Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-28
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opinion, was just about the time when
Captain Hanska must have died. Mr..
Wade had called two or three times
before, always at night. Trembling,
she found his card, Lawrence Wade,
Curfew Club" In the plated tray at
the hall door. Suddenly Miss Harding,
who had been refusing all light on the
events Of the evening, gave little
shrek.
why. they were quarreling when
went" she cried. Then she stopped,
as though fearful Of her own words.
The police turned on her. In tumble
of words and emotions, she told what
she knew. Mr.. Wade's late call, the
high words, the fact that none had
heard q sound from Captain Hanska's
room after Wade left the house-that
was enough for the detectives. They
packed Tommy North-sober, pale, but
now thoroughly collectedAinto the
patrol wagon, sent the hue and cry
to the Curfew club after Mr.. Wade,
put the house under guard, and
called their days work done.
And the rest Of the Moore establish
ment, having first received dreadful
warning concerning the fate Of abb
sconding witnesses, finished that un-
easy night under the ministrations Of
Rosalie lie Grange at Az. So
CHAPTER II. :
Inspector Martin MCGEE, the middle
aged solid executive Of the New
York detectives, sat in his bust
ness-like office running over the re-
ports on the Hanska murder, now less
than calendar day old but already
the subject of those innumerable ex-
tras which the newsboys we're shout
ing under his windows Nothing in
the formal documents before him serv.
ed to give him any new light. Thomas
North, advertising agent, at present
locked up to await examination, had
announced discovery Of the murder
When he made the announcement, he
was spotted and daubed with blood
Captain Hanska had then been dead
at least an hour. For the period in
which Hanska must have died, North
proved perfect alibi-unless the land
lady, or North's companions at the an
nual smoker of the Carekillers, had
lied to the detectives. Lawrence Wade
that looked like the man. Wade
was missing from the Curfew club
when the police arrived however,
through the good memories of taxi.
cab driver and a ticket seller, he had
been traced to Boston and there ar
rested In the very act Of engaging
European passage.
Wade had visited Hanska at about
the time OF the murder--"a as shown BY
the condition OF the body Wade ad-
business for friend" he said.
Pressed to explain why he had made
such q sudden trip out of town, he de-
clined to answer He knew his legal
rights-he was q lawyer it appeared
and he would give no further explana-
tion. Lawrence Wade 1t must be-un-
less this proved an inside job" The
windows Of Captain Hanska's room
were both fastened when North dis
covered the murder, but his outer door,
leading into the hall, was unlocked
There were no signs of any entrance
by the front door or the basement
door. BY night, Wade and North must
60 on the carpet for little touch Of
the third degree. Inspector MCGEE
degree. Lecoq tactics he distrusted,
with the distrust Of a narrow man for
the other mans weapons. "
But the formal documents In the
Hanska case interested Inspector Nc
Gee less, q great deal less, than an
informal verbal report made that
morning by the sergeant In command
of the reserves.
SyKyo d{dr,< oh1 Z. -,
chief" he said, except that she had
an order from you telling us to keep
our hooks of her. Forgot the name
something French with LIE behind
1t. 1t was all right, wasn't it,"
Inspector MCGEE understood at
once; and the information brought q
little thrill. He had given only two
such papers in his career; and the
other was held by man. So Rosalie
lie Grange had bobbed up again
Resale LIE Grange, trance, test and
clairvoyant medium, follower OF a
small half-criminal trade but friend Of
society against larger criminals. How
curiously that woman had glanced, in
and out Of his life, and what luck she
had brought! His first success, for ex-
ample-the solution OF the Haywood
murder, which had raised him from
plain detective to detective sergeant.
None but him and her knew how
Rosalie LIE Grange had cleared up that
important case by her knowledge and
shrewdness, and had slipped out of it
In the dramatic moment, leaving to
him the credit. Then the Martin case,
which had helped make him captain
the McGregor diamond case half a
dozen smaller cases, all successes and
all redounding greatly to his reputa-
ton. For three years now she had
been completely out of his world. Once
a vague rumor that she was very
prosperous had set him wondering
with little regret whether she had
fallen to trucking big dupes In old
years, she always affected to despise
that process.
Here she was again, mysterious and
dramatic, still, at the very focus Of an.
other big case. The heavy lips OF Mar
tin MCGEE relaxed In smile of I'M
accustomed sweetness as he thought
on her, and less on her talents and
her benefcent influence over his ca
reer than on her look and move and
Joy in life He recalled her as she