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THE GEORGIAN'S MAGAZINE PAGE
“Initials Only’ By Anna Katherine Green j
J Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
(Copyright. 1911. Street a* Smith.)
/Copyright, 1911, hy Podci. Mead Co.)
This room fated a side street, and. as
my eyes tell upon the whitened pave
ments, I received an answer to one. aiyi
that the most anxious, of my queries.
This was the street into which we had
turned, in the wake of the handsome
ffranger they were trying at this very
moment to identify with Brotherson.
George had evidently been asked to point
out the exact spot where the man had
stopped, for I could see from my vantage
point two figures bending near the curb,
and even pawing at the snow which lay
there. It gave me a slight turn when one
of them I do not think it was George
began to rub his hands together in much
the way the unknown gentleman had
done, and. in my excitement. I probably
uttered some sort of an ejaculation, for
I was suddenly conscious of a silence in
the room, and when 1 turned saw all the
men about me looking my way.
I attempted to smile, but instead, shud
dered painfully, as I raised my hand and
pointed down at the street.
A Painful Sight.
’The.' are imitating the man.” I cried:
“my husband and and the person h?
went out with. It looked dreadful to me.
that is ail.”
One of the gentlemen immediately said
some kind words to me. and another
smiled in a very encouraging way But
their attention was soon diverted, and so
was mine, by the entrance of a man in
semi-uniform, who was immediately ad
dressed as Clausen.
I knew his face. He was one of the
doorkeepers: the oldest employee about
’•e hotel, and the one best liked. I had
often exchanged words with him myself.
Mr. Slater at once put his question:
“Has Mr. Brotherson passed your door
at any time tonight?’’
“Mr. Brotherson’. I don’t remember,
really I don’t,” was the unexpected reply,
“h’s not often I forget. But so many peo
ple tame rushing in during those few
minutes, and all so excited”
“Before the excitement, Clausen A lit
tle while before, possibly just before.”
“Ph. now I recall him! Yes. Mr. Broth
ers* m went out of my door not many min
utes before the cry upstairs. 1 forgot be
■ ause I had stepped back from the door
to Land a lady the muff she had dropped,
and it was at that minute he went out.
! jn. : got a glimpse of his hack as he
• ...- •• ’ ’nithe street*”
“But you ate sure of that back?”
I don’t know another like it. when he
< i •*. that big coat of his. Rut Jim can
toil \ou, s;r. He was in the case up to
'hat miniHc, and that's where Mr Broth
el 1 -on usuallx goes first
“\(r\ well; send up Jim. Tell him 1
i.i\< some orders to give him.”
'he o!d man bowed and went out.
.!’ w hile. .Mi Slater had exchanged
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•rppr<>achcd me with ar <*xpr« s>i >ll of
• xU' ine consideration They were about
excuse me trom further participation
m iri- informal inquiry This 1 saw be
••re in- spoke. Os course they were right
But I should greatly have preferred to
' a\ where I was till George came bark
Who He Was.
However, 1 met him for an instant in
the hall before 1 took the elevator, and
liter I heard in a round-about way what
•lim and some others about the house had
to say about Mr. Brotht rson.
He was an habitue of the hotel, to the
extent of dining once or twice a week' in
the case, and smoking, afterward. in the
public lobby. When he was in the mood
for talk, he would draw an ever-enlarg
ing group about him. but at other times
He would he seen sitting quite alone and
morosely indifferent to all who ap
proached him. 'there was no mystery
Jiboiit his business. He was an inventor,
with one or two valuable patents already
"ti the market. But this was not his
onl\ interest. He was an all-round sort
of man. moody but brilliant in many ways
a character which at once attracted and
repelled, odd in that he seemed to set lit
tle store by his good looks, yet was most
careful to dress himself in a wax to show
’hem to advantage. If he had means be
yond the ordinary no one knew it. nor
could any man say that he had not On
ail personal matters he was vers close
mouthed. though he would talk about
other men s riches in away to show.that
he cherished some very extreme views.
'l’his was all which could be learned
about him off-hand, and at so late an
hour 1 was greatly interested, of course,
and had plenty to think of till 1 saw
George again and learned the result of
tin* latest investigations.
Miss Chailoner had been shot, not
stabbed No other deduction was possi
ble from such facts as were now known,
though the physicians had not yet handed
| in their report, or even intimated what
i that report would be. No assailant could
have apnroaehed or left her without at
tracting the notice of some one if not all
“i I he pers< n•• sea ted at a tbble in the
same room. She could only have been
reached by a bullet sent from a point
near the head of a small winding stait
case connecting the mezzanine floor with
1 a oat room adjacent to the front door.
‘ r llns has already been insisted on. as you
will ren-ember. and if yon will glance at
• | the diagram wim h George hastilx
1 (scrawled for me. you will see why.
J. A B. as well as C l» are half circular
openings into the office lobby. E F axe
windows giving up ii Broadway, and •;
the party wall, necessarily unbroken by
■ window, door any other opening, it
’ follows then that the only nossibie means
j I of approaih to tins room lies through th"
I archway fl or from the elevator door.
J Rut the elevate: made iv stop at the
, mezzanine on or near the time of the at
, tack upon Miss rhallntter: nor did any
one leave the table or pass by it in either
direction till after lb* i.lar n given In
. her fall.
Ru* a hullt-f calls for no approach. A
I man at X might raise and tire his pistol
■ without atliaeting any attention to him
self The music, which all acknowledged
was at its full climax at this moment,
would drown the noise of the explosion.
1 and the staircase, mu of view of all but
the victim, afford the-same means of im
-1 mo-bate escape which it must have given
•’ ot secret and upscen approach. The
i coatroc.rn into which it descended com
municated with the lobby vetv near the
main entrance, and if Mr. Brotherson
were the man. Ips sudden appearance
1 there would ti ns be accounted for.
I To be sure, this gentleman .had not
■ been noticed itt the eoatroom by the man
then in charge, but If the latter had been
" engaged nt that instant, as he often was,
tn hanging tip or taking down a coat from
the rack, a person might easily pass by
him ami disappear into the lobby without
attracting'his attention. So many peo
’ pie passed that tvny front the dining room
beyond, and so many of these were tall,
line-looking and well-dressed.
It began to look had for this man, if
■ indeed he were the one we had seen un
der the street lamp, and as George ami I
• viewed the situation we felt our position
:■ to be serious enough for us severally to
, set down our impressions of this man be
fore we lost our first vivid idea. I do not
• know what George wrote. for be seal'd
ids words up as soon as he had finished
| writing, but this is what I put on paper
5 while tny memory was still fresh ami my
i excitement unabated:
> He had the look of am; n of pov -
erful intellect ami determined will,
who shudders while lie triumphs; who
I outwardly washes his hands of a deed
over which he inwardly gloats. Tins
was when he first rose from the snow-
M Afterwards he had a moment of feat':
I plain, human, everyday feat . But this
t wa evanescent. Before he had turned
t to go he showed the self-possession of
1 one who feels himself so secure or is
so well satisfied with himself that he
is no longer conscious of other emo-
> tions.
‘Poor fellow.” 1 commented aloud, as I
folded up these words; “he reckoned with
-1 out you. George. By tomorrow he will
I be in the hands of the police.”
i “Poor fellow’.”’ he repeated. “Better
I say, ’Poor Miss Challoner!’ They tell me
she was one of those perfect women who
reconcile even 'he pessimist to humanity
ami the age we live in. Why any one
should want to kill her is a mystery: but
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auge revelations ”
And with this sentence ringing in my
' nd I lay down and endeavored to sleep
;t t was not till very late that rest
. ame. The noise of passing feet, though
muffled beyond their wont, roused me in
.• pile of myself. These fotsteps might be
i those of some late arrival, or they might
i be some of some wary detective intent
: on business far removed from the usual
‘routine of life in this great hotel.
Recalling the Scene.
I I regalled the glimpse I had had of the
(writing room in the early evening, and
i imagined it as it was now. with Miss
[ Chailoner’s body removed and the in
: congruous flitting of strange and bus?
• figures across its fatal floors. measuring ;
j distances ami peering into corners, while [
! hundreds slept above and about them in |
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! Then I thought of him, the suspected ,
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which I had little if any control I saw J
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sleep. I could not think of him as lying
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kind, in the hope ami expectation of a
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soul as big as his body, of that I was
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some unknown impulse sent to an un
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To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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Little Bobbie’s Pa *
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rpHAT pritty yung gitrl from Aus-
. I tralia is coming up to the house
tonite, sed Ma to Pa. Her naim
is Aila Gridin.
Lots of good peepttl has come from
Australia, sed Pa. Thate was Pat
O'Dea, the grate Wisconsin football
player, w Melba, who could sing quite
good. 1 heard. \ Boh Fitzsimmons, sed
Pa. the only man that ever lived that
I was afrade of.
Ma was j< st going to skold Pa for
all the time t 'lking about fit 's, but
je*t then Miss Griffin cairn to the house
.<• the war oident start.
Ma's trend was a awful nice looking
gurl If she hud a little sister 1 wild
mariy her wen both of us grew up. I
wanted to have a long .ilk with her
At ask hu il she had a little sister, but
Pa dident give Ma or mo a cnanst to
talk to tier. 1 wasent the only one
that knew -he was good looking. Pa
Ims two good eyes. too.
I think you are awful handsome, sed
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I used to be on the stage, sed Pa.
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Booth. I mite have married her. sed
Pa. only she dident give me the right
answer. Well, well, sed Pa. Ac so you
are from Australia. How are all the
big kangaroos At thare babies, sed Pa.
Ma beegan to look kind of funny at
Pa. the way she has to a lot of times.
1 guess she was beginning to t,hink
that Miss Griffin wasent such a grand
gurl after all.
We had a piesant evening, Pa. had
the plesantest, me next. Miss Griffin
third Ac Ma the leest piesant.
1 don't know why my Ma shod be
jellus of Pa. AH you have to do is to
look at my Pa & then you w-ud know
that nobody shud be jellus of him.
I’. S.— Pa can taik this any way hfe
like- He didetit give me any thing for
my bank last week.