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WHEN Dr. Henry saw the jewel he on the verge of dying, it's your fault. knew that this was the moment You're going to die with me.' I leap- he had been waiting for. He opened ed forward just as he fired, knocked his bag under pretext of looking for the gun aside and struck him as hard some medicine, The automatic was as I could on the jaw. He fell back- lying in the secret compartment. His wards and down. He struck his head fingers closed over the handle and he on the corner of the desk in his down- ward plunge. His heart couldn't stand straightened up.

such a blow. He died instantly."

Beaumont's eyes

Inspector As Dr.

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Surprisingly, Bige Littlefield seemed to have anticipated the act. Henry fired, Bige dropped sidewise in away from the bullet hole in the wall, his chair behind the desk. Then, to sought out the doctor. "Littlefield was ALW a a collector of rare jewels, wasn't he?" Dr. Henry's astonishment, he

gun in Bige's hand.

Dr. Henry lifted his brows in well

Dr. Henry's shot had missed. With feigned surprise.

a roar of rage he leaped forward, strik- "Yes. Now that you speak of it, 1 ing aside Bige's gun even as it was believe he was." discharged. With his left hand he clutched the old man's shirt front. With his right he brought the butt of his automatic down with crushing force on Bige's head.

"I believo so too.”

Beaumont strode across to the desk. "The wound on the dead man's head is a bruise, not a cut as would be inflicted by the corner of a desk. Moreover, it is squarely on top of his head, not on the side. How about that, Doctor?"

The old man slumped forward in his chair without a word. Breathing hard, Dr. Henry came around the desk and placed his hand over Bige's heart. As he expected, it had stopped. No man he felt no alarm. with Bige Littlefield's heart affliction it? Everything happened so suddenly."

Dr. Henry spread his hands! As yet "Should I explain

By James Freeman

could have withstood that crushing blow.

"I see. Also, when a man is punch- ed in the jaw, he falls backwards, not forward, as Littlefield seems to have done."

"Indeed ?"

"Also, I'll bet dollars to doughnuts you've a gun on you with one bullet dia- charged!"

Dr. Henry now worked methodically; First he picked up the jewel, gloated over it momentarily, then stowed it in the secret compartment of his bag along with his automatic. Then he stood for a moment considering. There was a bullet hole in the wall behind him. This was good. It would con- "Good. Lev, never mind the good firm his story that Bige had shot at doctor's pockets, examine. his medicine him. But there was another bullet bag. Step lively." hole in the wall behind Bige.

"Come, come, Inspector. I defy you to find such a weapon."

The detective bent over the doctor's Dr. Henry's eyes darted around the bag." Beaumont watched the physic- room, lighted upon a picture on the fan's face, but not until Lev Simons' eft-hand wall. Smiling thinly, he had accidentally sprung the catch to cook down the picture and hung it on the secret compartment, revealing the he wall behind Bige's desk, covering automatic, did Henry appear concern. the bullet hole. Then he stood still a ed. 'Then he found himself staring moment, eyes darting about, mentally down the barrel of another automatic, going over the story he had decided held in Beaumont's hand. upon. Things had worked out fine..

"You see, Doctor," the inspector ex- Now he wouldn't have to flee, as he plained easily, "you are probably not first planned.

Inspector Stove Beaumont stood near a good a criminal as' you are a physi- cian. When you removed that picturo the door of Bige Littlefield's study from the wall you forgot that pictures Near him was Lev Simons, plain-

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clothes detective. Dr. Henry sat in an that hang on walls for long prevent armchair near the desk behind which the bleaching of the wallpaper, and Bige aprawled in his slumped forward, therefore leave the outline of where they have hung. It was purely hazard lifeless position.

"Now, Doctor, begin right at the be. on my part that you had removed the ginning and make it as brief as pogai picture to cover a second bullet hole, But then, after all, why else would ble." As the inspector spoke his eyes swopt the room. They lingered on one you want to shift the position of a ple- object, moved to another, then another, ture, Doctor?" It was as if he were photographing every detail with his mind.

His

· Dr. Henry wiped his glasses. face wore a haggard, grief-stricken ax- pression. "I dropped in to pay my weekly visit. Bigo, had been suffering from heart attacks, you know. Also, he had been failing mentally. This I' did not realise until this evening."

"Well, go on. Go on." The inspec tor's glance had found the bullet hole in the wall opposite the desk and bo coma riveted upon it.

continued Dr. Henry. To-night," "Bire asked me point-blank if thought he had much longer to live, knew it would do no good to lie. told him if he were careful, ho "insght": live x months. He was like a mad. man. He selded a wons from his desk: drawer and lovelled it at my hoail Damn you, Henry, he snared, 'If I'm

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