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a ; toward the : « THE STORY THUS FAR block, hie appeared relieved, | let out gleeful whoop. Odell is found str. ic gh ay m iii ory good, Mr! Yanssoeyery The officer on guard do Srv Jroat" he Said, wedding Ys $1 Qach Ivarimons, sas though, And it don't take psychology "How goes it?" asked Heath, "Any | to After you rang the in the morning. pi A and Cleaver r Wheteahouts the ni a d on the girl, hed back to door at the sound of a scream, but d been reassured that everythi all right. Then Skeel is found led--just like. the "Canary" after he had promised to tell who mur- ered the girl. Heath arrests Jessup, belie ng im the only one able to ipulate the side door, But Vance res AON Skeel could have gone out +. Yhat way and rebolted the door on the CHAPTER XLIII, "Skeel !--This ain't the age of mir- Beles, Mr, Vance." Vance swung about and faced Markham. "Listen! I'm telling you Jessup's funocent." He spoks with a fervor that amazed me, "And I'm going to rove ic to you--some way. My theory pretty complete; it's deficient only one or two small points; and, I confess, I haven't yet been able to put @ name to the culprit. But it's the right theory, Markham, and it's dia- metrically opposed to the sergeant's. "Therefore, you've got to give me an opportunity to demonstrate it be- fore you proceed against Jessup. Now, I can't demonstrate it here; so you and Heath must come with me to the Odell house, It won't take over an hour. But if it took a week, you'd have to come just the same." He stepped nearer to the desk. "I know that it was Skeel, and not Jessup, who untolted that door before the crime, and rebolted it afterward." Markham was impressed. "You know this--you know it for a fact?" "Yes! And I know how he did it!" (Monday, 8ept."17, 11.30 a.m.) Half an hour later we entered the litle apartment house in Tlst street. Despite the plausibility of Heaths case against Jessup, Markham was not entirely satisfied with the arrest; . and Vance's attitude nad sown further seeds of doubt in his mind. The strongest point against Jessup was that relating to the bolting and unboiti..g of the side door; and when Vance had asserted that he was able to deronstrate how Skeel could have manipulated his own entrance and exit, Markham, though only partly ¢onvinced, had agreed to pany visitors?" "Only one--a toff 'who said he'd known the Canary and wanted to see the apartment. I told him to get an order from you or the district at- torney." "That was correct, officer," said Markham; then, turning to Vance: "Probably Spotswoode--poor devil." "Quite," murmured Vance, "So per- sistent! Rosemary and all that, ... Touchin"." Heath told the officer to go for a half hour's stroll; and we were left alone. . "And now, Sergeant," said Vance cheerfully, "I'm sure you know how to operate a switchboard. Be so kind as to act as Spively's understudy for a few minutes--there's a good fellow. But, first, please bolt the sids door-- turned toward Broadway, swung round apartment bell, you ran down this and the door, across the street, came in the alley, walked in the ride door, and quietly let yourself into the apartments be- hind our backs." , "Simple, wasn't it?" agreed Vance. "Sure." The sergeant was almost contemptuous, "But that don't get you nowhere. Anybody coulda figured it out if that had been the only prob- lem connected with Monday night's operation. "But it's the rebolting of that side door after Skeel had goné, that's been occupying my mind. Skeel might've --might've, mind you--got in the way you did, 4 West Spvemry-Fivsy Jmeset a \ and be sure you bolt it securely, just as it was on the fatal night." Heath grinned good-naturedly. "Sure thing," He put his forefinger to his lips mysteriously, and, crouch- ing, tiptoed down the hall like a bur- lesque detective in a farce. After a him. Heath, too, was interested, and, though supercilious, had expressed a willingness to go along. Spively, scintillant in his chocalate- toloved suit, was at (he switchboard. and stared at us apprehensively, But when Vance suggested pleasantly that ho take a ten-minute walk around the Alertaess scores everywhere, Werigley's creates pep and ene ergy and keeps you alert, A 5¢ package may save you from going toslecpat the wheel few ts he came tiptoeing back to the switchboard, his finger still on his lips. Then, glancing surrepti- tiously about him with globular eyes, he put his mouth to Vances's ear, "His-s-s-t!" he whispered, door's bolted, Gr-r-r...." He sat down at the switchboard. "When does the curtain go up, Mr, Vance?" "It's up, Sergeant." Vance fell in with Heath's jocular mood. "Behold! The hour is half past nine on Monday night. You are Spively--not nearly 30 elegant; and you forgot the mus- tache--but still Spively. And I am the bedjzened Skeel. For the sake of realismprplease try to imagine me in chamois gloves and a pleated silk skirt, "Mr. Markham and Mr. Van Dine here represent "the marny-headed mon- ster of the pit.'--And, by the bye, Ser geant, let me have the key to the Odell Apariient; Skeel had one, don't y' OW, Heath produced the key and handed i. over, still grinning. "A word of stage-direction," Vance continued. "When I have departed by the front door, you are to wait exactly three minutes, and then knock at the late Canary's apartment. He sauntered to the front door and, turning, walked back toward the switchboard. Markham and I stood behind Heath in the little alcove, fac- ing the front of the building, "Enter Mr, Skeel!" announced "Remember, it's half past Then, as he came abreast of the switchboard: "Dash it all! You forgot your lines, Sergeant, "The should have told me that Miss Odell was out. But It doesn't matter, . +. Mr. Skeel continues to the lady's door. +s» thus" He walked past us, and we heard ring the apartment bell. After pause, he knocked on the door. came back down the hall. you were right," he said, "But he couldn't have got out that way, because the door was bolted the next morning. And if there was some one hero to bolt the door after him, then that same person could've un- bolted the deor for him earlier, with- out his doing the ten-foot dash down the rear hall to unbolt the door him- self at half past nine. So I don't see that your interesting little drama helps Jessup out any." A "Oh, but the drama isn't over," Vance replied, "The curtain is about to go up on the next act." Heath lifted his eyes shirply. "Yeah?" His tone was one of al- most jeering incredulity, but his ex- pression was searchin gand dubious. "And you're going to show us how Skeel got out and bolted the door on the inside without Jessup's help?" "That is precisely what I intend to do, my Sergeant." 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