South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-25
lContinued from saturday.l

Exactly" interrupted Rosalie. "And
your knife would go in from above,
now wouldn't it? The wound would
point down. Now try it this way
Rosalie arranged the weapon which is
mightier than the sword in such man
ner that the point extended from un-
der her finger. cor this"-nOw she
held the fencer's grip. the shaft, lying
CbHquely along the palm, controlled
and guided by the sensitive finger
points. Now. He was stabbed in the
heart. but from beneath. The wound
pointed upward. With your grip, you
couldn't stab a standing man upward.
couldn't stab downward 10 save my
life"
Martin MCGEE went into heavy
thought while he struggled for OBJ
jectiOns.
Suppose he was lying DOWN." he
asked, at last.
ION the floor? Begin to be
stabbed ?" jabbed Rosalie.
Maybe he was stabbed in bed and
got out and died on the floor"
An never made any disturbance or
left any blood behind? Besides the
bed wasn't mussed at all. 1t was just
thrown DdCk dS tHOuSn ne u BOl up
quiet and natural"
you saw all that-in two minutes!"
exclaimed MCGEE. Il never could I'M
derstand how you did it,"
IF you'd spent your whole life" re-
piled Rosalie, "siZin' up stters with
past present an future in the two
minutes that you was fakin' trance
you'd see things in a hurry. too"
We'll. how on earth did you know
that about fencers?"
Easy as lynn an simple as women. .
replied Resale Il used to room with
little actress that fenced-the one
was havin' supper with last night But
now. Inspector just TO close things up,
I'm out of this case. I've given you
all / know Your police will be both
erin my boarders a lot with questions;
an so will the reporters. Just trust
me TO steer that. You keep me OUT
Martin MCGEE sighed.
"All right, ROsalie; but I'd like your
help. Still. / owe you lots of good
turns, and the case don't look as mys-
fellow Wade"
Don't get too sudden with your
guesses." replied Rosalie. "How does
your dope go, anyway? Have you
looked up everybody that slept In the
house last night? I'd like 10 know
pretty we'll if I'm oherishin' murder
er in my midst"
They've been looked up" replied
MCGEE. i've taken personal charge
Of this, but the captain commanding
the precinct detectives is helping with
the leg work The house wasn't en-
tered. Wade, or maybe North, did this
unless it was an inside job. There's
the landlady-well, it might have beer
| her as well as anybody, of course
except she's a kind of an old fool. She
just don't look likely"
Rosalie nodded.
You can count her out"
That Prof. Noll is a harmless old
crank. Still they're the people that dc
such things sometimes. Now you've
| brought up that point about fencers-
| he was educated in a German univer-
I sity Heid-weu, whatever you call ii
/ They practice some kind of Dutch
/ sword game over there, don't they
/ There wasn't any servant in the house
/ Mrs. Moore's maids and furnace mar
were niggers. and niggers sometimes
use knives The furnace man is named
! fremont Taylor. He CANDLES; and
/ when a coon CANDLES he's likely TO dc
! worse. That gets us down TO the wO
men. Miss Estrilla is up here from
! Caracas which is in Venezuela, fol
! her eyes. Her brothers here witt
her. He's the agent in New York fol