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THROUGH THE WINDOW PANE
By GLUYAS WHUAM3
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tor further proof address the author. Inclosing atamped envelope for reply, Reg. TJ. B. Pat Off.
Chapter 44
FROM ROGER
TT was torn weeka later.
A FranWe had Jut received a let
ter. It bore the atamp of one o( the
leas-known South American repub
lics.
After reading tt through, the
passed It to Bobby.
It ran aa follows:
Dear Frankle:
Really, I congratulate you! Yon
and your Naval friend hare ahat
terod the plans of a lifetime. I had
everything so nicely arranged.
Would you really like to hear
all about It? My lady friend hai
given me away so thoroughly
(spite, I'm afraid women are In
variably spiteful!) that my most
damaging admissions won't do me
anv further harm. Besides, I am
starting Ufa again. Roger Basslnr
ton-ffrench la dead.
I fancy I've always been what
they call a "wrong 'un." Even at Ox
ford I had a little lapse.
I fell In wlt'a Moira and her lot
fairly soon. She was the real thine.
She was aif accomplished criminal
by the time ahe was fifteen. When
I met her things were getting a bit
too hot for her.
She and I liked each other. We
decided to make a match of It, but
we'd a few plans to carry through
first.
To begin with, sbe married Nlch'
olson. By doing so she removed her
self to another world, and the police
lost sight of her. Nicholson was Just
coming over to England to atart a
place for nerve patients.
Sbe waa still working In with her
gang In the dope business. Without
knowing it, Nicholson was very use
ful to her.
I bad always had two ambitions.
I wanted to be the owner of Merro-
way, and I wanted te command an
Immense amount of money. I bad
to have money.
Moira made aeveral trips across
to Canada to "see her people." Nich
olson adored her and believed any
thing she told him. Most men did.
Owing to the complications of the
drug business sbe travelled under
varloua names. She waa travelling
aa Mrs. Templeton when she met
Savage. She knew ail about Savage
and hla enormous wealth, and she
wont all out for him. He was at
tracted, but he wasn't attracted
enough to lose his common sense.
However, we concocted a plan.
You know pretty well the story of
'that. The man you know as Cayman
acted the part of the unreeling hus
band. Savage was Induced to come
down and stay at Tudor Cottnge
more than once. The third time be
came our plans were laid. I needn't
go Into all that you know It. The
whole thing went with a bang.
Moira cleared tbe money and went
off ostensibly abroad In reality
back to Btaverley and the Orange.
In the meantime I waa perfecting
my own plans. Henry and young
Tommy had to be got out of the
way. I had bad luck over Tommy.
A couple of perfectly good acci
dents went wrong. I waan't going to
fool about with accldenta in Hen
ry's case. I Introduced him to mor
phia. He soon became an addict.
Our plan waa that he should go to
the Orange for treatment and
should there either "commit sui
cide" or get hold of an overdose of
morphia.
AND then that fool Carstalrs be
gan to be active. It seems that
Baraga had written him a line on
board ship mentioning Mrs. Tem
pioton and even enclosing a snan
ahot of her. Carstalrs wont on a
shooting trip soon afterwards.
When ho came back from the wilds
and heard the news of Savage's
death and will, he was frankly In
credulous. He was certain that Sav
age wasn't worried about his health
and didn't bollove be had any spe
cial fear of cancer. Savage was a
hard-headed buslneas man. and Car
stalra didn't believe lie would leave
a vast sum of money to her and the
rest to charily.
Carstalrs came over here deter
mined to look Into the business. He
begnn to poke about.
And straightaway we had a piece
of bad luck. Some friends brought
blm down to lunch, and be saw a
picture of Moira on the piano and
recognised It as the woman of the
snapshot that Savncjo had sent him.
He went down to Chipping Somcr
ton and started to poke about there.
1 went down to Chipping Somer
ton after him. He failed to trace the
cook Rose Chuillelgh. She'd gone
to the north, but he tracked down
Evans, found out her married name
and started off for Marchbolt.
Things were getting serious. If
Evans identified Mrs. Templeton
and Mrs. Nicholson a3 one and the
same person, matters were going to
become difficult.
I decided that Carstalrs bad got
to be suppressed. He was making a
serious nuisance of himself. Chance
came to my aid. I waa close behind
him when the mist came up. I crept
up nearer and a sudden push did
the Job.
I didn't know what incriminating
matter he might have on blm. How
ever, your young Naval friend
played into my bands very nicely.
I was left alone with the body for
a abort time. He had a photograph
of Moira he'd got it from the pho
tographers, presumably for Identifi
cation. I removed that and any let
ters or identifying matter. Tben I
planted the photograph of one of
the gang.
All seemed to have gone off sat
isfactorily. And then your friend
Bobby upset things. It seemed that
Carstalrs had mentioned Evans
and Evans waa actually In service
at tbe Vicarage.
I admit we were getting rattled
by now. Moira Insisted that be must
be put out of the way. We tried one
plan, which failed. Then Moira weni
down to Marchbolt In the car. 8b
seised a chance very neatly
slipped some morphia into Bobby't
beer when he was asleep. But the
young devil didn't succumb. Thai
was pure bad luck.
And Imagine the. shock thai
Moira had when she was crecpinp
out to meet me one evening am'
came face to face with Bobby. Sh'
recognized him at once she'd hat
a good look when he was asleci
that day. Then she realised that li
wasn't she whom he suspected, am'
she rallied and played up.
THE position was serious. We'd
got the money, but you and
Bobby were a menace. You'd got
your suspicions fixed on the Grange
It may Intorest you to know thai
Henry didn't commit suicide. I
killed him! When I was talking tc
you in the garden, I saw there was
no time to waste and 1 weni
straight In and saw to things.
The airplane that came over gave
me my chance. I went Into tbe
study, eat down by Henry, who was
writing, and said: "Look here, old
man " and shot hlml The noise ol
the plane drowned the sound.
Thon I wrote a nice affecting let
ter, wiped off my fingerprints from
the revolver, pressed Henry's hand
round It and let It drop to the floor.
I put the key of the study In Henry's
pocket and went out, locking the
door from the outside with the dining-room
koy.whlch fits the lock.
I won't go Into detnlls of the nonl
Utile squib nrrnngement in the
chimney which was timed to go oil
four mlnutoa later.
Everything went beautifully. You
and 1 were lii tho garden together
and heard the "shot." A perroet suicide.
Where Moira really showed her
mettle was at the Cottnge. She real
ised from the noise upstairs that
I'd been knocked out, and she quick
ly Injected a large dose of morphia
Into heraolt, and lay down on the
bed. After you all went down to tele
phone sbe nipped up to the attic and
cut me free. Then the morphia took
effect and by the time the Doctor
arrived she waa genuinely off In a
hypnotlo sleep.
But all the same her nerve was
going. She pretended to to up te
London nnrslng home. Instead
she hurried down to Marchbolt nnd
met you on the dooratopl Then
ber one Idea was to get you both
out of the way. Her methods wore
crude to the last degree, but 1 be
lieve she'd have got away with It.
Moira would have got away back
to London and Inln low In a nursing
home. With you and Bobby out of
the way the whole thlnjr would hare
died down.
But you spotted her and she
lost ber head. And then at the trial
she draggod me Into ltl
I'erhapa I waa getting a little
tired of her. , . . But I had no Idea
that shs knew It.
You see, she had got the money
my money! Once I had married her
I might have got tired of her. I like
variety.
So here 1 am starting life aguln.
. And all owing to you and that
extremely objectionable young man
Bobby Jones. Hut I've no doubt I
shnil make good!
Your affectionate enemy, the
bold, bad villain of the piece,
ROGER HASSINGTON FFHKNCII.
Tomorrow. Frankit and Bobby
a vtry Int. rt. ting d.ciHon.
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WAYS. CUV, Mnrrh 95. .fl! Hpm"
Ford, proponrnt of eorrrlntton of in
dustry fltu Agriculture, tnriny deiwrlb
ihI the mittnlmwitl of fertile land from
crop production an "worst thin thiev
ery." "It's wrung." he Mid In n rictu
slve Interview. "IVt UK Inst nature.''
Flnfuicieri, he chttttrd. are Inter
eated in crop curtailment to kep
prices up m they can make more
money.
The motor manual enpietartl hi.,
views while arranging for the opening
of ft project near hi plantation here
to train young reIdenU of thla rural
area, both white and nrgrota, In the
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SUMMER WATER
PORTLAND. March 3.V Deop
now In mountainjt of Oregon and
YVaMilnftton im-mak abundance of
water for Irritation and drinking pur
pose next summer, the forestry bu
reau reported today.
In the lllue mountain of eastern
Oretton snow Is the deepest since ib.13
Crescent lake on the southern Cas
cade summit of Oregon reported 80
Inches aunlnst 33 at the correspond
ing; period last year, and "b-re
ground" In 19;-4 the drouth year.
At Crater lake In southern Oregon
the snow depth Is less than last yeur,
1IB Inches being reported now com
pared with 1M Inches at headquar
ters a year ago, according to weather
bureau figures.
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Wake Island, a tiny bit of land .n
the board Pacific, la an Important
station on the newly -Inaugurated
transpacific airline service from dan
Francisco to Manila. The Island is
the third atop on the westward flight.
and Is located a little east of half
way between Guam and Mldwav.
Ouam la 1600 miles to the west nnd
Midway more than 110 miles to tho
east.
Being located Just west of the Inter
national date line, Wake Island keepi
day ahead of lands enat of the
Una. When dny breaks on, any, Sun
day morning, at a point east of thu
line. It will soon be Monday morn
ing at Wake Island.
Strange as It seems, racquets, ono
of the most exclusive sports In the
world today, was started In prison
gnme to provide exercise for tha
closely confined Inmates. It stnrtcd
In the 18th century In an English
debtors' jail, and may have been a
development of Irish handbnll or Jnl
alal. An Inmate of the pitaon, Rob
ert Mackay, waa the first recognise!
champion of the sport.
It waa started by men who were
tennis players but who did not havo
an area large enough for this gnmo.
At first the game was played against
a single wall. After It emerged from
Jail to enjoy popularity among the
high-born sportsmen of England, the
rules were changed to Include side
walls on the court.
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