Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-15

sire your presence at the house as soor
as You can make it convenient"
ITO open the box?"
Exactly"
The curl of Miss strange's disdainfu
, lip was sight to see.
You wrote those words yourself
she coolly observed. while someone.
back was turned. you whipped out you
"Resorted to a very pardonable sub
terfuge highly conducive to the public
good. But never mind that. Will 20,
go?"
Miss Strange became suddenly de
II suppose I must" she grudgtngl,
conceded. However obtained, a sum
mons from the police cannot be ig.
nored even by Peter Strange's daugh.
ter"
Another man might have displayed
his triumph by smile or gesture, but
this one had learned his role too well
He simply said:
VERY good. Shall 1t be at once? !
have a taxi at the door,"
But she failed to see the necessity OF
any such hurry. With sudden dignity
she replied:
THAT won't do. II go to this house
] shall ask my brother to accompany
me-"
Your brother"
ooh, he's safe. He-he knows"
Your brother knows?" Her visitor
with less control than usual, betrayed
very openly his uneasiness.
HE does and-approves. But that's
not what interests US now, only SO lar
as 1t makes it possible foE me to &c
with propriety to that dreadful house
A formal bow from the other and the
words:
They may expect you. then. Can you
say when?"
within the next hour. But it will be
~
was at that particular moment so very
much the great lady, and SO little his
confidential agent.
He might have been less impressed.
however. by this sudden assumption of
manner had he been so fortunate as to
have seen how she employed the three
uarters Of an hours delay for which
she had asked.
She read those neglected newspapers.
especially the one containing the fol-
lowing highly colored narration of this
chastity crime:
"a door ajar-an empty hall-a line
of sinister-looking blotches marking a
guilty step diagonally across the flag
ging-silence-such were the indica-
lions which met the eyes OF officer
O'Leary on his first round last night.
and led to the discovery of a murder
which will long thrill the city by its
Goth the house and the victim are
well known" Here followed de-.
scription of the same and Of Mrs Doc
Titles manner Of life in her ancient
home, which Violet hurriedly passed
over to come to the following:
LAS far as one can Judge from ap-
pearances. the crime happened In this
wise: Mrs. Doolittle had been in her
kitchen. as the tea-kettle found sing
ing on the stove goes to prove. and was
coming back through her bedroom,
when the wretch. who had stolen In by
the front door which. to save steps, she
was unfortunately in the habit Of leav-
ing on the latch till all possibility of
customers for the day was over, sprang
upon her from behind and dealt her
swinging blow with the poker he had
caught up from the hearthstone.
whether the struggle which ensued
followed Immediately upon this first at
tack or came later. it will take medical
experts to determine. But whenever it
did occur. the f1erccness of its charac-
ter is shown by the grip taken upon her
throat and the traces Of blood which
are to be seen all over the house. If
the wretch had lugged her into her
workroom and thence to the kitchen