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PAGE SIX
Ok STEPon the STAIRS
ISABEL 4 4'
OSTRANDER'*
(Continued from Our Last Issue.)
“Whe'i the door Lad closet} and ne
was out of the way I rushed up to
her; I don’t knoiy what 1 said; 1 must
have baen crazed'with jeailusly. and
the mystery of it all. I do remem
ber, though, quite distinctly, that
she turned on me in a cold fury, for
bade me ever to address her again,
and entering her apartment, shut the
door in my face! I descended, let
myself in here hlmost mechanically,
And dropped into that chair you’re
sitting in now? sergeant.
Craig was settling oaek in his
chair, with a gesture to Barry, wi n
the latter stepped forward.
"Mr. Ladd, as I understand it,
your apartment here is a replica of
the one just above, - studio and all.
Have you any objection to showing
us about?”
‘‘Not at all.” In contrast to that
of the dead woman’s Ladd’s studio
was hung with rare tapestries and
furnished as luxuriously as that of a
social dilettante, yet its easel upon
which stood an unfinished landscape,
and the carved refectory table care
lessly covered with paint tubes and
smeared cloths,' showed it to be a
workroom no less than hers.
“What color do you call this?"
Barry picked up a lube, and squeez
ing a bit of its contents on the pal
ette, he indicated the blotch of, red
dish brown.
“Burnt sienna," responded t he art.
irt, promptly. ‘‘l seldom use it—you
can see there was none on the pal
ette before—but I always keep a full
assortment of colors on hand. It is
odd you should have asked me about
that!”
“Why?" demanded Barry quickly,
for the young man's tone had tensed
with some sudden emotion.
“Well, it is just a trivial matter,
but over a week age. -the last time,
in fact, that Mrs. Vane and I had a
chummy little talk in her studio-1
advised her to use more burnt siennp
with the seal brown to get th'e
proper effect of the wood rm the
staircase in that portrait she was do
ing of Mrs. Vansittart, the one be
fore which her—her own body was
found tonight.”
Barry replaced the tube reflective
ly on the table as Craig, with an evi
dent effort to efnulate his collegauc,
picked up one of the bottles and
sniffed it Speculatively.
“That’s turpentine,” Ladd re
marked, and his -voice had sunk
again to a dull apathy. •
“It’s funny about this turpentine.”
Craig still stood by the table. “It’s
used as a cleaning fluid, isn’t it?
Seems to me I’ve smelt that odor
somewhere else in this house tot
i.ight.”
“Naturally the studio, above is
permeated witli it.” Barry turned
away from the window and let the
shade drop. “Mr. Ladd, if you’ll
just show us through the rest of
your apartment now we won't trou
ble you any more tonight/’
Barry thanked the artist and bpde
him goodnight. .In the hall Craig
produced a handkerchief and wiped i
ds ruddy brow. ' /
“Well, John, we’ve a niee mess to ■
report at headquarters!” he an- I
nounced in a low tone that the po- i
liceman on guard might not hear. I
•• “Here's a woman shot dead, and
every last tenant in the house ex- :
cept the professor seems mixed up i
in it somehow, though every one of
them have lied and (peached on the
rest! Who the deyil was this* Miriam ;
Vane, anyway?, Where did she come ;
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from and what were the rest of them
to her?”
“I think we can guess what I add
was,” Barry- whispered- as he led his
calleague up the stairs once more.
“Just an idealistic young tool who
let her play with him like a cat with
a mouse to please her -vanity and
then kicked him out when he be
came inconvenient . He may have
■killed her, but I don’t think so; I
think he would have adored the wo
man he thought she was, and pro
tected her with his last breath.”
“The woman he thought she
was!” repeated Craig, pausing on
th.' stairs in his astonishment.
. VI
"What arc we going upstairs again
for?” demanded Craig. “I’ve got t>
make'my report at, headquarters, and
it’s getting on toward morning.”
“You’re not going to rouse up old
Griswold again, then, and ask him
why he lied about his Acquaintance ]
with Mrs. Vane?” Barry bent a
quizzical glance upon the younger,
sergeant.
,"I am not,” the other announced
with decision. “We have young
Ladd’s word for it that Griswold
lied, but neither of them were under
oath. They’re both under guard and
in the morning we’ll have them down
on the carpet ami get the truth out
of th epi.”
“That’s a , od idea,” approved
Harry. “And while you are about it,
you might find out what time little
Miss Shaw goes out and let the pro
fessor know'. 1 fancy he’ll be wait
ing to hear.”
Craig stared.
“Oh, yes, I forgot that note you
■ lipped under his door. You said
[Something about porch-climbing and
chemistry. You’re not putting any
thing over on ’me, Jahn?”
“No.” Barry smiled.
“I’ll put the men on guard out
side wise, so that they won’t kick
up a rumpus if they see him, like a
modern Santa Claus, perambulating
the fire escape with his white whis
kers waving in the early morning
'breeze. That note simply asked him
to get into the other apartments
when he was suj - the occupants were
gone, and sear K for traces of a
certain chemical compound.”
“But we’d only just left Miss
Shawks apartment; we hadn’t seen
either Griswold’s or Ladd’s then!’
Craig explained leneather his ore "th.
“You don’t suspect her, John?”
Barry smiled, but a trifle dryly.
Barry whited until the younger
sergeant’s footsteps had died away
in the quiet night air and then
turned to the guard.
“Doane, do you know who I am?”
The patrolman nodded.
“AU right,” Barry broke in. “I
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’ take it that your orders tonight,
Doane, are to keep guard outside the
| apartment here in which the woman
; was shot unless you hear any sus-
■ picious ;ound within, or see some
' thing which you think should be in
, vestigated. Is that so?”
U “Right, sir,” Doane responded.
“Very good. You’re going io see
{ and hear something suspicious witJi
i in five minutes, and that something
is going to be me! Understand?”
■ “I don’t, sir,’ Doane replied. “But
■ what you say goes. You mean you
| want to have another look around
j the place? I’ve orders not to let
| anybody in, but as long as you’re
taking the responsibility, the lock is
i smashed, and I can’t see every
, shadow in this dark hall.”
pashed open the broken
door, which swung drunkenly on its
hinges, ami entering the perfumed,
littered living robin', he found his
way to the wall switch and turned
I on the opalescent lamps.
The little writing desk was open,
j its profusion of papers'scattered on
the floor, and the drawers of an al
most priceless Chinese cabinet had
been farced. Approaching the lat
| ter,' Barry .observed that its contents
, were mainly scraps of drawing pa
per on which tiny figures had been
scrawled, each with a few deft lines,
| and picking up one he whistled
j softly.
1 It was a miniature caricature,
I cruel in its sharply defined charac
ter delineations, of pompous, good
natured Theodore Vansittart, hus
band of the woman whose unfinished
portrait'stood on the easel in, the
-studio, and glancing over the. others
Barry found like caricatures of sev
eral people prominent in the. social
and political life of the city.
He was turning away from the
cabinet when he noticed something
which it was obvious that the de
tectives had overlooked; a small
compartment at the top, with a han
dle formed by a tiny red-gold dragon,
remained undisturbed.
Barry tugged at the little dragon
but it was immovable, the' single gilt
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; eye above its snout-like nose seem
ing to wink mockingly at the futility
of his efforts. Something about that
eye and the curious formation of its
socket gave the ergeant a sudden
in piration, and taking a bkmt pen
cil from his pocket he pressed sharp
ly upon the globule of gilt as upon a
teell button. ,
i Distantly the dragon turned in
i ward as upon a spring, the front of
the compartmnet dropped forward on
nqisele ■ . unseen hinges and. the in
terior of the small, secret space was
, exposed.
Mentally congratulating himself
that Doane had elected to remain
«
outside, Barry'drew forth the con
tents of the comuartinent in both
hands and carried it carefully to a
small table. It was evident enough
at last that somewhere beneath the
h'aid surface, brilliancy and devil’sh
ly clever, bitter humor of the dead
woman there had lurked a humanly
sentimental regard for episodes in
her life that had vanished from the
sophisticated present, for there be
neath his hands were clearly me
mentos of the past,-the foolish, faded
objects, meaningless to anyone eise,
which every woman cherishes until
memory ceases to have value.
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yellowed at the edges, held a knot of 1
crumbling brown sprigs which must , >
oifce have been flowers; a torn scrap
of real lace, discblered now, and too I
rich in quality for a graduation I
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of a bridal veil or christening robe I
once upon a time; a lock of short,;
curling hair, matted and red-brown; I
a battered gold locket without initial
<L- inscription; an empty cartridge I
of .44 calibre and a small snapshot
alike faded and discolered and half ,
torn across as though someone had
started to destroy it and then thought
better of it.
Taking up the faded snapshot he
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shewed the figure of a tall, slender I
girl, clad in a light-colored gown i
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