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Murder

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until 2:30-the time the bridge game was scheduled to begin. But Miles cama on ont, having pro- viously stolen the sun and silencer and having studied the house=”.

"How did he get in?" Sanderson wanted to know.

At Bridgeld he got int

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XLVIII

"BENDER BACKSTAIDE"

"Then he had the rest of the night to remove the gun!"

"Yes. Sometime during the night after Flora was asleep with a seda tive, he removed the gun and the vies, but he could not remove the Hla holes the screws had made. "Judge Marshall had lont him a next concern was to make the nur- key in February, when Milnader be complete with Captain wanted to show the house to an Strawn's theory of a gunman who engaged young man in his offices, had tralled his quarry to the Milea home and shot him through the would ring and the gun would be and Mlles nover returned it.... fred simultaneously. But if you Well, When Miles arrived he found window. The window was already **That would be impossible; will examine the jewel hole," he Ralph Hammond here, and had to open, but the aercen must be rated, to be on the nickel cnleben by Miles! Your wife is already dead!" Then, silencing the hoarse onths of suggested, as he removed the gun, leave, walling at a safe distance, and Sprague's fingerprints had of the "you will see that Miles had to until the coast was clear about one which the curtain screen la raised

But even so he had mora o'clock,

carefully or lowered. Of course Sprague had

not touched the screen women, came slow, terrible words: enlarge It considerably. using it

reamer, which I found in the tool than an hour to do his "Tracey Arthur Miles, I arrest you chest in the basement, along with planned foli."

"Hut you were wrong about the for the murder of your wife, known all the apparatus which Sprague ng Juantin Leigh Selim, and for the murder of Dexter Sprague. And it had bought for installing Nita's secret shelf!" Strawn gloated.

alarm bell. I could ave no remon "No. It was the absence of is my duty to warn you that any for Sprague's having needed a fingerprints there that kept me on thing you say may be used avainstreamer, however, and this morning the right track. Miles had 'search- I was lucky enough to get proof thated the shelf for the marriage certi-

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Tracey Miles lifted his ashen faceMiles himself had purchased it at fiente which he could not know Nita moved the curtain screen' and car- and stared at the detective blanklyn hardware store on Tuesday" an though he had gono deaf and blind. "AB-over-ign't it?

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'Do you mean to say he lugged the corpm to the window and lifted it up so that he could press the stiff fingers upon the nickel catches?"

"That "No," Dundee answered. was not necessary. He simply re. ried it to where Sprague's right! had already burned."

hand lay, pair upward, on the door. "How was Sprague killed?" San- and pressed the thumb and fore- "How did he connect the lamp derson interrupted Impatiently.

finger against the nickel catches. have drink?" he managed to card with the dining room bell?" Dundee reached into the too! But the fingerprints thus made articulate at last.

reversed-

discovered Strawn puzzled. "These modern chest and brought out "Poor devil! He needs it," the houses don't have exposed wit- deep drawer. First I must tell when I examined the prints in Car- too noft-hearted young detective

|ins"

you that Miles got the gun out of raway's once to-day. Miles could told himself, as Tracuy Miles pour-

"You forget Sprague's' wiring for the lamp Saturday night, sneaking not turn the stift hand over with- od a drink from the almost empty the alarm bell from here to Lydia's in while I was talking with Lydia in out brulaing the dead flesh; conse- whisky decanter and ralaed the

the basement. A little later bequently the print of the forefinger BISQUIT room!" little gloan to his lips.

He threw back the rug. Near came back noisily enough to offer was on the catch where the thumb Nita's bed there was a hole in the Lydin a job as nurse in his home. print would normally have been." hoor, and out of it came a sheet Without question he assured him- "Well" Sanderson drew a deep length of electric wire, ending in self that she knew nothing, or she breath. "He was a cleverer man two small metal plates. Bil at-would have gone the way of Nita than any of us suspected, and it fa It was three-quarters of an hour ached also to the wire was the and Sprague.

Now as to a ply that Nita did not fear him as later. District Attorney Sander-

cord from the bronze lamp.

Sprague. Despite my warnings ale feared Sprague's vongeanco son, Captain Strawn and Dundee

The plug of the lamp cord is Sprague attempted to carry on the when she made her will.” were alone in the house where Nita

nearly out of the baseboard outlet blackmail scheme.

Perhaps Miles “Selim" had been murdered and behind the bookeuse. Just as Milea put him off for a day or two, but where her husband had confessed left it, so that there is no contact on Wednesday afternoon he made

you doing his crimes by committing suicide with electricity here. And the rug an appointment with Sprague, tell. back here?" Dunder exclaimed in The morgue ambulance had come hid the joining of the two wires.ing him that, if he would come to surprise when, upon returning to and gone.

An unexplained wrapping of adhe. his home that evening, and manage the living room, the "I should

uld have known," Dundee alve tape both on the lamp cord and to leave the bridge game while he found Penny Crain,

"Dad wants a private word with THE CENTRAL TRADING Co. admitted ruefully, as the three men on the wire of Nita's alarm bell was dummy, he would find the entered Nita's bedroom, "that suhere gave me the clue. In installing money in a drawer of the cabinet you." Penny explained, her Down ingeniouu " criminal ass Tracey the alarm beil, Sprague copied the that stond in the trophy room be-eyes glowing with happiness. "He's And you Miles would not have failed to pro-rangement under the dising in tween the two windows.... This on the front

porch. vide against the possibility of dis

ought to see Mother! She looks And Miles simply | drawer." ble, of course. covery. He must have snatched an had to drop a bit, fastened to the "But how? Sanderson frown-ike a 20-year-old bride!" opportunity to apili cyanide of pougar Sprague had bought, downed.

When Dundee joined him on the porch, Roger Crain's handsome face tassium into the decanter when my the four inches which separate the eyes were off him for a moment-dining room floor from the base

Aushed painfully, but there and upon Lois Duniap."

"Very simple! When Sprague happiness in his brown eyes, too. ment, and bore a hole through the

"Serena Hart asked me to thank "I'm glad he did," Sanderson said celling. It was that hole i could not pulled open this drawer, which was curtiv. "But it was ghastly that understand, and which Ralph Ham- just at the height of his stomach, you for giving her Penny's mex- poor Loia had to know that it was mond assured me was not

I'm Bure there he received a bullet in his heart.

suge to pass on to me. she, in all innocence, who fired the

Miles joined n See these four little holea?... A you've gusaed a lot, but what you Saturday morning. Kun."

"It was," Dundee sighed, "But I plece of electric wire to the dining vise was screwed into the bottom of probably don't know is that Serena room bell wires, and pushed them the drawer so that it gripped the used the securities I had sent to helleved that the only way I could down through the hole he had bored gun with its silencer at an upward her for anfo keeping, to play the to into the basement ceiling. Now angle. A piece of string was tied market with. She wouldn't let me

down to the you'll come

base to the trigger and fastened some-touch a penny of the money until how to the underside of the drawer, she had turned it into enough to ment" "Captain Strawn and I are still

When the three stood staring up-so that when Sprague pulled the clear up all my debts in Hamilton. In the dark as to exactly how Milenard at the basement ceiling, Dua-drawer open the string was drawn Thon," and he sighed slightly. Not that managed his wife's murder," San-

taut and the trigger pulled, Prac-she sent me home..... tee continued:. derson reminded him. "This morn- "See this long wire running tically the same mechanism by I'm sorry. I'm going to try to make

There was room for nothing in his ing you chose to tell us nothing along the ceiling from the hole bewhich he tried to murder me.. Margaret and Penny happy-" more than that a Hamilton man neath the dining room beil? The The kick of the gun jerked the "Through ?" Fenny called from mind but an Ingenious scheme of had married Nita Leigh in Now York In January, 1918, and that tacks he used to secure it were also drawer shut. All Miles had to do the doorway, and her red lips were his own--a plan to get her alone eight years ago, when he saw her returned to the tool chest, but he when he was pretending to look for so adorably rounded over the word so that he could kiss that soft, pro-Pató-Up Capital

could not get rid of either the Sprague was to turn off the trophy that Bonnie Dundee forgot Tracey vocative mouth.... picture in The Evening Sun, along augur hole or the tiny holes show room light, by a button in the hall." Miles and his Ingenious schemes. with the story that 'Anita Lee had ing the course of the, wire. Let's committed suicide, he had felt free follow it!" to marry again.... You said then

He led them across the basement you knew who the man was but you to a door leading into a dank, in- would not even tell us how you finished portion of the cellar. The know--"

wire passed under the top frame of "Because I had very little actual the door, and, with a flashlight in proof then." Dundee answered. “As to who he was, the salient clue had his land. Dundee showed how it continued along a rafter until it

make Mico to confess was frighten him into thinking Flora would be killed."

been staring me in the face the reached the place where it was whole time, but it was not until I joined, by adhesive tape, to the was fooling with a set of unagrams last night, idling spelling out the wire bedroom floor.

Miles simply cut the wire here

names of all the men who might where

have married her and then dered her, that I saw it--"

it enters another hole mur through Lydia's bedroom wall, and attached the new wire," Dunice "The connexion be- explained.

"Saw what?" Strawa demanded tween the dining room bell and the irritably.

electro-magent

1

in the lamp up- "That Selim is simply Miles stairs was then complete. spelled backward," Dundee explain-Sprague had bought yards too much ed. "Possibly because he consider of the wire-fortunately, 80 for us ed it the sophistleated thing to do. Miles' scheme was concerned." Miles used an assumed name at the party at which he met Nita Leigh.

"But what a chanco Miles took

Even the first name, Mat, by which on the bullet's not hitting her in

she knew him, was only his initiale reversed,

commented.

Sanderson fatul spot!" mented in an awed voice.

com-

"No. He would only fire the gun "Simple--but clever," Sanderson ir Nita was seated before her dressing table. As an experienced "Just as all of Miles schemes marksman he could calculate the were after Nitu, egged on

path of the bullet to a nicety. Of Sprague, turned up in Hamilton to course the machine had to be used demand back alimony' as the price that very day. As you know, Nita of her silence.. But let me herself gave him his chance. Miles, show you how he killed his wife." Alanding at the sideboard, listened He 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 sure she that it would be almost expetly na It was when Miles finished is work was sitting down to the task. Nita Baw nothing to alarm her, but the

just before 2:50 last Saturday--and 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 dismantle it.. Trust him to find out one bulb Miles had left in it. Of window frame, shattering the that the guard was removed from course he moved the lamp, a foot the house Thursday 1"

or so, in the resulting excitement.

As he spoke, he was unscrewing And if she had been wounded only the big, jewel-etudded bowl of the living to tell not only how the shot bronze lamp. Wedged, at a down-was fired but who had motive to ward-slanting angle, Inside the bowl, which was 12 inches in dinm kill her, Miles would have committed

suicide then."

eter, was Judge Marshall's anyb nosed automatic and silencer, the

end of the silencer projecting to mix the cocktails or had not gone "What if Nita had not asked him slightly from a hole whose jewel to powder her face?" Strawn asked. was missing.

"There's a blank cartridge in the dine and danco at the Country "The whole party was. going to gun now, of course, but Miles, in

Club. Miles would have escorted his pante, took my words literally: her home, as he had done on Mon- day night, and would then have

Seo the electro-magnet

strapped to the gun butt? He got it made his opportunity. But I must frutn the bell Sprague had Installed from here to Lydia's bedroom. The tell you that on Saturday morning, magnet was connected, with the according to the telephone operator

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ofico, Nita rang him to lamp sockets, as you see it now, ay she must see him as soon as possible, her unexpresed intention

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and the long cord of the lamp was being to tell him that she was not connected with the wire of the bell going to bother him again. He told In the dining room-80 connected her he would be right out, but Nita that when anyone stopped on the said she and Lydin were going into two little metal plates under the Hamilton and would not be back dining room rug, the kitchen bell

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