Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-21
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/ The lawyers have sent for me ] u be
right back"
Mrs Wyatt sighed gusrly ANA gazed
about her As Bruce disappeared.
Mrs. WAITS Feelings.
Nou know. Miss Thompson. she said
this has been my home for twenty wears
ever since Mary was taken into the
family but t never Will he again. J
mean go say { never could feel a home
Iu a house where thered been a murder
suppose ] m peculiar but / never bus
ID dpeSn.t make any difference whether
. the room Is opened or locked up. I can
>" 10y without feeling it, DO you under
stand what / mean J suppose" another
sigh. II suppose Maryll sell the place.
/ Have YOU heard anything about it,"
ron, no.. exclaimed the girl hastily.
Well. Mrs. Wyatt pursed her lips
/ and breathed even more rapidly What
/ do YOU think of The wiz
Miss Thompson looked uncomfortable.
/ 81 think it's very unjust Of course" she
replied, reluctantly Mrs. Wyatt shook
/ her head dsrky
Mr. Argyle was very strange man.
/ ! don want 10 say anything disagree
/ A bic about the dead but it's certainly
! hard 10 understand how man could cut
! HIS own son off without a cent and leave
a fortune to girl VINO is in no way re
/ lated to him"
/ 81 don believe Mary win let the viii
/ 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 a
| perfectly fairminded person like Mary.
generous TO a fault, and YOU never can
1 tell Wi irip in,
/ 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 helpessly. but
the girl made no suggestion and She final
| lN told Finley that she supposed they
might as well come right in
Hadn't we better Eo?" suggested Miss
/ Thompson after Finley had departed with
the instructions
"Yes-yes" agreed Mrs Wyatt. has
tenlng toward the door. - don't want to
see him. mean to say-Tve seen enough
detectives during the past week to last
me the rest OF my life"
They scurred into the morning room
and closed the door behind them lust 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 az their glances travelled slowly
| ABOUT taking in every detail Of arrange
| nent 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 i'm
the homes OF even the wealthiest in
| New York, there was always a half gloom
that would be restfu under ordinary cir
cumstsnces, 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 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 accentuated the depressing eG-
feet.
The Detectives at Work.
KaYton and his ASSISTANT boylsh
young fellow OF about twenty fve-took
in all of this in a brief but trained scru-
| tiny. ksyton walked to one of the win
dows 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 lie was
waiting for the detectives to go to work
He did not understand that they were
already hard at It, lie 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 It 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
unswervingy 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 profauditv
| which they are the first to diSCaim
When they deny that there is anything
wonderful about it we murmur that mod
esty and greatness ever walk hand in
hand II is not modesN II is the truth
Before kayton had organized his own
agency he had been assigned as gov
eminent operative TO run down an issue
OF counterfeit bills OF large denominations
He made no brilliant strokes-uo spec-
tacular coups Of reasoning lie worked
hard. He stuck to the tran and week nv
week and month by month he followed il
until il led into the offices of the Fed
eral district attorney OF one of the larr-
est cities in the United states Here
weak man would have hesttated and
said that While two and two make rnur
ordinarily i'm this case TWO and two must
make four and half. But kaNton didn't
he knew that he had followed the one
trail and continued to follow until
when they we're arrested, the two orfciaIs
confessed lie had only adhered TO The