The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 April 1920 — Page 7

The House of Whispers By WILLIAM JOHNSTON Copyright by Little, Brown & Co. z * . ■ ■' t __________

A SECRET PASSAGE. Synopsis.—Spalding Nelson is occupying the apartments of his great-uncle, Rufus Gaston. The Gastons, leaving on a trip, tell him about, mysterious noises and “whispers’’ that have scared them. He becomes acquainted with Barbara Bradford,. who lives in the same big building. He instinctively dislikes and distrusts the superintendent, Wick. Tiie mysteries in his apartments begin with the disappearance of the Gaston pearls from the wall safe. He decides not to call in the police, but to do his own investigating. It is soon evident that someone has access to his rooms. Becoming friendly with Barbara, he learns that her apartments are equally mysterious. She tells him that several years befora her sister Claire, who lives with her, had made a run-away marriage with an adventurer, from whom she was soon parted, and the marriage had been annulled. Claire is engaged to be married and someone has stolen documents concerning the affair from the Bradford apartment and is attempting to blackmail the Bradfords. Nelson takes Miss Kelly, the telephone girl, to dinner with the idea of pumping her. Gorman, a hotel detective, recognizes her as the wife of Lefty Moore, a noted burglar. Nelson tells his story to Gorman.

CHAPTER Vll—Continued. —9— “And the number she called up—the private number —did you find out about that?" /‘Sure, that was easy. It’s one of the apartments in the Granddeck — Henry Kent's. Who’s he? ’■ “I never heard of him. I’ll try to find out, though.” "1 would, but be careful how you go asking questions around the 'place. The Moore woman may have a pal. They generally work in pairs.” The ease and., celerity with which Gorman had learned all these things about the girl impressed me greatly, and I said as much. He received my compliments with a deprecating wave of the hand. “Nothing to it, boy, when you know the ropes. But last night you told me you had taken the girl out to try to pump something out of tier. What vas it? What’s doing?” From beginning to end I told him t ie whole story in all of its perplexing details, starting with the day that ’ had received my great-uncle Rufus’ note that had led to the chance meeting with Miss Bradford, bringing in my discharge and the disappearance of the Gaston pearls, and explaining what made me think these facts were in some way involved with the attempt to blackmail the Bradfords. “What do you make of it?” I asked as I ended my narrative. “Who do you think is at he bottom of it?" “I don’t think,” he retorted. “In our business it does not pay to think too quick. You’re apt to convict the wrong party.” “But you must think something,” I protested “I think,” he said slowly and meditatively, “that there’s of crooked work going o£ —I’ll say that, much. And you and Miss Bradford's pretty close to being the center of it.” “What can we do about it?” “There’s away I learned from a lawyer ’that ain’t bad. He’d take his client and put him in the center of a big circle with lines running in all directions — alibi, insanity, mistaken identity, no proof of guilt, lack of jurisdiction, escape on legal technicality—he’d mark out every possible defense. Then he’d follow each line out and see where it led and what plan the opposing lawyers would be likely to spring on ohim. Generally he got pis man off.” “I don’t quite see how that applies.” “You don’t, eh?” He traced an imaginary circle with ‘his forefinger on the table m the little ’back rdom where we were sitting. “Here’s you and Miss Bradford in the center, surrounded by a lot of mysterious deviltry. We’ll make two circles. This inside one is the things ■that have happened to both of you—the wall safes opened, the papers •stolen, the pearls gone, the anonymous notes, the blackmail threats, the loss •of your job, the voices you’ve heard. Now on this outer circle we’ll mark down all the people wrn might be mixed up in these things—mind ye, I say only might be. First, there’s Lefty Moore’s woman —we know she’s a crook. Then who do we know 7 that knows her? There’s at least two— Mr. Wick, the superintendent that hired her, and this Mr. Henry Kent,' whose apartment she telephoned to. Then there’s all the rest of the help in the house, Any one of them might be her pal. Then there’s the tlighty Bradford girl ” “You don’t suspect her, do you?” I cried, horrified at the prospect of his investigation taking this turn. “Be-easy,” he retorted. “I’m not suspecting anyone. I m only putting them down. There’s the Bradford girl and her ex-husband. He’s a bigamist and that makes him a crook. Those two men you saw in the park, one of them with a scar on his face—we’ll run them down. You know a case the scar-faced man goes to, so that’s a start. There’s the man who shadowed you—would you know him again if you saw him?” I shook my head doubtfully. “I’m afraid not,” I admitted, “you see—” “Don’t bother to explain. You either would or wouldn’t, and that’s all we need to know now. There’s old Mr. Gaston and his wife. It’s queer about their ‘ducking out so suddenly and leaving no address, but maybe they’re only scared. Let’s see who else is tHere—the Bradford servants and the old man's, the old washerwoman—-

and the families who live in the house. We’ve got the circle pretty well covered, haven’t we?” More and more I had begun to appreciate how valuable the services of an experienced detective would be likely to be in helping to solve the mystery. ‘‘Look here, Gorman,” I said, "why can’t you take charge of this case for us?” “What’s in It?” he asked. My face fell, and my enthusiasm died a sudden death. Once more I was confronted by the specter of my poverty. Os what use my talking to a high-priced investigator like Gorman when all the money I had in the world was less than two hundred dollars, out of which I had to live until I found employment. Yet I must serve Barbara Bradford. “If you clear up this ease,” I announced. “I’ll give you every cent I’ve got in the world.” He shook his head. “It ain’t enough. If I take this case, it won’t be for the money that’s in it. For that matter I can get all I want from old Gaston for getting his pearls back. That’ll be enough.” “Then you will take the case,” I cried jubilantly. “On one condition. That you’ll promise to keep everything away from the police.”

“I'll promise that for myself and Miss Bradford, too. That was the one reason she advanced against my telling you about things. She was afraid you’d call in the police.” “Never fear about that. There’s nothing I’d like better than to put it over that bunch of young reformers they’ve got down in Center street. This hotel work don’t suit me. anyhow. I’ve been thinking of opening up an office of my own. The recovery of the Gaston pearls.would be'a nice feather in my cap to start with." “I see,” I replied, “but you’ll need money for expenses and that sort of thing, won’t you? I have —” “Leave that part of it to me,” he retorted with a quizzical smile. “After all the years I was on the police force I ain’t exactly broke by a long shot. All you’ve got to do is to keep your eyes open and let me know all that goes on in the apartment hfiuse. I’ll attend to the rest. Don’t do anything, though, without consulting me first.” “I’ll gladly promise that?’ “Good enough. We’d better arrange then to meet here every day at three sharp. It’s as good a place as any.” “I’ll tie here.” “And look out you’re not trailed. They may try shadowing you again.” “Who do you mean by they?” I asked eagerly. “Them that trailed you yesterday,” replied Gorman with a grin. “If you don’t know, I don’t know either —yet.” From his manner I was confident that he already had a shrewd suspicion as to the identity of some of the miscreants. The maze in the center of which he had placed Miss Bradford and myself meant far more to him, undoubtedly, than it did to me. More than likely his vast knowledge of the methods of criminals and his acquaintanceship with others like Lefty Moore had given him clues enough as to where to look for the plotters. I realized that, it would be useless to question him further. He would admit suspecting no one until he was sure of their guilt, a quality I admired greatly. “You can count on me,” I repeated. “I’ll be here at three tomorrow.” Yet how foolish it was for any of us to predict whaLwe will be doing or where we will bemwenty-four hours from now. Seldom do things happen in the routine of our lives as we had anticipated. I was not there the next day at the time appointed. By no possibility could I have been there, however fiuch I might have wished to. Many things had happened in quick succession. How it came about that my promise to meet Gorman went unfulfilled can best be explained by narrating the events of the evening after I returned to the Granddeck. It was nearly five when I left the detective. I strolled leisurely down town and had dinner in the case *vhere on one occasion I had seen the scar-faced man. I lingered there for a long time over my coffee hoping in vain that he might appear. I even ventured to cautiously question the waiter and head waiter, describing the man as best I could, but both of them insisted that they never had seen any such person. As I walked home I kept a wary eye out to make sure I was not being followed, but apparently no one was now shadowing me. It was nine-thirty when I reached home. It had been arranged that Barbara about ten would signal me that we might have a chat from our 'respective windows. As I sat in my room waiting for the time to come, I was reviewing, the case in all its aspects. Indeed there was hardly a waking moment that I was not thinking of tiie many mysteries about us. I was wondering if, when the case was cleared up the mysterious whispers that we all had heard would also be explained. I recalled Claire Bradford’s unexpected • visit to my apartment the evening before and her eonfusion when I had captured her. I wondered if the explanations she had offered had been the truth. Was she really trying to locate the source of the whispers? I looked interestedly up at the section of the wall that I had .found her inspecting. What had she hoped to discover there? I decided to make a close inspection of both sides of the wall. As I lighted up the sitting room and hall for this purpose, something unusual came to my notice that had hitherto escaped me enturely.

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THE INNER WALL OF MY ROOM —the one running along the hall of the apartment—HAD THE APPEARANCE OF BEING AT LEAST FOUR FEET THICK. It seemed so absurd that I refused to believe the evidence my eyes had given me. In these modern days of steel construction there was no reason for a wall being of medieval proportions. I sprang to my great-aunt’s work basket and began rummaging to see if I could find a tape measure, and luckily my search was quickly rewarded. I sketched a rough diagram of the rear rooms, and began measuring them off, carefully checking my figures as I went along. I found myself growing wildly excited as the tape measure confirmed what my eyes already had told me. The inner wall was at least four feet thick. With thrills at the thought of the possibility of a secret passage there, I climbed up on a chair just as Claire Bradford had done, and began inspecting the wall inch by inch. Even as I did so I could not help laughing at myself. The idea that a modern apartment building might contain a secret passage was utterly ridiculous, yet as I pounded lightly on the wall it gave forth a hollow sound, vastly different from any other part of the room. I was convinced that between my room and the hall there was space enough at least for a passageway in which a man might walk. ■ I surveyed with growing interest the wooden paneling that in my room ran clear up to the ceiling. In the other rooms there was no paneling. Mounting the chair again I pressed sharply against the wood at the point from which the sound had seemed to come. It seemed to me it gave a little to my touch. I struck one of the sections a sharp blow. It dropped back a full half-inch, leaving what looked like a doorway—a space three? feet wide by five feet high. The bottom of the opening was hardly two feet from the floor. If there was a passageway here, this panel certainly would explain lww f my rooms had been surreptitiously visited. , Feverishly I worked at the panel trying to push it further back. If there was a passageway there in the wall I

II ■ /Mi is / /i' / i /! / | I iSltp As I, Trembling All Over at the Thought of the Peril She Had Been In, Put My Arms About Her and Helped Her In. was determined to see whither it led. My efforts to move the panel further seemed hopeless. As I worked at it I heard a tapping on my window sill. It must be Barbara. In my excitement over the find I had forgotten all about the time. I sprang from the chair and rushed to the window. I found her peering out, trying to ascertain why I had not answered her signal. “Oh,” she breathed with relief, as my head appeared, “you were there. Did you see the detective?” “Yes,” I replied, speaking as low as my excited state would permit me, “but just now I discovered something vastly more important.” "What is it?” “A secret passageway leading into my room. It seems to run along the hall. The wall there is at least four feet thick —room for a man to walk. There is a panel in the wall in my room leading into it. I was just prying it open when you signaled.” “Oh, how I wish I could see it!” “Why can’t you? Slip* out of your front door, and I’ll be at my door to admit you.” “I can’t do that. Mother and Claire are in tjie front part of the house playing bridge with some guests. They will be sure to hear me going out.” “Come in tomorrow morning, then,” I suggested. She did riot answer, and before I realized what she was doing, Barbara was out on the ledge making her perilous way across to my window. “If Claire can do this, I can,” she announced triumphantly, as I, trembling all over at the thought of the peril she had been in, put my arms about her and helped her in. “Darling,” I cried, still holding her in my arms, “don’t ever do that again. It’s too dangerous. Promise me, Barbara, dear, you’ll never again try that.” With her pretty face flushed at the terms of endearment that had unwittiift’ly escaped me, she laughingly released herself from my arms. “That was nothing,” she said in a tense whisper. “Where’s the panel?” Relieved to find that she was not angered by my presumption, I hastened to turn up the light and pointed at the hole in the wall. As I had done, she sprang up on the chair and endeavored to push the panel further back,' but was unable to budge it.

Quicker witted than I, she then tried sliding it along. At the slightest touch it slid back in a groove, revealing the opening—leading into what? Striking a match, we both of us peered in. The space between the walls was certainly high enough and side enough for a man to walk there in comfort. So far as the flickering light of the match enabled us to judge,; it ran the length of the hall, and near its further end there appeared to be some steps. “Come,” cried the intrepid Barbara, “let’s explore it.” “No,” I said firmly. "We must d<> nothing until I have seen the detective. We have put the case in his hands.” “But we must find out about it,” protested the girl. "Tomorrow,” I said. “We know' where it is. We know where the voices and whispers come from now.” “I wonder,” she said thoughtfully, “if there is the same sort of a passageway in our apartment?” “Promise me that if you find there is one, you will not attempt to explore it alone.” As we argued about it we both stopped short and with blanching faces listened. From somewhere —it sounded as if it was right below’ us—we heard sounds as if two people were struggling. Then came a woman’s shriek, a wild scream with the death terror in it. The sound seemed close at hand. It seemed t'o come right up from the opening in the panel by which we were standing. Once more there came an awful scream—a scream stopped off short as if some brutal hand had throttled the woman’s throat. “What is it?” cried Barbara. “Listen,” I commanded. “It seems to come from the floor below’.” Holding our breaths we strained our ears for further sounds. Suddenly a shot rang out, and there was a thud as if a body had fallen to the floor. Then all was silence. With terror in our faces we turned to each other, seeking an explanation which neither could give. “Mother—Claire 1” cried Barbara. “They’ll be alarmed. I must go back to them at once.” “She's been murdered. Get the police quick.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) THEATER’S ORIGIN FAR BACK May Be Traced to Festivals Held in Honor of the Mythological God Bacchus. Thinking back for the origin of any theatrical performance, our minds naturally revert first to Shakespeare and his Globe theater. Some of us would go back a little further; and many of us would choose Moliere, the plays he wrote and staged, often in the open, for the vain Louis and then, in his own theater, where, while he was the favorite of the king, he w’as the rage of France. But these were only steps in the evolution of the theater and the play. For the origin of all dramatic representations we must go back to the days of idol worship, when many gods were thought to rule the destinies of man. Two brothers, Danaus and Aegyptus, sons of Bel us, shared the throne of Egypt. After a particularly heated quarrel, Danaus, with his followers, set sail in search of a new’ land where he could rule alone. They landed near the Greek city of Argus, of which he shortly became king. Here, to celebrate his good fortune, he instituted festivals in honor of the god Bacchus, who was f supposed to have -helped to make his undertaking successful. These festivals consisted of nothing more than riotous revelry, Interspersed with songs, which, after the manner of the day, were most primitive and often coarse. But the festivals soon became very popular and were held periodically all over Greece. From this beginning,, in the form of a kind of public worship, which w’as the first entertainment or performance known, evolved the theatrical projects jof later ages which developed into the institution of the theater as we know it today. Taught Chinese Lacemaking. The art of lacemaking was first taught to the Chinese of the Chefoo district liy foreign missionaries about twenty-five years Ago. They believed that by teaching lacemaking the women and girls would find profitable employment within their own homes, and the subsequent spread of the industry has fully justified 'their efforts. Although first taught in Chefoo. Chi Hsia Hslen was the first district in ■w’hich lace was extensively made. Time Measured by Candles. The Chinese, besides using water clocks, also invented joss-sticks, which burned uniformly. The joss-stick is somewhat similar to what good old Ring Alfred of England is said to have used way back in the eight hundreds; He was a great educator, and discovered that tailow candles could be used for dividing the time which he allowed his nobles in which to make complaints against each other. Those Girls! “Tell me just what sort of a man your fiance is.” “Oh, he’s everything that is nice.” “I’m so glad. Yon know, I have always said that people should marry a their opposites.”—Boston Transcript, ‘',' . i '

| Important | | News Events | | of the World | f Summarized | sl JIS Foreign Roumanian soldiers found the bodies of 11 members of a w’ealthy Russian family floating in the halffilled cabin of a yacht on the Danube at Sulina. Each person had been shot through the head. Fourteen million rubles and many jew’els were discovered on board the vessel. » • • Several thousand infantry troops and some cavalry are about to be sent to Ireland, the London Daily Herald learns, to re-enforce the British forces there in view of the threatening internal situation. • • « Only 25,000 pilgrims will be permitted to go to Rome to attend the ceremonies incident to the canonization of Joan of Arc, which will be held there next month. • • • Premier Vlastimil Tussar’s government at Prague, formed in July. 1919, has tendered his resignation to President Masaryk of Czecho-Slavakia. • • • All the men arrested in Dublin Thursday, except five, later were released. • • • Three persons are reported to have been killed and nine wounded in a fight at Miltown Mai Bay, County Clare. Ireland. It is alleged the police .and the military were involved. Those killed were civilians. « • • Extensive military raids were carried out at Dublin and 100 persons are reported to have been arrested. Mountjoy prison regained more prisoners than it lost through the removal of the hunger strike. ♦ ♦ ♦ Members of the Miners’ Federation at London, by a majority of 05,135 votes, have decided to accept the government offer of a 20 per cent increase on gross earnings. » • • Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, leader of the recent unsuccessful coup d’etat in Berlin, and other men prominently connected with that movement, have gathered at Danzig, which is a free city. • * * The unionist members of the Londonderry city council withdrew from the session when a resolution of sympathy with the hunger strikers in Mount Joy prison was proposed. • • * Soldiers fired ball cartridges over the heads of crowds gathered at the Londonderry station at Belfast and two civilians were wounded by ricocheting bullets. • • * The Japanese casualties In the fighting between Russian and Japanese forces on April 5 at Khabaravsk, in the Amur region, totaled 84 killed and 183 wounded, according to an official statement issued at Tokyo. Thd Russians lost 400 killed and 1,500 men taken prisoner. * • * Evidence is accumulating that Paul R. De Mott of Paterson. N. J.. who was killed in the Ruhr district by German soldiers, had close connection with bolshevist groups in various countries, says a Berlin dispatch. • ♦ ♦ Domestic r * • Robert L. Tanner, first-class private, medical corps, U. S. A., leaped from the vestibule of a swiftly moving Northwestern passenger train at Union Grove, a small station west of Dixon, ni. ♦ * * Thirty strike leaders were rounded up at Chicago and held under SIO,OOO bonds each to the grand jury, charged with violating several sections of the Lever law. All were released on bonds. • • « The Chicago express, eastbound, one of the prize trains of the Erie, was abandoned by its crew at Port Jervis, N. Y.. 90 miles from New York. The train carried 250 passengers, milk and United States mail. Frederick A. Delano of Chicago was appointed by the Supreme court at Washington as receiver in the Red River Valley oil land controversy between Oklahoma and Texas. • * * The New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Boston voted to lift the ban on dancing, card playing and theatergoing. The forbidding words will be dropped from the book of discipline. Two hundred women, wives and sympathizers of strikers at Kewanee, 81., attacked 800 workers with bricks and stones. In the melee 15 workers suffered broken noses and arms and a score of women were trampled under foot. • * * Gabriel Shipley, a lock tender near Hagerstown, Md.. has received word from a probate court in California that he and his five children are heirs to $7,000,000 from an estate of $22,000,000, left by a cousin. Four young children and their mother, Mrs. Julius Kutz, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed their farm home one and one-half miles from Delavan, _Wis. *l * * Carrie Ulrich, returned soldier, and iThite Flynn, farmer, were killed at a ,’arm near Buhl, Idaho, when an ace•ylene tank exploded. Shortage of white paper has comnelled the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the (only German morning paper in Chicago, to suspend publication-

Switchmen and yardmen and othei employees of the Pennsylvania, tht Reading and the Baltimore & Ohic railroads in the Philadelphia district who are on strike were ordered to re sume w’ork at once.’— Lieut. D. M. Hansell and Sergt. W. T. Maxwell, both of the Nineteenth aero squadron, were instantly killed when their airplane fell at Sanderson. Tex. Both were on border patrol duty. • * * More than 1,000 girls arrived at New York from Ireland. Rev. . Anthony Grogen of the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls said their arrival would help relieve the shortage of domestic servants. ♦ • • Three trainmen were killed and two Injured in a collision between two Louisville & Nashville passenger trains near Bay Minette, Ala. • • • William Yancey Mills, negro exsailor. was hanged in the county jail at Chicago for the murder of Anthony Brizzolarro and Isadore Ganskl. He faced execution calmly. After a conference with Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican leader in the house at Washington, said he believed congress would adjourn June 5. ♦ • • Politics *»General Pershing’s first formal announcement that he would permit himself to be considered as a candidate for president was made at a banquet of the Nebraska society at Washington. - « • * Gov. Frank O. Lowden, though beaten by 30,000 by Maj. Gen. Wood in Chicago, has won the Illinois Republican presidential Indorsement by an estimated plurality of 80,000. • • • Personal Dr. A. F. Wilhelmy, who served as a major in the medical corps at Camp Dodge, la., was killed at Decatur, 111., when hts automobile was hit by a train. t * • • Theodore Newton Vail, chairman of the board of directors of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, died at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, Md. Roger C. Sullivan, for many years Democratic boss of Cook county, died at his home In Chicago. Mr. Sullivan s end came as a result of a sudden heart attack, superinduced by bronchial pneumonia. • • • Dowager Viscountess Wolseley, widow of Viscount Wolseley, field marshal and former commander-ln-chief of the British army, died at London. . • * • Washington The “outlaw” railway strike is practically at an end, according to reports reaching the department of justice at Washington. The Mexican government has ordered closed the ports of entry at Nogales, .Guayamas, Angua Prieta. Sasabe and Naco. This step was taken tn connection with the uprising in Sonora, according to Washington advices. • * • Maintenance of a division of regulars in and around the national capital to protect it from the “forces of unrest at work in this country, was urged in the senate at XVashington by Senator Frelinghuysen. * * • — R. C. Lefflngwell. assistant secretary of the treasury at Washington, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted by President W ilson. An army of 175.000 men and 16.000 officers during the year beginning next July was approved by the house at Washington in considering the military appropriation bill. A resolution looking to the impeachment of Assistant Secretary Post of the labor department at Washington for his attitude toward the deportation of radicals was Introduced by Representative Hoch (Rep.) of Kansas. The “outlaw” railroad strike is a direct, well-planned attempt to overthrow the United States government by means of revolution. This was the official view taken of it at the cabinet meeting at Washington. An order was Issued by Secretary Wilson at Washington suspending the immigration laws so as to admit laborers from Mexico and Canady for the exclusive purpose of cultivating and harvesting sugar beets. President Wilson is asked in a resolution introduced in the house at Washington to urge Great Britain to afford trials to Irish political prisoners or give them their liberty. For the second time since he has been president, Mr. Wilson has become the center of attention by an organization of women pickets. American women striving for Irish freedom picketed both the White House and the treasury building at Washington. • • ♦ Leaders of the striking switchmen in the Chicago district were informed by federal representatives that they must go back to work or stand aside to let the railroads hire men to take their places. , 1 Agreement to abolish the subtreasuries at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Chicago on July 1, 1921, was reached by senate and house conferees oh the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill at Washington. • * • Former Senator Theodore Burton of Ohio was nominated at Washington to be a member of the tariff commission. Martin J. Gilan of Wisconsin was nominated to be a inember of the shipping board. - ’r -

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