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-
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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. BUlie
and Mary Jane, Joe Gtarer and
wiie ana cnuaren, Francis and
tierinetn. victor Oliwer. wife and
children, Margaret and Earl, all of
roruana: wuiie aimer of Salem.
Miss June Oigger and brothers, and
uie nose ana Hostess.
HOP PICKING CALLS
Hoomere A. M rterman th
soutn Prairie hopman, begins pick-
i ins hooa on Aiio-iut IS Th Hnn-
mere merchant, Julian De Jardln.
Will haVVA hrrannh (-nre. U H
German hopyard and several Bop-
mere residents moved there Bunday
to am gone i or a month picking
MaMir Alrllrwi nt flan Vrn-
cisco has begun a three-dally air
plane passenger schedule to Los
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