Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

Under the surprise of this new feature
/, he stopped. with his eyes on the window
| At that instant the form of a man passed
across it. going in the direction of the
bed. He seemed as tall but not stout
| as .Altenburg, and his movements were
| hose of much younger man. Grimble-
/ shaw waited what seemed to him an in
| terminabe time. and then the light re-
| passed the window. but whoever carried
| it was so far back in the room as not to
be seen. 1t showed again. passing the
window in the hall. when Grimbleshaw
again caught q glimpse of the man, and
then it suddenly disappeared. AS it must
! have shone through the fanlight over the
down the stairs. Grimbleshaw concluded
that he had extinguished ii and de-
scended in the dark. If this were SO. the
man was evidently about to leave the
house by the front door and. accordingly
Grmbleshaw hurried hther. only to find
the door shut and fastened. as he had left
it. Passing around to the kitchen door
he found that fastened also. Thus he
was himself shut out of the house.
At least this served to settle the ques-
ton of going personally for assistance
but before doing so it occurred TO him
TO look at the telephone connection. Here
;, he found clear evidence that the wires
had been cut. Indeed. a considerable
length of wire was missing. as If to
render impossible the immediate repair
Of the breach.
Now. however that he was actually
shut out from the house. the instinct OF
he physician prevailed. with aroused
anxiety for the condition of his patient
On the chance of there being another
door he passed around the house. follow
ing the side beyond the central chimney
AS he turned the farther corner he caught
the sound of footsteps. as If at least two
persons were moving away rapidly, They
passed to the rear of the barn and ceased.
Then came the sound of galloping horses,
whose riders were urging them 10 speed.
Evidently. whoever had been his visitors
were gone at last He turned to con-
tinue his search for a door. and found
one that he concluded led into the pas
sage to the buttery, but this. like the
others. was fastened. He had made the
circuit of the house twice. trying the
windows in vain. and came 10 the front
third time, when a rapidly driven
buggy turned in from the road. He held
up his lantern, and almost before the
ground 1t was Malbon. the police cap
tain.
''Dr. Grimbeshaw." he exclaimed. 1T
was you then who phoned me-
I've phoned nobody replied the doc
tor, in surprise The instrument is out
of order
But l was phoned from eight, four.
two. and central said that was Alien
burg's number
How long ago.
Not twenty minutes
Grimbleshaw in answer stepped TO the
side of the house and held up his Ian
tern to show the break in the wire.
i've been here an hour and seen some
queer things. but none so queer as tele-
phonng from that would be-.
In few words he told his story to
Malbon and the officer with him.
There's nothing for it but to break
the door down" the chief declared
promptly: but even this was more easily
said than done. for the door and lock
proved strong. and it required consider
able force to effect an entrance.
(To be continued tomorrow