The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26

g planation-wiId, improbable. absurd. but still an explanations. Fascinated as by deadly serpent, stood staring at the cabinet There, felt certain. lay the clew to the mystery!
 Grady, Simmonds and Goldberger ex- amined the room minutely. heard Grady comment upon the fact that there was no door except the one open ing into the anteroom, and saw them examine the window catches. ;ss
 Nobody could raise these windows without alarming the house. Grady said, and pointed to a tiny wire run ming along the, woodwork. There's a burglar alarm.''
 simmonds assentea'd. and finally the trio returned to the anteroom. s,.-,ea.s
 'tWe'd like to look over the rest of the house." Grady said to Rogers. who was sitting erect again. looking more like himself, and the four men went. out into the hall together. I.remafn- ed behind with Hughes and F'reyling- huisen. They had lifted the body to the couch and were making az careful examina tion of it. Heavy at heart. I sat down near by and watched them
 That Philip Vantine should z have been killed by enthusiasm for the hob by which had given him So much, pleasure seemed the very irony of fate, yet such believe to be the case1 Frey linghuisen's voice brought <me outa my reverie. s6g
 The two cases are precisely sah hkesaRs he was saying. '.The symptons are identical. And I'm certain we shall find paralysis of the heart and spinal cord in this case. just assI did in the other Both men were killed by the same poison-soIne variant Of hydro cates that, but it must be abouteffty times as deadly as hydrocyanic acid is. 7
 They wandered away into a discus sion of possible variants so technical and besprinkled with abstruse words and formulas that I could not fof1ow them. The two detectives and the coroner came back while theI discus sion was still in progress and listened in silence to Freyiingh ghuisen,s state ment of the case. Grady's mahogany face told absolutely nothing of what was passing in bis brain. but Sim monds was plainly bewildered. l. Sos-I suspected, was Grady. but hes was. too self composed to betray it
 The coroner drew the two physicians aside and talked to them for few moments in a low tone. Then he lturI5- ed to Grady. sfs T ases sssz@sas @ss
 .'Freylfnghuisen thinks fhere fssss no ln 6, ] necessity for postmortem. he said .tThe symptoms are in everysWay iden- tical with those of the other man who was killed here this afternoon. There can be no question that both of them died from the same cause Hes is ready to make his return to that eff fect.'s
 ...very we'll. assented Grady. 1.-The body can be turned over tos thserela- tives. then ss
 .'There aren't any relat1Hes.ss' H. said; tat least. no near ones. Vantine was the last of this branch of the family. I happen to know that our firm has been named4 as hisg executors ins his will. so. if there is no ob5erffon.z .zI' Fl take charge of things.
 Very well. MT. Lester" said Grady again. and then he looked at me Do you know the provisions of the will?'' he asked.
 .'I do." s. { .,' ; sss.s N,szs-@
 ''In the light Of chose provisions. do you know of any one who would have an interest in vantine's death?"
 ''1 think I may tell you the proyi- sions.,, I said after a moment. tsVNfth the exceptionaofsa few iegacies tos his servants. his whole fortune is left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, .
 Have you ever learned that he had an eneny?' ssxssr ss-e ss
 Mo- answered instantly. ,stah
 'sHe was never married, T believe P
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 was he ever. to your knowledge. fn- volved with a woman P f7-
 'No.'' said again. sI was astouTd- ed when heard Rogers story. z -. 'sThank you. MT. Lester.'' and Grady turned to Simmonds. .'I don't see chat there is anything more we can do here.' he added. There's one thing. though. MT. Lester. will have to ask you to do. That is to keep all the serv- ants here until after the inquest. If you think there is any doubt of your ability to do that we can. of course. put them under arrest L9$sess sss;f sss3@5gsrs
 -'Oh. that isn't necessary. broke in. 'T will be responsible for their. ap pearance at the inquest
 rs'I'll have to postpone it day" said Goldberger. "1 want Freyiinghuisen to make so11e tests tomorrow. Be sides. we've got to identify DsAureIfe. and these gentlemen seem. to-, have their work cut out for them in finding this woman"- ssa1sTzs
 Grady looked at Goldberger in, away which indicated that he thought. .1e was talking too much. andathes coroner stopped abruptly. mefnent later all four men left the house
 Dr. Hughes fingered for a last word
 ''The undertaken had better be called" he said. .1 can send him around on my way home.''
 thanked him for assumiRg this un- pleasant duty. As the door closed be hind him ] heard step on the stair and turned to see Godfrey calmly de scending. ss..- = explained. in answer to my. look. .sand have been glancing around upstairs. Nothing there. How did our friend