The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-04-03

he saw the stout commercial travel adj
vancing on the double quick.
Come to my room, please" he said
quietly. Brill asked no questions. He
believed he knew what the request
meant.
Once inside the stateroom Marsh mo-
toned toward the connecting door. and
Brill put his ear to the wall. This
time he distinctly heard sounds as of
smothered cries.
Hear %anything:' whispered the
host.
Brill nodded slowly. and Marsh took
him by the arm and led him into the
corridor. They stopped before the first
statercom door. Slight but peculiar
sounds were heard. then at 50, and the
noises were more audible. Marsh
smiled grimly and signaled his friend
to follow. curiously enough. he went
straight to Brill's stateroom and when
both were inside locked the door be-
hind them.
Marsh sat down and chewed vigor-
ously at an unlighted cigar. Brill had
no desire to break the silence, for he
had his OWL problem to straighten.
Theories chased one another through
his head with great rapidly, but none
so satisfactory as that Benedict had
sold or given the ruby trinket to
Andrew Jennison so that the latter
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daughter.
At last Marsh arose. opened a port
hole and projected his great. round
head through the aperture with some
difficulty. Then he opened the door to
the corridor and looked out cautiously.
Closing it again very softly. he thrust
q fat thumb in the direction Of the
inner stateroom.
Your friend-in there!' he asked.
"Asleep-with his clothes on,"N re-
piled Brill, looking in. Hes done it
before"
"See here, Overflow said the com
merciaI man. drawing nearer, I'm
neither young nor given to the creeps,
but there are things aboard this ship
that aren't right"
"In the room nea yours, you mean?'
Eyes, that ~and-other things. / left
the concert tonight, hoping that those
responsible among Benedict's people
might be off their guard"
"Benedicts people? I thought that
they
THAT they occupied only as far as
33:" interrupted Marsh. $50 did lat
first. But when 1 saw N of 'em come
out of 81 with the blood streaming
from an ugly cut in his forehead and a
scared look on his face l began to
think all over again."
but that was from 33, you say"
persisted the younger man. He fan
cied his stout friend so wholly given
over to the study of the unusual as to
invest anything, even commonplace
sounds. with suspicion. To be sure,
there were the smothered cries, but
they might have their Origin in some
peculiar acoustic property of the ship.
YES" replied Marsh after opening
the door again and peering out, but l
had seen him go into 33 ten minutes
before with a plate of food, unlocking
the door and locking it behind him.
oh, yes" he continued more rapidly as
he noted the smile on Brills face,
you'll say he was caring for a sick
friend. But every man in the Bene
dict crowd except that one was out
of his stateroom. I'm no Sherlock
Holmes, but l know a man when l see
him.
But 81 and 81 are the only rooms
from which sounds could reach yours.
You've said that"
did 1? Well, they come from some
where. Besides. l haven't denied,
have /. that they come from n Of
those rooms?"
Brill had never prided himself on the
possession of an especially logical