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SATURDAY. JANUARY 21. 1922. ’
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’ BEGIN HERE TODAY., ■
lhe report of a M&wed
, hurrying footsteps Ms the stairs,
\ s es Detective Barry and his
U i professed Semyonov, to rush!
the latter’s rpoms on the fifth
0 , „f a New York apartment >
They discover that beautiful i
iramAane, society portrait paint
has 1,,-en murdered in her studio
ntment on the'third floor. Ladd,
® UII „ artist on the second floor,
'.avoid a bachelor on the fourth,
ul’ Patricia Shaw, a writer on the
dh ib ny having heard the shot,
riswold states that Ladd had been
jeiidly with Miss Vane. This, Ladd
tries.
GO ON WITH THE STORY.
"Well,” Gordon Ladd moistened
. [ips and spoke slowly, weighing
ch wold with care. “1 let myself
a t the entrance with my house
v and had reached the door of
apartment outside here when
mcing up the stairs I caught
glimpse of Mrs. Vane in the hall
OV e, just outside her own door.
As I had not seen her in several
ys 1 went half-way up the stairs
d greeted her, with the half-formed
ention of paying her a short call
it were not too date, but she said
tt she was too busy and must work
on a portrait, or words to that I
ect, so I hade her ‘goodnight’ and
ning back to my own apartment,
myself in and closed the door.
It semed almost the next moment,
1 have stated, that the commotion I
se, and as no one else seemed 1
>ly to reply to that banging on the I
rance door I went down and ad- j
ted the policeman. We heard j
ccs and saw lights coming from
s. Vane’s apartment and went up !
ether, but I had heard no shot ■
I of course had no suspicion of the ;
th. That is why it floored me j
when—when I saw the body.” |
t was only at the conclusion of his |
g explanation that the young man i
:ered and into his eyes there came 1
in that swift, fleeting look of j
er, stark horror which Barry had I
ed earlier, when he had collapsed j
the discovery 6f the murder.
Mr. Ladd,” he recommenced
vely. ‘‘How was Mrs. Vane ;
psed when you saw her in the land
above? The same as when her
y was found?”
Os course!” The artist stared.
Did you see anyone else in the
ways or on .the stairs, either
ve or below?”
No one.” The reply was decisive
the pause before it came -was a
Jtion too long and Barry seized
n it.
Then, Mr. Ladd, what in your
niation was the 1 reason for Mrs.
le’s presence-out there in the pub
iall? Did she offer any explana-
Certainly not, and I thought
ring of it!” Ladd replied hotly. “Ft
i ridiculously trivial notion to
)ble over! There (flight have been
undred unimportant reasons.”
There might have been a hundred
sons, Mr. Ladd!” Again there
ie that maddening repetition of
name which had so often helped
(leaking a stubborn witness under
third degree. “But in this case
re was only one, and ydu know it!
>• Vane was either receiving or
■ting a guest, and if you saw no
else, you yourself must have
n that guest! We have purposely
arrogated the other tenants of the
se before approaching you and
.hav<> learned more than you
’b! I in- saying that walls have
’ is true also of ceilings --”
*!' paused significantly while Ser
nt ( raig stared at him in genuine
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surprise, but the shot found its mark.
Leaping to.’his feet, with his hand
some face darkened and distorted in
j a paroxysm of rage, Ladd cried :
“So that’s what you two have been
| trying to get at, is it? That miserable
j wretch Griswold has noted my ac
quaintanceship with Mrs. Vane and
| deliberately tried to blacken her
character in your eyesf 1 admit that
I was in love with her; alt our world
in Paris as well as here will tell you
cl my long attempt to make her my
wife, but they will also tell you that
she has laughed at my love for her,
as she has at that of all others. 1
woul have said nothing, but now
that he has spoken, ark him what
‘claim he hhs upoif her, gentlemen,
lor 1 lied to you! 1 did see someone
upon the stairs! It, was he whom I
saw leaving her apartment a mo
ment before r entered my own and
the shot was fired which must have
ended her life!” A .
V
Sergeant Barry felt that tiie mo
ment was too tense and the possible
issue too important to give his col
league an important opportunity to
interrupt. Without a glance at Craig
he demanded of the almost distraught
young artist before him:
j ‘‘That being .tße case, Mr.. Ladd,
i tell us the truth of what happened
last night! Why did you go half
way up the flight of stairs leading
to Mrs. Vane’s apartment if you
I saw her in the hall talking to a
1 neighbor whom yo apparently dis
i like?”
“Mrs. Vane seemed bantering her
j departing guest in her usual gay
i manner, and he was glowering at
j her in a resentful fashion. The mo
-1 ment he had disappeared up the
stairs and before Mrs. Vane had had
. an opportunity to turne and re-enter
I her own apartment I called to her,
and—went up to her.” His tone had
| been more and more uncertain and
I now he hurried on: “I begged for
j five minutes of her time, but she
| snubbed me laughingly and I re
! turned here.”
j There was silence for a moment,
i while Sergeant Craig made no effort
; to enter/the examination, and Barry
eyed the young man before them
very gravely. At length the more
experienced official :
“Mr. Ladd, you have not told us
all the truth! What happened be
tween.those two on the stairs which
made ‘you rush, up t« Mrs. Vane,
only to be repulsed:- Were you re
pulsed? Were you not with her, in
her studio, when the deadly shot was
fired?”
At the unexpected accusation the
young man sitrank back, then
•sprang from his chair.
"This is what you in your police
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slang call a ‘frame-up,’ isn’t it?
You’ve got to hand the —the murder
on someone, I suppose, and sd'l am
to'be the goat??”
“By no means.” Barry , also had
risen. “You must realize the, strong
circumstantial case against you, but
I do not think you are .guilty?”
Barry continued quietly:
“Do you know why? Because ever
since this interrogation was started,
in spite of the damaging admissions
you made against yourself, you have
deliberately equivocated and evaded,
and I think I know the reason.’
Barry’s tone softened and deepened.
“I believe you did care for Mrs. Vane,
honorably and sincerely, and it is for
that very fact that I ask you to tell
us the truth now.”
For an instant the young man
hesitated, and then sinking once
more into his chair he buried his face
in his hands.
At last Gordon Ladd raised his
head, and upon his white, set face
there was written implacable re
solve.
“You win, Sergeant Barry! 1
woqld die myself before I would will
ingly rake up anything against the
memory of the woman 1 loved, even
though she had played mercilessly
with me, only to turn me down ir
revocably in the end, but there’s
some mystery about this whole thing
that I don’t understand, and it may
in away have some bearing upon
the manner of her. (|eath. No breath
of scandal has ever touched her.
Nevertheless, she must have had
some source of income, for her
studio was luxurious—almost pala
tial comparedNtp this—-and her war
work and fits of idleneses which she
indulged in later were alike unre
munerative.”
His voice _ broke and Sergeant
Barry waited a moment before ask
ing: t
“Why did Mrs. Vane return to
America last autumn?”
Gordon Ladd shrugged.
“A whim of hers, we all thought;
we would not have been surprised
had she announced her departure for
China. There was nothing—nothing
definite between ils two, you know.
I was simply one of many who were
permitted to adore her’ at a distance.
The rest forgot, but I didn’t; I fol
lowed her to New York, and when I
found that success had crowned her
bizarre talents and yet she was liv
ing in this this hovel, I was amaz-
ed beyond words. In the artistic col
ony in Paris false conventions are un
known, and when 1 discovered that
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just so that I might be near her,
even though she still laughed at my
wooing. Then—then I began to no
tice this man Griswold.”
His voice hardened perceptibly on
the last words and Barry remarked:
“If the report we get on him tallies
with his own account of himself, he
is a highly respectable member of
society.”
“Oh, I know all about him. All
anybody knows, 1 mean. I’ve looked
him up,” Ladd cried defiantly.
“What I want to know is this: Why
is he living hidden away in a cheap
makeshift studio building like this,
a man with all his money? Why
was she, a brilliant artistic success
content even for a day in such sur
roundings after the luxury* which
had always been hers? Why did he
—reputedly a- confirmed woman
hater—.call upon ‘her, and why did
she even permit cr tolerate his ‘ ac
quaintance, she who was accustomed
abro.id to the scciety of notable
men?” f
“Why did you not ask her?”
“I-did, but she always put me off;
told me he was : n American type
that she had almost forgotten and
that he amused her. A week ago 1
couldn’t stand it any lynger; 1 pro-
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when she laughed at me as usual I ! '
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at last that she would never be my
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Gordon Ladd paused, his clenched ,
hands tightening until the knuckles '
showed white,
“I kept away from-her-after that
until tonight, when I came in as I ;
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jjis, and yet somehow the siglrt
(trove me wild!
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