The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-26

huge yellow cat with gesture ard brilliant smile.
The beast perched high desk, his yellow
eyes garng he urtively endeavored to attend with
his paw a the side Of his head.
That's thin, mister, there's been fight here,
maybe murder" replied the officer pointing to the
shattered window-pane
Al the words old Peter shuddered and nearly
Cropped his candle-stick
The giant laughed heartily. That is absurd enough
be very funny" said he.
1T is Ell? Where Is the man who screaming
that window three minutes ago?" demanded the
officer.
here, Old Sninkin caterwauling there and |
heayed stone jug at him 1t went through the win
Where is the other one you just rowing with
this moment ago? Don't lie to me. heard you
Again my dear sir. puzzled Snfkin and
| have been scoldtng each other As you can see,
there is but one means OF entrance or exit to TINS
place No one has been in or out You may search
And that will said the officer. Or. Siddons.
guard this door while | through this place"
Really, must say he made a thorough search in
all the closets Of the little kitchen and pantry in the
behind the tapestry hangngs, under the bed and
behind the grand piano and the music-cases in the
club for concealed doors. Fully fifteen minutes he
spent. kelensen imperturbed. and I, deeply EN-
narrraSsed cnatung on score OF ektaneous SUP
ject8, while old Hahn and my housekeeper were ez'
changing terrified whispers in the hall behind us.
! have said positively that saw that face at the
window, that heard the two distinct voices in
quarrel, and yet with no exits possible save the one
that had been constantly under our eyes there was
no living thing in those rooms except kelensenand
his
Bafied muttering angry and threatening the off
desisted and withdrew. Kelensen babe a most
neighborly goodnight saying the absurd incident had
served one good purpose, it had made us acquainted
and he hoped to within his doors quite
again | believe | asked him, with some i'll grace,
to visit The extraordinarily contradictory events
of the hour, with all their terror and mystery when
contrasted with Keensens perfect composure and
good nature, had quite taken me abacl1.
1t with difficulty that got rid of the police
man. He would have followed home to talk of
the bewildering affair. and even as it Mrs KEEP
pier tarrled at my door to say
Doctor dreadful.
big man told. You should have heard Peter"
And what says Peter? Draw those shades and
tell me-
Therefore she began a review of the statements
that the panicstricken old furniture dealer had made
1t appeared that his strange lodger's Hen
dirk Kelensen Of Ryndam, singer some said
great bass artistic. He had leased the rooms for
long term three months before and paying double
the ordinary rent for the privilege of doing ahsO-
lutely as he pleased at any and all times and Of being
let entirely alone. He had specified that he was to
be made the victim of no curiosity the part of his
landlord
were an every day. all day matter. He had heard
that dreadful but once before and that in the
first month at daybreak. Never had he seen any one
anything in the rooms Snifkin, the cat and
keensen, the basso but evidences of the existence
and life of another being were abundant.
He marketed for Kelensen and always bought
enough for often getting different of food
for each such as fowl for one and steak for the other
He could hear the prepa ratons for the meals and the
two voices in talk and laughter, both perfectly dis
tinct and always in this tongue he could not under
stand. Then after the meal Keensen would go out.
looking magnificent in the great coat and top-hat he
always
AS the door closed on his heels Peter would
go surreptitiously into the from which kel-
ensen had just departed alone and would find two
chairs at the table, soiled plates of
silver and bottles of unknown wine the other
Of stout, but there but Sniffkin There
were abundant clothes in the room, but they
of Kelensen's size only and obviously for the
sole of Never there signs of
having dressed and thrown down discarded
clothes
There other puzzling thing Peter had
often noticed in the room sweet sicky unfamiliar
he he D1ep ion
of this it sharply to that T. too, had OBJ
served unusual smell. Now that thought of it,