Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05

.Note-ln the morning. send a man along
| the water front with his photography
! 10 disinter the skeleton. This. OF
course, will render necessary an ex-
Croydons. and should not be difficult
'So'e-Ask Delaney to look up the family)
3 ssTn,io discover the murderer.
MS last, continued Godfrey gazing
contemplatively at his paper. lis of course.
! me most important; indeed. II is the object
OIL the other two. Now. let us see what
we Know nc about this mysterious individual,
ana ne turned another page.
l. lie must have been In apartment four
teen before Miss Croydon's arrival other
wise he could not have gained access to
my he DudeO
= therefore he a friend or at least
an acquaintance of Thompson's. since II Ia
Impossible that he could have been there
| without Thompsons knowledge
j. But II Thompson consented to his over
nearing the Interview, he must have ex-
pected some help from him
4 Yet he was not In the Apartment at
: clock when Higgins put Thompson 10
bed.
o But Higgins says that no one entered
after that except Miss Croydon (Higglns
may, OF course, be mistaken)
a. Something which occurs during the In
terv.ew arouses the unknown's anger He
PICKS up a piece of pipe 1--WE must discover
where he got ID and steals out upon
thompson and knocks him down If II was
merely TO protect Miss Croydon that would
have suihced. but instead he coolly draws
n pistol and kills his victim. Then know
Ing that the noise would attract the jani-
tor, he steps into the hall, hides some
wnere, and, as Higgins rushes in to the
room, walks down the stair and escapes.
d. We have Miss CToydon's descr ption
of him.
Godfrey looked at his notes musingly
IT'S tangled web" he said, at last. "A
tangled web-there's lots of threads that
need STRENGTHENING out. But. excep, for
not n 10. .f..I hat
Jimmy the Dude fits In with all the partic-
ulars He was an acquaintance of Thomp-
son, perhaps a friend If he stole the key.
he could have entered the rooms at any
time; he's certainly capable of killing IA
man, upon provocation. But the mystery
fs-what could the provocaton have been?
To protect Miss Croydon? But then. why
XIII Thompson? That shooting OF an I'M
conscious man argues a ferocty scarcely
human. Robbery? But Jimmy nor any
other sane person would deliberately muir
der a man under the eyes of witness.
| Well, tomorrow will tell the story-today
rather. If Miss Croydon identifies him
that settles it-but I've a feeling that &c
will be long time before / can fill in the
rest of the drama. However. I'll keep these
notes
He was whistling softly to himself as he
| tore the sheets from the pad Somehow,
the case no longer harried and perplexed
him as II had from the moment he recog-
nzed Miss Croydon, covering against the
wall in suite fourteen; a curious load was
lifted from him; she was not guilty. she
had committed at most only an indis-
| cretlon; she was free from stain.
The thought pleased him, elated him. he
would lead the pack far away from her
| the papers, the suspicious public. She
| should emerge unsmrched, even in the
| least degree.
He folded the sheets and docketed themi
| THE MARATHON MYSTERY,
| A Tragedy in Five Acts
Then he placed them carefully in a file
case. They were to confront him, before
| long. as an evidence of his own INSULT
! cicncy-so far from having witnessed three
acts of the tragedy II merely the pro-
| logue which had been enacted before him.
Cro be continued tomorrow