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

| ldiiilS-put II never Will be again. |
mean to say / never could feel at home
IN house where there'd been murder
l suppose I'm peculiar, but l never-but
| 1t doesn't make any difference whether
the room is opened or locked up, I cant
go by without feeling it. Do you under
stand what mean? I suppose" another
sigh, Il suppose Mary'n sell the place
have you heard anything about ito"
On, no.! exclaimed the girl hastily.
Weh!' 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 darkly.
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 a man could cut
his own son off without cent and leave
fortune to a girl who is in no way re-
lated to him.
81 don't believe Mary will let the will
stand interposed Miss Thompson, with
the manner of one anxious to turn dis
agreeable conversation But Mrs. Wyatt
| looked even more portentous.
| Miss Thompson, I'd say that too, but
money changes so. l mean to say-take a
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
a 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
toll NtY,I..
might as well come right in.
! Hadn't we better go?" suggested Miss
| Thompson after Finley had departed with
the instructions.
"Yes-yes" agreed Mrs. Wyatt, has
tening toward the door 81 don't want to
see him. l mean to say-Ive seen enough
| detectives during the past week to last
me the rest Of my life!
They scurried 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
| the homes of even the wealthiest in
New York. there was always a half-gloom
| that 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
! than tighten this effect. Tables chairs
| desks-all were dark and massive. The
| upholstery was a tawny yellow that aided
the appearance of great age. And irons
| and 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 dull 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 accentuated the depressing eff
feet
! The Detectives at Work
Kayton and his assistant boyish
young fellow of about twenty -fve-took
in all of this in'a brief but trained scru-
tiny. Kayton walked to one of the win
dCws. opened it 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 go to work
He did not understand that they were
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 a 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
rectness of simple reasoning, 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 it 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
Z hard. He stuck to the trail and week by
week and month by month he followed it
until it led into the offices of the Fed
eral district attorney of one of the larg
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 a half. But Kayton didn't.
He knew that he had followed the one
: trail and continued to follow until,
when they were arrested, the two officials
{ confessed He had only adhered to the
axiom that nothing which is logical is
5 impossible. If the evidence pointed that
way, he would investigate an archbishop
with a little hesitation as he would an
! arch forger.
This was the man that old Finley re-
) garded so sourly as he gazed out into the
garden off the library, windows and sur
! veyed the rear elevations OF the neigh
| h.