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I -- A .,,." E---- rr calb PE ee "The announcement at breakfast went well. After the golfing-party had gone off, we had the morning in which to complete our arrangements. What 1 was ehiefly concerned about per. "In this way I would have two mere witnesses of Robert's arrival-- first the lodge-keeper, and secondly one of the gardeners whom I would we working on the front lawn. "He changed Into Robert's clothes in the office bedroom, This was the they lay open to the world "from which we had so carefully hidden them, and he was indeed the wastrel which he was pretending to be. * 'Wonderful,' I said to myself 'Nobody could possibly guess.' "1 peered into the hall. It empty. We hurried across to the library; he got into the passage and made off. I went back to the bed- room, collected all his discarded clothes, did them up in a bundle and returned with them to the passage. Then' I ast down in the ball and waited, "You heard the evidence of Stevens, the maid. As soon as she was on her way to the Temple in search of Mark, I stepped Into the office. My hand was in my side pocket, and in my hand was the re- volver, "He begun at once in his character of Robert--some rigmarole about working his passage over from Aus- tralia; a little private performance for my. edification. Then In his natural voice, gloating over his well planned retaliation on Miss Norris, he burst gut, 'It's my turn now You wait.' It was this which Elsie heard She had no business to be there and she might have ruined everything, but as it turned out it was the lucki- est thing which could have hap: pened. For it was the one piece of evidence which I wanted; evidence, other than my own, that Mark and Robert were in the room together, "1 said nothing. I was not going to take the risk of being heard to speak in that room. I just smiled at the poor little fool, and took out my revolver, and shot him. Then I went back into the library and Faitet-ust 4s I sald in my evi- ce. "Can you imagine, Mr. Gilling- bam, the shock which your sudden ce gave me? Can you e the feelings of a 'murderer' who bas (as he thinks) planned for every posaibility, pnd is then con- fronted suddenly" with an utterly new problem? What nee would your coming make? I didn't know, Perhaps none; perhaps all. And 1 had forgotten to open the wip- . "] don't know whether you will think my plan for killing Mark a one Perhaps not. But if I NS hh wt nl I think I deserve it for the way I pulled myself together in the face of the unexpected catastrophc of your arrival. Yes, I got a window open, Mr. Gillingbam, under your very nose; the right window too, you keys--yes, that was clever of you, but I think I was cleverer. *T deceived you over the keys, Mr. Gillingham, as I learnt when I took the Hlberty of listening to a con- versation on the bowling-green be- tween you and your friend Beverley. Where was I7 Ah, you must have a look for that secret passage, Mr. Gi) Ungham. . "But what em I saying? Did I deceive you at all? You have found out the secret--that Robert was Mark--and that is all that matters. How have you found out? I shall never know now, Where did 1 go wrong? Perhaps you have been de ceiving me all the time. Perbaps you knew about the keys, about the window, even about the secret pas- sage, You are a clever man, Mr. Gillingham, "I had Mark's clothes on my "I TOOK OUT MY REVOLVER AND SHOT HIM." bands. I might have left them in the passage, but the secret of the passage was now out. Miss Norris knew it. That was the weak point of my plan, perhaps, that Miss Nor ris Bad to know it. So I hi} them In the pond, the inspector having oblig- ingly dragged it for me first A couple of keys joined them, but I kept the revolver. Fortunate, wasn't it, Mr. Gillingham? "Goodby, Mr. Gillingham. I'm sorry that your stay with us was me end my own way. I expect you did sympathize a little, you know. 'We might have been friends in an- other world--you and I, and I and she, Tell her what you like. Every: thing or nothing. You will know what is best. Goodby, Mr. Gilling. ham. "MATTHEW CAYLEY. "I am lonely tonight without Mark. That's funny, isn't it?" CHAPTER XXI 664 YOOD Lord!" sald Bill, as he put down the letter. "What did you write to him? Was that last night? After I'd gone into Stanton? "Yen." "What did you say? That you'd discovered that Mark was Robert?" "Yes. At least | said that this morning I should probably telegraph to. Mr. Cartwright of | Wimpole Street, and ask him to identity the body." Bill nodded thoughtfully and went back again to the letter. "1 see. And you told Cayley that "Well, Jet's see If | can go through my own mind dgaln, and tell you how 1 guessed it, First of all, the cloth "Yes?" "To Cayley the clothes seemed an enormously important clue. I felt certain that, in that case, the ab- sence of the collar was unintentional. In collecting the clothes he bad overlooked the collar, Why?" "It was the one in the lnen- basket?" "Yes. It seemed probable Why had Cayley put it there? The ob vious answer was that be hadn't. 'Mark bad put ft there." "Go on," sald Bill eagertn "Well, why hed Mark changed down there instead of in his bed- room? The only answer was that the fact of his changing had to be kept secret. When did he change? The only possible time was between lunch (when he would be seen by the servants) and the moment of Robert's arrival. And w! did Cay- ley collect the clothes a bundle? Again, the only answer was 'Before Robert's arrival' So another x was wanted----to fit those three condi tions." "And the answer was that a mur der was intended, even before Robert arrived?" "Yea, Well now, it wasn't possible a murder could be intended without any more preparation than the changing into a different suit in Which to escape. The thing was too childish. Also, if Robert was to be murdered, why go out of the way to announce his existence to you all? I began to feel now that Robert was an incident only; that the plot was a plot of Cayley"s agdinst Mark-- either to get him to kill his brother, or to get his brother to kill him-- and that for some inexplicable rea- son Mark seemed to be lending him- self to the plot." He was silent for a little, and then sald, almost to himself, "I had seen the empty brandy bottles in that cupboard." "You never sald anything about them," complained Bill "I only saw them afterward. I was looking for the collar, you re- member. They came back to me afterward; I knew how Cayley would feel about it. 4 4 4 Poor devil" "Geo on," said BIL "Well, then, we bad the inquest, and of course I noticed the curious fact that Robert had asked his way at the second lodge and not at the first. So I- talked to Amos and Par sons. That made it more curious. Amos told me that Robert had gone out of bis way to speak to him, "Parsons told me that his wife was out in their little garden at the first lodge all the afternoon, and was certain that Robert had never come past it. He also told me that Cay- ley had put him on to a jab on the front lawn that afternoon. So I had another guess. Robert had used ® secret passage~--the passage hich comes out into the park be tween the first and second lodges. Robert, then, bad been in the house; it was e put-up job between Robert and Cayley. But how could be there ' without Mark knowing? Obviously, Mark knew too. What did 1t all mean?" : "When was this?" interrupted Bill. "Just after the inquest--after you'd seen Amos and Parsons, of course?" "Yes, I got up and left them, and came to look for you. I'd got back to the clothes then. Why did Mark change his clothes 80 secretly? Dis guise? "But then what about his face? That was. much more im- portant than clothes. His face, his beard---he'd have to shave off his beard--and then---ob, idiot! 1 saw' you looking at that poster. Mark acting, Mark made-up, Mark * sald Bill thoughtfully. "Yes +s + But wait 4 moment What about the Plough and Horses'? Antony looked comically at him. "You'll never forgive me, Bill," he RUNRIIT DIE [Hm TSE TP Mark's | said. "Yes. And then of course it was all up for him. Once we knew that}. Robert was Mark we knew every- thing." "How did you know?" Antony got up from the breakfast were kind enough to say. And the table and began to fill his pipe. 'What do you mean?" Antony sighed. "It was a fake, Watson. I wanted you out of the way. I wanted to be alone. So0--" he smiled and added, "Well, 1 knew you wanted a drink." THE END, | _ COORITWITH- hf =p recom © Ceialled for Pity 1 "grr Re St. Paul's Anglican Thanks- giving Dinner. 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