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CHAPTER XVIII
jyH. WILMET had sprung to hli
"But this is preposterousl" he
cried. "Why why, I was the one
who brought you herel If I"
"Because, Inspector" Chan
dra'i voice was a gentle purr1
"another trait Earl Talbert shared
with his aunt, Inspector, was the
delusion that, single-handed, he
could outwit the world. But now"
the clairvoyant stood, suddenly
very tall, It seemed to Christine,
over the blustering little man
"he is going to tell the whole
atory.
"You are going to tell us, my
friend, how gloating over the trick
by which you robbed your aunt
12 years ago, you persuaded
yourself that you were sufficient
ly the 'master mind' for a much
more daring crime. ... I doubt
if you Intended murder In the be
ginning. But probably, after you
had drugged Mrs. Talbert and
taken what you supposed to be
valuable bonds, you realized that
she had recognized you"
I didn't!" Mr. Wilmet's round
face was white and drenched with
sweat "I why, I never heard
of the woman before last night
. . . Inspector, he's trying to
for God's sake, don't let him do
this!"
He was cowering before the
clairvoyant as he might before an
evil genius.
For without any of the trap
pings or stage-setting of his craft
Chandra was again the Oriental
mystic Christine had seen that
other night; his voice was the
purring, hypnotic voice of the
seer; his blazing yellow eyes held
Mr. Wilmet's eyes as If In a snare.
T'ELL them," he commanded,
"how, before you had
drugged your aunt Into helpless
ness, you forced her to write
those letters. Tell them how,
after you had held her In her own
car while you made sura Jaspar
had obeyed her orders, you drove
her, by night, to her own aban
doned borne, and hid her there
while you rifled the house ,tor
anything you might find that
could help to point suspicion to
someone else. ...
"Tell them that you even felt
cafe in leaving her alone there,
drugged as she was, because you
remembered her prejudice against
the police, and you knew that
Jaspar would respect her orders.
"Perhaps, at first, you consid
ered killing your aunt there in
her empty house; but it was nec
essary to your infantile exhibi
tionism to do the thing in a really
spectacular way, and you had
more Ideas than you knew what
to do with. . . . Tell them how,
after you had entered the house
with Mrs. Talbert's own key"
"But how could I?" Mr. Wll
tnet's cry was shrill with tri
umph. "Why, she didn't have
key."
Jaspar broke a shocked silence.
"He's right, Inspector," he mur
tnured. "Mrs. Talbert hadn't
taken her key with her."
Christine, watching as If in a
fantastic nightmare, saw the lit
tle man freeze as he understood
how much he had told in those
Bve words; then leap to his feet
and dash blindly, straight into the
arms of two uniformed men who
had appeared in the doorway.
"Get his keys," the Inspector
ordered.
When one of the officers hand
ed the ring to him, he passed it
to Jaspar, a silent question in the
gesture.
"Yea, sir," Jaspar almost whis
pered. "The middle one."
"All right Take him to the
bureau. . . . Well" even Inspec
tor Parsons looked white and
shaken as his subordinates led the
hysterical man away "I've seen
a third degree or two; but at least
policemen don't hit mugs over the
head with black magic. . . . And
now, suppose you tell me how you
know all this."
'T5ECAUSE, sir'Waspar spoke
"after I left your office
last night, I thought it best to
have a look at the house. I'd kept
one key, because I felt that as
soon as I could, I must go back.
. . But someone had been there
before me. Everything was turned
upside down."
"Much as we found It when we
went out early this morning," the
Inspector nodded. "Perhaps you'll
understand now why I was so
much interested in your keys,
Yardley. That story you told
about absent-mindedly taking a
key from a strange car and put
ting It into your pocket sounded
pretty feeble. . , . Anything taken,
Jaspar?" '
"Mrs. Talbert's will, sir I sup
pose it was he sent that to the
newspapers; and a pair of Mrs.
Talbert's shoes"
"The ones," the inspector ex
plained, "that her nephew put on
to make that false trail to the
booth. One of my men found
them burled deep In the sand
Where Yardley told us about hav
ing seen Wilmet pottering around
the evening before. Until now, I
wasn't entirely sure Mr. Yardley
hadn't put them there himself,
"Well" the inspector looked
almost satisfied "now we only
heed those faked bonds." .
From a tangle of images, one
started out clean-lined in Chris
tine's tired memory.
"I think that If you pried up the
top of that stone bench at the
back of the booth," she said, "you
might find something underneath."
w When she explained about. that
first morning her heel sinking
into soft concrete, Mr. Wilmet's
voluble explanations the Inspec
tor went to the telephone and
gave an order.
"Altogether," he said, turning
back, "that bird used up enough
Ideas in one murder to last a good,
honest crook a lifetime. . , . But
the thing that puzzled me worst
he apparently hadn't had a finger
In. , . . You wondered how I
knew that those bonds were your
cousin's. Miss Thorenson. I found
something among them that you
missed."
TTE took a folded paper from
his pocket and handed it to
Christine.
It was a short note in Cousin
Emma's hand.
"My dear Christine." It said.
"If anything shonld hap
pen to prevent our visit,
Jaspar will hand you these.
Take rood care of them, for
the bonds are non-registered:
so, of course, anyone could
use them. They are yours,
as most of what I possess will
be in the end.
Affectionately yours,
Emma Talbert"
"This morning," the inspector
said, "I'd have sold my soul to
know who really wrote that."
The telephone rang, and he
hurried to answer.
"He has? Good .work!" they
heard him say. "I'll be right up.
. . . Well," he hung up, "Miss
Thorenson was right about that
bench. Mr. Earl Talbert has shot
the works in his confession. I
guess that cleans up the slate."
"Not entirely." Chandra ex
tended a hand. "I'd like my
glasses."
"Your what?"
"I was sure," Chandra ex
plained evenly, "that he'd lost his
spares somewhere even if it
wasnt in my studio or he would
not have been wearing a pair of
sun-glasses with ordinary lenses."
"You mean," the inspector said
after a blank silence, "that you
hypnotized that poor nut with
your own spectacle case?"
"Something like that," Chandra
admitted.
Then he murmured with a
strange, tired smile Christine
recognized the quotation '"But
there was something in it tricks
and all'"
(THE END)
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Already a dancing star and div
ing champ, Mary Howard came
to Hollywood to hoof in films.
When acting contracts came her
way, she got her teeth straight
ened and gave her legs a rest.
After several minor roles, she
appears as Ann Rutledge to
Raymond Klassey's "Abe Lin
coln in Illinois."
OUT OUR WAY . BY J. R. WILLIAMS
OUR BOARDING HOUSE With MAJOR HOOPLE
FLAPPER FANNY
By Sylvia
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"Isn't this swell, Fan? The band master says I don't hafta
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EMINENT SCIENTIST
HORIZONTAL
1 Scientist who
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15 Uncle.
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18 Rescues.
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26 Noun ending. 43 Folding bed.
27 Hooked . 45 Dominant
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38 Red cross.
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