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The Mazarof f Mystery -By- J. S. FLETCHER Waitrationi by IRWIN MYERS (, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) W. N. V. 8rvlce CHAPTER XI Continued 18 "And you jot out, how?" asked Maythorne. "This evening, when we were about done tip, for lack of fresh air though to toll the truth, I'd long since broken the window!" replied Sheila, "we suddenly heard sounds outside the door. Then we hoard the bolt with drawn, and the key turned, and some body outside ran awny the hall door banged. We Immediately wont out the place was all In darkness and silence. We left the house and hur ried off to find a cab" The door of Mrs. Elphlnstone's bod room opened and the nurse looked In on us. "Mrs. Elphlnstone wishes to see Mr. Elphlnstone and Miss Merchtson," she said. A moment later, Maythorne, I, and the two policemen were alone. May thorne rose from his chair, rut his hands in his pockets, and looked In quiringly at Corkerdale. "Well?" he said. Corkerdale smiled Inscrutably and nodded at the door through which Mr. Elphlnstone and Sheila had Just van ished. "Don't believe that yarn!" he said, almost contemptuously. "Romance!" I was on my logs at that I dare ay I turned on the detective In a fury. "What the devil do you mean!" I demanded. "Are you questioning Mls9 Merchison'a word?" "I moan that however true the young lady's story may be and I ain't questioning It," said Corkerdule, "I don't believe that the old lady, in there. Isnl In this! She and the wom an, Murdoch put-up Job between 'em ! The kidnaping ! a piece of bluff to en able the other woman to get away. Of course, the other woman Bownas came across her, and she tricked him Into that alley, and did him In! Ob vious ! Rut Mrs. Elphlnstone'! In it, and I'm not going out of this hotel, nor Manners, either, till we've done a hit of questioning. That's that! ai they say nowadays." I was still boiling with rare, but I looked at Maythornp, Inwardly won dering that he was so calm, lie had kept on nodding his head, while Cor kerdale spoke, and he was evidently about to give him some meditated re ply when a knock came at the outer door and a waiter looked In. "Mr. Maythorne?" he Inquired, glancing round the room. Then, as Maythorne moved towards him, he added: "Will you come to the tele rhone, sir? name of Cottlngley unk ing for you." CHAPTER XII The Boat Train Maythorne hurried out of the room, leaving mo, still Indignant and glower ing, alone with the policemen. Pres ently Corkerdale, who had been whis pering to Manners, turned to me. "It's all very well, and I've no doubt very natural, for you to be a bit hufflsh. Mr. Holt." he said, half pro testlngly, half apologetically. "You're wet-t on the young lady, as anybody with half an,eye can see, and" "Leave the young lady's name out ff the question, If you please!" I ex claimed. "And mine, too!" "Hit difficult to leave her out. Isn't It?" he retorted, smiling. "After what we've Just heard! I don't disbelieve her tale not I! though I'm more than a bit surprised that a young woman of her Intelligence clever girl ! should let herself be trapped In that fashion. Trapped she was, no doubt! hut I don't believe her mother wus trapped ! "What?" I exclaimed. "Why, you've Just heard" "I've Just heard what we've all Just heard." he Interrupted. "My opinion Is that It was all a put-up Job between Mrs. Elphlnstone and this woman Mur doch, and that Miss Merchlson's been taken In by both. I think that Mrs. ElphlnMone went willingly to that house and stood the detention there she wanted for nothing. You heard! so that her daughter, who was be ginning to know too much and to get dangerous, should be kept safe and quiet while the Murdoch woman got rU'ht awny! And I'll lay nil I'm worth to a penny piece that Murdoch knocked that chap liownas on the head In that back alley, and that by now she's soniew here !" "You don't think tlu.t Mrs. Elphln stone knew anything about liownas!" I said. "Good Lord, according to you " "According to me, sir, Murdoch mur dered Mazuroff, nnd Mrs. Elphln Mone's well aware of It," he said, de terminedly. "There's what the Inw yirs call prima fucle evidence of that, anyhow, and Manners here agrees with uie! And we're not going out of this hotel until that doctor comes hark, nnd then we're going to see If Mrs. Elphlnstone Isn't (it to he questioned. And If she Isn't Just yet then we're going to stay on the premises till she Is! So there!" lid'oie I could say anything the outer door opened and Maythorne fctuck half his face Inside the room. "llolt!" he f.:;!d. 1 went to him; he drew me into the corridor and eloi-ed the door. "Message from Cottlngley," he said In a whisper, "lie's been carrying on a close Investigation of steamship offices this last forty-eight hours, work ing like a nigger. And at hist he's hit on something! This afternoon a woman, closely answering to the de scription I gave him of Alison Mur. doch, booked two passages for Now Zealand at the New Zealand Shipping company offices In Cockspur street, by their ship the ltlmertaka, which loaves Southampton early tomorrow morning. The boat train Is the ton o'clock to night from Waterloo, Cottlngley'! down there he'i got a couple of de tectives with him from the Yard? to save time he wont there and told what he'd discovered. We'll get down there at once the Immediate question Is shall we toll those follows Inside? What do you think?" "Corkordnle'a Just declared that he won't leave this hotel till he's quos tloned Mrs. Elphlnstone," I replied. "He's going to wait for the doctor's return." "Then come on !" he said. "It's now about nine-twenty we shall be at Waterloo in plenty of time. Gad! I shouldn't wonder If Cottlngloy's struck the trail at last! I told you what a sharp chap he Is." We ran down to the entrance hall; outside there wore two or throe taxi cabs standing about: Maythorne made for the first, "We'd bettor pull up a little short of Waterloo," he remarked as wo pt In. "Stop in York mid by the hotel there." he added to the driver. "You see, Holt," he went on as we moved off southward, "if this woman is Mur doch, she'll know you, from having soon you at the Woodcock: she may know me, though I don't remember her. So we must move warily: if she's attempting a total clear-out, the least thing will put her off. Hut she booked two passages, this woman of whom Cottlngloy's heard; Now, for whom can the other bo?" "Can she have had an accomplice? If this woman really is Murdoch?" I suggested. "She's had accomplices here In Lon don, In that Harrow road affair, with out doubt," he answered "May be the brother she spoke of to Mrs. El phlnstone and Miss Merchlson. Hut as to an accomplice In the Maznroff business now! If she had" He paused there and remained silent so long that at last I asked him what he was thinking about. "I was thinking this." he answered slowly. "This! that if this woman Murdoch really murdered Mararoff nnd had an accomplice, and If Murdoch is the woman who booked two passages for New Zealand this afternoon, and If It's all if. you see! If the second passage Is for the accomplice, why, then, we're probably going to have a very astounding surprise and revela tion ! Hut as I say. It's nil Ifs." We got out of the cah at the corner of York road and walked quickly toward the hi? station. I'.ofore we were half way up the Incline we tm-t ('oltingley. He was lounging along with his hands In his trousers pockets ami a cigarette hanging loosely from the corner of his queer mouth, nnd he looked as phlegmatic and unconcerned as over. "Thought you'd come this way," he said as we passed. "You're In good time twenty-five minutes yot. I should say she they, I mean '11 not turn up till the last thing. Ami all's ready. The only thing Is, If this woman Is the woman we think Mur doch who can recognize her, posi tively?" "Mr. Holt can," answered May thorne. Cottlngley regarded me with specu lative eyes I fear I was not of any great account In his opinion. "Knows her?" he asked. "I know her!" I answered. Without another word he turned on his heel toward the frout of the sta tion. "What'H he done Is this," he said, walking between us. "The Southamp ton train leaves Number Four plat form ten o'clock precisely. I've got two thoroughly dependable men from the Yard had to go there nnd tell 'em everything, of course, If I meant to do any good and they and I'll be on the platform. She'll not know us. Now then, Is there any four of her knowing either of you?" "The strong presumption," replied Maythorne, "Is thut she'll know os both." "Very well," said Cottlngley. "Then, this Is what we do. I've already, with the detectives, given the tip to the railway authorities that there may he un Important arrest, d'ye see? Now, I'm going to post you two Just within the harrier, where you can't be seen, You'll keep there till the pas senger he'ln coming through for the train. I shall he close by the dotcc tlves'll he a yard of two further on, In touch with me; there'll also he two or three railway police about, In case there's any bother. Now If Mr. Holt there recognizes this Murdoch woman, he'll signal to me by lifting his hat the Irwtnnt she passes him and you can leave the rest. The only other thing is that If we make the arrest. I've arranged with the station people that the detectives are to hurry her off to little office on the platform you follow." "All cltur!" said Maythorne. "We've got you, Cottlngley." We passed Into the big brilliantly lighted station. Even nt that late hour of the evening It was' crowded. Cottlngley moved swiftly ahead of us through the groups, passed us through u barrier with a whispered word to tin man in charge, and. suddenly twisting to his left, ushered us behind ft high wooden partition, a few yards away from the gate whereat tickets were punched. There was n dark cavernous recess there; ho signed to u to step In, "liomombor!" be said. "If It's the woman wo want up with jour hat I Hut bo sure!" Ho swung on his heel, moved off Into the light of the big lamps above the platform, and, pulling out his ciga rette case, began to smoke, loafing Idly about. A few yards away two solidly built men, who, from their out ward appearance might have been highly respectable clt lions going home late to their suburban residences after a day's business In the city, stood; loafing, too. Hut as they chatted to gether, I saw that their eyes wore not long away from Cottlngley, nor from the barrier, nor from the gloomy recess In which Maythorne and I waited. That waiting was about as big a trial of my nerves as I had gone through since I heard tho Inst shots flrod In Flanders. Folk came stream ing In upon the platform; porters went by with pltes of luggage; there were all the scones nnd sounds, hurry ing and bustlings. Incidental to the departure of a big express bound for a groat shipping center. Hut what we wal'ed for I with straining eyes and throbbing nerves waa long in coming. Across the brond expanse of station, It q A Woma.i W.u Jus Coming Through the Barrisr A Tall, Slim Woman, of Erect, Easy Carriage. above some far-distant platform, hung a clock I could not avoid an occa sional glance at It. Never, surely, had the hands of a clock moved more slow ly! Twenty minutes to ten. Fifteen minutes to ten. Ten minutes to ten. Five four three . , , "Holt!" whi-pered Maythorne. "Sharp, now! Is thU she?" A woman was Just coming through the barrier a tall, slim woman, of erect, easy carriage. I'.y her side was another woman, slighter In height, of fuller figure, and heavily veiled. I could not see her face, but the face of, the taller woman was that which I had seen two or three times In the big kitchen at the Woodcock. A see uiid later she and her companion, each carrying a substantial-sized valUe, had passed the ticket puncher and come full Into the 11, 'U. I had no doubt then, and my hand went up to the brim of my bat as If a machine had moved It. "Come on!" said Maythorne. "Now for It! Hut who's the other?" The two women were being hurried Into a third-class compartment by an already Impatient guard as the two detectives, some railway policemen, Cottlngley, and Maythorne ami I closed round them. One o( the detectives laid a hand on the taller woman's arm . . . It was the first time In my life that I had ever seen an arrest, and I was amazed at the quickness, the dexterity, the absence of fun, In IL We lind the two women Into the little office close by, and the door locked, and the blinds drawn, before I hod realized what was happening as the key turned In the door I heard the whistle of the guard and the shriek of the engine us the ten o'clock sped out to time. And then I turned ... to answer a question. "That's Alison Murdoch yes!" I suld. "Yes without doubt." The senior detective turned to the Criticism of Feminine Dress a Generation Ago "rress," snld a health article In a woman's magazine of 1!K1, "Is a stumbling block In tho way of a healthy existence for the society worn un. My lady must assist by long hour! of standing to be fitted. The weight of the dress often drags one down so thut only the strongest can tarry about the heavy materials. "The low bodices which have be come more common are a greater me nace to health than almost anything. Women who wear low-necked gowns In the evening should not wear heavy, high-necked undergarments, for the contrast between their protection In the day and that of the evening Is very great and they more readily tnke cold. The nt.ck und shoulders should be bathed freely with cold water and with alcohol and water. , , . "The hips should not meiiburc over other woman. She was loaning against a table; her breath was coming In short, sharp gasps; her whole frame trembled. "Take off that veil!" snapped tho detective. "Como on, now I" We stood storing Intently as the woman lifted n hand and diverted herself of the thick veiling that had completely obscured her features. It fell aside and It was from Maythorne, usually so cool and collected, that tho Hist excited exclamation broke: "Hood tl dl Mrs, Musgiuvol" Mrs. Musgrave burst Into tears and turned on Alison Murdoch, who stood close by, grim and defiant. "You suld it would be all right I" she walled reproachfully. "You swore to me that wo were safe, this way I You said and said again thnt there wasn't the least chance of 'cm catch ing us" "Hold your tongue, you fool I" napped Alison Murdoch. I stood by, sick, wondering." while Cottlngley, under the detectives' super vision, unlocked the women's valises and turned out their contents. There was money there In a surprising quan tity bank notes that hud been Mur.a roff's, of course and there were dia monds, aid Miuaroff's personal prop erties. And lu Alison Murdock's valise there whs a gold hunter watch, within which was an Inscription to the effect that It was a present to James Itownui from Ids colleagues , , . "Thorc'a always something that these people forget," remarked May. thorne, when, a quarter of an hour later, he and I were driving back to Short's hotel. "Or, rather, always some absolutely Idiotic mistake they make. If Alison Murdoch hadn't thrown that will Into the Elphln stones' library. It would have been bard to get at the real truth about Maznroff, and If she hadn't been so covetous and grasping thut she couldn't rufrnln from carrying off that poor chap 1'ownas' presentation watch, we should probably never have convicted her of murdering him. However there they both are! Hut . . . Mrs. Musgrave!" "Which of them shot Ma.aroffr 1 asked. "Ah I" he replied, knowingly. "That's a stiff 'un, Holt! Hut-Mrs. Musgrave knows, and Mrs. Musgrave will tell I She'll not fur It out like the other." We hurried upstair as soon as we reached Short'! hotel to find Corker dale and Manners talking to the doc tor and Sheila In an alcove that opened off the corridor. Corkerdale wu evidently still Indiscreet; the doc tor looked somewhat annoyed and Sheila was obviously angry. "you must see, doctor, that It's a question of duty," Corkerdale whs say ing as we came upon them. "I want some explanation from Mrs. Elphln stone" "There's no need now, Corkerdale," Interrupted Maythorne. laying his hand on the detective'! shoulder. "It'i all over! We've got "em! they're safe under lock ami key." Shellu uttered a sharp cry of sur prise, nnd Corkerdale turned quickly on Maythorne. "Cot Yin?" he exclaimed. "Who's got 'em?" "Well, If you want to know, my clerk, Cotll'igley smartest man In Europe at your game! he got 'mi. With the help of your own people, to be sure. Hut the kudos Is Cutting, ley's," replied Maythorne, "Top hole capture!" "And who'd he rapture?' demanded Corkerdale, almost Incredulously. "Who?" Maythorne glanced at Sheila. "Well," he replied, "there's no secret about It now. Two women! Alison Murdoch and Mrs. Musgrave. And there's no doubt about It, either they hud property belonging to Muzaroff and property belonging to Howuas on them actually on them!" Corkerdale turned to Manners, who, at the mention of Mri. Musgrave's name, had opened his mouth and Ids eyes to their widest extent. "Oh, well!" suld Corkerdnle. "In that case, of course, I think we needn't wait to see Mrs. Elphlnstone!" It was some days before I myself saw Mrs. Elphlnstone. At last I was admitted to see her. We exchanged few conventional remarks about her state of health. Then she sat for some time In silence, steadily staring at me staring so steadily that I be gan to feed desperately uncomfortable. Suddenly she spoke. "I suppose," she said, "I mppose that you and Sheila will became en gagedeventually?" I thought, then, thnt 1 had better speak. "The fact Is. ma'am," I replied, "tho fact er Is that Shellu and I are engaged already!" THE ENI. twelve Inches more than the waist or five Inches more than the chest without corsets. The chest expansion of the society woman will probably be one Inch; It should be nearly three." Ilrendu I'eland In the Saturday Eve ning I'ost. No Identical Chapters No two chapters of the Hlhlc are ex actly alike, ns so many people suppose, There Is very little difference, howev er, between the thirty seventh chap ter of Isaiah and the nineteenth chap ter of II Kings. Olher portions of the I'lble are duplicated also, but there are no two entire chapters that are the same. Hat blinder Magazine, Moles dig swiftly with their spado like feet; one has been known to tun tie! more than "00 feet lu a night. When are upset Paly ills and ailments term twice ai serious at night. A sud den cry may mean colic. 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