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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1929)
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1929 PAGE SIX THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON ' By Harold Cray LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE - A Day Of Plenty JSy R.A. J. WALXJNG- n TuC kvnM So muc CDMA IM AH UfC- W TOO - THt'S M.MJhNS Chapter 9 ENTER THE PBOFE8SOE The whispered word almost echoed In Uu stillness of the 11 brary: "It's a nun 1 don't know B ne deadl" Wayne snapped an order to the constable: "0o and see what It Is, Sander son, and report back here alone. Nobody else is to enter this room." Wayne faced us across a high mountain of suspicion. If this was a trick, he seemed to say, the trick sters should discover that Wayne was not a man to be played with. But It was no trick. The constable came back within a minute, and said something to Wayne. The in spector answered: "Very well. I'll go. Keep guard. Sanderson. These gentlemen are to -stay as they are Or. Eastley, will you please come with me?" The minutes went on two, four - five There was scuffle of footsteps outside; Wayne's voice called to the policeman to open. Wayne came in first, walking backwards. Be car ried the shoulders of a heavy man. Eastley appeared holding him un der the knees. They lifted their bur den to the table and stretched him out. ' "There aren't two corpses on our hands," said Wayne, as though to relieve us. 'Tills man s not dead. - He's got a bit of concussion. He was found in a small passage off the corridor outside, leading to a wine cellar. How he got there the servants don't know. Your butler stumbled over him. And nobody seems to have seen him before. Do you know him?" No," said Mr. Fotherbury, "I've never seen him." "And you, gentlemen?" But nobody knew the man on the table except me, and I remem bered that Laxton had asked me to keep his visit on Sunday night secret. I forgot that as I had met him a week before at the British Museum my denial must be eon founded whenever his Identity came out. But I looked calmly down on Lax ton's features and shook my head with the rest Eastley worked over them an with feverish haste, the Inspector stand ' ing by fidgeting with a button of his coat. Presently he spoke to the constable. "Sanderson, go and fetch the but ler." All of us save Eastley were look ing at the door when the butler came In a middle-aged man In black, extremely scared. "You're the butler?" said Wayne. "Tell me what happened. Do you know this man?" But the butler " did not know him,' "Where did you see him this af ternoon?" "Lying In the passage leading to uie wine cellar, it's rather dark just there. I fell over him." "Well? Oo on." "I picked myself up and went and switched on the light. Then I saw him. Thought he was dead. Ran out and called the footmen." "And then you called me, I see. Now, Mr." "Carter," said Mr. Fotherbury. "Now, Mr. Carter, how did he get Into the house? Did the footman see him come In?" ' "Penis says 'No. Nobody came Into the house after you and the nonstable." The butler had nothing else to tell. Wayne guided him out of the room. The footman could tell the in spector very little more than Car ter. But tbe little was Important. He had been on duty In the hall M the afternoon. He admitted the Inspector and the constable. After them, nobody. The last Delore tnem was Mr. Pell. Tbe footman had not shown Pell to tbe library, as he knew the way very weD. The others were familiar with the room and the minute or two necessary to take me to the li brary and to return was the only time the hall had been left unat tended since a quarter to three. On his way back to the hall he had seen no one. Although one could certainly en ter the house through the kitchen or the oonversatary at the other end from the library, no one could reach tbe corridor without passing through the hall. So that, It seem ed proven, m the two minutes I was being escorted to the library, two Dersons entered the house. One was Laxton, the other the per son responsible for Laxton's pres ent condition. Wayne had a plateful a murder and seven men any one of whom, in his suspicion, might have done it. And now an unconscious, unknown man, apparently the victim of an other outrage. Wayne dismissed the footman and turned to Eastley. "What do you make of him?" "Nothing serious, I think. He'" taken a hard upper-cut fair on the chin. A basin of water and a tea spoonful of brandy and that that." "Then for heaven's sake get him out of this. Here, Sanderson help the doctor to carry him away." Laxton was hauled off the table and carried out of the room. Wayne closed the door, and we were back again In the old posture of suspicion and defense, with the form of Fen on the floor before us, and the old ODoreasion closing down. Quite clearly, Wayne did not know what to do. I became aware that Sotnerfleld had pulled a piece of writing paper out of a stand on tbe table and scribbled a few words on It before pushing it to Royle, who glanced at It and nodded. Wayne was also aware of it. "I'll see that please!" he rapped out in a voice mat maae us au Jump. "Surely," said Somerfield quietly. passing the paper to me. I handed it on. Wayne read it. "What's the little game?" he ask ed. "You've written. 'He's forgotten the keyhole." What dyou mean by uiatr Just that. You've forgotten the keyhole," said Somerfield, "and no body else has thought of it. I'm Just guessing that Pell's message may have arrived from outside that Roger Pell was shot through the xeynoier (To be continued) REUNION AT GIGGERS Hopmere A reunion dinner was given at Joe Diggers Sunday. Those present ' were Mr. and Mrs Marry names and children. 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