Murder Af Bridge
by ANNE AUSTIN author of "THE BLACK PIGEON
THE AVENGANO BARDOT“ WALL MURDER BACKITALDI
CHAPTER XLVIII would ring and the gun would be fired simultaneously. But if you "Thnt would be impossible. Miles Your wife is already dead will examine the jewel hole," he "you will see that Miles had to Then, silencing the hoarse enths of suggested, as he removed the gun. the men and the screams
enlarge I considerably, using a women, came slow, terrible words: reamer, which I found in the tool Tracey Arthur Miles, I arrest you chest in the basement, akng with for the murder of your wife, known all the apparatus which Sprague as Juanita Leigh Selim, and for the had bought for installing Nita's murder of Dexter Sprague. And it alarm bell. I could ree no reten is my duty to warn you that ny for Sprague's having needed thing you any may be used arainstreamer, however, and this morning you!"
I was lucky enough to get proof that Tracey Miles lifted his ashen face Miles himself had purchased it at and stared at the detective blankly, in hardware store on Tuesday" as though he had gone teal and blind. All-over-isn't it? May have a drink 7" he managed to articulate at last.
"Poor dovil! He needs it," the too soft-hearted young detective
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until 2:30-the time the bridge game was scheduled to begin. But Milea came on out, having pre- viously stolen the gun and silencer and having studied the hous”
"How did he got in?" Sanderson wanted to know.
"Judge Marshall had lent hire a
"Then he had the rest of the night, to remove the gun!"
"Yes. Sometime during the nigh! after Flora was asleep with a neda- tive, he removed the gun and the vise, but he could not remove the Hir holes the screws had made..
was to make the nur next concern der jibe complete with Captain They in February, when Miles Strawn's theory of a gunman who wanted to show the house to and trailed his quarry to the Miles engaged young man in his offices, home and shot him through
thr and Miles never returned it. window. The window was afrendy Well, when Miles arrived he found
to be on the nickel entehen by Ralph Hummond here, and had to open, but the screen must be raised, unt the coast was to be lind more which the curtain screen is raised lease, waiting at a safe distance too, and Sprague's fingerprints had
But even so he had o'clock.
not touched the screen--" than an hour to do his carefully or lowered. Of course Sprague had planned job."
"But you were wrong about the secret shelf!" Strawn gloated,
of
'Do you mean to say he lugged the corpse to the window and lifted It no so that he could prona the stiff "No. It was the absenco
fingers upon the nickel catches?" fingerprints there that kept mo on
"No," Dundee answered. "That the right track. Miles had search-
moved the curtain screen and car- fed the shelf for the marriage certi. was not necessary. He simply re- Beate which he could not know Nita ried it to where Sprague's right hand lay, palm upward, on the finor, had already burned."
"How was Sprague killed?" San-and pressed the thumb and fore- finger against the nickel catches. derson interrupted impatiently.
tool But the Dundee renched into the
Angerprints thus made a narrow, were reversed-an I discovered modern chest and brought out,
wir-deep drawer, "First I must tell when I examined the printa in Car- you that Miles got the gun out of raway's office to-day. Miles could with- the lamp Saturday night, aneuking not turn the stiff hand over in while I was talking with Lydia in out bruising the dead flesh; const the basement. A litdo Inter hequently the print of the forefinger! came back noisily enough to offer was on the catch where the thus BISQUIT DUBOUCHE Lydia
"How did he connect the lamp cord with the dining room bell?" Strawn puzzled, "These houses don't have exposed
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"Well —" ›Sanderson drew a deep Without question he assured him- self that She knew nothing, or she breath. He was a cleverer man would have gone the way of Nita than any of us suspected, and it in
Now as and Sprague.
a pity that Nita did not fear him as Sprague. Despite my warnings she feured Sprague'a vengeance Sprague attempted to carry on the rhen she made her will."
Perhaps Miles Blackmail scheme. put him off for a day or two, but on Wednesday afternoon he mask an appointment with Sprague, tell ing him that, if he would come to his home that evening, and manage
"Dad wants a private word with THE CENTRAL TRADING CO. to leave the bridge game while he found Penny Crain. was dummy, he would find the money in a drawer of the cabinet you." Penny explained, her brown that stood in the trophy room beyes glowing with happiness, "He's
.. And you! This on the front porch. tween the two windows,
fought to see Mother! She looks drawer."
? Sanderson frown-ke a 20-year-old bride!"
told himself, as Tracey Miles pour- You forget Sprague's wiring for ed a drink from the almost empty whisky decanter and raised the the alarm bell from here to Ladia's little glass to his lips.
He threw back the rug. Near "I have-nothing-te nav!" murderer gasped thickly, then fell Nita's bed there was a hole in thus Hoar, and out of it came a short heavily to the floor.
length of electric wire, ending in But at It was three-quarters of an hour two small metal plates.
tached also to the wire was the Inter. District Attorney Sander-
The plug of the lamp cord is son, Captain Strawn and Dundey card from the bronze lamp. were alone in the house where Nita "Sellm" had been
murdered and nearly out of the baseboard outlet whore her husband had confessed hinal the bookcase, just as Miles left it, so that there is no contact hls crimen by committing suicide. with electricity here. And the rug The morgue ambulance hind come hid the joining of the two wires. and gone...é.
"I should have known," Dundee An unexplained wrapping of adhe admitted ruefully, as the tre masive tape both on the lamp cord and bell n the wire of Nuk alarm entered Nita's bedrum, "that
bere gave me the clue. In installing ingenious a criminal as Tracey the alarm bell, Sprague copied the Mites would not have failed to prearrangement under the dining vide against the possibility of disble, of course, And Miles simply covery ile must have snatched and to drop a bit, fastened to the opportunity to spill cyanide of paugur Sprague had bought, downed. tassium into the devanter when my the four inches which separate the eyes were off him for a momentining room flour from the base- and upon Lois Dunlap."
ment, and bure it hole through the
Kun."
to
ta-
"But how
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men
When Dundee joined him on the' porch, Roger Crain's handsome face lashed painfully, but there was happiness in his brown eyes, too.
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"Very simple! When Sprague "I'm glad he did," Sanderson said colling. It was that hole 1 could not pulled open this drawer, which was curtly. "But it was ghastly, that understand, and which Ralph Harjust at the height of his stomach. pour Lols had to know that it was mond assured me was not there he received a bullet in his heart.. she, in all innocence, who fired, the Saturday morning. Miles Joined &See these four little holes?
""It was," Dunder sighed, "But piece of electric wire to the dining vise was screwed into the bottom of probably don't know is that Serena 'ha drawer so that it gripped the used the securities I had sent to bell wires, and pushed them rooni believed that the only way I could down through the hole he had boredxun with its silencer at an upward her for ante keeping, to play the make Miles to confess was
A piece of string was tied market with. She wouldn't let me down to the base to the trigger and fastened sonte touch a penny of the money until frighten him into thinking Flora into the basement ceiling. Now if angle.
you'll come
how to the underside of the drawer, she had turned. it into enough to would be killed."
"Captain Strawn and I are still ment
so that when Sprague pulled the clear up all my debts In Hamilton. When the three stood staring up- in the dark as to exactly how Miles ward at the basement ceiling, Dun-drawer open the string was drawn. Then," and he sighed slightly. Not that managed his wife's murder," Sandee continued:
taut and the trigger pulled. Praeshe sent me home.... running tically the same mechanism by I'm sorry. I'm going to try to make There was room for nothing in his derson reminded him. "This morn-
See this long wire
Margaret and Penny happy- ing you chose to tell us nothing
long the ceiling from the hole be- which he tried to murder me..
The The kick of the gun jerked the "Through?" Penny, called from mind but an ingenious scheme of more than that.n llamilton hud married Nita Leigh in Now neath the dining room bell?
All Miles had to do the doorway, and her red lipa were his own-a plan to get her alone York in January, 1918, and that tacks he used to secure it were also drawer shul. eight years ago, when he saw her returned to the tool chest, but he when he was pretending to look for 30 adorably rounded over the word so that he could kiss that soft, pro-
conid not get rid of either the Sprague was to turn off the trophy that Ronnie Dundee forgot Tracey ventive mouth....
The End. picture in The Evening Sun, alonk with the story that Anita Lee hadgur hole or the tiny holes ahowroom light, by a button in the hall." Miles and his Ingenious schemes. committed suicide, he had felt freeing the course of the wire. Let's
follow it!" to marry again. . . .
You said then He led them eross the basement you know who the man was but you to a door leading into a dank, un- would not even tell us how you finished portion of the cellar. know"
Because I had very little actual wire passed under the top frame of proof then," Dundee answered. As the door, and, with a flashlight in to who he was, the salient clue had his hand. Dundee showed how t face the continued along a rafter until it been staring me in the
reached the place where it was whole time, but it was not until I was fooling with a set of anagrams joined, by adhesive tape, to the
wire bedroom floor.
nan
The
last night, iling spelling out the Miles simply cut the wire here
names of all the men who might have married her and then mur- dered her, that I saw it~"
it enters another hole where through Lydia's bedroom wall, and attached the new wire," Dundee
The
connexion "Saw what?" Strawn demanded explained.
tween the dining room bell and the irritably.
in the lamp jelectro-magent "That Selim is simply Milestairs was then complete. spelled backward." Dundee explain- ed. "Possibly because he consider. Sprague had bought yards too much ed it the sophisticated thing to do, the wire-fortunately, so far as Miles used an assumed name at the Miles' scheme was concerned."
parly at which he met Nita Tigh.
Even the first name, 'Mat, by which she knew him, was only his initials reversed."
"Simple-but elever," Sanderson commented.
wp-
"But what a chance Miles took
the bullet's hitting her in fatal spott
Sanderson
mented in an awed voice,
Sha
com-
"Se. He would only five the gun was seated before her "Just as all of Miles schemes dressing table. As an experienced the marksman he could caleninte were after Nita. egged on Sprague, turned up in Tamilton to path of the bullet to a nicety. Or Purse the machine had to be used demand back alimony as the price that very day. As you know. Nita of her ailence.... But let me show you how he killed his wife:"erself Have him his chance. Miles, standing at the sideboard, listened
Ile strode to the big bronze lamp until the first faint notes of Juanita "It took me less than an hour to-day told him that Nita was powdering to reconstruct the death machine so her face, and he could be aure she that it would be almost exnetly it was when Miles finished his work was sitting down to the task. Nita Just before 2:30 last Saturday and saw nothing to alarm her, but the gun kicked, and the big lamp was
as it remained until he had an op rocked so that it banged against portunity to come back here and the window frame, shattering the dismantle it Trust him to find. out one bulb Miles had left in it. Or that the guard was removed from course he moved the lamp a foot or so, in the resulting excitement.
the house Thursday!"
As he spoke, he was unserowing And if she had been wounded only, the big, Jawel-studded bowl of theiving to tell not only how the shot bronze lamp. Wedged, at a down- ward-alanting angle,
inside the was fired but who had motive to bowl, which was 12 inches in diam kill her, Miles would have committed etor, was Judge Marshall's snub-suicide then."
noeef? automatic and silencer, the "What if Nita had not naked hint und of the allencer projecting' Blightly from a hole whose jewel to mix the cocktalia or had not gone to powder her face?" Strawn naked. was missing.
The whole party was going to There's a blank cartridge in the gun now, of course. but Miles, in dine and dance at the Country [Club. Miles would have escorted his panic, took my words literally: her home, as he had done on Mon-
See the electro-magnet strapped to the gun Butt? He got it day night, and would then have from the bell Sprague had installed rande his opportunity. But I must from here to Lydia's bedroom. The tell you that on Saturday morning. magnet was connected with the according to the telephone operator electric wire in one of the two in Miles office, Nita rang him to lamp sockets, as you see it now, ay she must see him as soon as and the long cord of the lamp was connected with the wire of the beli
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to tell him that she was not in the dining room-eo connected going to bother him again. He told
the her he would be right out, but Nita. that when anyone stopped on two little metal plates under the said she and Lydia were going inte dining room rug, the kitchen bell Hamilton and would not bo back
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