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By Wray Wade Severn,
YESTERDAY—Plowman outlines his case against Barkes. Hé believes the
chauffeur worked with a confederate, ||’
planned to steal Mrs. Langdon’s pearls, as well as the money. Sidney goes to Pat, asks if Barkes could have known of the strand.) Pat says’it is impossible,’ she has not worn them in New York. When Braitwood asks if she called Gundrum for protection, Pat admits it, but denies Gundrum shot Adam. “I know it,” Sidney answers.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
FEELING AS IF he had aged 10 Sidney Braitwood slowly
Langdon’s bedroom. The big engineer was in a chair, before the window, a stubby pipe clenched in
keeping you up so late?” Sidney sank into |a chair. With an unsteady hand he lighted a cigaret and for a few moments the two men puffed in silence .
_ gaid finally, “We played our hands according to the dictates of the “moment and old Adam lost.” “A fellow who knows both the hands and the players can understand all the plays, | Hugh,” Sidney replied. “When a man is faced with
said. grimly. “I know that, Hugh. Just now I picked up a bit from Togi. Before
dinner Nella told me what she had |
seen—an instant before the shot was fired.” : Hugh Langdon’s lips hardened over the stem in his mouth. “I'm sorry Nella saw—what she saw. It was a rather terrible sight. It will be an indelible memory for her, sid.” Braitwood nodded. “Here's the " story; Hugh. Correct me where I'm wrong,” he said. “Pat had threatened to have Adam declared . incompetent. His mind had really begun to break, though he had lucid days. He had the coffee table placed under a shelf on which his porcupine stood. He sent the electric percolator away so that the old-fashioned one would be used. It burned a flame in front of his wife, “Then he counted the buttons on his vest so that he would know just how high to hold his elbow then taking aim in the dark—except for the target of that tiny flame, he had planned darkne$s| In the afternoon he had practiced a shot using the Lilliput, because it made
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HUGH LANGDON | got up and poured himself a drink|of brandy. “Go on, Sid.” “Adam had even provided an alibi by locking the door so that it would appear to have been’ locked from
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the outside by a thief, And he had also broken a pane of glass in direct line with the block of the new lion- | ses and the coffee table. In that way | it could have been made to appear | that a shot had been fired through! the broken window at Pat, instead | of from the lioness.” “He was not himself. He was mad | —but cunning!” Hugh muttered. | “Adam intended to tell the police | that Pat had looked up at the open | window and had recognized the! thief, that the chief had fired at | her. Usually the lamp in the drive- | way is lighted just back of that window so that a person could be seen. Last night, for some reason, it was not lighted, but Adam did not realize it. “Using a penknife, he short-cir-cuited the lights in [the smaller room, and he had switched off the lights in the larger room Before he sent, Togi for bulbs. When it was dark he mounted the block, took aim and even had pulled the trigger of his revolver. Soc much| Nella saw.” “Did Gundrum tell you this, Sid,
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or did you reason it out for yourself?” “Gundrum! Did he see the shooting, Hugh?” “He saw everything. He kept silent for obvious reasons. He told
not to téll what she knew. I, hope you agree?” v “Then only two of us were really in the dark?” Sidney mused. “Three. You forget Togi.” “Thank God enough of them saw what happened, We shall need their
testimony, old man. Henry Barkes|.
has been arrested for the murder.” The big engineer’s face withered at the announcement. |For an instant he remained silent and then he said slowly, “Arrested that limp chauffeur? Does Plowman really believe him guilty, or is he trying to force our hands?” | “I can’t say. But cah we afford to take that chance?” “In common decency, no, Sid. ‘How did you know who shot—in Pat's defense?” “Given similar circumstances any “one of us might have done it, Hugh, but there is only one who had the instant aim and courage to act. And only one man tall enough to hide the Lilliput in the upraised hand of the ape without standing on the block. There were no marks on that block.” “yes, 1 did it,” Hugh
calmly. ' “There was only one load in the
I'd taken from the rack, so 1 sliped the Lilliput into my pocket. It would have shown Adam's own fingerprints as well as mine had I not wiped it off. Unless, of course, he'd cleaned it after using it that afternoon. I'd used the| one bullet shooting the lock; so I'd slipped. the gun into my pocket: and had hold of the Lilliput. “Then came the terrific lightning
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«IN THE FLASH I saw him standing on the block. He had raised his gun and aimed at his wife. He looked exactly as Nella described him.” “3 Hugh paused a moment before continuing. “I knew then that he'd lost all reason .and I shouted, ‘Adam! He didn’t even hear me. Instead he drew the hammer of his
him myself, but my bullet aimed at his right hand, slightly e bullet
not reach ‘could. I ) put he must have turn and leaned forward. caught him in the heart.” “You shot in defense of a life,
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“I know that, Sid. But think of it—old Adam!” “Not the Adam we knew, Hugh. A distorted mind in his body.” “Thanks,” Hugh breathed. “I thought, everyone in the room would shout that I'd killed him. No one dig. Then I realized that in the confusion and darkness no one had seen me. “I actually stepped back, struck a match and looked into his face. I saw then that aid for the wound was useless, so I decided for all our sakes we had better assume that a
thief had done the murder, It would make bad telling that if I had not acted instantly my cousin would have shot his wife. A premeditated murder.” “I wish it could have been left that way, but it would always have dogged you, old man. Ag it is, we'll do everything we can for you.” Hugh got heavily to his feet. “The sooner I give myself up, the better it will be for Henry Barkes,” he said
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