The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-01-15

never proved.
The thick door seemed to please his
fancy immensely. An enormous spring
was adroitly concealed by the hinges
such as would make 1t difficult to OPP
en- without physical exertion. The
conclusion was bound to shake every
thing In the shack. Near the ceiling
was small platform about six inches
square. He propped open the door,
took an empty bottle from his pocket
and placed it upon this platform
When he liberated the door the slam
of 1t toppled the bottle from its perch
and it broke into thousand pieces on
the stone slab below.
II guess thatll fix you; | guess
thatll show you whose house you're
boarding in, you snake"
McWinter loosened the spring so
as to open the door and passed out.
The following morning the clerk in
the laboratory whose business it was
to account for all the deadlier ccaooc-
tons, in making his daily inventory
found bottle missing, and this bottle
contained one of the deadliest fumes
in existence. He was greatly per-
turbed. He asked Smith, but Smith de-
MED that he had touched the bottle.
That seemed to be the end of the af-
fair.
On Sunday Mrs. McWinters face was
brighter than it had been in weeks.
Her husband seemed to be an entirely
different man. He had softened so far
as to tell a comic story, and you may
be sure that Smith and Mrs. McWinter
laughed heartily over it.
The two man ShOnlNprad fhpir o,1pS
whistled for the dog, and set off on
their hunting trip. And only one of
them came back alive Smith came
back alone and was rather surprised
to find neither McWinter nor the dog.
They had separated in the woods near
the shack, of which Smith apparently
knew nothing about McWinter was
missing all the next day Tuesday
morning they found him in the shack,
strangely dead.
very peculiar case confronted the
local authorities. There was one
thing quite plain to them, however,
and that was, McWinter had been MUIR
dered in the most cunning and diabol-
ical manner. Naturally the coroner's
inquest drew the net about Smiths
feet. He was the last man to see
him alive Then came the clerk who
swore that the bottle found in the
shack was identical to that stolen from
the laboratory, where both men work
ed. Smith, despite all protests, was
held for the grand jury on the charge
of murder in the first degree.
Other facts began to circulate Some
one had heard McWinter accuse his
wife Of being too friendly with Smith.
and out of this calumny raised it's
ugly head. Here and there men be-
gan to mutter about Judge Lynch.
And Mrs. McWinter was stunned by
all those who had posed as her
| friends.
A few days before the trial began
| Hassam Ali was porting over his crys-
tai Near by sat Zudora, reading and
| rejecting. The two had been talking
about Mesmer and Cagliostro, and Zu-
dora was gathering her arguments
from the book she held The bell was
heard to ring.
| A few minutes later a visitor was
ushered in by the Hindu servant To
not suggest any future profit, but Mrs
McWinter's tale caught the sympathy
of Zudora.
| villa IethC INC SdaC, ullI1t, OLE
volunteered. ut interests me- 1t is
that is usually the most puzzling to
solve. If | succeed it will add another
step toward my twenty cases."
"Suit yourself" carelessly But re-
member, il it turns out to be an ordi-
nary case, it will not count
II ACCEPT that risk.
Zudora in accordance with her
or he, :. T,l~
wrote him to meet her at the McWint-
er house the following afternoon
When the two arrived in the village
they found the suburbs in turmoil
There had been. they found, a punt
tive expedition against the Jail that
held Smith, but it had been frustrat-
ed.
This is going to be interesting
john" said Zudora.
| 1--we an idea I'd like to plead for
the poor devil | never realized how
many kinks there were in life until
you entered this detective business
"The unexpected is always happen
| ing. On tn face of it this man Smith
looks guilty. The very fact that the
woman is eager to save him has a
suspicious angle. But for all this
We may [lnu MIN innocent as cullu
Meantime Hassam Ali had not been
idle. He was going to lose no chance
to further his schemes. To be sure
he had signified his utter lack of in
terest in the case, but that had been
to hoodwink his niece. So quietly
and unobserved he made secret in
vestigation OF the shack. 1t did moi
take his remarkably keen eyes lone
| to discover what had taken place
Clever, abominably clever! Here wts
a criminal who had fantastic ideas
If this Internal contrivance had served
one mans purpose, 1t might readil,
serve an0ther's.
So he contrived to separate Zudora
and Storm and bring the latter to the
shack. He wrote frankly signing his
own name, and declaring that 1t would
not be safe for zudora to go deeply
into this case. as there was more te
1t than could be seen on tho surface
So Storm concluded to meet Hassan
Ali at the shack and find out what hi