Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-17

who have trouble enough as It is. 1 am
going to get action"
You had better do nothing without
consulting me-" advised Mr.. Hurley,
earnestly.
Il have consulted YOU" retorted Ar
gyle. "All you can advise me to do Is
wait and trust to the police. I have
done both for week. If they haven't
got something by tomorrow morning
PIP
He cut himself off and Mr. Hurley
eagerly demanded: What will you
do?"
well, you'll see. There isn't any par
ticular reason why l shouldn't tell you
and I will as soon as 1 decide but when
do the investigation is going to be car
ried on under my directions"
And with a nod to the lawyer he walk
ed out.
On the way home he bought the final
edition of an evening paper His eye ran
over the headline and he gasped and
! swore. 1t read:
The Change of VIII.
argyle Murder Motive Found! Aged
Millionaire Planned Change of Will!
Adopted Daughter Now Sole Heir! Son
Disinheritedn
There followed a detailed story of his
reconciliation with his father-of his ia
theirs plan to put him back in his will as
joint heir with his adopted sister and
of the fact that the murder left him
penniless and his adopted sister one of
the richest heiresses in the world.
Find the person whom the crime most
benefits" said old Papa Taberet" the
greatest detective in fiction. Papa Tab
eret was great because he was human
and made mistakes. He nearly made a
terrible mistake in following this axiom
relentlessly, though he proved in the end
that it worked out unfailingly. The
weakness of it is the difficulty of ascer-
tanning the number of persons who are
benefited by the crime and the precise de-
gree of gain to each. Thus it happens
that a number of persons may be benefited
in different ways by a murder These
persons may not know of the existence of
each other, and the one who commits the
crime may be deriving great benefit but
may also at the same time be benefting
others in lesser and even greater de-
gree. SO here is another weakness of the
aXiom-that the one most benefited need
not necessarily have guilty knowledge of
the crime.
But in this case that weakness could
be eliminated. as the newspapers subtly
pointed out. Miss Mazuret knew the in
nermost secrets of the old mans mind
She knew of his quarrels with his son; she
probably knew that the will had been
made entirely in her favor She was
present at the reconciliation dinner when
it must have been known to alias the
lawyer had known for several days-that
Mr.. Argyle purposed writing a new will
and leaving the larger share of his fort
une to his natural child This was to
have been done within a few days at the
outside-and he was murdered the same
night.
Taking Action.
When Bruce Argyle had read through
to the last line of this story, he pulled out
his watch and glanced at it, 1t was
few minutes past 4 o'clock. He was at
Twenty-third street in the subway. He
got out, crossed the street and boarded A
train down, changing to an express at
Fourteenth street few minutes later
he was being shot up to the eighteenth
floor of tall office building in the finan-
cial district. Leaving the elevator. he
followed the runners direction and found
an office door that bore the simple in
scription:
ASCHE KAYTON.
Entering he found himself confronted
by an oldish boy on the opposite side of