Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-23
XIII-Contin,ued.

This note came by mail. probably Mon
day. At least. Altenburg was in town
that day and got mail. which was rather
! an unusual thing for him to get. Later
ne called Grimbleshaw on the phone and
had talk with him. You see. he looked
the telephone number up in the book.
showing that he was not i'll the habit of
talking to Grimbleshaw over the phone.
made memorandum of il on the first
piece OF paper he picked up. which hap
pened to be this, and there YOU are"
= Fry left the window and coming to the
table studied the Endorsement over Traf-
ford's shoulder
You're probably right. lie said;
though you're right so often its about
time for YOU to go wrong. How do YOU
know it came by mail?"
Its been folded crosswise to iii an
ordinary sized envelope
And would have been If ii were sent
by messenger.
Good, But if you'll hold it 50 the light
runs along its face-So. you'll see Just a
TINY curved mark. that would be round
II You could see the whole of il. There.
what do you make of that
i spose You make it a deut from the
postmark on the envelope. said Fry. in
a tone that indicated disgust over con
viction of blindness. Most folks would
! call it active imagination.
J The difference between folks some
times lies in knowing fact from ina gina
ton. That mark is fact. It's deeper
In the middle of the curve. and was made
with hand-stamp struck trifle I'M
evenly. glass will help YOU. and
Trafford handed over paper and glass.
Fry examined the supposed postmark
and saw exactly what Trafford pointed
out. lie understood what Trafford re
Trained from limiting even. that unless
some one had pointed it ont be never
would have seen it.
"A little more an you'll be telling me
Won can read the name of the office where
it was mailed he said. he handed the
articles back. He could at least cover
his irritation thus
/ Trafford shook his head.
! Keep in the path he said. It's easy
as lying to get los, in the bushes Now
lets see where the path leads. Alien
burg has some business or other with
Grimbleshaw. I can guess what it was
but that has nothing to do with the mat
ter in hand. He decides to get his num-
Der in the telephone book and call him
up. He picks up piece OF paper from
his desk. writes down the name. finds the
| Number in the book and writes that down
| Then he lays the paper down where he
can read it as he stands at the phone
and when he's through talking leaves it
where he laid it. 1t stays there till you
| find it
! Haven't YOU wandered little into the
i bushes?" asked Fry. How do YOU know
he didn't write it all down a once out of
4 the book? What's the good of knowing
i whether he did not?
i Number one smiled Tranord. who
! knew that Fry was incensed at his fail
ure to discover what it was beyond his
i capacity to for himself: If he'd
started with the book nine times out of
4 ten he wouldn't have written the name
at all. but only the number. Put your
i self to the task and see how it works.
Probably he took the name from another
paper Of some kind which he did not
want to mark up or leave living about
But there's no such paper turned up,
interrupted Fry.
1T isn't the only thing that hasn't
turned up by a long shot. OF course. we
don't know, even in the sense that we
know the other things were talking
about. that there was such a paper but
We do know it well enough to keep our
/ eyes open for it, and TO try and deter
mine whether it means anything that we
have not found it. If there was it's prob
+! ably very important. But lets get
through with one thing at n time. The
name was written with one pencil. which
was moderately hard and sharp, and the
number with another. not so sharp and
a trifle softer. Evidence. he wet the first
after he had written the 'Grimble'. The
| tel is written with the first
| Fry seized the paper and examined it
under the glass When he handed it back
he contented himself with saying:
You've found the pencils?'
Yes. but l knew of the pencils because
of the writing. and not of The different
writings because OF the pencils. The pen
/ ellis are simply corroborative
I We'll. what do YOU make of it?' Fry
/ asked the question with the air of a man
/ who admits that another may have
guessed rightly and then stumbled evil
i dence that enables him to convert his
/ guess into a logical deduction. and also
with the air of man who holds these
| things to be simply eXhibitory. unless
| they clearly lead to useful results.
4 II don't know. said Ira ford. frankly.
| Every scrap of knowledge that reveals
any part of the day or days preceding the
murder has its value It's for US to find
i out what il is. and often that's the hard
i est part of the task. We have evidence
4 here that Altenburg didn't know Grim
i bleshaw very well. He even went to the
| trouble to write down his fun name,
! which is small item for some men.
We have evidence that he had 70 look up
| his telephone number. and that it was
he who called Grimbeshaw and not
| Grmbleshaw him. We have an indica-
ton, at least that there was Il paper
from which he took the name. which.
therefore, related In some way to Grim
bieshaw, which paper. if it ever existed.
has not yet been found. We probably
/ have evidence that Altenburg expected
to call Grimbeshaw again, since he left
the paper. with the address. lying there
as reminder. so tina. he could get the
number without going to the book again
II We have evidence that Altenburg didn't
attach much Importance to this paper
or the note on the other side since he
preserved it. but used il a memo
randum paper. Still. there stands out
against this last the fact that the writer
of the note urges the opportunity for him
to call. without being seen. and seems to
think it will commend itself TO Altenburg
as we'll as himself And, finally. we have
the probabili that whoever it was
called GrimbleshaW that night saw his
name on this paper. took it for granted
he was Altenburg's physician and so
called him to Altcnburg's aid
$50 you think somebody did call Grim
beshaw?' Ii was almost u sheer.
I'VE have it positively that some one
did and gave the number as eight -four
two.
Yes and held the wire until the con-
uection was got, 1t might have been any
old number for all know. Whoever
did il knew tina trick of the telephone
anyway. The same thing happened with
Malbon. didn't there?'
IF some one called Grimbeshaw from
Altenburg.s and | have doubt now
/ that some one did. he was in hurry.
and naturally held on to the wire. II it
/ was the man who did the Job he was in
| a hurry 10 get away If it was some one
else he knew the need of quick help.
Now look here, rrafford, said Fry,
| seating himself at last at the other side
of the table. Tets talk sense and imag-
inc sense if we're going to take magma
ton as our guide. seems to be on the
carpet What would the man who did
the lob want to call a doctor forr'
Assume it was an accident