The Washington times., 1913-04-13

I and ! had made the right guess as to
| what that name was: then the chances
| weIc that it was along this path hat
| the body had been carried, and IL was
here at this little landing that it had
been nut into the river.
| Il could even go further than that
| The winter had set in suddenly very
| soon after the body had been orC irto
the water. The spring had OILY Just
| come. 1t wasn't unreasonable 10 sup
| pose that the last person before myself
to come down that path and step cut
on the little boat-landing had been the
person who carried her body in his
| arms
Jeffrey" I cried. wasn't there some
clue-scme real clue?'
| He shook his head with a grim
laugh. Something that Richards would
have called a clue. do you. mean? A
wisp of blond hair caught in a splinter
| on the gunwale of a boat. or a blood
stained handkerchief. or a rag of white
\ satin caught on thorn bush beside the
path? No, there was nothing like that
shouldn't have been" said l.
| There isn't any," he admitted, and
confess / looked for something like
| that. But this is all l did see. The
fair on concrete piles. The windows on
both sides We're fitted with solid shut
tiers. and the sliding door with a good
| lock to make it really difficult for a
| marauder to get in. 1t needed to be,
] for it contained high-power motorboat
/ that might very well be stolen or bor-
rowed for joy ride. The house Is
built around a slip. SO that the boat
| could come into II under its own power.
When saw it it was hoisted out of the
water on slings for the winter"
How did you get in If it was as we'll
| locked up as that?
Il said it had lock, not that it was
| locked AS a matter of fact, the slid
1 t,,,N nod
got off its rollers, as sliding-doors will,
and the last person to try to shut 1t
hadn't bothered to fix it. 1t gaped open
i about eight inches. 1t had been like that
sll winter, too, judging by the drift OF
half-melted snow and ice that had got
! inside. / squeezed inside and looked
. around.
| launch for the winter wasn't the one
who had left in such hurry. judging by
the shipshape way he had done his 1ob
But there was another boat in there
that had evidently been out since.
1T was a small river skiff. and it lay
listed over on the floor of the boathouse
Just far enough in to clear the door,
though there was a pair of slings for
il. too The person who had dragged it
in hadn't even bothered to unship the
oars. a thing that almost any boatman
would have done from force of habit.
The boat had been brought in by some
one VINO was III d Huli.- tiithh sNSh
richards would be willing to admit
that"
, But vas there nothing else?"
There was this" Jeffrey's eyes mar
rowed thoughtfully. There was long
painter on the boat, one end of it made
fast, as usual to a ring in the bow. The
other end had been tied around the for
ward thwart and then cut. Do you see
what / mean? Twenty-Five feet Of the
painter was fast to the bow-ring Five
feet of the same rope was still tied
round the forward thwart. Both ends
were cut clean, as IL they had once be-
longed together.
He gave sort of shiver then and
stopped Then, seeing that whatever
sinister significance layTin the fact was
still not apparent to me. he set his teeth
and explained:
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