The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-14

VIII hand me my hat which I have
cropped and see that my verbena has
not fallen out-that you-Mr Chime
and Isis viii be 50 good as to walk
rest In Mr.. Clinics apartments will
restore me-"
That arrangement accordingly WAS
adopted. and we presently came to the
rooms occupied by the gaekwar's rep
resentative on the fourth noor of the
hotel = I-.-T-
At the door Mr. Chime asked me To
take his place while he found his
did so. and chinjs opened the door.
10 my great surprise. he entered first.
TO my greater surprise. Morris Klaw.
scorning my assistance and apparently
him in!
The rest Of US locked behind. Dos
sessed with q sense of something i'm
pending. We little knew what i'm
One thing. as I entered the little
shuhe room. struck my vision with
sensation almost OF physical shock
II was a large. empty parrot cage
standing on the tablet
mad an impression that Chime
dashed forward In vain attempt 10
conceal the cage before Morris KIaw
entered saw, as one sees figures in
dream, a pretty. fair-haired girl in
the room.
Then the Hindu had leaned to an
inner door-and was gone,
Quickt cried Klaw in a loud yoice
The doorl the door,
He brushed the girl aside with n
sweep of his arm and hurled himself
against the locked door.
Mr.. Grimsby! Mr.. Searles! Sons
Hn
her back, this foolish girIp
The inner meaning of the scene was
mystery to US all. but the urgency
of Morris Klaw's instructions brooked
no denial With a -shrill scream the
girl had thrown herself upon him. but
Isis, exhibiting unsupported strength,
drew her away
Then Sir John Carron joined KIaw
at the door. and they applied their
combined weights to the task of fore
ing 1t open.
Once they put their shoulders to IL:
twice-and there was a sound of tear
ing woodwork: a third time-and il
flew open. almost precipitating them
both into the room beyond.
Hard on the din of the opening rang
the crack of a pistol shot A wisp OF
smoke came floating out
"Ah. just Godr' said Morris Klaw
hoarsely. We are too Later
And at his words. with a lean like
that Of wild thing. the fair girl
broke from Isis and, passing US all,
entered the room beyond.
Awed and fearful. We followed and
looked upon a pitiful scene.
Gautami Chime lay dead upon the
moor. a revolver yet between his
nerveless fingers and a red spot in
his temple.
Beside him knelt the girl. pIuckinr
with both hands at her lower lin, her
race as white as paper and her ewes
glaring insanely at the distorted fea-
lures
Dearest" she kept whispering in a
listless way-"my dearest, what is the
matter? i have the diamond-I have
II in my bag. What is it, my dear
est"
We got her away at last.
He had only been in London six
months, Morris Klaw. rumbled in my
ear. and, you see. she adored him
snakelike, the power Of Fascination
some Hindus have over women-and
always over blondes. Mr.. searles. al
Ways Ways blondes 1t is a Psychological
So ended the case of the Blue Rajah
robbery. one of the most brief in the
mond we found in the girls handbag.
covering apparently made to fit it.
later to his wondering audience I this
girl have yet to find out who she
ls1was, so assume. married to Mr..
serted her directly he returned to In
dia- But here at the Astoria she was
known as Mrs. Chime.
the robbery? The insurance company.
II do not mistake the case. For the
gaekwar, through his representative.
all the time it was his property and
in England, and the committee had
Il insured from the time it became
1T had become their property. The
s ga war would have got his check.
their Blue Rajah. and the Insurance
company pam, would have paid the city for
The next office along the corridor
from Mr.. Anderson's IS the Central
London Electric Lighting Company
Many consumers call Mrs. CHIME was
pose when she was seen in that Cor
ridor-and she was seen by a clerk
and by an engineer.
After my mental negative had told
me Of a pretty young lady of whom
the thief thinks at the moment of his
theft | went to inquire-you recall?-
II such one had been seen near the
From the first my suspicious are
with CHIME. The emotions have each
a note, distinct, like the notes of a
piano. though only audible to the
trained mind. Both Isis and myself de-
tect from Chime the note of fear. I
arrange, then, that he remains.
My talk of examining the gaek-
wars writing is ruse. 1t is Clinics
apartment and the fair lady / expect
to find there that l am anxious to ex-
anime.
Then. in spite that he is the mos,
me. and | have to hold him fast: for
II he could have got first to his room
and hidden the parrot cage where
had been our evidence? Indeed, ont
that | have the power to secure the
astral negative. there had been no evil
There is the third accomplice-be
who howled in the courtyard; but
fear. as he SO cleverly vanished. We
shall never know his name.
And how was it done. and why did
this some one how'll
around. We awaited his next words
He howled because Chime had
looked out from the window (Which.
tnopsh hidden; the bowler was watch
,hIg9; and %.s made him some signal The
The one below obeyed. and the
committee. like foolish sheep-yes.
gentlemen, like no-headed cattle
tnings! Hooked to the window But
a deft-handed conjurer. he was at the
table, the diamond was in the little
rubber purse held ready, and Mrs.
ChinJe, with her large handbag open.
was waiting outside the door in the