Evening star., 1912-09-15

on the open sea- said the Atlantic City
chief
at all depends what motive inspired the
murder said Clancy.
an any case, it could hardly be the act
of a wife who wanted to get rid of her hus-
band. and fancy it will be difficult to dis
cover any other person in quiet little Alb
secon who would carry out a crime in such
sensational way. The speaker laughed at
the notion. He knew these easygoing New
Jersey folk, and Kyrle was just the kind OF
crank to kill himself ostentatiously.
Clancy nodded; but made no reply.
Then he said, in his abrupt way, "Where are
the Cigarettes
Here The local police officer opened
drawer, and brought to light number of
cigarettes carefully wrapped in paper.
The detective counted them. There were
eleven all told, and they bore the name of
Fifth-ave. firm of importers.
"The newspaper spoke Of package OF
cigarettes, he said. "Was that figure of
speech, or was there actually a torn wrap
per-
"No wrapper was found. But our fisher
men always buy cigarettes by the packet
so you would find them using the phrase
naturally"
turkish too, said Clancy, with dainty
sniff. "High priced, have no doubt: but
poor in quality,-the sort of rubbish
woman smokes. / cannot conceive it pos
sble for woman to be connolsseur OF to-
bacco; can you, DR.. Gilman?"
@Not the cigarette-smoking lady of
fashion,
"Any woman?'
ayes. The old crone who smokes pipe
has an educated taste in the matter OF thick
twist, or ladies roll, or nail-rod-jus as her
fancy lies. Tobacconsts tell me they have
to be very particular about the quality OF
their cheap tobaccos.
Then DIR. Gilman hurried away; for he
was in charge of large practice, and his
of close attention.
SMART youngster, that" was Clancy's
- tribute when the door closed on the
doctor. Anything of interest found in the
mans clothes?" he went on.
The chief gave him an inventory, and
pulled open another drawer which contained
a miscellaneous assortment of articles. A
checkbook, mostly stubs, yielded little OF
interest, because nearly all the entries were
to "Self,' and the others obviously related
to tradesmen's accounts. But among some
letters was one that had been written by
Mrs Kyrle, and Clancy read it through as
carefully as he had scrutinized that same
handwriting at Providence the previous day.
1t ran:
DEAR HERBERT-If convenient to you,
purpose running over from New York on Satur
day. | shall leave again Tuesday by the
morning train; SO l am sure you will not re
gard this brief visit very great atfliction
Yours, JOSEPHINE.
He could not be certain; but he believed
"a belief afterward verified) that the address
given was one of those accommodation adj
dresses which can be hired in New York and
every other city. The date was that on
which she had written to Waverton beseech-
ing an interview. As for the handwriting, it
was identical with that in the note signed
"Feena."
at confirms your information from Abse
con-" he said, "and is therefore valuable.
Anything else in the correspondence?
"The remaining letters are from gentle
men who seem to be members of some learned
society. They are mostly in Greek, or
about it
"Greeki'
@Yes, giving different texts of Scripture,
so far as can make out.
1t almost bewildered Clancy to picture
Mrs. Delamar's husband as man of a re
ligious turn of mind; but hasty survey OF
the letters themselves soon revealed the
progress of a literary and scientific, if not an
actively agnostic, inquiry into disputed