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"fl THE BALCONY John Bartley, noted criminal investigator, recently returned from Secret Service work during the t war. is asked by the governor of New York to investigate a mysterious attempted robbery of the Hubert Slyke home at Circle Lake, near Saratoga, and to establish the guilt or innocence of two men in the penitentiary tor the crime. A miscarriage of Justice is suspected. Bartley r.nds in it the restaging of an old case, is interested a id agrees to solve th# mystery With his friend Pelt, a newspaper man. Bartley goes to Circle Lake, the pair becoming the guests of Bob Currie, an old framd The three visit the SiyKs home. Slyke regent* Bartley's coming, saying he is satisfied the two men in prison are guilty. Bartley is not. Next morning Slyke is found dead in j bed, apparently having shot him- i self. Miss Potter, the dead man’s mster-in-iaw. the village police chief. Roche, and the family physician, Doctor King, all agree Slyke killed himself, but Bartley insists he was murdered. CHAPTER lll—Continued. “When you look at the pillow,” he explained, “on which his head lies, you will find only one or two spots of blood. The shirt, in fact. h;« none at all. The wound must have bled some—not much. It Is true, but far more than It seems to have done from the appearance of the bed. He was killed elsewhere and placed In this bed afterwards. 1 doubt if he was even undressed at the time of his death." Mi s I’ott.r, who had remained client although obviously very nervous asked if she might go to her room and leave the doctor in xhaige. This delegating of her authority to the doctor did m»t appeal to Roche; and he told her th«t, if her brother-in-law had been murdered, it would be the police utid not the doctor who would take charge <>f things. The ordeal through which she had passed must have been more than she could stand, for she made no comment on his challenge but started to leave the room. •'M s-' Potter.” Bartley asked, as she reached the door, "did yo. ever see this revolver in .Mr. Slyke’s hand?” She hesitated a moment and then reph.'l. “It's Mr. Slyke’s; he was In the habit of keeping It in a drawer of his desk. The gun was bought soon after the burglary, but, so far as I know, he has never used It.” Although her statement that the revolver had belonged to the dead man made the suicide theory plausible, yet I could not qnlte see how the Tacts that Bartley had brought forward to disprove the suicide could be overthrown. "What makes you think, Mr. Bartley," lioche asked, “that Slyke was dressed at the time he was Rilleci?” Bartley answered: “If Slyke had been killed In bed there would have been more blood on the hetlclothes than the few drops we see on the pillow. His nightshirt, too. If it had been worn at the time he was killed, would have had SMM» traces of blood •>n It There are no such stains. This, and the fact that death must have 11 f |lr 1 j yftj 11 Bartley Began a Searcn of the Room, Using a Small Glass Once or Twice a* If He Were Looking for FingerPrints. been instantaneous makes me feel rare that he was undressed after He was killed and then placed on the bed in the position In which we have found him." Bartley began a search of the room, using a small glass once or twice as if he were looking for finger-prints. Slyke’s clothes were flung over a chair, and one of his stockings had fallen to the floor. The way the gray suit lay on the chair made me wonder if Bartley was right when he said the murderer had undressed him after the crime. It looked so much as if It bad been carelessly flung there by a man preparing for bed. After going through Slyke’s pockets Bartley said slowly, “I have grave doubts if be was even killed in this roons." Be continued to examine the room. Marching the floor, looking into the drawers of the desk, examining the walls even; then he came back to the clothing. Picking up the blue silk dhtrt from the chair, be examined It t second time before he said: *T was •igitt He was not killed In this room. rail be — You will -•

notice that all his clothing is placed on this chair in the manner that a man would naturally place it If he was undressing for bed. But there Is no button in the front of his shirt to hold his collar, and one stocking Is missing. Any man may lose a' collar button, but if he does, that button will be dropped at the place where he undressed. No button is in this room. It was lost in -the room in which he was undressed. We find his shoes here but only one stocking, td we naturally ask where is the other stocking. Then, too. there are no blood stains anywhere In this room. Though his wound did not bleed much, it must have bled some. These are the reasons why I say he was not killed in ‘ thl* room, or even undressed here.” His explanation seemed reasonable enough, yet somewhat mystifying. Why had the murderer taken all. this trouble to undress Slyke. and why had he done it in some other room? The next question was just as puzzling. If Slyke had not been killesi in this room, where had the crime taken place? As if he had read my thoughts, Roche suggested that as there was another room in the tower, we might see what could he found there. The butler, who entered at this moment, did Ids best not to glance at the bed. He was holding with great ditllculty a half-grown Airedale that growled fiercely when he saw us. The butler motioned to the doctor to come to him. As he reached his side. Doctor King placed his hand upon the dog’s head and it ceased to show its teeth and. licked his fingers. For several moments he and the butler held a low conversation, then King turned to us to say that he had just been called to the hospital for an operation and would have to leave at once, Bartley scribbled something on a piece of paper, and handing it to the doctor said, “I think there ought to be a picture taken of the body so it can be used at the inquest.” The doctor agreed and went out, accompanied by the butler. As the door closed behind them Bartley went to lock it. but the key was missing. After a moment’s hesitation he decided it would do no harm to leave it unlocked while we were gone, and we all started for the floor above. The room ”we entered was of the same size as the one In which we had found Slyke. Here, too, there was kittle furniture —three chairs grouped around a little table In the center of the room, a lounge In one’corner, a small desk In another. It was the table that attracted Bartley’s attention. On it stood a half-emptied bottle of Scotch whisky, and beside the bottle three' gho-ses. one of them holding about a spoonful of liquor. Near one of the glasses was a halfsmoked cigarette am! a magazine, and on the opposite side of the table the stub of a cigar. Bartley looker! at both of them with keen interest ami finally placed *henr in an envelope. The cigarette must have been a very high-priced one. for the end was of the finest straw. The appearance of the table suggested that three men had been present and that two of them had been smoking. A conference. perhaps, at which a bottle of whisky had assistetl. Aside from the table, there seemed to be nothing of interest in the room. While Bartley was still glancing at the table, I walked over to the large window and drew aside the heavy curtain that reached to the floor. At my feet was a playing card that had been concealed by Its ■> folds. Glancing around to see if there were any others and finding none, I brought the card to Bartley. As 1 stepped to his side* I saw that he was examining the magazine. Like many magazines, the back carried a gaudy advertisement that covered the entire page. This one had an unusual amount of unused white spa<-e. Bartley pointed silently to where someone had idly amused' himself by drawing on It with a pencil, a habit many people have. The design was simple, only a mass of scrolls, with a little figure here and there, and lines run unug through them. Whatever It meant to Bartley, the mass of zeros held no significance to me. He did not enlighten me, bur placed the magazine in his pocket. Then I showed him the playing card and told him where I found It. He asked. "Are there no more?” I was 1i a 11***><»>»*♦»♦******

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answering. "No," when Roche mra rupted. "Tes, there is one." He pointed to the stairway that lee to tile top of the tower. There, lying under the bottom step, was a second playing card with the same tiesign on the back as the one 1 had found. What were they doing in that room? Bartley smiled to himself as he ex amined the second card. Roche asked, "What do they mean?’ With a gesture (hat might have meant anything, it was so expressive. Bartley replied-, “They had a card party downstairs last night.” Roche was excited in a moment. ‘Til tell you what it means. Someone at that party killed Slyke. followed him up here and killed him.” It was. not a half-bad theory, and even Bartley did not protest as mu'-h as I had thought he would. Instead he said, “There Is something in what you say, Roche. We must look first for the person who had the chance to kill him. You as<ttme that after the party the person who dropped these cards did what any absent-minded person might do. That is, he placet! the cards of his last hand in his pocket. He may have followed Slyke up here, hidden behind the curtain, and as he killed him dropped some of his cards on the floor.” He paused, half frowned, as if the theory did not quite appeal to him. .and added slowly. “Still. Roche, theru are other things to be considered. Those two cards are in different parti /Wilk “There Must Be Blood Spots Somewhere. Yet Where? There Are None in This Room.” of the room; not together as we might have expected if they had been dropped by accident. It looks, to me as if they might bave been placed where we found them by design. As if someone wished us to think just what you thought. Then there is that bottle of whisky ami the three glasses. All three glasses have been drunk from. The glasses show that they were all used at about the same time. Evidently two of the men smoked; the third did not. What I wonder is. were these three persons in the room at one and the same time?” Roche, who had long since lost his air of self-satisfaction, now offered to help us make a thorough examination of the room. When we had ended our unsuccessful search, Bartley stood silent, a puzzled expression on his face. “It’s more mysterious than ever,” he said at last. “I am sure he was not killed in the r<a>m below. I am also sure he was killed here. There must .be blood -pots somewhere, yet where? There are none In this room.” He went to the v inflow and glanced opt. then came bar’: and glanced up at the steps that led to the roof. All at once his face brightened, and motioning us to follow him he bounds] up the seven steps to the little door tliat opened onto the balcony. We followed more slowly. We found ourselves on a balcony sor>e four,feet wide that ran around the. tower. About eight or ten feet below Its bronza-tipped top, an iron ra ting protected the edge cf the balc -ny and was covered with ivy, as were also the sides of the tower i ’self. Bartley paused for a moment, .•landing with his hand on the rail, his face serious, ids eyes thoughtful. But it was for a moment only; tiie vext he was out of sight around the •.oner. Almost instantly we heard him call us. and when we reached his side he was on his knees examining the t’oor and the lower part of the wall. 1 coking where he pointed. I saw at It’s feet a dark splotch on the floor o' tise ivalcony, and a little higher up several similar sjHits on the wall of ti e tower. I realized that, at last, ne hi d founfl what he had been looking fer. There was no doubt that the splotches we saw were blood, and that it had been shed within a few hours. F.nd he expected to find them just where he did? I wondered. “You »ay I know who killed hin>— I—l know?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) J U6l»»**4*»»6* >1 i 111 b

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