Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20

! have missed I've got to go now, Nan.
| The lawyers have sent FOR me I'll be
| right back"
Mrs. wyatt sighed gustly and gazed
| about her as Bruce disappeared.
Mrs. WAITS Feelings.
! You know, Miss Thompson" she said,
! this has been my home for twenty years
ever since Mary was taken into the
famiy-but it never will be again. I
mean TO say | never could feel at home
in house where there'd been a murder
! suppose Pm peculiar, but ! never-but
II doesn't make any difference whether
the room is opened or locked up, / cant
go by without feeling H. DO you under
stand what | mean? | suppose" another
sigh, Il suppose Maryn sell the place.
Have YOU heard anything about it,
oh no" exclaimed the girl hastily.
Well Mrs. Wyatt pursed her lips
and breathed even more rapidly. What
do you think Of the will?"
Miss Thompson looked uncomfortable
Il think it's very unjust. Of course" she
replied. reluctantly. Mrs. Wyatt shook
her head darby.
Mr. Argyle was very strange man
don't want to say anything disagree.
able about the dead. but it's certainly
hard TO understand how man could cut
fortune to a girl who is in no way re-
lated to him"
Il don't believe Mary will let the will
stand interposed Miss Thompson, with
the manner Of one anxious to turn a dis
agreeable conversation But Mrs. Wyatt
looked even more portentous.
Miss Thompson, I'd say that. too, but
money changes so. | mean to say-take
perfectly fair-minded person like Mary,
generous to a fault, and you never can
tell what money will bring out in them
do you know what / mean"
Miss Thompson was spared the pain OF
further discussion of the subject by the
temperance Of Finley with the an
nouncement that the detectives had come
Mrs, Wyatt looked about helplessly, but
the girl made no suggestion and she final
ly told Finley that she supposed they
might as well come right in.
Hadn't we better go?" suggested Miss
thompson after Finley had departed with
the instructions,
''Hes-yesl' agreed Mrs Wyatt, has
tening toward the door. 81 don't want to
see him. ] mean to say-Tve seen enough
detectives during the past week to last
me the rest of my lifer'
They scurred into the morning room
and closed the door behind them Just as
kayton and one of his men entered from
the hall
Finley followed the two detectives into
the somber room and eyed them sus-
piciously as their glances travelled slowly
about taking in every detail Of arrange
ment and furnishings The general
scheme Of the room was dark and polish
ed oak and since 1t was lighted from only
one OF the four sides, as is common In
the homes of even the wealthiest in
New York, there was always a half-gloom
mat would be restful under ordinary cir
cumstances, but now uncanny. In the
decorations and other fittings the plan
seemed to have been rather to deepen
IMAM tighten this effect Tables, chairs,
desks-all were dark and massive The
upholstery was tawny yellow that aided
the appearance of great age And-irons
ana other brasses were dulled and heavy
and the few pictures-two or three Bar
bizon landscapes-rang true to the tenor
Of the great room in their dun gold
frames. There was one note of rich
color where the reflected light of the day
outside shone through the stained glass
armorial bearings in the windows and
this only accumulated the depressing eff
feet
The Detectives at Work.
Kayton and his assistant boyish
young fellow of about twenty five-took
In all of this in brief but trained scru-
tiny. Kayton walked to one of the win
dows, opened 1t and leaned out far enough
to see that the other commanded only the
same view. Young Manning continued
to gaze about. Finley remained aloof and
suspicious in the back ground He was
waiting for the detectives to so to work
IIn
already hard at it. He grew more and
more suspicious and contemptuous as the
morning went on, for he could not see
that the so-called great detective did
anything more or even as much as the
regular force that had already been over
the ground.
And in way he was correct 1t is
not what he learns, but the use he makes
OF what he learns that distinguishes the
great artist in detection from the com
mon bungler BY reasoning clearly and
unswervingly from the same premises he
reaches conclusions that shock the pub
lie, and the tyro that has preceded him
on the work, simply because the latter
has not had the common sense to drift
with the never misleading current of
logic. BY this unprecedented application
of common sense, this faith in the cor
ACNAllVoS VI Sliiliht ItaSpnlIS, successful
defenders of society have been given
credit for much spurious profundity
which they are the first to disclaim
| When they deny that there is ANYTHING
wonderful about II we murmur that mod
esty and greatness ever walk hand in
| hand, 1t is not modesty 1t is the truth
| Before Kayton had organized his own
agency he had been assigned as a gov
| eminent operative to run down an issue
| of counterfeit bills Of large denominations
| He made no brilliant strokes-no spec
tacular coups of reasoning. He worked
| hard, He stuck to the trail and week bv
week and month by month ne followed il
until 1t led into the offices Of the Fed
eral district attorney Of one OF the Iarg-
| est cities in the United States Here a
| weak man would have hesitated and
said that while two and two make four.
ordinarily, in this case two and two must
| make four and half But Kayton didn't
! lie knew that he had followed the one
! trail and } continued TO follow until.
when they were arrested, the two officials
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