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The Mazarof f Mystery -By- J. S. FLETCHER j7Jn.rrat.ona by IRWIN MYERS (, by Alfred A. Knopf, lac) W. N. U. Service CHAPTER XI Continued 17 "Tou're all right r I sal J eagerly. Safe?" "Safe yes!" she answered "All right, too. Hut everything else Is all wrong! MnythorneT where Is he?" "Outside." I said. "The police, tool Two of them Corkerdale and Man Hers." "We've got to see the police at once!" Interrupted Sheila. "Let them in, Mervyn. You'll hear everything that I my to them," she added, turn lng to Mr. Elphlnstone. "There mustn't be any delay, either I Open the door!" I thrust back the latch and threw the door open the three men outside came In, wonderlngly. The two po licemen, thus admitted, appeared to lose their tongues, but May t home, after a first keen glance at Sheila, smiled "I think you're none the worse for your adventures. Miss Merchlson," he said. "I hope Mrs. Elphlnstone Is not seriously the worse, either?" "My mother's had a sort of col lapse after she came In." replied Sheila. "The doctor says she will be all right after a night's rest Sit down, all of you. If you please 1 want to talk to you." she coutinued, abruptly. "You've ail been wondering where my mother, and Alison Murdoch, and my. self went, and where we've been since, haven't your "A good deal of search has been made for you, miss," observed Cor kerdale, finding his tongue. "Going on now. It Is, tool What happened. If I may ask?" Sheila looked at from him to me. "Happened?" she Maythorne and answered. "My mother and I were kidnaped ! Mr. Elphlnstone groaned but there was a note of triumph In his voice, "Dy whom were you kidnaped. Miss Merchisonr asked Maythorne quietly. Sheila unconsciously lowered her Tolce as she bent forward to answer. "Alison Murdoch I" she replied. "And where Is Alison Murdoch?" continued Maythorne. "Cut I sup pose you don't know I" "No!" answered Sheila. "1 don't know I" Corkerdale cleared his throat the sound suggested that he thought it was high time he came In. "What I'd wish, Mr. Maythorne," he said "that Is, Sergeant Manners and myself would be If the young lady would Just tell us what happened after she and her mother and this woman left the hotel three nights ago. Seems to rae we want a consecutive narra tive, as It were. Then" "I'm going to tell you," Interrupted Sheila. "Hut I shall have to begin before that I must begin where Mr. Maythorne and Mr. Holt came to Miss Apperley's flat that evening the eve ning that my mother arrived here. After you two had gone," she con tinued, turning to Maythorne and me, "I thought a lot a tremendous lot about the whole business. I was very uneasy about everything the will the general situation. To tell you the truth, I felt that If things were going to remain where they were I should come perilously near to suspicion of my own mother. So" Mr. Elphlnstone smote his knees with his open palms and groaned audibly. Cut Sheila gave him a glance and went on. "So, eventually, I said ttf Miss Ap perley that I was going to Short's, to have It out with my mother, If I could. I came here 1 saw my mother In that bedroom." "Alone?" asked Maythorne. "Alone! We had a sort of row at first she was naturally furious with me; first, for taking the will out of her possession ; second, for running away to London with It and giving It to Mr Holt. Cut In the end she calmed down, and eventually, when we had restored amicable relations be tween ourselves, she told me that I need not have been so hnsty, for It was her full Intention to send the will, either to Mr. Postlethwaite, who had prepared it, or to Mr. Crole, the very next day, with an account of how it had come Into ber possession "How had the will come Into Mrs. Elphinstont's possession?" asked May thorne, "In this way," replied Sheila. "1 told you and Mr. Holt that my mother wus out late In the evening for two evenings In succession, and that on the second evening I stole downstairs on hearing her come In, and, unper celved by her, saw her examining a document which I afterward discov ered to be the will. Her explanation is that on coming In that night she found one of the French windows In the library open, and on the curpet, Just within, an envelope containing the will I She had just picked tills up and was examining It when I saw her." "To be sure to be surel" muttered Mr. Elphlnstoue, "Perfectly clear I perfectly!" "proceed, If you please," said May thome, quietly. "Well." continued Sheila. "1 then began to tulk to my mother uhout various possibilities us to how the will had come there. I pointed out that the possession of It, and her refusal to account for It und to reply to qucs tlons (all of which Is due to her nat ural pride and ohstlnncy and dislike of being coerced by anyone) would make people like you, for instance suspicious about her. She cared very tittle about It, but we began to dis cuss the question of the Identity of the murderer. For it seemed to me that whoever had stolen the will had pre viously murdered Its maker I And eventually, and I think, accidentally, I told her about that cairngorm brooch which you showed me the other night." "Ah!" exclaimed Maythorne, with a smhlcn betrayal of tils keen Interest. "You did? Good good I And' "Sho immediately became excited, She Jumped to the conclusion that you had picked it up at the scene of the murder " "I did I" remarked Maythorne. "So she suspected and said that that of course was why you were tak ing care of it. Then she told mo that from my description the brooch was one of two which Mr. Elphlnstone had bought, years ago, In Scotland, and given to her. She had never worn either, as they were cumbrous and heavy: she still had one, but she had given the other away, some time be fore." "Aye, and to whom?" asked May thorne, eagerly. "To Alison Murdoch!" replied Sheila, giving us all a swift, envelop lng glance. "And of course, as soon as I heard that, I saw through the whole sordid business, Alison Mur doch was the guilty person! She had murdered and robbed Mazaroff; she had dropped that brooch at Helver's den: she had thrown the will Into the library at the tower the one fatal mistake she made for her own chances ! and ... I told my mother my conclusions. And then I fetched All son Murdoch in, and accused her polntblauk !" There was a murmur that seemed to denote a mixture of Interest and of admiration from the two policemen; Corkerdale, who sat twiddling his thumbs and watching Sheila intently, smiled broadly. "You plumped her with It, miss? straight out!" he exclaimed. "Yes yes?" "Stralcht out! there and then." as sented Sheila. "Cut let me tell you why In addition to what I've already told. During the last few minutes of my talk with my mother I'd been thinking, harder and quicker than I'd ever thought In my life. Now, I re membered something about Alison Murdoch and about her family. Al though my mother rarely mentioned such matters to me, I knew more about Marrasdale and my father's connec tion with It than she had any idea of I had picked up a lot of knowledge and gossip from the old people round about us. And I knew that my father, Andrew Merchlson, was well known In those parts before his marriage, and that his people bad been folk of some consequence there. I knew, too, that Alison Murdoch's family had been there a long time, too, and that be tween It and my father's people there was a di-adly enmity, arising out of " "I-and!" Interrupted Mr. Elphln stone. "Land ! The Merchlson lot did the Murdochs out of a bit of land some years ago. Piece of oppression and chicanery but It was done. Un forgivenble, of course In the minds of these Corder people. Feud! Land feud! Such things are remembered for ever." "They rankle," said Slielia. "There was blood shed over It at the time a Merchlson shot a Murdoch; though not fatally. All that's well known Mr. Elphlnstone knows all about it" "Countryside gossip to this day," agreed Mr. Elphlnstone. "There are men and women there In Marrasdale who remember It" "Well," continued Sheila, "It struck me that Alison Murdoch, who Is a silent, grim, reserved, determined woman, probubiy not only remembered It, but was the very sort of person, who, If she got the chance of revenge, would take It without hesitation. I figured it all out this way. Alison Murdoch, when Mazaroff, who, of course, was really Andrew Merchlson, came to the Woodcock, was helping there: helping with the cooking and so on. She saw him, and recognized him. She no doubt got acquainted with his habits and knew that he strolled out on the moors, after dark. Now, "Ornery" Long Employed "Ornery" and "onery" are corrupted forms of "ordinary." They are dialect or. colloquial terms meaning Insignifi cant low, mean, contemptible, and they express a higher degree of con tempt and disapprobation than "ordi nary" does. "Ornary" as a contrac tion of "ordinary" wus a common pro vincialism In England In the time of the Stuarts, although It Is now nearly obsolete. We find the phrase "uppon ornarle time," In the Easthnmpton rec ords as late as 1070. In Ireland mid the United States this form persists In the still more corrupted forms or "orn ery" nnd "onery," which were brought to the American colonies nnd perpet uated lurgely by Irish and .Scotch-Irish Fraih Air and Warmth The public health service says that fresh warm air of a proper degree of moisture and free from appreciable draft is now recognized us essential to Indoor workers. The old Idea thnt a cold room necessarily contains fresh air and thnt comfortably warm rooms necessarily contain bad air has been discarded. she didn't live at the Woodcock she lives at n cottngo of her own, on the way to nirnsido. I came to the con elusion that having made up her mind to revenge the old fued on Andrew Merchlson, she watched for her op portunity. On the night of the murder she saw him go out and take the path towards Itelver's den. She abstracted Musgrnve's gun from the parlor and followed hltn and shot him. And " "A moment I" Interrupted Maythorne, He glanced at the two policemen. "Corkerdale and Manners will under stand the meaning of a question I want to put to you," he continued "It's this does this woman, Alison .Murdoch, at all resemble your mother, Mrs. Eiphlnstonel'1 "Very closely!" answered Sheila. "They're of the satno height and build, anyway very similar In figure and not at all unlike In general appearance. "One could easily bo mistaken for the other lu the dark, eh?" asked May thome. "I should say, very easily," asserted Sheila. "In fact, I have so mistaken them, myself." Maythorno turned to the policemen. "That accounts for what Eccleshare and Parslave saw or believed they 'Straight Out! There and Then," As- ssrttd Sheila. saw," be remarked In an undertone. "Eh?" "Seems so to me." answered Man ners, "les I should say it did." Corkerdale, however, said nothing: he was still watching Sheila. "You were saying, miss V he suggested. "Well I was going to say that that seemed to me a good ground for sus pecting her, taking other things Into consideration," continued Sheila. "Hut I bad another ground. It was well known It had already got talked about He was careless about dis playing his wealth I myself heard. as people do hear things In villages. that he left large sums of money and even diamonds lying about on bis dining table. Now, I knew that Alison Murdock Is a covetous, avaricious, grasping woman; miserly to the Inst degree. If she murdered Andrew Merchlson out of revenge, she was Just the sort of woman to rob his dead body of everything on It out of sheer greed I She Is, I say that sort" 'A hoarder!" muttered Mr. Elphln stone. "A saver of farthings! I think you're quite right, Sheila. Cut murder? dear me!" "Well, that's the conclusion I came to," said Sheila, "a id these were my reasons. In the fe.v minutes In which I thought all this out I came to the absolute definite conclusion that All son Murdoch hud shot Andrew Merchl son, had robbed him of his money, valuables, and papers, and that It was she who had thrown his will Into the open window of Mr. Klphlnstotie's library, where my mother' had picked It up. And. as I said at the beginning, as soon as I'd arrived at that conclu sion, I called her Into my mother's room that room ! und accused her of the murder!" Mr. Elphlnstone treated us to one of his groans. Hut Corkerdale, uncon sciously, edged bis chulr nearer to Sheila. "Now this Is where the reully In teresting part comes in, miss!" he to Express Contempt Immigrants, who settled In the South and West This explnlns the fart that 'ornery" and "onery" are generally re garded as southerlsms or westernlsms. In lSTX) the New York Constellation published the following as a southern expression: "You ornery fellow I Do you pretend to call me to account for my language?" Pathfinder Magazine. Hearing Insects F! "Yon wrote recently In this column," writes a correspondent to "Looker on" In the Ixmdon Dally Chronicle, "thut one of your renders heard slugs eating. I have never heard them, but I have heard snails and caterpillars eat Snails make a scratching noise. Cuterplllnrs crunch. The caterpillars of the privet hawk moth make quite a loud noise, and I have often heard them when sitting In the garden, and they have been eating the lilac leaves." Other correspondents state thut they have heard snails feeding. Alaska's Coastline Alaska bus more than 0,000 miles of coast ft e& 9 mmm HI mUwM said. "You chnrged her I What might she reply, now?" "She denied It, of course Indlg nantly," answered Sheila. "She wu for flouncing out of the room, to com plain to Mr. Klphinstonc. Then she changed her mind, and said she'd go to her own room, pack her things, and leave the hotel. I soon settled lior, though I" "Aye? and how, miss?" asked Cor- kerdale, still more Interested, "I told her thnt If she attempted to leave that room until I'd finished with her, I'd ring the bell, send fo the police, and give her In charge! said Sheilu. "And I should have don so nothing would have stopped mo, That calmed her down sho knew met Then 1 talked to her. I pieced things together finally. I told her that he cairngorm brooch had been found on the scene of the murder " "How did she tako that?" Inter rupted Maythorne, "She turned very pale," replied Sheilu. "Cut almost Instantly she retorted thnt my mother had an ex actly similar brooch why wasn't she suspected? I replied thnt my mother never wore the other brooch evident ly she, Alison, did. Then I went on to rub It Into her, frightening her all I could. My mother, ou her part, begged her to tell of anything she knew. Finally, on my telling her that unless I got some explanation, I should give her In charge there and then, she admitted that sho knew something !" "Ah!" said Maythorne. "Som thing!" "Something 1" repeated Sheila. "And having admitted that, she made, a strange offer though I'm bound to say that it didn't seem so very strange at the time. She pointed out that she wns alone there In London, that aht was, In a degree, at my mercy. Then she reminded us that she had a brother here In London, a man who left Mar rasdale years ago, and who had, she said, a business in the Harrow road" "Aye, to be surel" muttered Cor kerdale. "The Harrow road!" "Arid she made us an offer," con tinued Sheila. "She said that It we would go with her, there and then, to her brother's house, and allow her to consult with him first. sheAJ tell us the absolute truth about all thnt she actually knew. We were fools enough to go and we set off at once, without telling anybody. We ex pected, of course, to be back In i very short time." What happened, miss?" Inquired Corkerdale. "We left the hotel and got a taxi- cab rouud the corner of the next street," continued Sheila. "Alison Murdoch told the driver where to go. I know where the Harrow road opens In Edgwnre road at Paddlngton Green ; w e went a long, long way beyond that At last we got out" "A minute, Miss," Interrupted Man ners. "When you got out, did you happen to notice If you were being followed? Cy another taxlcab, now?" "I did see a taxicub pull up on the other side of the street lower down. replied Sheila. "I noticed that while my mother was paying our man." Manners sniffed, and whispered to his colleague an audlblo whisper. "That 'udbe him!" be said. "Tracked em I Cog pardon, miss for Interrupt lng you." We walked up the road a little way," continued Sheila. "Then we turned Into a aide street, and Into a still smaller street that ran off that a dark, gloomy street Outside one of the bouses, Alison Murdoch asked us to wait a few minutes while she went In. We did. She was away perhaps five minutes. Then she cume out am) fetched us In. It was a dark, gloom) house as gloomy as the street out side. She took us Into what seemed to be a back bedroom, on the ground floor, where there was a dim light from a gas bracket, and asked us to wait a few minutes longer. Then she went out and that was the last we saw of her." Corkerdale, still twiddling his thumbs, took his eyes off Sheila for the first time. He cast them up to the celling, and stared at whatever ho saw there, thoughtfully. Manners, however, let out one word, sharply: "Trapped !" "Of course we were trapped," as serted Sheila. "Wc deserved to be! anyhow, I did. We hadn't been In that room five minutes before we knew It. We heard the door locked from outside, and what seemed to be a bar put across it, too. I Immedlutoly flew to the window and tore the blind and the curtains away. Then I saw that there were heavy shutters across the window on the outside and I found the sashes of the window Itself were nailed down. We were trapped Indeed! Horrible!" "What happened?" asked Maythorne, softly. "In brief." "In brief yes," said Sheila. "I'm not going Into details of that horror for anything now, at any rate. 1 beat on the door, but there was no reply everything was quiet enough. After an hour, a panel that I'd noticed In one of the walls tho sort of thing, a hatch, you know, that communicates between a kitchen and a dining room, was suddenly slipped open, and a hand und arm thrust In a big basket and dropped It on the bed. Then the panel was banged to, again, and I heard It secured. There was food plenty of It, nnd good In the basket, and a couple of bottles of wine good claret nnd glasses and a corkscrew. 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