the tweez that the worst moment in theers on the lady's dressing-table whole of Skeel's checkered career
no lady nowadays is without these came when that mysterious wrecker little eyebrow-pluckers, don't y tried to open the closet door behind know--and immediately his which he was crouching.
blem was solved.
Vasco smoked
When Vanes finished speaking, there was several minutes silence. Markham sat deep in his chair glar ing into space. Heath, however,my ward!" was watching Vance with a kind of grudgin admiration. The then shifted his position slightly. something that might offer a sug- corner-slono in the foundation of his case against Jessup had been knocked out, and the structure he had built was tottering, precar iously. Markham realized this, and the fact played havoc with his hopes.
"Fancy There he was cornered, and not two inches from him stood,
pro-
"I wish your inspirations were
"It remained only to test the de- more helpful," he grumbled, turn-apparently, a homicidal maniac vice. Before departing, however, ing his gaze upon Vance. This trying to get to him, rattling that he chiselled open the jewel case latest revelation of yours puls us thin inrricade of white pine.... which the other chap had merely back almost to where we started Can you picture the blighter's re-inted, and found the solitaire dia- lief when the murderer finally re-mond ring that he later attempted from."
"Oh, don't be pessimistic. Let leased the knob and turned away? to pawn. us face the future with a bright It's a wonder he didn't collapse eye..
Want to hear my theory? from the reaction. But he didn't. it's fairly hulging with possibili-He listened and watched in a sort ties."
of hypnotic panic, until he heard Ho arranged himself comfortably the invader leave the apartment. In his chair. "Skeel needed money Then, weuk-kneed and in a cold -no doubt hle slik shirts were run sweat, he came forth and surveyed ning low-and after his unauceuss the battlefield." ful attempt to extort it from the lady week before her demise, he came here lust Monday night,
"Ho had learned she would be out, and ho,intended to wait for her; for she haul probably refused | to receive him in the custom'ry no- cial way. He knew the side door was bolted at night, and, as l didn't want to be seen entering the apartment, he devised the little scheme of thholding the door for himself under cover of a futile call at half past rine.
Vanen glanced about him, "Not a pretty sight-en, what? And there on the davenport re- clined the Indy's strangled body. That corpse was Skeel'a dominant horror.
git
"1e staggered to the table to look at it, and stendied himself with his right hand-that's how you your finger-prints, Sergeant. Then the realization of his own position suddenly smote him. Here he was alone with a murdered person. He "The unbolting accomplished, he was known to have been intimate returned via the alleyway, and let with the lady; and he was a bur- himself into the apartment at some glar with a record. Who would time before eleven. When the lady believe that he was returned with an escort, he quickly And though he had probably re- man who had hid in the clothes closet, and recognized the mained there until the escort had negotiated the business, he was in departed. Then he came forth, and no position to tell his story.
"Everything was against him-
innocent?
the lady, startled by his gulden his sneaking in, his presence in the pearance, screamed.
"But, on recognizing him, she house at half-past nine, his rela- told Spotswoude, who was now tions with the girl, his profession, hammering at the door, that it was his reputation. He hadn't all a mistake. So Spotswoode ranchance in the world.... I say, along and played poker. A financial Markham, would you have credited discussion between Skeel and the his tale 7
retorted "Never mind that," lady-probably a highly acrimoni-
Markham. "Go on with your ous tensued. In the midst of
He and Heath had been it the telephone rang, and Skeel theory." snatched off the receiver and said listening with rapt interest. the Canary was out.
"My theory from this point on," "The tiff was resumed; but pre-resumed Vance, is what you might sently another suitor appeared on term self-developing. It proceeds tho aceno. Whether ho rang the on its own inertia, so to speak- bell or let himself in with a key Skeel was confronted by the urgent I can't say-probably the latter, for problem of getting away and cover- the phone operator was unaware of ing up his tracks. His mind in his visit. Skeet hid himself athis energency became koen and second time in the closet, and highly astive: his life was forfelt luckily took the precaution of if he didn't succeed. He began to locking himself in. Also, he quite think furiously. naturally put his eyo to the koy-!
"He could have left by the alde
hole to see who the second intruder door at once without being seen; but then, the door would have been WBB."
found unbolted. And this fact, taken in connexion with his car- or visit that night, would have suggested his manner of unbolting
Vanco pointed to the closet door. "The keyhole, you will observe, is on & line with the davenport; and as Skeel peered out into the
room he saw a sight that froze his the door... No, that method of. blood. The now arrival-in the escape wouldn't do-decidedly it midet, perhaps, of some endearing wouldn't do.
"He knew he was likely, in any sentence seized the lady by the throat and preceeded to throttle event, to be suspected of the mur- her. Imagine
der, in view of his shady associa- tions, my dear Markham. Theretion with the lady and his generul character. Motive, place, oppor-
Skeel's
emo-
ho was, crouching in a dark closet,tunity, time, means, conduet, and and a fow feet from him stood a his own record-all were against murderer in the net of strangling him. Either he must cover up his a lady!
"Then he erased, as he thought, all his finger-prints, forgetting to wipe off the inside door-knob of the closet, and overlooking the hand- mark on the table. After that, he let himself out quietly, and rebolted the side door the same as I did, stuffing the tweezers in his waist- coat pocket and forgelting them."
To be Continued.)
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