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A Lot To Learn

Old Inspector Casper. Strong watch- ed carefully as young Detective Colin The East glanced around the room. old man didn't want to appear critical or impatient. He remembered when he was a rookie. There wasn't much you could tell him then. He had been quick to take offence when someone pointed out: an error, easily hurt, when someone:: proved he was wrong.

Old Casper remembered, so he said nothing and watched while Young East stood in the centre of the floor and looked around, trying to give the impression of having the situation, sized up.

A left-handed person right hand.

her would hold the bottle in his or left hand. Inspector, I suspected this from the start. It looked too cut-and-dried, too obvious, That's one thing I've learned: When things

C. look obvious, start asking yourself questions. This girl was murdered!" Young East took a step toward the had Weaver man by the window. bowed his head again. If he heard what the detective said he gave no indication::

"Weaver," began Colin East, and had then stopped. The inspector laid a restraining hand on his arm. The girl lay on the floor, a still, The inspector was smiling in a kind- cold crumpled heap. A small bottle ly fashion, yet gently reproving.

said, was clutched in her right hand. The "When you look around," he

You word "poison" was written the "you must look all around.y

skull and should have learned that, too, Think bottle, surmounted by a

also how that boy will feel--if-you ac- crossbones:

cuse him of murdering his sweetheart without being sure). Come.

on

A note lay on a table near, by; a chair was half twisted away from the table as though the girl had turn ed it when she struggled and fell to the floor,

Beside the note was a pencil. The note read: "I have no one to blame for this but myself. I was a fool to ever come to New York."

Across the room near a window a

Resentment flashed into the eyes of He followed, Casper Detective East, Strong reluctantly to where the girl lay. The old inspector reached down removed the bottle from between the girl's stiffening, fingers. Then he pick- ed up her other hand, her left hand. It held a stopper. He removed the

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young man sat in a chair, his head in his hands, a picture of despair and misery.

Beside the old inspector near door stood a uniformed officer.

Young East read the note without touching it. He looked down at the girl, glanced over at the young man, then looked at the inspector.

stopper and fitted it to the bottle. It was a snug fit. He pressed hard.

"Now, look," he said. “Being right- the handed I hold the botte in my right hand and attempt to remove the stop- per with my left. It doesn't budge. So. I shift hands, holding, now the bottle in my left hand and pulling the stopper with my right. I do this be cause I am right-handed, hence there is more strength in my right band.”

"She wasn't the usual run,” he said. "That note is well written. Too bad she had to die."

said:

Dotective East stared. "How did you know that?" he asked, "

"Pride," the old inspector "They come here with the idea of “I guessed at it after looking_around winning fame. Pride, keeps them See the note on the table and the pen from going back home. It happens cil is on the left side. That indicates every day."

Young Bast glanced man hear the window.

he said sharply.

that the girl was left-handed. Now I toward the discover that the stopper for the bot

"Weavor!" tle is in the girl's left hand. It is a Glass stoppers, are glass stopper.

The man looked up. There were difficult to remove if pressed down streaks on his face, made by tears tightly, as one would be in a bottle of "You discovered the body?" East poisoning. Besides, that note is writ said.

ten in a feminine hand. It is unlikely that a man could imitate it." The inspector smiled:

"Yea, We were going out. I call ed for hor, an hour ago. There was no answer. I opened the door. She was-was" He broko off. East walked over to the inspector.

"I'd like to question the landlady," The inspector nodded and spoke to someone outside the door. A moment lator a small and tired looking wo man entered. Alle showed little emo- tion.

"I'd like to ask you one question;" East Bald. "Was Miss Vail loft handed?”

The landlady hesitated. Then hor face lighted. Yes. Yes, she was I remember seeing her at the telephone writing down notes. She always mov- ed the pad over and wrote with her, left hand "

"Ah!" declared Esat almost

"You may? RO, ultantly.

'madamo.”. The landlady went out. East looked at his superior triumphan wasn't-suicide. It was murder

“What makes you think

East pointed the form of the Girl Best The bottle is hord i

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Young East glanced at the bowed head of the man near the window. He shrugged and moved toward the door. It was hard to admit oven to himself that he still had a lot to learn.

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